Blogging Now And Then

"Horizontal Scrolling Recent Posts" for Your Blog

2010-01-07T07:03:00.000-08:00

Found this hack to make a horizontal scrolling recent post at IdeasBubble, tested it at Star Home Improvements. Before you implement this, read this caution note.

If you want this horizontal scrolling "recent posts" just below your blog Header, first you got to add extra "Add a gadget" to the blog Header section (more specific instructions at Adding "graphic" to blog Header).

When you have this extra "Add a gadget" (gadget were previously called page element), sign into Dashboard, click LAYOUT then the "Add a gadget" in the Head section. Chose the HTML/JavaScript gadget:

then copy-paste this script into the HTML/Javascript gadget:

<script style="text/javascript" src="http://dreamydonkey.googlepages.com/scrolling_blogger_posts.js"> </script><script style="text/javascript"> var nMaxPosts = 15; var sBgColor; var nWidth; var nScrollDelay = 175; var sDirection="left"; var sOpenLinkLocation="N"; var sBulletChar="•"; </script> <script style="text/javascript" src="http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=RecentPostsScrollerv2"> </script>

Replace http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/ with you actual blog URL, preview, and if satisfied, save.

Caution

I tried varying some of the parameters (attributes) like changing

nScrollDelay = 175;

nScrollDelay = some number;

and got erratic results, among which were getting error messages when trying to access the edited blog like this one: Recreation and sport (blog only displayed by clicking OK in the error message. Would do more testing later if I find the time) (Update: managed to get rid of that irritating error message by changing templates, and finally by going to LAYOUT > EDIT HTML > click Revert widget template to default at the bottom of the page, publishing a few posts. Don't know exactly what cleared the problem. Will do some more experimenting later).

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How to add Big Xmas Social Buttons to your Wordpress Blog

2009-12-12T07:57:00.000-08:00

As the Christmas comes ,many bloggers may want to add Big Xmas Social Bookmarking Buttons into their blog posts.At the same time,with eye catching big social buttons,you visitors much likely will bookmark your posts. In this short tutorial,I will show you how you can do it within five minutes.

First download this plugin from Wordpress Plugin Directory

Download

Then upload this plugin to your blog’s plugin directory and activate the plugin.

Next,download Big Xmas Social Button,these are 256×256 px Digg,Delicious,Facebook,Blinklist,Reddit, Stumbleupon and Technorati buttons

Download

Then,extract files from Icons.rar folder.The next this you must do is to login Cpanel/File Manager,find the site that you want to add button, then wp-content/plugins/socialfluid/images . Then,just upload the files from icons.rar in to the images folder of socialfluid plugin. It will ask you the files already exist in images folder,overwrite it,click Yes

Then,return to Wordpress Dashboard,click SocialFluid under Settings tab,check the social sites of uploaded files,set the size of icons to 48×48 px.

Now,you have Xmas Social Buttons.Happy Blogging!

How to Add Email Share Button on Each Post?

2009-11-10T07:21:00.000-08:00

We have already seen on how to add orkut share and facebook share button for each post, this time we are going to see, how to add email share button on each post. With this button, readers can easily share the article with their family and friends via Email service.

The MailCounter badge gives visitors to your blog an easy way to share your content via email. In fact, this is the fastest and easiest way to email an article! Every time an email is sent this way the badge will auto-update and show you the live number of times someone clicked the email link. Simple, easy and elegant.

If you're a Blogspot User - then Embed this code on your template :

Make sure you enter the right URL and description where the blue lines of text are:

<iframe src="http://getmailcounter.com/mailcounter/?url=http://yoururlhere.com&title=title of your page here" height="64" width="50" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

How to Add this Button on each and every post ?

1. Go to Blogger.com

2. Go to Layout > Edit HTML >

3. Save a copy of your template, so that if anything happens while editing you can restore it.

4. Now click on Expand Widget Templates and Search for

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>
5. Now Paste the following code below this line
<div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'>
<iframe src="http://getmailcounter.com/mailcounter/?url=http://yoururlhere.com&title=title of your page here" height="64" width="50" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
</div>

6. You're Done !! Now save your template and Enjoy Sharing via Email !!

For Wordpress Users -

Add this to your single.php and index.php files in WordPress.

<?php
echo '<iframe src="http://getmailcounter.com/mailcounter/?url=';
urlencode(the_permalink());
echo '&title=';
urlencode(the_title());
echo '" height="64" width="50" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" ></iframe>';
?>

Mail Counter badge – Homepage

How to Add Orkut Share Button on Each Blog Post ?

2009-11-04T07:39:00.000-08:00

Now you can share interesting content with your orkut friends easily, just by single click. The orkut Share API allows website owners to enable their visitors to share the content on their website, with visitors' friends on orkut.

Users can share the content and optionally promote it to make recommendations to their friends, which then appears in their activity updates. Every such shared item has the potential to spread virally and get wider attention from orkut users, increasing the traffic to the website. Now lets see how to add Orkut sharebutton on each blog post ?
How to add orkut share button ?

For Blogger Blogspot -

1. Login to your dashboard.

2. Navigate through :Layout >> Edit HTML

3. Click on Expand widget template (before making changes to your blog - backup the current template)

4. Use your browser search to find </head> and place the below code above </head>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load('orkut.share', '1');
google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {
var params = {};
params[google.orkut.share.Field.TITLE] = 'Interesting Page!';
params[google.orkut.share.Field.DESTINATION_URL] = 'http://example.com/';
var connection = new google.orkut.share.Connection(params);
document.getElementById('orkut-share').onclick =
function(e) { connection.send('orkut.com', {}); };
}, true);
</script>

5. Now change the codes which is in red to your blog address - http://example.com/ to your blog address.

6. Now add the button near your Retweet button -

7. Search for this line -

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

8. Now Paste the following code below this line

<span id="orkut-share" style="cursor:pointer; border:0px solid black">
<img src="http://i50.tinypic.com/30afg2w.gif" alt="Share Orkut" />
</span>

9. You can use text version of this button by using this code instead of above code which uses image :

<span id="orkut-share" style="cursor:pointer; border:1px solid black">
Share on Orkut
</span>

10. Click Save Template and view your blog !

(the above picture is made by me - if you want to have your own share button picture - you can change the image url which is given on red color on the above code.)

For Wordpress users -

1. Open header.php file of your theme file and enter below code above </head>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load('orkut.share', '1');
google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {
var params = {};
params[google.orkut.share.Field.TITLE] = '<?php the_title() ?>';
params[google.orkut.share.Field.DESTINATION_URL] = '<?php the_permalink() ?>';
var connection = new google.orkut.share.Connection(params);
document.getElementById('orkut-share').onclick =
function(e) { connection.send('orkut.com', {}); };
}, true);
</script>

2. Update the page and Move to Single.php or any place where you put this Orkut Share buttonand place below Code.

<span id="orkut-share" style="cursor:pointer; border:0px solid black">
<img src="http://i50.tinypic.com/30afg2w.gif" alt="Share Orkut" />
</span>

You can see the shared content on orkut in your promotion page

and it also appears in your profile activity updates -

Traffic Analysis Services

2009-10-13T09:01:00.000-07:00

It is very important for marketers and SEO specialists to be able to accurately assess the traffic to the site, to analyze ROI, CTR, and sales . For these purposes, they use the traffic analysis systems (services). There are very huge number of such systems, some of them are paid, part are free of charge, some collect statistics remotely, while others require the installation of scripts on the server. In order to better navigate in many existing systems, I suggest you look at the list of the most popular and convenient services traffic analysis.

Google Analytics – free and very convenient traffic analysis system. Namely, it has priority than the paid system Stuffed Tracker (requires installation on the server), which allows convenient way to generate reports on sales, software downloads, all actions of users, to analyze the ROI of advertising campaigns, etc. The only negative side of Stuffed Tracker is low scalability. The system starts to slow down at high traffic flows. However, it copes with up to 5000 unique visitors per day.

Yahoo! Web Analytics – is only for users who are members of Yahoo Small Business. Service had very good feedback, so if you are a member of Yahoo, you can safely join .

Quantcast – a popular free service.
AWStats – open source system that requires installation on the server where the site is available. Gives comprehensive analysis of web traffic, but poorly applied for marketing purposes.

Piwiki – similar system to AWStats, with a modern Web 2.0 interface.

Do you know other good traffic another services like these?If yes,then Let us know

Create Go to Top of Page Link in Blogger

2009-08-30T17:25:00.000-07:00

If you have lot of posts in a label or achieve page , its essential that you provide an easy navigation to the top portion of the page without making your visitors to scroll a lot .

Here's how you can do that.

Open your Blogger template's layout section and select edit HTML .

Move on to the bottom portion of your template and find out </body> .

Copy and paste the following HTML code above that section.

a href='#' style='display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:5px;right:1px;' title='move on to top of page'><img src='http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/710/homepa2.gif'/></a>

Now save your template and preview the top of page link . Make necessary changes by editing the HTML code .

Add Meta Tag in Blogger

2009-07-29T17:11:00.000-07:00

Meta tags are Simple HTML codes that can describe various factors of your site to the search engine spiders .These factors include web page title ,Description,keywords , language and many others . Though many blogs says that the meta tags don't have any value now , i strongly believe that they can affect SERPS in Google ,Yahoo and Bing . In this case i will help you to add meta tag in a Blogger blog.

Go to your Blogger template Layout and Edit HTML .

Fill the following example meta tag with your details

<meta name="Title" content="Your blog title" />
<meta name="Description" content="this is the description of your Blogger blog" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="Your keywords separated by comma" />
<meta name="Author" content="Author Name" />
<meta name="Language" content="Language of Website" />
<meta name="Copyright" content="© Copyright information" />
<meta name="Revisit-After" content="1 Days" />
<meta name="Robots" content="All" />

Now we are about to add meta tag in Blogger.

Find out the <head> tag and paste your details exactly after that selection.

PN: Keywords in meta tag can help you to bring targeted adsense ads into your blog.

Add Yahoo Messenger to Your Blog

2009-07-24T16:54:00.000-07:00

Yahoo ! Presence is a kind of online status button which indicates the Yahoo messenger status of a webmaster , on his blog/website or forum .On clicking the online status button (usually a smiley) a new window will appear, leading the visitor to Yahoo web messenger .

Add Yahoo messenger to a website , you need Yahoo Geocities account . In Geocities control panel select create & update then addons from sub tab . After selecting Yahoo! presence choose a suitable button and copy the code anywhere . Other than presence, there are services like Yahoo search , webcam ,maps,guest book,email form etc. that you can choose if you want them .

To add Yahoo messenger to Blogger , open dashboard and select the blog where you want to implement the code .

Go to Layout and select a suitable location for the widget to appear . Click to add a page element ( Add a Gadget for blogger in draft) and select HTML and JavaScript .Paste the code and save your widget.

Flash Animated Label Tags Cloud Widget For Blogger

2009-07-23T16:17:00.000-07:00

Blogger blogging platform by default gives you the ability to add Labels for your post, so you can add and display your blog Labels at your sidebar.

But because we all want our blogs look great for our visitors, we need to give this labels good style,

So now, we’ll learn how to add amazing tag/labels cloud widget to our sidebar instate of the normal one that presented by blogger.

We’ll do it in few steps:

1. Log into your blogger account.

2. Go to dashboard >> layout >> Edit HTML

3. Find the next code

&ampampampampltbr />

You can find it by clicking ctrl+f in your browser.

And past the next code just after the above code.

&ampampampampltbr />

4. Click save template and now check your Blog. And enjoy.

Hints.
- You can change it’s location at your side bar by going to dashboard >> layout
and move it up or down.

- You can change the widget width and height by editing this part in the code.

width="250" height="200"

How to Delete & Remove Blogger Blog

2009-07-23T15:26:00.000-07:00

Back in year 2000 there wasn’t many free blogging platform was available as well blogging was totally new concept for every one. Then first free blog providing service Blogspot (changed to Blogger) came into picture and revolution of Blogging started.

Even I had created my first blog on blogspot which I have abandoned now. The information on my blogspot blog wasn’t much important one, but this can not be case for all. You may want to delete and remove your blogger (blogspot) blog. Well then here is guide of How to delete blogspot/blogger blog.

How to Delete & Remove Blogger Blog

1. Sing in to your blogger account

2. Your Blogger Dashboard will list all your blogs created with this account

3. Click on Settings Link of Respective blog which you want to delete

4. A new page with blog settings will appear

5. Click on Delete blog link displays under Blog tools section

6. Confirmation Message will be displayed, Click ‘DELETE THIS BLOG’ to proceed for final deleting of Blogger Blog.

You can use ‘export it’ link to export all your blogger post published on this blog.

Add Big Social Bookmarking Buttons Below Blogger Posts

2009-07-22T17:17:00.000-07:00

1.Log in to your dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML

2.Click on "Expand Widget Templates"

3.Scroll down to where you see this:

<p><data:post.body/></p>

4.Copy below code and paste it immediately after the line <p><data:post.body/></p> .

<div style='clear:both; '>
<div style='width:60px; float:left;'>
<script type='text/javascript'>
digg_url = &#39;<data:post.url/>&#39;;
</script>
<script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</div>
<div style='width:60px; float:left;'>
<script badgetype='square' src='http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js' type='text/javascript'><data:post.url/></script>
</div>
<div style='width:65px; float:left;'>
<a expr:href='&quot;http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Stumble' src='http://s310.photobucket.com/albums/kk426/magznetwork/socialbig/stumble.gif' style='padding:0;margin:0;border:none;'/></a>
</div>
<div style='width:65px; float:left;'>
<a expr:href='&quot;http://del.icio.us/post?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Delicious' src='http://s310.photobucket.com/albums/kk426/magznetwork/socialbig/delicious.gif' style='padding:0;margin:0;border:none;'/></a>
</div>
<div style='width:65px; float:left;'>
<a expr:href='&quot;http://technorati.com/faves?add=&quot; + data:post.url' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Technorati' src='http://s310.photobucket.com/albums/kk426/magznetwork/socialbig/technorati.gif' style='padding:0;margin:0;border:none;'/></a>
</div>
<div style='width:65px; float:left;'>
<a expr:href='&quot;http://twitthis.com/twit?url=&quot; + data:post.url' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Twitter' src='http://s310.photobucket.com/albums/kk426/magznetwork/socialbig/twitter.gif' style='padding:0;margin:0;border:none;'/></a>
</div>
<div style='width:65px; float:left;'>
<a expr:href='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;t=&quot; + data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Facebook' src='http://s310.photobucket.com/albums/kk426/magznetwork/socialbig/facebook.gif' style='padding:0;margin:0;border:none;'/></a>
</div>
</div>

5. Click on "Save Templates" and now you are done. It will look like this.

Add the Google Translate Mini-Flags Widgets to Blogger

2009-07-18T16:38:00.000-07:00

1.Login to your blogger dashboard-->Layout > Page Elements

2.Click on 'Add a Gadget' on the sidebar.

3.Select 'HTML/Javascript' and add the one of code given below and click save.

