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    As a professional blog imitator, I cant help but notice all the stuff happening on the side columns on many blogs. In my spare seconds, I check out these sidebar features to decide what I NEED to add to my site.
     
    My coolest find? Ironically the one I rejected for a long time. I just didnt see the need to have a few faces of my recent visitors. Well dont judge a book by it’s cover!!
     
    check out MyBlogLog for it's great features!Check out the far right column of this blog – MyBlogLog. It may just appear to you as a list of people who have come round this blog, (all those links go to people whose faces I have seen visiting my site.. this is my thanks back!) but it turns out… it is SO much more. This baby is so neat, I feel like a voyeur on my own site! Once you add the code to your site, they offer crazy stats on your site. I realize Google Analytics probably offers what they offer + more, but it cannot be as simple and easy to understand. Even from Google.
     
    With the stats, I can tell which links were clicked on, and how many times. I can tell which pages were viewed. I can also tell on which sites people clicked to find me, and what time of the day. EVERYDAY.
     
    Here is just a handful of searches on Google that resulted in a click to my site. This means I either showed up in the top 10 (or very near it!) for that keyword:
     

    Google Search: how to email course
    Google Search: sales page copywriter
    Google Search: rich schefren negative
    Google Search: adwords still good ?
    Google Search: some easy online steps to make gold in wow (World of Warcraft?? How did that happen!)
    Google Search: andrea yager
    Google Search: the attention age doctrine part ii
    Google Search: next internet millionaire trailer
    Google Search: mailing marketing glossary 1
    Google Search: adwords salary
    Google Search: next internet millionaire reality show videos

     

    This information may not excite you, but with the correct blog and a nice amount of traffic. it could be very powerful.
     
    Since I started writing this post, I realized that feedburner also started offering these stats for free. I just turned them on, so I cant speak for them yet.
     
    What cool sidebar features have you discovered, benefited from, recommend highly, or advise to avoid?
     
    ~~andrea

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