MyBlogLog Community

Another blog community to make your blog more popular in the net is MyBlogLog Community. Member interactions facilitated by web widget that many members install on their blog. Bloggers sign up for free accounts or using their yahoo email account on MyBlogLog and can initiate a blog community for one or more blogs they author. Other registered members can subscribe to these communities, effectively bookmarking them for future reading and sharing them with their own contacts.

The most advantageous which bloggers can have when joining this community is they can submit whatever kind of their blog without reviewed, so this is good for all beginner bloggers to build network for the first time.

Bloggers can then display widgets on their sites which show MyBlogLog online community members who have recently visited their page. These widgets also contain links to visiting members' community pages, and are one way in which users connect with one another.

All members can see certain basic information about how many people visit their blog, what links they clicked and where they come from. Members may also view more extensive information about traffic on their site for a small monthly fee.

MyBlogLog is launching this new Communities service to empower authors and readers to operate at the same level. For the first time, everyone who reads a web site or blog can learn about and engage with one another, and in the process take the conversation to a whole new level.

MyBlogLog was acquired in January, 2007 by Yahoo for slightly more than 10 million dollars and with over 45,000 blogs subscribed at the time. Currently, there are approximately 100 million visits to pages with MyBlogLog widgets per month, and the site has over 140,000 registered members. MyBlogLog has an Alexa rank of under 500 and Google PageRank of 7 out of 10. Similar blog networking sites with similar widgets and analogous community functions also exist, such as Blog Catalog.

Goto and Join Mybloglog Community, Click Here!

ref: mybloglog.com, wikipedia.org, forbes.com

Get Popular with "Spicypage"

Spicypage is a social online community where anyone including blogger shares, review and talks about what websites or blogs they discover on the net. Founded in September of 2006, It is a friendly community that allows everyone to find easier ways to spread the notable sites or blogs when stumbled upon them.

SpicyPage lets you post, comment on, vote on, and share your favorite's sites or blogs with your friends and others like you. You can post not only your blog but also an article or story about anything you are interested in. Even you can create or start a group to make your private or public community.

You will quickly build your network when you vote on other blog that listed in your spicypage account main page or you can choose by categories listed on the left of the page. Besides that, you can grow your network by inviting your friend by email. Just click "invite friends" and input your friend email accounts to the form up to six accounts. More blogs you vote on, more network and friends you will have. It means more traffic would come to your site. Usually, spicypage member will vote you back if you vote on their web/blog. If you wish, you can ask them to vote your web/blog by sending them a message while you ask him/her to be your friend. There are some another tools which can help you to be popular in spicypage community. It's easy and fun.

Recently, spicyage become a new way of web-ranking solution to determine the best sites or blogs, 100% powered by its members. Discover and bookmark the new and the best sites/blogs out there and connect with people of the same interest as you.

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Analyze Your Blog with Sitemeter

In order to improve our website (webblog), we have to know what exactly happen to our site. Sitemeter offers some services to bloggers where it can track their blog activity and count how many audience that come to their site comprehensively.

This vital data and information is provided in your sitemeter account in some differents ways such as in term of visits, page views and in term of time that can help us to analyze our site easily. Another kinds of benefit from sitemeter are sitemeter provide us traffic prediction which predict our site visitors in advance, we can request our site (blog) statistic summary to be emailed to us daily or weekly and another beneficial tools which you can found after you sign up to sitemeter.

This is an example of my blog prediction which provided in sitemeter account. Eventhough this prediction is not figured the real condition of my blog, at least this kind of report could encourage me always to update and improve my blog continuously.

Site Meter offers detailed, step by step instructions for integrating Sitemeter into all the top blogging and website hosting services.

We just have to do three simple steps:
1. Create an account (Basic for Free or Paid Premium).
2. Copy code from your account.
3. Paste code into each page you want tracked.

That's way I suggest you to use this service immediately. It's free, easy and fun.

Go and Sign Up To Sitemeter.Com, Click here!

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About "PageRank"

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. It can be said that PageRank is the sum of pages (website, webblog) which linked to a website or webblog and can be one way link or reciprocal link. The more webpage or webblog links to a webpage or webblog, the better PageRank will it has.

The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E).

