You’ll notice a funky new button on the right hand side of this page, below the blurb about 299 Steps to Website Heaven - that’s a Digg button and we’d love it if you could add us to your Digg account.
Haven’t got a Digg account? Why on earth not? That was one of the 299 Steps to Website Heaven!
Thanks to all of you lovely readers who decide to Digg us, in addition to those of you that have Stumble-d Us, Delicious-ed us and Facebooked us!
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It may come as news to you that Google has over 50 datacenters (which is why sometimes you’ll see one result for a search and the next day a different result.
If you own a website, it’s interesting to see where you are positioned across different datacenters and this funky little tool lets you search 50+ at a time.
http://www.mcdar.net/dance/index.php
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When using a stats system such as Google Analytics, it is important to make sure that visits from you and your staff / developers / SEO company etc don’t sway the results.
It’s no good showing 8,000 visits if 7,990 were you checking the site was still up, adding stock, finding details etc, is it?
With Google Analytics you can filter out IP addresses so traffic from them doesn’t show.
There’s a help center article on this at
http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55481
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You should be checking regularly to see if your site is rising up the search engine rankings, but checking every keyphrase and every page of every search engine manually is a chore and a half!
Internet Business Promoter will let you check up to 3 sites for free in certain search engines, and the paid version contains practically every search engine in the world!
http://www.ibusinesspromoter.com/
You could also use the free service at I Need Hits to check your listings phrase by phrase
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(Don’t forget, you can now buy the 299 Steps to Website Heaven book!)
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