Category: Blogging

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Finding Where Referring Site Visitors Land on Your Site in Google Analytics

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Google Analytics is probably the most popular free traffic statistics tools that is used by web site owners. It provides a wealth of information about visitors to a site, and can easily be used to help manage a site. With all the information that is available by Google Analytics, it can be confusing as to [...]

3 WordPress Plugins to Stop Spam

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If you manage a Wordpress blog, there are many Wordpress plugins to stop spam. Spam is an annoying part of blogging, and if it isn’t managed properly, can turn a good, respectable blog into a trashy-looking blog. People have used many approaches to controlling spam, from captcha images to requiring registration on their blog.

How to Prevent Scripts from Loading for Logged in Users in WordPress

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I recently was thinking about how to prevent some scripts from loading, and executing, each time I logged into WordPress. The scripts were traffic statistics scripts and I didn’t want them from counting the visits from myself. If the option was available from the statistics script owner, I would simply have told it to exclude [...]

1,000,000 Visits to Technically Easy

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I was looking at my all-time visitors stats for Technically Easy and noticed that I was approaching a milestone: 1,000,000 (1 million) visits. I enjoy looking at the visitor stats for my blog, mainly because I am a stats-junkie, but the stats provide a lot of information about who visits my blog. Sometimes I also [...]

Why BloggerLuv is Great for Bloggers

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Ever since I started blogging, I have always been fascinated with blogging communities. The problem is that there are probably hundreds of them online, and many of them aren’t worth the trouble of joining. All require some sort of registration process, and then you need to verify your blog, and or display some image somewhere [...]

10 Important Things I Learned About Blogging

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It has been over three years since I stepped into the blogging arena. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first started, and while I have made many mistakes, I have learned from all of those mistakes. It was June 2007 when I decided to try my hand a blogging, and I am glad [...]

A List of Common Tags in a Blogger Blog Post Header

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There are many labels and fields that can be modified to change the look of your Blogger blog’s post header. You can choose to use all the available fields, some of the fields, or none of the fields. Since the fields are related to each blog post, you can even display them anywhere on your [...]

How To Load the Contact Form 7 Script for a Contact Page Only

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You can stop the Contact Form 7 plugin’s script and stylesheet from loading on every page of your WordPress blog. While the plugin is a great one to install, since it makes creating contact forms easy, you probably don’t want to load the script and stylesheet on every page. For those that one to get [...]