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February 5, 2006

Heartstopping Analytics Stats

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

My sites are hosted with different companies and on different servers so when my Analytics stats started looking like this I got worried… More »

January 17, 2006

SEO contests are so “Middle Class”

Posted by Sarah King in Fun and SEO Games

A new SEO contest started yesterday, day before, all depends on your time zone. I created a v7ndotcom elursrebmem page out of idle curiosity and a v7ndotcom elursrebmem contestants directory for people to get extra, themed, links to their sites.

There’s been stacks of activity with domains being bought and onsold, ebay auctions, charity contestants (go Alek) and, of course, spam.

I just checked my Google Analytics page for the directory just to see who the competitors are. Now it is an international affair, but look at the countries. Pretty much only western, first world countries.

So, is SEO and the little games associated with it, just for the bored middle classes?

November 16, 2005

Google gets Analytical

Posted by Sarah King in PHP & Web Development

If you’ve read this blog before you’ll know that I’ve just launched RealState and am building up the functionality. It’s early days, and the domain is sandboxed so I’m not terribly anxious about how much traffic it gets - not yet anyway!

But I was thinking that I should put WebAnalyse onto it so that I have some tracking and I stumbled over another blog talking about Google Analytics. I shuddered at the thought of Google getting into the hitcounter game, it seemed like such a backward step. And I usually like to control my data but Google is trusted, surely they won’t shut up shop and leave me statistics-less? More »