The SiteHoppin(SH) Firefox Toolbar has just been released by Max from SiteHoppin.com. This is a beta testing version of the SH Firefox toolbar and will be issued only to 1000 SiteHoppin members for trial and testing.

SiteHoppin Firefox Toolbar Review
General Layout

I've got to say that the SH Firefox Toolbar is easier to navigate and use as compared to the StumbleUpon (SU) Toolbar. I'm not saying this because I know Max or that I'm helping him to promote this toolbar. Just take a look at the SH Firefox tool screenshot below and compare it with the SU Toolbar, need I say more?

SiteHoppin Firefox Toolbar

StumbleUpon Toolbar

Functions available on the SiteHoppin Firefox Toolbar

1) Hop Button

A click on the SiteHoppin button let's you hop to the next site.

2) Rate It




Rate sites that you hop upon by clicking on the Beer Bottles. If you find a site that you like, rate it from a scale of 1 to 5 Beer Bottles with 5 Beer Bottles rating being the highest you can give to a site.

3) Puke It




Hop upon a site that makes you feel like puking? Click the "Puke It" button and rest assured that the site would never again appear on your future hops.

4) Talk




Clicking on the Talk button brings you to the Discussion Page of the site you hop upon. You can also leave a comment while you're there. Check out the screenshot of 3trimesterspregnancy.com Discussion Page: 5) Tag

The "Tag" button let's you bookmark a sites that you hop upon. Click on the "Tag" button and a bookmark window would appear as shown in the screenshot below:
Enter a comment about the site you intend to tag followed by the tags or labels for that site and finally click the Submit button. The site would then be submitted to SiteHoppin's database and bookmarked as your favorite.

6) TagHoppin




This is a drop down button that let's you select a particular category or tag to hop upon. If you like drop to Entrecards, select the Entrecard tag and start drop-hopping (drop Entrecards as you site hop)

7) Shuffle/Iterate Mode




Toggle between Shuffle Mode or Iterate Mode.

8) Menu




A drop down menu button containing all links related to SiteHoppin.com as shown in the screenshot below.
9) User Menu




A drop down menu with user related links as shown in the screenshot below:
Why should you get a SiteHoppin Firefox toolbar?
1. User friendly toolbar. You don't need to be a genius in order to navigate and use the SH Firefox toolbar.

2. You earn 1 Beer Credits for each page you hop to. Remember that you can exchange 10 Beer credits for 1 unique visitor to your page. (Psst...let you in on a secret. Use the SH Firefox Toolbar to drop your daily 300 Entrecards. Once you have completed your daily Entrecard drops, you earn 300 Beer Credits automatically which you can exchange for 30 Unique visitors to your blog. What more can you ask?)

3. Rating a site you hop upon gives an additional 10 Beer Credits to your SiteHoppin account (an equivalent of 1 Unique visitor to your blog for each rating you give). The more you rate, the more visitors you get for your blog. Simple as that.

Be the first 1000 SiteHoppin Members to try out the SiteHoppin Firefox Toolbar
There are currently 20 selected Bloggers who can issue invites to use the SiteHoppin Firefox Toolbar (one of them is myself). To get your own SH Firefox Toolbar, here's what you should do:

1. Get registered as a SiteHoppin member for FREE
2. Drop a comment here at Bloggerfocus Dot Com stating your SiteHoppin user name and e-mail in order for me to send you the SH Firefox toolbar invite.

Additional giveaway:
1. In addition to receiving your SH Firefox tool bar invite, you will also be credited with 100 Beer Credits courtesy of Bloggerfocus Dot Com.
2. If you subscribe to Bloggerfocus Dot Com feed via e-mail, an additional 500 Beer Credits would be given to you for FREE. Just leave a comment here stating that you have subscribed to my RSS via email.
3. Buy Beer Stocks now using Bloggerfocus affiliate link and you'll received a 25% discount for your Beer Stocks purchase.

So what are you waiting for? Come get your own SH Firefox Toolbar now before all 1000 invites run out! Trust me, there is nothing to lose and all to gain at SiteHoppin.com.

Till the next time, cheers and happy blogging!

