May 6th, 2009
I bought a lousy book on Google Website Optimizer (Sybex’s Always Be Testing) which seems to tell me very little about how to use GWO how I want.
I wanted to implement a dynamic element to a site I have started to test - namely an order summary on a shipping page of an e-commerce store.
Of course, because GWO is javascript powered, any dynamic code (I’m using PHP’s Smarty but the same goes for any serverside language) will not be rendered because JS is interpreted clientside. You can only use HTML/CSS and JS as a variation.
After some thinking (admittedly I should have come up with a solution a lot quicker than I did), I realised I could add in my dynamic order summary code in to my Smarty template file as normal, then in my GWO variation just add some CSS to hide it:
<style tyle=”text/css”>
#mydiv {display:none}
</style>
Tags: dynamic, testing, website optimizer
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February 17th, 2009
I recently bought some new exact match domains, such as Chocolate Fountain, Bath Toys and Running Trainers.
Not sure if I will do anything with them yet, but I can’t help but snap them up when I find them!
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December 24th, 2008
My friend Reino has recently launched an e-commerce store for his infamous jewellery brand, The Great Frog.
Launched in 1972 by his Dad, Patterson, TGF is credited with creating the original skull ring and has supplied jewellery to the likes of Metallica and Iron Maiden.
Take a look around the site!
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October 6th, 2008
Whilst purchasing some plain white tees online from Topman, I thought I would see if I could find any discount codes to save me some money.
I found a few old ones that didn’t work but I eventually found a code for free delivery which worked and saved me £4!
Here t’is: STYLEMAIL
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September 16th, 2008
Well, I’m about to find out. I’ve just launched a new site, Unusual Gifts - a blog with various unusual gift ideas for everyone.
I know this is a competitive sector, and I intend to update daily (easier said than done!). I will post an update with how I’m getting on soon.
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July 26th, 2008
I’ve been working on a new site recently, James Bond Watch. It is a brief history of the watches worn by James Bond 007 throughout the series of films, from his original Rolex to the James Bond Omega Seamaster he has been wearing for over a decade.
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June 12th, 2008
Google.co.uk users get an option Google.com users don’t when searching. That is to restrict their search query to ‘Pages from the UK’.
I never use it myself, but I came across a Hitwise article that mentions that 14% of UK Google searches have the option selected. So, if you operate in the UK and your site doesn’t appear under a ‘Pages from the UK’ query, you could be missing out.
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May 31st, 2008
I just bought the domain Undelete Files to play with the Google exact match domain bonus and see if a lite site can outrank some heavy weight competition for the target keywords with just a few links.
I will post updates here soon.
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February 24th, 2008
I wanted to register a domain, set up hosting, install wordpress and create content in a couple of hours and hopefully make some cash from it so I decided to dabble with the Ebay affiliate program.
An hour after registering the domain, the site is now live. Hubcaps Finder grabs feeds from Ebay, inserts my aff code and displays the results. The plan is to build a few backlinks, and hopefully people searching for vw hubcaps or ford hub caps will find the site and purchase.
Let’s see how it goes…
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October 4th, 2007
Sitepoint is giving away their latest Ruby on Rails book as a free download. Get it here.
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