Author: Vision Nest Media
August 5 Josh Dreller gave out pointers on “How To Master Paid Search Bidding” Some of it was over my head at first reading, but still think I will get back to it, right before I will need to bid for the first time. Siddharth Shah dived into “Making Sense Of Multi-Click Data.” My first learning from this article was...
Minor learning of the day: you cannot change your YouTube username. Medium learning of the day: Latest version of Google Chrome can prerender a page if it is coded correctly. This means that after a page loaded a next page can start loading in the background. Useful when there is a predefined or frequently used sequence of pages. Major learning of...
August 1 Learned about Google’s new hotel finder service/experiement from Mike Bluementhals blog. Good timing: I wanted to reserve two nights for later in August today. Played with the interface, but the price range didn’t go low enough for my budget. Nice interface though, particularly the mapping of the geographical area where one is looking for lodging. Daid Roth summarized...
I’ve been bookmarking blog entries since my last SEO post, just didn’t have the time to post about them. So now here is the sumary of two workdays. More coming later. Learnings of the days: How two mark up reviews using schema.org’s review specs: schema.org/Review How to create a custom YouTube channel including a very specific custom image. I finally...
Useful fact of the day: WordPress MU (MultiUser) allows running multiple blogs from one installation, under different subdomains or directories Useless fact of the day: There are more Americans on Facebook than have passports. 150 million vs. 115 million. (Source: Tripl) And now onto today’s SEO links with my comments in italics: Mike Blumenthals pointed out three features that got...
Fun widget of the day: Google+ Feed Widget, used to showing off the Google + public stream on a blog or website. See it on the side of my blog too. Sad non-sign-up of the page: I have iTunes on my computer at work. I tried to get the artwork for the CDs I have been importing into it. To...
Useful tool of the day: Jetpack is a set of WordPress plugins, most of which was previously only available for blogs/sites hosted on WordPress.com. My two favorite parts: Shortcode for adding movies, images, and more to your posts and pages with a single line of code and the WP.me URL shortener. And now onto today’s SEO links with my comments...
Complex learning of the day: Using Google Event tracking I can tack now track with Google Analytics when somebody clicks a link, downloads a forms or calls a phone number (by clicking the number on the webpage in the smartphone’s browser.) Simpe learning of the day: CSS text-shadow. I knew that it was possible to crate dropshadow effect for text...
Learning of the day: A few days ago I was struggling with redirecting a whole directory to a single page using the RedirectMatch command. I was told I should use what works on our server, which meant RewriteRule. I found the solution today: RewriteRule ^oldsite/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L] New fun tool of the day: I got my Spotify account today and started...
Last week I posted a note how my Amazon.com account ended. There I mentioned my attempt to set up a Barnes and Noble account as a substitute. Well, that didn’t live long. I received this email from them today: Dear Publisher, Thank you for your continued support of the Barnes & Noble Affiliate Program. Barnes & Noble has made the...
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