Power Tools for Bloggers

Claim your blog at Technorati. Claiming your blog with Technorati is free, relatively easy, and indispensable.

Activate a free FeedBurner account. Make it easy to know who is getting your blog’s RSS feed, easy for your readers who want your posts emailed to them, and easy for your readers to use your RSS feed the way they desire.

Set up free Technorati Watchlists. Blogging is only half about what you say, and you need a range of tools to track the topics and conversations of interest to you. Watchlists are one excellent tool for doing that.

Add the Anywhere Bookmarklet to your browser. The bookmarklet is another free Technorati tool for finding out what others are saying about your blog and the blogs you visit.

Show your FeedBurner Subscribe button. Make it easier for your readers to subscribe to your blog’s FeedBurner feed by adding the orange button to your blog’s sidebar.
And then you can continue with these steps:

Go Pro. For a few dollars a month, you can track readership of not just your blog as a whole, but post by post by buying a FeedBurner Pro Account. There’s simply no better way to know which posts are most interesting to your readers and which ones, despite all the time you may have put into them, are going unread.

Build a Technorati profile. Spend the time to write a short, but engaging profile of you and your blog and add it to Technorati once you’ve claimed your blog. Others will see this profile when they come across your blog. And yes, do include a photo!