An indexable popup… it’s possible!

Mario Laflamme March 10th, 2006 1 comment

The use of popups is very wide-spread, but most of the time they are not indexable. Nevertheless, there is a very simple way to conceive popups which can be crawled by the robots of search engines.

Demonstration

Insert the url of the popup in the href tag and insert the function which opens the popup in the onclick tag followed by the return false; command as in the following example:

Explanations

This way allows the robots to follow the link in the href tag while opening the link in a popup with the openPopup() function which gets back the content of the href tag.

Google Analytics - the waiting has started!

Marc-Antoine Ross March 8th, 2006 3 comments

This is something that can drive me crazy quite quickly. Everybody talked about Google Analytics and all but I’ve been using Urchin for a client and I wasn’t too curious to create a Google Analytics account yet… but now I need one and guess what? It is now “Invitation only”. Please subscribe and we will send you a code when we open more room for you. I want it noooooow! Am I the only geek on earth that can’t wait more than 10 minutes for something?

Reading in a few forums, it varies from a few days to a few months… Anybody has a hint?

What’s so new about linkbaiting?

Marc-Antoine Ross March 6th, 2006 Add comment

Besides the word itself and a lot of blogs talking about it… Here are two interesting articles:

• Matt Cutts
• Bill Hartzer