What gives BlogPulse a bit more street credibility than the average blog utility site, is that is owned and operated by Nielsen Buzzmetrics, one of the internet’s largest and most reliable sources of internet usage data.

So what  exactly does BlogPulse do?

BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs.   BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs. 

And how can BlogPulse help you?
Essentially, BlogPulse.com is a search engine for blogs.  Not only that, BlogPulse provides an data on daily activity within the blogosphere.

BlogPulse.com provides the following helpful tools at a very helpful price (i.e. Free!):

• A Search Engine for blogs
• A set of Buzz-Tracking tools that are applied to blog content daily to track blog activity on key issues, people, news stories, news sources, bloggers and more
• A fun look at real-world Trends as reflected through blogs
• Daily blog stats that measure activity in the world of blogging (number of blogs identified, new blogs created, number of blog posts analyzed)
• A Trend Search that allows you to create trend charts comparing buzz in the blogosphere on up to three specific topics
• A Conversation Tracker that follows and captures the discussion, or conversation, that emanates and spreads from individual blogs or individual blog posts
• Blogger Profiles that identify top-ranked blogs and analyze their blog presence, activity and relative influence in the blogging world

My favourite feature on Blogpulse:

If you use Blogs as an online marketing tool, particularly to target certain ‘buzz words’ or keywords within your industry, you will find the Trend Search invaluable.  Trend Search allows you to investigate certain keywords, to monitor how many blog posts have been written based on a particular keyword or theme.  

Using BlogPulse’s ‘Trend Search’ you might find that, after a little bit of investigation, there are some keywords relevant to your business or industry that are being totally under-utilised, which you can then target in your future blog posts.

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More likely, you have had the full intention of signing up to Twitter and investigating its capabilities, but just haven’t yet squeezed in the time to do so.

Well…maybe it is time you did so. Twitter already has an estimated 6-7 million registered users. That’s 6 or 7 million users that have already ‘taken up’ some of the best Twitter usernames.

What does this mean for you or your organisation? That you are in risk of missing out!

If you are serious about online marketing, it is advisable that you get in and register your business name before it is too late.  

Sure, it could just be a fad…but Facebook was also a ‘fad’ that is having a lasting impression on social marketing.  Plus, what risk is a free registration to a service that takes less than 5 minutes to set up from start to finish?

The growth of Twitter registrations is reminiscent of the .com domain name registration boom. Every man and his dog is madly signing up accounts and stealing business names – the difference with Twitter being that name registration is free!

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Register for Twitter today, or risk ending up with the most ridiculous and unmemorable Twitter URL ever .

Oh, and it goes without saying that you can follow me on Twitter if you want to hear my short daily insights about anything and everything.

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A year or two ago, I created an Archives page on WordPress blog (on tshirtalert.com), however it required a bit of PHP coding that I’d rather avoid unless completely necessary. So I was desperate to find a plugin to avoid getting my hands dirty with PHP code.

And my discovery was nothing but good news. It seems that these days, you don’t even need a plugin to create a WordPress Archives page. WordPress has the smarts to create on for you, if you just follow a few simple steps outlined on the WordPress Codex.

Those WordPress guys really are trying to make our lives easy aren’t they….once you’ve created your own archive, post a comment with a link to your brand new shiny WordPress archive page.

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It’s called the Google XML Sitemap Generator , and if you have a WordPress blog then YOU NEED THIS!

Why? Because this handy little plugin, which literally takes 30 seconds to install and generate a sitemap, does all the hard work for when it comes to getting your new blog posts and pages indexed by Google as quickly as humanly possible. This is a must for anyone who is interested in WordPress Search Engine Optimisation (otherwise knownin simple terms as ‘getting as many hits as possible to your blog’).

That should be 99% of you out there – the other 1%, perhaps you should take a little beach holiday and think about what it really is you want to achieve in life…

Everytime you edit or create a post, the Google XML Sitemap Generator plugin updates a sitemap which sites on your server.  For example, the sitemap created for this site is here http://www.breadmilkdigital.com/sitemap.xml

All major search engines that support the XML sitemap protocol (of course, the most important one at this point in time being Google because of its dominance in the search engine marketplace) will then be notified of the sitemap update automatically courtesy of this neat plugin.

Having the Google XML Sitemap Generator is a vital way of ensuring search engines are crawling and indexing the most recent and relevant information on your WordPress blogs.  Go install it now.

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You can’t go past the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin.  I’ve installed it on a few of my sites (tshirtalert.com, and this very blog that you are reading, breadmilkdigital.com) and can vouch that plugin is one of my most important WordPress tools, as well as being quite addictive and entertaining, as I watch my stats climb and fall according to how much coffee I have consumed (and consequently, the quality of my blog posts!)

If you need a little bit of help with the whole installation process and setting up a Google Analytics account, this article might also assist.

Happy wordpress-google-analytic-ing!

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