Find out who is linking to your website
Ever wonder who’s linked to your Web site? Just go to altavista webmaster. As you can see, this page uses the powerful engine technology of AltaVista to perform some helpful searches. The first search simply displays all the links that AltaVista has to the pages in your Web site. The second option allows you to locate pages that link to your site. Continue reading “Find out who is linking to your website” »
What do people search for using Google
What do people search for…?
When you write content for your website you should always remember the golden rules of what people use search engines for:
Solid SEO Advice That Ranks You Higher In Search Engine Results
Search engine optimization is something any company that desires to have a successful web presence needs to do right. Whether your website is selling yourself, your company or a product, you need it to work. This article has some great tips on how to make search engine optimization work for you.
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Free web analytics program – analyse your web log files – Piwik
Piwik – Web analytics – Open source
piwik is an open source (GPL license) web analytics software. It gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords they used, the language they speak… and so much more.
piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics.
1. the features are built inside plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need. If you are a developer, you can easily build your own plugins!
2. you own your data. Piwik being installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database and you can get all the statistics using open APIs (publishing the data in many formats: xml, json, php, csv)
3. (NOW AVAILABLE!!!) the user interface is fully customizable, you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display, create the reports you want
4 Tips for creating your killer blog content
FOCUS on PROBLEMS, PASSIONS and FEARS
What is it that people are searching for? Normally they are searching for answers to problems – like:
- How do I …. find a hotel venue with a marquee.
- Where do I… go to get a free eye examination.
THINK: What is it that bugs people? – then write a post with the solution!
Continue reading “4 Tips for creating your killer blog content” »Screenscraping
I recently had to look into ‘screenscraping’ information from one website to another. In this
Of course should be very straightforward you would think? There are loads of products out there that say eBay to Opencart. There are some issues:
- Opencart v3 is not supported very well…
- eBay structures change
- eBay layout out information differently on a regular basis
- Integration tools do not map the information correctly (this is a biggy!)
- eBay to other shopping cart software solutions are VERY slow and most (if not all …) do not support HTML descriptions that are now available in Opencart v3 (more of this later!)
- eBay’s long description is actually added to the page via an iFrame and not that easy to get at – also it allows the user to add all sorts of HTML that would not look consistent on a shopping site.
- Plus a lot more!
Test markdown with WordPress
Minimalist Markdown Editor
see syntax for this document here: <https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/>
download the jp markdown plugin
Continue reading “Test markdown with WordPress” »How to predict the TRAFFIC/HITS you will get to your website
Hopefully everyone knows that ranking in #1 on Google gets a LOT OF TRAFFIC and CLICKS. This guy has written a great article that shows you how we get this data and then use it. Continue reading “How to predict the TRAFFIC/HITS you will get to your website” »
Using Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook 2010
Post from Google support for integrating Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook 2010
There has been a lot of interest in when a version of Google Calendar Sync would be released that supports Outlook 2010. As some of you have already noticed @salocorgan 🙂, we’re happy (Google that is…) to announce that support for Outlook 2010 is now available! This latest release (version 0.9.3.6) supports the 32-bit version of Outlook 2010 only. 64-bit turned out to be harder so we don’t have it ready yet, but we didn’t want to hold back the 32-bit-supporting version in the meantime.
Google Calendar Sync now supports Outlook 2010
Posted by Alice Brown, Google Calendar Team
Making sure that your calendar is available to you whenever and wherever you need it is important. That’s why Google Calendar works with a number of desktop applications and mobile devices including iCal, iPhone and iPad, Blackberry, Android, Nokia/Symbian, and Windows Mobile phones. Google Calendar Sync for Outlook is also available, but one thing was missing — until now.
Google Calendar Sync now supports Outlook 2010 — our top feature request. Outlook 2010 comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and currently only 32-bit is supported. To start syncing your calendar with Outlook 2010, download Google Calendar Sync version 0.9.3.6. Once you install it, a Settings window will appear. Enter your account’s email address and password, choose your sync optionand sync frequency, and you’re done! (Note: If you’re already using Google Calendar Sync, you’ll still need to download and install this new version in order to be able to sync with Outlook 2010. If you need help, take a look at our getting started guide.)
Mobile Website Development
Mobile Website Development
Do you know how to create a mobile website? Or more importantly, do you know what a mobile website is? Domus Dish has covered this topic quite a bit, but in case you’ve missed it, a mobile website is what smart phone users see when looking at your webpage from their phones. There are many differences between mobile and traditional websites, which is why your website may not work for many smart phone users.