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Monday, July 7th, 2008Coppermine Photo Gallery
Sunday, October 29th, 2006I have just installed the Coppermine Photo Gallery on this site so we can show some photographs that we have taken of the Philippines and other places we have seen. You can access the gallery at http://www.villaver.org/gallery/ .
I discovered that it was very easy to add the Google Analytics code and Adsense adverts to Coppermine as the configuration options allow you to include custom code in the header and footer of every page. Here are some simple instructions:
Added Map Places Page with GeoPositions
Saturday, October 28th, 2006I decided to add some more links to maps using the GeoPositions plugin when I realised that it would be convenient to have all the links on one page, the Map Places Page.
I’ll keep adding more places as I find them.
GeoPosition plugin added for Google Earth and Maps
Monday, October 23rd, 2006I have installed the GeoPositions plugin that makes it easy for us to add links to Maps from Google Maps, Google Earth, MultiMap and MSN Local Live. For example:
- Kidapawan, Philippines
- Davao, Philippines
- Manila, Philippines
- Paris, France
Google Maps, MultipMap, and MSN Local Live are web-based. You will need to download Google Earth if you would like to use it.
More about Google Analytics
Friday, October 20th, 2006I have found a few useful sites and articles that help explain how to make the most of Google Analytics.
The WikiPedia article on Google Analytics is still fairly basic but it includes a short history and some links.
It was quite obvious how to add the Google Analytics JavaScript to the webpages that track the visitors but it was not clear how to track when visitors click links that leave the site. I discovered a Google help page that explained how to add a simple JavaScript function as an onClick() call in an HTML anchor to track outbound clicks and files that are downloaded.
I’m considering using MediaWiki to add a Wiki to this site, although I don’t need it yet. I discovered a page on stoltenow.com that explained how to add the Google Analytics JavaScript in one place to the skin: /wiki/skins/MonoBook.php
Google blog links and services
Thursday, October 19th, 2006I have added some Google blogs to the Blogroll that I find interesting and useful for maintaining and improving this website.
I use the free Google Analytics service to analyse the web traffic we get; it includes a great dashboard overview report that shows a map of where the site visitors are in the world. Google has a blog for their Analytics service at http://analytics.blogspot.com/
I have added Google Adsense adverts and referral links to the site to give visitors access to some useful services and products. I have deliberately made the adverts fairly unobtrusive so they do not distract your attention from the main content on each page.
The free Google Webmaster tools and the Google Webmaster Central blog give a very useful insight into how the GoogleBot crawls and analyses this website. You can see if there are any problems, how the content is served, change the crawl rate, and many other statistics. All this helps a webmaster improve a website.
Google Research keep finding interesting ways to analyse data and improve search technology, machine translation, and many other areas.