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With the number of social book-marking or social media sites growing day by day, it is becoming more and more difficult for the bloggers to track their bookmark accounts and links. Also, figuring out which all bookmark links to put on a blog or use on a regular basis are other issues. The bulk social bookmarking services seems to solve some of the issues mentioned above by consolidating all your submit points at one place.

Advantages of using bulk social bookmarking

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Well, I am not into blog flipping or website flipping yet! (Blog flipping refers to the business of acquiring old blogs or building a brand-new blog and selling it off in a few weeks/months’ time, after building some content, community and traffic). But after reading Mitch’s post earlier this week, I thought of doing some more research into this topic to understand how much my blog might be worth just in case I had to put it on sale some day!

Another huge inspiration came in a couple of weeks ago when Bankaholic.com, a PR5 Wordpress blog, was bought out by BankRate for a whopping $15 million!. Once I overcome the shock, I was really wondering how they arrived at that price tag and using what formula. Click Here to Continue Reading

Most of us use tools such as Google Analytics or Sitemeter (or even awstats and webalizer) to dissect our traffic data into visitor trends, top content, browser details and so on. Compete.com is a free site analytics solution that is a lot more comprehensive than the above. Moreover, it does not require any tracking code to be installed on your web site or blog.

Compete.com has a basic free version as well as a paid pro-version. Basic version itself can produce a lot of analytics data on your site as well as competition without having to sign up. The following are the top-level options available for analytical purposes: Site Analytics, Search Analytics and Referral Analytics
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One of the issues that every blogger face - especially after a theme change or browser upgrade - is that his blog starts misbehaving with different browser applications and screen resolutions. The issues can range from minor painting issues to major alignment problems. Majority of the issues can be solved by making the theme code XHTML compliant and by avoiding making changes to the blog platform’s core codebase. Added third party (advertisements, tracking code, badges etc) scripts are other culprits that make a blog look ugly sometimes.

In this post, I would like to provide some tips and tools that will make your blog look great in every possible browser and device - provided the browser application itself is majorly bug free. Click Here to Continue Reading