How to prevent your own pageviews from showing in Google Analytics

How to prevent your own pageviews from showing in Google Analytics

If you’re using Google Analytics, you probably already know what a massively helpful tool it is for bloggers. But when it’s recording your own views, it can totally skew things (and either make you think you’re suddenly super popular, or that your visitors have really weird reading habits…). Either way, it won’t leave you with…

What is FTP access and why does your developer need it?

What is FTP access and why does your developer need it?

Your website–just like all of the internet–is made up of pages of code. Those pages get filed into folders so we developers can keep everything neat and tidy. It’s your internet browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, hopefully not Internet Explorer) that translates those thousands of lines of code to an interactive and good-looking website. So to…

What categories you should use on your food blog
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What categories you should use on your food blog

Short cuts: The right structurePlan your categoriesFree printable category planner When most bloggers start blogging, categories are kind of an afterthought.  Nobody explained how or why to set up categories strategically and so many food blogs end up with a disjointed list of both broad and narrow subjects. It’s never too late to get your…

The difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org

The difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org

Don’t care about details? Skip to the 2 second summary. It’s a little tricky to understand at first, but I’m going to try to make the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org easy. Let’s start at the beginning. Forget about .com and .org right now and let’s talk about WordPress alone. What is WordPress? WordPress itself…