Menampilkan Pengunjung Online Dan Total Pengunjung Pada Blog

Banyak cara yang bisa digunakan untuk menampilkan jumlah pengunjung yang sedang online dan total pengunjung pada blog. Kemarin sewaktu memodifikasi blog saya, Danny adik saya menemukan situs bagus untuk menampilkan jumlah pengunjung yang sedang online dan total pengunjung pada blog dengan menggunakan widgeo.net. Widgeo merupakan situs yang menyediakan berbagai tampilan counter, country, page rank, dan total visitor untuk website atau blog.

Kelibihan widgeo yaitu bisa menampilkan jumlah pengunjung, pengunjung yang online, dan negara pengunjung menjadi satu tampilan counter. Dan tampilan counter ini di lengkapi dengan flash efect sehingga membuat tampilan blog menjadi lebih elegan.

Untuk membuat tampilan widgeo pada blog kita caranya cukup mudah.

- Klik di sini untuk mengunjungi situs Widgeo

- Setelah tampil halaman awal widgeo kita bisa langsung memilih model counter yang diinginkan.











- Kemudian isi data informasi optional untuk mendapatkan kode html

Untuk GMT timezone pilih +7



 

 

- Kemudian pilih OK, maka akan tampil kotak berisi tampil kode html, copy dan masukkan pada html/java script pada pilihan add widget pada blog.








- Kemudian simpan dan lihat hasilnya.

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12 Essential Tools for your Blogging Toolbox

Are you a new blogger looking to find the perfect tools to keep in your blogging toolbox? Or maybe you’re a seasoned blogging professional just looking to see if there’s anything you have missed. If so, then this post is for you.

Evernote

Evernote is basically an online notepad – it allows you to, as you may have guessed make notes. Don’t be fooled into thinking that’s it though – the beauty of Evernote means that you can use it anywhere as everything is synchronised online. Meaning you can make notes on your iPhone, and when you log onto your laptop – they’re right there for you to read or add to. It’s a great tool for idea generation. The fact its ultra compatible with practically any device you can think of means it’s a must have in the toolbox.

Google Keyword Tool and Insights for Search

The google keyword tool Google Keyword Tool and Google insights for search are must have tools for any blogger – they allow you to spot ideas – and make sure you write content that’s going to attract traffic. Have a hunch that searches for “Google Places Optimisation” are on the rise – check it in google insights, then have a look in the keyword tool and see what other related searches are around. Then get writing!

Search Twitter

The search function on twitter has just had a major facelift, and has changed location from a sub domain to a directory – you can now find it at: http://twitter.com/search
This is a great tool for finding topics to write about – spot trending topics and you can react instantly – and because google favours fresh content – you can rank for these things rather quickly meaning a spike in traffic. You can also find topics/trends via locations, which means if your blog is popular within certain geographic areas – you can make your writing even more targetted.

Dropbox

Dropbox is a cloud based file sharing system – so you can make notes, start blog posts etc, save them – and access from another computer or smart phone with ease. Dropbox is extremely easy to use – simply install it, and it creates a folder on your computer called ‘my dropbox’, this folder is replicated in the cloud – meaning you can access it from anywhere providing you have an internet connection. To top it, a basic account which provides 2gb worth of storage is free.

Follower Wonk

Followerwonk is a great tool for searching the bio’s of twitter users – use select phrases and keywords and you’ll be able to track down useful influencers in your niche. So if you’re a tennis blogger try searching peoples twitter bios for keywords such as “roger federer” “tennis fan”. Notice I’ve put them in quotes – this narrows down the search so you don’t see peoples bios that have only the word “fan” in it. As lets face it, that will be a fair few.
Now ideally – you want to communicate with these people – not just spam your article to them asking for a retweet. Of course you can do that if you wish, just there’s probably better ways to go about it. And a sole retweet might not make a huge difference in traffic, however, building a relationship could result in every one of your articles being retweeted forever more. Which would you rather have?

Onlywire

Onlywire allows you to post your content to a number of social bookmarking and networking sites simultaneously. The basic plan is free, and there’s also a paid option allowing more submissions and greater levels of tracking. It really does take the time and pain out of having to individually submit to each site. So rather than heading over to stumbleupon, folkd, reddit etc etc separately – just head over to onlywire and roll it into one.

Twitter

Hopefully this one should already part of most bloggers content strategy – but let’s include it just because Twitter is one of the best ways to get your content out there. Twitter allows you to share content, communicate with relevant people within your industry and also helps build your reputation as a blogger. Try to remember to help promote other peoples content and not just your own. Nobody wants to be following a shameless self-promoter.

