Just when you thought you knew everything, you go to a conference and learn about a bunch of new social media tools. Since we're all trying to blog in smarter and quicker ways, here are several that you should check out.
Google's Tools
Google now organizes most of their services under one member login. So if you have a Google account for Gmail or Adsense, once you log in at Google.com, you should have access to all your Google tools.
Some Google applications that you should learn to use are:
- Google Analytics – the daddy of all analytics tools. As soon as you set up your blog, you should install the Google Analytics code even if your blogging program comes with its own analytics.
- Feedburner - owned by Google, they’re in the process of moving all Feedburner feeds to feedburner.google.com.
- Google Reader - using Google's feed reader may have future SEO and social networking benefits.
- Google Webmaster Tools - For the technically savvy, installing Webmaster Tools will help with search engine traffic. For more information go to Google Webmaster Central.
Remember, it's Google's world - we just blog in it.
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