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With Google personalized search, there are a lot of factors to consider when you want your listing to pop in Google's listings.
Just because you have a niche site does not mean it has to remain in obscurity. There are plenty of ways to make even the most boring site appeal to a wider range of people.
How to engineer a successful viral campaign. They don't just happen. A very in depth post with specific steps.
A great post about what we know and what we don't and how not to be dangerous.
A guide to local search and reviews. Reviews help you rank in various places. One is Google Product Search and another is Google Maps.
A study of post length. Pretty interesting results, but in the end, it really doesn't matter.
I know linkedin helped me a bit when I was freelancing. But even now that I am taking a break, I guess there are a lot of uses for Linkedin. I started using it more because I use Digsy at work and it connects with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. But I barely even tapped the surface. I know that a few posts about Magento and Wordpress got me a few jobs.
Ran into an issue where Google said everything was tracking, I could see the analytics code, which seemed correct but true visitors were about 50 times what Google was showing. So this is a way to troubleshoot issues like that.
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Cookies
Google Analytics sets four cookies on each visitors' machine by default. They are named __utma, __utmb, __utmc and __utmz. There are multiple add-ons for Firefox that will allow you to read the cookies on your browser. If any of these cookies are missing, are blank or are attributed to a funny domain name, then you know something is wrong. With a standard installation, though, they are either there and correct or they aren't there at all. It's usually very straightforward.
__utm.gif Request
The tracking code sends all of the information to your Google Analytics account via a file request from www.google-analytics.com named __utm.gif. It will have a long query string (question mark followed by variables) that contains all the pageview and visit information. You can use ad-blocking addons for Firefox to see whether or not that file is being requested. If it is, your code is working fine. It's gathering all the information, setting cookies and sending it all to your account.
If that file is not being requested, it means the information is not being sent to your account at all. This indicates an implementation error.
If you can see that ga.js is being requested from the same server but not __utm.gif, it indicates a problem in the second block of JavaScript. If neither are being requested, it indicates a problem with the first block of JavaScript. In either case it's usually a syntax error. Usually this is the result of modifications to the code that were done incorrectly or the code being reformatted by an email client. If you copy and paste the tracking code into an email, it may get reformatted when it's sent. If you must email the code, try copying and pasting into a text document and attaching that to your email.
There is one area within the “Local Search Sphere” that brings a wide amount of debate when it comes to ranking impacts, importance, and ethical dilemmas.
When I analysed the most tweeted blog posts ever, I found that Twitter users like posts that are around 1,100 words long. When I wrote the most important
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