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Easily track and build Google Analytics UTM campaign URLs with Google Docs

If you’re using Google Analytics and you’re not taking advantage of its built-in campaign tracking, you’re missing out on important insights. Campaign tracking uses URL query strings to determine where your traffic is coming from specifically. URL query strings are the funny “?something=this&somethingelse=that” text that you see on the end of URLs (try a Google [...]

11/12/2009

by: Josh

posted in: Build A Web Site, Learning PHP, social technology

Create a simple website with the Google Docs CMS

In attempt to solve one problem, I figured out a way to easily publish and manage data on the web by using a simple Google Documents spreadsheet. What I was trying to do was come up with the simplest way possible to manage my Josh Can Help network page. What I realized is that, with [...]

Improve Wordpress Performance by 36 Percent

I was approached recently by the owner of a popular blog using Wordpress software. This blog gets a lot of traffic on a regular basis but also has articles that reach the front page of Digg.com on a regular basis. For those of you not familiar with social media, this translates to very large traffic [...]

11/20/2008

by: Josh

posted in: Learning PHP

Beginner Excercises to Learn PHP Programming

I’ve been on a quest to try my hand at a real programming language. I get the feeling that I’m really going to like what I learn. Said another way, I really hope that I like what I learn. My brain kind of works like a computer and if I can just figure out how [...]

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