I love Internet for providing us with wealth of resources that help us develop better blogs and as result gain more or achieve our goals faster. But finding tools you can use and understand what exactly they are telling you can be challenging.

In this post I want to share 3 webmaster tools that will help you improve your blog performance and do my best to explain what they should be used for.

Let’s dig-in…

This weekend I have finished my reading of Darren Rowse eBook “31 Days To Build a Better Blog“. All 94 pages of it! To say that it contains great information would be unfair understatement! eBook is a great resource for any blogger, no matter which platform you are using as it deals with general concepts that will apply to any platform and action steps that will work for ANY blog. So the question is then – why did I title this post:

When “Good Practice” is Bad Investment?

Right? Excellent point!

So there I was, seating… reading… agreeing…

Right up until I got to Day 27 (yes, entire ebook is a compilation of Blog Posts by Darren that was used in project with same name) – Hunt for Dead Links [Day 27: 31DBBB].

In this segment of Expert Interviews I would like to introduce Barbara Ling. An expert webmaster and well recognized publisher with several books in print she is a prime example of doing profitable blogging the right way!

I have learned about Barbara through her comments on my blog and when we have established the communication channel I was privileged to read her eBook “21 Days To a More Profitable Blog”. And yes, I said priviledged because I would have gladly paid for it! So far I have managed to get through only 4 days (my bad…) and if you actually read it – you will recognize at least 2 changes done to my own blog as result! And I think it would be fair to say I know a wee bit about WordPress and shows that EVERYBODY can learn!

So dig in and learn about Barbara and what she has to share!]

Every once in a while I run into a cool tool that attracts my attention and draws me into further investigation. Quite distracting but stats and performance analysis is one of  my minus and always have been  as long as I’ve been building websites. My justification always been simple – If I know what effort contributes more to success, I can spend more time on it and disregard tasks that give me less return.

A little while ago I have posted an article “Webmaster Tools Every Blogger Need To Know About” , where I listed some of the most useful tools in my opinion to perform tracking and get general overview. We are not talking detailed analytics here but an Great Overview of results. And Website Grader is another tool that should have made the list but I simply didn’t know about it until quite recently.

Web design doesn’t have to be hard and when using right tools it becomes quite simple. While they will not replace the need to do you work – they help you to evaluate your results, confirm that your efforts pays off and provide you with analytical data that is both complete and easy to understand.

I want to share with you a set of tools I personally use and while many of them duplicate some of the results, each and everyone has its own uniqueness that makes it worth using. So here they are in no particular order …