I’ve been using HitTail for a while now and it has helped me quite a bit along the way in optimising my site / content in order to get increased “natural” search hits. For those who didn’t know, HitTail is a free service that reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results. It present these terms to you as suggestions that when acted on can boost the natural search results of your site.
HitTail does it’s job through a tracking code that you’ve to implement in your site. One of the problems I faced along the way was that whenever I changed my WordPress theme, I had to insert the HitTail tracking code manually in each theme’s footer. Trust me when I say it can get really tiresome after a while. There was this one occasion (following a theme switch) when my HitTail stats stopped updating altogether. After much deliberation I figured that while I’d reactivated all my other plug-ins, I’d forgotten to insert the tracking code in my new template. If only I had some plug-in doing the same for me automatically every time, it’d be oh-so-convenient. Hence I did some quick research into plug-ins that insert code into WordPress headers & footers and came up with this one.
Current Version
- 0.4 (Beta)
Features
- Inserts the HitTail tracking code into all the posts & pages of your blog automatically.
- Extremely easy to setup - all you need to do is save the tracking code (provided as is by HitTail) in the plug-in options page.
- Removal of tracking code is as easy as overwriting the saved one with a blank field.
Requirements
- WordPress 2.1.x - but should function properly with the 2.0.x line too.
Download TailHitter v0.4 (Beta) (downloaded 1982 times)
Installation
Once downloaded, simply…
- Unzip & Copy the plug-in file into your WordPress plug-ins folder.
- Activate the plug-in from the Plug-in Manager in WordPress.
- Visit the Options menu and find a new item called TailHitter. Click on that to get to the TailHitter Options page. Once there simply enter your HitTail tracking code and hit Update.
.. and you’re done.
Subversion Repository
Change Log
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Version 0.4 (2007-03-15)
- Fixed a major bug that caused the tracking code to be echo-ed out without stripping off the slashes, resulting in invalid JS code that never polled the HitTail service at all. - Thanks to Marcos for pointing it out.
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Version 0.3 (2007-03-15)
- Fixed a minor bug that caused incorrect version reporting in WordPress plug-ins management panel.
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Version 0.2 (2007-03-15)
- Set the priority of the plug-in to be very low - in effect achieving what HitTail wants, i.e., the HitTail code is now inserted right at the end of the footer. Thanks for George, who runs the G-Loaded (and is an experienced WP Plug-in author) blog for providing valuable advice in this matter.
Please Note
I offer support for my plug-ins via the Chaos Laboratory Support Forum only. I will NOT respond to support queries left in the comment section below and, in most cases, will also not publish them. Of course, if you’d like to say something nice or helpful, then feel free to leave a comment!
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Halina Goldstein said:
Thank you so much! I love Hittail and appreciate very much that you have made it so easy to add the Hittail code.
Best wishes
Halina
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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Thank you Halina for those kind words
Am glad that you found this little plug-in useful.
Cheers,
m^e
Marcos said:
Firstly, thank you very much for the plugin. i didn’t know about this service and seems to be useful.
I tried the plugin on my blog, and the ‘ ” ‘ characters appeared as ‘ /” ‘, so javascript didn’t work. I copied the code by hand on my template and now the keywords are being reported. Please check the code.
Thank you again
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Hi Marcos,
A great many thanks to you for bringing the bug to my notice. It’s been fixed now and works perfectly. You should grab the current version and try it out. Any feedback will be much appreciated.
Cheers,
m^e
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Anthony said:
I know what you mean about forgetting to add bits of code when you change a Wordpress template. I once forgot to add my Google Analytics tracking code and I was puzzled why I seemed to be getting no visitors for a few days.
Now I am more familiar with how to add code to a template I could do it manually but I think your HitTail plugin is a better option or I might forget where to do it if I make changes.
Mercurythread said:
Fantastic. Am just away to install this on all my blogs
Had been installing hittail by hand but this makes it easier and is now in my default WordPress setup files.
pearl said:
this is awesome!! I moved over to wordpress recently and its a pain to change themes and add all of the new functionalities again and again! and I had completely forgotten about the hittail… will be trying this plugin!! tc and kit
Amber said:
I have installed you plug in on my WP blog and inserted the code provided by hit tail. I do not see any data show up when I log into hit tail. Is there soemthign I have done wrong? the plug in seems to be installed properly and I have used the exact code provided by hit tail.
Please help as I am frustrated!
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Hi Amber,
Can you please direct me to your site? I’ll take a look and see where it’s going wrong. It takes a while though for HitTail stats to start appearing - initially. If following your page-load, you can see the hittail tracking code executing (you can see it in your browsers status bar where it shows the pages being accessed) - then the stats are bound to appear for sure.
Cheers,
m^e
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
pearl, Mercurythread: Glad you found this plug-in so useful. Any other comments about the functional experience / bug-reports will be greatly appreciated
Cheers,
m^e
Amber said:
Sure.
My site is http://www.homeschool-diva.com
Thankyou for your help.
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Hi Amber,
I visited your site - but I couldn’t find any embedded HitTail code in your pages. Have you deactivated the plug-in? If so, please reactivate it so that I can try figure the problem out.
Cheers,
m^e
Amber said:
That is the thing, it is activated in my admin site? I will remove it and then reinstall and try again.
Thanks for your help.
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hi, just wanna say thanks so much for this usefull plugin
Alison said:
Hi, I can’t get this Plugin to work…Can you help me please!?
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Alison: Kindly post your problems at the Chaos Lab Support Forums and I’ll try my best to help you out. Kindly describe your problem in as much details as you can - i.e. Site URL, WordPress version and the exact nature of the problem.
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jblu said:
Hello
I just wanted to say thanks for the plugin…it’s very useful.
Kelvin Chan said:
Appreciate the plugin buddy. Just installed it!
Jason Finch said:
Hey dude, Thanks a bunch for the download. I can’t wait to get it installed on my wordpress blog…. sweet
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
And Jason?? Did you find the installation & functionality as smooth?
smiley said:
Great plugin, thank you!
My website : http://maserie.com
çörek otu said:
nice plugin.
saol baci..
Joaquin Kenyon said:
Hi Sourjya.
My name is Joaquin Kenyon
I wanted like many others to say thank you for the HitTail plugin.
I’m a newbie Word Press guy and I’m working on utilizing Word Press
for Virtual Real Estate (Niches). Great fun stuff and lots to learn.
Thank You Joaquin Kenyon
CJ of GCCD said:
Hi,
I am pleased, very pleased with this plugin and very grateful that you have made it possible to use and install.
Installation went very easily and the loading of the hittail code, very smooth.
Excellent job.
Thanks,
CJ
Alan Davis said:
Hi Sourjya,
Old Geezer in UK much appreciates ‘bouncing ball of energy’ from Thailand
and her ability to make a technical molehill out of a Wordpress mountain:-)
Thanks and Best Wishes
Al Davis
Sabine McNeill said:
Well, dear ball of energy,
I LOVED your style of communication until I couldn’t upload a php file in Wordpress - after having paid to HitTail and joined SPIKE with great difficulty…
What next, I wonder?
Sighingly yours,
Sabine
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Hi Sabine,
Where exactly did you get stymied ? If you fill me in with further details, I can quite possibly help you out with the issue.
Cheers,
m^e
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