Visitors Maps: Geographically visualize & locate website visitors from all over the globe

Locating your visitors on the globeIn the world of widgets(that are specific in action & use), a class of widgets providing a tool for monitoring the traffic & visits on websites & blogs from all over the globe. Knowing the geographic location & hits of visitors from a specific part of the world can be very useful to analyze the performance of the website in terms of volumes of hits from a specific part of the world & where the content targeted the most. Here is the list of the best visitor capturing maps for websites & blogs which are the best location identification tool.

The Number One: ClustrMaps
 
The most popular, free, easy to generate & at a glance visualization tool are ClustrMaps. ClustrMaps is a real time combined hit counter and geographic visualization tool. Once website URL & Email is provided to ClustrMaps, a HTML code thus generated, needs to be copied into a web page or 'blog gutter'. This HTML code includes a link to a thumbnail geographical map image of the world which shows the location of the visitors arrived.

How it works? When that image loads, it increments a counter on the ClustrMaps site and, when the map is updated (daily, weekly, or monthly, depending on website and blog traffic) it shows the locations of all the visitors to webpage since the beginning of a specific time interval. Clicking on that thumbnail map image reveals a larger world map display.

The Number Two: VisitorMaps
 
Cluster Map of Intelligent MovesAnother blog visitor's location monitoring tool is from VisitorMap.org which is also a free service. It is different from ClustrMaps as it shows the location of all the visitors to your site in the last 24 hours. It also provides a facility to users to customize the map  style, map size, visitor marker & color for the visitor markers.

Why Visitor Maps? 
Visitor Maps are quite helpful to:
  • Know your visitors: Knowing who are your websites and blog readers.

  • Target your content: Helps targeting your website and blog content ,adjust your content, your pitch, or your advertising according to the specific set of visitors.

  • Show off your community: Developing a reader's community based on continents.

  • Automatic: clicks optional: Each visitors to your site is automatically counted properly. Just visiting your site is sufficient. Of course, visitors can optionally click on the little thumbnail map widget and be taken to a large world map view for additional detail.

  • Speedy, scalable: Knowing the numbers of visits from a specific part of the world.

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Experience the Digg Effect: Adding the "digg it" button to each blogger(blogspot) blog posts

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Today, Digg is a most eminent place for we people to get linked with the notions, contents & information from anywhere on the web. Digg, the biggest online destinations is powered by the richness of great stuffs, information & contents from multiple sources(experts, bloggers, websites, news etc). Digg button can provide a real source of traffic to blogs & websites (increased number of readers) and for that adding the "digg-it" button to each blogger post is necessary to experience the Digg Effect.

First go for the following checks:
Digg LogoCheck 1: To start with first Register to http://digg.com/  to have an digg account & enter the digg world.( If already registered, skip this check)
Check 2: Make sure your blog is set to Enable Post Page.Click here to see how to enable post pages.

Now proceed with the following steps: 
1. Log in to your blogger account & click on the Layout tab of the blog which you want to add the digg button.
2. Navigate through Template –> Edit HTML and backup your blog template by clicking on Download Full Template. This backup will help you if in case the changes met are not fruitful & for uploading previous template to blogger.com.
    3. Click on and search for <p><data:post.body/></p> (Press Ctrl + F to search)and paste the  next code just before <p><data:post.body/></p>:
    <div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'>
    <script type='text/javascript'>digg_url = '<data:post.url/>';</script>
    <script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    </div>
    4. Click on Preview to ensure that the Digg button appears at the top right of all your posts. If is located properly, click on the Save to save your blog tepmalte & view your blog.

    Possible Modifications:
    You can change  float:right; by float:left; in <div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'> line in the third step, make the digg button appear on the top left of all blog posts. 
    Now you are ready to experience the digg effect. Enjoy Digging. 

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    Uploading A New Template In Blogger.com

    After Selecting the attractive template which suits your blog theme & that enhance the functionality of your blog, it should be uploaded to  your blog. Blogger's cool feature (Backup / Restore Template) makes it very simple to easily  backup, upload & restore templates.

    Proceed as follows:
    1. Login to your blogger account
    2. In the dashboard page, click on the Layout link to jump on the layout tab
    3. In the layout tab, click on Edit HTML
    4. Click on Download Full Template to make backup of the recent template ( Must do )
    5. Select your new template from a file (with file format .xml ) on your hard drive by clicking on Browse button & then upload the template by clicking on the upload button.

    It may happen that you get two types of messages while uploading: 
    1. Confirmation to delete the items (widgets). Click on Yes & your new  template is  uploaded.
    2. Error Message: that the XML elements could not be parsed. It shows that there is some problem in the template XML code. Click on the Clear Edits button to rectify all the modifications. Now continue with a different download.

    The two simple checks to verify proper template uploading:
    1. Click on the  Save button again.
    2. Navigate to the Page Elements & Save the template.

    Now, your template is uploaded successfully & click on View Blog to see the uploaded template.

    I will cover the most popular widgets & blog customization in my next posts.
    Happy  Blogging.

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    Starting A New Blog: What blogging platform to choose?

    Going to start a new blog, great! But if you want a really cool & attractive blog you should first consider a few things that are indispensable for newbie stepping into blogging. This article will introduce you to essential aspects of blogging before you actually start & help you to have one with a professionally-crafted design & content. 
    Consider the following:

    1. Deciding the central category/idea/theme for blogging: It should be clear what is the basic theme of your blog that all your blog content would reflect. Write some of the articles early before you have the blog. It will help you easily post them quickly on your blog.
    2. Deciding the platform for blogging & signing up: Choosing the platform for blogging is easy depending upon the services provided & eminancy of the platform. Sign up & start blogging.
     Most popular blogging platforms are: (Blogger is my choice)
    3. Deciding the fully working & attractive template which suits your blog theme: A 3 column template will be the best choice & can be downloaded free.

    Once you have done the above you have to upload the template( facility provided by Blogger.com) & proceed further refining your blog.

    I will cover the uploading of the templates in blogger.com in my next post.

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