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Facebook’s Like number is more than just people clicking Like.

It seems that every site now has a Facebook Like button on it, but did you know that the number of Likes is made up of more than just people clicking Like? The number shown on a Like button is the sum of: The number of likes for the URL The number of shares for […]

New Google Analytics goals appear to be delayed by more than a few hours.

I’m a big fan of Google Analytics, but there are just things that don’t work well. I’ve recently been setting up goals for a client and one day they didn’t work and the next day they would. It was frustrating but I eventually came to the conclusion that new Google Analytics goals must have some […]

GA? and yExplore are now Firefox 5 ready.

I received emails from Mozilla yesterday that stated GA? – Is Google Analytics Installed and yExplore are compatible with Firefox 5. So I’ve updated the version numbers in the extensions and they are ready to go. As a bonus, GA? also works in Firefox 4 now too. 🙂 Enjoy!

Bad Behavior WordPress Plugin Killed My Google Traffic

I’ve been looking into the Bad Behavior WordPress plugin to help stop some of the spam comments that I’ve been getting. Turns out, it made things horribly worse. I’m not sure why, but the plugin decided to block Google bot. By the time I noticed, the damage had been done and my visitor stats are […]

What happens when you change WordPress’ URL structure? Will it kill SEO?

Earlier this year I switched all my WordPress URLs (aka permalinks) from date based to ID and post names. Since then I haven’t seen any negative effects from search engines when it comes to the amount of referral traffic. The Background Now, when a blog is set up, the URL structure is defined. If you […]

Do Everyone A Favor And Share The Source

It’s a little bit annoying when you follow a link on Twitter or Facebook only to be taken to a site that summarizes the story, then makes you click though to the source with the full story. I think we need to do everyone a favor and share the source. Don’t get me wrong, there […]

Me & WordPress vs Google Page Speed & YSlow

If it’s not one thing, it’s another. It seems that I can’t stop tweaking my WordPress install & settings. I’ve done some major re-working of things on the back-end and I’m hoping I didn’t break anything. If I did, please tell me! The bulk of my changes are to help with my site speed addiction. […]

Google Analytics Extension Upgraded

Just a quick note to say that the Is Google Analytics Installed? Firefox extension recently has been updated to work with Google’s new asynchronous tracking code. It should now work for all versions of Google’s code. And, if Google doesn’t drastically change the analytics tracking in the future, it should continue to work well for […]

yExplore Comes To Google Chrome

yExplore for Google Chrome is now available! It adds quick access to search engine, and social media, information about the page, or domain, you are viewing. yExplore is helpful for finding out information on your own site or doing competitive research on someone else’s. yExplore includes shortcuts to: Google Backlinks InIndex Cache Yahoo Backlinks InIndex […]

Speeding Up WordPress Starts With Plugin Developers

I’ve recently been looking at Google’s speed test tool and working to increase the speed of some of the sites I interact with daily. Where as there are things that we, as blog owners, can control, a lot of speeding up WordPress falls in the hands of plugin developers. Here is what WordPress plugins developers […]