Your blog might be visited by foreigners who don’t use your language. Don’t make them waste their time, attach a translation tool. So they can read your articles. The translation tool will translates your articles into any languages choosen by the foreigners.

Here is how to attach a Google translation tool to your sidebar.

• Go to Google translation tool site.
• Click Tool tab.

• Select the language of your blog. Copy the HTML code as shown below (click the code, right-click the mouse, select and click [Copy]).

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• Login to your WordPress blog. Select [Appearance] and click [Widgets]. Select [Text] widgets (click [Add]).
• After the [Text] widget move to right pane, click [Edit]. Place mouse pointer on text area, press Ctrl-V (or right-click the mouse and select [Paste]). Now the Google code has been coppied to the Text widget.

• Click [Done] to close the Text widget and then click [Save Changes].
• Visit your site. The Google Translate tool had been installed.

If you need software to monitor your blog’s visitors you can choose WP-ShortStat plugin. Simply install and activatethe plugin  and you don’t have to configure it. WP-ShortStat can be accessed at any time via your Dashboard.

WP-ShortStat records the number of visitors for a week, including the total of visitors since you install the plugin. In addition you will also find the data about page views, references used by your visitors to find your blog, an so on.

Here are some of the WP-ShortSta’s features:

• Last Week. The data shown here are the number of visitors (unique), hit, and RSS, for last week.
• Last Resources. Here you can find which and at what time the pages of your blog were accessed by your visitors.

• Last Keywords. This is an interesting feature. Here are the keywords were entered by your visitors on some search engines (like Google.com) and then they found your blog. You can click one of the keywords and you’ll be presented with a list of search results for the keywords. Here you can see your blog position in the search result.

• Last Referers. Here shown a list of websites referred by your visitors to find your blog. You can click and see the websites.

• Keywords. Here are index of keywords entered on search engine by your visitors to find your blog. Also shown here are the amounts of the same keywords.

• Resources. Here you will find data for page hits, and indexed based on the amount of the hits.
• Domains. Here shown the number of hits that came from each domain. For example, you will find the total of hits that come from Google.com.
• Browsers. Here shown the percentage of each browser used by your visitors.

• Platforms. Here shown the percentage of each platform (operating system) used by your visitors.