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Mark Wielgus of 45n5.com had made a Top100 List of Making Money Online blogs few weeks ago. His list easily became very popular, it was a perfect linkbait. Next thing you know, it is hosting some 200+ blogs in his list.

I do get quite a number of visitors from his list, 413 to be exact, to this day since he launched his toplist.

Visiting his toplist today, I noticed that he had made some changes (improvements) to his toplist. He added a screenshot of each blog beside the blog name.

And he also added few widgets that show your 45n5 rank (3 widgets). Here is one of the widgets (see left) for my blog. While the widget designs could be greatly improved, I think they are great ideas. Unfortunately I don’t think I will be displaying them on this blog, there are too many things on the blog already ;)

45n5 as an independent rank system in the future

I would like to see Mark add more features to his toplist and make it as an independent rank system in the future. Just like LinkWorth’s LinkRank, it could come up with its own ranking system. (45n5 %, maybe?) Which could rank blogs based on their Technorati, PageRank, RSS Subscribers, Compete …etc data.

Who knows maybe it would become one of the reliable ranking systems for both advertisers and bloggers in the future. Since everybody seem to get their PageRanks demoted these days, it will be a lot easier for them to adopt a new system. And it is also a right time for Mark to promote his toplist as an alternative, full fledged ranking system for not only “Make Money Online” blogs but for all blogs in the blogosphere.

What do you think?

RankWidget.com will create dynamic buttons as shown to the above. You can create PageRank, Alexa, Technorati and Yahoo backlink buttons. There are many different designs of buttons for each category.

I used to use Jon’s Showoff Rankings plugin for WordPress, but lately it was having problems, so I removed it until it gets fixed. Jon said he is already working on it. Currently I see that Alexa stats is still showing zero, you can see the plugin on his blog.

Talking about the catchy titles… doesn’t 200% sound catchy enough? Now that I have your attention, let me promote some affiliate program instead. ;) Just kidding, the fact is, my earnings did increase by more than 200%, hear me out.

MyBlogLog is a great service to see your daily traffic summary. It displays three crucial information:

1. Where did people come from? (Displays 10 highest traffic-source to your blog)
2. What pages they viewed? (Displays 10 most viewed pages of your blog)
3. What links they clicked? (Displays 10 most clicked links for the day)

These information is displayed every day, and the stats are available for the past 7 days. By regularly looking at them, you will notice that there is a trend in your stats. That is - some pages appear every day among the most viewed top 10 pages. In my case, 7 out of 10 are the same pages that appear as the most viewed pages every day.

What does that mean?

That means, MyBlogLog is begging you to make some changes to those pages. It’s asking you to optimize them for AdSense (or any other publisher program that you use). It’s saying “these pages have the highest traffic, but you are not making use of it”.

How to make use of these pages?

I don’t really use AdSense that much on this blog, most of the time it’s just one image ad (200×200) at the right column. But after I noticed these stats, I had to include few ad-units on those popular pages. And the result? Earnings increased by more than 200%. See the screenshot below:

I know the figures are not much, that’s because I am not really monetizing this blog with AdSense. But earning more than $10/day from 10 blog posts is definitely better than earning $2.94/day from the whole blog.

What pages are they?

One of them is this post “Earning 70K by 17 years of age, whateverlife.com“, it’s getting around 200 views every day. Most of the traffic comes from Google when people search for whateverlife. My page comes on No.3 spot at the moment.

Previously this page didn’t have any AdSense ads. There was only one Google image ad, on the right column. If you look now, it has 2 ad-units inside the content, and 1 link-ad unit at the end of the content. Also whateverlife’s url has been changed to normal text, and that increased clicks on the ads.

By the way, inserting link-ad at the end of the post, did increase the earnings by 100%. So the lesson here is, mix and match. And test, test and test!

Why MyBlogLog?

Simply because I check MyBlogLog community very often, and while I am at it, I can quickly scan my stats.

Yes, there are many other very sophisticated tracking tools that I use, but I simply do not check them everyday. Maybe once or twice a month only. And that makes it difficult to detect most viewed pages, and most clicked links for day, as well as for the last 7 days.

Most Popular Posts ≠Most Viewed Posts for the day

Please note that, most viewed pages are different from most popular posts. Most popular posts are not necessarily the pages that are getting the highest pageviews at the moment. They might have the highest total pageviews (since you started your blog), but in order to find the highest viewed pages for today and yesterday, you should use MyBlogLog or check your other stats tool daily.

But obviously, you should monetize your most popular posts too. No doubt about it. What I want to point out here is that, daily most popular pages might change from week to week. Since you will be posting different topics every day. Therefore, it’s important to know and detect these pages. And while they are popular, you should seize the opportunity and monetize them!

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Do you want to know what technologies particular blog/site is using? If yes you should try BuiltWith.com, it gives you all the details. Here is the result for my blog, click here.

In their own words:

BuiltWith is a web site profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page. BuiltWith’s goal is to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies pages are using which may help them to decide what technologies to implement themselves.

BuiltWith technology tracking includes widgets (snap preview), analytics (Google, Nielsen), frameworks (.NET, Java), publishing (WordPress, Blogger), advertising (DoubleClick, AdSense), CDNs (Amazon S3, Limelight), standards (XHTML,RSS), hosting software (Apache, IIS, CentOS, Debian) .

Thanks to Arstan for sending in this url.

Snoop is a stand-alone application that is developed by Sean of reinvigorate.net. Reinvigorate is a web tracking service that is currently in free and in beta, I had blogged about it here.

So Snoop is like an add-on to your reinvigorate account. Since it’s a software, it sits on your desktop and tracks referrers to your blog, tracks comments, and it can also track purchases. To use this software you need to register account with reinvigorate first.

I like the idea of tracking comments with an application, in one place. This is especially useful if you are running more than one blog or site.

However, Snoop is very new and it has few features. I am sure Sean will add more features in the future. http://www.reinvigorate.net

Pingdom is a nice tool to test your website’s loading-time. In reference to the post below, I have tested the blog with and without Nuffnang scripts. And guess what, Nuffnang scripts increased the loading time more than 100%.

From the test results I saw that Nuffnang for some reason kept referring back to their server, with multiple connections. Whereas advertlets’ script had only one connection and loaded pretty fast. See below:

If you are using Nuffnang script on your blog, you might want to check it too.