17. Tools and Tricks

In This Chapter

Posting from Your Desktop 248

Mobile Posting 249

Using Stats to Evaluate Traffic 254

Putting It All Together 256

Updating your site shouldn’t be a chore, and there are lots of online tools designed to make it as simple as possible to integrate blogging into your everyday life. You can create posts from your desktop (whether you’re online or not), send posts to your blog from your e-mail client, and update on the go with mobile apps for smart phones and tablet computers.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to set up and use some of these tools to make your blogging experience easier than ever. You’ll also learn how to set up some popular stats programs to see who’s visiting your site. In no time at all, you’ll ...

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