Recommended Read:
1. SiteHoppin.com, Entrecard Wannabe?
2. SiteHoppin.com - Beer Traffic Revealed

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I've been rather curious about how StumbleUpon traffic works. Based on Bloggerfocus' traffic stats, I noticed that traffic coming from StumbleUpon tend to occur in periodic spikes. Let me explain what it means by periodic spikes using the example below:

Day 1 : Receives 5-10 unique visitors via StumbleUpon at one go.
Day 2 : No traffic from StumbleUpon.
Day 3 : Yet again no traffic from StumbleUpon.
Day 4 : Receives a different set of 5-10 visitors from Stumble.
Day 5 : No traffic from StumbleUpon.
Day 6 : No traffic from StumbleUpon.

As you can see from the above example, traffic from StumbleUpon are not consistent and tend occur in periodic spikes. That led me to contact the StumbleUpon team for further clarification about these so called "traffic spikes". Shown below is the screenshot of the feedback form I sent to StumbleUpon, dated 10th of April 2008.

Graciously, Julie from StumbleUpon.com was nice enough to reply to my query via email on the 15th of April 2008.

And now you know how StumbleUpon traffic works!

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When I wrote my first article about SiteHoppin.com, I was rather sceptical about the whole system. Last night, I carried out some simple testing on how well SiteHoppin works in terms of sending unique visitors to your blog/site. Along with some assumptions, I've managed to come to a conclusion based on the outcome of last night's test. Here are my findings dished out in Q&A format to ease your reading:

Do you really get unique visitors in exchange for your Beer Credits?

YES you do get unique visitors (that actually get registered on your site's stat counter) coming to your site/blog if you spend your Beer Credits in exchange.

Is the ratio of spending 10 Beer Credits : 1 Unique Visitor accurate?

NO. Based on the outcome of the test I've carried out, you do not get the exact number of unique visitor registered by your site stat counter in proportion of the amount of Beer credits you spend.

Does this mean SiteHoppin is cheating off my hard earned Beer credits?

NO. The reason being that your blog/site is displayed in SiteHoppin's Brower-within-Browser page. That means for every 10 Beer credits you spend, you site will still be displayed to a unique viewer who is site hopping in SiteHoppin's Broswer-within-Browser. Say for example you spend 100 Beer credits, your blog/site will be displayed 10 times, each time to a different unique viewer. By the way, is it really that hard to earn Beer credits? Honestly?

Is there a difference between a Unique Visitor and a Unique Viewer?

YES. A unique visitor is a visitor who steps foot on your blog, while a unique viewer is just viewing your blog/site from SiteHoppin's built in browser. Furthermore, a unique visitor is increases your stat count while a unique viewer doesn't.

That sucks and SiteHoppin sucks too?

By now, I think most of you would have probably reach this conclusion after reading point number 3. To be honest, letting your site be viewed by SiteHoppin's daily 600'000 unique visitors is a bargain especially when you consider the fact that you are using SiteHoppin for FREE! Let me emphasize the point again, its FREEEEE!!!!! As I've mentioned earlier, if you find it that hard to earn Beer Credits then you have failed to fully utilized the services that SiteHoppin has to offer. Try reading my review on SiteHoppin if you wish to know more about earning Beer Credits.

Bloggerfocus's summarizes:

Max you suck!, nah I'm just kidding. I really appreciate what SiteHoppin is trying to do here. Although you might not get the exact number of unique visitor from using your Beer credits, you have indirectly and succesfully achieved the following:

1. Your listed blog/site has been viewed by unique viewers proportional to the Beer Credtis you spend. Each 10 Beer credits would guarantee you 1 unique viewer.

2. If you happen to get unique visitors directed from SiteHoppin, that means your blog/site has something special to offer the viewer. Something about your blog/site in terms of contents, competition, etc has provoked the curiosity of the viewer to start exploring more about your blog/site. This goes to show that your blog/site has succesfully converted a unique viewer to a unique visitor.

3. If you find yourself having a low unique viewer-to-visitor conversion, does this mean that SiteHoppin has failed to do its job? That's where the fault is, most people blame others for their failure and never actually find out what went wrong with themselves. This applies directly to your blog/site too. Take a look at your blog or site, do you find it appealing even to you? Does your template turn you off? How about your content, is it interesting enough to encourage viewers to stay and read other contents as well? By using SiteHoppin, you are basically engaging how attractive is your blog/site to a viewer. I came up with a simple formula called Unique Viewer-to-Visitor %Converter to calculate how well your blog/site is able to engage a viewer from SiteHoppin. It's pretty much simple maths actually.

