by admin on September 14, 2011
in web
- Now it’s easier to find out what people click on the most
Google is slowly unleashing its new and freshly updated Google Analytic screens. These are a bit more organized, easy to navigate, contain lots of drop down and drop up menus, and also a few new tools.
One of my favorite new tools, which I’ve been playing around with on several websites, is the in-page analytics. This useful website tool let’s you see which links are being clicked on the most and the least. The tool breaks down the clicks into amounts based on percentage. This is helpful because if you can begin to optimize your site better by posting less of the content that people don’t like, and more of the content that people DO like.
You can also begin optimizing your website based on other aspects of your design, such as your search tool, contact link, navigation urls, and whatever other content is on your website such as your advertisements.
If you notice that one section of your site is receiving more onsite clicks then another section, and you’ve noticed that your ads aren’t performing well – then maybe you can move your advertising to a section of your site that receives more clicks. Hopefully this is something that will increase your onsite CTR (click through percentage).
There’s some other nice new features of the Google In-Page Analytics such as more detailed mobile tracking, information on statistics from TV ads, and site speed tools – all tools to help you optimize performance of ads, your website speed and internal traffic, and even your external traffic.
If you’re a webmaster with an active Google account, then login and check out the new interface for Google Analytics and let me know what you think!
Happy website optimizing and stat tracking!
by admin on August 29, 2011
in web
TubeX Video Site Software is easy to use. Click here to buy it for $25!
There’s a million people out there who want to develop a million sites that get a million views by a million people and earn a million dollars from each of their million sites. These people want to be the next YouTube, but they can’t because they don’t have a YouTube clone script to do it for them. Or you want to make a tube site about some random topic, like all funny cat videos, but you can’t because you don’t know how. Well now you do and now you millions of people can make your millions of tube video sites thanks to JMBSoft’s Tube X script. I’ve tested this program on a few domains of my own and other peoples sites with larger amounts of traffic to ensure it can stand up to the thousands of users online at once thing.
The best parts about JMBSoft’s TubeX
- TubeX can handle mass amounts of traffic, in the 50,000 and higher realm, without slowing down the website.
- TubeX can import mass amounts of videos via RSS feeds from sources like YouTube and other video sites. Y9ou can also importthe embed code for these videos so that you keep the hosting bill down.
- TubeX template system is easy to learn, easy to use, and is completely customizable.
- TubeX also comes with four ready to use templates. Two of them have friendly url rewrites enabled for nice urls in the search engines.
- TubeX has a built in advertising section in which you can have an ad for a specific sponsor displayed only on that sponsor’s videos. So let’s say you want AdSense to appear only on pages for Vimeo videos that you’ve imported – you can do that! What if you want automobile ads to appear only on pages with car videos? You can do that too! You can pretty much optimize your site so that your ads are in places that get clicked a lot, or are displayed with videos that are of relative content.
- Built in search and tag feature for videos.
- Usergroup membership settings – you can tell users what they can and cannot do with their membership.
- Mailing list – since people can register for free on your site, you can then grow a mailing list to use for promotion of your site or important site announcements.
- Categories are built in and you can have as many as you want. Each category will get its own category video page url.
- Video documentation to show you, eyes on, how to navigate the admin panel.
- You can use a custom video player so that you can place ads in your hosted videos. You can’t put ads in an embedded video from YouTube though, unless you monetize your video via Adsense, but that’s a whole other topic completely unrelated to this.
- The price is only $25 per licenseand they have a forum for the users to chat with each other in regards to support.
The only bad parts about JMB Soft’s TubeX?
The owner needs to step aside for some time and is halting progress on all of his scripts. This was announced a while ago, but I haven’t needed support in years, because JMBSoft scripts work right out of the box and there’s really nothing difficult about them. Whatever problems you might have, someone else probably had them years ago and they’ve already been solved in the support forums. There will also be other people in the forums who know the script and can help you if you need it. I may even be able to help if it’s not a major coding bug, in which case JMBSoft said they will still fix bugs if they appear. They’re just not doing any future versions of their programs, but everything works great now and there hasn’t been an update in months anyway, so it’s not like you’re going to be missing out.
Jeremy, the owner and programmer of JMBSoft needed to step away from being a full time programmer for a while, probably because he went into another business that was more profitable. He did have a baby this year, so making moves for his family is completely understandable. He’s ran the company for well over ten years on his own, but as some of you may know, things change when a baby is involved, and babies aren’t cheap. I think he took his excellent developer skills to another company who offered him a payday he can’t possibly turn down – and to that, we say thank you and congratulations!
Would I still buy TubeX knowing that there will be no further releases as of yet? Hellz Yeah! You know why? Because TubeX is well documented, installation is easy, and learning it’s template system is a piece of cake.
TubeX works great and it’s only $25.
Buy TubeX NOW before they take it off the market or raise the price! The old price was $89-$269!!!
by admin on August 26, 2011
in web
Google Friend Connect + PHP Fox = true love 
As a license owner of PHP Fox, which powers the webmaster community of this site, I find it enjoyable to see what kind of Add-Ons people create in their spare time. The latest PHP Fox Add-on that’s grabbed my attention is a group of Add-ons targeting and utilizing Google’s Friend Connect, and completely integrating it with PHP Fox. Coded by Data66, of ScriptTechs.com, this is a great tool if you like posting nifty gadgets on your social network website. So let’s take a peek at what this tool actually does, then you can decide if it’s for you. The good thing about the Add-ons is that they’re separated, so you can use one, two, three, whatever you like. Let’s review a few of the particularly useful Add-ons.
- Google Friend Connect Newsletter Subscribe Block – if you don’t know by now, then you better ask somebody! You should know by now how important it is to maintain a mailing list to update your subscribers on new content. This let’s you place a convenient block on your PHP Fox site to maintain subscribers.
- Google Friend Connect Adsense Block – this let’s you ask questions to your members via a poll. Then the members answer and it helps Adsense display ads relevant to their answers. Talk about optimizing your website for Adsense! That’s like asking someone in a store – “what do you want” and they answer “blue oranges” and you (acting as if you’re Adsense) deliver them blue oranges and it results in a sale. Wether or not you can really find blue oranges, I have no idea. If you really want, you can buy a dozen oranges and paint them blue or any color you want. If this Add-on helps you become an Internet millionaire, then you can go buy an entire orange farm and paint them all blue. I could care less what you do as long as you’re smart enough to optimize your website for Adsense by using this Add-on!
- Google Friend Connect Ratings and Reviews Block – this is a perfect Add-on for webmasters who run social networks in which reviews and ratings are important. We all know by now that everyone has an opinion, so why not let them voice their opinion via ratings and reviews. People don’t ever shut their mouth, so this should help them rate and review items on your site, and let their voices be heard! You want members of your social network to be interactive, and this Add-on helps provide a means of transportation for the snarky opinionated
a$$holes people on the web. If you’ve been to YouTube, then you know people get carried away with comments, so at least you can provide them a place to do it with your new ratings and reviews block!
There’s a few other pieces to the Google Friend Connect API for PHP Fox, but I want you to go check them out on your own. If you use them, please provide a review for Data66, as she’s done a great job on them and offers them for free.
I’d like to personally thank Data66 for her assistance in helping me figure out a stifling headache of a problem yesterday. She’s the reason that I was able to get the webmaster community running after I moved it from another website. Her support and advice in the situation was great. She’s a friendly professional who offers excellent WordPress, Joomla, and PHP Fox tech support.
Visit Data66′s personal site at Script Techs.
