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Google Analytics is not Warm or Fuzzy

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

After the initial 12 hour waiting period, I began to observe my stats in Google Analytics. Sometime during the third day Google stopped tracking my statistics. The server log shows a plethora of hits and visits during the last few days, but Google shows zero visits or hits for the last three days! [...]

Google Analytics - Free

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Urchin Software, recently obtained by Google, has been rebranded as Google Analytics. I’ve been told Urchin offered this service for upwards of $200 to $500; Google is now offering it for free. It is tightly integrated with AdWords, but an AdWords account is not required.
Google Analytics shows you which keywords perform and [...]

Zero Dollar Ads Page

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

In response to the now infamous Million Dollar Home Page, Stu Nicholls is requesting submissions for the Zero Dollar Ads Page. Yes, he’s giving away free ad space in the form of a 75px by 25px .jpg or .gif that links back to your CSS related site. What a fun (and brilliant) idea! [...]

Referral Spam

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Since installing Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer earlier this month, the referral spam I was accumulating has dwindled to almost nothing! As you can expect, I am very happy about this because my log files were filling up with stuff I don’t want to mention. At any rate, I am unsure if I am unintentionally [...]

Why does my media link open a page full of gobbledygook?

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

Ever click on a link to a media file, like an mp3, and get a page full of gobbledygook? [screenshot] The most common cause of this is that the MIME type for the file is not configured on the server. The server must tell the browser what type of file it is sending [...]

Bad Behavior has blocked 672 access attempts in the last 7 days.