After years of relaying on Awstats for my web site statistics I also added Google Analytics. The final push came from adding Adsense. If I already have many external javascripts running on every page of my site, then one more makes no real difference. … Read the rest
Google promotes it’s services in subtle ways. After integrating some Google services, like Adsense into my webpage it was time for Google Site Search. Search is not really used much on my webpage, but it does not take really long to integrate it. … Read the rest
One thing that got my attention after installing Google analytics was bounce rate. The amount of visitors that see the first, landing, page of the site and leave. The shortest and most accurate description for bounce rate I did encounter was ‘I came, I puked, I left’.… Read the rest
After working out where I should add ads on my web page, as described in wordpress and adsense this layout needed implementation. To keep everything maintainable I looked for some widget that I could use. Simply copying Google supplied code into relevant places can be messy for upgrades.… Read the rest
Second issue, that made me move from Drupal to WordPress was idea to add adsense advertising to my website. That issue was not really critical, and can best be described as ‘why not?’. Many sites use some kind of advertising, almost everyone is used to it, for those, who do not like ads there are browser plugins to disable it.… Read the rest