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How can I make show/hide links for my posts? 2008-02-26 16:37:00 Note: This article assumes you are using a classic template (without the Layouts features).This is a trick that's particularly useful on blogs with very long posts
. What happens is that a reader will only see the titles of your posts at first, so they can skim through and see what they want to read. Then, when they want to read a post, they can click a link to see the full text. The text can then be hidden again when they're done reading. This all happens on one page, so there is no extra navigating to or loading of other pages. You can give it a try here: This is a Long Post Well, okay, it's not really all that long, since I don't have a whole lot to say here. But I ought to put at least a decent paragraph here so you can get an idea of how this will all work. Anybody know any good jok Read more:links
Create a "What Next" Post footer Widget in Blogger 2008-02-26 14:33:00 I think you have seen "What Next" on many blogs like Problogger and Blogger
Buster.As these blogs are hosted on wordpress I thought this to be some wordpress plugin. But its not. It is neither a wordpress plugin nor blogger widget. But its just a blog hack or trick which you can do it in your blog template.What is the benefit of using "What Next" or something alike in blog?It’s essentially a collection of social bookmark links (StumbleUpon, Digg, and del.icio.us), a link to add a comment, and a link to subscribe to your RSS feed. You’ll notice it on every single article and template download on this site at the bottom of the entry.Here’s a screenshot of what it currently looks like:The benefit is if a user wants to subscribe on your post or digg it or Stumble it, he can do it at one Read more:footer
Getting your Widgets from Old Blogger Template to New Blogger Template 2008-02-26 03:21:00 Sometimes you have important widgets in your old templatelike some html/javascript files, linklists or blogrolls which you may customizedwith great effort and don't like to miss when moving to new template.To get your widgets from old template to new one follow these stepsStep 1: Take a screen shot of the page elementsBefore uploading your new template take a screen shot of your pageelements section. the benefit of this when you upload your new template you canarrange your widgets where they were before.Step 2: Copying Widgets from your old TemplateThis is an important step so be careful in doing so.Firstly get all your widgets in a new content place holder. The benefit ofthis is you can just copy all your widgets at once instead of moving aroundthe html code.To do this click on "Ed Read more:Blogger
Installing XML Template in New Blogger 2008-02-26 02:01:00 Though it is quite easy for most of the bloggers but still I wanted to publish this article as it will greatly help those who are new to blogging. This is a Step by Step guide to installing xml templete in your new blogger.Step 1: Getting a XML
TemplateFirst of all you need a xml blogger template to put it on your new blogger. There are many sites from where you can download blogger template. I will list some of them hereeblog templatesBlogger
Templates by IsnainiBlogspot TemplatesBlogger TemplatesIf anyone want to list their site please put your link in comments.I highly recommend eblog templates as they have variety of blogger templates. Some of them with wordpress template look. But the problem I found with their templates is that you cannot customize the colors in templates easily. If
Add Adsense Referral to blogger 2008-02-24 09:00:00 Unlike normal contextual advertisement, in AdsenseReferral
you can choose which ads you want to display in your blog or website. Thus you can put the referral adsense going with the theme of your site. In blogger.com you can easily put the normal adsense ads with help of blogger widgets. But you cannot add a referral or a search box with these widgets. In this article I will show you how to add an adsense referral to your site while adding a search box is similar to this but still I will show that in another article.Steps to put a referral ad in your blog.1. First of all you need an adsense account to put an adsense referral to your blog. After creating, login in your account and select Adsense setup tab on the top. Then click on Referral link. Like this2. On the right side of the page yo
Earning through Adsense Referrals 2008-02-24 05:28:00 The main difference between the Google Adsense
Referral program and their normal advertising program is that you can actively promote and encourage readers to click your referral links. This is because you don’t get paid per click but only when the reader meets the required action. So no one is out of pocket if you encourage your readers to click or label the buttons as recommendations. In fact if you do recommend the product (genuinely) you’ll increase your chances of conversion as you’re really pre-selling the product (and all affiliate or CPA programs work best with some pre-selling). By encouraging users to click the link does not mean that you can put an arrow or put a tag click here right beside the adsense ad. By doing this your adsense account may get terminated. Go Read more:Earning
