Google is a need for every web user. It has developed and is still developing certain application that are helpful for bloggers and site owners in bettering their web skills and easy optimizing their sites.Such applications that help in effective blogging will be discussed in this post.
Applications
1. Google Dashboard- A really cool application released few months back. Its just the dashboard for all your Google applications or Google accounts. Open your Google dashboard and you will see all the Google applications for which you have an account and easily navigate to any of it.
Overall-Medium Application to bloggers.
2.Google analytics- A very smart application by Google. It helps in optimizing the performance of site. In simple words Google analytics after integrating your site with it provides you every necessary detail of what is happening on the site,who is coming ,who is a regular visitor,from where are your visitors coming,traffic rate,traffic bounce etc. All the necessary site data is available in Analytics.
Overall- Must use Application
3.Google Webmasters Tools- This application provides the information about the site’s visibility to the Google search engine. Helps in indexing of pages and submission of sitemaps.
For e.g:- keywords and their significance in search engine, crawl errors during bot visits, backlinks for your site, search queries in which your site showed up etc.
Its a must use tool for better ranking.
Overall- Must use Application
4.Feedburner- Tool which helps in distributing and setting up the Feeds of one’s site. Just create a feed for your site and you will be able to provide newsletters about new posts published on your site, you can know the no of subscribers to whom the newsletters are being delivered, create subscription forms for visitors,publicize your feeds on social networks like twitter etc.
Overall- Must use Application
5.Google Adsense- This application on plays good part for those sites who have good traffic rate. It helps you to publish Ads on your site. You can filter these sites and even block site that you don’t find fit for your site.
It helps to target ads in Feeds,content and search within the site.
For those sites having less traffic rate it is not helpful for getting money out of the blog in lesser time as its minimum cashout is 100$ and it takes even a year to reach the earning to 100$.
But comparatively to other Ad networks it is definitely better.
Overall-Average Application to all bloggers.
6.Google Adwords- An application for advertisers who want to advertise their sites. You can show your ads on Google for free,only have to pay when people click to visit your website. You can set your own budget without any minimum spending requirement. You can target your ads anywhere around the world.
Overall- Must use Application
7.Friend Connect- An application for socializing the site. It provides widgets which help in an easy way to interact with you users with polls,featured content widgets, social bar widgets,followers widget,newsletter subscriptions,rating widgets etc.
Overall- Must use Application