Single Column Widget with White Background :

<div style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:10px 3px 3px 10px;text-align:center;background-color:#FFFFFF;">

<!---GOOGLE TRANSLATE MINI FLAGS--->
<div align="left">

<!-- Add English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA -->

<strong> Google Translate</strong>™<br/>

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Czh-CN&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p1uPoPqXa3UKUUAkAVFfexI7egVPHRwG3pImeqPG7Lje9X3Vaok2Ow5pXvBf-O44vyDmb9PRG78uzI9GNZUQM0Q/_chinese_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA"/>  Chinese</a>

<!-- END English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA-->

<br/>

<!-- Add English to French -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cfr&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to French "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to French " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p2khoQY_AJfGOc4sr626ugjACTUnVs-mBTEUz-tb5f8jQ9_BM37-lp3ZxqFjmUvMRSH35UYbHHp0lN6QAXE3-aQ/_french_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to French "/> French</a>

<!-- END English to French -->

<br/>

<!-- Add English to German -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cde&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to German"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to German" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1prWarW-yS9UWGkP9t6HIIQjW_Eltl__uJPVASmgDKql99zKOlv1jJilTrGVvRM7VSEIvjGsR4A6pbPo2KrQdrow/_german_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to German"/> German</a>

<!-- END English to German -->

<br/>

<!-- Add English to Italian -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cit&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Italian"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to Italian" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pihtUnS8uKwJQ8ep-_AtvEefYsSSpe7BuGCRmnoA5G2305nPqYP5ENQnX6i6YHBXveCLNXgitzGpQLCvw8YYBTA/_italian_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Italian"/> Italian</a>

<!-- END English to Italian -->

<BR/>

<!-- Add English to Japanese BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cja&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pwPr3iynDaRaulak1f2W4f3gWNEOqQ4K9nsIWB6N7aOYBI02QhhX-48OOeROACQAcHleqiCY2wTLKfnffTghs2A/_japanese_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA"/> Japanese</a>

<!-- END English to Japanese BETA -->

<br/>

<!-- Add English to Korean BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cko&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pXidbN5Z6YZ5j0fb2AXCyjLBr9n_ddaYqz1qFEi3N7NBjegm2VkUQavp9d8hMz2UWBJHF2ajVRjWUnn5PCdj5Cg/_korean_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA"/> Korean</a>

<!-- END English to Korean BETA -->

<br/>

<!-- Add English to Russian BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cru&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1phf9HxXBCzVD3KIGCm2oTlvoTGwR_rWkgTRQ0_w-Nw_Oi9OYdzIMfJjhl1kvbven1Fo61xxKLF_6KM7w_BlDhCg/_russian_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA "/> Russian</a>

<!-- END English to Russian BETA -->

<br/>

<!-- Add English to Spanish -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Ces&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Spanish "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to Spanish " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pS41oGyQtMRYc6yBTJoaovLHaCZOthp6qXfQxIau493uQ-BefJvBTkz5kliT5BfzKgxIZ8hYMuUXPjKEXio1Gow/_spanish_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Spanish "/> Spanish</a>

<!-- END English to Spanish -->

</div>

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Single Column Widget with Transparent Background :

<div style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:10px 3px 3px 10px;text-align:center;background-color:none;margin:7px 0 7px 0;">

<!---GOOGLE TRANSLATE MINI FLAGS--->
<div align="left">

<!-- Add English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Czh-CN&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p1uPoPqXa3UKUUAkAVFfexI7egVPHRwG3pImeqPG7Lje9X3Vaok2Ow5pXvBf-O44vyDmb9PRG78uzI9GNZUQM0Q/_chinese_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA"/>  Chinese</a>

<!-- END English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA-->

<br/>

<!-- Add English to French -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cfr&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to French "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to French " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p2khoQY_AJfGOc4sr626ugjACTUnVs-mBTEUz-tb5f8jQ9_BM37-lp3ZxqFjmUvMRSH35UYbHHp0lN6QAXE3-aQ/_french_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to French "/> French</a>

<!-- END English to French -->

<br/>

<!-- Add English to German -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cde&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to German"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to German" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1prWarW-yS9UWGkP9t6HIIQjW_Eltl__uJPVASmgDKql99zKOlv1jJilTrGVvRM7VSEIvjGsR4A6pbPo2KrQdrow/_german_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to German"/> German</a>

<!-- END English to German -->

<br/>

<!-- Add English to Italian -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cit&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Italian"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to Italian" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pihtUnS8uKwJQ8ep-_AtvEefYsSSpe7BuGCRmnoA5G2305nPqYP5ENQnX6i6YHBXveCLNXgitzGpQLCvw8YYBTA/_italian_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Italian"/> Italian</a>

<!-- END English to Italian -->

<BR/>

<!-- Add English to Japanese BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cja&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pwPr3iynDaRaulak1f2W4f3gWNEOqQ4K9nsIWB6N7aOYBI02QhhX-48OOeROACQAcHleqiCY2wTLKfnffTghs2A/_japanese_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA"/> Japanese</a>

<!-- END English to Japanese BETA -->

<br/>

<!-- Add English to Korean BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cko&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pXidbN5Z6YZ5j0fb2AXCyjLBr9n_ddaYqz1qFEi3N7NBjegm2VkUQavp9d8hMz2UWBJHF2ajVRjWUnn5PCdj5Cg/_korean_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA"/> Korean</a>

<!-- END English to Korean BETA -->

<br/>

<!-- Add English to Russian BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cru&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1phf9HxXBCzVD3KIGCm2oTlvoTGwR_rWkgTRQ0_w-Nw_Oi9OYdzIMfJjhl1kvbven1Fo61xxKLF_6KM7w_BlDhCg/_russian_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA "/> Russian</a>

<!-- END English to Russian BETA -->

<br/>

<!-- Add English to Spanish -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Ces&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Spanish "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" align="absbottom" alt="Google-Translate-English to Spanish " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pS41oGyQtMRYc6yBTJoaovLHaCZOthp6qXfQxIau493uQ-BefJvBTkz5kliT5BfzKgxIZ8hYMuUXPjKEXio1Gow/_spanish_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Spanish "/> Spanish</a>

<!-- END English to Spanish -->

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<!-- Add English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Czh-CN&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p1uPoPqXa3UKUUAkAVFfexI7egVPHRwG3pImeqPG7Lje9X3Vaok2Ow5pXvBf-O44vyDmb9PRG78uzI9GNZUQM0Q/_chinese_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA"/></a>

<!-- END English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA-->

<!-- Add English to French -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cfr&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to French "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to French " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p2khoQY_AJfGOc4sr626ugjACTUnVs-mBTEUz-tb5f8jQ9_BM37-lp3ZxqFjmUvMRSH35UYbHHp0lN6QAXE3-aQ/_french_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to French "/></a>

<!-- END English to French -->

<!-- Add English to German -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cde&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to German"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to German" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1prWarW-yS9UWGkP9t6HIIQjW_Eltl__uJPVASmgDKql99zKOlv1jJilTrGVvRM7VSEIvjGsR4A6pbPo2KrQdrow/_german_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to German"/></a>

<!-- END English to German -->

<!-- Add English to Italian -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cit&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Italian"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Italian" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pihtUnS8uKwJQ8ep-_AtvEefYsSSpe7BuGCRmnoA5G2305nPqYP5ENQnX6i6YHBXveCLNXgitzGpQLCvw8YYBTA/_italian_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Italian"/></a>

<!-- END English to Italian -->

<!-- Add English to Japanese BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cja&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pwPr3iynDaRaulak1f2W4f3gWNEOqQ4K9nsIWB6N7aOYBI02QhhX-48OOeROACQAcHleqiCY2wTLKfnffTghs2A/_japanese_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA"/></a>

<!-- END English to Japanese BETA -->

<!-- Add English to Korean BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cko&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pXidbN5Z6YZ5j0fb2AXCyjLBr9n_ddaYqz1qFEi3N7NBjegm2VkUQavp9d8hMz2UWBJHF2ajVRjWUnn5PCdj5Cg/_korean_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA"/></a>

<!-- END English to Korean BETA -->

<!-- Add English to Russian BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cru&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1phf9HxXBCzVD3KIGCm2oTlvoTGwR_rWkgTRQ0_w-Nw_Oi9OYdzIMfJjhl1kvbven1Fo61xxKLF_6KM7w_BlDhCg/_russian_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA "/></a>

<!-- END English to Russian BETA -->

<!-- Add English to Spanish -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Ces&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Spanish "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Spanish " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pS41oGyQtMRYc6yBTJoaovLHaCZOthp6qXfQxIau493uQ-BefJvBTkz5kliT5BfzKgxIZ8hYMuUXPjKEXio1Gow/_spanish_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Spanish "/></a>

<!-- END English to Spanish -->

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Double Row Widget :

<div style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:10px 0px 3px 0px;text-align:center;background-color:#FFFFFF;min-width:180px; margin: 5px 0 5px 0;">

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<div align="center" style="width:auto;">

<!-- Add English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Czh-CN&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p1uPoPqXa3UKUUAkAVFfexI7egVPHRwG3pImeqPG7Lje9X3Vaok2Ow5pXvBf-O44vyDmb9PRG78uzI9GNZUQM0Q/_chinese_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA"/></a>

<!-- END English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA-->

<!-- Add English to French -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cfr&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to French "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to French " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p2khoQY_AJfGOc4sr626ugjACTUnVs-mBTEUz-tb5f8jQ9_BM37-lp3ZxqFjmUvMRSH35UYbHHp0lN6QAXE3-aQ/_french_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to French "/></a>

<!-- END English to French -->

<!-- Add English to German -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cde&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to German"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to German" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1prWarW-yS9UWGkP9t6HIIQjW_Eltl__uJPVASmgDKql99zKOlv1jJilTrGVvRM7VSEIvjGsR4A6pbPo2KrQdrow/_german_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to German"/></a>

<!-- END English to German -->

<!-- Add English to Italian -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cit&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Italian"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Italian" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pihtUnS8uKwJQ8ep-_AtvEefYsSSpe7BuGCRmnoA5G2305nPqYP5ENQnX6i6YHBXveCLNXgitzGpQLCvw8YYBTA/_italian_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Italian"/></a><!--END English to Italian--><BR/><!--Add English to Japanese BETA--><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cja&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pwPr3iynDaRaulak1f2W4f3gWNEOqQ4K9nsIWB6N7aOYBI02QhhX-48OOeROACQAcHleqiCY2wTLKfnffTghs2A/_japanese_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA"/></a>

<!-- END English to Japanese BETA -->

<!-- Add English to Korean BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cko&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pXidbN5Z6YZ5j0fb2AXCyjLBr9n_ddaYqz1qFEi3N7NBjegm2VkUQavp9d8hMz2UWBJHF2ajVRjWUnn5PCdj5Cg/_korean_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA"/></a>

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<!-- Add English to Russian BETA -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cru&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1phf9HxXBCzVD3KIGCm2oTlvoTGwR_rWkgTRQ0_w-Nw_Oi9OYdzIMfJjhl1kvbven1Fo61xxKLF_6KM7w_BlDhCg/_russian_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA "/></a>

<!-- END English to Russian BETA -->

<!-- Add English to Spanish -->

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Ces&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Spanish "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Spanish " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pS41oGyQtMRYc6yBTJoaovLHaCZOthp6qXfQxIau493uQ-BefJvBTkz5kliT5BfzKgxIZ8hYMuUXPjKEXio1Gow/_spanish_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Spanish "/></a>

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How To Add Top Commentators Widget for Blogger

2009-07-16T16:08:00.000-07:00

If you like to add Top Commentators Widget to your blog follow the steps below.It will increase the commenting rate on blogs.

1.Log in to your dashboard--> layout- ->Page Elements

2.Click on 'Add a Gadget' on the sidebar.

3.Select 'HTML/Javascript' and add the code given below and click save.

Note : Remember to replace BLOGNAME with your blog name. Do not include http://

How To Add Text Resizer to Blogger

2009-07-14T15:33:00.000-07:00

1.Log in to your dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML

2.Click on "Expand Widget Templates"

3.Scroll down to where you see this :

]]></b:skin>

4.Add below code before ]]></b:skin> tag.

.textresize {
padding-left:20px;
padding-top:5px;
}

5.Now add below code between ]]></b:skin> and </head> tags.

6.Now again scroll down to where you see this :

7.Add below code immediately after above line.

8.Now save your template and you are done.

How To Split Blogger Header into 2 Sections

2009-07-12T14:54:00.000-07:00

1. Log in to your dashboard - -> layout - -> Edit HTML

2.Don't click on "Expand Widget Templates"

3. Scroll down to where you see like this code:

#header {
margin: 5px;
border: 1px solid $bordercolor;
text-align: center;
color:$pagetitlecolor;
}

4. Now replace above code with below code :

#header {
float:left;
width:40%;
height:200px;
margin: 0px;
border: 0px solid $bordercolor;
text-align: center;
color:$pagetitlecolor;
}

#header2{float:left; width:60%; height:200px}

Look at the picture below.

Note : If you like you can change width,height,... as your choice.

5. Now again scroll down to where you see like this code:

Remember that YOUR-BLOG-TITLE is your real blog title. Look at the example below. 6. Now replace this code with below code :

Look at the example below:

7. Now save your template and your done. It will look like this.

How To Add Sexy Social Bookmark to Blogger

2009-07-10T19:50:00.000-07:00

1.Log in to your dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML

2.Click on "Expand Widget Templates"

3.Scroll down to where you see </head> tag.

4.Now add below code before </head> tag.

5.Now again scroll down to where you see this:

<data:post.body/>

Note : If you use "Read more...." feature in your template,find second code like this( <data:post.body/> ).

6.Now add below code immediately after <data:post.body/> .

Note : Remember to replace YOUR-FEEDBURNER-ID with your real feedburner ID.

7.Now save your template and you are done.

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2009-07-04T19:32:00.000-07:00

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How To Insert Adsense Ads In Blogger Post

2009-07-02T19:08:00.000-07:00

This will explain how to Embed adsense ads in between posts body.

1.Generate Parsed code for adsense code because we cannot put adsense code directly in the xml.So parse it using AdParser.

2.After parsing your ad code Should look like this.

How To Place Ad above or below your post header

Click on "Expand Widget Template" and scroll down to where you see this:-

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

To place ad above your post header.Paste the code above this line.

To place ad below your post header.Paste the code below this line.

How To Place ad end of your post body

Click on "Expand Widget Template" and scroll down to where you see this:-

<p><data:post.body/></p>

Paste the code below this line, to show your ad at the end of your post.

NOTE : To Set the Align of your ad , Insert your code like this.

<p align="center">
Your Ad code
</p>

Replace "center" with "left" or "right" for desired alignment.

6 Tips How to Write Effective PPC Ads

2009-06-27T12:55:00.001-07:00

Nowadays, it became quite easy to start and maintain Pay per Click (PPC) campaigns. Looking from the dull side, there is a lot of money being wasted given that these Ads are appealing to the visitor, thus reducing the Click through Rate.

Writing effective PPC Ads can be quite easy. The most important thing to remember is that the one and only goal of your PPC Ad is to get clicked. There is no room for branding and no time to sell. You can do all that on the landing page, but only if you get the visitor to your landing page.

Keep in Mind: The Headline

Just as in all advertising, the headline is the most important part of your PPC Ad. In fact, studies show that Ads with powerful headlines get clicked even if the rest of the ad copy is below average. The number one tip is to include your keyword in your headline. And whenever possible, include active words and speak to your target market. Avoid exclamation points or other symbols which only take up space.

Keep in Mind: The Benefits

Again, writing a PPC ad is not much different than writing a display ad - except of course you have much less words to work with. Emphasize the benefits to your visitors, not the features of your products. In other words, what will your customer get when he uses your product or service?

Keep in Mind: Your Target Market

Display Ads work best when the reader believes the Ad is meant for him - and the same goes for your PPC Ad. While you might not have enough space to use "Attention: Small Business Owners" you can probably fit the word "you" into your Ad.

Keep in Mind: The Action

You don't want to waste your precious Ad space with the obvious "click here" but you can refer to what action the visitor will take on your landing page. How about "take the quiz" or "request and instant quote" or whatever fits your particular situation.

Keep in Mind: Your Secondary Goal

The number one goal is to get a click, but what do you hope to accomplish once the visitor gets to your landing page? Do you want to capture names, or do you want to make a sale? If you want as many names as possible, offer something free in your Ad.

Keep in Mind: The Competition

Before writing your Ads look at current Ads for your keywords. Next, do the exact opposite of what the industry norm is. Why? PPC is similar to the yellow pages with all your competitors lumped into one space, looking almost identical. Do something different so you will stand out from the crowd.

How to Hide/Remove Label Count in Blogger Blogs

2009-06-26T12:58:00.000-07:00

Some people prefer not to display the label count in their blogs as it looks a bit unprofessional. Lets say if you have a label 'Funny sms' with 50 label count and another one ' Good morning sms' with 2 as label count... less people will show interest on clicking the second one.

So, let’s see how to hide or remove the Label count in your blogger blog(s)...

1. Sign into Blogger dashboard » Layout » Edit html

Tick the expand widget templates and remove this line from the template..

<span dir='ltr'>(<data:label.count/>)</span>

2. Save the Changes and done!

Tips to Improve Visitors Bounce Rate

2009-06-25T12:27:00.000-07:00

Bounce rate is the percentage or amount of visitors who leave your website after arriving at the entry page. These are visitors who ‘bounce away’ after arriving without viewing other pages on your website. You can easily find your website’s bounce rate by using statistics tools like Google Analytics.

A low bounce rate means that visitors are exploring your website in greater detail meaning that they are more engaged with your content. High bounce rates of over 60% require immediate attention. Below find some tips to help you reduce your bounce rate and increase visitors’ loyalty.

Page Headline

Most times a wrong page headline can make your visitors quickly click the back button. Your headline should make visitors want to continue reading. Typically when you visit a website you begin by reading the headline. If the headline connects with you then you begin reading the contents of the page.

Add Photos, Videos or Screen Shots to Catch Attention

Adding a nice screen shot of your product or a photo will cause visitors to give a second look. Use a good caption below the picture to grab their attention and make them interested. Embedded videos are a great way to reduce bounce rate since it takes time to view a video.

Improve the Web Page Loading Time

Visitors tend to click the back button if the page takes long to load. Optimize your HTML code, remove unwanted images and optimize your images. Consider a new website design. Go for a simple, practical but decent looking design.

Improve Navigation

Assume that your visitor knows nothing about your site. Assume that they want more information. Make navigation points easy to access, position links around content. There are many ways to orient your visitors and the most important principle is to make the links highly visible and relevant to the current page.

Test your Web Pages

Test your website with a group of users. Ask them to enter your site from specific pages. Get feedback based on their experiences. This will give you ways to improve.

To best achieve this, you should regularly analyze and study your bounce rate. After collecting data, implement changes to your website and see if the bounce rate improves. Also, determine how it affects your goals. Finally, make changes if necessary.

If you’ve not paid any attention to your bounce rate before, try starting today. It might help you to dramatically improve your website.

Give Your Website a Global Appeal

2009-06-21T14:14:00.001-07:00

A research has found that not less than 85% people rely on search engines when it comes to finding relevant information online. While organic search is used predominantly - as many as 70% of the search engine users according to reliable source, Paid or Sponsored links also help users extensively as an alternative but dominant search method. So, for getting a good rank for a site on any search engine, like Google, Yahoo and others, search engine optimization plays a real trick. Various tactics are used in the process of search engine optimization ranging from Domain Name Registration to aggressive PPC campaigning. First is the selection of a domain name that should contain the main keyword and obviously no hyphens. It is advised to use easy and simple keywords, which are used widely. The keyword density comes close second.