Top 100 Social Networking Sites 2008-02-21 10:24:00 With the birth of the social media, the internet is no longer a one way street; it’s becoming a two-way social phenomenon! Top 100 global brands no longer dictate their own perception - the community does! Ace marketers know how important it is to get your ideas and products in front of a busy community… so should you!This is the list of top 100 social networking sites sorted by popularity according to Alexa ranking with their Google PageRank. Rank Social
Networking Sites
(Alexa/Google PR)1 (1/7)2 (2/9)3 (4/ 8)4 (6/ 8)5 (7/ 8)6 (8/6)7 (14/7)8 (15/7)9 (60/8)10 (99/7)11 (104/7)12 (108/6)13 (205/7)14 (298/8)15 (300/6)16 (304/7)17 (351/6)18 (495/8)19
Top 100 Social Video Sharing Sites 2008-02-21 10:22:00 Unless you are unconscious about the latest trends, you should know that videos sell like hotcake in the market! No wonder, Youtube caught the eye of Google and sold it for $1.65 billion last 2006! That’s just the start. People not only watch videos for entertainment but more marketers are using it for their marketing campaign. Not to mention that more bloggers are already adapting the trend and do video blogging.If you are not using them, then you are missing a great opportunity to capitalize on this growing market. This is the list of top 100 video sharing sites sorted by popularity according to Alexa ranking with their Google PageRank. Rank Video SharingSites
(Alexa/Google PR)1 (1/7)2 (2/8)3 (3/8)4 (5/7)5 (5/7)6 (6/8)7 (36/7)8 ( Read more:Social
20 Young Millionaires 2008-02-21 10:17:00 Do you know that the internet is the greatest monetary equalizer? You don’t have to be an old tech savvy, computer geek, seo specialist, first-world-straight-As genius just to be rich online. As long as you have a reliable computer, internet connection and a brilliant idea; even young kids can retire young and rich!Check out this list of young internet millionaires under 30. Mark Zuckerberg [ Facebook ] 23 years old | $700MAndrew Gower [ Runescape ] 28 years old | $650MBlake Ross and David Hyatt [ Mozilla ] 22 years old | $120MChad Hurley [ Youtube ] 30 years old | $85MAngelo Sotira [ Deviant ART ] 26 years old | $75MJohn Vechey [ PopCap Games ] 28 years old | $60MAlexander Levin [ WordPress ] 23 years old | $57MJake Nickell [ Threadless ] 28 years old | $50MSean Belnick [ Biz Chair ] 20 Read more:Millionaires
How to SEO Your Site in Less Than an Hour 2008-02-20 17:45:00 SEO Your Site in Less Than an Hour A. Visit the home page, www.domain.com. Does it redirect to some other URL? If so, that’s bad. Review the Page Title. Does it use relevant, primary keywords? Is it formatted correctly? Review site navigation: Format — text or image? image map? javascript? drop-downs? Text is best. Page URLs — look at URL structure, path names, file names. How long are URLs? How far away from the root are they? Are they separated by dashes or underscores? Are keywords used appropriately in text links or image alt tags? Review home page content: Adequate and appropriate amount of text? Appropriate keyword usage? Is there a sitemap? Do a “command-A” to find any hidden text. Check PageRank via SearchStatus plugin for Firefox View source code: Check meta description Read more:SEO
20 Hard Core SEO Tips 2008-02-20 17:41:00 For those of you loyal readers who wish I would just take a break from the theoretical musings, here is the type of list of SEO
tips I rarely give out. You may have seen some or all of these ideas before but I’ll explain some of the benefits for each tip below. 20 Hard Core SEO Tips
- The List Redesign your Web site once or twice a year.Add 5 pages of content to your site every week.Change the titles on your least successful pages twice a year.Stop using keywords in your URLs.Stop using keywords in your titles.Find 3 SEO forums that accept site review requests and write 20 reviews in each forum before you ever ask a question.Create your own SEO book by collecting your favorite SEO forum and blog posts, newsletter articles, and tech tips in a .PDF file that you review once a month.C
Benefits of Social Bookmarking 2008-02-20 17:16:00 Monitoring social bookmarking services like Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon and Ma.gnolia can help search engines in multiple ways by: Indexing Sites Faster : Humans bookmark sites launched by their friends or colleagues before a search engine bot can find them.Deeper Indexing : Many pages bookmarked are deep into sites and sometimes not as easily linked to by others, found via bad or nonexistent site navigation or linked to from external pages.Measuring Quality : Essentially if more users bookmark a page, the more quality and relevance that site has. A site with multiple bookmarks across multiple bookmarking services by multiple users is much more of an authority than a site with only several bookmarks by the same user.External Meta Data : Users who bookmark sites tag them with keywords and desc Read more:Social
