Toluu

JeetBlog

Tech Tweaks ,Productivity Hacks ,Blogging Tips And A Better Life

Don’t Forget to Exclude Your IP From Your Site’s Analytics [Updated]January 8

One of the must-do things when launching a new website or a blog is installing an analytics program that’d help you monitor the stats.

However, a lot of bloggers forget to exclude their own IP address in the analytics tool. That would mean bloated pageviews and visits, since you usually visit your site hundred times a day.

So make sure that you don’t forget the important task of excluding the IP address of your computer from the blog stats tool. Since Google Analytics is the most popular analytics tool used by bloggers and webmasters, I am outlining the steps here.

1. Log in to your Google Analytics account. On the page where you’ve got website profiles, there’s Filter Manager on the bottom right. Click on it.
2. Click on “Add Filter” on the top right of the box.
3. Give the filter a name, select pre-defined filter, select the filters from the drop-down menus and enter your IP address. (If you don’t know your IP, check What Is My IP Address )
4. Select the website profile from the left and add it to the right.
5. Click save and you are done. The visits from your computer should be excluded from the results now.

Did you forget to do it ? Make sure you do it now.

Update after Avinash’s comment

For users on dynamic IP addresses,

Chris Garrett Struggles With Procrastination TooJanuary 6

Chris Garrett, a well known blogger, consultant and co-author of the Problogger (the book), has written an article on his blog about his procrastination challenges. He wrote about it previously too.

So Chris Garrett procrastinates too. And so do I. It always feels nice when you find someone whom you’ve been following and learning from, is human too. Isn’t it ?

To be honest his article struck a chord with me. Not only does he frankly admit his procrastination challenges, he goes on to write about how he is coping with them. And for someone who’s been quite successful in this field, I think accepting his shortcomings openly requires true audacity.

So I thought I’ll take this opportunity to finally write an article on this blog after a pretty long time, and also talk about why this blog has been dormant for so long.

I could say that I was involved in other projects. I could say that I was too busy with more important stuff. I could say…well, I wish I could. The truth is I had been procrastinating.

Yeah, you heard it right. I neglected the blog which had a successful launch and hit the Digg front page on the first day.

Calling All Potential Freelance Writing SuperstarsNovember 4 2009

You probably know by now, that your writing skills can make you some cool cash if you know how to use it. Believe it or not, people are willing to pay you lots of money to write for them, especially online businesses and publications. In fact, the demand for writers has never been greater, with thousands of mom-and-pop business looking to outsource their writing tasks.

That’s why I was intrigued when I first came across a guide called “Freelance Superstar” by Monika Mundell and Gobala Krishnan. According to the site, it’s a “complete guide to get started with freelance writing”, so it’s probably most suited to newbies who want to get in the game with a bang.

See the site here: Freelance Writing Guide

In case you don’t know who the creators are, let me give you a “brief” history.

According to their website:

“In 2005 Gobala quit the rat race, fired his boss, and decided to be a full-time writer. Working just two hours a day from his home, Gobala soon discovered that he could expand his writing career into information products, and have since produced multiple best-selling ebooks, guides and

How To Share Simultaneously On Twitter & Google Reader Using FriendfeedOctober 23 2009

Although Twitter (check my profile here) was primarily meant to share status updates and about what’s going on in your life, lately I find it has become an important sharing tool where people don’t hesitate to share links and pictures, just like they would do in any other prominent social media platform.

It’s a good thing I’d say if you can cope with the information overload. I have no problems with that. I love to randomly check out twitter streams of people to find new content. I too love to share nice stuff as and when I find them on the web.

My main source of information has always been Google Reader (since it was introduced of course). I subscribe to a huge number of blogs and also love to make use of its share feature.

Sometime back, it struck my mind if it is possible to share my Google Reader shared items on Twitter in real-time. I did some research and found it could be done with Twitterfeed. However, it wasn’t as real-time as I’d want it to be (though they have made

Essential Skills You Need To Run An Online BusinessApril 11 2009

I have always been a believer of the fact that to be successful in a business the only skills you need is spotting talent, convincing those with the talent to work with you and then managing them.

I am sure those are the most important skills for a person to succeed in business, be it an offline business or an online one. However, apart from that I think there are certain essential work specific skills which a person should possess that would allow him to run his business with greater efficiency.

Lets talk about an online business. It could be a blog, an e-commerce website, a membership site or an affiliate marketing business. If you have an idea related to any of these formats, you could just go out and hire people who could set up a blog or a website for you. So you see even the basic knowledge of things like HTML and FTP isn’t needed to get started.

But when it comes to running a business and managing day-to-day activities, it’s always good to have a basic knowledge of certain important aspects of your business.

For example, lets say you’ve got a Wordpress blog which brings in a good sum every month. You’ve hired writers for producing content and a tech guy to take care of any technical glitches the blog might come acr