As mentioned in my two month review and goals, I had set my year end goal to be 2000 visits and 5000 pageviews so here is a recap of my year end (July 1st - December 31st) traffic stats as per Google Analytics to see if I met my goals.
3647 visits (3262 absolute unique) [...]
I was pleasantly surprised this morning to see that Google Analytics had changed. Google has added many features to Analytics to allow improved statistics comparison by allowing multiple attributes or multiple sites to be graphed simultaneously. It is thus now easy to compare month to month statistics or to find correlations between variables; [...]
Today Google updated their Webmaster Tools product and have added some VERY nice improvements.
My favourite new feature is that up to 6 months of historical search query statistics are now available. In addition each search query entry displays the percentage of the top 20 entries that the particular entry represents. This is really [...]
The latest and greatest version of Wordpress was released on Tuesday. Version 2.3 of Wordpress adds native tagging support which includes importers for tags created with Ultimate Tag Warrior, Jerome’s Keywords, Simple Tags and Bunny’s Technorati Tags plugins. Now that native tagging support is available, I think that I will be doing some [...]
I just watched an interesting Matt Cutts’ presentation at Wordcamp 2007 which discusses search engine optimization techniques and pitfalls for bloggers. There is nothing earth shattering in the presentation but he does make some good points of things to keep in mind while writing and structuring your blog.
Matt Cutts is the head of [...]
I came across a neat Google tool which allow one to examine keywords and find out the search value of keywords.
As can be seen in the screenshot, the tool give an indication of relative search volume and how much advertiser competition there is for the keywords.
This screenshot also show that it is possible to [...]
Wordpress 2.3 Beta 1 and Beta 2 have been released on the last two Mondays. The plan is to have beta releases on each Monday until the release of Wordpress 2.3 on September 24th.
The biggest features that are in this release are built-in tagging, update notifications, performance improvements and search engine friendly redirection.
I’m looking [...]
It has been about two months now that I installed Google Analytics and started concentrating a bit more on the blog. Although there have been a couple of dry spells in postings while I went to PEI for a couple of days of vacation in July and had some more vacation at home in [...]
After attempting to get my site some visibility via search engines and good web practices, I noticed that last week my traffic seemed to die down somewhat (not that there was THAT much traffic to start off with). This coincided somewhat with my change of Wordpress themes so I began by looking at that [...]
Added Google Adsense and changed Wordpress theme to Andreas04 2.0
After procrastinating for a while, I finally changed the default wordpress theme to Andreas04 2.0. This theme appears a lot nicer than the default, it puts in random images from a specified directory and it allows a lot more customization than the default theme.
I [...]
