There are many ways to track visitors to your blog. You could use a service like Nedstat which offers free page count analysis. If you look towards the bottom of the menu, you will notice a small and unobtrusive icon of a graph. If you click on that you will go to the site analysis page for Weblog Tools Collection. There are various other free counter services out there. Some of these are very intrusive and insist that they place a huge banner on your site along with the number, others prevent unauthorized access to the information. An interesting statistics site for bloggers is BlogPatrol.com They are tuned for bloggers and their statistics are very attuned to user tracking and click through evaluations. There are some other interesting ways to track visitors. On my main blog, in which I use b2 as the CMS, I use a tool called b2stats […]

Originally started by a couple of very clever programmers, BlogSnob has become a very important tool in the Bloggers’ collection. I signed up for it a couple of days ago and you see the little text ad that shows up at the bottom right hand corner of my menu. It is a simple way to get text ads posted on your own blog and get your ads posted on other people’s sites. I have been using Blogsnob on my main Blog for about three months now and I have served over 2500 ads and have had about 20 people see my page through those ads. A pretty good ratio. Consider a free Google Ad-Sense for Bloggers and you have Blogsnob. Another interesting feature of Blogsnob is the idea of SnobJumping. The idea is to click on the blogsnob link of one blogger and follow this link around to other bloggers’ […]

LinkTours is a pseudo Blogroll (http://www.blogrolling.com) that can be hosted on one’s own webserver and can be shared amoung groups of weblogs. The idea comes from Excite Chat (now defunct) Avatar Tours where one could get on a tour while chatting and visit all the webpages indirectly that the leader of the tour was visiting. This script does not require the use of a database and can be setup with very little effort.