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22 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Using the PHP flush method in your website

For those of you looking for greater speed when it comes to website loading times all you need to do is “flush”. A good number of people who are running websites today use PHP to do so.
What you probably didn’t know is that you can use the flush method to clear the buffer when your [...]

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30 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Today’s word is “Canonical”

Now when I’ve told most people about this newer SEO practice I either get a blank stare or “What in the world is a ‘canonical?”  The answer is this; a “Canonical” is a link relationship and is used to prevent duplicate content problems that occur commonly in Search Engine Optimization and it looks similar to [...]

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02 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

The most important thing about a website is…

Performance! Of course! If you think about it what is the number one thing that stops people from visiting a website or a web page? Most time you’ll hear your customers or audience saying “The site is too slow!” and…

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08 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Build Better Links to Track in Google Analytics

Now I am long time user of Google Analytics (about two years or so now) and I just recently stumbled on a tool to help you build URLs that are friendly to Google Analytics tracking. It’s a pretty cool tool that takes almost know time to learn but it will help any users out [...]

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31 January 2009 ~ 0 Comments

What is the gclid URL parameter?

I remember getting a question about this a while back about someone’s URL that they were using as a landing page from a Google Adwords campaign that looked similar to this…
“http://www.yourlandingpage.com ?gclid=123xyz”
So what is the “gclid” URL parameter anyways? It is a way that Google Adwords allows its users to “Auto-Tag” [...]

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24 January 2009 ~ 1 Comment

New addition to Google Analytics GA.js Code

I was recently checking out the Official Google Analytics Blog and found that they’ve made an addition (in terms of code) to the GA.js, GATC (Google Analytics Tracking Code).
Original GA.js Tracking Code
<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src=’" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = [...]

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24 January 2009 ~ 0 Comments

WordPress 2.7 Here We Come!

If you are a past visitor to PureWebAnalytics.com then you have probably noticed that I recently changed the design of the site. It’s been long overdue, in my opinion and I finally found the time to update the site. This site has seen numerous versions and even a domain name change (from WebmasterFarms.com [...]

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23 July 2008 ~ 1 Comment

How to Improve SEO for flash-based websites

After spending a weekend hiring a photographer for our upcoming wedding, we were looking at his website and he asked me “How is flash handled by search engines and is there anything that you can do to improve SEO short of redesigning the website without flash?” Now I know that a lot of companies [...]

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18 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

How to Create a PayPal Sandbox Account

I’ve been using PayPal for the last couple of years for buying, invoicing and receiving payments from customers. As websites and web site design and development continue to increase PayPal has become the way to accept payment for a lot of businesses, possibly yours as well. It has also become very customizable to [...]

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11 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Using Google’s Website Optimizer for the First Time

I must say that I am an avid lover of Google’s tools from Google Analytics to Google Trends and even iGoogle. Recently I had a chance to play around with Google’s Website Optimizer tool which allows you to run “experiments” on your website to see which page has a higher conversion rate and then [...]

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