In addition to Google Analytics, here are a couple other cool, free analytics options:
Clicktale will allow you to watch the screen of your website visitors. You can see them move the mouse, click buttons, etc. It’s amazing. The videos are not real-time, so they are saved for you to watch after the visitors have left.
Crazy […]
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There may be times where you want a blog to create new posts from an RSS feed. This could be done directly from one RSS feed, or done by compiling multiple RSS feeds using a tool like Yahoo Pipes.
Keep copyright laws in mind to ensure you have permission to repost an RSS feed on your […]
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Someone recently asked me how he could make money with his blog. In addition to advice from great sites like Pro Blogger, use affiliate and advertising programs like there:
- Azoogleads (link: http://www.azoogleads.com/)
- Neverblueads (link: http://www.neverblueads.com)
- Clickbank (link: www.clickbank.com)
- Copeac (link: http://affiliates.copeac.com/)
- Adsense (link: http://adsense.google.com)
- Yahoo Publisher Network (link: http://publisher.yahoo.com)
- Direct.Rightmedia (link: http://direct.rightmedia.com)
- Adversal (link: http://www.adversal.com)
- […]
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Smarter Wordpress Designing explains how to put DOMtab on your wordpress blog. The DOMtab script adds uses blog real estate well and adds a cool effect for visitors.
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Besides Google Analytics, there are a number of free stat counters you can use to analyze your traffic.
Clicky is very similar to Google Analytics. The free version only works for under 1000 visitors per day. If you get more traffic than that, you will have to upgrade to a paid version.
StatCounter is great but the […]
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Add humor or a creative touch with these free online graphic and image making tools:
Custom Sign Generator Widgets - Thousands Of Web 2.0 Image Generators
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Sometimes you link to a site and you want a NoFollow tag on that link. If you do, this page explains how to hack Wordpress so you have that option in your Blogroll: WordPress Blogroll SEO Nofollow Hack
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This tool allows you to make your own blog theme, or template, for Wordpress or Moveable Type blog systems: Easy Blog Design Tool - CSSEZ
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To select a good domain name, I suggest these steps:
1. Make a list of words that represent the theme of your blog. For example: mom, moms, mommy, mother, mothers, parent, parents, kids, children, child, daughter, daughters, family, mothering, parenting, training, raising, etc.
2. Try those words in Google Trends to find a term that is […]
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Wrap Text Around Adsense Ads
For the instructions on wrapping text around Adsense, go here Add AdSense to a Wordpress Blog and look for this text:
Add the AdSense code for a Square (250 x 250) ad block as follows (note the div with the float right styling, this is important)
Get Ads on Target Keywords
To limit the […]
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This guy walks you through the process step-by-step:
5 steps: moving your blog to a new hosting company
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My favorite Wordpress theme designers are
Theme Hybrid - many clean, professional, magazine styled themes
Adii - a few free themes; magazine styled themes
Small Potato - many free themes; magazine styled themes
Chris Pearson - Themes designed to be easily customized by you, including the famous Cutline Theme for WordPress
web2Themes has some nice web 2.0 colored/appearing themes.
Here are […]
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Many people with new blogs or websites learn about Google’s Pagerank rating system and then wonder how they can get kinks to their new blog or site to increase their pagerank.
I came across this great guide to getting backlinks to your new blog or website. It answers the big question, “How do I build links […]
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Blogging leaders were asked how they go started.
“If you had 2-hours a day to devote to no-cost, off-blog (even off-line) marketing for your blog, what would you do?”
Read their answers here: Top bloggers reveal how to build traffic off-blog without spending a dime
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Here are some powerful new Wordpress plugins:
Text Sitemap Generator - create a great text sitemap
MiniManager - insert fields into your posts that can replaced by code. Great for affiliate links. For example, replace “If you want to buy toys, go to Amazon” to “If you want to buy toys, go to Amazon.”
Link Modder - replace […]
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UPDATE: There is a free, open source analytics application that appears to rival Google Analytics: Piwik. Check out the demo or read a review with screenshots.
Here is a great list of free Analytics tools for your website from Alex Pooley’s Blog » The Problem With Website Analytics Software:
103bees - Much cleaner interface than Google’s Analytics. […]
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Here are a number of Wordpress theme sites:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
http://www.wpthemesfree.com
http://www.wpskins.org/
http://themes.blogflux.com/
http://themebot.com/
http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/
http://www.bloggeries.com/forum
http://weblogtoolscollection.com
http://www.themesbase.com
http://www.wordpresswow.com
http://ithemes.org/
http://www.fresheezy.com
http://www.namepros.com
http://board.themevibes.com/wordpress-themes/
http://www.bloggingthemes.com
http://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com
http://www.v7n.com
http://www.freelayouts.com
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This appears to be a good method to eliminating the duplicate content problem with Wordpress blogs: http://www.dnseo.net/prevent-duplicated-results-with-wordpress-the-hack/
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Check out this link for 100 legal sources of stock images: 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images. In particular, the Morgue File offers free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use. Usually all that is required is author notification that the photo is being used.
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Here are some questions that might stimulate product-related blog theme ideas:
Do you do anything for exercise? If so, what activities?
Do you enjoy any sports?
What are your hobbies?
What do you and your wife buy that are not considered “bare essentials?”
What activities do you like doing with friends?
What equipment or products do you use at work? How […]
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In the old days, if you wanted links from other people’s blogs to yours, you only needed to add comments to their blog posts. However, because of comment spam, Google established a technology for blog software, like Wordpress, to prevent the link from being counted as a link for Google’s purposes. This technology is called […]
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Cool images:
© Photographer: Alptraum | Agency: Dreamstime.com
© Photographer: Icefront | Agency: Dreamstime.com
© Photographer: Icefront | Agency: Dreamstime.com
© Photographer: Icefront | Agency: Dreamstime.com
© Photographer: Alptraum | Agency: Dreamstime.com
© Photographer: Diter | Agency: Dreamstime.com
http://www.stockxpert.com/browse.phtml?f=view&id=595059
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This real estate blog had a post with some good links for building Wordpress themes / templates:
WordPress Theme Development
Blog Design 101
WordPress Theme Skeleton
I ultimately decided to use these themes as a base for my new theme.
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