Owner: Webtalks URL:http://webtalks.blogspot.com Join Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:42:16 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Webtalks is a blog where we have high level discussions on topics related to Websites.Here we have special focus on guides to Google services like Adsense and Blogger including their tips,hacks and support Site statistics:Click here
New Google Analytics Design open for all 2007-05-19 15:20:00 Yesterday, I got a no-reply letter from GoogleAnalytics
team, that they have finally opened the new design for all users which they announced some days back.On visiting, the first observation I made was that this is the beta version and the previous design is still available who are not comfortable with the new design.This is the perfect guide/ tutorial for those who want to learn how to use the New Beta Google Analytics designStill the graphics are awesome and are using the flash player, so it will still take time to load but the good thing is that not everything is in Flash.What I really like about the new design is this hover effect they have on their graphsThe Drag and Drop functionality of graphs is still enabled, something new is the visitor location map like that of Frappr Maps but a bit neatSomething more is traffic sources.I had to previoulsy visit MyBloglog tracker to see from where my visitors are coming.This time Analytics wins it as it is giving each and every real time
Blog Reviews.. An innovative way of building backlinks 2007-05-18 16:39:00 Ever since Dot com Mogul John Chow started is reviewing program and a free link exchange program,this system has attracting more and more bloggers per day.This time the victim is Darrin.Let us see what does he have in store for us...Darin.CC is a blog about Search Engine Marketing. He is offering to link to your blog if you review his blog and you could win a Free Nintendo Wii in the process!How I see it?Though I find it somewhat similar to johnchow dot com, Darrin has his own taste for things.For I can say that yellow is his favorite color{Anyone could guess that:)}Its not hosted on wordpressIt is top ranked in most popular blog directories and has a decent alexa rankAdsense Tip::Since you are using only one banner on each page, your CPM earnings wouldn't be that high.I recommend you insert adsense around each post so that you can earn through CPM as well and your high traffic doesn't goes a waste.The second victim is Kevin and he has shown us that we can Win a mascot at Bloggingti Read more:backlinks
Wordpress like plugins for new blogger 2007-05-23 08:01:00 A Webtalks reader asked me a simple question…Are there any widgets which are similar to wordpress plug-ins. The answer is yes .There are some widgets created by professionals which are almost similar to wordpress 2 plug-insLabel Cloud widget: In wordpress, label is also known as category cloud. By default, the new blogger displays labels and a number just after it indicating the number of posts in the label. You can turn it into a label cloud with the broad label being of the biggest font size by simply copying this code from here .This is the one, I used..Archive calendar widget : By default, the new blogger has three archive lists. Hierarchy, flat list and a dropdown. In contrast, wordpress has a calendar archive .Purplemoggy and phydeaux ,boh have created separate widgets for it. You can get them here and hereRecent posts widget: As I have explained in my previous article, for displaying a list of recent posts, you need to convert into java script. This can be done here. A maximum Read more:Wordpress
Technorati introduces Technorati advanced search 2007-05-24 08:15:00 In a short period of time,Technorati
have re-designed its website and added / removed some features.The new look has a bit of professional touch in it.Technorati now have added a new part in their family, Technorati Advanced SearchTechnorati Search is an advanced version of their previous Technorati Search.What is a new cool feature added to this advanced search is their syndication options.For example, your looking for something about the New design of Analytics, simply advance search it and then subscribe it through your favourite bookmark option.If you are a webmaster, you can subscribe to the backlinks for your URL,so that you do not have to search daily.Blog authority which gives a pleasant idea about the blog's placement in the blogosphere.They previously displayed a line "XXX links to this URL".Now they have removed it from normal search and have added to advanced search "XXX reactions to this blog"Something strange I noticed is that when I searched for my back up wordpress do
Is PayPerPost the right choice for your blog? 2007-05-31 08:01:00 Webtalks reader, Carl, who read my previous article about low adsense earnings of bloggers followed me up via Email for more information on PayPerPost
and does his site really need it or not. PayPerPost lets you do sponsored posts and then earn money at a decent price. A sponsored post will make you earn anywhere between 5 $ to 500 $ depending on the rating of your site. Its almost similar to ReviewMe but a bit more helpful for small bloggers because as it is small bloggers very rarely get an opportunity to get Blog Reviews. For PayPerPost, you need to have a PayPal account. For a higher rating of your site in PayPerPost, you need to have a high PR and a low Alexa traffic rank. When you have registered your blog, you’ll start getting sponsored post opportunities. This is a terribly good opportunity for small bloggers who don’t make much out of Adsense. I was also planning to start sponsored posts {15 $ per post} in my blog, but when I read their Terms, my mind changed. Why?