Many people think that high keyword density will lead the site to get a good ranking, but always remember that high density of keywords are mostly taken as spamming, which may leave the site blacklisted. So, be careful while using keywords in your writing. Apart from these, link exchanging, directory submission, social media optimization, article submission, blogging and so on are the most common constituents of any standard SEO packages under the search engine optimization periphery.

A number of Search Engine Optimization Australia companies offer search engines optimization services. All these companies offer various attractive SEO packages, easy on pocket and high on expectations. According to your budget and business necessity, you can choose any of these packages. Even more, if you are looking for Google Adwords packages, many of these companies will help you strategically.

Especially, if you are keener about web marketing, these companies will provide you with intelligent PPC campaigns and related services. It is true that of late, 80% expenses pertaining to web marketing are spent on PPC marketing only. No matter whether you want sponsored match PPC campaign or content match PPC campaign, with a wide range of PPC services, these Search Engine Optimization Australia companies will definitely meet your needs. Whatever you do before selecting a company, you must first check how proficient they are in using various search engine techniques, their packages, rates on offer and then only go for the best option. Search engine optimization not only steps up your web presence, but also allows you to reach out to a wide extent and give your business a new high. Finding a suitable SEO service is necessary by having an analytical look at company profiles and their clientele.

Why The Hell My Blogs Revenue are So Low?

2009-06-07T19:56:00.001-07:00

I think I might have caught your attention with that Title which was my plan :-/

Those who do not blog completely because they want to earn some extra money often thinks: “Why the hell my blogs revenue so low?” Many people who think that blogs simply can not generate much money. They are absolutely wrong! Blog can generate you the same amount of money if not more compared to any other website. Now I am talking about PPC (Pay per click) sources of revenue such as Google-Adsense here.

The main thing I have noticed is that people tend to concentrate on wider markets. If you are running a personal diary kind of blog in which you talk about your dreams and other gossips around the world; the chances are that there are thousands of similar blogs around. The more competition you have, the harder it will be for you to make some cash.

Instead try concentrating on smaller markets also known as niche markets. Not only it will be easier for you to develop the traffic, the CPC (Cost per click) should also be higher due to advertisers demand exceeding publishers supply.

Secondly you need to have a unique selling point. You need to give your readers something that nobody else does. This should really help you get returning visitors.

Finally it’s the ads themselves. You should channel your ads. By this you will be able to measure your various ad block’s performance. One of the most important things is to Keep experimenting. Try different ad formats, colors and positioning. Run your setup for a few weeks, note the performance and try something different. Even if you think you have found the optimum ad setup keep on trying to improve it. In most cases you can always tweak something to make your ad performance much better than earlier.

I hope you might have got your answer whenever you think like “Why the hell my blogs revenue so low?

100+ Do Follow Forums To Increase Backlinks

2009-06-07T19:29:00.001-07:00

Here is a DO-Follow Forums list by where you can reply with your blog name n get enormous backlinks.They all are 100% Verified,there is no doubt in it.So Enjoy this huge list.

http://www.webmaster-forum.net

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Bad Google Adsense Words That Will Not Make You Money

2009-06-07T07:24:00.001-07:00

Adsense is the most popular advertisement application that most of webmasters and bloggers use to make money. So I will try to help you not to fail if you use Adsense. Well, there are many articles about the words that Google pay most however there are many words that shouldn’t be used at all. Just imagine that there are many or several words you can’t say on TV. The situation with Adsense is the same but there are many more words that can’t be used. Using bad words may get you a penalty.

If you wonder what the penalty is I can say that these bad words may prevent normal Adsense ads from being shown. Public service ads (PSA) will be shown on your blog and I want to notice that PSA do not pay any money. It means that you will not get paid but impressions will be counted.

If you really want to use these bad words try to use numbers instead of letters. So have you ever noticed that you have number of clicks in your Adsense account but no amount of money ? Look at the words below that will not help you make money. By the way, some of these words may be good because nobody knows all the bad words. These words shouldn’t be used in any form.

6 Tricks to Make Your Blogs Load Faster

2009-06-06T20:20:00.001-07:00

If you keep your blog loading slowly, you lose visitors. To make your blogs load faster, you can increase your internet connection, but it only works for you. It does not work for your visitors. Thus the best way to fix this is to have your blogs clean. That is the only way, but how? This is a good question anyway. There are many factors that make your blogs load slowly, so there are many ways to fix it.

1.Coding: if you see any code that is un-necessary, you can delete it or if you see any similar code that they write twice, you could delete it and combine then into one function. For example, if you write style for each tag, and those styles are the same, you should write one class in CSS and connect to it.

2. Comments: If you already understood the code, you should delete the comments in your code because it is not necessary anymore.

3. Create thumbnail for picture: If you have a big picture, and you put it on your blogs. That makes your blogs load really slowly because it takes time to load the full picture. You should create a thumbnail for that picture and link it to original picture. If that picture is not necessary for your post, you can only have a link to it. By doing it, your blogs become lighter and faster.

4. Widget, function: As I mention in previous post, widgets can become a main reason for blogs loading slowly, so if it is not very useful for your blogs, you should remove it from your blogs.

5.JavaScript: You can write all your JavaScript code in to 1 or 2 files and connect to them by using src link.

6.Flash: As I said, you should not use flash for your blogs. It usually takes too much time to load.

Free Domain Names

2009-06-05T10:03:00.001-07:00

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How to follow a Blogger blog without Follower Gadget

2009-06-03T10:39:00.001-07:00

Recently, Blogger introduced the Followers Gadget. It is a very useful tool. This gadget is used to build a community network for your blog. This gadget is similar to feed. It can help you get new information on other Blogger blogs quickly. Unlike feed, you can only get their updates on the feed readers. With Follower Gadget, when you subscribe, you can get their updates on the Blogger dashboard and in Google reader. So, when you log in your blogs in Blogger dashboard, you can easily see the update on other blogs. However, most bloggers do not use this gadget on their blogs. When you see an interesting blog, you want to subscribe to their follower, but their do not have one. You may not feel good. There is a solution to this problem.

To follow a blog that does not use Follower Gadget, you need their blogID. You can find this ID in their blog source code. Open their blog source, and search for blogID number

Then replace this number with blognumber in the following link:

http://www.blogger.com/follow-blog.g?blogID=blognumber

Copy this link and past it in the browser address, then it will ask you to choose to subscribe privately or publicly.

Creating Blog Entries

2009-06-03T10:22:00.001-07:00

When it comes to running a blog, the owner needs to be able to regularly generate content. This task comes easy to some, but for many, it can occasionally happen that the ideas stop coming. Failing to post for a little while can be detrimental to a blog’s traffic, so the site owner needs to be sure to have a steady flow of traffic. There are a number of ways in which the site owner can generate content, below are a few ways to do so.

Learn from others -

Watch blogs that are similar to yours, finding out what they are posting about and learning more about what is interesting and worth are relating to the constituents of your blogs. There is a lot that you can learn from other blogs, so look to industry experts and other bloggers and see what you can glean from them when it comes to creating blog content for your own endeavor.

Subscribe to RSS Feeds -

By subscribing to RSS feeds you can come up with plenty of new blog topics and subjects to write about. Read other blogs and find out about current news, events and other hot topics that will allow you to get a better feel for what needs to be discussed in your blog.

Talk with other Bloggers -

Ask questions to other bloggers as to job information, how they come up with ideas and other similar subjects. Talk with other bloggers and you will get an excellent idea of what is going on out there, and even more importantly, how you can generate more content for your blog. Open yourself up to conversations with other bloggers in your niche or industry and you are bound to come with all kinds of ideas for content.

Visit your past and read your blog history -

The best way to know what to write is to look back in time at what you have already talked about. You can also find entries which are in need of revisions or that you can update. If you have written about something in the past that could be touched on again, reference the old blog post with a link and update your readers with new relevant information.

Invite a Guest Blogger -

It can be a good this to invite a blogger who is an expert in the same or related field as your own. Inviting a guest blogger will allow you to add content to your blog without necessarily having to write it yourself. Expand your blog with content from other bloggers and attract more traffic to your site.

Hire a Professional -

Sometimes, you just need the article written and the best way to accomplish this is to hire a blogger. If you are having trouble coming up with content for your blog, are not sure what to write next, or simply need assistance getting content written on demand, don’t be afraid to hire a professional to assist you.

Keep Readers Coming Back to Your Blog

2009-06-03T10:18:00.001-07:00

If you have a blog, you want to keep readers coming back. You can attract readers in a variety of ways, but keeping them is a little harder. You may end up high in the search engines for tons of keywords and pull in tons of unique page views. But how do you keep these new blog readers interested enough to come back again?

Many bloggers don’t. They do all the right things to get people there, but fail at engaging people enough that they’ll come back to read some more. What are the tricks, then, to keep readers coming back to your blog?

There are no tricks, which is a good thing. Tricks are hard. The techniques to get people coming back are instead just common sense that many people seem to forget when they’re writing their blogs. The main technique is to actually write something someone wants to read.

Obviously, your blog has to be interesting. If you get tons of unique page views and no comments at all, then the people reading your posts don’t find them interesting enough to comment on, and they’re probably not coming back.

If you’re using SEO in your posts, then you’re blogging correctly for the search engines. But don’t forget to actually make the posts about something, too. A post about shoes that simply goes on to say that you could pick a red shoe, or blue shoes, and there are 800,000 different kinds of shoes without ever offering anything but that kind of fluff won’t get people to come back. If you explain the benefits of choosing the red shoe over the blue one, then you have actual content.

Make sure that your content is actually something people need to know. Really bad SEO writing about those shoes, for example, might manage to get the keywords in a good number of times and still be about more than listing types of shoes. That doesn’t mean it’s good.

A really unimaginative person who doesn’t have anything to say about shoes might write a post about how you could choose red shoes over blue shoes because you like red better. Or that red shoes are different from blue shoes because one is dyed red . . . and the other, blue. This kind of SEO writing is all over the Internet. It might pull in keyword-related traffic, but who will come back for more of that?

To keep readers coming back to your blog you have to engage them somehow. Don’t use a keyword-stuffed post about nothing, making it interesting at the same time-it’s not that hard to do. How-to posts are very popular, as are posts with useful lists like “Top 10 Reasons Red Shoes are Better than Blue.”

Just don’t stop at a catchy title. Actually deliver what you said you would. Give the reader something interesting enough that they’ll want to check back later to see what else you might be writing about in your blog and you’ll keep the reader coming back.

Blog Plug-Ins to Get More Readers

2009-06-03T10:06:00.001-07:00

Wordpress specifically has a number of plug-ins for blogging that will allow you to attract more readers to your blog. Some of the best blog plug-ins for increasing traffic to come in three main categories:

Social networking and bookmarking
Posting across many different platforms
RSS feed helpers

BTE Related Websites: For WordPress users the best way to get traffic is to use the plugin called Related Websites. The more bloggers that use this plugin, the stronger the whole system is. To get your links to show up on relevant posts, you must join and become a full member. This quality control is completely humanized so that the system is never compromised. You get strong related links for your site and in addition are linked to from other sites. What are you waiting for?

RSS Feeds: Lots of people prefer to read blogs in feeds rather than having to visit several different blog sites per day. This doesn’t actually get them coming through as traffic, but they read the post and will follow links and other such information. If you don’t have your blog available as a feed, then you’re missing out on those readers who prefer feeds over surfing to your blog regularly.

Some of the more popular Wordpress plug-ins for RSS feeds do different things. Some are designed to allow you to add a copyright to your posts like ©Feed, which also “fingerprints” your feed so you can search for plagiarists who are duplicating your content. Feed Footer lets you copyright as well, and also lets you add advertising in the footer of your feeds.

The type of plug-in that lets you use ads is great for those into monetizing their blogs and can help offset the loss of clicks or advertiser revenue by adding it to the feed. Feedvertiser lets you place ads in your feed, as well. Feed Control lets you exclude certain posts from the feed, while Better Feed lets you ad the © notice, a del.icio.us link and a “read more” link to lead people to your blog.

Feedstats lets you see the stats on your feeds, and SlashComment adds a little note to the end of the feeds about the number of comments on the post.

Social Bookmarking: For social bookmarking and networking within your blog, the one of the best plug-ins is called Share This. Unlike many other plug-ins that will let you social bookmark at Digg, Reddit or del.icio.us, Share This create a drop-down box where the reader can choose from about 14 of the most popular Social Bookmarking sites online. The Social plug-in, however, has the record for offering 61 social bookmarking links to your reader.

The RSS Flashfeeder to MySpace combines the RSS feed help with social networking, by letting you send the last two posts of your feed directly to your MySpace page.

Crossposting: These plug-ins let you make a post in your Wordpress blog and recreate in your other blogs without having to copy and paste. One plug-in, Dj-Email-Publish, sends your new post by email to many or your other blogs, like those on MSN.

For those with blogs at popular sites LiveJournal, Vox and Xanga, each has a separate crossover plug-in that allows the content in your Wordpress blog to be automatically cross-posted to that other blog. Live Space Sync lets you send your content to all the contacts you have in Microsoft Live.

Getting the word out about your new post is made much easier by using these handy blog plug-ins.

How to Make a Follow Link on the Blogger Comments?

2009-05-28T18:40:00.000-07:00

As default, any links that you have on the Blogger comment section have attribute nofollow. It does not affect anything on the targeted websites or your website. Once, you change it to follow link. It will help the targeted website to increase the pagerank, and your site has negative effect on pagerank. Would you make a follow link on the Blogger comments? If the answer is yes, this post is for you. Making a follow link in the comments section would encourage readers to post a comment. In return, it helps their websites in the long run.

In order to change from nofollow link to follow link, you follow these simple steps:

Backup your template. It is not necessary, just in case you do something wrong.
Open your blogger template and search for the following code.

<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl'  rel='nofollow'><data:comment.author/></a>

In the above code, you see the attribute rel='nofollow', you just have to change it to rel='follow'. After doing it, you have the following code:

<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='follow'><data:comment.author/></a>

You are done; click on save your template. It is simple, right? What do you think about this change?

Top 10 Backlink Strategies

2009-05-27T13:55:00.001-07:00

One of the most important aspects of increasing your Google Page Rank
The search engines still believe that back-links are an important factor in assessing your site, so until that changes, we still have to work at generating valuable back-links.Fortunately we are no longer stuck with boring directory submissions as the only alternative.

The methods shown underneath are becoming popular as alternatives to plain directory submissions.
Allow the steps below to inspire you to think of other ways to generate back-links.

* URL directories
As old as the stars (almost) but still definitely important in any back-linking strategy.As there are thousands of these directories on the internet, you really need to use directory submission software to save yourself some time.

* Natural back-links
As your site’s stature grows, you will automatically receive organic back-links from other web masters.
This will take time as your site grows and the content becomes more valuable.

* Forums, guest books and comment boxes
By leaving comments in forums, guest books or blog comment fields, you can generate back-links in an instant.
Remember to put your URL in your signature.

* Article Marketing
These have become intensely popular recently and are widely touted as the most efficient way to build back-links to your site.

* Blogging
By creating a free account with one of the blog hosting providers, you can set up your own blog in 5 minutes.
By creating related content in your blog, you can sprinkle in links back to your main site as often as you wish.

* Creating free software
This is an exciting idea: you can create free software yourself.
You do not even need to be a programmer, you can achieve this using software tools available on the internet.Once you have made the software available for download on your site, you can submit to hundreds of software directories who will then link back to your download page.Any niche can make use of a good little piece of software !

* Social bookmarks
Shared bookmarks allow other users to see which links are valuable. Create accounts on the most popular Bookmarking sites and share your site’s URL together with other bookmarks.

* Google knol
You own the knol and no-one else can edit your entry, so this is a great opportunity for creating your own back-links legitimately.

* RSS marketing
Create an RSS feed for your site or blog and use Feedburner to publish it to hundreds of RSS aggregators.

* Video marketing back-links
By creating a video, you have opened up another method of generating back-links: submit to YouTube and post your hot URL in the description box.
These strategies make up a killer back-link arsenal, now you need to spend some time investigating each topic.

Implement your back-link marketing strategy, and follow your own guidelines religiously to avoid becoming distracted by the Internet’s overload of SEO information.
Make sure your back-links are relevant to your site and you will succeed.

The search engines will show your more love and you will watch your traffic grow.

Advantages of Using Wordpress to Publish a Newspaper Blog

2009-05-27T13:50:00.001-07:00

If you want to have a blog or website that’s in newspaper format, Wordpress is the ideal medium. There are many other services you could use, but because Wordpress is so user friendly it’s easy to set up your blog to look like a newspaper (or a website, or whatever you want).

Why is Wordpress so good for setting up a newspaper?

First of all, you can start a Wordpress blog for free. You can also pay, of course, but if you’re just experimenting and trying to figure out what you want and how you want to do it, then it doesn’t cost anything. If you choose, later you can have your own domain and a variety of other paid features.

But even if you don’t want those things, you can completely lift your content from Wordpress and put it somewhere else. They claim no ownership on anything you’ve published through their service. You really need to read the fine print on many other “free” services and even paid ones. Now and then you’ll find a clause in the fine print that gives them actual ownership of whatever you put up. It’s doubtful they’d try to take to the content from you, but why let them stake a claim on your content, just in case?

Wordpress is also perfect for a newspaper because of the tons of free templates that are available. So you sign up for free and you can browse a variety of blog templates until you find the free one you want. They have some designed just for that newspaper look which makes them perfect.

