WordPress Google Analytics

Problems adding Google Analytics to wordpress blog. You might be missing as many as 95% of your visits and pageviews! Here is how to add Google Analytics to a wordpress installation correctly without using a plugin.

Add Google Analytics to WordPress blog

A full guide on how to add Analytics to WordPress then is:

  • Login to your Google Analytics service and get the tracking code.
  • Login to your WordPress admin panel at whateveryourblogdomainis.com/wp-admin.
  • Go to the Appearance menu option and select Wdigets.
  • Drag across a Text widget into the primary widget area.
  • Open the text area by tapping the arrow beside it and paste your Google analytics code in there.
  • Your Google Analytics code will now function correctly!

You can also add the Google Analytics code directly into your WordPress theme footer. I do not recommend this because if you must remember your changes and repeat them if you want to change WordPress themes.

Another way is to use a Google Analytics plugin. I do not recommend this because it means tracking and checking updates to the plugin. The method I have outlined above is what I personally use (you can check the source on this site to see for yourself). The method above is also what I recommend to all my clients and it loads as part of the WordPress menu system.

Installing Google Analytics on WordPress blog

At first, I had copied the Google Analytics code exactly as given from another random website. This did not work in WordPress because wordpress did not recognise the end of the first line, which is Googles comment, as an end comment. This is the exclamation mark, followed by two dashes and a greater than symbol. Because of this comment extending, WordPress viewed the entire Google Analytics code I pasted in as part of an extended comment and did not process it as script.

To quickly fix my tracking code on wordpress, I removed that first line that says Google Analytics inside two triangle signs. It was just a comment anyway and didn’t affect tracking itself.

I didn’t know that my google analytics code was not working on my WordPress blog until I added another analytics mechanism. Then after fixing the Google analytics code my visitors jumped by 1000’s! Which just shows how bad the commenting out was affecting things.

Anyway, check your Google analytics code and make sure it’s working!

Early signs of alzheimer’s disease

Quick signs of Alzheimer’s disease, from an article in the UK Telegraph online magazine. In case I forget:

1: The earliest detectable change is a drop in spinal fluid level of the key ingredient of Alzheimer’s brain plaques. This can be detected up to 25 years before the age of onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

2: The Alzheimer’s plaques in the brain can be seen on a modern brain scan 15 years before memory issues become apparent.

3: Increases in levels of Tau protein in the spinal fluid at 15 years prior to onset of Alzheimer’s.

4: Shrinkage in parts of the brain becomes apparent 15 years prior to Alzheimer’s.

5: The patients brains use of glucose is reduced (which could be linked to the size reduction) and memory issues surface. These can be detected up to 10 years before full onset.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9391769/Five-signs-that-predict-Alzheimers-disease-25-years-before-memory-fails-study.html

Knowing the early warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease is great and all, but how do we stop it?! or even just slow it down. Also, what causes it? These are the questions i’d like an answer to.

Perfect Escape 3 Walkthrough

Perfect escape 3 walkthrough.

Today I downloaded Perfect Escape 3 by Flyhill games from the App store, so here’s the walkthrough for everyone like last time. Perfect escape 3 is an escape the room style game, with realistic 3D modelled graphics.

Previous episodes in the series:
Perfect Escape 1 walkthrough
Perfect Escape 2 walkthrough
Perfect Escape 3 walkthrough

You start perfect escape 3 with a set of tools in the psych room, and that’s where we’ll start this guide.

Get the musical note from the table.

A bottle of Gucci perfume near the left books on the bookshelf.

Use tools on locked door and solve the spot the difference minigame to unlock it. Left house, right red house, bottom flower, right cloud, top left sparkle part.

In wood room with big window and clock tower, on screen with shelves and wine bottles, on the left there is a wooden circle like in perfect escape 2. Check it to get orange juice. On this same screen is a hammer in the second drawer from the left at the bottom.

From TV room, unlock perfect escape 3 bath room.

Go back and unlock the door leading to the bedroom using the tools as before.

Enter bedroom. Under bedside drawer, there is a golden key. Also take TV remote control from on top of the bedside drawer.

In bedroom on left side there is a fake wall. Use hammer on it to see hidden cheerleader behind bars! Ethan is crazy. She asks for a drink.

Give her orange juice. Her name is Sara and she is still thirsty.

Go to bathroom. Use gucci spray bottle on mirror screen to unlock code in roman numerals. V is a 5 and add 1 for each I.enter the code in the television to u lock the cabinet drawer. Pick up the revolver.

In Television room, on the screen with the 1,2,3 Images. Under the left cushion, on the small lamp side. Touch there to zoom in and get the small silver key.

Use silver key when zoomed in to the wood circle to get coffee.

Return to bedroom and give coffee to Sara. Now she’s hungry! So let’s get her something to eat…

Place hammer on wooden circle in television room to get the delicious Raspberry cake. Give the raspberry cake to Sara. She mentions a secret passage which you’ll see hidden in white on the map screen. She won’t tell you how to get it until you feed her more. Ungrateful!

Place the musical notes on the wooden circle to get the coffee jam cake. Give it to Sara for the metal ring-pull in return.

