Those of us using Blogger, the free blog publishing software from Google, can now rejoice following the introduction of the new “Stats” tab found on Blogger in Draft. Let’s take a look at how these real time stats can help you gain more insights into traffic patterns on your blog and help you develop a strategy for using keywords and anchor text to can help generate search traffic for you.

“The coolest thing about the new Blogger Stats is that it monitors and analyzes your visitor traffic in near-real-time. You can see which posts are getting the most visits and which sites are sending traffic to your blog right now…Note that the pageview data in Blogger Stats and in Google Analytics may not be identical, due to different collection mechanisms used. Also, Blogger Stats do not support private blogs for now.”

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I listened to a podcast the other day that featured an interview with Matt Cutts from Google. In the interview I was surprised to learn that Matt, head of the Web Spam Team at Google, doesn’t use the Google owned software publishing platform Blogger for his personal blog – he uses self-hosted WordPress.

A little about The WordPress Podcast

The WordPress Podcast is strictly an audio podcast. The show is hosted by two well known and knowledgeable developers  Joost de Valk and Frederick Townes, and you can find The WordPress Podcast at http://wp-community.org/. Continue!

Zemanta Is Your Virtual Blogging Assistant

I was pleased to learn that Zemanta is now available on WordPress.com. I had the pleasure of doing a guest post for fellow BloggerLuv member Kiesha of We Blog Better called Blog more efficiently with the Zemanta Google Chrome Plugin, and now that WordPress.com is offering Zemanta to it’s family of bloggers, it’s time to have a closer look. The easiest way to describe Zemanta is to liken it to a virtual blogging assistant.

If WordPress.com is your blogging platform, you can activate Zemanta from your Personal settings by clicking the box next the words “Additional Post Content”.  Save your changes and as you compose a new post, Zemanta simultaneously searches through blog feeds, to find content closely related to what you’re writing, directly from it’s library of

“recommended links, photos, tags, and articles“.

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Do you have what it takes to become a Power Twitter User overnight? First let’s look at what makes a Power Twitter User. You might be thinking the number of tweets, the number of users, you’re following or a custom Twitter background might do the trick, but no my friends, that’s not the answer.

It only takes a few minutes and a cool tool to put your illustrious tweets to work on your journey toward Twitter stardom. You can have your tweets adorned in stlye – magazine style that is! Check out the slick layout introduced to me by DragonBlogger on his ”Bloggers daily as shared by 44 people on DragonBlogger’s Twitter list”

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This article was written by Garen Arnold, who is a graphic designer out of Kansas City, Missouri. Garen provides people with the Best Web Hosting Service by using his expertise to help people choose the best web hosting service for their business.

Blog has really become quite a compelling and powerful tool on the Internet these days. People have outgrown writing how they feel in diaries and most of them have opted to post their writings on blog sites instead; as they rightfully figure that it is where more people can read it and even leave a reply or comment.

A blog’s purpose can either be entertainment or business. Personal users who want to create their online identity or establish online presence and visibility need blog hosting services. Some of these folks opt for free blog hosting; while others look for self hosted blog platforms.

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Why Do I Have An RSS Feed?

Yes! The content in every blog has a feed. Basically a feed or RSS is an easy way for your audience to access your content and get notified when you publish a new post.  By subscribing to your feed, your readers don’t have to keep coming back to your blog only to discover you haven’t published any new posts yet!

I know what you’re thinking “but I want them to keep coming to my blog, that will give me more traffic”. Trust me, in the long run you’ll be happy you have a feed, it adds functionality to your blog and helps you stay connected with your readers. You’ll use the feed to promote your blog on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed and with blog promotion tools like CommentLuv. Continue!