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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! [...]

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 [...]

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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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Linklove monday

Listening to Webmasterradio’s Strike Point, the linklove section came by and of course everyone should participate, so here’s a link to some great free clipart!

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Readable nofollows

I noticed that on Dave’s great new layout, his nofollow comment links where unreadable… This was caused by my greasemonkey script setting a pink background but not changing the text color and so forth. I’ve now changed it to do that, so I can read the name’s in the comments. So if you’re using this [...]

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WordPress theming: pushing trackbacks down

I was playing around with my comments section as I wanted to style trackbacks differently from “normal” comments, and while playing around, I decided to just bump them down. The problem with the trackbacks was that they were interfering with the comment discussion. And as I want to keep that discussion as lively as possible, [...]

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