Few days back I tweet on my twitter account that wordpress stats widget I have installed on my blog did not get refreshed. I have browse for some solution on internet but unable to get helpful one. So, finally I start to recall what I did last time exactly before this problem begun, and I get the the answer.

I changed my theme from Nonzero to Arthemia on d-day when it WP-Stats begun not being refreshed. It have always shown 0 visitor since then. So, I checked on Arthemia file and found it has no “<?php wp_footer() ?>” on its footer page (footer.php), so I added this line on footer.php, wait for few minutes and here you go … my stats is on track again

Bounce rate is an index to measure how many time a visitor of our blog enter on our web and exit from same page without exploring another page. Higher bounce rate normally would be followed by less average time of visit on our website. Bad news is, this mean that visitor are not enjoying their visit to our website and decide to leave it soon.

What factors that could trigger our bounce rate become higher ? here are some of them:

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Blogwalking is an activity to go thru other blogs. Blogwalking is important to extend our horizon on blogging knowledge and if we lucky enough to get new friend and traffic to our own web. Despite now we could have RSS reader or any news agregator but doing blogwalking manually can give a special satisfaction.

How to start a blogwalking ?
If we would like to do blogwalking, so from where we have to start ? how about our own blog Definitely someone ever visit our blog isn’t ? and they could drop some comment with their link, so why don’t we payback their visit and do the same, or how about from our own blogroll/link page.

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I have just did blog walking and found interesting characteristic on some Word press blogs I visited, they alter all words within post that coincide with post’s tags. I believe this were result of implementing plug in on their blog, but since my experience on hosting my own blog is just 1 month, so I don’t have  any clue on what kind of plug-in they have installed. Luckily, Wordpress has provide an integrate plug in manager that allow us to search all available plug in by specific keyword, get complete information about this plug-in and finally install it. Simple Tags was found on first page of searched plug in with keyword “Tags”, after did some exploration against its web site I then decide to install it.

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When we would like to post a comment on a blog, most likely they would ask for an OpenID to identify our self, normally we would enter either our blogger or wordpress or some other ID that belong to major provider, but what if we want to use our own Url as our OpenID

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