And because Wordpress is so popular, if you wanted to purchase a layout or pay to have one designed just the way you wanted, it would be easy to find a developer who could do that for you. Yet, you will most likely be able to get started with a free theme, if that’s what you want. You can even design your own. There are tutorials all over the web about how to design your own Wordpress theme, so you have several options.

Wordpress is so easy to use that with only the smallest time learning how you can easily update your newspaper blog and fill it with great content. You can add content and preview it, save it as a draft and tinker as much as you want before anyone else sees it, so you have the ability to get it just the way you want before it goes live.

It’s easy to go back and change a post in your Wordpress newspaper blog, too. You just edit the post and go in to add or change something with very little hassle. If you know HTML you can enhance your content with it manually, or use their rich text editor which makes it easy to add formatting like different fonts, italics, bold, images and other great additions. All these add up to make Wordpress a great place for a newspaper blog.

Social Media! What Is It? How Does It Work?

2009-05-27T13:21:00.001-07:00

So I was talking to a business partner of mine the other day and he was asking me about how I was approaching social media or web 2.0 and that it was a little hard to find the line between business and pleasure. He asked me what is social media or web 2.0 and how does it work? Here is the deal. Social media or web 2.0 is like a really big party or get together that you have to be invited to. It is all about who you know and how popular you are….kind of like in High School except for all age brackets.

Now lets put this into perspective. Lets say you meet someone in a coffee shop and they invite you to a welcome party for a friend who just moved into town. You accept and plan on seeing them there at the party. So you walk into the party and the first thing you do is walk up to 20 different people and say, “HEY, DO YOU WANT TO JOIN MY BUSINESS..I HAVE SOME GREAT IDEAS. YOU COULD MAKE 200,000.00 THIS YEAR FROM HOME…WHAT DO YOU THINK…HUH..HUH…HUH!

Do you think you would ever be invited to that party again. NO, NOT A CHANCE. In fact they would all label you as the weird guy who was trying to get everyone to join there business.

Social media or web 2.0 can be a great marketing tool but it can also be a great way to meet amazing people and friends for life. I know that we all have en devours and new business ideas and some of us genuinely want to see people succeed and live the life of their dreams so don’t think that you have to change who you are or what you are passionate about. Let’s try not to forget the origins of social media or web 2.0 when people used myspace and facebook to connect with friends and not for business. Just remember to always be yourself no matter what and you will always attract people like you. Try to branch out and meet some new people. Reconnect with old friends and who knows. If you are single you might even find the perfect mate in this crazy thing called social media.

Some Interesting Styles of Blogging

2009-05-26T23:03:00.001-07:00

Here are some unique styles of blogging that you may find interesting.

1. Techcrunch – If there’s news about company X launching a new product called Y, most tech blogs would simply publish that news with their own commentary but it’s not that easy for Arrington. His interns will first create new entries for both company X and product Y on CrunchBase and then the news would go live on the main TechCrunch site with the company or person’s name often linking back to the CrunchBase entry instead of the official website.

2. Jason Calacanis – Most people think that Mahalo founder Jason has quit blogging but it’s not true. The only difference is that Jason now uses an email editor to write his blog post instead of some blog editor – his email messages still get published as blog entries (see example) and can be read via feeds.

3. Daring Fireball – Apple guru John Gruber has an extremely unique blogging style. The title of his blog articles do not point to the permalink of that post but instead they link to the main story that John is commenting upon. Subscribe to his feed and you’ll definitely fall in love with this style of linking.

4. John Battelle - While most bloggers (A-list crowd included) worry about writing attention grabbing headlines, John knows how to convey his message using one liners. See some examples from John’s search blog here, here and here - you get the picture without having to read an essay.

5. Philipp Lenssen – Philipp’s blog is an interesting mix of a blog and an online forum where anyone can post messages without having to register. When something interesting or newsworthy is posted in the forums, Philip “promotes” that thread to turn it into a blog post and also attributes the person who originally started that thread.

6. Matt Drudge - The design may look ugly but Drudge Report, a site that first broke news about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, is clearly the most "selfless" blog on the web. This one page blog consists only of links to other news websites and columnists.

7. Dave Winer – Ask any “blogging guru” about their secret recipes and they’ll always recommend one thing – add good quality photographs (or even screenshots) in blog posts to make them look more “appealing”. Dave is more creative and prefers using clip-art images to illustrate his ideas - see examples here or here. Another unique feature of Dave’s blog is that you can directly link to any paragraph in the blog – just get the URL from the # sign.

8. Engadget – Look at any Engadget article and you’ll find that all links but one are internal and point to one of their own articles. The source (if any) is attributed at the end and the anchor text reads the same for all external links – READ. Here’s an example.

9. Mivox - Mivox doesn’t use a computer keyboard to write blogs. Instead he writes articles on a piece of paper using ink and then puts a photograph of this paper on to his blog. PostSecret would also classify as a handwritten blog though none of the postcards are written by Frank Warren himself.

How to publish your blog as a Twitter feed

2009-05-25T21:15:00.001-07:00

A common way of reading blogs is to suscribe to their RSS feeds, so you read all new content via your chosen RSS Aggregator (eg Google Reader) rather than having to visit each of your favourite blogs in turn to check for new posts.

But wouldn’t it be better still if blog-readers could subscribe to (i.e. follow) a Twitter account, associated with each blog, that will tweet each time there is a new post to read on that blog and provide a link to it? People are increasingly living in Twitter, so your Twitter stream is a good place to get alerts about new blog-posts.

This is actually pretty easy to set up, at least if you only follow a few blogs. You need to create a Twitter account for each blog you want to follow, to act as a conduit. There is an example here. bbcnickrobinson is not Nick Robinson’s Twitter account. It was actually created by ChannelFlip’s Wil Harris for his own use. Wil used a web application called twitterfeed to connect the RSS feed from Nick Robinson’s blog on the BBC website to bbcnickrobinson. Then, every time Nick Robinson puts up a new post on his BBC blog, it appears in the associated RSS feed, gets picked up by twitterfeed and is regurgitated as a tweet on bbcnickrobinson. Wil follows bbcnickrobinson (from his own proper Twitter account) so sees the tweet in his Twitter stream, and can follow a link from there to read Nick’s new blogpost.

Anyone can use this arrangement to follow any number of blogs via Twitter, but it gets impractical to create lots of these conduit Twitter accounts and connect them all up via twitterfeed. For one thing you will run out of email addresses. You need a different one for each Twitter account you set up.

Far better if each blogger creates a conduit Twitter account themselves, and connects it to their blog via twitterfeed, for all their readers to follow.

I have done this with my two main blogs. The Twitter account for this blog is here. The account for my photography blog, exposures, is here.

If you’re a blogger, give this idea a go. And no, I don’t work for or have shares in twitterfeed.

Some Useful Adsense and Traffic Tips for Beginners

2009-05-25T18:38:00.001-07:00

Adsense, Adsense , Adsense...! I'm sure most of you might have read numerous articles or posts about Adsense and Traffic Tips like Adsense Optimization Tips, Increase your Adsense Earnings, I made XXXXX bucks and so on. You might be fed up with those articles because of its 'lengthiness' or 'boring' explanations. I'm not putting you under 'boredom' conditions! Anyway let me start like this:

Adsense alone won't bring money into your pocket. You must get Good amount of Traffic for that.The success formula is:
Traffic + Adsense = Money..!

Here are some 'simple traffic generation tips' for Google Adsense users. Though some of these tips may be familiar to you, you can get some more useful 'tips' while reading..! Read, understand and please make it practice if you want to be a Successful Adsense Publisher:

Submit some of your blog articles to various Article directories such as Articles Factory, Articles Hub, Article Base, Article Biz etc...

Use Technorati Tags

Submit your best articles to Digg, Yahoo Buzz and Del.icio.us

Frequently Comment on other Niche blogs(Blogs with similar topics)

Submit Sitemaps to Google Webmasters and Yahoo Site Explorer

Use a Blogroll containing your favourite related Blogs/Websites

Try to Post at least one article/content per day

Make your content unique and useful

Update the Blog with breaking news, new informations and make it a Valuable Content

DO NOT click Your Adsense Ads Yourself, your Adsense Account will be banned

Match your Adsense Ads with your site's theme and color

Place Ads on TOP(468x60, 728x90 etc) and between blog posts(300x250,200x200 etc)

These are just 'very simple' tips which might be 'useful' for the 'Beginners' and also for others. So Try to Build a Good, Quality Contented, Unique and Frequently updated Blog to get More Traffic to your Blog.

How to Hide Your Post Date, Time and/or Author

2009-05-25T18:02:00.001-07:00

There are some reason for blogger to hide Post date, time and author. May be they want to see their blog looks clear or everything. Now I will show you the trick to "hide your post date, time and or author". the methods is very simple, just find the code that I pointed to you and delete it. You can chose which part want to delete, date only, time only, author only or it all. Ok, if you decided to do it lets begin the hack.

1. Login to blogger the go to "Layout --> Edit HTML"

2. Click on the "Download Full Template" to back up your template first.

3. Check on the "Expand Widget Templates" check box.

Hide Post Date

find this code and delete it.

<data:post.dateHeader/>

Hide Post Time

find this code and delete it.

<span class='post-timestamp'>
<b:if cond='data:top.showTimestamp'>
<data:top.timestampLabel/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a class='timestamp-link' expr:href='data:post.url' rel='bookmark'
title='permanent link'><abbr class='published'
expr:title='data:post.timestampISO8601'><data:post.timestamp/></abbr></a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</span>.

Hide Post Author

find this code and delete it.

<span class='post-author vcard'>
<b:if cond='data:top.showAuthor'>
<data:top.authorLabel/>
<span class='fn'><data:post.author/></span>
</b:if>
</span>

4. Save your editting

Strategies and Tools for Corporate Blogging

2009-05-25T01:44:00.001-07:00

Review
Ok, we finally figured out why blog, now John Cass tells us how to do it----successfully! This comprehensive approach to developing a corporate blog program covers everything from A- 6 Apart to Y - YouTube. I particularly found the blog audit section (chapter 2) for sizing the market particularly helpful. By following John's strategies, you are sure to have a high ranking blog that resonates with your customers. I wish I had the benefit of this book when I started a corporate blog last year.
-- Warren Sukernek, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Cruise West
John Cass provides a great wake up call for corporations. He highlights not only how blogging can improve a company's relationship with its customers, but also 'the recipe for success,' such as the mechanics of blogging, how it fits into the marketing mix, how to develop guidelines for employees, and more. He describes real examples of what companies have done in the past and what they can do moving forward to get on the blogging bandwagon. This is a must-read for anyone who is thinking about implementing blogs.
--Scott K. Wilder, Group Manager, Intuit Small Business Online Communities
In the old days, you only had two ways to reach audiences: Buy expensive advertising or convince the media to write about you. Today, the Web allows any organization to be just in time and just right publishers. John Cass delivers everything you need to know to harness the amazing power of blogs and blogger relations to reach your buyers directly.
--David Meerman Scott, Author, The New Rules of Marketing and PR

Book Description
Introduces consumer-generated media to PR and search optimization

Product Description
If advertising and public relations were the best ways to connect with a company's audience through traditional media, and blogs are the best way to connect with millions of customers through the medium of online consumer generated media, then how can companies best use blogs to connect with their audience through the medium of consumer-generated media?
The answer is through blogger relations, the process of interacting with bloggers and blog readers to get a company's message to an audience. This book targets business people, marketing professionals, public relations firms, search engine optimization and online marketing agency staff with a primer on the importance of corporate blogging and how to conduct a successful blogger relations ongoing campaign.
* Provides tools for companies to interact with customers through blogging communities
* Shows how to transform public relations and search marketing through consumer-generated media, RSS feeds and comment interaction strategies
* Describes how to optimize blog articles for blog search engines and provides content strategies
* Provides companies the planning tools to evaluate its blogging community and company resources for effective blogging

About the Author
Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR), President of the AMA Boston 2005-2006. He blogs at PR Communications: pr.typepad.com.

Improve ( Increase ) Alexa Traffic Rank

2009-05-25T00:58:00.001-07:00

A collection of methods which can improve your Alexa Traffic Rank What is the Alexa Rank? In simple terms, the Alexa Rank is a ranking system of your website which bases its ranking on the level of traffic each website receives from the number of people who visit a website with the Alexa toolbar installed. The most important element of any website is content - good quality informative content cannot be beaten when trying to get a good page rank. The more people who visit your website and return or recommend it, the more your traffic will naturally increase. Below are a few methods that can help to improve your alexa rank :

1) Install the Alexa toolbar on your computer and request that anyone who knows you do the same.

2) Put an Alexa rank widget on your website. Each click can count as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.

3) Write an article or blog on Alexa. Webmasters love searching methods to improve their sites. Webmasters are also very likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed. Each visit will increase your alexa rank.

4) Use forums to post messages that include your url. Try and make your post interesting to encourage readers to visit your site.

5) Make use of social networking sites. Get your website Dugg and you could increase traffic. Make sure anything that is Dugg is note worthy.

Why Blog? I’ll Tell You Why!

2009-05-24T21:50:00.000-07:00

The word “blog” is one of the most popular words on the internet today. This buzz word is one of the most popularly searched terms on the net because increasing numbers of people are trying to figure out what blogging is all about. A blog is a web log, or an online public diary or journal that is written for others to read. You can create blogs for personal reasons, educational and informational reasons, business and corporate reasons or a multitude of other uses and purposes depending on what suits your fancy.

As a marketing tool, blogs are full of all kinds of potential. Blogs have some truly unique characteristics as a marketing tool. First of all, they are much easier than newsletters when it comes to getting your idea across. They can be added to, and they can be updated at any time and from virtually anywhere. Blogs also have long lasting shelf lives, as they exist on the internet until you decide to remove them. This contrasts well to newsletters which have extremely short shelf lives, because once you send it out, it’s sent, then trashed, and gone. Unless you are just posting marketing materials that are deglossed, most blogs offer a large amount of credibility. Whether your blog is a personal blog or a business blog, viewers come to blogs expecting to find frank and personal perspectives on a topic that you are passionate about.

If you maintain your viewers and you respect the idea that you should be passionate about the content of your blog, then your credibility will go up, and this is what blogging is truly all about. Blogs are easy to syndicate, meaning that you can get your information and opinions out there, and can allow them to spread like wildfire. If you have an opinion to share, a product to sell, a brand to market or something else to say on the internet, and you think that people are going to want to read what it is that you have to say, then blogging is an excellent option for you to consider.

If you do not already have a blog that is associated with your business or your website, then now may very well be an excellent time for you to start blogging. You should not think that blogging is unnecessary simply because you are employing other strategies for marketing or communicating online. There are completely different dynamics when it comes to e-mail communication and blogging. Nothing facilitates conversation, communication and community the way that blogging does. There is no confusion about blogging being spam the way e-mails can be looked at as spam. Blogs have a long shelf life, meaning they last longer than e-mail correspondence and blogs work very well in conjunction with other forms of communication and methods of marketing as well.

So the answer to “Why Blog?” is “Why Not?”

Tips for avoiding PPC mistakes

2009-05-20T17:55:00.000-07:00

An internet marketing expert has offered some top tips for companies looking to make the most of their online pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns.

Writing for the internet marketing news website Marketing Pilgrim, Ann Stanley says companies often make fundamental mistakes when it comes to PPC as they lack basic online advertising knowledge.

These include lumping all their PPC key phrases into one ad group or campaign and setting their maximum cost per click too high or too low.

Making the first mistake could result in a low quality score and click through rate as the landing page may not match the many key phrases in the PPC add.

And making the second could mean that ads are only shown intermittently, which means it will be more difficult for internet users to find them.

Ms Stanley suggests that companies conduct some thorough research before opening their first PPC account as lack of knowledge and experience means they are more likely to make basic errors that will drain their internet marketing budgets.

Meanwhile a recent survey carried out by the Online Marketing and Media Show has revealed that over a third of companies plan to dedicate up to 25 per cent of their marketing budget to online marketing this year.

Principles of Good SEO for Your Blog

2009-05-17T15:05:00.001-07:00

Regardless of whether you are writing a blog simply because you enjoy having a lot of people reading your thoughts, or if you are writing a blog because you are looking to generate income, one of the most important things that you need to do is maximize the SEO or search engine optimization potential for your blog so that you can maximize the return on your investment, where the return is anything you want it to be, and the investment is the time and effort that you are putting into keeping your blog going. Without the right amount of search engine optimization, your blog is going to be doomed to simply float around without ever gaining the number of hits that you are hoping to achieve.

What blog SEO is, is the maximization of your blog’s positioning in the results for search engines. Let us say that you are writing a blog about mystery novels. If someone types “mystery novel blog” into the search engine search bar, you are going to want to be one of the first few results, maximizing the chance that the visitor will come to your blog rather than visiting someone else’s. Thousands of blogs may come up, though, so how do you ensure that yours will be at the top of the list and not buried deep in the limbo known as everything following page 2?

Most people never go past the first 30 entries or so when searching, so if your results are not coming up on pages one through three, nobody is ever going to find your blog. If your mystery novel blog is result number 3,493, then nobody is going to be able to find you.

The most important thing that you need to know about good SEO for your blog is link building. You need to improve upon the number of links that are floating around on the internet and pointing back to your blog. You can trade links, submit links on website directories, purchase links or add links to your forum and message board signatures. Over time, you will create enough solid one way links to your blog that your website will go up in the search engine rankings. But using the right link name is vital if you want all of this hard work to go to good use.

