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I have a new favorite plugin for Wordpress, Statpress Reloaded is something every self hosted blog should have. What it does is tracks incoming traffic, referring URLs, and shows what keywords are bringing in the traffic and to which of your posts. It’s free and Read the rest of this entry »

I found Similarsites.com today by accident when I was doing some analytical work (checking on competitors of a client). What they let you do is search for a site you like, and they return results of sites that are similar to it. It’s a great way to find competitors, or just find more blogs or sites like ones you already visit. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the tools that’s a must have for any blogger or webmaster is a program that checks to make sure your links all work, and report the broken ones. I bought this program years ago for another project and just got the idea to run a report on this blog to check things out when I saw on another very high traffic blog that had several broken links. It’s virtually impossible to do it without a tool like this. Read the rest of this entry »

I spoke with a few business people who were overseas this week, two in the UK and another in India. They all were doing big monthly volume but their rates were in the 3-4.1 percent range which is really insane compared to what we get here in the U.S. They explained that it was common to see these rates in other countries. Read the rest of this entry »

I was speaking with a friend the other day and the issue of Google Adwords came up (the program where you bid on keywords and when someone clicks your ad, they are taken to your site and you pay that .10 cents or whatever your bid was). The talk turned to how expensive it can be, but after giving some general tips there was one more most people don’t think to do, that’s plan their campaigns geographically. Read the rest of this entry »