How to Track your Blog’s Traffic, Visitors

Getting to know how many people visited your website or blog is interesting. Blogging becomes all the more fun when you can track your visitors; how many pageviews is your blog getting; how many people are reading your blog, from where are they coming (location, referring websites and search engines) and what are they looking for. Knowing the keywords that your visitors searched for on Google before landing on your blog or website also helps you create more content on that topic and improve your blog’s popularity. These visitor statistics come handy in improving your blog. And it’s free.

The Internet has hundreds of websites that offer free website/blog visitor counter. But not all of them offer all the information that can help. What are the best sites to get free Web traffic statistics about your blog or website?

Before we get to know what are the options available for free website traffic statistics, we should know that all websites offering tracking services almost always require you to register with them and add a Javascript code to your blog. Once done, you can check your visitor stats in the tracking service providers dashboard.
How to add Javascript code in your Blogger blog?

Paste code in Widget box:
Sign in to your Blogger dashboard.
Click on the “Layout” link next to your blog name.
Click on the “Add a Page element”.
Select “HTML/Javascript” and paste the code.
Save the changes.

Paste code in template code:
Sign in to your Blogger dashboard.
Click on the “Layout” link next to your blog name.
Now Click on “Edit HTML” tab.
Check the “Expand all Widgets” option.
Look for and paste the code just above it.
Save the template.
Adding tracking code in other blogs/websites

To add the tracking code in any other website or blog, paste the code just above in the template or webpage. If you are using a WordPress blog, go to the directory that contains the template. Look for footer.php and paste the code just above tag. Done.

Here’s a list of free services that provide website visitor statistics. Pick the one that suits you the best.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics provides one of the best detailed statistics about the visitors to a website or blog, but it’s only available for top-level domain such as www.speckygeek.com. If you are using your own domain with Blogger or have your own hosted blog, it’s the best service that you can get for free.
Sitemeter

Sitemeter is also among the most popular tracking service. The service is as simple; create an account, copy the code and add it in your blog.
Histats

If you are looking for animated counters, Histats is the place to go. You can choose between hidden and visible counters, and also between rich Flash animated counters and plain text ones.
Statcounter

Statcounter is similar to others. It’s fast and updated in real time. Invisible tracking is available and no ads on your site. It provides hidden counter which gives pretty comprehensive stats–pageviews, unique visitors, search engine keyword and many more.
Whos.amung.us

Quick and dirty way of tracking visitors to your website. No need for registration. Just copy a code and add it to your website. Whos.amung.us counter will be visible to every one, and clicking on it will provide basic details about the number of visitors, pages being viewed, number of visitors during the day or a month or a year.

Add Facebook Like Button to Blogger

Facebook Like button has propagated at a furious rate, making itself present on every other website. People can Like or Recommend the webpage or website or blog to their friends by clicking this button, thereby increasing the reach of the blog or website. Adding the Facebook Like button on websites and blogs is dead simple. If you want to add Facebook Like button to your Blogger blog, hang on.


acebook provides two easy ways of adding the Like button on websites:
Basic Like button via a simple iframe
Full-feature Like button via XFBML

The basic Like button is added to a webpage via a simple iframe, which is an HTML tag used for embedding a webpage in the other. It’s the easiest way of adding the Like button on a website. The content inside the iframe is hosted by Facebook, which can detect whether the user is logged in or not using a cookie. If the person is logged in to Facebook, the Like button is personalized for them, and shows a list of their friends who have also “Liked” the page. If they’re not logged in, it prompts them to log in or to join.

A feature-rich Javascript version of the Like button is available via the <fb:like> XFBML tag (which requires use of the new JavaScript SDK). The XFBML version allows users to add comments as well. The Like button created via XFBML tag is a lot more wiser and flexible, but it requires webmasters to register their own Facebook application.
How to add Facebook Like button below every Blogger post?

Using iframes to add Facebook Like button is easier and faster. So in this article we will see how to add the Like button via iframes.
Log in to Blogger.
Go to Layout -> Edit HTML option of your blog.
Now, tick the check box that says “Expand Widget Templates”.
Search for ‹data:post.body/› and paste the following code below it.
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:40px;'/>
</b:if>
If you want the Facebook Like button to appear below all posts even on homepage, use the following code instead.
<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:40px;'/>
Save the template.
How to customize the Facebook Like button?
Button text: You can change the button text from “Like” to “Recommend”. Search for action=like in the code and replace it with action=recommend.
Show faces: If you want to show images of people who Liked the post, look for show_faces=false in the code and replace it with show_faces=true.
Color scheme: To change the colour scheme of the button, change colorscheme=light to colorscheme=dark or colorscheme=evil.
Text font: The font of the Facebook Like button can also be changed easily. Replace the font=arial parameter with the font of your choice:
font=arial
font=lucida+grande
font=segoe+ui
font=tahoma
font=trebuchet+ms
font=verdana

How to Add Facebook Like Box to Your Website

Facebook pages have become an important tool for expanding the reach of websites and blogs. Facebook social widgets are a great way to integrate Facebook page with your website. Let’s see how we can add the Facebook Like Box (the newer version of Fan Box) to a website or blog in a couple of minutes.

Get the Like Box Widget Code

Log into your Facebook account and go to your page. Now click on the the ‘Edit page’ link on the left side of your page’s profile. On the Facebook page settings page, you will see a tab called “Marketing”. You’ll see the link “Add a Like box to your website“.

How To Download YouTube Videos Using Opera Mini

Most of mobile users don't know how to download YouTube videos using OperaMini mobile. There are many net surfer who are always online using OperaMini for chatting with Facebook friends or watching YouTube videos, but they don't know that how to download YouTube videos. Everyone knows that youtube is a website containing lots of video files ranging from music videos, tutorial videos, to videos on almost anything!. YouTube videos are always free to download. It's quite easy to download videos when you are using a computer but it seems impossible to download videos from youtube using your mobile phone and opera mini browser. But there is a third party service which is SaveFrom.net will help you to download YouTube videos using opera mini. It supports lots of other popular sites also.
1. Go to youtube's video website www.youtube.com
2. In the youtube search bar, search for any video you like, e.g. You may type something like this "How to Chat on Facebook using Opera Mini Mobile" in the search bar and then click on search.
3. you'll see a list of video search results relating to what you just searched, select any video you like by clicking on it, note, do not click on watch video.
4. Go to the address bar, i.e. (Where you usually type the address of any website you like to visit.) and click on it, there you'll see an address that looks like this " m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&v=yPD346Zh6jo ".
5. Delete the ( m. ) and replace it with ( ss ) now your address should look like this
" ssyoutube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&v=yPD346Zh6jo " click ok, a new page (i.e. Download page) where you can download your video will loaded.
6. On the new page loaded, you will see different video formats with which you can download your video, some of the formats you'll see are".mp4 .3gp .flv"etc. Select any format you'll like but I'll advice you to choose .mp4, then,
7. Your opera mini browser will ask you to choose a folder in which you'll like to save your video, choose any folder you'll like and then,
8. Download the video. So how it is easy to download youtube videos on your opera mini mobile browser using third party service.