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May Day is a Big Day This Year

Okay, I’m with you… I can’t wait until May 1 either! Not only because it is a school holiday in Germany (WAHOO!), but also because it’s the first every RSS Day!

Here’s a preview of some of my favorite reasons for clicking on those little orange buttons so often.

  • There are many feed readers out there, buy my preferred reader, Google Reader, makes it easy to email an article to a friend I think will enjoy it!

Sarah’s Feedburner Series: Networkize & Monetize

Today’s post is the last in Sarah’s series on pimping out your blog with Feedburner. And today, we learn about two options that you may or may not need for your feeds, but nevertheless are useful to know about: Networkizing and Monetizing. In order to start or include your blog in a feed network, you [...]

Sarah’s Feedburner Series: Publicize

This has been my favorite post of the series so far. It was in the Publicize tab that I discovered how to set up email subscriptions, which is a great service for blog readers who are unfamiliar with or confused about RSS feeds.The Publicize tab also lets you create a Headline Animator, and you can [...]

Sarah’s Feedburner Series: Optimize

Today’s post from Sarah is a gem. She walks us through all of the ways to tweak your blog. I have to be honest, I learned a few things about Feedburner and the options it offers because Sarah details every service offered on the Optimize tab. Another great post, so don’t miss it! Previous PostsBlogger’s [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Two Films

Many thanks to EH, who emailed me this news. The last, epic installment in the Harry Potter Series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be made into two films, which will be released in November of 2010 and May of 2011. They are going to be called simply Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [...]

Sarah’s Feedburner Series: Troubleshootizing and Analyzing, Plus a Bonus!

Today’s post in Sarah’s Blogger’s Guide to Feedburner series helps new Feedburner users to ensure that their feed has been burned correctly, a very important step in the process. She also introduces us to the basic analytics offered by Feedburner, such as feed stats, the feed readers your readers are using, and live feed hits, [...]

Sarah Writes About Feedburner

If you followed my How-To Google Analytics series of posts from a couple weeks ago, I have another treat in store for you. My dear friend, Sarah Awesome, whose blog I link to all the time, will be writing a series of five posts about Feedburner, another great (and free!) service that, as she puts [...]

Google Analytics Step Four: Loose Ends

There are a few final loose ends I’d like to tie up in this little series, so this last post is going to be a buffet of Google Analytics tidbits. I’ll define a couple potentially baffling Google Analytics terms, explain how to add data to your dashboard, and point out a few Google Analytics reports [...]

Google Analytics Step Three: Get Your Stats By Email

Emailing yourself reports is a great way to save time because it automates one process in your life. If you don’t have to remember to log into your web stats, your brain can be spending its power on other more important tasks. At the very least, you can use the automated report as a reminder, [...]

Google Analytics Step Two: Don’t Track Yourself!


This step is probably the most complicated part of configuring Google Analytics, but it’s really nice to have because otherwise you think you’ve been getting a ton of hits, when really, it was just you checking how your blog looks or loading pages so you can link to them.

Is Your Tracking Code Installed Properly?

But first, a slight digression. We need to make sure that you have correctly inserted the tracking code on the web page.