The links that you should be using in the example above are things like “top mystery novels” and “mystery novel reviews” or “hot mystery novels”, because these are the things that people will actually be searching for. Make sure that the links to your blog are being named after how people will actually search for you, otherwise your links will not be effective.

With a solid effort on the search engine optimization front, your blog will be able to garner the kind of traffic that you were hoping for, and link building is going to play a truly vital role in this process.

How To Play MP3 Music on Blogs/Websites Using Del.icio.us

2009-05-14T18:32:00.000-07:00

I am sure you are very familiar with del.icio.us as a social bookmarking website. Have you heard about playing music on your blogs by using del.icio.us?
In this post, I’ll show you how to embed mp3 music onto your websites from del.icio.us

Here is examples which I use this method to embed music from del.icio.us.

First, you need to put the following code into your websites.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://images.del.icio.us/static/js/playtagger.js"></script>

For blogger, you can put this code before the </body> tag in the edit HTML.

Second, you use the following code to embed music

<a href="link_to_music_file.mp3">Music title</a>

Note: you must bookmark the mp3 file to del.icio.us before using it.

Have fun

Top Blogging Strategies

2009-05-08T13:44:00.000-07:00

Whether your blog is about general interest topics like how you washed a crayon in your son’s pocket and there’s a new bank going up in town, or you have a niche blog designed to make money, the same basic blogging strategies apply if you want to be a top blogger.

Post Regularly: You don’t have to post every day. But if you can, do it. Post every other day or 3 or 4 times a week. The more regularly you post (especially if you have good SEO optimized titles) the better your blog will look to the search engines.

Post In-Depth: If you post every day and you’re not fond of writing, this might be difficult. But maybe you can do it twice a week, or even once, and have shorter posts the rest of the time. If your post is long and full of information that almost always makes it better than a short post. First, it’ll contain more keywords and probably help your search engine listings. Second, it’ll contain more information that might lead others to different parts of your blog if you’re linking correctly. And finally, a long post just gives you more space in which to connect with your reader.

Post for the Readers: Search engine optimization is important if you want people to be able to find you through search engines. But if your blog post reads like it was written for a keyword-searching bot, the reader will know it. Make sure you write for those real people who will be reading the post, not just for the search engine spiders.

Connect with your Readers: While it’s important to write for them by including actual content and not just sentence after sentence stuffed with keywords, you still have to engage them. If the contest interesting but written in a wholly uninteresting way, readers aren’t going to be that thrilled. If you’re worked up about the idea of writing, just decide to write like you speak. This isn’t a legal document or a literary publication submission. If your language is pompous sounding, you’ll put people off. Just write in a manner like you speak, and leave the formal language to lawyers and people from the 18^th century.

Rein in Your Sales Message: If you’re using a blog to sell something, it’s okay to sell it. You can point it out to people, talk about it, hype it up a little. But you can’t do that all the time. If every post is touting the benefits of your new product, then there’s not much point in people coming back unless they’re already interesting in your product. People interested in your general subject will go elsewhere.

Don’t fill your posts with fluff and then try to sell to people on your blog. If you’re selling an e-book about 100 rainmaking techniques, offer up 3 in a blog post and then lead them to your ebook.

Keeping the readers and their needs in your mind is the key in all the best and most successful blogging strategies.

Favicon Generator

2009-05-07T15:16:00.000-07:00

Use this free tool to generate favicons from your favorite JPEG images.

Create your faviconUpload a .jpg file to convert it to a favicon!

Instructions

Favicons feature in the address bar before your address, and also beside the name of a site you have bookmarked in your browser's favorites menu.

In most cases, the favicon will appear if you simply upload this to the root of your hosting provider, and name this "favicon.ico" (most browsers will look to this address to find a site's favicon, and will generate the favicon site-wide).

If you are unable to upload the favicon to your hosting root (eg: if you use Blopgger or another hosted blogging interface), you can upload the favicon to a different location and link to this from the head section of your blog template/web page (just before the closing </head> tag) like this:

<link href='http://imagehost.com/yourfavicon.ico' rel='shortcut icon'/> <link href='http://imagehost.com/yourfavicon.ico' rel='icon'/> </head>

Be sure that the address of your favicon is exact address of your favicon online.

Please note: in Internet Explorer, a favicon will not display until you have bookmarked the page in your Favorites. You may also need to close the browser and re-open it before the favicon begins to show. In all other browsers (eg: Firefox, Opera), the favicon should display immedietly.

Search Engine Optimization Keyword Analysis

2009-05-07T14:15:00.000-07:00

Keyword analysis is an important part of search engine optimization or SEO, because your keywords will play a vital role in numerous different facets of your website design, creation and ongoing development. Before going into the details about what keyword analysis is, you should first understand a little bit about the SEO process, or how it is that SEO works. The main steps that are involved in the search engine optimization process are to map out a keyword strategy, to optimize the structure of the website, to develop the optimized content and web pages, to launch the link building and advertising or promotional campaign, to analyze the results, and then to refine those results to create even better results.

You should understand at this point that the first step in any good SEO campaign is the keyword analysis step, as this helps to map out what your plans are for the entire search engine optimization campaign. You want to analyze your keywords and then map them out in relation to your website theme and website content. There are a number of different tools available on the internet that will make this process infinitely easier, and Google offers several for you to choose from. Some keyword analysis tools cost more than others, so make sure that you shop around and choose an answer that will suit you not only in capabilities but also in price as well.

You can start off by using free tools for keyword analyzation on your website. Two of the best tools to begin with for this purpose are the external keyword tool from Google, and the free Word Tracker tool. Any time that you are planning a new website you should use these tools to come up with a main keyword phrase that represents the entire theme of your website, and then you should break it down into sub keywords and keyword phrases that come with less competition attached to them. This is possible with the external keyword tool from Google. When you load up the web application, you just have to enter your main keyword phrase into the box and click a button and you will get a whole host of different keyword ideas that you can play around with.

You should be brainstorming in order to find out what keywords and keyword phrases best suit the main keyword phrase for your website, coming up with a sizable list in the process. Next you should discover the core keywords that relate the most closely to the theme of your website. Next you are going to want to create a cluster of keywords, using some low profile keywords to dilute them. Finally, you should be adding this cluster in to your articles and web pages in order to improve the keyword ranking for your web site and in order to improve the search engine optimization for each individual web page.

How to Remove Blogger Navbar

2009-05-05T11:16:00.001-07:00

That’s the thing which everyone want to remove from his blog. Now it’s time to do it and I will help you.

But first of all I want to tell you what exactly is the blogger navbar. It gives a few options:

- to search in the blog

- to go to random chosen blog

- to mark the blog as spam

If you don’t want to have this navbar on your blog anymore just login in your blogger account, then to Layout, then to Edit HTML and after that you should put this code somewhere in before the end of HEAD tag:

#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}

Google SEO for WordPress Blogging

2009-05-05T06:02:00.001-07:00

If you have been in the internet marketing scene at all, even just for a short time, then you are already probably aware of the fact that blogs that are search engine optimized properly tend to achieve greater and faster rankings in search engines like Google than other websites and blogs. The question remains, though, how can your blog best be optimized for Google?

The best blogging platform that is out there right now is called WordPress. It is completely free to use, simple to install, and Google tends to really love it. Here are some of the things that you can do to optimize your WordPress blog in order to achieve high rankings in Google.

1 - First and foremost, do your keyword research.

If you are not doing proper keyword research, then you are going to stand a very small chance of ever ranking high in any search engine, let alone Google. Developing a working list full of viable keywords is absolutely a must. The best tool that you can use to optimize your keywords for your WordPress blog is the free keyword tool that Google offers. While conducting your keyword research, there are some things that you need to consider including the number of monthly searches, the number of optimized websites that are already using that keyword, and how much competition you will be facing.

2 - Next what you are going to want to do is to customize your WordPress blog specifically for search engine optimization in Google.

You can log in to your dashboard, for example, and change the default permalink structure to something that Google much prefers to see. Click on the radio button for “custom”, and type in /%postname%/ — What this will do is change the default structure for the addresses for your posts so that the name of the post will be in the URL rather than the post date or post number. This allows you to optimize your blog posts by putting keywords in your titles, and having those keywords appear in your URLs, which Google pays attention to when determining how to rank you. This structure is definitely much better when it comes to SEO purposes, so if you are not following this permalink structure already, then you need to change it as soon as possible.

3 - The next thing that you need to do is to download and install the “All in One SEO Pack”, which can be found on Google and uploaded to your Plugins folder in your blog.

Activate it from the dashboard, and you will begin to see new ways to improve your rank in Google. This is a neat plugin that can really help out your SEO endeavor if you are willing to download and install it. Make sure that you go to your Settings area and update the ping list under Writing so that every time a new blog entry is posted, the blogging services will be automatically notified.

Advertising on Facebook

2009-05-05T06:00:00.001-07:00

If you are not already making use of Facebook as a method of marketing your business or niche, then you are absolutely missing out on a great opportunity to reach out to hundreds of millions of active users. Today, Facebook has become one of the most popular online social networking websites, making it a veritable untapped network for traffic and business. People spend a great amount of time online on the Facebook website looking to make new friends, interact with people, play games and interact within interest groups. When you make it possible for your advertising message to travel to these people through Facebook, you will absolutely see a spike in the amount of website traffic that you attract, and you will also see more members, more subscriptions, more sales and more inquiries as well.

One of the biggest questions that people ask is how it could be possible for a business to leverage Facebook for the purpose of marketing a product or a service. Here are three of the possible ways for you to advertise your business, product or service through Facebook social networking.

1 - Social Ads on Facebook -

This is one of the most straight forward ways that you can promote yourself on Facebook. You can use social ads to target people based on a number of different functions including age group, gender and interest for example. By targeting your ads in this manner, you can increase your CTR, which is your click through rate. This will give you more visitors to your site and also an increase in the number of customers that you are able to attract. Make sure to throw a picture up in your ads because ads with images capture more attention and tend to attract more clicks as well.

2 - Groups and Pages on Facebook -

You can create groups and pages for your business, company or website on Facebook, and then you can get people to become a fan of your page or to join your group. Use the invite function for groups to get all of your friends to join, or tell your friends about your page so that they can become a fan. Both pages and groups are two excellent channels that you can use to gather more potential customers as well as to build more brand awareness on Facebook.

3 - Facebook Word of Mouth -

Selling to a friend is always going to be easier than selling the same thing to a stranger. You should try to get to know more friends simply because there are so many active users on the Facebook site. Join groups with some kind of relation to your product or your business and socialize with the members of those groups to make new friends and acquaintances. When people get to know your business and begin to really trust it, they will be much more likely to buy from you.

Best SEO Sites for Increased Traffic Tips

2009-04-25T16:03:00.001-07:00

As many of you know, Search Engines are the most substantial source of traffic for almost any blog on the web. The blogs without any traffic from Google will never have the chance to be shared with the world. In order to increase your traffic, you must optimize your blog so that Search Engines are attracted to it. Which is also known as SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

So here is a list of useful SEO sites :

Daily Blog Tips
Improve your blog with Daily Blog Tips. A fast paced blog featuring articles on blog design, SEO, promotion, menotization and more

Search Engine Land
Search Engine Land is a hub for news and information about search engine marketing, optimization and how search engines work for searchers.

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
talk about Google, SEO, and Gadgets. But mostly Google.

SEOmoz
Search Engine Marketing News & Tips

Search Engine Journal

Pronet Advertising
Pronet Advertising is a weblog about Neil Patel's personal experiences in online marketing.

Search Engine Guide
The small business guide to search engine marketing. Articles from the top names in the industry cover topics including SEO, PPC, SEM, blogging, social media, adsense, adwords, Google, Yahoo, MSN and Internet marketing.

Online Marketing Blog
All about the intersection of search engine & social media marketing

Marketing Pilgrim
Andy Beal discusses news from the search engine industry, blogging, rss and other internet marketing.

Search Engine Watch
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Best time of the day for blogging

2009-04-18T22:49:00.001-07:00

Many bloggers, especially those who only to leave a large number of questions about their new businesses. It is overwhelming, and sometimes stressful to your own blog, but there are many resources to help you. A common question that the Blogger, when the best time to the content of your website, it is when you try to cash on the Internet.

It is not really a good general answer to this question, because there are not. Every blog is different there, regardless of the market niche to which they belong. There is a slightly different guidelines and things to think when you really need the best time to write.

Always on your readers

If you think that your motivation to the company, you remember that your goal is to please your readers. Then, before your calendar and begin to examine the data and the hour, take a moment to think about, and your readers. Try to know what the time zone to which they belong and go directly from there.

Once you understand, you know what time that is more for them. The majority of people, when new e-blog in the morning, so could be the ideal time to your messages. But the May does not apply to all blogs. Their market niche and what kind of readers that you attract May, a lot to do with. Discover what time your readers want to see new messages.

Trial and Error

Once you decided to establish a calendar, your e-mails that attempt, and then about a week and see where he is. May you have things a little bit earlier or a little later, but you get it. If you still secondment, watch out for your readers are waiting for your contributions.

Once your system developed for the posting, your readers not begin, be sure to ask your time. Just think about the kind of blogs you read and constantly think about how often their functions and, if they are on a regular basis. Those who are more and more regularly usually easy to follow and stay on this.

The choice of timing is important

There are so many things that you learn everything, but if you are not a matter of this item, the choice is the perfect time and they remain. You will be surprised by the way these can help you, more training and readers to help you make money on the Internet. It shows the other, you are easy to calculate, and there is a good picture of your location.

If you are still problems in trying to find the right moment for you and your blog, and then simply ask your readers to receive the optimal time hope that by new messages. He never bad to ask!

Driving Traffic to Your Blog

2009-04-18T22:20:00.001-07:00

Many blog owners spend a good portion of their time trying to figure out how to generate traffic to their blog. This is especially true when it comes to a brand new blog that is not yet really rich in meaningful and effective content. Generating visitor traffic to your blog is an endeavor that is going to take some basic effort on your part. Thankfully due to modern technology, the task of attracting interested people to your blog is a lot easier now than in the past.

The most common online blogging platforms are Wordpress and Blogger. Both have hosted blog solutions, but Wordpress also has an open source solution for installing the Wordpress platform onto your own domain name. If you put the following tips into practice, it is more than possible for you to begin attracting traffic to your blog as early as on the first day. Within 24 hours of creating a blog you can begin to generate traffic, and if the purpose of your blog is to sell a product, you could be making sales just as quickly.

1 - Every blog has an RSS feed.

By submitting your RSS feed to the most popular online feed services, you will be able to attract website traffic very quickly, especially if you are focusing your blog content on specific keywords that have lower competition in search engine ranks. All that you need to be able to do is to submit the URL for your feed to a wide range of different free services as soon as you actually have a live site to promote. Some of the most widely recognized feed sites are:

- Feedage.com
- Feedagg.com
- Feedraider.com
- Feedfury.com
- Feedsubmitter.com
- Feedest.com
- Search4rss.com

2 - Social bookmarking involves creating bookmarks for your blog.

Additionally social bookmarking is meant for displaying information about what your blog centers on and what it has to offer. It is important that you use social bookmarking responsibly rather than spamming these websites. Simply write a short post that explains in a little bit of detail why your site or product will interest the people that you want to visit it. There are a myriad of different social bookmarking websites out there, including but not limited to:

- Digg.com
- YahooBuzz
- Technorati.com
- Del.icio.us
- Propeller
- StumbleUpon
- Reddit
- Mixx
- Fark
- MyBlogLog

3 - Social networking, on the other hand, is a little different.

When you create an account on a social networking website, you put together a profile that allows you to connect with other people, creating powerful partnerships and even a fan following in the right circumstances. These networks and relationships will facilitate the capability for you to promote your sites and protects, although much more subtlety than through other sources. Here are a few of the most popular social networking websites:

- FaceBook
- MySpace
- Classmates Online
- MSN Groups
- Yahoo Groups
- Xanga

Drive Traffic with Twitter

2009-04-18T21:40:00.001-07:00

Twitter is viewed as just another social networking tool that you can utilize in order to better promote your website or your blog. You can use Twitter to promote your blog quickly and easily, and this is a truly effective way to drive more traffic without much effort. First, you need to set up your Twitter account.

If you are going to write on Twitter.com, the first thing that you need to do is to set up an account and then to get started. This will include creating an account with the username you wish to have represent you, and then completing your profile and setting up any specific settings in your Twitter preferences. For good marketing, you should set up a picture in your profile because it is important to let people get to know you.

The next step in the process is to write the content that you have in mind. You can use twitter to reference content that you post on article submission sites, so you may want to begin by writing such an article. Create a profile on the submission directory site if you have not done so already. This is just another way to get your name out there.

Now that you have an account created on both websites, and a bio or profile under each of the sites, the next step is to get everything linked together. If you have a Twitter account, you can set things up to automatically update your status when sites like ezinearticles.com approve your content. What that means is that as soon as an article you write is posted on EzineArticles, it will be automatically posted to your Twitter feed at the same time. Considering how simple both of these endeavors truly are, this is a two for one kind of marketing effect. Not only will it get your name out there in the article submission sites for better article syndication marketing, but it feeds your Twitter.