Let's take an example from Bloggerfocus.com (joined SiteHoppin since 2nd April 2008)

Beer Credits spent = 1250 credits

Unique viewer = 125 viewers

Unique visitor = 21 visitors

% Conversion = (Unique visitor / Unique viewer ) x 100%

__________= ( 21/125 ) x 100%

__________= 16.8%

*Stats for Unique visitor obtained from Statcounter.com (Highly recommended if you are looking a complete statcounter for you site and its FREE)

Now that you have your % Conversion value, you are able to project a rough estimate of the number of unique visitor you are able to convert based on the number of Beer Credits your spend. Say for example I've earned 20,000 Beer Credits, how many unique visitor would I get if I spend it all?

Here's a sample calculation using the % Conversion for Bloggerfocus.com and 20,000 Beer Credits.

Beer Credits spent = 20,000

Unique viewer obtain = 2,000 viewers

% Converstion = 16.8% (from the previous calculation)

Projected Unique Visitors = (%Conversion x Unique viewer obtain ) x 100%

__________________= (16.8 x 2,000) x 100%

__________________= 336 unique visitors

My curiosity over how Sitehoppin works has indirectly led me to discover the true value of my own blog. I most certainly hope you will also enjoy discovering your own blog/site value via SiteHoppin. Currently, I’m contemplating on trying out some Beer Stocks from SiteHoppin. I shall come up with an article about Beer Stocks once I’ve tested it myself.

If you like to have a head start, you can find out more about Beer Stocks HERE and read about the effectiveness of Beer Stocks in bringing traffic to sites from an article written by Josh from Joshwhitford.com.

How about getting your hands on the testing and result that I've carried out? Just subscribe to Bloggerfocus via email and I shall send the PDF file over to you.

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Cheers and happy blogging to all.

I'm in the midst of testing out SiteHoppin's claim of "10 Beer Credits = 1 Hop (1 unique visitor) to your site randomly selected from out Beer Algorithm". Let's just hope my initial assumption would be proven wrong.

Shall post the outcome of the testing tomorrow along with the write-up.

Stay tune and Happy Blogging everyone!

RELATED ARTICLE ABOUT SITEHOPPIN:
SiteHoppin.com, Entrecard Wannabe?

That's right, there is a new kid in town and he's looking to grab the limelight from Entrecard. I'm talking about SiteHoppin.com here. The very first impression when I came across this site was "You must be kidding me, this has got to be an Entrecard wannabe!"

I took some time to explore and found a couple of common characteristics between SiteHoppin and Entrecard.
1. Both require embedding a widget to your blog. Both widgets are similiar in design and you can actually place the SiteHopping widget besides your Entrecard widget as recommended by SiteHoppin. (Trying to grab some attention from Entrecard eh Max?)

Tell Me This Does Not Look Like An Entrecard Widget?

2. Both sites let you to earn credits from visiting other websites. SiteHoppin calls their credits, Beer Credits.
3. Both allow you to send credits to other members. You can send some Beer Credits to me if you are feeling generous. By the way, my Beer Credits user name is Sksee.

Now, I guess you must be rather frustrated with me for referring to Max twice so far in this post.

Who is Max anyway?
Max is in fact the founder of SiteHoppin.com and also a possible alcoholic due to the beer theme he is using for this site and also for placing the entire lyrics of "99 bottles of beer" into the About Us page.

What does SiteHoppin has to offer?
I guess by know, you are anxious to know more about this. This is how SiteHoppin works as to my understanding:
1. You earn so called Beer Credits from visiting(hopping to) sites submitted by other members.
2. You need not open a new browser for each site you visit, all you need to do is click the TAGHOP button located at the top of the page. A new member site will appear in SiteHoppin's so called Browser-within-Browers. This built in browser lets you do all the site hopping in SiteHoppin itself.
(I'm wondering are we losing out for using this browser within browers? Say for example if you visit Blog A from SiteHoppin, and another visitor visits Blog A also via SiteHoppin, what does the unique counter for Blog A see? Does it record 2 unique visitors or just one single unique visitor, in this case SiteHoppin, visiting Blog A twice? SiteHoppin claims that each visitors hopping to your site will be counted as unique. I'm still a little pesimistic about their claims and will write a seperate article once I get things sorted out with SiteHoppin.)
3. You earn 1 Beer Credit for each site you hop. Once you've accumulated 10 Beer Credits, you are eligible to receive one hop from a visitor to your site. 20 Beer Credits gives you 2 unique visitor and so on.

