How to tell if your website has a dedicated IP

http://www.robtex.com/ip/

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Want to see all the data on you that google has stored?

https://www.google.com/dashboard/

Login with your appropriate google account and here is your privacy information that is available to google and to you.

How to tell if your website has a dedicated IP »« Cannot see new version of website – updates not showing – sticky cache

Cannot see new version of website – updates not showing – sticky cache

1) Control-R (or Command-R) – Control – F5 does the same thing on Windows

2) Go through your options and empty the cache manually

3) Try another browser

Users do not normally notice the old website hasn’t changed because they are not talking to the developers and wouldn’t know when the website really has been updated. This happens all the time.

Most likely you have a “sticky cache” on your computer.

Here’s the trick: Whether you get to http://yourwebsite.com by clicking this link, or by going through google, once you see http://yourwebsite.com in the top line of Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome (The URL or Location bar), do a hard refresh.

Hard refresh is done when you are supposed to be seeing the new webpage that you are having trouble with, and reaching out to your keyboard, while holding the “control” key, tap and letup on the “r” key, then let go of the “control” key. (Ctrl-r)

This dumps the old cached page that is sitting on your computer and tells it to go load the new one from the internet.

This insures that you are seeing the latest changes to your website.

The “sticky cache” issue is common when developing new websites. Usually people don’t notice changed pages so much because they don’t know the page should have changed. It happens more often than people realize.

Note: If you have an alternate web browser installed that you haven’t used lately, just view the website in it, you should see the latest version automatically, since it’s not been “cached” lately. Browsers do not share each other’s cache.

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If you have a really sticky cache:

Log out of WordPress, clear your browser cache, quit and restart the browser and try again. If that does not work, there may be a caching proxy or network cache somewhere between you and your host. You may need to wait for a few hours until this cache expires.

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Note: CSS changes can cause a really sticky cache when background images are changed, they tend not to update unless you clear your cache.

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SOPA has been stopped

On the 18th, this website joined google, wikipedia and many, many, many others in a blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA.

We won this one!

Today on January 20th, 2012 it was announced that the bills are being dropped.

Think we’ll fly the ribbon on the upper right corner of the website for some time more to appreciate that change and direction can come from internet collaboration.

Thank you, one and all who joined in on the protest to keep the internet open.

This is our lifeblood and prosperity.

Ubuntu root »« Find a file on the Android while in terminal or adb

Does google still count page visits or hit in analytics if the cached version is clicked?

The answer to this is sitting right next to another interesting fact from the google forums, how does google count page hits?

From: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=11df99a64a48364c&hl=en

“Caching: Google Analytics directly calls Google’s servers each time a page is visited, even if the page has been cached. Other analytics solutions may not record an additional visit if the page is pulled from a user’s or server’s cache.”

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How does google count page hits using cookies, javascript or images?

I stumbled across this while looking for the answer to another question (does google count cached page hits in my analytics?).

From google’s forum about adwords tracking: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=11df99a64a48364c&hl=en

“Visitor browser preferences: Visitors must have JavaScript, images, and cookies enabled in their browsers in order for Analytics to report their visit. Depending on their method of collecting data, other analytics solutions may still register these visitors.”

This is basically the same post as this other one here talking about google needs javascript enabled to count website visits.

Does google still count page visits or hit in analytics if the cached version is clicked? »« Does google count cached page hits in my analytics?

Does google count cached page hits in my analytics?

I stumbled across this while looking for the answer to another question (how does google count page hits if you clear your cookies, javascript is disabled or images are turned off).

from google’s own forums: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=11df99a64a48364c&hl=en

“Caching: Google Analytics directly calls Google’s servers each time a page is visited, even if the page has been cached. Other analytics solutions may not record an additional visit if the page is pulled from a user’s or server’s cache.”

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Advanced SEO overview:

Advanced SEO overview:

• Keywords and keyphrases: Invent, research, compare, place in website, refine, re-fold.
• Tune your Robots.txt file.
• Setup your canonical tags.
• XML sitemap and automate the creation and submission.
• Google webmaster tools, look for errors and unexpected keywords that you didn’t get traffic for.
• Setup goals and funnels in analytics.
• Build incoming links.
• Submit to just a few whitehat paid websites for listing Yahoo.com, Business.com, BestoftheWeb.com
• Link sculpting or link juice.

ubuntu error splicing file permission denied »« What to do with Google Analytics – 5 quick tips:

What to do with Google Analytics – 5 quick tips:

What to do with Google Analytics:

• First, you can tell how many people are coming to your website by typing your keyphrases.
• Second, you can tell what are your most popular pages.
• Third, see what your traffic looks like and find fortuitous spikes in traffic. These will most certainly have a reason. Drill down on the day and see what keywords came up that day and what were your best referring websites.
• Fourth, look at the map to see what countries are interested in your content, if you know analytics good enough, you can even see what cities, this is more revealing!
• Fifth, setup conversion goals and funnels to track your leads. This way you’ll know if your client’s goal has been met and how many times. This could be a shopping cart page, a checkout page, a contact form, or a newsletter signup form.

Advanced SEO overview: »« Google SEO tricks – blackhat

Google SEO tricks – blackhat

BG (before google) these were powerful tricks to cheat your way to the top quickly
Avoid SEO solicitors and companies who use these:

• Bulk website submissions to hundreds of search engine.
• Meta Tag Keyword work. (google was the first to ignore these)
• Reciprocal linking to non-pertinent websites. (it’s actually good to reciprocal link on a slow steady basis to sister sites)
• Hiding stuffed keywords. (don’t hide white text on white pages)
• Cloaking pages which are really a bait and switch routine, a smart website which offers a different page to a robot than the one a human would get.
• Access to link farms. (huge pages with links, sometimes they show up on unclaimed domain names)
• Duplicate websites pointing to one, or duplicate pages. (there is a way to have more than one domain name forward to another, one could be SEO focused and the other could be human readable, the SEO focused one would permanently redirect to the other)
• Doorway pages which are created to quickly forward a visitor to another page. The text on the first page is optimized to get a high ranking but not for humans.
• Keyword stuffing, it’s a black box secret at google labs how many times you can get away with saying the same words on the same page, several are fine. Also keyword density plays a part in this algorithm.

What to do with Google Analytics – 5 quick tips: »« Google SEO tips – whitehat