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I started this blog because of my intrest in Poker ... but then I realised I could also use it to show off some of my photos and even add more pages when i find something else im interested in..
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Friday, March 21, 2008

Attracting more traffic to youre blog

Wow so you built a blog good layout lots of content so what do you do now ............. sit back and let everybody read it ...... if only ............ that's kinda what my impression was ........... the reality is for people to visit you re blog you are going to have to put in a bit of work ........... not only is you're content going to have to be relevant to you're visitors for them to keep coming back .......... you have to work at letting them know you are actually here ..... so how do you do that ....... well simple put work .......... but its not all bad ......there is web sites ... explaining what you have to do . .. if you look for them plus whatever i come across I'm going to write about and leave links to.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

More google analytics

Google analytics .......... I'm having fun with this ....I just think its great to be able to tell how many visits you had to you re blog ....... where there from ... how long they spent on you re blog ....what pages they visited and even what they clicked on ........................... I don't know how many bloogers use this feature ......... ah ha I think a poll will be useful here. ............................. As for me I was delighted this morning when I discovered I had visits from Australia , Portugal and Belgium. ...................Now I'm going to want to see new country's every time I check the stats. What i would like to know is do any of the other blog sites have this feature or is it only on google , so if you know leave a comment.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Google Analytics

Quick post ........... Just added a link to Google analytics in my Friendly link section ............... so if you want to find out about how many visitors you're blog is getting ...... and more ...... click on this.

Receiving feeds

And again I found adding the feed from this site to M.S.N live fairly easy .............. I have just added the feed from this page so now posts from both pages are covered .............. only one more niggle to sort out is how long it takes to update ... from when I add a post to when it shows up.

Blogging problems

Hi my first post on this page , and my topic will be Blogging problems ..................... Why is rss feed so awkward ....................... if someone wants a link to my posts by getting my feeds via a blog feeder it is tricky to set up or even off putting ............. but on the other hand Windows M.S.N live have made it simple to receive feeds from my blog pages on this site ..................... and how do I know this ...well I set up a page on M.S.N live and had the feeds from my poker page sent over to be shown on my M.S.N page ... and it was easy to do. But i created a blog on a friends computer with google and the same process was tricky , I managed to do it but I can see a lot of people being put off doing it because it wasn't straight forward enough ............... unfortunately I'm still trying to figure how to do it on Yahoo.

Blogging on Google

Google..... This so far has been the easiest site to set up a blog page on so maby this is where you should start.
It has a good selection of templates , which are also easy to change .
A big plus for google blog is google analytics ...... with this you can check and see about traffic coming to youre blog , what pages they are visiting on youre blog ( if you have more than one page ) what if anything they are clicking on, e.g are they clicking on the link to youre web site .
One negative is I dont have access to a spell checker when im writing text like this .................it is available when you are typing a post for youre blog.
Setting up links is easy , so you should have no problem linking to youre website , or to anywhere else.
You also have the option of sharing a blog ........... which means you and a friend can work to gether on the blog , or you can give some one who understands certain things like setting up google analytics , rss feeds access to youre blog and get them to do that and then remove there access when they have it set up for you ......... quite handy that.
And more on google blog later.


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