After years of relaying on Awstats for my web site statistics I also added Google Analytics. The final push came from adding Adsense. If I already have many external javascripts running on every page of my site, then one more makes no real difference. What is the difference between Awstats and google analytics then? On [...]
Google promotes it’s services in subtle ways. After integrating some Google services, like Adsense into my webpage it was time for Google Site Search. Search is not really used much on my webpage, but it does not take really long to integrate it. Google Custom Search can be configured in a multitude of ways. As [...]
Many WordPress themes, including Suffusion, show links to next and previous posts by default. This is a nice feature to have but in my opinion not a deal-breaker if it is missing. One thing that annoyed me a bit was that those links were not category sensitive. I do have many different unrelated content categories [...]
Sep 012011
One thing that got my attention after installing Google analytics was bounce rate. The amount of visitors that see the first, landing, page of the site and leave. The shortest and most accurate description for bounce rate I did encounter was ‘I came, I puked, I left’. A really great video describing how important bounce [...]
Aug 292011
During my usage of Drupal I had almost negligible amount of comment spam. About one or two per month. Those comments were usually containing some links to not so useful web pages. I got used to removing those comments manually. After running my website on WordPress for a few days I got about 10 spam [...]
After working out where I should add ads on my web page, as described in wordpress and adsense this layout needed implementation. To keep everything maintainable I looked for some widget that I could use. Simply copying Google supplied code into relevant places can be messy for upgrades. Also, if I need to change something [...]
Aug 252011
Second issue, that made me move from Drupal to WordPress was idea to add adsense advertising to my website. That issue was not really critical, and can best be described as ‘why not?’. Many sites use some kind of advertising, almost everyone is used to it, for those, who do not like ads there are [...]
After careful consideration I decided to migrate my small website from Drupal to WordPress. The main reason why I selected Drupal some Years ago was it’s modules and programmability. Actually I did not program it at all. But I did use some modules. Now, when Drupal 6.2 was superseded by Drupal 7 I just considered [...]
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