Bit.ly

Bit.ly is a URL shortening service – when you consider that when using twitter you only have 140 characters to play with – this service is invaluable. Simply paste your URL in, and it automatically creates a shortened version of it. Not only that – you can track the number of clicks your URL receives – so put it out on twitter – and see what happens. There’s also a pro version where you can create custom links to make them even more memorable with your brand name on the end. At $995 dollars per month, it’s hardly a steal but if you’re a big enough brand like Pepsi then it might be worth it. But hey – it’s something to work towards!

MyBlogGuest

MyBlogGuest is a great service developed by serial blogger Ann Smarty. The benefits of using myblogguest are two fold – you get to expose your content to new audiences, and you get the opportunity to have free content provided for your blog by other bloggers. And who in their right mind turns down good free content? Especially when it will result in traffic.

Feedburner

Feedburner, powered by Google is a system for handling your blogs RSS feed and improving its delivery – you can have it delivered to email subscribers, automatically post new blog potsts to social networking accounts – and its powerful inbuilt analytics allow you to closely monitor how best to optimise your feed. Feedburner also is able to populate the number of RSS subscribers you have – and it lets you display that in a handy little widget. So if your blog becomes popular, then you might want to display how many xxxx subscriber you have and watch it go up on a daily basis.

Ping o Matic

Ping O Matic is a pinging service that notifies search engines, blog aggregators that your blog has been updated with fresh content – it can help with quicker indexation, as search engine crawlers will head over to your site to see what all the fuss is about. This in turn brings traffic. Don’t abuse it though – as your blog could get blacklisted by the ping services.

Google Analytics

Where would any blogger be without Google analytics? Tracking visits to your site is the cornerstone to becoming and running a successful blog. Google analytics lets you drill down to some serious metrics to glean information about how visitors are behaving on your site – are they bouncing off? Do they visit the pages you want them to visit? All this can be ascertained from your analytics dashboard.

Jonathan Moss is a keen advocate of blogging to help businesses, he helps create content for Integral IT- an IT Support company based in Yorkshire who blog regularly around their industry with tips, hints in areas such as cloud computing, visualization and hosted desktops.

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5 Guest Book Andalan

My first tryst with the Internet was before Web 2.0 ever happened, before Google was everywhere, before privacy was a joke and before website interactivity was commonplace. It used to be a  time of dial-up modems and static web pages.
I still have fond memories of times when the best, and perhaps only way to interact with your visitors was through a guestbooks for your website. The feeling of typing away on a keyboard was just amazing. And the excitement of getting a reply was out of this world.
Guestbooks were the precursors to social networks, and if you’ve ever wondered how they were setup, I’m going to show you the three easiest ways to do so and where you can still get free guestbooks for websites.

Guestbook Central

This is probably the simplest and shortest method ever to setup a guestbook. All you need to do is go to Guestbook Central and sign up for an account. A short form and email confirmation later, you’ll be all set with a free guestbook for your website to accept those comments your visitors have for you. The free service has a convenient dashboard from where you can fetch the code for the guestbook, manage the entries in it, and select anti-spam measures such as Captcha.
The only catch with the free version is that guestbook entries get auto-archived after 120 days. After setting up the guestbook, follow these simple steps to get the free guestbook on your website.

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• Sign in to Guestbook Central.
• Once the Dashboard opens, click on Guestbook Codes. It’s the first option on the left side pane of the dashboard.
• Either copy the address and link it to your custom text/graphic, or pick up the HTML code provided and throw it inside the code of your page.

Note: Don’t get discouraged by the screenshot. For a free service, they provide pretty nifty features for the guestbook.

Website Goodies

Website Goodies is one of those all-in-one sites, which provide you with a lots of nifty tools and services, all under one umbrella. You have Hosted Tools, Website Tools, Code Generators, Network Tools, etc. to keep you going.
The free guestbook is provided under the Hosted Tools section. This tool does not require a sign up and provides you with a basic form to customize your guestbook. As long as you don’t have any issues with using “Verdana” or “Comic” as your guestbook fonts, you should be good to go. Just fill in the form and use the provided code to link to the guestbook you just created.
In keeping with modern times, this service also provides anti-spam measures, and even allows you to submit your page to Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon, and Reddit. Once the guestbook setup form is filled in, the service provides you with a link which you can use either in HTML code, or in a web-editor.

SmartGB

The SmartGB website is one with a very simple, clean feel to it. They let you customize your guestbook to the point of selecting themes. For spam control, they let you select different levels of protection (Off, Light, Moderate and Strong). The registration process is pretty simple as well (just one short form, and all you need is a valid email address).
It’s when you start creating your guestbook that you realize that you are provided with a number of themes for you to choose from (approximately 30). Select a theme, give the guestbook a title, and you are good to go.
Once you hit “Save“, you provided with two links, one for linking to the guestbook and the other for administrative purposes. Use the first link on your website and say hello to all the comments you get.

