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Archive for January, 2008

SEOMike.com v.2 – Coming Soon!

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

I took a peek at my analytics today and noticed that the site has brought some interesting visitors from around the world. People have come from: India, Algeria, Russia, Brazil, The UK, Ireland, And, of course, the US. Thanks for the visits! Keep coming back!

SEOMike.com v.2 is coming soon! I’ve got a friend designing an actual logo and a layout for the site that won’t be 100% lame like it is now. There are some fun things planned for the next version of the website. I’d like this to become a resource for information but I’m not going to reinvent the wheel, I’ll just put up information I find that I think is trustworthy and valuable. Sifting through the net-noise to find little kernels of truth can be very difficult, especially in the SEO world. Maybe you’ll find the site helpful, maybe not. If not, I’ll put up a contact method to take suggestions on how to make the site better.

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SEW Mentions SEOMike

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Things have been really hectic in my life lately. I guess it’s the post-holiday rush. Lots of things happening. My to-do list is written on my office window and is about 3 feet long. Ugh.

On a good note, I was recently mentioned in a Search Engine Watch article by my friend Mark Jackson.  I spotted a test of changes in the Google SERPs and pointed it out to Mark who wrote an article about the changes and the potential impact they could have. Check it out here. I like showing up in an article every-now-and-again, but like to mostly lay low so people don’t get too familiar with my techniques.

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Google Analytics Between Two URLs

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Happy New Year! We made it, and I can’t believe the Jayhawks won the Orange Bowl!
Been working a lot lately trying to pass Google Analytics cookie data between URLs and have now got it figured out. We have to pass the info between URLs because we need a central secure place to process user data. Anyway, for posterity here’s what works:

_utmLinker that functions with an image link:

<script type=”text/javascript”>
document.write(’<a href=”javascript:__utmLinker
(\’https://www.myurl.com’);”"rel=”nofollow”>
<img src=”images/button.gif” width=”139″
height=”29″ border=”0″ /></a>’);
</script>

<noscript>
<a href=”https://www.myurl.com” “rel=”nofollow”>
<img src=”images/button.gif” width=”139″ height=”29″
border=”0″ /></a>
</noscript>
_utmLinker that functions with a text link

<script type=”text/javascript”>
document.write(’<a href=”javascript:__utmLinker
(\’https://www.myurl.com’);”"rel=”nofollow”>Apply Now
</a>’);
</script>

<noscript>
<a href=”https://www.myurl.com”
“rel=”nofollow”>Apply Now</a>
</noscript>
Required modification to the GA Tracking Code

<script src=”http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js” type=”text/javascript”>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
_uacct=”UA-0000000-0″;
_udn=”none”;
_ulink=1;
urchinTracker();
</script>
<script>
if(typeof(urchinTracker)!=’function’)document.write
(’<sc’+'ript src=”‘+
‘http’+(document.location.protocol==’https:’?
’s://ssl’:'://www’)+
‘.google-analytics.com/urchin.js’+'”></sc’+'ript>’)
</script>

<script>
_uacct = ‘UA-0000000-0′;
urchinTracker(”/0260360448/test”);
</script>
Input the information into a hidden field so that a submit function on a form will pass the information off as well:

<form xid=”form” method=”post” onsubmit=”__utmLinkPost(this);”

… and that’s how you do that!

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