Using Advanced Segments in Google Analytics to Separate Outgoing Links and Downloads from Pageviews

If you’re like me, you installed the Google Analyticator plugin for your blog or added some other javascript so you could track what outgoing links where clicked. You will have extra pageviews showing in your Google Analytics account that are what I call “ghost pages.” These pages don’t really exist–they are just place holders for the clicks to other sites or your downloads. To get a more accurate number of pageviews, you can use Advanced Segments to create a new segment that will remove these ghost pages. So go log into your Google Analytics account and let’s get started.

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Using jQuery and XML to Populate a Drop-Down Box

Building on the post Reading XML with jQuery, I have modified the success function to parse the XML data and load it into a drop-down box. You can get the demo files from Reading XML with jQuery here. Once you download and unzip the demo files, open the index.html in your favorite editor. Then remove all the HTML between the body tag and also all the jQuery in the success function. I also changed the page title to “Using jQuery and XML to Populate a Drop-Down Box Demo.”

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Use jQuery with Google Analytics to Track Clicks on Outgoing Links From Your Site.

So you have a nice site or blog with lots of links to other places. Wouldn’t it be nice to use the power built into Google Analytics to track those links, without having to add the necessary JavaScript to every link? Here is a very easy way: Add outbound link tracking to a new or existing site. Provided that your links to other sites have the REL attribute set, you can track them very easily with some help from jQuery.

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Function Override for AS3?

Alright, so here is the problem: I work with several designers with varying abilities who all tinker with Flash. With making the switch to AS3, I am trying to package more stuff into classes for them to reuse. One of the classes I just created is a simple image loader that rotates the images using TweenMax.

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Adding Twitter to Your Web Site with JavaScript

Today at work we needed to pull our Twitter feed into our site. Not wanting to have to deal with the Twitter feed in back-end code, we decided to try out some already-written JavaScript setups for doing what we needed.

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