Static Maps API - Google Code
The Google Static Maps API lets you embed a Google Maps image on your web page without requiring JavaScript or any dynamic page loading. The Google Static Map service creates your map based on URL parameters sent through a standard HTTP request and returns the map as an image you can display on your web page. New! This document details the Static Maps API v2. A Quick Example The following example contains the URL of a static map image of downtown New York City, which is displayed below: Notice that you don't need to do anything "special" to get this image to show up on the page. Audience This document is intended for website and mobile developers who want to include Google Static Maps API images within a webpage or mobile application. API Key Note: Maps for Business users must include a client and signature parameters with their requests instead of a key. The Static Maps API uses an API key to identify your application. Usage Limits Overview
Google Analytics Plugins, Hacks and Tips Collection | FutureNow's GrokDotCom / Marketing Optimization Blog
Google Analytics provides some great information about what is happening on your website. But what if you want to take it to the next level? Thanks to the many smart people who have created these wonderful hacks and plugins to get you some powerful additions to Google Analytics. Please note most of these need the truly awesome GreaseMonkey FireFox extension . (*post updated 6/18/09) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Auto press the “Access Analytics” button, if it is displayed Remembers settings you set when you switch between profiles, and allows you to open another profile in a new tab quickly. 24. 25. 26. Please help me maintain this list as the one place to find all the Google Analytics plugins, hacks and tricks.
SEO Best Practices: SEOmoz's New Policies Based on Updated Correlation Data
Title tags—technically called title elements—define the title of a document. Title tags are often used on search engine results pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page, and are important both for SEO and social sharing. The title element of a web page is meant to be an accurate and concise description of a page's content. This element is critical to both user experience and search engine optimization. Code Sample <head> <title>Example Title</title> </head> Optimal Format Primary Keyword - Secondary Keyword | Brand Name Optimal Length for Search Engines Google typically displays the first 50-60 characters of a title tag, or as many characters as will fit into a 512-pixel display. Title Emulator Tool Enter your title below to see how it would appear in Google's search results. Enter Your Full Title Text: Enter Search Phrase (optional): This is an example of how your Title Tag will appear in search results www.example.com/example This is your page description. 1. 2. 3.
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10 htaccess Hacks Every SEO Should Know |
There’s a lot that you can do with an htaccess file, and of course, things can get pretty advanced in a hurry. Here, we’re going to keep things pretty simple. These are the 10 basic htaccess hacks that every webmaster should know. 1. Use: The following htaccess code won’t help the initial pageload, but it will significantly help subsequent pageloads by sending 304 status when requested elements haven’t been modified. FileETag MTime SizeExpiresActive on ExpiresDefault "access plus x seconds" I generally set the cache for one day (86400 seconds). ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus x seconds"ExpiresByType text/css "access plus x seconds" Simple! 2. Use: I think this one is self explantatory. ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html 3. Use: If you have permanently changed the URL structure on your site (via either optimization change or CMS migration), you will want to implement 301 redirects from the old URL to the new URL. The syntax for a basic 301 redirect is: 4. 5. Removed. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Google Analytics Report Enhancer
June 26, 2008 UPDATE: You can read about the most recent updates to the GAREnhancer here, but the same script is available from both this post and the new one. A few weeks ago, Shawn wrote an article on true time on site and how you can calculate it. You may also know that for a while, Google Analytics actually calculated time on site using this method before reverting back to the calculation method used now.Several weeks ago I came out with an article on a Greasemonkey script I'd written which added several segments to the usual segment drop down. I'm about to tie all of these together. Introducing, the Google Analytics Report Enhancer! Clicking on the above image will reveal the new Goal Conversion tab, now with raw number of conversions for each goal as well as goal revenue. Now next to Avg. I've also modified the entrance sources and entrance keywords report to include a column for approximate visits. These columns are also sortable, though only within the displayed rows. A.
A quick word about Googlebombs
Co-written with Ryan Moulton and Kendra Carattini We wanted to give a quick update about "Googlebombs." By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs. First off, let's back up and give some background. People have asked about how we feel about Googlebombs, and we have talked about them in the past. The next natural question to ask is "Why doesn't Google just edit these search results by hand?" Again, the impact of this new algorithm is very limited in scope and impact, but we hope that the affected queries are more relevant for searchers.