PageRank was developed at Stanford University by Larry Page (hence the name Page-Rank) and later Sergey Brin as part of a research project about a new kind of search engine. The project started in 1995 and led to a functional prototype, named Google, in 1998. Shortly after, Page and Brin founded Google Inc., the company behind the Google search engine. While just one of many factors which determine the ranking of Google search results, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of Google's web search tools.

The name PageRank is a trademark of Google. The PageRank process has been patented (U.S. Patent 6,285,999 ). The patent is not assigned to Google but to Stanford University, the place where Larry Page and Sergey Brin develop their invention about search engine until finally they launched Google search engine.

A hyperlink to a page counts as a vote of support. The PageRank of a page is defined recursively and depends on the number and PageRank metric of all pages that link to it ("incoming links"). A page that is linked to by many pages with high PageRank receives a high rank itself. If there are no links to a web page there is no support for that page.

Google assigns a numeric weighting from 0-10 for each webpage on the Internet; this PageRank denotes your site’s importance in the eyes of Google. The scale for PageRank is logarithmic like the Richter Scale and roughly based upon quantity of inbound links as well as importance of the page providing the link.

As mentioned on google webpage, PageRank is the heart of Google Search Engine. PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages' relative importance

From this brief explanation about PageRank or Google PageRank, it can be concluded that if your webpage or webblog want to be displayed on the first page of google search engine, your page must have good PageRank. It means that your traffic will increase rapidly.


Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org
http://www.google.com/technology

Track Your Visitors with Geovisite.Com

Hi bloggers, I just wanna say how pleased we are if somebody stop by to our site. It means that we have a new network or even new friends over the world. But how do we know if there there is somebody has visited our blog or site?

There are many ways for us to know how many visitors have visited our blog. Here I share you a free service from geovisite.com to track your visitor by placing a nice widget in our blog. Here are some examples widget from geovisite.com or you can see mine in the right side of this page, just scroll down.




At least there are 5 services which geovisite.com provide for us to track our visitors, those are Geomap, Geocounter, Geoclock, Geoglobe and Geostats. The most important thing is that their services are absolutely FREE for NOW. I have found a kind like this service but it is not free. See "http://www.neoworx.net", they are not mention the price in their front page, but when we register and want to use a widget they will charge us in term.

Back to geovisite.com, with their nice graphical appearance, I think it is nice and fun to place their widget to our blog. We will know how many visitors to our blog in real time and how many visitors that have visited our blog totally.

That's all, have fun with geovisite.com.

Go to Geovisite.Com, click here!

"Thanks for your great work Geovisite.Com!"

Grow Your Network with Blogcatalog

What is blogcatalog [www.blogcatalog.com]?

This is what they say about:

"Blog Catalog is the premiere social blog directory on the internet. Whether you're looking to promote your own blog or find blogs on various topics, this site is for you."

Thats right, by joining blogcatalog you can promote your blog, find many friends, join a forum, browse various type of blog and many others benefit if we join with blog catalog that in the end we can boost our traffic.

Before you register to blogcatalog, just make sure that your blog is well prepared and have updated. Here are some rules that you should know before you join blogcatalog:
(a) all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate;
(b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information;
(c) you are 14 years of age or older; and
(d) your use of the BlogCatalog Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation.

[Read more the rules in their Term of Service / TOS - click here]

Why you should do that? Because when we register to blogcatalog, we aren't fully accepted as their member yet. They will review our submitted blog first within 48 hours or less. If your blog is good enough and didn't violate their rule, you will be confirmed by email that your blog is approved so you can start to your blogcatalog account.

It's quite simple to hear, but if you aren't careful maybe you will be rejected or even banned.

Visit and Register to Blogcatalog - Click Here.

What is Blog Feed?

Feed or in general term called as RSS feed had being used by bloggers in order to get popular in the net. More popular you are in the net, more traffic you have in your blog. It's make sense, isn't it? Here I try to bring you about feed definitions that I find from the net. I hope this is useful for you and bring to you the benefit of using feed.

These are some definitions about feed and RSS:

"A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an Internet aggregator. A web feed is also sometimes referred to as a syndicated feed."
[source & read more here: wikipedia.org]

"RSS (formally "RDF Site Summary", known colloquially as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document, which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel", contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually."
[source & read more here: wikipedia.org]

"RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary. RSS is an XML-based format for content distribution. Webmasters create an RSS file containing headlines and descriptions of specific information. While the majority of RSS feeds currently contain news headlines or breaking information the long term uses of RSS are broad."
[source & read more here: rss-specification.com]

After we read about feed definition above, It is important for us to update our blog everyday, poorly at least once a week. How we build our blog feed so the others can read our updated blog? For this question, I suggest you to use FeedBurner as I write in my previous post. Why? Because It is easy to be done and it has many features that useful for publishing our blog. One of those features is we can build "Headline Animator" as that appear on top of this blog. It is interesting, isn't it?

