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Proof that Alexa rankings can be very inaccurate for small websites
Here is a comparison of the actual viewing figures for this site (as recorded in Google Analytics), against the values that Alexa reports. Alexa vs Google Analytics page views This is a fairly small blog, getting 600-800 page views per day. If you too have a website which is of a similar size you might be interested in just how wrong [...]
What I’ve learnt after 100 blog posts
Today marks a significant milestone for this blog. After two and a half years I have reached my 100th post! I thought this would be a good moment to look back at what I’ve learnt from writing a hobby blog. Why I created this blog I’ve been a hobbyist website builder for about 13 years now. I’ve created a mixture of technical and [...]
AdSense Injection WordPress plugin tweaks
Update 7th December 2010: Use the new Ad Injection plugin for WordPress instead as it will do what these tweaks do, and more. On this blog I use the Adsense Injection plugin to automatically add Google's targeted AdSense adverts to my posts. The plugin is excellent and has helped to make more money for this site but there are a few tweaks that [...]
This blog is now powered by renewable energy!
This blog is no longer powered by coal, oil, gas or nuclear. It is now fully powered by wind, water and solar power. This is because 1&1 webhosting (who provide the hosting for this blog) have now switched to a renewable energy supplier. According to their news posting they have 40,000 servers consuming 50 and 60 Gigawatts per hour (GWh). [...]
Improved KML embedding of Google Maps into web pages
I've been further improving the code that I described in my previous in my previous post - 'Adding KML Google Maps overlays to WordPress posts'. I've made these changes: Option to specify a latitude / longitude / zoom for the map. This allows you to have one map and then show lots of different views of it The code is now implemented as [...]
Adding KML Google Maps overlays to WordPress posts
Embedding basic KML Maps into your blog post There is an easy way to include Google Maps KML overlays in your WordPress blog if you are willing to have all the size and style information hardcoded into each post. All you have to do is to go to http://maps.google.co.uk/ type the KML location into the search box and then click on 'Link to this [...]
