Are You Making The Most Of Google’s Search Statistics

Your stats show you what searches people used to find your blog, and how many clicks you’re getting for each of those searches. But what they don’t show is what clicks you’re missing out on. They wont tell you about the searchers who get one of your pages in their search results, but […]

Carnival of Webmasters - Fifth Edition

Welcome to the fifth edition of the Carnival of Webmasters. Before we get started, I would just like to thank Sutocu for allowing me to host this edition of the Carnival of Webmasters. It’s been a great experience. I have been surprised at the number and quality of submissions to the carnival […]

Google Webmaster Tools Now Tracks Inbound Links

I read on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog a couple of days ago that Google Webmaster Tools now allows you to see a larger sample of links to your blog.
In the past, you could use Google’s link: search operator to find the pages that link to your site, however, the result was just just […]

Blogger platform named as Top Hosted Blogging Platform

PC World recently named Google’s Blogger platform as its top pick in free and low-cost hosted blogging platforms in a recent article - Powerful Software for Better Blogging.
According to PC World, the top 5 platforms are:

Google Blogger
WordPress
TypePad
Tripod
SquareSpace

The criteria for evaluating the blogging platforms was as follows:
We built blogs with each program, testing how quickly the […]

Get the Latest News with Google Alerts

Are you looking for something to blog about? Do you need to know the latest news in your niche so you can keep your blog at the cutting edge? Google Alerts is a great way to keep up to date by having one of the web’s most powerful search engines do the leg […]

How to find a Popular Search Phrase

Here is a handy Keyword Suggestion Tool. Based on a keyword or phrase, the tool will display a list of popular search terms related to the keyword/s you entered. The data comes from the Overture database and along with the suggestions, comes a total of the number of searches on that suggested keyword […]

Digital Point Keyword Tracker

If you like to dabble in a little amateur SEO (Search Engine Optimization) then the Keyword Tracker tool from Digital Point is very good. Keyword Tracker is a free tool which allows you to track search engine statistics for a number of your websites at once. The statistics tracked at Keyword Tracker are:

Keywords […]

Live Pagerank Google PR Tool

While I was checking my Google Page Rank after reading the PR Update rumor on the forums at Digital Point, I came across a useful tool for checking page rank.
The tool is called Live Pagerank (oddly enough). You simply enter the url of your blog (or other website) and click on the Get Live […]

How to measure your inbound links

From what I know about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), inbound links are very important if you want a high ranking in the search engines. So, how do you know how many inbound links you have?
Google have an option where you can use
link:url
to find all links to a particular website. However, this does not […]

Feedburner Email Syndication

I have just added an email newsletter subscription option to Monetize Your Blog.
This was something I had noticed on other people’s blogs, and I thought it was quite a good idea. Then the other day a reader from mylot (aff) asked me whether I offered email updates. So I decided to set one […]

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