How Google Analytics Alerts Can Email Or Text You About Site Problems
Google Analytics offers a special alert feature that sends out an email or an SMS alert when any event happens on your site. Setting them up isn't as complicated as you think.
Key Differences Between Google Adwords Tool And The Keyword Planner
The key differences between Google Adwords Keyword Tool and Keyword Planner includes a more organized workflow for researching adwords and keywords, a clearer presentation of data, quick access to some nice historical graphs, and the ability to download historical data in spreadsheet form. In this article, I'll show you each of these new or different features and how you can make use of them in your own keyword or adwords research.
7 Crucial Tips: How to get Your Blog Listed in Google
A wise man man once asked "if a website exists in the forest of the Internet and no one visits it, does it truly exist?". I made that up actually, but the point is solid - a website is useless if it has no traffic, and in order to get traffic you need to be listed on Google. You could argue that Google isn't the only search engine and Bing matters too, and ... but you'd be wrong. Google is the search engine that matters, and if you want to get listed you need to play by their rules. Here are 7 crucial tips to get your blog listed on Google.
How To Protect WordPress from Intrusion: Your Must-Read Checklist
Botnets around the world have turned their attention from sending out spam emails to systematically hacking into Wordpress installs; it's a lucrative business given that Wordpress powers 40% of all blogs. Especially considering that even we fell victim to this, it's about time we did a comprehensive post on exactly how to protect your self-hosted Wordpress install.
Facebook Ads vs Google Adwords: Which One Got Me The Most Clicks?
I honestly never thought that I'd be paying for any sort of advertising for my blog, at least not until it entered into the "big time", with many hundreds of thousands of pageviews per day. I never really believed that the cost of advertising on a small scale could really be worth the results. If you only invest less than $10 a day into an advertising campaign, can it really have any impact at all? Don't most advertising campaigns require hundreds of dollars a month or more? This is the question that I set out to answer at the beginning of this year
Handsome Stats - Get The Google Analytics Stats That Matter Most
Google Analytics is one of the most robust options out there for keeping track of how visitors are interacting with your website, where they're coming from and more. But sometimes it can be a little bit overwhelming trying to figure out what all the data means, and to filter down to the data that you really want to to view. There are a few apps that plug themselves into Google Analytics and make it easier to read and view the content that matters to you.
3 Ways To Speed Your Site Up With The Cloud
The Cloud is the answer to all the worlds problems, it would seem - a buzzword technology that sends computing full circle right back to where it started - with a thin client model and all the power in a remote server. Economic downturn? No problem - just put it in the cloud! World peace? There's a cloud app for that. I joke, of course - but there are actually some legitimate uses for this "new" technology.
Mount Your Remote Web Accounts As Convenient SFTP Connections With Swish [Windows]
How about a way to embed a connection to your own hosting account - whether it's just a file hosting service or a web hosting account - directly within the Windows file explorer system? Wouldn't it be cool to essentially "mount" your hosting account to your computer? Well, we can with a really cool free app called Swish.
Write, And Let The World Revise Your Work With Prose.io For GitHub
Traditionally, writing is a solitary affair. It's just you and the screen, or a piece of paper. Man versus text in a battle of wills, wits, and emotion, until suddenly – you're done. Now it's time to show the world, to put your text out there and watch what happens. But in these digital times, that's not the only way to go about writing.
Figure Out Website Problems With Chrome Developer Tools Or Firebug
If you've been following my jQuery tutorials so far, you may have already run into some code problems and not known how to fix them. When faced with a non-functional bit of code, it's very difficult to actually pinpoint the offending line of code - and that's where debugging and developer tools come in. So before continuing with some more complex jQuery code, I thought we'd examine the tools available in the world's most popular browser - Chrome.
Forget Gmail - Outlook.com Also Handles Your Own Email Domain
Now, using a webmail service to host your domain email isn't anything new. Matt covered how you can set up email on your domain using Google Apps. But is Google really the only act in town? Isn't there any other service out there that provides high-quality free online email service with the added bonus of letting you host mail there for your own domain?
What Is a Website Wireframe & How Can It Help You Develop Your Website?
On a technical level, a modern website isn’t just one thing. It’s a complex soup of interacting technologies, such as HTML (the markup you see on the page), JavaScript (the language running in your browser, affecting interactions), CSS (the language for setting the page’s appearance), and more. But on a more basic level, a website is an idea. If it’s your website, you probably know what you want it to do, or what you want users to get out of it.
How To Easily Track Your Incoming Links With PrettyLinks
Having a popular blog or website can be fantastic, and one of the most popular ways that many people opt to inject a bit of adrenaline into their traffic numbers is by either purchasing advertising space on other websites or ad networks, or otherwise getting either an ad or a banner published on other websites throughout the Internet.
How To Check For Service Disruptions Of Your Popular Online Accounts
Service disruptions can be due to various reasons - from local problems in your computer or the national Internet node to some glitch on the servers along the way. There are ways of course to figure out if a website is really down or it is some other error. But apart from these third-party services (I would also add Twitter to the list), there are the official status pages of online services too.
Vroom, Vroom: A Comprehensive Guide To Speeding Up A WordPress Blog
MakeUseOf serves hundreds of thousands of visitors everyday, and we do it all on Wordpress. Wordpress can and does scale from tens to millions of pageviews, but you’re going to need some heavyweight plugins and strategies to increase performance at that level. Here’s a comprehensive list of things you can do to speed up your blog, and the plugins you can use to do it.
How To Setup Free SMS Alerts When Your Website Is Down
Many services offer website uptime monitoring and SMS alerts when your website goes down, but most of them charge money for this service. Using a clever Google Docs trick and the SMS capability built into Google Calendar, you can quickly set up free text message alerts when your website goes down. This script will try to connect to one or more websites every five minutes. If it can’t connect, you’ll receive a notification by email and text message so you can deal with the problem immediately.
Forget Blogging: How To Power Any Website With WordPress
Have you heard? Blogs are old news. I hope you didn’t jump on that particular bandwagon. Yep, static sites are the all the rage now. I’m joking, of course. There has always been the need for various kinds of sites, but the blog format doesn’t fit every requirement. However, Wordpress is more than happy to be moulded into whatever you want - blog or otherwise - and today we’ll be talking about making a basically static website with Wordpress.
How To Set Up Email On Your Own Domain With Google Apps
If you run your own website or self-hosted blog it’s a good idea to have an email that shares its domain. This will lend additional credibility to your website and make it clear that people are communicating with you in your capacity as webmaster instead of communicating with you personally. You can bypass all the fuss by setting up an email with your domain on Google Apps.
Find the Right Color Schemes With Colors on the Web
Color is a beautiful thing! However, sometimes it can be difficult just figuring out the right one to choose. Thousands of people spend countless hours agonizing over what to wear, what to paint the walls, or what type of icing to put on the cake. The Color Plague is terrible, and it seems as though no one has come up with an efficient way to fix it... or have they?