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Category: Websites and Blogging
This category will contain any blogging-related posts, that includes platforms such as WordPress and Blogger.
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Finding Where Referring Site Visitors Land on Your Site in Google Analytics
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 find out where visitors from referring sites land on your page. A single referring site can send visitors to your site through several different pages, and it may help to know the pages that those visitors opened from the referring site. This post explains how you can easily do this with a few clicks of your mouse button.
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3 WordPress Plugins to Stop Spam
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.
Update:
I have since moved to using one plugin to stop spam from appearing on my blog. I now use the GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin to help eliminate spam.
I have also been bombarded with spam at times. While I have thought about measures to combat spam, I wanted to find methods that wouldn’t impact my visitors. About a week and a half ago I believe I have completed my spam-fighting arsenal, and have reduced the number of spam comments I see to zero. I list the three WordPress plugins to stop spam that I use on this blog.
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How to Prevent Scripts from Loading for Logged in Users in WordPress
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 my IP address. If I decided to view my blog from a different location that I normally don’t use; however, then the script would count my visit.
The solution, as it turns out, was a rather simple one, and can be used to prevent pretty much anything from loading for a logged in user – any logged in user.
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1,000,000 Visits to Technically Easy
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 like to view my all-time stats – take a look at my visitor information since I started the blog (June 23, 2007). It was about two weeks ago that I noticed I was approaching this milestone. Since then, I decided to write a post about it, and look at some of the stats since I started this blog.
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Why BloggerLuv is Great for Bloggers
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 on you pages.
In order to avoid making my blog look like a mess of small little images, I simply dropped many of the blogging communities like a bad habit. Recently, however, I was reading Basic Blog Tips (if you are a new blogger, you should check it out), and noticed Ileane (the author) mentioned a blogging community called BloggerLuv. I decided to check it out.
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10 Important Things I Learned About Blogging
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 that I have kept at it for over three years.
I have been thinking about what I have done with regards to my blog in those three years, some goals that I have achieved, but mainly what I have learned. I decided to share several things that I have learned to help others new to blogging learn quicker than I did.
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A List of Common Tags in a Blogger Blog Post Header
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 post, even the footer.
In this post I will list some of the most common data tags you may find in a Blogger template. By using the tags in the list, you can control what information is displayed in each of your blog posts.