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Since blogging has become a regular habit of mine I have developed a daily routine which consists of using some popular services that help me get through my day. These services help me with communication, assessing blog performance and staying up to date with industry news. In no particular order these services consist of:
- FeedBurner: Could be one of the best feed management services available. I use FeedBurner to get insight on a number of metrics: Outgoing clicks, Subscribers, Item Use, and number of downloads.
- Gmail: There was a time where I used to use Yahoo Mail and Hotmail almost everyday and now both of them have been surpassed by Gmail. It keeps communication simple, quick and effective.
- iGoogle: On my iGoogle page I have feed widgets setup to keep on top of SearchEngineLand, Search Round Table, Marketing Pilgrim, Matt Cutts and many more news portals.
- StatCounter: For real time stats in order to quickly measure the effectiveness of daily posts I prefer using StatCounter.
- Google Analytics: StatCounter is great, but Google Analytics is definitely a level ahead. I am really taking advantage of the newly added customized dashboards.
- Technorati: It is a great tool to measure the popularity and authority level of your blog through the number of back-links.
- MyBlogLog: I enjoy seeing new members join the Web Analytics World community it also provides me with a quick snapshot of the most popular links on my blog.
- Blogger: Over the last year I have published pretty close to 400 posts using blogger. It may not be the absolute best blogging software, but it does the trick.
- Google/Yahoo News: Both are easy ways to see the hottest stories for any given industry/topic. These news sources also help generate blog post ideas.
- Google Toolbar Spell Check: Not a post or email goes out from me without using the spell check on Google’s toolbar.
