A lot of "power bloggers", prefer to use Windows Live Writer instead of built-in web editor. No matter how good web editor is, desktop publishing is just too hard to beat, at least at the moment. I personally like WLW myself and use it whenever I can. But this is not the only choice you have on the desktop; another big one is MS Word 2007. I'm not an Office guru, but if you watch the video at the end of this post you can get ideas how easy and intuitive content creation can be when you have the right tool at your disposal. You can set it up with BlogEngine just as easy as WLW. Simply open new document and go to Publish/Blog in the office menu. [More]

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I am almost 99.9% sure that you would have implemented Google's +1 button on your blog website. What next? A million dollar question is how are you going to track the likes and dislikes of your web pages/blog articles done with Google's +1 button?

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A user comes to your blog, reads the article and presses +1 button. This will definitely add a count to it but how will you (as a website/blog owner) know about it? is there a way to track the button's activity?
Well, there is no direct way that Google has specified yet but i found a simple way of doing this with Google Analytics. Google Analytics exposes a functionality to track your own events. You don't need to dive deep into what events are and how they are tracked. I have done it for you.
The simplest thing you need to do is to add the following code to show Google +1 button on your site instead of what Google site provides. I have just added the code shown in BOLD to track it in analytics. If you have done customizations to the Google's +1 button code using advanced options, then you should add the code shown in BOLD below to your existing code else you can copy and paste it straightaway.

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