Archive for July, 2008
Woopra free analytics software for your website
Many web hosts charge extra for log file access or don’t offer log file access at all. If this is true for you check out Woopra.
Woopra provides live information, not daily like Google analytics. It has a wonderful interface and is painless to install. You just add the appropriate plugin or javascript code to your site.
I have not tried it, but several commenters on this blog have highly recommended it.
So if you need or want real time analytics give it a look.
What is Google bowling?
We’ve all heard of Google bombing and we’ve all had some fun over the years with it. Google bombing is when you create lots of links to a site with specific keywords. For instance, have everyone link to the George Bush website with the words ‘miserable failure’.
Google bowling is not so fun. Bots crawl the net, link to your site using terms better suited to pornography websites or other such shady sites. This can and will hurt your Google ranking and more than a few webmasters have been victimized.
There is little you can do except have an overwhelming collection of legit links to your site. Something not so easy for small websites.
It seems to be happening in very competitive areas on the web. For now, watch out for it. In time I’m sure Google will learn to filter these links out.