This is one of the best ways to use your Twitter account to advertise your blog or other website endeavors that you are looking to attract traffic to. This is a really hands free process that everyone can get use of because it only requires membership to two sites for absolutely free, and a little bit of content in order to get the ball rolling. If you want to use Twitter to advertise your blog or website, this is a good way to set everything up, because your Twitter account is “fed” hands free, and you can work on writing good content and letting article syndication as well as Twitter accomplish the rest of the work for you.

SEO Principles for WordPress Blogs

2009-04-18T20:49:00.001-07:00

WordPress is a relatively SEO friendly blogging tool to begin with. It offers a linking structure that makes it relatively easy for spiders to crawl your pages, and the code contains very little validation errors if any at all. However, there are a few additional steps that you can follow in order to make your WordPress blog even more SEO friendly, and most are so simple to implement that there is absolutely no reason not to.

1 - You need to make sure that the URLs on your pages contain your blog’s post name, rather than simply a post number.

This can be easily accomplished by using the permalinks page in your WordPress settings, typing “/index.php/%postname%” when asked about custom structure. Alternatively, you can write a rewrite rule directly into your .htaccess file in order to have an increase in control over the syntax of your URLs.

2 - Change your page title order so that your blog post name appears before the name of your blog or the date of your blog.

The first words in your title are always given more weight than anything else, and they will also catch the attention of your readers more effectively. This can be done by editing the header.php file, swapping the order of the PHP tags so that wp_title appears before bloginfo.

3 - Make excellent use of your heading tags.

You may find that your blog entry title is insert automatically into a tag, or that your blog name is in a tag. You can edit these tags in single.php as well as header.php in most WordPress templates. You can choose a format that suits you, but the best solution is typically to put your blog entry title in, swapping your blog name for an image instead. Also make sure that you make good use of other heading tags, using a good heading structure any time that it is suitable.

4 - Avoid duplicate content issues by using “index, nofollow” tags on your tag pages, archive pages and category pages, allowing search engine spiders to follow the links on these pages but not to list them in the index.

There are a number of plugins that can make this a really simple process, and one of the best is called robotsmeta.

5 - Pay attention to the linking structure in your blog, making sure that all of your blog entries can be properly accessed with as few clicks as is possible.

Remove unnecessary links from your blog pages and remove unnecessary pages from your blog as well. You are going to want to consider using a pagination plugin to help you remove unnecessary clutter from your blog for ease of use and increased access.

There are a number of other techniques that you can use to maximize your SEO for WordPress, but this is certainly a good place to begin.

How To Increase Earning Potential of Google AdSense

2009-04-18T20:42:00.001-07:00

When you include Google AdSense ads on your blog, there is certainly potential to make money, but how? Many beginner bloggers have Google AdSense ads running, but the earnings aren't coming. Follow the steps below to give your blog's Google AdSense program the greatest chance for success & start making money now.

Difficulty: N/A

Time Required: Ongoing

Here's How:

1. Determine your blog's primary focus

Google AdSense ads are most effective when they are served to people who are interested in the products & services those ads offer. With that in mind, Google AdSense tends to work best on blogs that are about niche topics such as a specific product/hobby. Consider how you can make your blog's topic more focused to better attract specific types of readers & specific types of ads.

2. Write consistent & focused content

Google serves ads based on the content on each of your pages. The more focused your content is on each page, the better Google can determine which ads are the most relevant to your readers. Write consistently & stay focused on a specific topic to increase the likelihood that Google will display ads on your blog that your readers are apt to click on.

3. Work to increase your blog's traffic

The more visitors to your blog, the more potential for clicks on your Google AdSense ads. Work to increase your blog's traffic to boost your chances for ad click-throughs. However, keep in mind that if you write focused content, the ads on your blog will be relevant to that content. The traffic that comes to your blog needs to be interested in your blog's topic & your content/they are not likely to be interested in your corresponding Google AdSense ads. Work to drive traffic but make a concerted effort to find traffic that adds value to your blog.

4. Research & test keywords

Google serves ads through its AdSense program based on keywords. Advertisers bid on keywords relevant to their businesses. Some keywords are more popular than others & therefore, drive higher bids. Higher paying keywords also mean higher payouts to you when your readers click on them. The ads served on your site are determined by the content on your site. If you're writing about topics related to higher paying keywords, then you're likely to earn more money from your Google AdSense program than if you wrote about topics related to lower paying keywords.

5. Test Google AdSense ad positions on your blog

You can display Google AdSense ads just about anywhere on your blog. Test a variety of positions on your blog to determine which work best for you in terms of generating click-throughs & maximum revenue.

Tips:

Check with your blogging software provider & blog host to ensure your blogging package allows you to place Google AdSense ads on your blog. For example, Wordpress.com doesn’t allow Google AdSense ads.

2. Don't fall victim to the allure of covering your blog in ads to generate income. Blogs that are cluttered with ads are difficult to read & readers typically don't return to blogs where the meaningful content is hidden in between ads.

Track your results to see what's working, particularly as you test keywords & ad positions. This will allow you to develop the best advertising mix to maximize your blog's income while staying consistent to your blog's brand image & overall message to readers at the same time.

About Affiliate Advertising

2009-04-18T20:32:00.001-07:00

Many bloggers are eager to find revenue streams to help monetize their blogs. Once your blog is established & receiving some traffic, you may want to begin researching affiliate programs that could allow your blog to put money in your pocket.

What is Affiliate Advertising?

Affiliate advertising is basically an online marketing channel. An advertiser pays a blogger to promote the advertiser’s products/services on the blogger’s site.

There’re 3 main types of affiliate ads: pay-per-click, pay-per-lead & pay-per-sale. Each of these affiliate ad types has 1 thing in common. They’re all performance based meaning you don’t earn money until your readers perform an action such as clicking on a link/clicking on a link then purchasing the product on the page to which the link brings them.

There are several large & well-known companies that offer affiliate programs which you can set up on your blog within minutes regardless of how well established your blog is.

Examples of Companies Offering Affiliate Advertising Programs to Bloggers:

Amazon: You can choose from a wide variety of ads such as text links, banner ads & more. If you’d like, you can also select the exact Amazon products you’d like to feature on your blog.
eBay: You can choose from eBay’s auctions & find the specific products you want to advertise on your site.
AllPosters: You can choose from 400,000 products to advertise on your blog.

What is an Affiliate Directory?

You could sign-up to monetize your blog through an affiliate directory where various online merchants post their affiliate ad opportunities. You can review the ad opportunities and apply to host a specific ad on your blog.

Most advertisers on these sites will have restrictions related to the blogs they will work with. Typically those restrictions are related to how long the blog has been active & the amount of traffic the blog receives. For those reasons, an affiliate directory is most helpful if your blog is well established.

Take some time to research each affiliate directory to find the right one for you and your blog. Different affiliate programs offer different payments & credibility. Take your time & investigate your options before you jump into anything.

Examples of Popular Affiliate Advertising Directories:

Factors to Consider When You Select an Affiliate Advertising Program to Monetize Your Blog

Read all the details about the opportunity including the pay, the terms, etc.
Select affiliate program ads that are consistent with your blog’s content. Ads that don’t match your content will undoubtedly be clicked on less frequently (meaning less revenue for you) & can decrease the credibility of your blog (meaning fewer readers will return to your blog because it's cluttered with irrelevant ads).
Don’t go overboard with affiliate ads. Too many ads not only make your blog look suspiciously like spam to readers, but search engines will think so, too. Sites that are covered with affiliate ads & little additional original content will be marked as spam by Google & other search engines which will hurt your traffic & page rank overall.
Don’t expect big profits (at least not at first). While many bloggers can generate a decent ancillary income from affiliate advertising, most bloggers can’t boast those kinds of results. Boosting your income through affiliate advertising takes time & practice. Don’t be afraid to test new ads, placement, programs & more until you find the best mix to meet your goals for your blog.

What is eCPM? How it is Calculated?

2009-04-18T19:58:00.001-07:00

ePCM means "effective cost per thousand ad impressions".
It is calculated by the below equation:

eCPM = [earnings/ad impressions] * 1000

I give you an example:

If your ad is shown 500 times and your earning is $3.50, then your eCPM is

[3.50/500]*1000 = 7

So, for thousand ad impressions, you will get $7.

The equation is simple, the more eCPM you have, the more $$ you will get.

There are a few tips which will increase your eCPM very well. I will reveal them in my next posts.

If you want to increase your adsense CTR, placing ads inside or between blog posts will definitely increase your revenue.

Kinds of Blog Advertising

2009-04-18T19:38:00.001-07:00

The Main Types of Blog Advertising Opportunities:

Online advertising offers three primary types of ads bloggers can use to make money from their blogs.

Pay-per-click: The advertiser pays the blogger each time someone clicks on the advertiser's ad.
Pay-per-impression: The advertiser pays the blogger each time the ad appears on the blog's page.
Pay-per-action: The advertiser pays the blogger each time someone clicks on the ad and performs an action such as making a purchase.

Contextual Ads:

Contextual ads are typically pay-per-click ads. The ads are delivered based on the content of the page on the blog where the ads will be displayed. In theory, the ads shown on the page should be relevant to the content of the page thereby increasing the chance that someone will click on them. Google AdSense & Kontera are examples of contextual advertising opportunities.

Text Link Ads:

Ads that are not served based on the content of a blog's page but rather are placed based on specific text in the posts of a blog are called text link ads. Text Link Brokers & Text-Link-Ads are examples of text link advertising opportunities.

Impression-Based Ads:

Ads that pay bloggers based on the number of times the ad appears on the blog are called impression-based ads. FastClick & Tribal Fusion are examples of impression-based advertising opportunities.

Affiliate Ads:

Affiliate ads give bloggers a choice of programs to provide links to products. Bloggers are paid when someone purchases the advertised product. Amazon Associates & eBay Affiliates are examples of affiliate advertising programs.

Direct Ads:

Many bloggers offer an option for visitors to purchase advertising space on their blogs. Direct ads are typically shown in the form of banner ads or similar display ads provided directly to the blogger by the advertiser to be uploaded to the blog. Pricing and payment methods vary from blogger to blogger (often dependent on the amount of traffic the blog receives). Direct advertisers on blogs are sometimes called sponsors of that blog.

Reviews:

Reviews (often called sponsored reviews) are an indirect form of advertising on blogs. A company might contact a blogger directly asking them to write a review for a product, business, website, etc. If the blogger is paid to write the review, then it is a form of advertising revenue. Some companies offer forms of review advertising such as PayPerPost.

Make Money from Blog (Other Than Using Ads)

2009-04-18T19:22:00.001-07:00

The Value of Monetizing Your Blog Through Nonadvertising Opportunities:

By displaying ads on your blog is certainly a simple way to try to generate an income from it. However, ads aren’t a guaranteed money-maker. For 1 reason, they are often dependent on the actions of your blog's readers. For another reason, generating a significant amount of money through advertising on your blog is unlikely (possible but unlikely) unless your blog receives a very large amount of traffic each day.

By diversifying your income-generating opportunities, you'll have a greater chance of successfully monetizing your blog. Following are a variety of nonadvertising methods to earn money from your blog.

Sell Merchandise:

Many bloggers have success selling branded and non-branded merchandise on their blogs through CafePress.

Ask for Donations:

It can't hurt to ask your readers to donate to your blog. Some of them just might do it. You can add a donation button to your blog through PayPal.

Sell Your Guest Posting Services:

Most bloggers write guest posts for other blogs for free as a way to promote their own blogs. However, you can also offer your guest posting services for a fee.

Write & Sell an Ebook:

If your blog has loyal readers then they must like what you have to say. Similarly, if you've established yourself as an expert in your blog's topic, then there is a good chance people will want to read more from you outside of your blog. Leverage that position by writing an ebook & offering it for sale on your blog.

Write a Book:

If you've established yourself as an expert in your blog's topic & developed a strong following, you could write a book & either try to have it published or self-publish.

Become a Professional Blogger:

Many blogs and blog networks look for talented & knowledgeable writers to author blogs & many of those blogging jobs are paying. Apply to blogging jobs to boost your blogging income.

Apply for Other Writing Jobs:

Blogging can help you polish your writing skills, which can help you land other freelance writing jobs online & offline. Transitioning into freelance writing from blogging is not unusual & can be very lucrative.

Become a Public Speaker:

If you've successfully established yourself as an expert in your blog's topic & generated a decent amount of traffic to your blog, you could offer your services as a public speaker at events related to your area of expertise.

Become a Consultant:

If you've established yourself as an expert in your blog's topic, you can offer consulting services to other people or business' who could use the help of your expertise. Alternatively, you could offer consulting services related to developing & writing a successful blog.

Add a PayPal Donation Button to Your Blog

2009-04-18T19:16:00.001-07:00

As you spend time visiting other blogs, you'll probably notice dontation buttons on many blogs. Some may be obvious & say "Donate" while others could be a simple linked line of text that says, "Buy me a cup of coffee".

While the words & appearance may vary, the purpose is the same. In each case, the blogger is asking people who read & enjoy the blog to donate some money to help keep the blog going.

You can easily set up a donation button through PayPal. Just sign up for a PayPal account & follow the simple instructions on the PayPal Donations web pages to obtain the code that will link to your PayPal account. Next, you'll simply copy & paste the code into your blog (most people do this in an easy way by putting it on the blog's sidebar so it appears on as many pages as possible).

Once the code is inserted in your blog, the donation button will appear automatically. When a reader clicks on the donation button on your blog, they'll be taken to your personal PayPal donation page. Whatever money they donate, will be deposited directly into the bank account you chose during your set up process through PayPal.

It's important to understand that a donation button is not likely to bring much revenue, but it's simple enough to add to your blog that it's worth the few minutes of effort it takes to get it up & running.

Add Page Element to Blogger Header and Posts

2009-04-17T22:27:00.001-07:00

You would notice under Template -> Page Elements that there are options to add a Page Element to the sidebar and the footer. However, there is none for the Header and Blog Posts. Having a Page Element option to these latter two is useful. You may want to add a picture at the top, or a Google Adsense ad at the top or bottom of your blog posts.

To have an “Add a Page Element” option, under “Template”, click “Edit HTML”. Scroll down and towards the bottom, you will see these lines:-

<div id='header-wrapper'> <b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'>

Change them to this:-

<div id='header-wrapper'> <b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='3' showaddelement='yes'>

This will give you 2 more page elements that you can add to your Header. You can increase this number if you want.

Right after that are these lines:-

<div id='main-wrapper'> <b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='no'>

Change them to this:-

<div id='main-wrapper'> <b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='yes'>

You are now able to add Page Elements either before or after your Blog Posts.

Note:

1. In different templates, the 'header-wrapper' may be called 'header-wrap' or 'header' and so on. Scroll to where you see an option called showaddelement and you can probably figure out the rest.

2. We realized that in some templates like the Dots Template, there is no separate Header at the top. Instead, the Header is contained in the left sidebar and the main posts appear on the right. This is the template layout and it is probably the reason for your choosing this design. In such templates, you can Add Page Elements to the 'main-wrapper' but not at the Header. Nevertheless, you can still look at the guidelines below to Add Page Elements in the 'crosscol-wrapper' part of the template. This will give you the option to Add Page Elements right on top of both the sidebar and main posts. You can upload images, insert AdSense code, text or other scripts into this section.

Update:

There is an additional position where you can add Page Elements to. This is between the Header and the Blog Posts. When you add a Page Element in the Header section, it follows the Header styles (like font, color and margin settings) and similarly, if you add a Page Element in the Blog Posts section, it follows the styles defined for the Blog Posts. You might want to include a Horizontal Menu or Navigation Bar or AdSense Ad unit just below the Header but before the Blog Posts and sidebars.

To do that, scroll to here and change to the value (shown in red):-

<div id='content-wrapper'> <div id='crosscol-wrapper' style='text-align:center'> <b:section class='crosscol' id='crosscol' showaddelement='yes'/> </div>

This should appear in all new Blogger templates. If you don't see this in your template, you can also add the entire code (shown in green). When you view your Template -> Page Elements, you should now see a new section in between the Blog Header and Blog Posts where you can insert Page Elements.

Once these are done, Save the Template. Click the “Page Elements” tab, and you will now see “Add a Page Element” option at the top of the Header and Blog Posts. Assuming you decide to add the element below the Header or Blog Posts, not to worry. Simply create whatever element you want and save. Next, drag and drop the element to the bottom of the Header or Blog Posts. Click the Save button at the top right hand corner of the page, and your settings have been saved.

How Much Money is Your Blog Worth?

2009-04-16T19:24:00.000-07:00

How much $$ is your blog worth? I think this is one of those typical questions that we often ask ourselves. We know that a blog unlike a real estate (landed property) is basically an intellectual property and there is no specific measurement to determine the value of our blogs. The popularity of our blogs however are heavily depending on Alexa, Google PR, backlinks among others. I'm going to tell you now how valuable my blog is.

Congratulations! Your blog is worth $24,630

Wow! I just can’t believe it. My infant blog (less than 1 month old) worth $106,020 and this amount is far far beyond my expectation and imagination! This blog must have cost me a fortune lol. Imagine the value of it after a year, it's going to be 10 times more than the amount now. MY BLOG IS A GOLDEN EGG. Anyone wants to buy my golden egg, please contact me now .

Well needless to say much,I guess you know it’s too good to be true. After all it's just a game designed to make you feel happy at least for a while but it’s fun to play. Do try it out yourself and if you like, you can let me know how much your blog worth.

