Blog a Living http://blogaliving.com Professional blogging tips and tricks Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:18:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://users.feedblitz.com/807e163980e0f0215d1914586139d7a8/807e163980e0f0215d1914586139d7a8/BAL/blogalivinglogo.gifBlog a Livinghttp://blogaliving.com http://blogaliving.com/going-google-free-clicky-for-site-analytics/ Going Google Free: Clicky for site analytics http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/30057240/0/blogaliving~Going-Google-Free-Clicky-for-site-analytics/ http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/30057240/0/blogaliving~Going-Google-Free-Clicky-for-site-analytics/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:57:09 +0000 Chris http://blogaliving.com/?p=3719
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    • ]]>     In my quest to stop sending Google so much data, I replaced Analytics with Clicky, a paid service. I looked into and trialed quite a few services, including some free ones you install on your own server. Clicky won the day for me. What Clicky excels at is showing you precisely what your visitors are [...] Related posts:
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  • Hide from the Google Cookie with Bookmarklets
    • ]]>     I’ve talked about getting rid of all my free Google services before, but this time I’m serious. The only exception will be Google Affiliate Manager, which forces me to keep an Adsense account open (really, Google?). Everything else is going, going, gone. And so far, I’m surprised to find I’m not at all missing it. [...] Related posts:
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    • ]]>     Check out the results from a Google News search for “google antitrust hearing”: Irish Times reports “Senate questioning fails to rattle Google chief.” Why is Irish Times first? This is not a #1 kind of article by any algo standards I’m aware of. It’s flattering to Google, who has offices in Ireland… hmm, wonder which [...] Related posts:
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    • ]]>     There’s been a sea change in Google ever since Panda started up. Panda has kept webmasters jumping from one foot to the other, as they try to figure out what it is Google wants from their sites. There are several competing theories, but those aren’t what I’m going to talk about. The bigger picture Is [...] Related posts:
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    • ]]>     Maybe you will never, ever decide to merge the posts from one of your WordPress blogs into another. But if you do, as I once did, you might find this list of instructions helpful. Terminology check: “merging” blog refers to the blog that’s going to have all its posts moved into another one, and the [...] Related posts:
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    • ]]>     If you want to get anywhere online, organization is important. And it’s easier than you might think. Some people use applications on their home computer and keep their organizational tools offline. That’s fine, if that works for you. But I like being able to work from more than one computer, so that means I need [...] Related posts:
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    • ]]>     The robots.txt file seems so simple, but you can screw things up ever so slightly and end up with a serious problem. The good news is, once you figure out the problem, the SEs generally pick it up pretty quickly. The .htaccess file is similar, except that it’s more powerful and therefore more confusing to [...] Related posts:
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