As you know, Feed Analysis provides bloggers, with the aid of beautiful interactive charts, a more detailed report and analysis from our feeds. You can also view the number of subscribers, hits, views and clicks for every single day from the line chart.

By using Feed Analysis, we can discover some evil bloggers who faked their RSS numbers. How do we find the evil bloggers? If the hits stayed the same but the number of subscribers have increased sharply, they probably are faking their RSS number (See the picture below). It is because normally, if you have more subscribers, you will have more hits as well, because readers will actually click on the feed items you published. Affiliate Lounge has written a very nice and detailed explanation about someone who faked his RSS Number on “Feedburner Hacked or just plain Cheating!?“.

How can they fake their RSS number? They probably bought some readers directly or subscribe to his own feed with a lot of different email addresses. Wayne Liew has told us the ways to boost the number of RSS subscribers on “No More RSS Feed Numbers Hide and Seek” and told us how to use Feed Analysis to analyze our feed nicely as well.

Theme Test Drive Wordpress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one. It happens completely transparently and they will not even notice you run a different theme for yourself. Best part is you can even set the testing theme options in the Admin panel while you are testing the theme.

It turns out to be really useful for bloggers when we are changing the theme slightly or creating a completely new theme for our blogs. We do not have to create another temporary wordpress blog in order to test the new theme. I totally recommend this plugin to every blogger.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/theme-test-drive

Social bookmarking allows users to submit, comment on, and “promote” websites. The Gregarious plugin supersedes the Digg This Reloaded Plugin and allows for seamless integration between your Wordpress Blog and social bookmarking sites such as Digg.com, Del.icio.us, Reddit and more. Requiring no editing of templates, and a simple point and click interface, Gregarious is the ultimate social bookmarking plugin for Wordpress. There is one downside of this plugin only, due to time constraints, the author is no longer guarantee support for this plugin.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://lipidity.com/web/wordpress/wp-plugin-gregarious/

Title tags are arguably the most important of the on-page factors for search engine optimization (”SEO”). Post titles are also used as title tags by WordPress, considering that post titles should be catchy, pithy, and short-and-sweet; whereas title tags should incorporate synonyms and alternate phrases to capture additional search visibility.

SEO Title Tag makes is dead-easy to optimize the title tags across your WordPress-powered blog or website. Not just your posts, not just your home page, but any and every title tag on your site! If this plugin, along with a few hours of keyword research and copywriting of optimized titles, doesn’t make a significant impact on your search traffic, you’re doing something wrong.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.netconcepts.com/seo-title-tag-plugin/

WordPress Premium is an elegantly designed, 2/3 column, feature packed, widget ready theme that comes with three color-scheme options. The theme is bundled with all three colors. To change complete color scheme, all you need to do is, open the style.css and change the color style name to your favorite one.

Here’s the list of main features:

• Comes bundled with 3 color-scheme options
• Multiple Search option with Tabber Functionality
• Easy Editable, Light weight, Strategic Code
• SEO Optimized
• W3C Valid
• Optimized XHTML code
• It’s Premium and It’s free

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://cssace.com/free-wp-premium-theme-is-here/

Choosing a suitable type of font for our websites can be very time consuming. It is even more time consuming to look for a really nice font and yet free to use. Urbanfonts might be the one to help you. There are over 8,000 freeware fonts you can choose from.

First of all, the site looks very clean, and modern to me. Because of its well-structured, it really helps you choosing the right font easily. On the top part of the site, you can see all categories of fonts in alphabetical order. Mouse over the category text, you can get a preview of the font, it can really saves you a lot of time. If you have clicked on one of the category, you can see a list of fonts with large previews. You can change the preview text from editing the textfield on the top. The large previews will be updated immediately.

If you still find it hard to use, you can use the tag cloud on the right hand side. The “Top 100 Fonts” is also very useful. It is an automatic list of the most downloaded fonts on Urbanfonts, so that you can have an idea of what other people like.

If you need some inspirations to create your own fonts, Urbanfonts is a very good place to look at as well. “Font Blog” brings you all the latest news about fonts and typography. And also, you can interact with other font lovers on the forum.

A blog’s bounce rate is a percentage measuring the amount of visitors who leave the way they came, i.e. a search visitor who arrives at one page and leaves without navigating anywhere else in your site.

Each visitor who ‘bounces’ out of your site is a lost opportunity to gain a loyal reader or new subscriber.

Fortunately, there are a number of things you can do to cut down your bounce rate. This will help you convert more new visitors into loyal readers (something we all want). In addition, a low bounce-rate will add value to your blog if you ever decide to sell it.

Here are 8 methods you can use to lower your bounce-rate:

1. Prune your main page down to essentials.

A new visitor has a limited amount of attention to give your site. You want to show-off its value as quickly as possible. Widgets and unimportant elements divert attention away from what’s really important about your blog. Uncluttering and making the layout simpler will help new visitors give their attention to the things that most strongly sell your blog to them.

2. Highlight your best posts above the fold.

With so much outstanding content to choose from on the web new visitors are becoming increasingly bored with everyday content. They want the best of everything. You can satisfy this want by showcasing a list of your best or most popular posts somewhere they can be easily spotted (preferably towards the top of your sidebar).

3. Show off your categories list.

In addition to being a useful navigational element, your categories list provides a quick overview of what you write about. If a new visitor sees a category they’re interested in you can bet they’ll be more likely to stick around. Around 10 categories is an ideal length: it’s long enough to be specific and short enough that your visitors will be willing to spend the time needed to look it over.

4. Use post excerpts if your posts are long

One of the ways new visitors will evaluate your blog is to scroll down the main page and get an overview of the kind of posts you produce. If your posts are too long and there’s too much content on the main page they’ll probably get tired of scrolling and decide to stop.

You can alleviate this problem by displaying post excerpts on the main page with a ‘Continue reading’ link underneath. This will lower your bounce rate because it allows new visitors to quickly get an overview of your blog while also encouraging them to click through to the full post.

5. Share related posts on single post pages

Social media and search traffic will mostly end up at single post pages on your blog. They also represent the kind of traffic most likely to bounce out of your site. You can improve the situation by providing a list of related posts at the end of each single post page. You can do this manually (at the end of each post) or Wordpress users can utilize the Contextual Related Posts plug-in.

6. Provide an easy to spot link to the main page.

Social media and search visitors who’ve landed on a single post page and decide to explore further will probably want to visit your main page first. If you make the link to your main page hard to find they could lose patience and navigate away. I suggest making your header image link to your main page. It’s also important to provide another link in your navigation area.

7. Make your About page easy to find.

Your About page will often be a first port of call for new visitors wanting to get an idea of what your site is about. Visitors will always bounce out of your site if they think it isn’t relevant to them. You can use your About page to explain why it is relevant. For that reason, you should make the link to your About page very easy to find.

8. Write a tag-line or blurb for your main page.

A short tag-line or blurb can help a visitor quickly establish what your blog is about and what it has to offer them. Including a descriptive tag-line or blurb on your main page will encourage more new visitors to investigate rather than wandering away.

Thank you Skellie for Writing this amazing post on Blog Perfume