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Here are some WordPress plugins worth trying:

• Google Analytics for WordPress
• Adsense Manager
• Sociable adds links to del.icio.us etc on every post (see Share and Enjoy squares below) !
  
• XML Google Maps

wordpress sociable plugin

According to my google analytics web statistics Firefox 3 is already the second most popular version (@ 20%) of Firefox for visitors one of my sites !

POS    Version  Visits    %
1.     2.0.0.14       29     60.42%    
2.     3.0               9     18.75%
3.     1.5.0.9         3     6.25%
4.     2.0.0.11       3     6.25%
5.     2.0.0.12       2     4.17%
6.     2.0.0.3        1     2.08%
7.     2.0.0.8        1     2.08%

My Google Groups !

	AdSense Help	0	48627	Member	Longer than a week
	Adword-User-Group	17	988	Member	Longer than a week
	AdWords Help	0	17623	Member	Longer than a week
	Analytics Help	0	13997	Member	Longer than a week
	Android Beginners	68	3825	Member	3 days ago
	Android Developers	137	9004	Member	3 days ago
	Android Discuss	10	1420	Member	3 days ago
	Android Internals	2	1672	Member	3 days ago
	architecture-rules-users	0	7	Member	Longer than a week
	Best Practices	0	19942	Member	Longer than a week
	Blueprint CSS	26	927	Member	Longer than a week
	Carnival of the Mobilists	3	83	Member	Longer than a week
	Cloud Computing	100	902	Member	Longer than a week
	codesite-discuss	2	1275	Member	3 days ago
	comp.lang.php	513	7873	Member	Longer than a week
	comp.lang.ruby	857	7175	Member	Longer than a week
	comp.os.linux.advocacy	2939	2416	Member	Longer than a week
	comp.os.linux.setup	68	2143	Member	Longer than a week
	Django users	503	9374	Member	Longer than a week
	Foresight Linux Commits	0	9	Member	22 minutes ago
	Foresight Linux Documentation	0	15	Member	9 minutes ago
	Foresight Linux Marketing	0	25	Member	21 minutes ago
	Foresight QA	0	8	Member	22 minutes ago
	Gmail Help Discussion	0	251078	Member	Longer than a week
	GNOME Do	0	207	Member	21 minutes ago
	Google AJAX API	140	3316	Member	Longer than a week
	Google App Engine	635	3090	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Apps Discussion Group	14	27473	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Base Data API	32	864	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Calendar Data API	58	2289	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Calendar Help	14	34498	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Checkout Developers Forum	2	5707	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Data Protocol	21	1007	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Labs	0	1799	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Labs - Code Search	10	1172	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Maps API	1229	30862	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Page Creator Discussion Group	0	26096	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Page Creator Guide	2	687	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Search Engine Optimization SEO Google - MSN - Yahoo	8	1842	Member	Longer than a week
	Google SketchUp Help	15	11348	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Translate	37	2665	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Visualization API	46	197	Member	Longer than a week
	Google Webmaster Help	0	33909	Member	Longer than a week
	GOOGLE YAHOO SEARCH ENGINES	30	778	Member	Longer than a week
	Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux	31	1278	Member	Longer than a week
	Hosting at Google Code	69	1814	Member	Longer than a week
	iGoogle Developer Forum	108	4167	Member	Longer than a week
	KML Developer Support	0	2552	Member	29 minutes ago
	Linux Users Group	25	3780	Member	Longer than a week
	MAMBO OPEN SOURCE - CMS	0	64	Member	Longer than a week
	microsoft.public.sqlserver.security	32	409	Member	Longer than a week
	microsoft.public.sqlserver.server	455	3317	Member	Longer than a week
	microsoft.public.sqlserver.tools	23	541	Member	Longer than a week
	MochiKit	8	1688	Member	Longer than a week
	News & Updates	0	19996	Member	Longer than a week
	Nonprofit Salesforce.com Practitioners	29	326	Member	Longer than a week
	OpenOffice Ads Action	0	91	Member	2 minutes ago
	OpenSocial	0	3606	Member	Longer than a week
	Pardus	0	19	Member	20 minutes ago
	Pardus-Linux	0	6	Member	20 minutes ago
	pclosdocs	0	68	Member	4 minutes ago
	petite anglaise book news	0	316	Member	Longer than a week
	PownceAPI	7	398	Member	Longer than a week
	Provider for Google Calendar	8	164	Member	Longer than a week
	rBuilder Music Player Appliance Commits	0	3	Member	Longer than a week
	SOFTplus GSiteCrawler	15	2606	Member	Longer than a week
	stopbadware	33	1299	Member	Longer than a week
	TurboGears	132	3384	Member	Longer than a week
	Tuttle Club (Social Media Café)	0	46	Member	Longer than a week
	Ubuntu Linux	15	985	Member	Longer than a week
	Web Designers	2	861	Member	Longer than a week
	Web Marketing	1	2370	Member	Longer than a week