How To Change The Template

2009-04-16T15:12:00.000-07:00

At this opportunity, I will discuss about how to change template in blogger.com. First matter to be in considering in changing template is you have to make a backing up your old template, this good for if you feeling not match with your newly template. if you not yet known the way to back up template, please read at the post how to backup template, and also don't forget to back up your widgets (this is very important). For back up your widgets, please read at the post how to backup your widgets.

To change the template, of course you must had a new template to uploaded. If still not yet had, you can download for free template at uniQue Template or at other sites. Have ready for changing your old template with newly template? Please follow the steps below :

After entering the dasboard page , click Layout. Please saw the picture :

Then click edit HTML tab. Please saw the picture :

Click the Download full template link. Save your template:

Click browse... button. Choose your new template. and then click Upload button.

Usually go out commemoration that your data in your widgets will be delete forever (so don't forget to backup your widgets).

Click at Convirm & Save button.

Finish. Please look he result.

Now you have had the new face. However of course your template is still empty, So next step is inserting your widgets manually through page element menu.

Enjoy your new blog face

Free Tool - CSS Tab Designer

2009-04-16T14:56:00.000-07:00

Create killer menus effortlessly!

CSS Tab Designer is a unique and easy to use software to help you design css-based lists and tabs visually and without any programming knowledge required!

With the CSS Tab Designer, you can :

Quickly design your list visually
Choose from a variety of styles/colors (60+ different designs/colors supported). [ Styles Authors / Credits ]
Generate strict xhtml compliant code

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hide-disable-remove-blogger navbar from your blog

2009-04-16T14:25:00.000-07:00

Learn how to hide,disable or remove the blogger navbar (navigation bar) from your blog.
First,let us see what blogger navbar is:

Blogger navbar allows users to easily navigate to other random blogs and it also has a feauture to search the blogs ,and mark any blog as spam.
So,now you have a clear idea of what really a blogger navbar is.So, why so many people prefer to just remove the navbar inspite of the feautures it has like search,etc.Many people think that, it spoils the look of the blog,especially if your blog has differnet subtitle layout which looks too obvious to see for a visitor.Well, let me come to the actual point on how to disable or hide your blogger navbar.

Below is the step-by-step procedure on how to do it with photos to make it easy to understand.

1.Sign in to your blogger account and click the layout button next to your blog name.

2.Next, click the edit html tab.

3.Add the below html code as specified in the below picture.


#navbar {
     height: 0px;
     visibility: hidden;
     display: none;
}

4. Save the changes.

Now, you can see your blog without that navbar(this tip can only hides the navbar,it doesn't completely delete it).If you want the navbar to appear again,just remove that code and save the changes.
If you have any doubts,regarding this post,don't hesitate to ask.You can ask your doubts via comments to this post.

6 FREE ways to DOUBLE your blog traffic in less than a week

2009-04-16T14:16:00.000-07:00

6 FREE WAYS TO DOUBLE YOUR BLOG TRAFFIC IN LESS THAN A WEEK:

Everyone wants traffic. You set up a blog with great content but, no one is visiting your blog, so what's the use of it. So, you need at least a decent amount of traffic and what's great than getting that traffic for FREE?
So, here is the good list of 6 Free ways to get traffic to your blog.

1.SEARCH ENGINE: Yea! it brings lots of traffic to your blog. There are millions of people search in the search engines like Google, Yahoo, msn everyday. So, if your blog has so many good posts and is well indexed by Google, etc.. you will get a good amount of traffic via search engines. There are a few steps to look at if you want a decent amount of traffic from the search engines like "submitting your blog sitemap to Google", yahoo to index you blog pages very quickly. And the other important one is adding meta tags to your blog. If you follow these two simple steps, then you will get a decent traffic (massive traffic if your content is good).

2.Submitting your blog to Blog Directories: You may know this before,submitting your blog to blog directories will bring you a good traffic.
Here is a good list of blog directories (there are so many directories,but the below one's will bring you a good traffic). Most of these blog directories ask you to register before you submit your blog.My suggestion is,create a new email address solely for this purpose so,your personal emails are not flooded with the emails sent by the blog administrators,etc.

3.Participate in forums,groups,etc:Just go to Google and enter your [major keyword + forum] or [keyword+groups] and search.Suppose,your blog is about blogging,then search 'Blogging forum'.You will find some forums,groups related to your site.Register in the forums and post articles,etc with a link back to your blog(as a signature).Answer questions,clarify doubts and provide a link to your blog.But,Don't SPAM.

4.Social Bookmarking:Social Bookmarking is another way to build good traffic to your website/blog.If you don't know what Social Bookmarking is
"Social Bookmarking is a practice of saving Bookmarks,tagging the posts with keywords in a website".Bookmarking means saving a specific website url (address) in your browser that you wish to visit later.There are so many Social Bookmarking sites like del.icio.us,digg,furl,technorati.
One good thing about these Social bookmarking sites is,you will get instant traffic.Just register with them,store your bookmarks,tags,.. and you are done,See your site meter blasting with traffic.

5.Submit Articles to Article Directories: Submitting articles to article directories is another effective way to build more traffic.By submitting to them,your articles get massive exposure and gain you more traffic.
Some of the popular article directories are goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com, articlecity.com, etc.
There are hundreds of article directories,just google it.

6.Leaving Comments on other blogs:Leaving comments with a link back to your blog is another good thing to do.Leaving comments in the related blogs is more useful and it also increases your pagerank.Always leave good comments and don't Spam(by placing links like 'click here' like that)

How to add Twitter Followers Counter/Chiklet to your Blog

2009-04-15T20:51:00.000-07:00

This post explains how to add a Twitter Follower Counter/chicklet widget to your Blogger and Wordpress blogs.. like the feedburner counter.

Similar to Feedburner Counter which counts your RSS Subscribers, Twitter Counter counts your Twitter Followers.

Default button :

Code :

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://twittercounter.com/embed/?username=username"></script>

Write your twitter account(username) in place of username.

There are total of 4 colors to choose from.. You can find them here.

To add in Blogger :
Sign into Blogger » Layout » Add a gadget » html/javascript
paste the code and save it.

To add in Wordpress :
Sign into Wordpress > Widgets > Text
paste the code and save it.

Is Google Threatened By Twitter Search

2009-04-14T21:00:00.000-07:00

Recently there are quite a number of people discussing about Twitter as a search engine. Twitter is not just a personal messaging platform. Instead it is a informational conversional platform for social networking purpose.

Twitter is growing rapidly since the year of 2008 and heavily used by quite a large number of bloggers and marketers. This has resulted quite huge number of quality content stored in Twitter server. In order to receive quality informational content, Twitter search is one of the important channel besides following information creator.

One reason I like Twitter search is it can return me the latest topic people are talking and discussing about. Unlike traditional search engines, it is almost real-time in Twitter which is an advantage. We can use such feature to analyze the current trend real-time and no need to wait at least a few days for traditional search engines to grab all the information from the web. This is a critical feature for businesses if they want to know what are the responses from people interested in their products or services. They can base on the conversation and adjust their marketing strategy and tactics faster and improve their efficiency and effectiveness.

Although Twitter search is good but it is still very young compared to traditional search engine giants. Personally I have a few opinions on how to improve Twitter search to compete with traditional search engines.

#1 Relevancy

One of the key factor in the search engine result is relevancy. All the results retuned must be related to the search term. The results should be ordered according to the relevancy. The most relevant content should be at the top and less relevant content should be placed at the bottom of the page.

In Twitter search, the results are ordered by message posting date and time. The most recent tweet is placed at the top of the result page. It is good to show recent content to the searcher but it is better if the Twitter search algorithm can include the relevancy check not just base on the posting date and time. Sometime the most relevant information might be posted a few days or months ago. So Twitter search should have the intelligence to show this content at the top instead of the content posted a few minutes ago.

#2 Authority

In Google or other traditional search engines, authority has been introduced in the search engine rankings calculation. It means if more web pages link to a your web page, then your web page will have a higher ranking due to higher authority. Not all contents are created equally. Some contents get popular might be due to their presentation and writing styles. All these factors are hard to determine using algorithm, so we need other ways to find out which content or information are preferable. And authority is a good way to resolve this issue.

Twitter search should consider developing a ranking algorithm to make the search engine perfect.

#3 Spam Filtering

Usually people will include a link in the message pointing to a web page for the full content. Right now there is no verification about the content in the link that exist in 140 characters message. People can link to some web pages that do not related to the content of the tweet. This can be considered as some sort of spam.

Twitter search include some sort of checking to figure out is the content in the link related to the tweet. If not, searches will lose the trust to Twitter search.

Conclusion

There are still lots of improvements to be done on Twitter’s search engine to return the result we are expecting such as relevancy, spam filtering and etc. I do not think that Twitter can replace Google in the very near future. At least it will take years for it to come true if it has the potential.

5 Tips To Optimize Your Web Page Content

2009-04-09T20:53:00.000-07:00

Search engine optimization is about content. The higher the quality of your web page content, the higher it will be ranked for your keywords. Without effective content optimization, your off-page optimization efforts might be wasted. The following explains top 5 tips about optimizing your web page content.

#1 Keep Your Content Fresh

Google and other search engines love fresh and unique content. It helps to separate your site from countless others in your niche. From user point of view, we want to read the most updated information. This is what search engines trying to emphasize.

Blog is a good way to produce fresh content. And one of the biggest advantage in blogging is it will update post content automatically by attracting comments. This will certainly keep your post content fresh and hot enough with better rankings given by search engines.

#2 High Text To Code Ratio

Maintaining a high text to code ratio is always preferred. Search engines are different from human. They like to index simple pages as compared to pages with lots of fancy codings such as Ajax, Flash and etc. The more is your codes, the more likely the errors will occur. And it will prevent search engines from crawling and properly interpreting your web page.

#3 Maintain Appropriate Keyword Density Percentage

Since keywords are the terms that people searching to find your web pages, it’s important to maintain appropriate keyword density percentage. In any of your web page, you should target a few keywords instead of just having one. This is where Google determine your page relevancy to a niche.

Having a low keyword density for your targeted keywords will result in low positions and having a high percentage may cause Google to think that you are stuffing keywords. For the best effect, choose 1 ~ 2 strong keyword phrases and target for 2% ratio for keyword to article length. For example, if an article is around 300 words, then it should have 6 keyword phrases.

#4 Start Strong And Finish Strong

The secret of SEO is to start strong and finish strong. This is often overlook by most of the people. You should place your main keyword phrase in the first and last paragraph of your content. The purpose is to attract the attention of your readers and relate your article to what you’re searching for.

However it doesn’t mean you can ignore the rest of your article. Sprinkle the keyword phrases throughout the remaining content will help to strengthen its SEO effectiveness.

#5 Strategic Links On Keywords

One of the effective ways to increase your search engine rankings is to embed internal links in your page content pointing to another page of your site.

For example, intead of waiting for a visitor to click to your “SEO” page, you can write a phrase like “affordable SEO” and link to your “SEO” page. This will not only bring traffic to your “SEO” page, but it also increase the search engine rankings of your “SEO” page.

Conclusion

While you’re optimizing your web page with other on-page and off-page techniques, you should not forget the importance of content optimization. With 5 technique mentioned above, content optimization gives you the best effect.

Give the Power of RSS to Your Blog

2009-04-01T15:09:00.000-07:00

RSS gives you more visibility, we all know that. It also gives you what every site owner loves to have, i.e., Incoming links. If you write articles which are very appealing to your visitors, a lot of them will subscribe your RSS feed and display it on their own site, what do you get in return - incoming links. Syndication should be such that people can use your articles in their site, linking back to you.
Incoming Links with relevant anchor text can prove to be a boon for your Search Engine Optimization. For this you just need to name the feed right. The title of your RSS feed is equally important as naming of your blog, but the difference here is that your Blog’s title is read by the humans and also machines, whereas, RSS feeds are interpreted by machines or programs. A blog’s title should be attractive and catchy, where as a feed’s title should focus on the keywords it uses.
Submitting your RSS feed to major RSS search engines and directories is one of the best online marketing strategies you can use, as it allows people to find you through the very gateways used by others to search for the content they are looking for. You can search for these directories through search engines themselves like Syndic8.com
To get through Yahoo or MSN search engine, use the backdoor entry, the much faster and easier way. Login your own yahoo or MSN account and Add your feed to MyYahoo! or MyMSN personalized page. That’s it, you are done. Your RSS feed will soon be listed in the Yahoo!’s or MSN’s Directory with the pages your feed links to from your blog.
Build your feed category wise. Depending on the blog software which you use, a number of options might be available(especially for those using blogging engines installed on their own servers). It’s wise to provide with the specific information your audience is looking for. Options can mean more people subscribing and a higher level of interest from those who receive the feeds. The specifics of how(and if) your blog engine can support these enhanced syndication features will vary based on the software you use. The options for you to try could be:

Category Feeds- People who may want to know about Search Engine Optimization may not want to know about blogging, or people who might want to know about latest films may not like to know about the latest ipods in the market. As almost every blog covers wide variety of topics, in a niche, and a reader may want to know only about a few of them.
Calendar Feeds- subscribers will want to know about the events a resort conducts date wise. Offering a dedicated calendar feed for the purpose will do the trick.
Author Feeds- Your blog may have more than one contributor. Offering specific feeds for the author can create a different fan-following for both. Nonetheless, both would be traffic for the same blog.
Comment Feed- Now-a-days readers want to keep a track of the conversation going on, at their favorite blog, and want to get notified for every new input. The more powerful blog systems are now offering comments feed as an option.

One of the very basic profit you can acquire from RSS is that you can keep your blog updated and fresh by displaying relevant RSS feeds there. Apart from keeping your blog alive this would also help you cover the latest developments in your niche and technology news of the market. You can subscribe to lets say 10 blogs and display important feeds from them. Providing a different feed for this section will help your users to get necessary information from subscribing your blog itself, and he wont have to subscribe the 10 blogs where you are picking feed from.
Think beyond directories and how in real world you can exploit RSS for the benefit of your business.

Disable Right Click on Blogger Blogspot

2009-03-31T08:57:00.000-07:00

Right click on any internet browser is very important element. And we must use it when it comes to copy or editing texts and etc..
And it’s very important when it comes to webmasters too.

But some people may use it in a bad way, and you may want to make click right disabled on your blog.
To protect your text, images links and etc….

So all what you have to do is only simple steps.
You’ll need to add new Html/Javascript element to your layout.
Now go to your blogger account.
Navigate to Layout >> Add a GadGet >> and select html/javascript

Then copy the next code and past in in html/javascript text box area

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
//Disable right mouse click Script
//By Maximus (maximus@nsimail.com) w/ mods by DynamicDrive
//For full source code, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com
var message="Function Disabled!";
///////////////////////////////////
function clickIE4(){
if (event.button==2){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
function clickNS4(e){
if (document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){
if (e.which==2||e.which==3){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
}
if (document.layers){
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
document.onmousedown=clickNS4;
}
else if (document.all&&!document.getElementById){
document.onmousedown=clickIE4;
}
document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false")
// -->
</script>

Then save the html/javascript. and view you blog.

When you try to do right click a message will tell you that “Function disabled”

And if you want to change this words” Function Disabled” find the next line in the code.

var message="Function Disabled!";

And change Function Disabled! to what ever you want.

I hope it helps.

“Email This Article to a Friend” WordPress Plugins

2009-03-29T08:34:00.000-07:00

You probably noticed that most mainstream media websites have an “Email this article” link on most of their pages, right? Lately many blogs started employing this feature too. But how do you add that feature to your own blog? There are two plugins that you can use for that purpose.

The first one is called WP-Email. It will basically insert an “Email this article” link below your posts, and once the user clicks there he will be sent to a page where he just need to fill in the details to send the article to someone. Here is a screenshot of how that page looks like:

Another plugin that does that job is the email2friend. The only difference is that instead of sending the user to another page it will open a new window where the forms will appear, as the image below illustrates.

I think the “email to a friend” feature is a cool one, although I am not sure how often it is used. Have you ever used it on your site? How often did your readers used it?

How to Add Google Analytics to Your Blogger Blog

2009-03-27T07:41:00.000-07:00

Google Analytics is a free service that lets you track the performance of your websites and blogs from one simple, easy-to-use interface.

Grab Your Google Analytics Code Block

Login to Google Analytics at http://google.com/analytics/. The main Settings page loads.
Click on Add Website Profile. A form displays.
Select Add a Profile for a New Domain.
Enter the URL of your site or blog.
Select your country and time zone. Click Finish.
Analytics provides you with a code block - a swatch of HTML - to add to your site's pages.
Highlight the code block and then copy it by selecting Edit > Copy or Ctrl-C or Command-C.

Add the Google Analytics Code Block to Your Blogger Blog

Login to http://www.blogger.com/. The Dashboard loads.
Under the blog you want to add Analytics tracking to, click on Layout or Template.
Click on Edit HTML. An editing screen for your blog template's HTML displays. Don't freak out. Just scroll to the bottom.
Look for the end of the template. It'll look like:

</div> </div>

(Google Analytics Code Block is going to go here!!!)
</body>
</html>

Put your cursor right before that </body> tag.
Paste the Google Analytics Code Block by selecting Edit > Paste, Ctrl -V or Command-V.
Click Save Changes.

You have now added the Google Analytics Code Block to Your Blogger Blog.