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7 things you should know about 'Social Bookmarking' 2008-02-20 16:57:00 What is SocialBookmarking
?Social Bookmarking
is the practice of saving bookmarks to apublic Web site and “tagging” them with keywords. Bookmarking,on the other hand, is the practice of saving the address ofa Web site you wish to visit in the future on your computer. Tocreate a collection of social bookmarks, you register with a socialbookmarking site, which lets you store bookmarks, add tags ofyour choice, and designate individual bookmarks as public orprivate. Some sites periodically verify that bookmarks still work,notifying users when a URL no longer functions. Visitors to socialbookmarking sites can search for resources by keyword, person,or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classificationschemes that registered users have created and saved.Who is doing it?Social Read more:things
The 125 Social Book Marking Sites which may boost your web traffic 2008-02-20 16:41:00 The 125 Social
Book Marking Sites
which may boost your web traffic
Backflip : Backflip is a free service currently being run by volunteers. Backflip was started in 1999 by Netscape veterans Tim Hickman and Chris Misner. As a research tool, Backflip is clearly of value to the education community, and that community (or at least certain segments) has certainly embraced Backflip. A Google search of sites that contain the term “Backflip.com” results in numerous education-related links, including Teacher Tools.barksbookmarks : BARKS=BookmARKS is a website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control.BibSonomy :BibSonomy is run by the Knowledge Data Engineering Group of the University of Kassel, Germany. Its specifically designed
Change Number of Posts you wan't on main page 2008-02-20 06:57:00 You can change the number of posts you want on main page.The following is the step by step process:1. Login to your blogger account and choose your desired blog.2. Now click on the Settings tab on the top.3. In the Settings tab you will see many sub tabs. In that click on Formatting and select number of posts you wan't to display. Read more:Change
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Make Posts behave like Web Pages 2008-02-20 06:47:00 I have seen many people telling that they wan't to show their posts on a seperate page. The new blogger though only helps that on main page. i.e you can set how many posts you want to put on main page. But the same thing doesn't appear for labels and archives. They show multiple posts in it. With some tricks u can though list the titles of the post and let users click on they title to show only that post.Here is the script to show only Post Titles in labels and archives pageFor number of posts you want to display on main page go through my post Change Number of Posts you want on main page. Read more:Pages
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Preparing Your Blog for Search Engines- Steps to optimize your blog 2008-02-20 02:10:00 The theory behind optimizing a blog and a regular website are the same, but there are some very distinct differences in setting up the system. So in Today’s post, I will show you the right way to set up and optimize a blog.Initially buy a domain name (Though not important but improves serach engine traffic) Often, when people first set up their blog, they will get the free blog setup (yourblog.wordpress.com or yourblog.blogspot.com), and blog like this. It works hust fine, but by buying a domain name and setting your blog with it and hosting on a paid server will not only change look and feel of your blog but also greatly help in getting listed on search engines. Purchase a domain through godaddy.com. Domain should have the main keyword you are optimizing for somewh Read more:Search
RSS - Blog Directories 2008-02-19 14:17:00 Here are some of the Blog Directories
and Social Book Marketing sites. These sites will greatly help in increasing web traffic. 2Rss About.com All-Blogs.net Answers BOTW Blog Directory Blawg Blogcode Blogarama -a-site/ Blogbib Blogbunch BlogCatalog Blogdigger Blogflux Bloggernity -bin/add.cgi Bloghop Bloghub -bin/add.cgi Blogintro Bloglisting BlogMap BlogPulse Blog-search -submission.html Blogtopsites Bloguniverse Blogz
Search Engine Ranking Factors 2008-02-19 14:14:00 Steve Rubel points to a useful resource over at seomoz on SearchEngineRanking
Factors which is one of the better descriptions of how Search Engine
s rank pages that I’ve seen recently. It lists 93 factors to keep in mind. Sounds like a lot to remember - so luckily they’ve arranged them into different levels of importance (only problem is that on all three of my Mac browsers the symbols that tell what is important or not don’t seem to be working at the moment).
