:: Anything Goes Blog ::: October 2008

20 Analytics Tools For Blogs

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Analytics Tools

Analytics Tools is the most recommended tools to keep track of your site, because there are many useful thing you can do with this tools like how to track comment from your blog, how to keep track of your readers by seeing the stats, because if you don know how many and how good is your stats then you probably wont even know how popular is your blog.

Stop Using Blindfold!
If you never know your site stats then you will never know the popularity of your site. Google Analytics Tools is probably the most common and the best analytics tools ever. Just take a look at the list from Top Rank Blog

Labels: Blogging Tips

Google Chrome Tips, Tricks, Hacks and Shortcuts

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Posted by Takumi 86

2 Review

google chrome

A new browser from Google that just launched in BETA version has a lot of Tips, Trick, Shortcut and Hacks, below are the sample list from ITechnoBuzz which allows you to learn and know more about this new browser so that you wont get lost when you first time trying this. There are 30 Tips at the moment but i'm only took 10 best tips, if you want more you can go to their site

1. Create application shortcut
2. Control + Shift + N - opens an ‘incognito’ window
3. Alt + Home - loads your Google Chrome home page
4. Control + Shift + T - opens your most recently closed tab
5. Control + Tab - lets you cycle through your open tabs in order
6. Control + Shift + Tab - cycles through your tabs in the opposite order
7. Control + B - hides the Google Chrome bookmarks bar
8. Control + H is a faster way to bring up the History page.
9. Control + J brings up your Downloads page.
10. Press Control + K or Control + E to search from the address bar.

Labels: Online Tips

8 New Firefox Hacks to make your Firefox go extremely fast

Posted by Takumi 86

1 Review

firefox 3

A new Firefox Browser (Firefox 3) has new features including most visited tab, smart bookmark, Place organizer which replaces the bookmark manager, smart location bar to learn how you browse, stronger phishing and malware protection and more improvement on Browsing speed, you can also tweak it with old tweaking tips and last but not least a new Tips (from ITechnoBuzz)

Here are the list:

1. Enable pipelining
2. Render quickly
3. Faster loading
4. No interruptions
5. Block Flash
6. Increase the cache size
7. Enable TraceMonkey
8. Compress data

Labels: Online Tips

List of Best SEO Tools

Posted by Takumi 86

8 Review

SEO

If you are SEO Lovers, then you're going to like this one, Nowadays there are may SEO tools to help your site's traffic growth, well probably not all the site you found are still live and there could be more and more new site that offering you these tools since there are many people who keep collecting and developing it.

You have to thank to WebSack as they or himself are listing these tools from SEO Analyzer, SERP Tracker, Meta Tag Generator, Google Page Rank Checker, and so much more

This is just one of example of SEO tools that he had been collecting, so i'm suggesting you to visit this Site for more tools.

Backlink

Backlink Analyzer
Research and analyze websites for link quality. Checks for Indexed Pages, Links to Website, EDU & .GOV Links, Domain Age & Expiration, Google PageRank, Alexa Traffic Rank, DMOZ Listing
Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer
This tools help you determine the backlinks of your website and link text used by your backlinks to Link to your website
Backlink Builder
Building Quality backlinks is one of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization…

Labels: SEO Tips

List of DoFollow Blogs

Posted by Takumi 86

14 Review

dofollow

Found this valuable info from some Webmaster forum and thought i'd share with you all. For those who didn't know about DoFollow blog, Its another attempt to create more backlink, Now what does this backlink means? Its to increase Pagerank. If you don know how to set up DoFollow blog, then read them all here

Labels: SEO Tips

63 Free Ways To Increase Your Blog/Site Traffic

Monday, October 27, 2008

Posted by Takumi 86

6 Review

increase

I got all of this free ways from many sites, they themself have explain it more details but i decided to ripped them off all here and make my own conclusion (because most people hate long article) So here they are

