Article 1 - Tracking Robots and separating them from real website Visitors

What kind of visitors do you want on your website?

There are two types, normal visitors (people like you and me), and robots. Robots include any form of automatic 'web crawling' or 'spidering' program such as search engines, or any automatic program that visits your website. Read more...

Article 2 - Converting a HTML website to PHP, without changing any file names

Some of my websites are still in HTML. As I really needed to use PHP, I would have to change the file extensions to PHP... but I didn't want to do this as I was concerned about websites linking to my existing HTML pages, as well as the search engines and peoples bookmarks.

I discovered a easy, fool-proof way to convert a website from HTML to PHP, without losing links, search engine positions changing your filenames (or extensions). Read more...

Article 3 - How to detect a popup blocker using Javascript

This can be very useful on your own website, I use a popup window to view my shopping cart, but if a popup blocker is enabled on a users browser, then my potential customers have a very difficult time ordering on my website.

Use this script to easily add a popup blocker detector on your own website. Read more...

Article 4 - How to password protect a directory on your website

This articles describes in detail, with all files and instructions, how you can password protect a directory on your own website.

It also shows how to add different usernames and passwords for the same directory. Read more...

Article 5 - How to implement a Shopping Cart Abandonment Survey

The number of online shoppers who abandon their shopping cart can be huge, anywhere from 20% to 70%.

This article will show you how , and why, to implement a shopping cart abandonment survey... Read more...

Article 6 - PHP Time Zones - A Complete List

A Complete List of Time Zones (for use with PHP), good for setting your timezone when setting up Visitor Stats 2.
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