Blogging

Google analytics has been one of the best tools available to track your website with loads of data like visitor details, pageviews, Bounce rate, Search engine traffic, direct traffic, referral traffic and much more.

One of the drawbacks of Google Analytics till now have been the inability to provide real time data on whats happening on your site at any particular instant. Till now, most bloggers were using Statcounter and few similar services to grab real time data. Click to continue…

Every blogger want a piece of site links from Google Search results for their blogs and websites. Google search results adds site links to blogs and websites if the search algorithm thinks that the link is useful. This process is automatic and is generated by Google search on its own. The site links were previously displayed just as a URL below the parent website or blog search result.  Google on its official blog announced that they are releasing a change to the way the site links are being displayed with search results.

Sitelinks will now be full-size links with a URL and one line of snippet text—similar to regular results—making it even easier to find the section of the site you want. We’re also increasing the maximum number of sitelinks per query from eight to 12.

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Google has just released their +1 button which is now available for everyone and you can add it easily using a small snippet of JavaScript code to your website. Just like twitter tweet button and Facebook  like button, it is a additional button which uses recommendations from your friends and contacts beneath your Google search results for better qualified, traffic coming from Google.

To get started, visit the +1 button tool on Google Webmaster Central. Their you can find option of different sizes like small medium, standard or Tall. You can select the size depending on how it blends with your website design.

After you select the size, you can get the javascript code below i to add it to your website. The code consists of two parts. First part you need to add in your website head portion or just before your close body tag of your website. The second portion of the code is to be placed at a place where you want the +1 button to appear.

Here is a small youtube video which gives a brief description about it.

What you think about it? Are you going to add this +1 button to your website or blog?

Top 5 WordPress Anti spam plugins to protect your blog

by Avinash

Every blogger whether he is a newbie or a pro blogger is flooded by Spam in various forms like trackbacks, comments etc. The amount of spam is so much that unless you dont have a automatic anti spam service in the form of plugins, you could waste your whole day to deal with these spam [...]

Official Google Reader App comes to Android

by Avinash
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For most of the Bloggers, Google reader is a great tool to read loads of information from various blogs, websites, forums etc at one place. Google reader as an App was till now not available on Android Mobile platform and hence those of you having Android Phones were unable to use it to full extent [...]

Top 5 Do’s and Don’ts for outsourcing your blog

by Avinash

Many blog owners outsource materials- And wonder how they ever managed without them. Others wish they hadn’t even thought of outsourcing. The fact is that it’s the quality of outsourced content which makes the difference between a fantastic blog and a making a really good case for becoming a hermit. A good outsourcer can handle [...]

How to Auto submit your blog posts to Digg

by Avinash
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Many of you may be aware that with Digg version 4, now you can submit your Blog posts automatically to Digg. Before V4, it was not possible and someone had to submit your blog post link and digg it. This new feature is based on importing your blog feed into Digg which can then auto submit your [...]

The digg revolt continues. 5 reddit stories on digg front page :)

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It looks like the new version of digg needs lot of rework perhaps forced by Digg’s Power users up in revolt. Due to recent changes which almost takes away all the power from Digg power users, it looks like the Digg power users are up against digg with a continous digg revolt going on. If [...]

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