I have already written 8 essential settings after installing wordpress, it’s time to give some love to other important stuff, which you might miss from the day one.
Blogging is not only Installing and writing a post. There are so many things to take care of like SEO, Traffic analysis, creating a Community, Subscription options and many more. It will become too lengthy and hard to jot all of them down in a single post. So I will break them down into multiple posts. Enjoy the second post in the series:
Analytics tools
There are many analytic tools to track down website traffic and visits for your blog. You can simply get a free version or some paid version for it. Here are two free analytic tool which I love. Another one which I did not mention here is Woopra, which is also a good analytic tool.
Google Analytics
Analytic is very important for any blog, Analyzing your site visits, site referrer and traffic will help you to set further Goal. Google Analytics : Google analytics is one of the best and free analytic tool present. This will help you to track your daily visits along with lots of useful info, like landing pages, outgoing links, and keywords giving you most of the traffic. For more info on Google analytic, have a look at :
- Google analytic wordpress blog settings and configuration
- How to share your analytic account with other analytic users
- Find Google analytic code
- Google analytic desktop software Polaris
Sitemeter
Sitemeter is another free website traffic meter, which shows you the traffic stats in real time. You can see hourly visits and page views along with referral sites. Compare your traffic for last 7 days and much more. For more on Sitemeter you can refer to my previous post on :
- Sitemeter : Track your website visitors and traffic in real time
- Sitemeter hack to get free invisible logo and counter
Social Community and Group
Google Friend connect
Google friend connect is one of the favorite social media gadget as users who have an account on Google, Yahoo, Open ID , Twitter and AIM can easily be a part of your community. Better number of fans you have, more powerful your blog will be, in terms of visitors views. Refer to previous article on :
- Google Friend connect
- Are you a Google friend connect user?
- Google friend connect integrated with Twitter
Facebook Tools and Widgets : Facebook is again a great marketing tool if you use is wisely. It also helps you in branding.
Read my previous post on How to form a community out of your blog.
Facebook networked blog application
Facebook networked blog application will help you to publish your blog feeds directly from your home page and it will be visible to all your friends, if you have a huge number of friends on Facebook this will help you to drive more traffic to your blog. Read more about it at : Facebook Networked blog application
Facebook Notes application
Facebook notes application will enable you to drive traffic and more over post your RSS feeds on facebook so that your blog is reachable to more audience. It’s again one of the best facebook tool to drive traffic to your blog.
Facebook notes application : Drive huge traffic from Facebook
Facebook Fan page
Facebook is a great marketing tool and fan page is a great feature to give more value to your brand. Facebook fan pages has lots of advantages in terms of notifying about your blog updates. Sending a mass message to your readers and branding your blog.
Read more about Facebook fan page here :
Other Miscellaneous tool
Feed burner
Burning your feeds via Feedburner is a very good idea because this will help you to analyze your feeds and more over you can provide more option to your readers in terms of visibility and branding of your blog. Read more at :
- How to burn your feeds using Feedburner
- How to transfer your RSS feeds from one feedburner account to another
Professional Email address
Professionalism is very important in blogging, and this also includes your email address. It’s very important to grab your personal domain email address like admin[at]shoutmeloud.com.
This guide will help you on how to get your personal domain name email address How to get free professional email address under your domain name There are many other things which is require along with all these, which I will cover in the upcoming post.
This is a part of Blogging step by step series as I could not officially announce the launch of it and I have covered lots of basic tutorials for upcoming bloggers. You can have a look at all of them under Blogging step by step category.
Also Read: 20 Useful Blogging Tips for Bloggers
Related posts:
- Best of Essential Blogging Software and tools from Year 2009
- Fan Box : Facebook pages widget for your blog
- Use Google Friend Connect to Send Newsletter To Members
- How to form a community out of your blog?
- Sitemeter :Track your website visitors and statistics in real time
- [Blogging] Why commenting is Very Important for Your Blog
- Facebook Fan page VS Google Friend Connect
- How to Drive Huge Traffic from Facebook?
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harsh ur blog tips helps me a lot i am regular visitor to ur blog.i made till now $3 in just 2 weeks after starting my blog.keep up the good work.many thanks
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Hey Zeesu
I’m honored that my tips are helping you to make money and I hope you can continue making more
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Google Analytics is my best as I trust it’s result more! thanks for the good tips!
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I also still prefer google analytics the most however, checking your web traffic statusy is the best way of improving your return on investment (ROI)!
Thanks for the great post harsh
Definitely they are rockstar and they will convert a blog as well as a blogger into rockstar. I am using above tools and getting maximum out of it, they are now integral part of blogging and bloggers. Nice list Harsh, will definitely help people in decision making at initial stages.
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i am using google analytics for more than an year and nothing beats it so far.
Nice recommendations for beginner level bloggers..
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Dont Miss Google Webmaster Tools.Thats important too
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I am using 7 out of 8 tools ..will use 8th as well now
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Your blog is surely rocking, especially because of its contents. I am using many of these tools and will try remaining also.
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Thanks, for these tips. I have been using Google Analytics and its my all time fav as the results are really trustworthy.
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Thanks for your comment Shabnam and thanks for your vote for Shoutmeloud @ http://blog.newmediabloggers.com/vote-for-the-best-blog-on-famous-bloggers-club/
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Welcome Harsh……. you have a great blog. I am learning a lot from it.
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I am waiting for your post, blog rockstar 2.
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Hi Harsh,
Your 4th I mean official email topic is really very important for me because this idea was not in my mind before you mentioned here.
Thanks a lot buddy.
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Great information
Thanks again for another cool tips – I will check them out especially the personal and professional email with Google. I think it’s a great idea.
Some nice tips which would help promote any website on any topic. The email address point is valid, but I still like using my gmail account.
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Nice article.
This article deserve to be retweeted.
@MarkwebTw
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Statcounter is better then sitemeter in think. It has options like Recent Keyword Activity, Popular Pages etc. Thanks Harsh for the nice tools.
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Hey Harsh, Great Blog
Very good valuable recommendations.
I may consider Google friend connect and Facebook widgets.
You have missed something that pays a lot.
Its Social Networking like Digg & Twitter & Mybloglog, the three major ones.
Plus Blog Quality, Its really essential. Why? http://inforids.com/the-10-most-important-things-bloggers-need-to-know-before-writing-a-blog-article/
Good guide for a beginner like me. Thanks Harsh.
Another cool post from Harsh.
I’m glad to let you know that i use all of the tools listed. I even use more tools.
I see that twitter and the likes are not listed.
Making your blog a rockstar demands your all…
Thanks for this awesome list. I’ve never tried Google Friend Connect because I didn’t realize that it integrated social networks. I’ll have to give it a try.