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Want to submit a form without having to reload or refresh the current page you're on? jQuery can help you achieve this, and this kind of functionality is something we see more and more every day on modern websites. The first thing I wanted to learn about jQuery when I first started using it a few years back, was how to submit and retrieve information without having to reload a page.
In this tutorial I want to show you how you can submit a form using the jQuery framework. Basic PHP programming knowledge is required for the server side posting.
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Development Blog
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 12:15
Using Google Analytics Keyword Filters to Accurately Monitor Organic CampaignsWritten by Dr Peter FishMonitoring a site's organic progress can be tricky, especially when the website or company has a well-known name or a client log-in portal. In these cases you'll find a large number of visitors arriving via navigational searches. A good SEO campaign will target all 3 search query types; navigational, informational and transactional, yet it is important to delineate these when reviewing the progress. (For more information on how to target the search query types read my blog entry on the topic, to be published soon). Large numbers of navigational searches can lead to some confusion when analysing your SEO campaign's success.
I often find applying a few filters to the Analytics keyword data can give you much better insight and a good understanding of your search trend movements. Take a look at this example:
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Google Analytics Blog
 Many companies in South Africa employ what I call the 'Ostriching' strategy, which follows the theory that if you stick your head in the ground (ignore what is being said), it will just disappear after which you can carry on as if nothing has happened. Unfortunately this strategy is inherently flawed and now with the channels of communication being easy to access and even easier to spread, you want to make sure that you are informed about who is saying what about you and then take the appropriate actions to deal with it – unlike Hyundai.
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Social Media Blog
Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:19
A Quick Guide to Setting up Google Analytics Website ProfilesWritten by Dr Peter Fish Here's a quick guide to setting up separate website profiles in Google Analytics. If you're not sure why you'd do this first have a look at my blog entry on Website Sections and Google Analytics Website Profiles. Log into your Google Analytics account and access the "Analytics settings" page. Here you'll see a list of all the website profiles that exist for your account. In most case, if you're setting up a website profile for first time, you'll only have one profile, which will be your domain or site name .
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Google Analytics Blog
 A website for many companies is a massive sales tool and can generate loads of free interest in your business, without much work. When your site functions well and offers the visitor a wealth of high quality information, it can be the function in your business that brings the highest return on investment and best profit yielding mechanism.It is, however, extremely important to keep a close eye on the vital signs of the site and ensure these vitals are positive and healthy, so as to retain as many visitors as possible, and generate the most business. If the key performance indicators are less than optimal, you will notice that your web presence brings relatively nothing in the way of new business, and a simple way of monitoring things is web stats system such as Google Analytics.
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Google Analytics Blog
 We really have to let the entire world know what we are up to. If we are not being seen or being seen to being present then where are we? The meaning to be loud and proud has broken on the net through social media. I say this is cool! And damnit you will listen and if you don’t like it, leave a comment. This is about Facebook which has calmed down a lot but still leaves a lot of space for angry taunts, people justifying their freedom of speech and yet being held directly liable for the things they say online. Ok i have gone off on a major tangent here but the social networking tools we use are getting more personal and more in depth in our lives today.We spend hours updating our profile, looking for things to buy online. Trying to find a certain something or someone special and we think that the more we put ourselves out there, the further we cast our nets over different networks it will satisfy our desire for attention, or to just see how far we can reach. And yes this is partly true and partly exploitative. But while we’re talking about the use of social networks here is my 2 cents on a new tool that has got everyone IM’ing, messaging, texting, blogging, tweeting, skyping and hopefully blasting your brand through cyberspace faster than ever before.
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Social Media Blog
Saturday, 03 July 2010 08:52
How to participate on Blogs and Forums, without seeming like a spammerWritten by Candice WinterboerThe saying goes: 'There are many ways to skin a cat' and the same applies to Social Media. You can set up your Fan Page or group and your Twitter account and interact on those platforms, but if you have all of that running like a well oiled machine then I'd suggest stepping it up a notch with blog and forum participation.
One of the best ways to get your name out there is to participate on industry related blogs and forums. The aim of participating is to try and build a network within your industry, there are people on these blogs and forums who are asking questions and looking for answers which you may have – they just need to know that you are out there.
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Social Media Blog
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 13:14
Website Sections & Google Analytics Website ProfilesWritten by Dr Peter FishThe architecture of any website should basically resemble your business structure – the sitemap should mimic your money making divisions, in some cases even your internal divisions. Let's say you've got a number of distinctly different services and maybe a few different geographically located branches, these should all have their own section. This structure allows for easy online management, for each of these different sections you'll, without doubt, have different target markets and marketing plans. Easy enough, most sites get this right, but the next step comes when you try analysing the effectiveness of every section & what's the easiest way of doing that? On-going fluctuations in the traffic to each section become diluted and lack resolution if viewed as a whole.
In Google Analytics you have the ability to set up multiple website profiles on one domain within one Google Analytics account. This will become your friend on any complex site. Of course you can manhandle a single profile whilst viewing the reports into revealing the separate areas, but this can be difficult and time consuming. Each profile can be fine-tuned to only capture data from a specific area.
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Google Analytics Blog
Search engines consider http://www.gofishclientcatchers.com and http://gofishclientcatchers.com two different websites. As a result, if your website has been linked to from other websites using both of the two URLs, you are effectively splitting the potential benefit of valuable link popularity.
The Solution You can use a 301 redirect on the "non-WWW" version of the URL which is basically a permanent redirect in simple terms. You can pretty much consolidate all your link popularity to a single, straightforward URL. This will help to increase your site's chance of obtaining and maintaining good rankings, especially with major search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo.
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SEO Blog
 Joomla has become very popular amongst open source Content Management Solutions. Like most of it’s competitors, it is constantly evolving and it is important to keep your CMS up to date to benefit from the system and security updates.The latest stable Joomla version available is 1.5.15. Depending on your website requirements, you might have considered upgrading to the latest Joomla version. Here’s how you can achieve such an upgrade with very little downtime.
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Development Blog
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