Archive for April, 2007

RSS Feed Problem Solved

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Friday, April 27th 2007   
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As I mentioned in an earlier post Learning About & Problems With My RSS Feed, I was having problems setting up the RSS feed on this blog. I already had one at the bottom of the page, but I wanted to be able to use the universal RSS feed symbol.
Today as I was micromanaging [...]

Stumble Upon - Add Your Blog

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Wednesday, April 25th 2007   
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Stumble Upon is a new (to me) way to surf the internet. After you register, you check boxes for the types of sites you like to view. The categories are limitless.
After you add the Stumble Upon toolbar, you can click the “Stumble” button and see websites that fit your profile. You can [...]

Google Analytics Up & Running

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Wednesday, April 25th 2007   
Filed In: Archives, Hints, Lessons Learned, Stats    Tags:

As mentioned in my previous post, I installed Google Analytics. I now have two days of stats and am very impressed with the results.
Google Analytics gives me beautiful bar and line graphs, information on my visitors and pages views, a “geo map overlay”, and a ton of reports I can generate. I’m [...]

How To Add Google Analytics To Your Blog-It’s Free

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Monday, April 23rd 2007   
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In an effort to increase traffic to my blogs, I came upon Google Analytics. It appears to be a well designed tracking mechanism. It apparently can analyze what improvements can be made to your blog to continue getting a good traffic flow, plus possibly increase your traffic flow. It also shows how visitors [...]

How to Copy and Paste in WordPress

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Monday, April 23rd 2007   
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When I’m writing my blogs, this one and www.observationmountain.com, I post directly to the WordPress “Write Post” screen. I don’t use a text editor. I continue to click, “save and continue editing” until I’m happy with my post.
I often need to move sentences or paragraphs around to make my post “flow” better. I [...]

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