Place yellow key on wooden teleport circle. It vanishes.

Use ring-pull on left hand side of cabinet under mirror in bathroom to hear an unlocking sound in the other room. You must place yellow key on wooden circle thing before you can attach the ring-pull. No idea why…

Go back to the television room to see your new door. Unlock using the tools and complete mildly unusual find the difference game. Theres no penalty, so just keep tapping if you get stuck.

Once unlocked, enter the door to reappear in the level from Perfect Escape 2!

Use tools to unlock door beside cake counter top.

On your middle of the top shelf on the bookcase, in the cafe room, you will zoom in on the basket to get a bullet.

Now go to the door with the eyehole. Tap on the eyehole to look through…tap again for dialog. No spoiler here. Now the door should open.

Use revolver to handle the situation. Instant stand up and time to get outta here! Grab the hacksaw in the cupboard on the lower right, under the smashed glass cupboard.

Use hacksaw on Sara to free her.

Leave using the white door in the starting room.

Perfect escape 3 walkthrough and guide completed! I can’t be the only one looking forward to part 4!

Perfect escape 3 review

Perfect escape 3 is an awesome game. Play it for the loose, curve ball story. The Detailed 3D model graphics make perfect escape 3 a very nice looking game. The game is translated from Mandarin Chinese, hence the English is way off base, but this adds to the weird roller-coaster storyline.

The puzzles in Perfect Escape 3 are perfectly balanced. Not too easy and not too difficult, unlike the cake puzzle of perfect escape 2 which was practically impossible to complete without trying every combination of items!

Each game of perfect escape so far has built upon the puzzles in previous games. So in 3 we see the coffee shop from 2. We also help the character in perfect escape 2 escape in 3, partially solving the mystery of the wooden circle in the kitchen.

In conclusion, I would recommend Perfect Escape 3 with 5/5 stars if you love using your imagination and weird story-lines. 3/5 if you don’t. The graphics give perfect escape 3 that extra edge in recommendation, keeping it above other simple escape the room style games.

Nap During All Nighter

Trying to pull an all nighter? Need to take a powernap? Here’s how I take a nap without falling asleep.

Before we start, set a quick alarm to alert you that your time is up. Loud alarm or quiet alarm, the choice is yours. All set? Good, let us move on to the napping.

Lie down on your back at your favorite napping location. Even your bed is suitable for this technique because it’s practically impossible to fall asleep while napping with this nap trick.

Now place your hand over your face. Lift your hand up a few inches. You want enough distance so it hurts when it falls, but not too much so it misses your napping face. About 4 inches should be more than enough.

Now close your eyes and enjoy your nap. If you do fall asleep while napping your hand will land on your face and wake you up. If you stay conscious it won’t. nature will handle the rest.

And that kids is what I learned at college – how to nap without falling asleep.

If you want to expand on this further, have a glass of cold water before napping. The cold will stop your metabolism from shutting down and keep you from sleeping even more.

After your nap, you can get back to your all nighter refreshed and ready to own it.

How long should a nap take? 20 minutes is recommended but I would argue 15 minutes is the sweet spot for the perfect napping experience.

Noob Guide To SEO

The Noob guide to SEO, or beginners guide to SEO is what I wish I knew when making my first website. This noob guide to online marketing covers both on-page and off-page SEO and covers only the things that actually work. Let’s get started.

Note: All SEO methods mentioned here are white hat, which means they’re fine to use and Google likes them. Stay away from black hat SEO Techniques which can get you tackled out of the search engines like Bing.com and Google.com. Gray hat sits lovingly nestled between the two and is risky. Avoid gray hat SEO tricks unless desperate. Buying SEO backlinks for cash would be a gray hat technique.

On-Page SEO part 1

For on-page SEO, pick out a main keyword to target, together with sub baby keywords. The baby keywords are niche keywords related to the main keyword and usually longer and with less traffic potential for SEO.

For example, your main keyword might be gardening furniture with sub keywords of gardening furniture for gnomes and furniture for gnomes in gardens. The main keyword is the topic you’re discussing and the sub keywords contain parts of the main keyword along with other words.

These sub keywords are important because they help you catch the “long tail” of SEO. Thats the people who search for weird stuff online that’s only mentioned on your site. It’s easy to rank highly for long tail keywords because they’re rare and rarely typed into the search engines. Use many long tail keywords for on-page SEO.

When picking a main keyword, focus on what’s most important. If you have a blog and are in the process of writing an article, stick to things your readers want to know about, do or try. How to guides are popular, as are review of Amazon merchandise.

You can use the Google keyword tool for ideas. Tick the box for exact search to see exact matches and use the global searches column to find the best keywords to target. No fear, go big or go home. Then branch out and tick the phrase box to see the general strength of that keyword. Look for high numbers and sort by global searches. Alternatively set the region in The Google keyword tool to United States and sort by local searches. Again, high number of local searches are the best keywords to target.

A minimum for global searches on the Google keyword tool for exact searches would be about 2600. At position 1 in Google that brings you about 30% of traffic per month, which is 900 unique visitors a month. 900 unique visitors a month is approximately 30 visitors a day.

Article continued on Noob guide to SEO part 2.