This is a guest post by Ann Smarty who is a SEO consultant.

It seems that everyone these days has a WordPress blog. It’s not at all surprising. After all, these blog sites are easy to create and maintain. Beyond that, they allow individuals to easily run their own site, and provide a great marketing mechanism for any business that’s smart enough to branch into social networking.

Despite how attractive and simplified a WordPress site is, however, you still have plenty of options for improving your blog. One of the major areas that advanced webmasters can fine tune is the loading speed of the site.

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This is a guest post by Ann Smarty who is a SEO consultant.

For most people blog traffic and search analytics is done with help of Google Analytics which is quite understandable because it is free and really advanced.

You can get really in-depth traffic analysis with the tool or, if you don’t want to go onto any geeky details, you can just see your traffic sources and keyword referrals.

This post will show you three simple Google Analytics hacks you will love! To try two of the following tips, make sure you have Greasemonkey installed.

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This is a guest post by Ann Smarty who runs a  SEO Consulting blog at SEO Smarty.

The first thing to keep in mind when you consider guest posting is that you must guest blog. This is the best way to find new audience and promote your blog.

The second important thing to remember is that a few (or many) of your guest post pitches will fail. You should learn to accept rejection: this is natural, everyone fails sometimes, even the best among us.

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