Guestbooks On Blogger

It’s tough to leave out Blogger (or Blogspot, depending on what you like calling it) out of this article for the simple reason that it’s one of the most popular blogging platforms out there. If you are on Blogger and want a guestbook for your blog, you have two easy ways to enable a free guestbook for your website:

1. The easiest would be to simply create a post titled Guestbook, and to invite comments on that page. Make sure to link to it in your blogroll so that it’s easily visible to your visitors.
2. The second is to use the linking code that you got hold of from the sites  mentioned above, and to put it in your navigation. Go to Dashboard > Layout and add an “HTML/Javascript Widget” to your blog. Then, paste the code from the guestbook services above into the widget and click “Save“.

Guestbooks On WordPress

WordPress is by far THE most customizable blogging platform on the Web today. If you have a WordPress site, you could follow the first idea in the section above to get a guestbook of sorts. However, that kills all the joy of having a WordPress blog. Use the following WordPress plugin to get awesome guestbooks on your blog:
DMSGuestbook: this is an extremely configurable WordPress plugin that enables a guestbook on your blog. You can include multiple guestbooks, set mandatory fields, and enable reCaptcha verification for your guestbook. Other features include the ability to read Gravatars, and guestbook searching (for administrative purposes). Make sure you read the installation guide here. You can have as many guestbooks as you like and can edit the look and feel of the guestbook entirely if you are not afraid with tinkering with the configuration.

In the few days leading up to this post, I had tons of fun and moments of nostalgia whenever I came across a random guestbook. I could feel that old itch to post a comment to a guestbook again. It took my mind way back to the 90s, when guestbooks were THE best thing to happen to a website.
Do tell us about your guestbook experiences in the comments.

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5+ Bloggers Widgets and Tools For Blogspot Blogs

Blogger widgets play a very important role in giving Professonal look to bloggers blog,such widgets are also helpul in increasing page visits ,and for this blogger and many other blogger-widgets provider created many free widgets for blogspot user at regular interval,There are many useful widgets and scripts which you could use to add interactivity to your Blogger powered blog i have created a list of some most popular and commonly used widgets by bloggers

• Recent Comment Widgets-First the most popular recent comment widgets , you will find this widget in allmost all blogger.you can add this widget directly into yours blogger blog,and you dont haveto do any edit in it.
• Recent Post Widgets-This widgets is widely popular among all bloggers as it shows all details of yours past post ,it also play a very important role in increaing Page visit and attracting visitors towards yours blog content.
• Google Talk on yours Blog-Now a days every one is dirctly or indirectly connected with social network sites like orkut,facebook,myspace etc ,and every one wants to connects with there friends and relatives,and also to there readers ,through these sites ,at present you can connets only with orkut friends through yours blog by adding Gtalk in yours blog .These widgets help you in conneting with yours friends and readers
• Contact Us Widget -Insert Contact Us Widget inside yours blogspot webpage or any other webpage is really important as a professonel blogger.Lack Of this widget affects blogger readers and there income . This problem is common most among blogspot users as ther is no perfecContact Us Widget Via Kontactrt contact us widget .
• Headline Post Ticker-Headline post ticker is great looking widgets but still it is not popular among all bloggers,This widget Display recent post in word by word marquee pattern, giving a professonel look to blogs,
• Drop Down Menu Widget - Blogger Beta provides an easy way to create link lists even for those who don’t know HTML. But, there is no such functionality for drop-down menus. I found an interface, similar to that of Beta, with which you can easily create drop-down menus and add them to your blog with one-click!
• Popular Post Widgets – This widget will help you displaying popular posts in yours bloggers home page.Blogs Or Post with more comments will get higher rank in popular post widgets i.e Widget Will Choose Popular post on the basis of comment.
• Twitter Widgets - Are you a Twitter Users, Want to powered yours Bloggers Blogs with Twitter widgets, Use Twitter Blogger widget to display a Stylish widget inside yours blogger Blogs to attract readers.
• Top Commenters widgets For Blogger – Top Commenters Widget enables you to display the names of the top ten people who comment on your blog. However the default installation does not remove your own name from this list.
• Random Message Widgets – Create random message widget and put inside yours blgspot template at any place where you want to insert , gernerally inserted on top of blog post . The widget is created by Hackosphere.

The post will be updated at regular interval for any latest or new blogger widgets ,so keep visiting.

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