Akismet is an anti spam plugin for WordPress that checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service.
A new version of Akismet Anti Spam plugin, version 1.15, is now available for download.
On my previous posts I had mentioned the various ways on how to increase blog traffic and readers. But have you thought about how long your readers stay on your blog?
Feedburner has announced a couple of updates to what they are offering in their free stats package including ‘Live Hits’, the ability to see the last 25 hits via your feed and how long the 25 hits were over and what agent they used to read your feed and ‘Yesterdays News’ ,the ability to track your subscribers on different platforms historically.
You can find more info at their blog
via ProBlogger.net
The birthday calculator can tell you fun things about you and the day you were born. It can tell you all sorts of things from the phase of the moon when you were born, your birth stone and lots of numerological and astrological facts.
Here are some facts about my Birthday…
You might have noticed your Blog’s RSS subscribers increasing and decreasing often. But have you ever wondered why you lose them? Here are a few reasons.
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Brian at copyblogger asks What’s Your Blog Really About? and gives some good tips for writing an about page.
Most blog’s About pages tend to be about the author, not about the blog. And most of the time, that’s where visitors will click away, never to be seen again, because they were provided with no compelling reason to ever come back.
I completely agree with Brian. It’s the “About” page that most visitors read on their first time visit to a blog. And if the page cannot give them good reasons to stay, they might just leave.
Here are some things you must include in your “About” page
Steve Rubel reports that Yahoo Finance will begin testing a new widget that will allow bloggers and other websites to put real time stock quotes and charts on their sites.
Initial testing will begin in June. Publishers will be able to select any combination of quotes, charts and news. Up to ten companies can be included, and there are at least two options for customizing the chart.
I am not so interested. What do you think?
via TechCrunch
Today a new feature was launched on Google Blog Search that lets us narrow our search by date,i.e, by Last hour,by Last 12 hours,by Last day,by Past week and by Past month. You can also search by choosing start and end dates by yourself.
Using this feature, you can also track blog posts on your favorite topics according to when those items were posted. They have also incorporated some improvements in search quality that should make your blog-search experience even better.
I just used it, it’s a great feature for Google Blog Search
via Google Blog
It has now become possible to get a WordPress.com account without getting a free WordPress blog. WordPress.com has updated the registration page
If you ask me, I say this is a good idea as it helps bloggers who want an API key for the Akismet plugin without getting a blog. You can also leave comments on blogs that require sign-in, without getting a blog for yourself.
This is useful for WordPress.com also as they can now save system resources on empty blogs 
If you are new to blogging or have very few readers to your blog ,then these tips are for you. But before I continue… I strongly recommend you to read all articles listed under Blogging on my Top Posts page , most of which are focussed on helping you gain more blog traffic.
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