The mother of website tracking
July 23, 2008 by Ari
Filed under Altas de Buscadores, Search Engine Optimization
I am sure that many of you have some form or another of web tracking on your website for statistical purposes, but I don’t know if any of you use Visistat. Visistat is by far one of the most powerful website statistics companies for web analytics and visitor tracking. Visistat is rich in real time visitor statistics, site statistics, ad tracking, touch mapping and overall page popularity data.
I know that WordPress has a few plugins that will give you Statistics like ShortStats but I have found that it is limited to the same general data provided by most free statistical data providers. In reality, what I need to do is find a tool that does web traffic analysis beyond a simple site counter. Internet traffic on your site may be coming from many different sources throughout the world, and it helps to know where people are visiting from so that you can tailor your information to suit the audience. Laberinto Social is about living, entertainment, technology and work at home opportunities but I find that because it is a bilingual blog that it receives visits from all over latin america. User stats and internet traffic management tools like Geo Map help tremendously in mapping out what part of the world the visitors are arriving from. Going beyond a simple IP address tracker is what Visistat has accomplished.
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They have a program where you can register and try out their entire suite of features and tools for seven days for free. If you like it, you can sign up afterwards, if not, you just saw the best in the market. Let me know if you find other tools that can do the same. I was originally looking for web analysis software or something that would tell me via cell phone when my website was down and how many visitors I get, Visistat does that and a whole lot more. I am very impressed with this site.
The purpose of using plug-ins.
July 18, 2008 by Ari
Filed under Search Engine Optimization
By now you’ve heard the word plug-in many times in the Internet. But the way we are going to discuss it here is as it applies to WordPress. If you’ve read the posts on using WordPress in search of information on how to install WordPress for personal use or self hosted professional use, then you will probably want to know more about plug-ins. Depending on the purpose of your site or blog, you can make it as simple as you want or as complicated as you see fit. Let’s take a step back for a minute to a website. A website has static pages that you may have to re-create each and every time when you are trying to get information out, plug-ins on the other hand allow you to manipulate (in this case the blog) your content in a way that allows us you to add features and capability to your blog, enhancing the experience of your visitors.
You can use plug-ins to add additional features like calendars, mortgage calculators, advertisements, translation widgets, classified ads, user directories, music players, video players, etc. etc. etc.. Just about anything can be transformed into a plug-in that works with your site. Keep in mind though that using plug-ins under Web 2.0, is a powerful delivery method on your site that doesn’t "break" your site. What I mean Manette is that you can upload and install as many plug-ins as you want into your WordPress plug-ins directory and you loose these plug-ins or "activate them" and use them if they work, or remove them if they don’t. Either way, you can continue to search for new or different plug-ins which are being created on a regular basis to the generosity of the very talented open-source programmers that are out there.
Some of them can be very elaborate, while some of them can be very simple. One of the most powerful plug-ins that I have been able to find is the translator plug-in created by Carlos Quiles. Tyros created this automatic translation plug-in that you can activate and install into your sidebar on your blog or website and automatically translate the webpage or blog in two a number of different languages. My congratulations and thanks go out to Mr. Quiles for his ability and vision in thinking about everyone else on the Internet.
You can find all kinds of WordPress plug-ins in the WordPress plug-ins directory here.
Make it useful: optimizing your website or blog.
July 15, 2008 by Ari
Filed under Learn Search Engine Optimization
Because this blog covers topics on working from home, this should help those of you with home based websites or blogs.
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