1. Join MyBlogLog, Blog Catalog, Diigo, Bumpzee, Twitter and add friends, join communities.
2. Answer the question in Yahoo! Answer and put resource link to your site, be active
3. Use a ping service like pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators.
4. Submit your blog to all of the directories on Robin Good’s list of RSS directories or here
5. Use many taglines to your post
6. Leave comments on blogs/site in some high PR site. - Create Backlink
7. Tell your friends about your blog and specific posts by email and put a link to your email signatures
8. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures and be active poster
9. Submit your site into High PR Directory Submission
10. Submit your Article to Social Bookmarking site
11. Tagged your image with alt="" and title=""
12. Make a good post and Post frequently.
13. Ask someone to subscribe to RSS feed
14. Answer any questions on forums related to your niche with a link to one of your blog posts.
15. Set up a Google analystics and put that on your blog.
16. Sign Up at Blog Explosion
17. Use Common pictures. Most of the top PR blogs use pictures in their posts.
18. Use video on your blog.
19. Find out what people needs and post it.
20. Use Google Trends to find out popular searches
21. Use One of Google Tools to find good keywords to use in your posts
22. Hard to find good news?! then use Google News or Google Blog Search and find what's the popular post that have the most commented
23. Use Traffic Exchange, i'd recommend you to use Manual surf only because Auto surf wont gain visitor but traffic
24. Sign up your blog at LinkRefferal
25. Ask your readers to submit and share your post to Social Bookmarking site
26. Use more Blogging Tool to enhance your content
27. Interview with well known people that have been in SEO for couple of years
28. Give more backlink
29. Submit your article to Blog Engage, Blogging zoom
30. Do link exchange to other people site, ask for it
31. Promote your blog/site in a forum where there is a section to post that
32. Add entrecard to your blog
33. Get close with your visitor, be nice
34. Submit your site URL in post Toaster
35. Start a group blog. These tend to get more traffic, because more people are creating content and more people are promoting it.
36. Advertise your blog/site from Adsvert or AdGridWork or Craiglist
37. Join SpicyPage and promote your blog on it.
38. Add a plug-in to notify users of new comments
39. Add a tell-a-friend script or plug-in to your posts.
40. Ask your visitors to bookmark your page in their browser
41. Make it easy for people to memorize your blog/site link
42. Use easy-to-read fonts.
43. Use a good layout and template, get some design
44. Make your blog easy to navigate.
45. Highlight your most popular posts.
46. Use good keywords in your post titles.
47. Offer free stuff related to your niche (tools, ebooks, etc)
48. Run a blog contest
49. Promote your blog by publishing videos on YouTube with the URL for your site at the beginning and end of the video.
50. Install a translation plug-in or use a translation service to translate your blog into foreign languages.
51. Create Tag Cloud to determine your popular categories
52. Ping your blog with Ping Goat
53. Give regular polls
54. Join 43 Things and write a list of 43 things you want to achieve (include your blog url in the list).
55. Join Blogger Party (and/or other free blog systems). Then write posts that link back to your blog.
56. Make a Squidoo lens with a link to your blog.
57. Create a MySpace/Friendter/Facebook Page. Put your blog on it, and get some friends.
58. Use SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
59. Use good grammar. People will be happy with your writing skill.
60. Tell your friend by chatting or telephone
61. Submit your site to free website review sites like coolsiteoftheday.
62. Give out blogging awards and tell the bloggers you are giving the awards to about it.
63. Let us Pray

Labels: SEO Tips

50 Blog Tools to Help you Blogging

Posted by Takumi 86

4 Review

blogging

Blogging is more than just posting your thought, opinion, and share the things you want. Frankly there are so many tools available on the net that can improve your website into an outstanding form and the only way to find out what is going on and what is going to work to your profits is to giving them try out! The 50 useful blogging tools will help you to start picking up your choices
There are 11 part in total, and all of these can grabbed freely at BlogOhBlog

The part are listed as the following:

Part 1 - Let’s kick off with ‘Hosting, DNS and domainname’
Part 2 - Design and Color
Part 3 - Programming and coding
Part 4 - Web forms and its guild!
Part 5 - Content!
Part 6 - Social Bookmarking
Part 7 - Logos and more
Part 8 - SEO and marketing
Part 9 - Rankings!
Part 10 - Stats and Feedback
Part 11 - Miscellanous

Labels: Blogging Tips

Statistics Widget for Blogger

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Posted by Takumi 86

14 Review

blog statistic

What is This Statistics Widget stand for?
This widget will display all the total number of your blog post and comment as well. Its quite useful for your readers to know how many comment are they in your blog. And the thing is to get a quick picture for your readers on how popular is your site.

How to make This Widget?
You should thanks to Assess My Blog for creating this widget, he has done a very good job by not only creating this widget but also many of them has been quite useful, so you should at least take more look at his site

1. Go to your Dashboard Layout, make a new widget and click on HTML/Javascript

2. Copy and paste this code onto the box

[script style="text/javascript">

function numberOfPosts(json) {
document.write('Total Posts: [b>' + json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t + '[/b>[br>');
}

function numberOfComments(json) {
document.write('Total Comments: [b>' + json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t + '[/b>[br>');
}

[/script>

[ul>[li>[script src="http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=numberOfPosts">[/script>[/li>

[li>[script src="http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=numberOfComments">[/script>[/li>[/ul>

[span >[a href="http://assessmyblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Widgets for Blogger[/a>[/span>

3. Replace the word in bold with your own site and save it

This widget works perfectly on me, you can see them here in my blog as i have tested it and its 100% works. Now your blog can even be more pimped than ever before

Attention! To make the works, please replace [ with <

Labels: Blogging Tips

Recent Droppers Widget for Blogger

Posted by Takumi 86

0 Review

entrecard

Entrecard is a powerful tools to increase the traffic of your blog. Nowadays peoples are often to use Entrecard as same as using RSS feed. There is nothing really big differences between both, only the purpose. So what does this post tells you about is how this widget displaying the latest dropper from your dropper, So its more like creating Recent Comment but slightly difference. Please take your note that creating this widget will show you the link to their blog/site and not the comment.

