A pretty useful tool for bloggers.

It seems this is my day to stumble onto useful blog tools.

I was searching for something else but God wanted me to look at this first.

When you sign up for this tool for free (paid versions are also availble for advanced features), you can add all your bog url and website url in your ‘Watch list’.

It then analyses your urls and informs you the following.

Incoming and outgoing links from top search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN;

Google and Alexa ranks, and how many have bookmarked you in Furl and Del.icio.us.

Another fantastic feature is they let you add them in your ‘link favourites’.

When you are on any website, just click on the ‘Urltrends’ button on your tool bar and bang! It generates a report that contains the following informations:
Trend Report For: http://www.xxxx.com
First Monitored: April 19th, xxxx
Last Monitored: June 19th, xxxx
Next Update: July 19th, 2006 (updated monthly)
Current Rankings:
PageRank:
Alexa Rank:

Incoming Google Links:
Incoming Yahoo Links:
Incoming MSN Links:
Incoming Alexa Links:
Overall Incoming Links: xxxx (Overlap is possible - Estimated xxxx unique links)
Outgoing Links: (Ratio: xx% - Each Link Receives Approx. xxxx PR)
Page Information:
Title:
Description:
Online Since:

DMOZ Listed:
Archive.org Listed:
UrlTrends Cache:

Followed by the above it presents graphs for:
Ranking trends, link popularity trends, social bookmark trends, popular keywords. Related websites.

Well, today my day’s work has been fulfilling.
My life slogan: Pass it on;share.

Great blog tracking tool.

Who doesn't want to know about who is your blog reader and where they are coming from!
The entire bogging community-right?

I just stumbled onto this site My Blogs

How it works.
I quote from their site:
'Tracking the missing link.
Real-time. Actionable. Transparent.
Where are your readers coming from? Where do they go when they leave your site? These are the core questions that every blogger needs answered in order to take part in the global conversation.
MyBlogLog provides you with answers quickly, quietly and efficiently. Our Outgoing Link Tracking shows you which links on your site are most compelling to your readers, enabling you to tune your content and keep readers coming back.

Our Real-Time Referrer service keeps track of who's linking to your site and gives you that information now, not tomorrow.'

We are asked to place a small java script in our blog template.

They offer a free and paid version.

If you try it, you can share your observations here for the benefit of other bloggers.

Useful blog tools for content.

I do not how many of us who are trying to earn from adsense, using these revenue sharing blogs, are accustomed to choose content for blogging from web feeds.

I find it always tough to select from a myriad web feeds. I tried google news for a week.
Then yahoo news poured into my browser for sometime. I must agree I found some breaking news from which I built a few articles. I can’t say for sure whether it helped my blog page views, but surely I gained some knowledge.

I am also using social bookmarking very frequently, both to tag it and to find tags of my interest.
My favorite tagging sites are:
Onlywire.com
Sphere.com

But I depend more on del.icio.us for finding latest information based on my favorite tags.
The content thus viewed is real time and dynamic. So let us call it ‘Live web’.

But we can get bogged down a bit by the constant flow of content from `Live Web' sources.
Ok, how do we tackle this information deluge? Let me discuss a set of tools created for helping us tame the live web.

I have used Google News effectively. You can clearly indicate what exactly you want to read about. In fact you can narrow your choice with exact keyword.

For example you can enter the key word ‘Secured server’, select the type of alert as ‘News and web’, set the frequency of alert to ‘as it happens’ or ‘once a day’ or ‘once a week’.

You can do so the same with yahoo news. I liked the layout of google news as convenient.

I thought Blogosphere, where thousands of bloggers discuss/disseminate latest news on almost every conceivable subject round the clock, is also a prominent constituent of the live web.

Tools developed for scanning the thousands of blogs and filtering out trends/relevant content will help you mine live web more efficiently.

I stumbled onto a site Memorandum, a blog aggregation tool that is now popular.
They deal with technology and politics as their main topics.

Kindly take a look at this free service offered by Immedi What is unique about this service is that it delivers your choice of feeds at your instant messenger like MS and AOL. Sorry, no yahoo messenger yet. You need not have to open your news reader, but only your selected IM.
A summary of updates on your favorite subjects/sites will fall on the IM client automatically as and when it happens.

Similar to RSS as your source of information and news, you can use social bookmarking sites effectively. The ‘Live web’ is not short of such great free services. These services thrive on user-generated content and closely monitoring the quickly changing content on them will help you keep up with the information race.

Like the majority of us, I use frequently the famous social bookmarking service Del.icio.us to get information on the latest sites being bookmarked by its users.

If you want to view the posts made in del.icio.us live, please visit Livemarks which acts like a real time surfer. It lingers around del.icio.us; gobble up bookmarks as soon as the users post them on to del.icio.us. It is really a fun to watch those tags pour in live in your browser.

Another social bookmarking site which I like is Wink Along with the tag-based search output, Wink provides normal Google web search results also.

So, if you find this article useful, why not share it with others?

Junk free feeds.

Are you a passionate and compulsive blogger?

There are so many web feeds available that we get confused at times as to what we should subscribe to?

And talk about the variety of tools to generate information like podcast, vlogs, Wiki etc.

Which one is good? I think almost anyone will satisfy our needs as long as we are clear about what topic we are subscribing to-right?

Still, do we read everything that comes to our news aggregator? Obviously not!
Why? Plenty of junk also creeps in. Agreed?

Ok, is there anyway, can we filter and reblog the content? Sure, there is a way.

http://reblog.org is our savior.

This site offers a fantastic tool (feed reader) by which you can republish relevant content from your RSS feeds.You can happily edit the content too.

This great blogging tool is offered free of cost.