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Webmasters has always been looking for services that can provide them with stats for links to their websites and blog posts. A new service named as Blogstorm has been started which provides blog stats to the bloggers. Blogstorm has a very simple interface that bloggers will love it and provides extensive stats about their blog posts.

Blogstorm is a a new service and you will have to manually submit your site to it. It is based on Yahoo API and uses it to collect data for the links to a blog post. So, you need to have a Yahoo API in order to use this amazing service. One more thing is that it requires a PHP script to be uploaded into your server. What that means that blogs hosted on free blogging services cannot use this service, so it is opened to only to the blogs that are hosted on private servers. Blogstorm provides you with complete stats for links to  your blog posts so that you can easily calculate which is the best blog post and which was the best day for the links to your blog. Blogstorm also tells what's the percentage increase in the links to your blog post within a day or month.

Another important thing about Blogstorm is that you can view the Most Popular Posts there which are calculated according to the number of links to the blog post on Yahoo. It also provides you with guides on how to increase your links and how to use Google Analytics to analyze your web traffic.

One major drawback of Blogstorm is that it works only with Yahoo API. If it would have worked with Google too then it would have given far more accurate link stats to their users. Nevertheless, as the service has just started it might be that they will update their service to even work with Google and enable even the free blog users to use their service.

Posted by saurabh on Friday, June 8, 2007 at 2:59 AM | Permalink