I was bouncing around the net trying to find some easy, “Copy and Paste”, code to add Sociable type functionality to my Blogger blog and had little luck locating code that actually did what it said it would. So I set to the task of writing something that would.
Below is some simple code you can copy and paste into your Blogger template to add the following group of social networks to your Blogger web sites.
Socialize this post
Step by step directions
1. Access your Blogger dashboard and click on the layout tab. Select the, “Edit HTML“, sub tab.
2. Make sure, “Expand Widget Templates“, is selected. You can also revert to your defaulted widget template by clicking the revert button on the bottom.
3. Look for the following strip of code in your template.
4. Past the code below after this tag and hit preview.
I installed a new tracking widget on the current version of NateBal.com called Who’s Amung Us. Well the web map anyways.
Who’s Amung Us is a very cool tool offering real-time stats. Below are just some of the handy features you get with this tool.
Not only can you get an over all idea where in the world your visitors are coming from, but if you mouse over any of the pin-points you get the actual country including city and state. Here you can also see how many people from that area are actually viewing which pages right now.
At the bottom of this same page is a list of pages your viewers are currently on and how long they’ve been there. Notice that all my visitors in this screenshot are viewing the same page. It’s still one of my most popular posts to date.
In heatmap view you can better see which locations are paying more attention to your site.
I just noticed this today, but if you’re on your map page when a person lands on your site an animated wave forms around the area in question. Again in real time.
Some good tools for crawling your web site. Thank you SEO Chat Forums.
http://nikitathespider.com
Nikita tries to crawl all of your site (this can take days) and gives you a comprehensive report on problems.
http://www.gritechnologies.com
The gritechnologies link lets you see the links on each of your pages so you can try to find outdated ones or other problems.
http://validator.w3.org
w3.org lets you do pretty much the same.
http://tools.summitmedia.co.uk
The summitmedia spider finally gives you an SEO score for a page of
your website based on a simple scoring system (How much text on the
page? How long does it load? etc) and also shows you the links going
out from there.