Google Analytics is probably the most essential tool for anyone running a webservice, blog, or other online property that wants to grow traffic and understand existing traffic.
My mom sent me an .xls file this evening that she had spent hundreds of hours working on and managed corrupt within a matter of minutes. After a quick Google search I found lots of pay for programs to recover the file, but nothing quick and free.
I’ll admit it, I’m addicted to Twitter. The only thing that I have found that I don’t like about Twitter is the inability to receive updates, either via email or SMS, for all of your @replies; I fix things I don’t like.
A friend of mine who runs a small business asked me to do SEO for her website the other day. I used a combination of different on page tricks and external services to get her site’s SEO up to speed:
Tracking conversations about people, brands, ideas, topics, or any area of interest really, is a new part of my daily routine now that I can track all of these things in real time with using Twitter.
I posted about this over on my personal blog, but I told Jenny about this and she thought the hackaddict crowd would dig this:
I saw this article a while back (thanks to lifehacker) which explained how to track page views on Craigslist. I loved the idea but did not love the implementation: it required hosting your own image and using either a third party web application (but did not describe the process) or using a shell script to list the number of times the server loaded the image. Today I am going to explain a much easier way to track your Craigslist page views which does not involve hosting your image or using complicated scripts (my mom could use this method).<ol>
I wanted to insert a logo at the top of every slide in a presentation I was working on today. It was obvious how to do this in Google Presntations, so I did a quick search and found this great tip:
