Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle Analytics is something that I use on every site of mine. A few of them employ other analytics beyond that, but they all use Google Analytics for a baseline. Today, Analytics is adding “industry benchmarking” to their site. If you choose to opt-in, this will do two things: Share your site statistics with other […]
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Keeping up with new users on your message boards
Reading Time: 2 minI’ve built a few large forums over the past 6-8 years. I took one forum from scratch up a little past two million posts with about 125,000 users, and I have another one that’s getting close to the 100,000 user mark. However, I also have about a half-dozen small forums that are just getting off […]
Website to make good-looking charts
Reading Time: < 1 minI was looking for a way to make a good-looking chart for one of my sites. I made one in Excel, but it was pretty bland. Then I discovered the NCES Create A Graph website. It’s actually a kid’s site, but has some slick tools to make some good-looking charts and graphs. Combined with the […]
A nifty little graphic plug-in
Reading Time: < 1 minOddly enough, the first post on this SEO blog has nothing to do with SEO or monetization… I use WordPress for a handful of sites, so I’m always on the lookout for handy plug-ins. I found this one today and just had to share it. This is a plug-in for WordPress that makes any linked […]
Top 10 Church Website Design Mistakes of 2007
Reading Time: < 1 minDean Peters at Heal Your Church Website has released his list of the “Top 10 Church Website Design Mistakes of 2007“. I question calling it a list from 2007, as some of these have been around for a while. However, the list of offenses is right on — I completely agree with what he has […]
Church websites around Atlanta are pretty bad
Reading Time: 2 minI was trying to contact some large churches in the Atlanta area to see what they were doing to try to conserve water during the current drought. I used a list from 2005 of “Atlanta’s 25 Largest Places of Worship” (paper copy — not available online). These are BIG churches. The smallest budget listed was […]
Yahoo tips for “exceptional performance”
Reading Time: < 1 minYahoo has just posted a list of 13 ways to improve the speed of your website. Some of them are ones we’ve discussed on here in the past (ake JavaScript and CSS External being a big one). Some of the tips really only apply to very large sites, but the list is worth looking over […]
Web design tips from Harry Potter
Reading Time: < 1 minHere is a neat article I just found titled “What Harry Potter Can Teach Us About Good Web Design“. The idea is that the Harry Potter books themselves aren’t anything special. Nice artwork, but a rectangular shape, standard binding, normal English alphabet, white numbered pages, black text, etc. What makes them special is the content. […]
Great article about why simple is better
Reading Time: < 1 minIn the past, I’ve been pushed to add many things to church sites that might be nice, but rather unnecessary. Some I was able to easily convince people that we didn’t need ($5000 for “virtual tour”), others were harder to battle (“why isn’t the whole site FLASH?”). Then today I found this article: Why Your […]
Two small SEO tips
Reading Time: 2 minI just realized I’ve forgotten to mention two small tips for helping your site rank better in the search engines. The first is a very common one, and over time could help a little bit. This is to have all of your “yoursite.com” traffic redirect to “www.yoursite.com”. This will help focus the pagerank and ratings […]