Useful Tools/Links

Posted by admin | Technology Updates | Sunday 28 June 2009 4:26 am

http://www.just-ping.com/

Ping your website from various cities in the world and know the response time from each of these locations.  Useful if your target audience are scattered in various locations.

Configure Google Analytics to your Wordpress blog

Posted by admin | Word Press | Saturday 27 June 2009 2:12 pm
  1. If you don’t already have Google Analytics account, register your site at:
    • www.google.com/analytics
    • Click on “Sign up” and add your site/blog name there
    • You will be given a unique UA-xxxxxxx-xx number.
  2. Login to you blog admin page by going through http://{blog-url}/wp-admin
  3. We pre-install Google Analytics plug-in, if not go and upload the plug-in from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/
  4. Activate the plug-in if you uploaded in step 3
  5. Go to Plugins–>Google Analytics for WordPress–>Settings–>Enter the Analytics ID(from Step 1)–>Click on “Update Settings”

Thats it!  Now you can track blog visitors from your Google Analytics account.

Must have Wordpress plug-ins

Posted by admin | Word Press | Saturday 27 June 2009 1:31 pm

We install and configure the following popular plug-ins while setting up your Wordpress site.  We can install any custom plug-ins on request, or you can install yourself.

 

  • Disable Trackbacks

Globally disables trackbacks to cut down on spam. Very, very few people legitimately use trackbacks and spammers love them, so it’s worthy tradeoff.

  • Google Analytics for WordPress

This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog.

  • NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

  • Akismet (You need a key to enable this, so we will have this installed by our customer)

For many people, Akismet will greatly reduce or even completely eliminate the comment and trackback spam you get on your site. If one does happen to get through, simply mark it as “spam” on the moderation screen and Akismet will learn from the mistakes. If you don’t have a WordPress.com account yet, you can get one at

Avactis

Posted by admin | Partners | Saturday 27 June 2009 5:07 am

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