Thesis Hive: Multiple Thesis Sites, One Set of Files

April 1, 2009

I have two regular blogs running Thesis and one development blog also running Thesis. Each blog has about a dozen plugins in common. Updating WordPress, the plugins, and Thesis is a pain as it is, so you can imagine how I feel about updating everything three times. For WordPress and the plugins the solution is [...]

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Access Google Analytics Event Tracking Before It’s Enabled

March 2, 2009

I just started testing some of the features for a WordPress Google Analytics plugin that I’m working on when I discovered event tracking hadn’t been enabled for my account. While trying to figure out if there was any way to get in to the event tracking beta, I discovered that you can access the Event [...]

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Amazon Usability Stumble

February 26, 2009

I read as much as I can to improve my writing. When I saw a post recommending a some books on the psychology of selling (an area I’ve been meaning to learn) by a blogger that I respect and read regularly, I decided to click the affiliate links and make finally make it a priority. [...]

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The Importance of Server Speed

February 17, 2009
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In case you didn’t know the importance of server speed, have a careful look at the time spent downloading a page and the crawl rate in this screenshot from Google Webmaster Tools. Google Crawl Rate

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Segmenting the Clean SERP Report in Google Analytics

February 11, 2009
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A few people have asked me about viewing Google, Yahoo, and MSN separately in the Google Analytics search ranking report. At first I recommended creating 3 separate profiles, 1 each for Google, Yahoo, and MSN. But using the Google Analytics custom segments makes a lot more sense because it’s easier to switch between the 3 [...]

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What’s Wrong with Penalty Disclosure?

February 3, 2009

It took Google about 1 day to react to the hyves subdomain disclosure. In case you can’t be bothered to click the above link, it seems that for a short while the G-spot was disclosing whether a domain was penalized in the SERPs when you entered hyves.domain.com. This is my third site and it has [...]

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