I recently real­ized that Google auto­mat­i­cally adds the_time() or the_date() out­put into the begin­ning of my descrip­tions on their SERP’s.

For exam­ple, instead of my nor­mal meta descrip­tion being used, I see this in front of all my descrip­tions on a Google search results page:

Aug 13, 2010 …

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Recently I needed to develop a diag­o­nal menu, which at first glimpse seemed com­pletely do-able. Once I dug deeper into it, I real­ized that it was actu­ally quite dif­fi­cult to build. Impa­tient? Jump straight to the demo / sam­ple source code.

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All in One SEO for Word­Press is a pow­er­ful plu­gin that will quickly make your Word­Press Web­sites’ SEO (search engine opti­miza­tion) rock solid. Here’s how you can begin to setup All in One SEO:

1. Down­load, upload and install the All In One SEO pack.
2. Go to Set­tings > All in One SEO
3. Enter your settings

The default set­tings that come with the instal­la­tion are pretty solid, but if you want to add some bet­ter <title>‘s for clar­ity and a bet­ter user expe­ri­ence you can. Click on any of the form labels to get a drop­down of the accepted All in One SEO tags / variables.

For kevinleary.net I’ve used the fol­low­ing settings:

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VKI Stu­dios has cre­ated a Fire­Fox Grease­mon­key plu­gin to add social media sta­tis­tics to your Google Ana­lyt­ics dash­board. The Social Media Met­rics Grease­mon­key Plu­gin For Google Ana­lyt­ics lets you track your social media stats for:

• Digg
• Sphinn
• Mixx
• Red­dit
• Stum­ble­Upon
• Del.icio.us
• Yahoo inLinks

How to Setup

1. Make sure you have Grease­mon­key installed on Fire­fox.
2. Click on this install link.
3. You’re all done, now log-in to your Google Ana­lyt­ics account and check it out.

Some peo­ple may have noticed that the fre­quency of my arti­cles has died down a bit over the past month or so. I’ve been adding posts at a new loca­tion now for work.

Many of the top­ics are the same, if your inter­ested in check­ing it out head on over to Fresh Tilled Soil: Web Resources and take a look.

I’ll con­tinue to post on kevinleary.net as well, but not as often. I’d say that I plan to aver­age 2–3 new posts per month.

Thanks again for reading!

Just stum­bled upon this lit­tle gem on YouTube

Writ­ten by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rap­per) the song describes how web stan­dards and proper design can affect the rank­ing and con­ver­sion of pages on your site.

Google Ana­lyt­ics

If you’ve just started to use Google Ana­lyt­ics and aren’t sure which reports to look at, this video pro­vides a help­ful 1st-time analy­sis walk­through. You’ll learn how to inter­pret what you see in these key reports and what actions you should take as a result.