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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Remember pay per post? yeah right, the controversial ad initiative that used to pay bloggers to write about products almost as if promoting it. The news is, they are at Twitter now and wants to make a new business model of the same kind and has named it Pay Per Tweet. So what they mean is very simple. They are developing a Twitter ad platform called Sponsored Tweets that will offer Twitter users the option of sending their followers messages about brands and products. Twitterers will get paid based either on the number of clicks they receive or on a flat fee per Tweet. Ted Murphy, Izea's (formerly PayperPost) CEO said it will take another month to launch this. So whats up guys? People who already have a good bunch of followers can start earning decently. Though I donno how well the felllow followers (@ twitter) will take it if you bump up with survey ads and mommy's kitchens' menu in the morning. However, considering the human resources and real time online projection that twitter has, I am sure PPT may catch up with the hot trends pretty soon.

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The concept of internet plagiarism is a matter of concern and we all know that. While we had brought this issue into limelight almost a year before (Code of conducts for bloggers), a new and far more serious issue has stirred this debate once again. This time the person under allegation is none other than Jason Calacanis. blog.fluther.com/blog (blog of a Q/A community, fluther) wrote an open letter to Jason about content stealing and hijacking them to his own concern, mahalo.com.

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HYDERABAD - Popular Entertainment based Social network Indyarocks (www.indyarocks.com) has made it to Dataquest's list of the top 25 Indian web 2.0 start-ups.

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Recently we are concentrating on tutorials a lot. Results: Top 10 Tutorials to Develop iPhone Apps and Top 10 Nginx Tutorial to help you out. This time I decided to pick a web technology, Ajax. In the recent years, there has been a greater thrust on developing rich Internet applications. The web developers are driven to newer technologies that could enrich users experience. With technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flash and Flex, Web is as appealing as never before. Ajax(asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is one such popular technology used in different ways on the world wide web. It's one of the first choices building faster and responsive user interface. Ajax, which consists of HTML, JavaScript™ technology, DHTML, and DOM, is an outstanding approach that helps you transform clunky Web interfaces into interactive Ajax applications. Learning Ajax is not a piece of cake. Having said that, I must add there are simple and comprehensive tutorial that can be of immense help for learning Ajax. To help out the aspiring Ajax developers, I picked the top 10 Ajax tutorial. Each of these tutorials would help you grow your expertize on Ajax.
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NEW DELHI - BigAdda, the social networking website belonging to the Anil Ambani group, Fropper, a dating site and Indyarocks, an entertainment-based social network, are among the top 25 Indian Internet start-ups ranked for the first time by leading technology magazine Dataquest.

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With Wordpress booming, the Blogger aficionados must be looking for excuses to blow off steam. Well, they can boast about the cool templates that have come to the scene lately. There are some awesome, new blogger templates that you can't take your eyes off. These Blogger templates can lend your blog a lovely and professional look, you had always craved for. What's more, you can customize these blogger templates according to your needs and use. Now getting an user-friendly and intuitive interface for your blog using a blogger template can be as simple as a piece of cake. The only concern might be how you pick the best ones from the assortment of new blogger templates. We went through extensive search for new Blogger templates, before listing the top 10 new blogger theme you will fall in love with.

1. Corporate
2. Personal Mag
3. Revolution Church premium template
4. Paperview
5. Cake Recipe
6. Revolution Elements Blogger Template
7. Transparency
8. Exotic Vacation
9. Zenmag Remedy
10. Tired Girl

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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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