The Hot List of Links for Bloggers

We’re keeping our fingers on the pulse of the blogging industry and attempting to share some of the most useful and inspirational posts for bloggers from around the net.

This Week’s Flames

John Hayden on 9 Critical Stats to Measure on Your Blog

John offers a pretty nice summary of some of the more important stats to measure and helps bloggers see that you can’t always judge the health of your blog by a single measurement.

10 Useful Website Analytics Tools

If John teaches us which stats are important, the Web Design Ledger provides us some great tools to use to track those stats.

Showcase of 30 Beautiful Blog Designs

How about an excellent collection of great blog designs from our friend Steven over at Vandelay (and Blog Design Heroes and other great inspirational galleries). This is the kind of list post that helps us keep a good eye for what great blog design is all about.

Starter Kit: Building a Blog Network from Scratch

We tend to think that the Fuel Network is a pretty great example, but Chris Ames helps us in this post to understand the amount of energy and effort that goes into launching a great blog network.

Entering the Wonderful World of Geo-Location

Geo-location is a huge story that bloggers need to have an eye on. Right now, it’s the point of focus for plenty of startups and apps, but blogs will inevitably be considering more and more how their blogs interact with users based on location. Good coverage by Christian Heilmann.

Brandon has been doing web and logo design and this blogging thing for about six years. He’s also a Pastor at Saddleback Church in southern California, where he lives with his wife and kids. You can catch him on Twitter or Facebook.