Of course you can have a look at your Google Analytics and Wordpress Stats to get a feeling how popular your blog is, but there are other great tools out there that you should use to optimize your content and analyse how popular your blog really is.

The first tool I would like to mention is popuri.us. You just enter your domain name there (one time with www and one time without, because results may vary) and popuri.us shows you several statistics. The two most important ones are your Google PageRank and your Alexa Rank. Google’s public PageRank is a figure between 0 and 10, with ten being the most relevant sites rated by Google. Pagerank for tobman.com is currently … well, 0.

BUT - I checked my popularity today with popuri.us and to my delight I saw that tobman.com for the first time in history has a Alexa Rank! Alexa is web service company that provides a toolbar for browsers. I haven’t used it myself yet, but apparently some million others do this and by doing so provide statistics what webpages they are surfing to. Alexa aggregates this data and calculates a Rank for each site. And now I’m proud to announce that tobman.com is among the TOP 10 Million webpages of the world. Great stuff. I think as soon as you have reached the TOP 100.000 things start to make fun, but that’s a looooong way to go I’m afraid.

Anyway, you can check your Alexa Rank and several other interesting statistics about your website directly here.

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So one thing about Project WebMoney is the documentation part. The whole project and its progress has to be documented… why you may ask? Well for two reasons: first because I want to know for myself how things come along (and keep track of it at one neat place) and second (and that’s maybe more important) because writing about the whole project itself will help to reach the goal of the entire project!

This is because blogs are a good way to increase page ranks and drive traffic. If you plan to do such a project yourself it might be a good idea to start blogging yourself. And that’s actually quite easy.

1. Get a blog system - I use WordPress You can either get a hosted blog there for free o r download the PHP software and install it on your webserver (really really easy).
2. Get Zemanta. Zemanta is a great tool that makes blogging life much easier. It automatically recommends links, pictures and articles to you as you write. For example I just got the nice WordPress logo recommended that I pasted above! The great thing is that Zemanta checks for copyright with the images, so you don’t have to worry about this being an issue. You can read more about Zemanta at this short review.

   

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