CurtMonash

I read your guide fairly extensively.

My specific question was on directly tracking feed subscribers rather than people who come in via web search, links, etc.

The stuff on directly tracking feed subscribers seemed pretty short.

I didn’t see much on general web visitor tracking I didn’t already know, but I’m probably not the typical reader from that standpoint. (E.g., about 5 years ago I was briefly CTO of a company getting into the web visitor tracking business.)

So the answer is to use the Feedburner plugin from the Codex links page?

Thanks!

Is there any downside to using free Feedburner stuff?

In response to another question, I find that Google’s listing of backlinks is very incomplete. The same is true of other search engines.

For example, every page of any of my blogs has links to all of https://www.dbms2.com, https://www.monashreport.com, https://www.softwarememories.com, and https://www.texttechnologies.com There are by now a lot of pages. But very few show up in the links search. And it’s not just a matter of slow re-indexing, either, nor of forgetting to ask the search engine to really show all the search results.

I see, which is very rare for this forum, a lot of misinformation in this thread. Here’s what I know or believe to be true:

1. PageRank is only one of many factors in Google’s selection algorithms. SEO experts widely agree that it has diminished greatly in importance over time; some even think it has been utterly eliminated, although they are in the minority.

2. Most SEO experts believe that Title and Description are important factors to Google, or at least factors that are taken into account. Most believe that the Keywords metatag, however, is NOT of any importance (or else that its importance is trivial), especially to Google.

3. Google takes some months before assigning PageRank at all to new pages (there may be a few exceptions). For my blogs the lag seems to be a4-5 months. Right now I have PR for what I posted in August and September, but not for what I posted from October onward.

4. Of course you can pass PageRank from page to page in your website, and a blog is no exception. As of this writing the pages on my blog https://www.dbms2.com that have any PageRank at all generally have the same PR as the home page, namely PR=6, and many of those have no backlinks whatsoever except from other pages of the blog.

Arggh!! You’re right about the CSS!

I was misreading the page source. The unindented stuff IS coming out as “children”. So surely I need something in the CSS that handles children appropriately.

Actually, a search on the string “child” in the style sheet turns up NOTHING. So what, I wonder, SHOULD be in there??

Thanks!!