Admit it! When the e-mail hits your inbox that a reader of your blog commented on the post you just published, you just put off approving the comment for an hour or two since it’s a painful process – starting up the browser, logging into Wordpress, going over to moderate comments and approving it.

Or when you see that comment which skipped Akismet spam catcher you just need to log in and mark it as spam before the virus spreads deep into your beloved blog community. Or., you just auto-approve all the comments since it’s a hassle to approve all the blog comments.

Not anymore!

Google Analytics, without a doubt is the leading site statistics tracking tool in the terms of usability, on the web. But, in a dynamic environment such as a Wordpress blog, we are too often limited to only experience a fraction of the features offered through Google Analytics.

You may just want to track the number of visits to you blog, or you might want to track every outbound link or even AdSense cliks and YPN too. Whatever your needs are, the following Wordpress plugins can give you exactly what you need from Google Analytics, without the hassle of copying and pasting tracking codes to all your pages.

This weekend, I took some time to develop a tool which I think most of you will find very useful on a day-today basis. Yeap! It’s the Technorati Tag Generator. Just specify the Tags you want you blog post to be tagged with and the Technorati Tag Generator will output a HTML code which you can copy/paste at the end of your blog posts.

This will make Technorati index your page under specific topics. And you’ll be entitled to a piece of Technorati’s huge search traffic, depending on the ‘hotness’ of you post.

Oh yes I did! But I need to tell you that it wasn’t exactly the readers i lost, but rather the count of the readers. At that time the blog had 340ish feed subscribers and was barely moving. Seemed like people were not subscribing to ROCKFUSE at all.

Not to mention, being the staticaholic I am, I was really frustrated and was asking anyone and everyone whether there was a fundamental flaw in my blog’s design. And nope! There was nothing wrong with the blog design - which frustrated me even more.

So, it’s about time I got into the Wordpress plugin development I thought:-) So, this is my first Wordpress plugin. It’s called Bold SEO and simply put, it bolds your specified SEO keywords a specific number of instances, so that they will be having more weight than the other text in the post - giving you more SEO juice.

What can keyword bolding do for me?

Well, search engines have been known to give more importance to HTML tags like <h1>, <h2>, <b> in your content. For an example, if you can wrap up your keywords in <b> tag - that is, if you can bold your keywords in your content, that will play out positively for you in ranking higher for your targeted keywords.

Feedburner FeedFlares give you some pretty good ways to play around with your blog’s feeds. Most of us are using a few pre-configured text snippets at the end of each of our posts in RSS like “Digg This” or Comments count. But, what if we can create our own FeedFlares? With our own text and functionality? Wouldn’t it be cooler?

Well, for those of you who are anticipating this to be really hard and really tech-savvy work, I would just have to say - There’s nothing to it!

Step 1: Install the FeedFlare

Log on to your FeedBurner account, choose your blog’s feed and go to the Optimize tab - from which you can choose “FeedFlare”.