How Website Traffic Is Measured?

website-trafficSometimes you get curious to know traffic statistics of particular website. Then you might visit Alexa.com,  Compete.com,  Google Trends etc to know the traffic statistics and specifically rank of your site among all existing websites. Generally they display number of statistics like Number of unique visits, Rank of your site, Pageviews per User, Bounce Rate, and Time on Site etc.
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How To Insert Images/Pictures In Gmail Email Message

gmail-trickI wonder why this feature is not by default in Gmail? Most of the people who writes Emails want to insert images inline in to their messages more often. Process to enable this feature is bit tricky in Gmail and I’ll explain that with screen-shots to make it easy to understand and follow. Let’s see this process step-by-step.

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How To Feed Your Blog Updates To Twitter Automatically With Twitterfeed

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When you post any new article on your blog, you want it to be fed to twitter account. You can do this easily and automatically with Twitterfeed.com. With twitterfeed, whenever you’ll post new article on your blog, it will be automatically fed to your connected twitter account. Twitterfeed’s very intuitive and user friendly interface let you start in minutes without much hassle. In the dashboard you can see visits your blog had from bit.ly on each article (Pretty awesome!!). And along with twitter, twitterfeed also supports other services like Facebook, Ping.fm, Laconica and Hellotxt too (I think they should change their name from twitterfeed to something like TechFeed or GigaFeed!! :) ). Let’s see how to do this in detail.

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How To Test Cross Platform Browser Compatibility For Your Website Or Blog

browsershots-logoDo you own a website or blog? Are you a webmaster? The most crucial thing about any website is cross browser compatibility. Any website must look same across all the browsers. Mainly mainstream browsers like Internet Explorer (IE6, IE7, IE8), Mozilla Firefox (3.0.x, 3.1, 3.5.x), Opera (8.x, 9.x, 10.x), Google Chrome and Apple Safari (3.x, 4.0) should render your website flawlessly. Installing each browser (that too with its versions) is not possible. Then how will you check your website compatibility? Browsershots.org will help you solve this problem. You can test your website against almost 80 browser versions and that includes Linux, Windows, Mac OS and BSD platforms. Along with the most popular browsers I listed above, there are more less known browsers like Flock, Seamonkey, dillo etc are also present.

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How To Show Line Numbers In Microsoft Word 2007 Documents

This is very basic thing, but I wanted to share this as still many people find it difficult to show line numbers in word documents. Earlier we’ve seen how to count words in word documents. By default  word document doesn’t show the line numbers.

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How To Count Words In PDF, HTML, XML, CSV And Text Files

pdf-countEarlier we have seen how to count words in Microsoft Word documents. This article will show how to count words and characters in PDF files. Along with PDF files, you can count words in HTML, XML, CSV and text files too. CountOnIt is free online utility which will help you to do this. There are lots of software utilities are available but this method I feel is quite easy and handy. You can use CountOnIt where internet connection is available.

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How To Make Lists In Twitter And Use Them

twitter-lists-how-toTwitter just rolled out very eagerly awaited list feature. Now you can make lists of your friends, family or any specific set of people you would like to see updates from. For sometime I really wanted to control the updates from the people I see on my Twitter page. My Twitter page get full of twitter updates from the people I don’t want to see daily when I login to my account. There was no way before. But with Twitter Lists, it’s very much possible to control (or say arrange for that matter) the updates I see. Let’s see how you can make the twitter lists and use them.

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How To Count Words, Lines And Characters In Microsoft Word Document

Counting words, lines and characters in Microsoft Word is quite an easy task. We will see how to count in both Word 2003 and Word 2007 versions, as both versions do this in slightly different manner.

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How To Ping Your Blog Updates To Google And Other Services

ping-meYou own a blog and update it frequently, so the world should know it, isn’t it? Some blog owners complains that their blog posts are not getting listed for long time in Google, Bing and Ask. It helps to ping the site to let the rest of the Internet that you have added new content. In this article we will see how to ping your blog to services which will notify blog aggregates like Technorati, IceRocket, Newsgator and many more. Also how to notify search engines like Google, Bing and Ask.

If you have not pinged your blog before, you will need to have three pieces of information that the pinging services are going to request from you.

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How To Check Broken Links For Free

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dead-links.com can check for broken links on your website or blog for free. It’s a site-wide broken link checker; that means, you provide website/blog name and it will check all the pages for broken links and will provide comprehensive list of broken links after completion of scanning. Generally, blog owners uses lots of links – inbound and outbound – in their articles for relevance of the content and for ease of use for the readers. In the process of providing links, sometime authors do typo and misspell the original link. Such link will lead users to ’404 Page Note Found’ error and that’s ridiculous.

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