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When we visit a Google Blogger blog, there are chances that we will see a widget area on the sidebar that says "Join this site" with a pile of members' profiles who have joined the site or blog. On some Blogger blogs, we don't see them. Instead we see Google+ followers . Over the years, Google has been retiring some of it's products as and when new products are introduced. In earlier, Blogger blogs, the "Join this site" or Google Friend Connect (GFC) used to be the norm. But now, it is no longer available in the "add a gadget" list under basics. Here we'll see how to add the "Join this site (Google Friend Connect) widget if you need to. After the introduction of Google+, Google have been advising blogger to use Google+ to engage with viewers on Google+. Bloggers who have recently joined Blogger have an option to use Google+ profile instead of the Blogger profile. Google also advises users to use Google+ comments instead of the Blogger...

 As we all may know, Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Most website owners now use Google analytics to track website traffic. But as you might have observed, over time, there might be a lot of junk traffic hits on your website from bots, spiders and referrals sites. They never visit the website but send junk traffic to your Google Analytics so your web traffic might show inflated hits but in reality, human visits are much less. So it is hard to identify the real traffic that comes to the web pages. Referral sites like “floating-share-buttons.com” or “webmonetizer.net” or “Semalt”are pretty common ones. How to exclude all hits from known bots and spiders by using the Bot Filtering feature in Google Analytics.  Read more »