The trouble with 301 redirects and backlinks

On the SERoundtable the question is raised whether you can check if a site 301 redirects to your website, referring to a thread on the SEW forums and an article by Aaron Wall. That seems quite simple to me, as most of the times you'll see clicks coming in from sites on which your own [...]

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Upgrading and Installing WordPress from Subversion

WordPress 2.2.2 was released this morning (upgrade, really, do), and for the first time since I moved to my new server (about which I will post more soon), I had the fun of updating all my WordPress blogs. Normally, updating WordPress wasn't any fun, as it meant copying all sorts of files all over the [...]

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Microsoft Censoring .info domains in MSN Messenger

As most regular readers know, I own CSS3.info, and because of that, I talk quite a bit about it on MSN messenger. Recently, I started getting problems when I was sending links with css3.info in it to my contacts. Tonight, after doing a bit more research, I found out that ALL .info domains are being [...]

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WordPress version detection

Sometimes you're browsing around and wondering whether a blog is a WordPress or not (at least I am)... So I created a small script that detects that, and show the version of the WordPress as well. A useful tool for all you blackhats out there too perhaps?
Go grab the Show WordPress version Greasemonkey script!
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Getting Google Analytics to extract keywords from Google Image searches

Google Analytics doesn't get the keywords people used to find your site using Google Image search, and thus labels them as "referral" instead of as "organic".
Google Image search gives you referral URL's that aren't really readable. The query string that the searcher used to get to that referring URL is hidden somewhere deep down in [...]

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Perfectly coded AJAX with fallbacks, and still no Google love?

You've probably seen it too... Great looking websites coded with all sorts of fancy AJAX functions, and it's done absolutely right. If you disable javascript, all the links that were first used to show content or do an action on the current page, now take you to a new page on which the content you're [...]

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Why you should not use XML Sitemaps

First of all: I do want you to use Google Webmaster Tools. It's an incredible useful toolbox, so please, please use it. If you're not using it at the moment, check out my post on how to use Google Webmaster Tools. I do think though, that XML Sitemaps (whether it be Google sitemaps or otherwise),  [...]

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Help me create a list of online RSS readers

For a Google Analytics WordPress plugin I'm working on, I need a list of all the online RSS readers out there... I know Google Reader and Bloglines, but I was hoping someone could help me with a "complete" list?

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Google Analytics: adding search engines

I've been diving a bit in to Google Analytics lately, and one of the things you'll notice when you run Google Analytics is that it doesn't recognize every conceivable search engine straight out of the box. For instance, Ilse.nl, still quite popular here in the Netherlands, doesn't seem to be seen as "organic" in Google [...]

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Searching with Google: country based results made easy

Dave Davis dropped me a line to tell about the Google Global Firefox extension they have just released, which allows you to search Google with geo targetting for different countries without having to edit the URL by hand. It's quite useful, I dare say, so check it out!

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