So you want Google Analytics on your WordPress site? And you don’t know which plugin to use? Look no further. It was a little surprising when I went through a bunch of my sites while writing this article. I had been utterly inconsistent with my analytics plugins.  Some had an analytics...

In 2008 we dumped a tool we were using at work for ranking and competitor analysis. I used my old dog site as a research tool, knowing that it had good rankings for a particular keyword phrase, and seeing how accurate the tool data was by comparison. Wrote about it here A couple of years...

Ouch. Just noticed that I hadn’t posted here since 2014. I was shamed into a site update this week. I casually mentioned my Mistress of Mocktails site to a guy at work who was doing Dry July to raise funds for cancer research, when he commented how old it was. It’s pretty bad when...

I don’t think it’s possible to describe how bad the Dominos ordering process is. But I’ll try. A lazy Sunday evening, and we ate healthy at lunch, so decided to order Dominos. The cheese-stuffed crust is pretty good. 1. Search for dominos on laptop.  Voucher code pops up....

I’ve been getting so much spam on my sites, it’s ridiculous. I don’t know how anyone can run a user-contributed site anymore. As soon as you let people add content, the spammers come and plaster their ads for diets, jobs, handbags, shoes – everything you can think of....

I’ve been revamping  Australian Flower Shops again lately. I originally started the site back in late 2003, and it’s had 2 makeovers since. It’s actually fun going on the Wayback Machine, to see how the layout and content has changed over the years. I’ve finally gone...

I finally have my new site about online shopping in Australia ready. It’s called MyOnlineShops. It’s a replacement for the shopping site that I lost last year, when the domain renewal email went to an old address I wasn’t using any more. Someone quickly grabbed it, as it had...

I seem to have lost my two most profitable domains this week. I logged in this week to check that links were working, and found someone else’s strange site there! My sites were christmas.best-australian.com and best-australian.com – and as you can imagine, there starts to be a lot...

I’ve just started promoting my new Halloween Australia website, Halloween Australia. It’s written from the ground-up in php, with a mysql database to store halloween events. The goal is to let local families spread the word on how they plan to organise trick-or-treating. In...

I finally finished (well, mostly) my two new complementary [tag-tec]dog[/tag-tec] sites, My Dog Space and My Dog Site. They are written in different languages. MyDogSpace is a php package with slight modifications. MyDogSite was written from scratch in ColdFusion, as a learning tool for the...