RSS: Added: The Google Suite of Products
Wow, two days in a row with a post. This may be a new record!
Anyway, I added pretty much the full range of Google products to the site tonight:
- Google Analytics (GA) – I have used this product on other sites and some of my clients actually use GA. It’s a nifty tool and quick to implement. I just slapped the appropriate JavaScript in my theme’s footer file.
- Google AdSense – Even mentioning this product is probably against their Terms of Serivce, but I’ll do it anyway. Things got off to a hairy start because I couldn’t log into my account (for whatever reason), but a quick email to Google resolved the problem. I set up ad units to match my site’s theme (using OS X’s handy “Digital Color Meter.app” to quickly grab the colors off of my screen, rather than have to look them up in my stylesheet).
- Google Webmaster Tools – This is a very handy web application to get information about your site from the Google search engine, as well as to submit a site map to aid Google in indexing your site. Submitting the RSS feed is about the easiest way to handle a blog’s site map.
The overall process took about an hour, even accounting for some technical difficulties. Not bad at all!
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