Well, here’s a plugin that I’ve created that merges 2 great products:
Google Desktop Search and Performancing Metrics
Why would you want to install this plugin for Google Desktop? Well, if you’re anything like me, you might be Statistically Addicted, wanting to monitor how well your blog is doing, all day long. Of course, you don’t even need to be Statistically Addicted. You might just want the functionality that this plugin provides.
First things first, here is some recommended reading for you:
- Blogging Statistics – The what, where, why and who – Read what I think about website statistics, and why you need it…
- Statistically Addicted – Performancing Metrics – Read what I think about the blog statistics tool provided by Performancing.com.
Ok, now on to how to use this plugin.
1 – Ensure you have a Performancing Metrics account, and are currently logging statistics for your blog
2 – Ensure that you have Google Desktop Search installed on your computer
3 – Head on over to the gdPMetrics page and download the install package
4 – After installing gdPMetrics, open the Options dialog, and fill in your login details (for your Performancing) and add your blog’s domain details. For example, on your blog’s Metrics page, it should look something like http://performancing.com/metrics/myblog.com. Your blog domain being “myblog.com”
5 – Click “Ok” and you should be all set.
This is similar to what you should see:
Update notifications will be placed on this blog so that you have the ability to subscribe to them. All other details, like the gdPMetrics changelog, will be found on this page: gdPMetrics
Please leave me a comment telling me how this works for you… Is it quick, slow, hangs, no data… I will be glad to try and help.
Wonderful… I’ll definitely try this 🙂
Kep it up!
How long does it take for the stats to being showing up on the plugin?? How can I verify that it is working properly?
Hmmm… Mine takes about 20 to 30 seconds before the stats show up the first time. Has it shown your stats yet?
There seems to be an issue for first time installers where it doesn’t load the data. You have to turn off the Side Bar, and turn it on again to get the info.
I think I’ve fixed this in version 1.01, which is downloadable now.
By the way, there’s a thread in the Performancing Metrics support forum that might have more details and questions than here:
http://performancing.com/node/1929
It works.. THANKS!
I tried its good.. keep it up!
Just downloaded it, del.icio.us-ed it and will install later. It’s annoying that you have to have administrator right to install the msi. It would be great to have an exe to install through run-as.
Hmmm. Baby steps for me though. I don’t even know if it’s possible to create an EXE installer for this.
But thanks for the del.icio.us-ing 😉
Re: #10 No deal. But I did not get the plugin to work with Google Desktop 3 engl. under W2K. It simply does not show up – nowhere. Send me a PM on performancing.com if you need more info or a step-by-step description.
Thank you for being generous with your resources I hope that you will receive more than you need for your time and energy. Keep at work!
Great tool to keep eye on your blog’s performance.