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2 Great WordPress Plugins to Find Your Blog Most Powerful Pages

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Learning which of your published content did particularly well based on some parameters is a great way to become a more successful blogger. This way you can see which of your posts are well received in social media, which of them get linked more and which of them spur a more active discussion. This week I am sharing the two best WordPress plugins that will offer you a huge variety of parameters to evaluate your posts: Blog Link & Traffic Analysis Plugin for WordPress This plugin digs into your blog posts and offers several variables to find the most powerful of them: post date page views per post in the previous 3 months inbound links (requires Yahoo Site Explorer Yahoo API which is quite easy to receive) Google bot visits (last visit and number of visits) Yahoo bot visits (last visit and number of visits) MSN bot visits (last visit and number of visits) Other bot visits You can sort by any of the column to find the pages that did best for any of the criteria. For example, if you want to find post with most backlinks, click > icon in the “Inbound Links” column: The best part of this plugin is that it gives you the ability to compare any of the variables side by side. For example, you can see how number of links effects the bot visits and traffic: Just a quick note: you will need to update the link count manually and the process takes quite some time, so you don’t want to do that too often. Popularity Contest for WordPress This plugin provides a wealth of information on how well your posts are doing. 1. The summarized popularity data: The first thing you’ll see is the table containing the following data: Post unique views; Category and archive views, Comments, Trackbacks, etc (I wish the table were sortable though) 2. Recently popular pages : the section allows to see most popular posts over the past 30, 60 and 90 days as well over the past year. 3. Most viewed pages and categories : Most viewed pages; Most viewed categories; Most viewed tags; Most viewed archives; Home page views; Feed views; 4. Reactions: Most commented posts; Posts with most trackbacks; Posts with most pingbacks; 5. Averages: Average popularity by category; Average popularity by tag; Average popularity by month. 6. Popular posts within each category. The plugin also offers a handy sidebar widget that allows to list your blog most popular posts by plenty of parameters including overall popularity, archive views, comments, etc: The widget also has quite a few options that allow to exclude views by authors, (dis)able showing the popularity rank of the posts, set the search engines, adjust the popularity values, etc: Notes: The plugin gave me an error on installation but when I left the installation screen it appeared to be working just fine; After installation you will notice that new posts are much more popular than old ones. Since home and feed views have not been recorded for old posts, they won’t be ranked as highly as new posts. Any other suitable plugins I have missed? Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . 2 Great WordPress Plugins to Find Your Blog Most Powerful

7 MS Adcenter Improvements I Dream About

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MS Adcenter has a slightly higher ROI than other major PPC alternatives. However, this is where its dominance ends. Adcenter is plagued with small design problems that are not only annoying, but downright frustrating. With the amount of money that Adcenter brings in, it is time for them to make life a little easier for advertisers. Here are 7 easy changes that would make working in Adcenter much smoother. For me, MS Adcenter stands out from other PPC platforms for one important reason; a slightly higher ROI. Over the past several years, I have used Adcenter for a variety of different products and services, and have consistently experienced better conversion rates with Adcenter than with Adwords or YSM. Unfortunately, higher conversion rates are the only advantage that Adcenter offers. While a high ROI is a fantastic benefit, the small annoyances quickly add up. Sometimes, I question whether the higher ROI is even worth it. As MS Adcenter quickly gains more leverage over the PPC search market, there are a number of changes that need to be made to help push it over the edge. This is especially true with the likely prospect of the MS-Yahoo deal coming to fruition by the end of year. 1. Ridiculous Custom Data Range

3 Ways to Subscribe to Any RSS Feed with Your IM

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Did you know that you could subscribe to any RSS feed with your instant messenger client? There are actually quite a few ways this can turn useful: (!) Be one of the first to learn about any breaking news; (!) Be the first to Digg a post from the Digg-friendly site (and this can be tough, you may know that); (!) Free up the clutter from your email subscriptions; (!) Never forget to check the blogs which are important to you. Besides, you can create an aggregated feed combining the resources that matter most to you and subscribe to this feed with your IM. Here are a few ways to do that: The RSS to IM tool IM clients supported How to subscribe Notes RSS.im XMPP/Jabber and Google Talk Feed or blog URL The message includes the extract from the post/update (as well as links mentioned in it) iNezha MSN, Skype, Gtalk Domain You can set up the update frequency Notify.me Adium, Jabber, PidGin Feed URL Sends updates to IM clients and/or mobile phones (Screenshots and details can be found below) 1.