Boostpost - Easy Social Network Ranking Integration

Promotion is important for every blog or website, except for the cases, when blogs are created for personal needs or very limited private purposes. And for most bloggers spreading a word is essential for the site popularity and profitability. There are many ways and approaches, and involving the steady rising trend of the social media is one of the most promising among them.

So, so main question is what is the most efficient way of distributing your publications, and there is no the one and the best answer. In this post, we will review the free services from BoostPost – one of the easiest ways to add social network ranking buttons to your blog or website. With one simple button or widget, your page gains the integration of over 50 social network buttons. The visual presentation is a uniform, organized view of how your post ranks among those networks. A button and widget can be easily embedded in blog postings for multiple blogging platforms.

Boostpost helps to:

• Enhance internet posts via the presentation of valued reader statistics.
• Promote posts to new audiences all over the world.
• Give active readers new opportunities to "break the story".

 The list of the social networks is compiled from the most popular services, including Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and Reddit, but also have some, which you may even not ever used or even heard. Does not matter, as your visitor may be using these services, unknown to you, and they will submit your post there, gaining additional exposure to the group, you never reached before.

If you participate in the Google Adsense revenue program, you may even add one more channel of income. If you provide your Google Adsense Client ID in your button or widget code, you are entitled to get revenues share from the ads posted on your boostpage.

Website: http://www.boostpost.com/

Missing Link between Facebook and Twitter

Most of the modern time bloggers recognize the value of the social networks to promote their blog post, sharing the related information on the multiple sites and creating additional web links to your blog, which plays positive role for your site ranking.

Among the two leading applications in the social networking are Twitter and Facebook. Free web service Natter will save you time by linking your two accounts in these communities. As you register to the Natter account, all your tweets will be monitored by the Natter service and instantly posted to Facebook. The same way, your every comment posted on Facebook, will be automatically reposted to Twitter in real time. So you can follow your Facebook right from your favorite Twitter client.

Main Features:

• Post tweets to your Facebook profile.
• Post Facebook comments back to Twitter.
• Only post tweets containing a hashtag (e.g. #fb) to Facebook.
• Finds and displays links in your tweets as a Facebook post.
• Translates twitter names to their real world counterparts.

Website: http://natter.r10.railsrumble.com/

Free Real-time Website Tracking with Google Analytics

Google Analytics has been the leader of web analytics software and services for a while already, but there was one area where they suffered from the competition: real time statistics. It is an exceptionally useful tool for those who participate in the Google AdSense context advertising program, and need to measure the instant effect of the new posts, interface changes, new program launches on their sites.

Until recently, you were not able to see how many visitors are visiting your site at that particular moment, what pages they were visiting, where they were coming from and so on. Yesterday, September 29, Google announced adding new features to Analytics, including real time tracking.

Through their own words:

The web is getting faster, and not just the speed of the pages, but also the speed of change. Before, it was fine to build a website and modify it only when new products were launched. All of us avid Analytics users know that’s just not good enough. We need to be constantly on the lookout for problems and opportunities.

Currently, Google Analytics does a great job analyzing past performance. Today we’re very excited to bring real time data to Google Analytics with the launch of Google Analytics Real-Time: a set of new reports that show what’s happening on your site as it happens.

You’ll find the Real-Time reports only in the new version of Google Analytics. If you’re not already using the new version, you can start by clicking the “New Version” link in the top right of Google Analytics. Real-Time reports are in the Dashboards tab (though they will move to the Home tab in the updated interface next week). You will have access to Real-Time reports if you are an Administrator on your Analytics account, or if you have access to a profile without profile filters. Real-Time does not support profile filters.

Note that while the features were enabled for multiple users already, everybody will have eventually the access to Real-Time in coming weeks. If you can’t wait, you can sign up for early access through the following link: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/realtimeanalytics/.

Real-Time Analytics allows you to instantly track the efficacy of social media campaigns. By tagging links that you share on Facebook and Twitter with tags related to your marketing campaign, you can track the exact impact of those links. If you need to know how to do that, here's the link.

While the free real-time stats for Google Analytics remain free for its users, this week it also introduced Google Analytics Premium, its first paid offering for larger websites. While Google's free offering tops out its data collection at 10 million website visitors per month, its new paid plan offers more data collection, additional modeling tools and service support. When Google called this service "Premium", it wasn't kidding. The service costs $150,000 per year--far out of the reach of most small and midsize businesses (SMB), according to Forrester analyst Joseph Stanhope. But for the large businesses it should be an extremely robust tool. One feature alone--downloadable unsampled reports--sounds temptingly like it would let you download your own data about your Web properties from Google. The 24-hour live technical support is attractive--especially to the less tech-savvy at larger corporations who may miss out on key data with the current Google Analytics.

Sources and Additional Information:

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/google-analytics-offers-real-time-tracking-now/

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/09/whats-happening-on-your-site-right-now.html

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/240931/google_offers_realtime_site_analytics.html

http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/29/technology/google_real_time/

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393902,00.asp#fbid=gItZQaRm3xE

Editorial Calendar Plugin for WordPress from StressLimit

If you are serious professional blogger, using WordPress as a blogging platform, you may want to look on the free feature offered by StressLimit. Planning ahead will bring your blogging to the next level of professionalism and improve your rating among the readers. Eventually, that will help to improve your blog visibility in search engines, bring more visitors, and improve your profitability.

Why Use an Editorial Calendar?

An editorial calendar is the foundation of strategic blogging; it lets you do the planning that it takes to get the most audience reach from your blog content.

• An editorial calendar lets you plan ahead;
• An editorial calendar adds structure to your creativity;
• You can take a great concept further by serializing content;
• You can be proactive and capitalize on search trends.

Main Features

• See all of your posts and when they’ll be posted.
• Drag and drop to change your post dates.
• Quickedit post titles, contents, and times.
• Publish posts or manage drafts.
• Easily see the status of your posts.
• Manage posts from multiple authors.

Developers’ Website: http://stresslimitdesign.com/editorial-calendar-plugin