http://wptutorial.com/blog Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:42:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Copyright © miketestsite.info 2011 info@wptutorial.com (WordPress Made Easy) info@wptutorial.com (WordPress Made Easy) 1440 http://wptutorial.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://wptutorial.com/blog 144 144 WordPress Made Easy WordPress Made Easy info@wptutorial.com no no http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/have-you-removed-your-mybloglog-widget-from-your-sidebar-yet http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/have-you-removed-your-mybloglog-widget-from-your-sidebar-yet#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 13:37:59 +0000 Mike http://wptutorial.com/blog/?p=2260 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/have-you-removed-your-mybloglog-widget-from-your-sidebar-yet/feed 3 http://wptutorial.com/blog/rants/mybloglog-to-close http://wptutorial.com/blog/rants/mybloglog-to-close#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:28:24 +0000 Mike http://wptutorial.com/blog/?p=2113 http://wptutorial.com/blog/rants/mybloglog-to-close/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/profitable-blogging/do-you-check-trends-before-writing-your-blog-post http://wptutorial.com/blog/profitable-blogging/do-you-check-trends-before-writing-your-blog-post#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:05:16 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=2043 http://wptutorial.com/blog/profitable-blogging/do-you-check-trends-before-writing-your-blog-post/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/finding-content-from-your-stats http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/finding-content-from-your-stats#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:02:47 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=944 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/finding-content-from-your-stats/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/interacting-with-others-on-mybloglog http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/interacting-with-others-on-mybloglog#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:49:01 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=567 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/interacting-with-others-on-mybloglog/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/5-ways-to-use-mybloglog-for-research http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/5-ways-to-use-mybloglog-for-research#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:58:50 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=565 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/5-ways-to-use-mybloglog-for-research/feed 0 0:05:23 MyBlogLog can be a great way to do research on quite a few things including… Your social interaction Your community interactions What’s hot Blog traffic research Topic research One of the things I really like is checking my own usage o[...] MyBlogLog can be a great way to do research on quite a few things including… Your social interaction Your community interactions What’s hot Blog traffic research Topic research One of the things I really like is checking my own usage of social sites. On your home page you can see what you have bookmarked, blogs you have commented on, your latest blog posts, videos you have added and anything else that has changed on any of the sites you have added to your profile. Just click the new with then the me radio button. As you can see in the image it is showing a comment I made, a bookmark, a blog post and a tweet on Twitter. There is also an RSS subscription for this which would allow me to add the feed into my reader. Not something I would do for myself (I usually know what I have done – not always but most of the time ) but I do use it for some of the other information. The big thing I look for on this is how much of what I am doing is with others. After all social networks work best when you are sharing not just your stuff but others also. It is a reminder to me if I start becoming a me networker and not a networker. Now if you change to view new in my neighborhood you will see what activities your community has and what they are posting, tweeting and bookmarking etc. This can be valuable to see new topics that are generating activity within your tribe. This is the one that I have added to my reader as I check the reader more often than I check in at MyBlogLog. Clicking on Hot In MyCommunities will give you the top posts that people are viewing and what is going on in the community. Just another way to see what is popular within the areas you have shown interest. Blog traffic research we touched upon in the previous post on setting up your tracking. This information lets you know what is working and what is not so you can work on improving your traffic and how you serve your community. Finally there is topic research. Stick your topic in the search bar and you can get results like below. I just added tattoos to test. This has brought back a list of 73 people who have blogged on the subject and a listing of 160 different blogs. This will take a bit of time but some digging on a topic can help you find others you may want to follow on that topic and blogs that you may want to read and comment on. This can be a great way to find these types of resources if you are going into a new niche. Now a caveat it will take a bit of time and effort to sort out the garbage from the worthwhile but if you add 10 potential places to comment and start a conversation it can be worth the effort. So this gives you 5 different ways you can use MyBlogLog for research but understand that being active in more communities, having all of your social sites in your profile and being active make this more powerful. It is case where the more effort you put in the more valuable the results you will get from it. As always your input and any tricks you care to share that have been overlooked are appreciated. Mike Paetzold Social Bookmarking Technorati Tags: blog comments, blogs, mybloglog, niche research, social interaction, social networks, twitter information info@wptutorial.com no no http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/mybloglog-add-the-widget-and-tracking http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/mybloglog-add-the-widget-and-tracking#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:45:39 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=559 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/mybloglog-add-the-widget-and-tracking/feed 0 0:04:58 This is the next section in the MyBlogLog series to help you get the most from this service. Hopefully you have followed the steps in the previous post and taken the time to add in the services you already use and create your profile. If not check i[...] This is the next section in the MyBlogLog series to help you get the most from this service. Hopefully you have followed the steps in the previous post and taken the time to add in the services you already use and create your profile. If not check it out now and start there. First we will add a widget to the sidebar so we can see who is visiting. Now the widget that shows who visits is next. You need to know what size your sidebar is and you have quite a few options. You can personalize this to a wide variety of styles but you need to make sure that you make it smaller in width than your sidebar or you will have problems. Check your style sheet for your themes for the width of your sidebar and also look to see if there are padding parameters. Quite often it is 5px so if your sidebar is 200 px wide the largest you could make the widget would be 190px to not mess up how your theme displays. Once you have