Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Are you using Google Analytics? Terrill found out that your competitors can easily hack your Google Analytics statistics by simply adding your tracking code to their site.
So, looking from the other side, this can be a "good" thing if you have a foe. You can simply find their tracking code in their source code and add them to some of your sites to sabotage their statistics. Be sure you make it looks like you did it accidentally!
So, how do we avoid it?
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Sunday, February 12th, 2006
Google Sitemaps is now reporting Googlebot's view of robots.txt file at your site. It would be useful if you are using it to restrict Googlebot from crawling some sections of your website. The report will assist you to debug your robots.txt file, to show if it's working the way you want it to be. Log in to your Google Sitemaps and have a look now.
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
When I was browsing around forums, I came across this SEO (Search engine optimization) contest. All you have to do is to make a site to rank top in Google search with a set of given keywords (which will be announced on 15 Jan 2006). I would say that it's definitely a great chance to compare your SEO skill with other SEO experts.
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
Submitted your RSS to Google Sitemaps? Now, submit your RSS to Yahoo to help Yahoo search engine crawl your site better. (You will need a Yahoo! login)
(via Yahoo! Search Blog)
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Google announced their new service, Google Analytics when I was away for the weekend. I suppose this is a replacement for Urchin (a paid website traffic analysis tool) since urchin.com is now forwarded to Google Analytics. I’m so busy that I don’t have time to add it to my blog until today.
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