In order to successfully plan out and maintain the amount of traffic that you have coming to your website or blog you need to understand your traffic. It’s rather simple to do with a traffic stats and analysis tool. We have decided to compile a list of some of the various traffic statistics and analysis tools that are available for you to use.

Clicky
Clicky is a web-based traffic stats and analysis tool that provides you with many details about the visitors that come to your website or blog. It also supports Ajax and Flash websites. The dashboards is completely customizable which allows for you to choose what you want it to look like.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a free traffic statistics and analysis tool that is provided by Google. This tool will provide you with a lot of useful information about the visitors that come to visit you blog or website. It even integrates with Google AdWords which makes it easier for you to learn about the effect your AdWords campaign is having on your website or blog.

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With the popularity of blogging increasing every day, there are many useful tools available to help with your blog. I’m sure everyone appreciates any help that they can get when they’re blogging. By using some of these tools, you can save time and headache.

1. Stock.xchng
If you are needing images for your blog or blog posts, this is a great place to find some great stock photos. This website is used by many web developers and individuals every day. Some of the stock images may cost some money while others are available for free. Flickr is great but sxc provides a hell lot bigger collection of usable images for your blog while flickr mostly has copyrighted and/or personal photos.

2. Feedburner
Feedburner is an RSS tool that is used by tons of bloggers around the world. You can add an array of features to your RSS feed by using Feedburner. Feedburner is considered one of the most effective feed marketing tools ever, it offers a wide selection of tools to help you optimize and promote your feed along with awesome stats on how many subscribers you have and what they use to subscribe and for more advanced stats they also provide information on views and clicks on your feed items. Its a must have for all blogs.

3. Pingoat
Pingoat is a tool that pings (notifies) the different services that keeps track of blogs and publishes the blog content. This will let the service know that your blog has been updated and they will begin to crawl your blog to find out what has been added. This can lead to increasing the incoming traffic to your blog.

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Edmondo seems to be like another twitter site but this one is for educational purposes mostly, it seems that edmondo wants to build a social network site between teachers and students where the teachers update their students about the courses and the latest updates in class etc. So far alot of problems have been reported for edmondo regarding functionality but for the times it does work it has pleased most of its users.

The twitter trend is on a rise i won’t be surprised if more twitter-based sites come up on different niches such as night life, webmasters, gambling, geek etc..

A few weeks ago i covered a visual search engine by google and i knew there would be more who would follow in those footsteps in order to make an “even better” search engine and here we are, ManagedQ has released their visual search which is said to be the visual search engine experiment that actually works.

I ran a few queries at MQ and it seems to have a really great sorting system where it sorts the results of your query by Person, Place and Thing. I think that is what i am looking for mostly at google to find a certain person with a certain thing in a certain place..

Although MQ has its flaws such as query result page titles and various text problems on the main windows of results and the keywords on the place/person/thing area where the keywords are really irrelevant to what’s being talked about.

In my last post i talked about sponsored reviews being used to promote products so this was kinda interesting, this could be the next “free” reviews site, of course sooner or later someone is going to monetize it so much that the amount of natural/original reviews is going to be really small.

Blippr is one of the few 2.0 sites that i really like even though they are loosely based around twitter it still is quite interesting to me, i would assume that they will have alot more features soon, and product reviews on almost everything including ebooks,movies,songs,celebs..etc

Kinda like an all-in-one site for everything that costs money.. maybe?

The screenshots that i took below show that most of the things that blippr has are infact based on twitter, but still it doesn’t feel like they are copying anyone..odd..

So far so good, I’m still liking blippr!

Blogged dot com is being praised among the rest of the authority blog directories by techcrunch so it made me wanna see what the fuss was all about, well for a “new” blog directory it sure is filled up way too much I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the first bit of real traffic the site ever got (techcrunch effect). There are alot of blogs already in its database, i guess that’s what happens when you have no captcha or email verification on blog submission

I did submit my blog there however it didn’t ask me for my email for confirmation just a simple adding page where you add a little info about the blog but nothing about the person who owns the blog so that if the blog is approved and added to the directory the owner would be notified.

Although there is no “blogger” profile there is however the reviewer profile if you signup with blogged it will give you a profile of a reviewer with all the options you might need to review blogs that are there.

Overall, i seriously doubt the ability of blogged and its reviewers to rate blogs because of their homepage feature, the site was not that good or anything special the topic of the site was vague and over used and in my opinion it de-values the site, I was surely turned off by it.

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Apparently microsoft made a 44 point something billion offer to yahoo, people are concentrating on what would happen to yahoo as a search engine but what about the adnetworks?

Yahoo has the highest payouts and Microsoft provides the hihgest ROI that i know of, if msft buys out yahoo and they form an ad network that would pay out like nothing else online, ppc wise and cpa wise. Personally i support msft to take over yahoo, as far as i can see:

Yahoo is a portal - more user oriented - more interactive and entertaining - its based on services for users like games, news..etc its main functions include mail,gaming and news not search.

Microsoft offers a number of services just like google and are really good at them too, at a seminar months ago they stated “Google is good at search we are good at everything else” i’ll post the source as soon as i find it. Msft is also doing amazing with its search engine most of the traffic to this blog is from MSN search anyway.

Above all that :

1. Yahoo has way too many failed projects in the past
2. Yahoo was never considered seo-able
3. It fluctuates more then google does
4. Its serps are really confusing, misleading and in some cases useless

I’m just waiting for the takeover to happen already so that i can milk their adnetwork ;p

Researchers have used the eponymous search engine, Google, to define in images what the English language looks like (and apparently it looks like a Jackson Pollack painting.) The study has used images from the search engine and ranking computer technology to collect the most commonly associated images fro each word of the English language. Interestingly the use of the Google in this study probably holds some of the Keys for the future of Search technology, and of course SEO as a subject.

Images already for a part of the search engines logarithm, but the development of a visual dictionary which could recognize an image and relate that image to a word without a word tag, would mean that web sites and of course SEO policy would have to update to include a visual element as well. Imagine a search engine that would look truly at all of the elements of a post or page, the words, their semantics and meanings, and the imagery used, to rank that pages usefulness to the searcher.

This, with the advent of the visual dictionary, does not seem to be at all unlikely, nor indeed, too far in the future. So far the research carried out by Linguist at MIT (home of the grandfather of all linguistics, Noam Chomsky) have not talked about the commercial applications of the project, but the use of Google as the medium by which the images were sourced, whilst unsurprising, smacks of a potential Google application of the work.

Where does this leave SEO, well if images are used by a search engine in designating relevance the job of SEO writer will truly become one of SEO Designer utilizing the visual dictionary to design relevant and searchable images. Watch this space for more information.

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This was quite unexpected, Reps from Gizmondo pulled an odd stunt at CES 2008 where they closed all the flat screen displays on all shows using a TV-B-Gone IR remote, which was kinda funny but mostly just mean and wasted so many people’s time and for this the CEA has banned them. For some reason all of this to me seems like a big publicity stunt for TV-B-Gone.

The conference was held by CEA and they took action against Gizmondo by banning them from further conferences and sent the following statement to the people at CNET:

We have been informed of inappropriate behavior on the show floor by a credentialed media attendee from the Web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media. Specifically, the Gizmodo staffer interfered with the exhibitor booth operations of numerous companies, including disrupting at least one press event. The Gizmodo staffer violated the terms of CES media credentials and caused harm to CES exhibitors. This Gizmodo staffer has been identified and will be barred from attending any future CES events. Additional sanctions against Gizmodo and Gawker Media are under discussion.

More coverage on this:

• Bloggers behaving badly
• Gizmodo Gives Bloggers a Black Eye