All posts tagged Google

Adding static maps to your blog or website

adding statis maps to your website or blogThere can be numerous of situations where a map can be very useful to display on your website or blog.

The map can be obtained as a static image from a stock photo library, or you can use one of the free map services on the internet. Since we’re big fans of scalable solutions that can be automated, we’ll focus on the free static map services on the Internet.

In this post we’ll learn you to use the static map api from Google.
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New great jQuery plugins for your page

One of the best ways of improving your productivity, is to use  prebuilt components like jQuery for adding advanced functionality to your website, instead of reinventing the wheel yourself.

In this post you’ll see some of the most interresting jQuery plugins from march 2010.
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Optimize your site with A/B testing

Big companies like Google and Amazon are spending huge amounts of time and resources continuously testing their sites. The reason is simple – the better your site is optimized for your target users, the better results the site can deliver.

Understanding the target users can be difficult, since preferences can change from country to country, from industry to industry, and even change over time. A/B testing is a great tool for getting better understanding of your users preferences, and for optimizing you site for specific goals.

In this post we will provide you with some tools that allows you to set goals for your A/B tests, and then set up A/B tests on your own site
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Faster Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a great tool for getting detailed insights on user behavior and traffic on your site.  Normally the standard implementation from Google Analytics works fine but if you’re looking for opportunities for optimizing site speed, the possibility to store the Google Analytics javascript file locally might be something to consider. The main  benefit of hosting the javascript file locally is one less external dependency, and often faster download times.

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WordPress is now installed – what’s next?

WordPress is a fantastic tool for blogging and publishing content on the web. Especially the many plugins and themes provides a tremendous amount of functionality out of the box. However as a newbie to WordPress, all these possibilities can also be a bit overwhelming.

In this post, we’ll suggest a few things that hopefully can help giving your new site a fantastic start.

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SEO friendly tracking of outgoing links

As a webmaster knowing exactly which external sites your website is driving the most traffic to, can be very useful. With this knowledge you can contact the most popular sites any maybe enter some kind of partnership, or just link even more to these sites, since your audience seems to like these sites.

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