Google Ranking Factors 2008-02-19 14:14:00 I want to give a prize today to one of the most ugly yet useful sites I’ve seen for a while. I hope I don’t cause any offense by saying that - but the prize goes to GoogleRanking
Factors. Don’t let the ugliness factor put you off because if you scratch a little under it’s spewy color scheme and boxy look you’ll find some very useful information on factors to keep in mind as you think about optimizing your blog for Google. The factors are divided into four sections. 1. Positive On Page SEO Factors - things that you should consider including on your blog/web page2. Negative On Page SEO Factors - things you should avoid including on your blog/web page3. Positive Off Page SEO Factors - factors that you should seek from other web pages that point to your blog4. Negative Off
How Much Is a Blog Post Worth? A Formula? 2008-02-19 14:12:00 Interesting post over at Steve Pavlina’s which takes up the question that How Much Is a Blog PostWorth
? In the post Steve decides that posts on his blog are worth $2400 calculated over a 10 year life span. He calculates this by taking the total earnings of his site and dividing it by the post numbers and then multiplying it by the lifespan of the post. It’s actually an interesting formula and one that I used on my own blogs for the first year or so. The only problem is that after 18-24 months of my own blogging the increase in my own earnings began to slow each month and the post numbers continued to rise at a similar rate. I’m about to run out the door for the morning but I’ll make a few further brief comments on it (note - Steve and I agree on these things and he says Read more:Formula
Selling your Blog 2008-02-19 14:11:00 Lorelle has written a comprehensive post (does she write any other kind) on Selling Your Blog: What Are Blog Buyers Looking For? which explores questions like: When is the Right Time to Sell Your Blog?How Much is Your Blog Really Worth?Selling Points for Selling Your Blog I agree with everything she says but would simply add that ultimately a blog is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. There are many factors that different buyers and sellers will use to determine value (Lorelle outlines most of those that I can think of) - but in the end it is like selling anything - it is about demand and supply. I’ve seen some blogs sell in the last year that had selling prices well above what I’d have paid personally for them - however the buyers had their own agendas in mind. At other
Valuing a Blog 2008-02-19 14:10:00 Duff McDonald of Portfolio.com writes a piece on the Valuation of Drudge Report and tries to come up with a valuation based upon three methods (eyeballs, ad value and ‘ask his mother what it’s worth’). Somewhere between it all they value it at between $10M-$20M.
Selling Blogs - Factors of Valuation 2008-02-19 14:08:00 The last couple of weeks have seen some real action in the selling of blogs in the ‘make money online’ part of the blogosphere with the sale of Blogging Fingers ($6000), Ryan Shamus ($2500) and One Man’s Goal currently up for sale and with the bids up to $6000 (update: this auction had to restart). Add to that NorthxEast selling a few weeks back ($8200) and there has definitely been something in the air. Mark at 45n5 did a little analysis of the sales based upon subscriber numbers and points out that the blogs are selling for between $27.78 and $35.16 per subscriber (not including NorthxEast who sold for around $4 per subscriber). I’m not sure subscribers numbers are the best way to value a blog - but it would definitely be one factor. Other factors would include: Traffic (a Read more:Blogs
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