How do you earn Beer Credits?
This has got to be the question everyone is asking. Here's how you can earn more Beer Credits:
1 Hop = 1 Beer Credit
1 Rating = 5 Beer Credits
1 Tagging or Comments using SiteHoppin's "Tag" function = 20 Beer Credits
1 New Site Submission = 30 Beer Credits
1 Click from your site to SiteHoppin through the Beer Widgets = 50 Beer Credits

The various ways to earn extra credits offered by SiteHoppin gives members and credit hunters a new breath of fresh air after experiencing the mundane card dropping system from Entrecard.

Is there any other way to earn MORE Beer credits from SiteHoppin?
Honestly I can't believe my eyes when I read the last paragraph of the FAQ. SiteHoppin has a built in function called Slideshow Mode. When activated, the slideshow mode starts site hopping automatically for you. Just leave your PC or laptop on and let the Slideshow Mode do the work for you. This is all clear to me now on why SiteHoppin set such a high credit requirement (10 credits) to get a unique visitor to visit your site. Just by using the slideshow function, you can earn hundreds of Beer credits overnight. (Why does this remind me so much of those autosurfing programs?)

Bloggerfocus summarizes SiteHopping.com:
1. Although the site is pretty new, it has already garnered quite a number of registered members.
2. Visitors from SiteHoppin do not read your blog if the slideshow function is enabled.
3. You would most certainly experience a boost in traffic and also an increase in the number of Phantom readers from SiteHoppin. I'm sure you get what I mean.
4. Some bloggers or webmasters might say that SiteHoppin has ruined the actual purpose of having a blog or website. Why have a large number of visitors coming to your site for the wrong intentions? I shall not dwell further about this and leave the ethical and moral part of it for you to decide.
5. Max has done a good job on showcasing blogs and boosting traffic when he introduced SiteHoppin. I just hope that the slideshow function from SiteHoppin does not result in blogs or sites getting blacklisted by Ad Management Services. Afterall, phantom visitors are of no benefit to Advertisers.

Bloggerfocus Verdict:
It seems that this review does not really favor SiteHoppin on the whole. Although there are some plus points from SiteHoppin, I strongly urge readers to decide what is best for your blog or site before joining. If your intention is to garner more traffic for your blog or site, you are more then welcomed to join. For bloggers who desires content reading visitors, joining SiteHoppin might not be the best option for you.

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Have you ever noticed when you Google the term "How To Improve Blog Traffic", the search results are not sites that offer services to boost your blog traffic? Instead you find sites that provide good solid tips and sharing personal experiences on how they build up traffic to their sites. Most of the articles written are worthy of a read as they are written based on personal experiences of webmasters and individuals who have made a name for themselves.

Honestly, I deem myself as unqualified to produce an article about "How To Improve Blog Traffic", at least not for now. I don't intend to steal any part of these articles and claim it as my own either. The main intention of this article is to provide a simply summary of the characteristics that all these bloggers have in common.

1. Quality Content - Bloggers of successful blogs always put emphasis on quality more then quantity for their articles. Steve from stevepavlina.com shared a tip on what he does everytime he intends to write an article for his blog. In his article on How To Build A High Traffic Web Site (or Blog) , Steve said and I quote, "When I sit down to write, I sometimes imagine myself standing on an outdoor concert stage before an audience of a million people. Then I ask myself, What shall I say to this audience of a million people?"

2. Hard Work - If you want to create a successful blog, you can never be lazy. Producing an article whenever you feel like it won’t bring traffic to your blog. Mert Erkal the owner of searchblogging.com in his article on How I Quadrupled My Blog's Traffic In 3 Months mentioned that he dedicated nearly 3 hours daily to his blog for 3 months while having a 9-17 job. There is no easy way to build a successful blog then to spend time and effort on it. As the saying goes, you reap what you sow.