Why would Google accept / approve / sponsor Tor for the Google Summer of Code 2008 ?

Tor is an organisation that "helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy" ie by attempting to subvert all Web Analytics tools including Google Analytics and apparently Tor also breaks Google Search itself ! Surely Googles primary product ?

According to Google Analytics there were over 1000 visitors to my VIZZ.INFO site last month !

1.      Firefox 648     51.35%
2.      Internet Explorer       518     41.05%
3.      Safari  38      3.01%
4.      Opera   28      2.22%
5.      Mozilla 21      1.66%
6.      Konqueror       5       0.40%
7.      Camino  2       0.16%
8.      (not set)       1       0.08%
9.      Netscape        1       0.08%

but why is hardly anyone clicking on the Google AdSense ads ?

ALL TIME

fsse     1,181     7     0.59%     $0.80     $0.94
fsse     1,099     6     0.55%     $0.84     $0.93
osde     4,304     9     0.21%     $1.00     $4.29
osde     4,340     9     0.21%     $0.99     $4.29
vizz     3,962     44     1.11%     $0.99     $3.92
vizz     5,474     2     0.04%     $0.06     $0.32
voippix     3,157     14     0.44%     $2.47     $7.79

TOTAL    11,343     116     1.02%     $1.58     $17.88

I just can't seem to break the 2% CTR or $20 barriers !

Google Analytics have released a NEW version of their tracking javascript code (ga.js) so create the following two javascript files:

googanala.js
var gaJsHost = ( ("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www." ) ;

document.write(
                unescape(
                        "%3C" +
                        "script type='text/javascript' " + "src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' " +
                        "%3E" +

                        "%3C" +
                        "/script" +
                        "%3E"
                )
        );

googanalb.js
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-999999-9");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();

and include the following two lines in your footer

script type="text/javascript" src="googanala.js" /script
script type="text/javascript" src="googanalb.js" /script

with angle brackets added back in !

Google Analytics v StatCounter on VOX

Its a simple choice Google Analytics uses JavaScript and doesn't work in your VOX homepage embed while StatCounter can just use HTML and does work in your VOX homepage embed !

View My Stats

So now you can have webstats on your VOX page if you use StatCounter !

StatCounter

ClickHeat PHP web page heat map

http://sourceforge.net/projects/clickheat/
http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/heatmap.html

I've just discovered that "Google Analytics" gives you the "Tracking Not Installed" error if you using  HTTP  redirects
[code]
<?php header( 'location: login.php' ) ; ?>
[/code]

so you must (temporarily ?) rewrite you code so that the google script is included DIRECTLY in the first page on your website
[code]
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-747268-6";
urchinTracker();
</script>
[/code]

How to track outbound links
https://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=27246


a href="http://www.example.co.uk" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outgoing/example_co.uk');"


How to track file downloads
https://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=27242&ctx=sibling


a href="http://www.example.co.uk/files/map.pdf"
onClick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/downloads/map');"