For the Love of My Country

Feedjit allows you, and viewers of your website to view in real-time, who is visiting your website, and exactly how they found it (i.e. which link they followed).

Feedjit is awesome, I use it to learn what search terms people are using to find my sites, or where they have come from on the web and found the link to my site. You can tell it to ignore your IP address etc, it is free and absolutely marvelous.

However it may be annoying for you to have the large (minimum 160px X aprox 700px) widget on your blog/website, so how on earth do you hide it?

1. Ok, first grab your code: http://feedjit.com/joinjs/
2. Create the following Div: <div style="display:none;">HERE</div> put it just above the </body> tag - it doesn't really matter, as it will be hidden from view anyway.
3. Now just paste the Feedjit code on top of where it says HERE. (Feedjit code is generic - it's not generated specifically for your site, and you don't have to modify it at all)
   

Now, to link to the Feedjit Live page, just create the following link anywhere you like on your website:

<a href="http://live.feedjit.com/live/YOURWEBSITE.COM">LINK TEXT/PICTURE</a>

Since Feedjit is so great, and free, I recommend using their logo to give them credit.

Labels: feed, feedjit, stats

Heck, I searched the web for ages trying to find a solution to my problem.  I wanted to display an RSS feed from a blog on one of my websites.  Check out the links to see how it works.  Now, I've found a tight little product, provided by www.dynamicdrive.com.

Here's their description:
This script is the fastest way to display RSS feeds from other sites on your own, period. It uses Google's Ajax Feed API to host the desired RSS feeds on Google's servers, so all that's left for you is to insert some code on your page to show them. Using gAjax RSS Feeds Displayer, you can display results from multiple feeds intermixed, sort them in a variety of ways, specify which components of each RSS entry to display, and more. No more hurdles in your way to showing RSS feeds on your site!

It's completely free, and best of all, there are no adverts or anything at the bottom of your feed.  This is what web-developers and the rest of us like.  If something is good enough, it doesn't need advertising; satisfied users will be delighted to promote it on their own websites.

I guarantee, this little number works a treat.  Just make sure you follow the instructions carefully, as there are a number of places you could go wrong.  A few tips:

- Just add the CSS into your existing style-sheet.
- Adjust the CSS, what I did was list-type:none; and margin-left:-30px;
- make sure you add in: 1) the blog you want to get the feed from, 2) the Google API key, 3) the correct path to the gfeedfetcher.js file.

Yeah, blimmin well go for it mate!

Labels: blog, feed, rss