Is somehow the same as Blog Catalog. The idea, is to be able to have a widget on the sidebar,  to know who visited your site, without the visitors leaving any message.

This is also good for marketers, to know bloggers or blog that is about a specific topic. You could check the community and have huge list of bloggers within that said topic. There you could get a list of people you would like to get in touch with while promoting a site.

This is owned by Yahoo.

Blog Catalog is the premiere social blog directory on the internet. Whether you’re looking to promote your own blog or find blogs on various topics.

I use Blog Catalog widget to be able to know the visitors on my blog.

TIP: It is always nice to pay a blog visit to someone who has visited yours.

Steps on installing the widget:

• Register to Blog Catalog, or if you already have an account, sign in.
• Go to Manage Blogs. Add a blog if you haven’t added a blog that you want to put the widget.
• Build a custom widget for __the blog you wanted to put the widget__.
• Edit the widget color or features according to your liking. Be sure that the width fits the width of your sidebar.
• Copy the code given and paste it to the area on your sidebar where you want it to be seen.
• DONE

Akismet is a pre-installed (already in WordPress upon installation) wordpress plugin. Recently, they have an updated version of it. It is a plugin that filters spam messages from the comments on your blog.

Steps in using this plugin:

• Log-in to your wordpress account.
• Go to Plugins
• Look for Akismet (usually it is the top one). Click Activate
• Once the plugin has been activated, you will be instructed to put your WordPress API (click). If you have no account on wordpress.com, you have to create one.
• Log-in to your wordpress.com account >> click My Account >> My Profile. You will then see your WordPress API, just copy it and paste it on Akismet Configuration.
• Click “Update Option.”
• DONE

I just activated and updated mine

I added WordPress on the title, because honestly I do not know how to put or create a sitemap on my own. A sitemap is a tool which helps search engine crawl your site easily. This is best for SEO.

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I just installed Google Analytics to track my sites statistics. It is the best statistic generator I have encountered so far.

This is easy to install, once you know HTML.

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