3. Intentions - Blog because you are truly interested in blogging. If you blog to share your experience or provide quality contents for your readers, by all means go ahead. If you blog with the intentions of making money from it, you'll never produce contents that are worthy of a read by your readers. Your true intentions will reflect directly on your contents. You might not realize it, but your readers will.

4. Setting goals for your blog - This is an important characteristic that all successful bloggers have. Bloggers set realistic goals/targets for their blog and strive towards achieving them. If you've set a target to produce one post a day for you blog, stick to that target without fail. Remember to set goals that are achievable and have an action plan for each of those goals.

5. Marketing yourself and your blog - What it means here is to make your blog and yourself known to the blogging community. You can start with promoting your blog at blogging forums, treat your readers as friends, provide help and advise when the need arises, visit blogs of your readers and give honest comments when you visit other blogs. The main objective is to make your blog a nice place to visit as well as creating a warm relationship between your readers and you.

There you have it, a short summary of the 5 most common characteristics of a successful blogger. There are probably more characteristics that I have left out here. If you think that you have more to share, do leave a comment. I shall add on to the list above.

Lastly, I hope this simple article of mine would prove beneficial to you as it was to me.

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I admit that the title is pretty corny. In fact it sounds pretty familiar especially to Wrestling fans out there. Well the title might be familiar, but the content isn't about guys in tights pummelling each other week in, week out.

Humour aside, lets get started. I'm sure many of you have heard of Digg.com, some might not. Thats fine with me. Now, the big question is, How Does Digg.com benefit my blog? Lets start with what Digg.com defines itself as (I got it straight from the About Us Section):

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online.

Clearly what Digg.com does is to provide a platform for bloggers, article writers, wrestlers who blog, Tom, Dick and Harry to submit their articles/posts to them. In fact, readers that like what you write in your blog can also submit your article to Digg.com. Your article is then displayed to the relevant category determined by the person that submits it. In this case it could be you or a fan from your blog.

How do I submit an article?
Like many other famous sites, there will be bots who intend to submit spams. Therefore like many other famous sites that you join, you are required to register yourself at Digg.com, get verified via email and you are all set.

I'm such a newbie, I need help on how to submit my blog post to Digg!
Ok if you insist, here's a step by step guide on how to submit an article to Digg.com.
1. Get registered and verify yourself as a human with Digg.com.
2. Login
3. Clik on the "Submit New" button at the top of the page.

4. Enter the URL of your article.
5. Select the Media for your article. By right it should be "New Article" if you are submitting a post from your blog. (You can also submit a video or pictures to Digg.com)
6. Click Continue.

7. You will be brought to Page 2 of your submission.
8. Here you're required to describe your post/article and select a category that you intend your post/article to be seen. Once you are done, verify yourself again as a human and click on the Submit Story Button.
9. There you have it, your post/article have been submitted to the category of your choosing in the Upcoming section.
10. I've just submitted two articles as you can see in the picture below:

Surprise, surpise, I've been dugged by 3 readers in half an hour. Great job Digg.com.

What are services that Digg.com apart from bringing traffic to your blog?
I'll just skip to the relevant services that they offer for bloggers. Like any other sites that cater to blog owners, Digg.com offers Digg Tools. Simply choose from a variety of tools and widgets that you think will compliment your blog.

I would personally recommend the "Digg This" Button for bloggers. This button allows readers to submit an article you wrote to Digg.com. (if they love it of course). The downside of it is that your die hard fan reader is required to register first before given the permission to submit your article/post. Oh by the way, all that is required is for you to paste the javascript into your article/post.

To sum it up, here are the pros and cons of Digg.com:
Pros:
1. You get instant traffic if your article/post is attractive enough to attract Diggers. So make sure you have an interesting title and description for your post/article before submitting it to Digg.com.
2. Cool widgets to play around with. Let your readers know you're contributing to Digg.com.
3. You need Digg.com more then they need you. That explains why they are not even bothered to have a Join Digg.com Now button.

Cons:
1. Your readers have to be registered first in order to submit your post/article. I guess it must be to prevent spamming or is it an evil scheme by Digg.com to get more members?

Recommend by Bloggerfocus.com?
A definite YES!

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What is BlogFlux?

Blog Flux has one goal - to be the single source of services for bloggers. No need to visit and remember 40 websites and logins. Everything is already here.

