Learning About the Demographics of Your Visitors Using Quantcast
Unlike Google Analytics or other analytics packages, Quantcast combines direct measurement of your site's traffic with what's known as "panel data," which is data collected from surveys of Internet users. By combining these two data sets Quantcast is able to tell you not only how many people are visiting your site, but also things about those visitors like their income level, age, sex, educational attainment and other useful info. This information is useful to you if you want to sell advertisi ...
Read MoreTwo New Plugins from ReadyMadeWeb
Because PHP Code Widget has some security risks and isn't the ideal solution for using Monday's plugins as widgets, I decided to create a couple of very simple plugins that will create widgets for both column-list categories and column-list links. Check them out on our new Plugins page.
Read MoreBroken YouTube Counters, a Commom Problem with No Solution
Yesterday I was involved in publishing a video a to YouTube that had some major PR power behind it—outreach to top bloggers as well as radio and TV exposure—so the video got a ton of views. While the traffic to the video's landing page skyrocketed, the view count of the video stayed stuck at somewhere just above 300 views for several hours. Comments kept pouring in, the ratings number climbed, but the views stayed stuck.
Read MoreHow to create static pages in Tumblr
One thing that users accustomed to a more full-featured CMS miss when they use Tumblr is the ability to create static pages. Luckily, there's an easy way around that.
Read MorePlugin Monday: WordPress Mobile Edition
As a follow-up to my post about the iSite's iPhone and Android app-building service, I wanted to cover an alternative way to bring your WordPress-based site to mobile devices. WordPress Mobile Edition by Crowd Favorite is very quick and easy way to create a very stripped-down, simplified version of your site for mobile devices.
Read MoreLearn SEO Basics from Google
While ReadyMadeWeb works hard to provide you with a knowledge of best practices for SEO, the folks at Google are certainly better equipped to tell you how to best interact with their own search engine. Check out the SEO for Beginners Guide at the Google Webmaster blog or watch the very comprehensive video below on search-friendly web devlopment to get the real insider perspective on SEO.
Read MorePlugin Monday: PHP Widgets, Category Columns, & Link Columns
Today's Plugin Monday is focused on sidebar widgets. A plain vanilla WordPress install has a nice set of widgets for the sidebar, but they are fairly limited in how they're presented to the user. Here are three plugins to help with both the form and function of your sidebars.
Read MoreBuild Your Own iPhone & Andoid App with iSites
iPhone and Android apps are no longer the domain of developers now that tools like iSites.us by GenWi. This tool makes creating a mobile app version of your website as easy as clicking through a series of menus and forking over a modest $25.
Read MoreRSS is Not Dead: Why Google Reader is a Great Tool
Whether you're a blogger or just a regular reader of more than one blog, by investing the short amount of time to setup and get into the rhythm of using Google Reader, you'll save time and give yourself a bunch of tools to do more with what you're reading.
Read MoreUse WeFollow.com to Find Your Kind of Tweeple
WeFollow.com is an excellent resource for finding people who generate and promote great content, but it can also be a great resource for finding people who you can to make aware of your presence of Twitter.
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