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How to Track Blog Visitors Through Google Analytics

Aug 302009

If you follow me around at all you know that I am a huge fan of WordPress Platform website/blogs. In fact, I blog about it quite a bit on my Internet Mastery Blog. Just type in “wordpress” in the search box and you will find a lot of very helpful information.

Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine and one that is on my “MUST INSTALL” list for any WP installation is Ultimate Google Analytics.

How to install and activate Ultimate Google Analytics

Login to your Google accounts control panel. If you have not set this up yet, you will need to create an account here.
Create a website profile by clicking the “Add Website Profile” link.
Provide the URL of the site that you will be adding Google Analytics to.
You will be provided with two options. You need the Web Property ID from the yellow box at the top of the page entitled “Tracking Status Information. The code will look something like this: UA-999999-9.
Login to your WordPress Admin. Depending on the version of WP that you are using you should be able to install new plugins directly from your dashboard. If not, you will need to download this plugin and FTP into your account.
Once you have installed and activated the plugin, enter your Google Analytics account ID and save your options.

Make it a point to login to your Google accounts regularly to track visitor traffic such as the total number of visits and page views your site received, the average number of page views per visit, (P/V) and the number of visits and page views over time. You will also be able to see visits by new and returning. This is valuable data to have and will assist you in creating content that your visitors want to return to time and time again.

**You have permission to reprint in your publication or to your website/blog any articles by Denise Griffitts found on this Website as long as Denise Griffitt’s name and contact information is included. Denise Griffitts, Virtual Assistance Industry Expert, http://virtualassistanceuniversity.com, info @ virtualassistantindustry.com, 888-719-6711.

How to Test Cross Browser Compatibility

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Jul 082009

Cross-test browser compatibility and why it is so important.

When building a website or blog for yourself or for your clients it is imperative that you check the appearance of the site in as many browsers as possible. What may look perfectly fine in IE may look terrible in FireFox. Inconsistencies in browsers can be difficult and time consuming to correct but you can’t correct them them until you identify them.

We use Browsershots to make screenshots of our web designs in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue and a number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to Browsershots. It takes about 30 – 45 minutes or so which means that you really shouldn’t close that window. Alternatively you can bookmark the page and go back.