What Does BlogFlux has to offer?
1. Blog directory - Click To Read More
1. Blog directory
BlogFlux offers a wide range of category and allows users to search for blog via blog tags, language or by country. BlogFlux also offers users to search for blogs by entering certain criterias. BlogFlux would then search for blogs which they think are relevant to your search criteria.


2. Blog Flux Tools - Click To Read More
2. Blog Flux Tools
BlogFlux offers 4 different kinds of tools for their registered members.
a) Button Maker - allows users to make an 80 x 15 button for their own blog.

b) Email Scramble - a javascript that keeps spam bots away from your email yet available for visitors to your blog.

c) Quick RSS Link - reduce the clutter on your blog. Instead of linking to twenty different RSS readers, use the quick RSS link service to provide your readers with quick links to various subscription options

d) Who's Online - a decorative tool that tells you the number of users on your blog in the last five minutes, and maps their location with information on what page they are reading


3. Commentful - Click To Read More
3. Commentful
Sadly the function for Commentful has been disabled by BlogFlux. No chance here to test how useful this function is.


4. Forums - Click To Read More
4. Forums
Typical forum that lets registered users to promote their blogs and learn ways on making money from blogging.


5. MapStats - Click To Read More
5. MapStats
Another cool service offered by BlogFlux. Instead of merely monitoring stats, MapStats also plots the location of your visitors on the world map. Take a look at MapStats demo:

Map Stats demo - Click Here


6. PageRank Checker - Click To Read More
6. PageRank Checker
By entering your url, the PageRank Checker will obtain your page rank in Google.


7. Pinger - Click To Read More
7. Pinger
Here’s another useful service offered by BlogFlux. Users that have just updated their blogs can use the Pinger to ping other sites. Among the sites listed for pinging are Blo.gs, Weblogs, Technorati, Feedburner, Blogdigger, Blogrolling and many more.


8. Polls

9. Blog Themes - Click To Read More
9. Blog Themes
Find and download themes for all of the popular blog software packages.


10. Blog Top Sites - Click To Read More
10. Blog Top Sites
This is a section for users to submit their blogs. Users must first register their sites with BlogFlux and place a small ranking HTML into their webpage. With the ranking HTML in place, a website is now monitored and will be ranked based on the number of unique visitor. The unique visitor counter will be resetted every week.


11. Web Hosting Directory

Registering With BlogFlux?
You can register with BlogFlux for FREE.

Summary:
BlogFlux is a pretty good catch considering the fact that their services are FREE. Apart from giving you the opportunity to increase your blog traffic, the facilities offered by BlogFlux for registered users are immense. In addition, BlogFlux simple site design allows easy navigation for their members.

Verdict:
Recommended to give BlogFlux a try.

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The first question that I ask when I stumble upon BlogCatalog.com was what does BlogCatalog has to offer me? A quick look at BlogCatalog’s homepage leads me to a brief definition of BlogCatalog:

What is BlogCatalog actually?

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, this site is for you.

With BlogCatalog clearly stating that they give the opportunity for members to promote their blogs, I decided to give BlogCatalog a try. After registering myself with BlogCatalog, I was given the option to submit my blog for approval by BlogCatalog. Apart from free blog submission, BlogCatalog also offers a number of other free services:

1. Manage Your Blog
-> BlogCatalog provides you with statistics on the number of views, hits and the rank of your blog

2. Create A Widget
-> BlogCatalog allows you to add and customize widget for your own blog.
-> You can choose to add the "Recent Viewers", "My Neighborhood" or/and "Discussion" widget to your blog.
-> Take a look at the "Recent Viewers" widget that I have added to my sidebar.

3. Joining A Group in BlogCatalog
-> By joining a particular group in BlogCatalog, you are given the opportunity to build your online social network as well as promote your blog to others who share the same interest as you.
-> You are allowed to join a group only after your blog has been approved by BlogCatalog.

Whether BlogCatalog would help increase traffic to my blog remains a question for now. I shall see the outcome in weeks to come and provide a second review on the effectiveness of BlogCatalog. The plus point I see here from joining BlogCatalog would come in the form of their Group section. Promoting your blog in a group that shares the same interest would increase the chances of boosting your blog's viewership.

Why not give BlogCatalog A Try Now?

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