Here is the snapshot of my "Headline Animator":

More than that, you can place it ("Headline Animator") to your personal profile in MySpace.com, Friendster.com, Facebook.com, Perfspot.com and others.

Boost Your Blog Traffic with FeedBurner

What is FeedBurner? Why should we use FeedBurner?

Before we talk about FeedBurner, it's good idea if we talk first about what can we do with FeedBurner?

With FeedBurner, as a blogger we can promote our blog contents, build & measure audience and make money finally.

This is what FeedBurner say about their service:

"FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Our Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web."

"FeedBurner also offers the largest feed and blog advertising network that brings together an unprecedented caliber of content aggregated from the world’s most recognized media companies (e.g. Wall Street Journal Online, Wired News, Ziff Davis), A-list bloggers and blog networks and individual publishers from around the world."

This is a sketch how FeedBurner works:

and These are some facts of FeedBurner from their "Fast Fact and Stats":

• According to Nielsen/NetRatings, FeedBurner is growing faster than MySpace and Digg with 385% traffic growth.
• Total feeds: 1,209,996
• Number of publishers: 681,932
• Number of podcast and videocast feeds: 168,966
• Number of subscribers across all FeedBurner feeds: Too many to fit on this page. Email us for the most recent stats and pretty graphs.
• Percent of FeedBurner employees using Macs: 39%, PCs: 58%, Other: 3%.
• Number of made-up words on this site: 4

It's undoubtedly that FeedBurner become new trend for blogger to be popular. Get more understanding and benefit about FeedBurner by Register to FeedBurner for FREE.

Visit and register with FeedBurner.com here!

Blog Traffic

How popular is your blog? Why your blog must popular? What happen if your blog isn't popular?
These question are often become attention for the bloggers particularly for new bloggers. Blog popularity is one of parameters how success is a blog. Blog popularity is usually determined by how much traffic does it has in a time span such as daily, weekly, monthly even anually.

Blog traffic or generally called web traffic means the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site. It is a portion of Internet traffic. This is determined by the number of visitors and the number of pages they visit. Bloggers should monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic to see which parts or pages of their blog page are popular and if there are any apparent trends, such as one specific page being viewed mostly by people in a particular country.

Blog traffic can be analysed by viewing the traffic statistics found in the web server log file, an automatically-generated list of all the pages served. A hit is generated when any file is served. The page itself is considered a file, but images are also files, thus a page with 5 images could generate 6 hits (the 5 images and the page itself). A page view is generated when a visitor requests any page within the web site – a visitor will always generate at least one page view (the main page) but could generate many more. Tracking applications external to the web site can record traffic by inserting a small piece of HTML code in every page of the web site.

There are some types of information are often collated when monitoring web/blog traffic, these are the example:

• The number of visitors
  
• The average number of page views per visitor – a high number would indicate that the average visitors go deep inside the site, possibly because they like it or find it useful. Conversely, it could indicate an inability to find desired information easily.
  
• Average visit duration – the total length of a user's visit
  
• Average page duration – how long a page is viewed for
  
• Domain classes – all levels of the IP Addressing information required to deliver Webpages and content.
  
• Busy times – the most popular viewing time of the site would show when would be the best time to do promotional campaigns and when would be the most ideal to perform maintenance
  
• Most requested pages – the most popular pages
  
• Most requested entry pages – the entry page is the first page viewed by a visitor and shows which are the pages most attract visitors.
  
• Most requested exit pages – the most requested exit pages could help find bad pages, broken links or the exit pages may have a popular external link
  
• Top paths – a path is the sequence of pages viewed by visitors from entry to exit, with the top paths identifying the way most customers go through the site
  
• Referrers; The host can track the (apparent) source of the links and determine which sites are generating the most traffic for a particular page.
  

Those are a little explanation about blog traffic and I'm sure that you understand why your blog must popular and what happen if your blog isn't popular. I think It's not too hard to be understood.

[reference : wikipedia.org]