Are you one of those worried about the progress of your WordPress blog? Do you wanna know how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site? Well, it requires you to drill down the site analytics to get to the bottom. With the stats right before your eyes you can guess what works and find clues on what doesn't work.  No denying, Google Analytics is the ace, still there are others that would save you from making numerous edits to your templates to ensure that you cover all the pages. There are loads of site analytics plugins for WordPress that can help you to analyze and speculate the health of your blog. These plugins would provide you with insightful data on your blog's traffic-graph, overview, clicks, referrers, post views, search terms and more. To make things easier for you we have deliberately picked up the top 10 site analytics plugins for WordPress.

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We are about to release a new blog (WordPress) comment spam protection software. It has been extensively tested for over two months. We will deploy it first across our network of highly popular blogs. The new software named Comment Guard Lite was developed after gaining extensive experience with the leading Comment spam protection software - Comment Guard Pro. Comment Guard Lite provides super-fast (no database access required to identify spam) comment spam protection with zero false positives (no valid comment will be discarded as spam). Full article (1003 words) »

Wordpress is a powerful tool not just for blogs, but also for different news sites. Using some customization and hacks you can turn Wordpress into a wondrous Magazine Website. To do this you would require the top Magazine styled themes. Now if you search for magazine WordPress themes there are loads of them available, but what about free ones. After much research we came across some top magazine style free WordPress themes with cool designs. We sorted out the top 5 Magazine Wordpress themes, have a look.

1. Magazeen
2. ArtFull Theme
3. Newspaperize
4. Mimbo magazine
5. Options Theme

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We have often been engrossed in discussing about the beauty of themes, be it wordpress or blogger. That is why Taragana has featured articles like, Top 100 free WordPress themes, Top 20 Premium WordPress Themes, Top 10 Websites to Choose the Best Free Blogger Template for Your Blog. So after much of a thought about all of them, we decided to take one at a time and scrutinize them to bring in the review. Our first one is a really bright free wordpress theme called Red Light. Its a 3-column theme with two sidebars which are positioned on the left and the right side.
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Women have been the inspiration behind aesthetic designs since ages. Times have changed and so has the taste of women. Modern Women are trend setters and their vogue inspired by effeminate dernier cri. Well, WordPress has some exclusive and alluring themes designed just for women. After much googling, I got across some of the most awesome  Wordpress theme designed for girls. Take a look at my collection of top 10 wordpress themes for girl.
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Plugins have taken the functionality of WordPress to new heights. There are loads of word press plugins available and still more coming up. These add ons have been designed to maximize the flexibility and ease of use for the users. There's a wealth of WordPress plugins that serve the most of your needs. To keep you updated I picked the newest of the lot. Here are 10 newest wordpress plugins for you.
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A comforting day indeed. Matt Mullenweg is the author of the popular blogging software , WordPress. He is also the founder of WordPress.com, a hosted blogging service based on WordPress Mu, a variant of WordPress. I was rather surprised to see his blog throwing the dreaded error message:

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SEO friendly Wordpress themes are growing into a phenomenon for businesses. Those looking to escalate traffic on their sites are always in search of SEO friendly themes. The onsite optimization, CSS/XHTML validation, unique SEO friendly page titles, SEO-ready layout and optimum coding are the parameters that assure SEO readiness of a WordPress theme. There are a number of Wordpress themes available for the free. Well, you might be in doubt with the quality of WordPress theme. Before using a WordPress theme its important to ensure that it uses a validated code and stable SEO technique. To make things easier for you we picked the Top 10 free SEO ready WordPress themes.
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There are quite a few plug-ins that show the most popular posts of your blog. Its good to show them because that actually tells your new visitors where the crowd have been partying and its good for you to track the progress of your strong articles too. But do you really need another plug-in for this small a task? Well most of the solutions offered in the web talk of widgets and plug-ins. Let me give you a better solution that needs no plug-in. Full article (351 words) »

I have heard this questions many times from our customers who purchased either Translator Plugin Pro or Translator Plugin Gold software to autmatically translate their blogs in 41 languages. All of them are concerned if Google will penalize their translated pages as duplicate content. So let's find out what Google has to say about this:

What isn't Duplicate Content

Though we do offer a handy translation utility, our algorithms won't view the same article written in English and Spanish as duplicate content.

Source: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog

That should rest the issue once and for all. If you have any further questions on this feel free to comment below or contact me directly on twitter.