I’ve been using this in one of my more successful websites for the past four months but I completely forgot about it because I didn’t know then what it was for and what it can do for my search engine traffic. Now, after four months of using it, I can attribute some of the [...]

There are two explanations why you need to get this plugin for your blog.

It adds to keyword optimization and enrichment, and thus increases your traffic from search engines.
It gives the readers better navigation on your site, leading to more page views.

The related entries plugin allows you to display related articles to each article being viewed [...]

There will come a point in your blog’s lifetime that new visitors and even your loyal readers would want to know which of your articles are the most popular and most viewed. The no. of views is a testament that your articles are being read and that some people are interested in them. [...]

Now here’s one of the scariest things you can do in blogging, and with good reasons. For starters, you can totally destroy everything that you have worked at so hard up to this point. In my particular case, I have just downloaded Wordpress Version 2.3.1 last week, and now it’s already asking me [...]

Now this one is entirely new for me. I’m not even putting the gravatar codes on my website(yet). Decided to sign-up mainly because I’ve been wanting to leave as much of my imprint as possible in all the websites that I’ll be visiting. Gravatar, thus, works pretty much like MyBlogLog.
Advantages:

cool picture [...]

Here’s another thing I didn’t understand when I was just starting to out, but I signed up for it anyway. I even had a lot of trouble trying to put Feedburner’s “Subscribe Through E-mail” button and was only able to do it for guitartutee this month. Anyway, today is the day I will [...]

Along with SiteMeter, another website statistic tool I use is Google Analytics. I don’t open Analytics as often as SiteMeter, and I mainly set it up for my blogs as a back-up.
Advantages:
fancy graphs for visitors, traffic sources, and page views
it’s from Google, so it must be good
in case you want to produce a [...]

As I have viciously stated in Step 1 of my blog creation guide, the success of your blog depends only on the number of visitors that you rake in. After setting up your blog, you will need a way to track your progress. There are two website statistic tools I am using right [...]

The most successful blog breeds a community of readers that keeps coming back to check for new posts, and even to revisit old but substantial articles. You have to find a way to track all those readers, so that, shall I say, things can get more personal. The most successful tracking tool that [...]

Here’s the first thing you should do after setting up your blog. Sign up for Technorati. What is it for? Am not really sure before, hehe, but Yuga told me it was important to sign-up for technorati and so I did. Just following the master’s orders. No, really.
Advantages:
allows you to [...]

This step will be a work in progress. You don’t need to do all customizations that I will be sharing here, only those that will fit your specific blog. These setups take at least 1 week of interval each, and I suggest you do one at a time so that you yourself will [...]