Of course you can have a look at your Google Analytics and Wordpress Stats to get a feeling how popular your blog is, but there are other great tools out there that you should use to optimize your content and analyse how popular your blog really is.
The first tool I ...
Blogging, Search Engine Optimization Alexa, Blog, PageRank, Popularity
A couple of days ago I wrote about how to get your blog indexed by Live Search & Yahoo! Search. While the process itself was quite straightforward the result is really disappointing. At the moment Live Search still hasn't updated its index although it has downloaded my sitemap already ...
Search Engine Optimization Google, LiveSearch, Yahoo, Yahoo Slurp
Today I was dealing with a nasty problem. I was trying to validate form data without saving it, which was supposed to work like this:
[sourcecode language='php']
if ($this->Location->validates($this->data)) {}
[/sourcecode]
The only problem was... it didn't work! It took me some time until I figured out that the Parameter usage of validated() is ...
cakePHP cakePHP validates
So far I have been only working on getting my site being listed at Google. I had a look at my Google Analytics stats today and saw that 100% of the traffic generated through search engines comes from Google. So I asked myself - maybe there are other search engines ...
Search Engine Optimization Google, Live Search, Microsoft, Yahoo
The main reason why I blog is money. And to be honest I'm currently doing a really bad job in that sense (zero income from blogging so far). I asked myself today whether I actually have the right approach in order to succeed. I'm currently blogging mostly about cakePHP and ...
Blogging adwords, cakePHP, Cost per click, Google, Google AdWords Keyword Tool, Google Insights for Search
If you have followed my blog lately, you will know that I had some problems with entries of my blog being dropped from the Google Index. This was several days back and I assumed it had to do with a lot of 404ers Googlebot was getting. I tried to ...
Search Engine Optimization Google, Google Webmaster Tools, Index, Search
As you might have read I'm currently struggling with Google to get my current sites indexed and my outdated and deleted pages out of the index. Today some progress was made. First of all the first content removal request was processed! Hooray! I had to wait two days (Google indicated ...
Blogging, Search Engine Optimization Google, Robots Exclusion Standard
I posted yesterday how some of my pages have disappeared from Googles index. I also mentioned how I tried to fix this issue (re-submitting sitemap, request broken links to be removed). Now, one day later the situation is as such:
Total URLs in Sitemap
20
Indexed ...
Blogging, Search Engine Optimization Google, Google Search, Google Webmaster Tool
Well, sometimes you have to learn it the hard way. Initially three days back I was really amazed by the huge increase of traffic I was getting after I had started blogging. I wrote new blog entries and new content and thought there should only be one way ...
Project WebMoney, Search Engine Optimization 404, error page, Google, Googlebot, indexing
Just until recently (before starting project WebMoney) I was a huge fan of Webalizer - an online log tool analysis tool written in C. Don't get me wrong, I still am, but as it turns out my webhoster has been using the same webalizer version for the past ...
Blogging, Search Engine Optimization Google Analytics, Web traffic