Check Your Work

To ensure that you have successfully added the Google Analytics Code Block to your Blogger blog, go back to http://google.com/analytics/.
Next to your blog's URL it will say either Receiving Data (you were successful) or Tracking Not Installed (something is amiss).
If it said Tracking Not Installed, click on Check Status. Google then checks your blog for the Analytics Code Block and reports back if it find it or not.
If not, try re-pasting the Code Block in.

Display Your Location on Your Blog With Google Latitude

2009-03-26T14:36:00.000-07:00

If you use Google Latitude, you can now display your current location on your blog using a Google Public Location Badge.

Google Latitude is a feature of Google Maps which, should you choose to enable this, allows selected friends and family members to see your location. You can also give permission for Latitude continuously update your location in the background.

The Public Location Badge is a gadget which you can easily add to your Blogger blog to provide readers with your current location. This feature may be especially useful for travel bloggers or personal bloggers who wish to share their location with friends and family members.

How to add a Public Location Badge to your Blogger blog

In order to add a Public location badge, you will need to use Google Latitude. If you have a compatible mobile phone, you can install the latest version of Google Maps on your handset and use this application to update Latitude with your current location. Those who do not have a compatible handset (or who choose not to use this option) can add Latitude to iGoogle and interact with this application from their desktop/browser.

Visit this page to choose which method you will use to update Latitude with your location.

Once you have set up your handset or iGoogle Latitude settings, you can visit the Latitude settings page to choose with whom your location is shared or add a Public Location Badge to your blog.

Choosing which settings to use for sharing your location

When you visit the Public Location Badge page, there are several options available to choose how your location will be shared:

Disable Google Public Location Badge (default setting) - this means that no-one will be able to view your current location, except of course for Google and any friends with whom you have chosen to share your status.
Enable and show city-level only - this setting enables anyone to view your location at city level only (not your actual, precise location). Even if you have not added the badge to your blog or website, your status may still be accessed through Latitude searches.
Enable and show best available location - this setting enables anyone to view your location on a more precise level. Again, even if you have not added the badge to your blog or website, your status may still be accessed through Latitude searches.

Your choice will depend on your personal preferences. If you have set up Latitude but prefer your status to remain private, be sure to disable your public location badge. And if you do choose to share your location through a badge on your blog, be sure to take into account Google's privacy notice:

If enabled, your location will be publicly available to everyone. You will not be able to limit where and with whom you share your location through the badge.

Add the badge code to your Blogger blog

It is very easy to add your public location to your Blogger blog. Once you have chosen the settings and tweaked the width and height of your gadget according to your needs, you can simply press the "Add to Blogger" button which will transfer the code directly to an available widget location in your layout:

After adding your gadget to your blog, you can visit the Layout>Page Elements page to move the gadget to an appropriate location in your blog's layout.

Another option would be to paste the code for your location into a blog post. Simply copy the HTML code in the box to your clipboard, then paste into a blog post when editing using the "Edit HTML" tab. This will embed your gadget directly into your blog page.

Important note: once you create and publish this snippet on any web page, anyone with access to your web page could copy the code elsewhere so that your location is still accessible even after you remove the code from your page. If you want to stop broadcasting your location, you must disable this by visiting the Public Location Badge page.

Will you be using the Public Location Badge in your blog?

Personally I prefer not to use this gadget in my own blogs, since this has no relevance for the subjects I write about, but as I mentioned earlier, this new feature may be a useful gadget for travel bloggers or those who wish to update family and friends with their location.

Have you added this gadget to your own blog? Or would you consider using it? Please let us know your opinions and experiences of the Public Location Badge by leaving your comments below.

20 SEO Ranking Factors

2009-03-25T09:28:00.000-07:00

1. Title Tag:
Type your targeted keyword phrase in ANY search engine and notice how 9 of the top 10 sites have that targeted phrase somewhere in their title tag.

Learn from your competitors and remember keyword density and prominence.

2. Heading Tag Structure

H1, H2, H3, H4 and no more. Remember H1 is what the whole page is about and the other 'sub' H's are explaining each section under that heading. A good way to look at this is to look at it in a standard outline format.

A. = H1
--- a. = H2
------ i. H3
--- b. = H2
------ i. H4
------ ii. H3 & H4
--- c. = H2
------ i. =H3
--------- 1. H4

3. META Description

The META description is there to describe the page. So describe the page. Remember your page is about your targeted keywords. Make sure those keywords are scattered throughout the description of each page. Also, sometimes the search engines will display your description under your listings on the SERP's (Search Engine Results Page). Therefore make the description captivating enough to make the visitors want to click on your website and not your competitor's.

4. Age of Site

Arguably, this is the deciding factor when picking between 2 sites with great stats. Search engines trust websites that have been around for a long time. This is because if the site wasn't valuable, it would not be on-line any longer. Even though this factor is a huge factor, it's only a factor for old active domains. Old, yet active domains that have history of constant updates and consistently acquiring links are the hardest sites to beat.

5. Total Pages Indexed

The total # of pages indexed is very important because usually the more pages indexed the more keywords you will be targeting. This is not always true, however considering this is USUALLY true; this is definitely a factor in search engines' algorithms. The more pages you have, the more chances your site has to get found. Furthermore every page linking within your site (if done right) could build strong internal page rank.

6. Anchor Text of internal Links

It's important that the links within your site that leads visitors from one page to another describes that page with the keyword it's targeting. IE: Get directions to our San Diego Location

7. Total Backlinks

YES, the amount of back links still matters. The more links you have, the better. BUT, it's the more relevant links from the greatest variety of sites, the better. You need links from blogs, forums, authority sites, educations sites, local area sites, industry sites, etc. They all must be relevant to you. The more accurate the relativity, the more closer you are to being the most relevant site to the searcher's query. The more (relevant) links, the merrier.

8. Anchor Text of Incoming Links

Originally if someone linked to your site, that someone was a different person with a different website giving you a link titling your company name. So if someone Googles your company name, you'd be the first to show up because other sites said that's who you are. But, new potential customers aren't looking for your web site. People are searching for your services. So you have to find ways to get links describing the services you offer.

This way other sites are vouching that you are "men's clothing". The SERP's already know you're Men's Ware House.

9. Average Time on Site

One factor that helps Google determine if your site is a site that will give visitors a pleasant user experience is to record how long visitors stay at your site. The longer you can keep a visitor on your site the more likely you are providing that user with an experience worth sticking around for.

10. Bounce Rate

Like Average Time on Site, Bounce Rate is a metric that measures the worth of your page. Do visitors come to your site and click the back button more often than not? Normally if 80% of the people visiting your site are clicking the back button, that site is not relevant to what they were searching for.

11. Strength of Competition

To be honest, this really isn't a factor in its own. The strength of the competition is probably the backbone of every factor. Ranking results are based on a comparative scale. Meaning the number 1 site is more relevant then the number 2 site based on ALL of these factors. Good ways to measure the strength of the competition is analyze their Alexa Rank, Total Pages Indexed, Total Backlinks and their Google Pagerank.

12. Total Character Count

The more content you have, the better chance you have at satisfying your visitor's query. Google looks for special keywords within your content to back up the keywords you are targeting. If you are targeting men's clothing, Google looks for terms that will answer every visitor's query. Like pants, shirts, prices, location, xl, discounts, customer service, socks, fitting room, fabric, fashion, etc. Usually to cover all of the visitors' possible questions, you need to provide a lot of unique and informative content.

13. Page Rank

(Ceterus Paribus) Yes, page rank still counts. Many "SEO's" will tell you that this doesn't matter. But, the core of Google's algorithm is based on Page Rank.

14. Keyword Placement

Where amongst all of your content and web pages is your target keywords located? Keywords should have prominent placement in paragraphs supporting their matching headings. Naturally placing your keyword in rich related content the right amount of times is arguably the top ranking factor.

15. Types of Media

Have you noticed videos on the SERP's ranking higher than you? Or, have you ever ended up at a site through a picture? Having a variety of media types shows that you are presenting your targeted keywords in various forms, this is most likely pleasing a variety of visitors.

16. HTML Validation

Content : Code ratio is a ranking factor. It must be easy for the bots to run through your site. Also when spiders run through your site, it's necessary that you prevent any traps that could prevent the spider from crawling your site completely and finding all of your content. Broken links are also a big no, no. The bots hate getting led to nothing.

17. Navigation and Architecture

How your site is built and themed is very important for spider indexing and visitor navigation. The paths your visitors take are being recorded. So make sure the pages you want to rank well are easy to find for the user. Having your targeted keywords categorized and your page structure in a siloing format is best. Also add a site map to your website so the spiders could have a one stop page to your whole domain.

18. Click-through-Rate on SERP

Google wants to provide results the visitors want. And to help them determine what they want is to record how many times out of a 1,000 impressions do people click through to your site. If your listing has the highest click through rate it must be because your title, description and or brand are what the users was most likely looking for. This is why title tags and META descriptions are 2 of the other 20 factors in ranking well on the SERP's

19. Total Search Queries Conducted After Leaving Site

If the user searches for that same term over and over again, they must not have found what they were looking for. Your site should answer the visitors query by proving data to the engines that proves that visitor don't need to look any further.

20. Percentage of Return Visits

The higher percentage you have of returning visitors, the better. High return rate means people who have visited your site before enjoyed their visit and found your site valuable. This factor is used in helping Google help others find a site that the visitor may find interesting. So if your site is relevant to the searcher's query and everyone that visits your site returns, Google will use this as a measure of a relevant and interesting site, thus leading to search engine higher rankings.

What is Your Niche?

2009-03-25T06:58:00.000-07:00

When you are working to find your blog’s niche, it would be a bad idea to choose one that you think is profitable. That would be the wrong choice to make. Instead, you should consider a few questions in determining your niche. The first is important: Is it something that you are interested in? You will be tasked with generating lots of content, with frequent posting. This will cost you time in terms of research, writing, brainstorming, etc. Without interest in your genre, you won’t last. Motivation will dwindle and the blog will be short lived. Plus, if the blog talks about what you are interested in, you will have a lot of knowledge to start with.

You should also ask if your niche is too specific or general. To specific, and you may find yourself capping off with five readers. Too general, and you will be competing with blogs that are already well established. Try to achieve a balance so that the competition will not be as high, and that you will attract a good number of readers. As an example, instead of a baseball blog, choose a specific team, or state or stadium. Related to this, ask who your audience is. A blog that is targeting senior citizens may not do so well right now, because those individuals may not spend time online. A generation from now, that may not be true. Targeting a specific region, do they have internet?

Now ask yourself, will you be able to easily advertise? This is important if your goal is to generate traffic for revenue. Your blog should be able to reach high in the rankings, advertising should be able to added to the blog without much distraction, and that there are other similar blogs which you could potentially exchange links with. Your searching should also answer another question, who are your competitors? Finding out who these people are will allow you to generate content that is different so that you do can draw readers to your site.

If you are seeking profit, will your niche be profitable? This will not apply to all blogs, as some people are out there to inform, not necessarily make money. This also should not be the only concern with a blog. If in considering the first question, you find a few topics which you have interest in, you can try and pick from the list the one is most profitable. Topics for which you are most passionate should have preference as they will be the easiest to generate content for.

Finding a niche is a process that requires much thought and inner reflection. You should not pick a niche for the profit alone. What is most important is that you choose a genre that you have passion for. Not only will your blog do much better in terms of quality and quantity, but you will not lose interest and find yourself disliking your blog. Make sure that you know the answers to the above questions before settling on a niche.

Social Bookmarking widget for blogger

2009-03-22T13:52:00.000-07:00

On all Blogger's mind there will be just one question , How to drive traffic to our blog ?
We need to have quality content and backlinks to drive traffic to our blog and occupy first place on google search engines. First one Quality content is in hands of the admin who writes the post. he need to put the main keywords for the article in the post . But for the second one , the author can't just submit each and every post to bookmarking sites . Its very time consuming. But It's a very effective way of driving traffic to our blog. We need a widget for blogger so that visitors/readers can submit our article to bookmarking sites.

This Social bookmarking widget contains Post Link submission to major bookmarking sites like Digg , technorati , Blinklist , Del.icio.us , Furl , Stumble Upon , Reddit , yahoo , Simpy and Spurl .

I hope those are the most famous social bookmarking sites with higher pagerank and traffic.

Just Follow this simple steps to add social bookmarking sites widget to blogger :

Step 1 :

Log in to your Blogger Account and navigate to Layout Section. Then go to Edit HTML Page and check the Expand Widgets box.

Step 2 :

Now search this code : <p><data:post.body/></p>

Step 3 :

Copy and paste the below code immediately below red text.

<p><data:post.body/></p>

<span class='post-author' style='font-size: 95%;'><br/>
Add Post To: |
<a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Digg</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/faves?add=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'>Technorati</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://tipd.com/submit.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Tip'd</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>del.icio.us</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Stumbleupon</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://reddit.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Reddit</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=" + data:post.url + "&Title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>BlinkList</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=" + data:post.title + "&u=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'>Furl</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Spurl</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=" + data:post.title + "&u=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'>Yahoo</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Simpy</a>|
<br/></span>
<!-- End of social bookmarks –>

That's it. Now you can see social Bookmarking sites widget in your blog.

8 Wordpress Blog Theme Design Considerations

2009-03-20T06:45:00.000-07:00

Most blogging platforms offer a wide variety of different themes to chose from, and most can be altered and edited to suit your needs, or left alone exactly as they are. Some themes are plain and dull while others are colorful, modern and inspiring. There are thousands of themes out there for different blogging platforms, and there are more WordPress themes than any other blog themes out there. While there are hundreds if not thousands of WordPress blog theme designs out there, here is a small list of themes that are well worth considering.

- Grid Focus Public -

This is a three column style WordPress theme. The navigation bars for the blog can be found both at the top and the bottom of the pages, in order to give visitors an ample opportunity to explore. This theme offers a very clear hierarchy and structure.

- Copy Blogger -

The is a really cool WordPress theme that allows you to modify colors, fonts and all kinds of tiny details by utilizing a custom Style Sheet solution that comes included with the downloader for the theme. Thanks to open source development, you can also implement add-on styles as well.

- Jello Wala Mello -

This is a news themed or magazine themed WordPress theme that was created primarily to suit multi media sites. Some of the positives include the fact that it has a beautiful color scheme, plenty of subtle design touches, and is easy to implement and begin using.

- K2 -

This is an advanced template that is only available for WordPress, though it also offers AJAX powered features including live commenting and live search. It also allows rolling archives, a navigation system designed specifically to suit K2.

- Whyte -

Monochromatic themes do not necessarily have to be boring, and Whyte is definitely a testament to this fact. It offers plenty of features including AdSense Ready, Widget Ready, Comments, Recent Entries and pinging separated on post pages. You can also create your own logo, add active navigation and do plenty more with this unique and versatile WordPress theme.

- Vertigo -

This is a modern WordPress theme that is available both in two column format and three column formats. It is a widget ready theme, making it easy to implement and even easier to customize to suit your needs.

- Grid Lock -

This is a cool WordPress theme because it is designed not to look like a blog, but rather like a standard HTML website. It also has a standard HTML help page which helps you customize your Grid Lock Theme, which is something most WordPress themes do not come with.

- Long Horn -

This is a minimalist style two column Wordpress theme with a simple design that can easily be used and implemented. This WordPress theme is compatible with a number of browsers including IE 6 and 7, Opera, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari.

Tips for Writing Your Blog

2009-03-19T07:06:00.000-07:00

Whether you are blogging for business applications, or for personal growth, the process of writing daily is a rewarding activity in many ways. The individual writer is able to benefit from the satisfaction that is gained from personal reflection. Blogs afford the writer the means to distribute information and ideas everywhere the internet can reach. For the business, blogs enable a conduit within which real time feedback and communication with customers can occur, as well as dissemination of information in order to bolster a company’s credibility with peers and customers.

When it comes to writing a blog, there are various techniques that one can employ. One such technique is the implementation of Search Engine Optimization methods, where by the blog is ranked higher in search engines through manipulation of how the algorithms work. This is usually done by careful cross linking, adding blog keywords, including terms similar in meaning, and other similar steps.

Choosing the keywords for blog posts can also serve to provide focus to writing. Knowing the keywords for a blog’s post of the day will enable you to make sure your post stays on point. You can also use the keywords to make sure that you are not very repetitive, by avoiding using the same keywords constantly. You can use the keywords to ensure that your posts cover a variety of topics, even within a particular area of interest.

Another writing tip is to make sure you are posting in great frequency, with at least a post a day. If that cannot be managed, then one should at the very least shoot for a couple of posts over a week. Traffic to a blog tends to be proportionate to how often one posts in the blog. The posts should have value and be interesting and relevant. One should not write just to write, there should be meat to blog postings.

The average web reader will have 96 seconds worth of focus. That means they will read your posts for only about a minute and a half. So blog posts should be short and to the point, making sure that the most important information appears at the beginning. Well written posts will captivate the interest of the readers, and be within three to six hundred words in length.

In line with keeping posts short, limit posts to one important topic. Scatter shot posting will fail to keep interest for very long. Rather, the successful blogger will keep postings focused on single points. If there are multiple directions you wish to cover, turn them into blog posts, and distribute them over the week. This will help to make sure that postings stay regular, especially during those patches of time where writers block can hit.

One of the most important decisions the blogger can make is the domain and blog titles. This is essentially branding, creating a name that is memorable to your readers and will give them avenue to keep returning to your blog. It should be on point, related to the theme of your blog, and well thought out.

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