How to create this widget is simple, all you need to do is to follow the instruction from AssesMyBlog. Then you can put that widget and see how many visitor dropping your post using Entrecard

1. Login to your Entrecard account

2. On the top right hand corner of your Dashboard, look for the orange colour feed button

3. This should open a new window. Look at the URL address bar in your browser window. The address should look like this "http://entrecard.com/feeds/inbox/XXXXXXXXXX/rss2.0". Copy the address

4. Go to your blogger Dashboard Layout, add new gadget, click on Feed

5. Paste the address bar with the one you just copied above

6. If you have pasted the feed URL correctly, you should see a preview of your recent droppers, save it

Labels: Blogging Tips

Top 30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites - October 2008

Monday, October 20, 2008

Posted by Takumi 86

10 Review

1. digg.com
382,792,751 - Inbound Links | 22,578,945 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 10,300,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 124 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8

2. Yahoo! Buzz
900,571 - Inbound Links | **128,556,575** - Compete Monthly Visitors | 2,500,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 1 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6

3. Technorati.com
75,306,437 - Inbound Links | 3,231,709 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,400,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 216 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8

4. del.icio.us
171,593,051 - Inbound Links | 1,699,128 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,300,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 248 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8

5. Propeller.com
997,000 - Inbound Links | 1,454,912 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 2,180,176 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 2,308 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7

6. StumbleUpon.com
19,050,177 - Inbound Links | 1,313,586 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 695,239 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 300 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8

7. reddit.com
45,307,577 - Inbound Links | 2,587,503 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 344,383 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 852 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7

8. mixx.com
6,175,082 - Inbound Links | 507,100 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 475,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 1,880 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7

9. Fark.com
11,438,723 - Inbound Links | 306,597 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,767,165 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 1,958 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7

10. MyBlogLog.com
1,742,265 - Inbound Links | 1,972,847 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 84,922 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 432 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7

11. Slashdot.org
13,555,035 - Inbound Links | 724,424 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 269,884 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 579 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 9

12. kaboodle.com
100,266 - Inbound Links | 1,751,763 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 851,858 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 9,125 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6

13. Bloglines.com
50,717,948 - Inbound Links | 382,663 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 103,711 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 853 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 9

14. newsvine.com
24,200,775 - Inbound Links | 315,857 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 203,761 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 3,977 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7

15. blinklist.com
23,770,576 - Inbound Links | 243,277 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 165,306 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 4,647 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6

16. netvouz.com
8,112,272 - Inbound Links | 75,507 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 54,325 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 15,048 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6

17. clipmarks.com
164,419 - Inbound Links | 196,107 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 147,131 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 6,740 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6

18. Furl.net
49,595,144 - Inbound Links | 148,975 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 57,547 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 4,112 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8

19. Mister-Wong
13,214,146 - Inbound Links | 25,416 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 3,432 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 1,889 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7

20. dzone.com
1,065,009 - Inbound Links | 100,784 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 117,897 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 5,187 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6

21. ma.gnolia.com
13,701,444 - Inbound Links | 110,662 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 32,363 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 7,454 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7

22. Tailrank.com
5,320,211 - Inbound Links | 71,563 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 35,783 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 28,920 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7

23. ShoutWire.com
168,480 - Inbound Links | 101,738 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 55,337 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 10,552 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6

24. simpy.com
13,107,730 - Inbound Links | 62,645 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 49,205 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 10,948 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7

25. BlogMarks.net
9,748,453 - Inbound Links | 61,740 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 28,075 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 11,880 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6

26. BlueDot.us
1,159,780 - Inbound Links | 107,717 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 60,045 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 12,072 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6

27. Spurl.net
18,628,253 - Inbound Links | 42,300 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 3,483 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 14,300 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6

28. linkswarm.com
150,842 - Inbound Links | 14,504 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 10,476 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 47,267 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 5

29. Spotback.com
97,564 - Inbound Links | 42,838 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 5,037 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 42,015 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 5

30. MyBookmarks.com
25,191 - Inbound Links | 10,934 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 7,727 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 108,226 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 5

Labels: SEO Tips