Archive for January, 2010

Best WordPress Statistics Plugin

Author: Helpful Gal

Jan 19

Looking for the best wordpress statistics plugin?

Well, I found one that I like. I have used Google’s Analytics but with so many sites under my belt, I would like to go to my admin area and get everything there – comments, postings, stats etc. OK so I am feeling a little lazy about not wanting to go over log into Google and tell Google about all my sites in one place. I also like a little privacy – not a lot, just a little.

So what I found was a plugin on wordpress which is easy to install. This plugin is a highly improved variation of StatPress and it shows you real time statistics about your blog or website. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS etc.

Click here to go to WordPress to download it StatPress Reloaded.

Once the plugin StatPress has been activated it immediately starts to collect information. I just started using it and by the time I installed it and took a phone call, I say that a spider had already “crawled” by. By using StatPress Reloaded you can see your visitors actions while they are surfing your blog or check which are the preferred pages, posts and categories.

In the Dashboard menu you will find the StatPress Reloaded page where you could look up the statistics (overview or detailed). StatPress Reloaded also includes a widget you can add to a sidebar (or easy PHP code if you can’t use widgets!).

Its been a while since this plug was updated but so far it works with the latest WordPress update January 2010.

And in addition to viewing your stats from within your admin area – you also have a little more privacy in case you have a need for it.

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How to Ping

Author: Helpful Gal

Jan 4

How to Ping your blog without spending all day doing it. Its as easy as pie.

Assuming you may not know the benefit of pinging your blog, its how you get word out to the search engines that you have something they haven’t seen before. Now that’s like calling out “you hoo” to a bull while you’re waving a red flag – most likely its going to head your way. While it may not be a good thing with a bull, its a GREAT thing with a search engine and your blog.

And WordPress helps you do it quickly. Once you’re in the ADMIN area of your wordpress site, go to SETTINGS by clicking on it.

Under SETTINGS – look for WRITING and click on that.

Then scroll down for Services and you’ll see a box that probably only contains “http://rpc.pingomatic.com/” – you’re there.

Below here is a list including that first one of a couple of services that will automatically ping your blog. Copy them now and paste them in that box and remember to hit save/update.

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

To learn how how to set wordpress up to not EXCESSIVELY ping the services, you can read about that here blog and ping the right way.

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