designed your widget you will get a piece of code which you need to copy to your clipboard. Log in to your dashboard and add a text widget to your sidebar (drag it ot the proper position then click edit. This will open up the text widget and you can copy and paste in the code there. Add a title if you wish it to show on your sidebar with one. (I usually do not do that but to each their own. If you have header graphics in your sidebar you may want to for the separation.) Make sure to click the done button AND to save the changes to your sidebar. (Forget this step and then you will be like me scratching your head when you go look to figure out why it does not show . That is all it will take to get your widget in your sidebar. If you don’t like the way it is displaying go back and start again with the widget design. Tracking is one of the things I really love about MyBlogLog. You can see exactly how people find you, what they view and where they click to leave. Think this can give you some great information? It displays in 3 columns and shows all of the above. You can also see what is hot on other blogs in your communities. This is where the interaction can be very valuable and will be discussed in more detail when we talk about using MyBlogLog for research. Now to fully use the tracking you need to upgrade but at $25 for the year it is a no brainer (that is per blog not account if like me you have more than one blog.) Now you need to add a piece of code into your theme for the tracking to work if you have not added a the widget. They have decent tutorials and as each theme is different it is very hard to have a single answer. The key is like most tracking codes it needs to show between the body tags in your theme. Finally if you have upgraded you can run a variety of reports from your tracking stats. This is really powerful for helping you to see what is working, which posts are the most popular and where people are clicking. Checking this weekly allows me to find topics that are drawing the most traffic and which posts (especially presell posts) are working and getting people to click through to a sales page. This makes adding popular content or complimentary content on similar topics that people have already told you they are interested in. This should give you a bit more to get done now in getting the most out of your usage of MyBlogLog. Your comments drive this series so let me know what you like or don’t like or anything that has been skipped. Once I get enough comments then the next session will be posted on using MyBlogLog for research. Mike Paetzold Social Bookmarking Technorati Tags: mybloglog, MyBlogLog tracking, MyBlogLog widget, sidebarwidget, theme, tracking, widget, wordpress information info@wptutorial.com no no http://wptutorial.com/blog/uncategorized/setting-up-mybloglog http://wptutorial.com/blog/uncategorized/setting-up-mybloglog#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:18:49 +0000 Mike http://wptutorial.com/blog/?p=552 http://wptutorial.com/blog/uncategorized/setting-up-mybloglog/feed 0 0:02:31 The first thing you want to make sure of when using MyBlogLog is to fill out your profile completely especially with a picture or avatar. This picture or avatar will show up on any blog that you visit and will start to brand you or your business. Ta[...] The first thing you want to make sure of when using MyBlogLog is to fill out your profile completely especially with a picture or avatar. This picture or avatar will show up on any blog that you visit and will start to brand you or your business. Take the time to add the services you already use like You Tube, Facebook, Twitter, and many more. Integrating these will be helpful when you are back checking yourself. Something that will be addressed in a future post under using MyBlogLog for research. Now how much contact information you decide to make available is a personal choice and each of those items can be displayed to everyone, just your contacts or nobody. One of the things I do like to set is to auto join communities. Mine is set to 10 visits so if you are a member and I visit your blog 10 times then MyBlogLog will automatically add me to your community. This will become very important when we discuss using this for research. Fill out your bio and again you can decide who it will be displayed to. Add in your blog/s. It is a relatively simple process. Next time we will discuss setting up the tracking and adding widgets to your blog but if you have never used MyBlogLog this is enough for one post. The more information and the more personal you make your page the better it will perform for you. This is about networking with others and building a tribe that wants your information. Doing this properly does take a bit of time and effort but it will pay off to do it right the first time. Your comments keep this series going so let me know what you think about the information and if you have anything you have done that would help others or an item that I skipped in this process. Mike Paetzold Social Bookmarking Technorati Tags: mybloglog, MyBlogLog setup, setting up MyBlogLog, using MyBlogLog information, Uncategorized info@wptutorial.com no no http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/mybloglog-are-you-using-it-and-if-not-why-not http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/mybloglog-are-you-using-it-and-if-not-why-not#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:17:08 +0000 Mike http://wptutorial.com/blog/?p=549 http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/mybloglog-are-you-using-it-and-if-not-why-not/feed 0 0:01:58 This will be the start of a series on MyBlogLog (maybe see the end of the post). Most of the people that I talk to whether on the monthly Blog Talk Radio show, in various forums and conference rooms know about it but are probably only scratching the[...] This will be the start of a series on MyBlogLog (maybe see the end of the post). Most of the people that I talk to whether on the monthly Blog Talk Radio show, in various forums and conference rooms know about it but are probably only scratching the surface on what is there. Usually they join just for the shiny object – the sidebar widget you can add to your blog that shows who is visiting and allows you to show others when you have visited. Just look to the right on this blog and if you are logged in at MyBlogLog your avatar will be there and I can see who is visiting. Anyone can click the avatar and go see more about you at MyBlogLog. There is a lot more to the service though than just the widgets. It can be used for… Tracking what is happening Creating interaction with others Research what is hot in your area A portal for all of your social interaction So the first part here if you are not using MyBlogLog is go sign up and get an account. Make sure to fill out your profile, add your picture or what you use for an avatar (very important this is what will brand you as you visit others blogs) add in the tracking code and widget to your blog. Join my community Then if I get enough comments I will continue the series and get into some of the real power of using MyBlogLog. So if you are interested in this topic your comments will decide if it continues. Mike Paetzold Social Bookmarking Technorati Tags: mybloglog, research, social networks, widgets questions, traffic info@wptutorial.com no no http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/using-mybloglog-and-others-for-traffic http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/using-mybloglog-and-others-for-traffic#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:18:05 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=421 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/using-mybloglog-and-others-for-traffic/feed 0