View any XML feed inside your Gmail Inbox 2007-05-30 07:52:00 A feed burner icon today is very common in sites with most of them being blogs.Some of the blogs offer subscription to blog's XML
feed via Email.What about those who don't?Many people, like me, are too lazy to check in their Google Reader everyday where I had subscribed the feeds of my dailies. How about a rotating headline right inside
your G mail In box where you commonly see some sponsored links and some latest headlines from news blogs.To customize your Web Clips..1.Goto Settings2.Click on Web Clips3.Add your site's Xml(RSS) feed URL in the Search box4.Wait for confirmation5.EnjoyI recommend that you do not use the feedburner feed url as it not always works Read more:Gmail
How can a small/new blogger earn instantly? 2007-06-04 11:42:00 My inbox was overloading with mails from small/new bloggers asking can they make money out of their new/small blog.As we all know Payperpost requires a blog to have a decent pagerank, but that is so not possible for a blogger who has just started.If you are one of the blogger who's site is read by a wide audience despite the fact that your Alexa score is high and PR still 0, you can still get paid for blogging by a service called Smorty.Smorty is a blog advertising service from where advertisers can advertise on blogs via sponsored posts but pay the blogger only when they find it of decent quality .The best part is that its still a new organization, so there isn't much flooding of bloggers and competition is not that stiff as on PayPerPost.Your blog can easily make most of out it.You do a honest sponsored post, your post is approved and then money in your PayPal account.Price of an average post is 6$.That means for one sponsored post you get 6 $ within a week and you are free to us
We are looking for "Good" Writers 2007-06-03 04:10:00 Hi everyone out there.Over the past few days I was burdened with my template change.I spent nearly 3 hours a day for it only.Now as it is Webtalks has got some popularity in the past few days:-Got the Blog of the day award -Featured at Indian Blogger List at Digital Inspiration by our very own AmitSo an idea of guest blogging suddenly ticked my mind.If you think you are an able person to write for Webtalks, come forward. You should be having a established blog and the blog post topic can be any of the following::Internet: Burning TopicsBlogging tips/hacksSoftware reviewsWeb application reviews... Any thing from the Tech SideFor participating in this guest blogging, simply leave behind your details as a comment or simply Gmail me,i.e,NameBlog URLBlogging experience{passion/hobby/full time}In return, you will get a backlink and an oppurtunity to place your Adsense ad on the main page of this blog. Read more:Writers
Webtalks is changing 2007-06-02 10:09:00 If technorati can have two design makeovers, Google simultaneously testing its Web 2.0 Design why can' your {expected} favorite blog, Webtalks have something special ? Today, 2 June Webtalks have gone through its first design makeover.Possible ReasonsI felt embarrassed when I used to design templates for others and keep a simple one for my blogI was terribly bored with itSidebar continued to drop despite efforts in IE 6Too messy!My Summer break has started !So now don't be shocked to see some mind-blowing or some rubbish{depends on point of view} thingsNew features addedA rating option for each postPlanned: Summarized postsIS a New blogger Xml Template.No Buggy ads between posts { in main page]A bit neat and no sidebar dropping in IEDon't worry, you too can have a new blogger Xml template like this, or even more cool from here
Display your backlinks with New Blogger Templates 2007-06-07 08:15:00 Some comments,some Emails asking me how to display backlinks
with new blogger templates that my site offers. By default, I have turned of "links to this post" in my templates, if you want to just make it visible {whichever template you may be using}, follow these steps..1.Goto Page Elements Section of your Layout and then click on the link which edits your blog post widget2.Mark the "Links to this Post"as checked.Remember you can also drag your "Links to this post" link across your sample blog post according to your relevance3.Save changes, and then view your template.Again there would be a bit confusion.On the main page of your blog,there would only be a "link to this post" line after each post.Wheras if you view only those pages with one post{Itempage}, It will also give the Post titles and link to the linking posts.This feature is used by conditional tagsin old blogger...Itempagein new blogger..b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"Another feature "Blog This" was added on 7 Jan Read more:Display
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Is Google the only source for your Search Engine Traffic? 2007-06-10 07:09:00 SEO, everybody is running after it. But does the SearchEngine
here referred is only Google
? In recent days, I have got lot of visitors from Google Search looking for blogging tips. My site is well ranked in Google. But my next concern was that I am getting traffic only from Google whereas my site is indexed by almost all reputed search engines like Live Search and Yahoo. I knew that both Yahoo and Live Search gave most importance the blog age. Webtalks now is almost 4.5 months old. I knew crawlers index content when we have got in-links. An interesting observation I made that despite getting some 600 Inlinks according to Yahoo Siteexplorer, only the homepage of blog was indexed by Yahoo Search. Yahoo Search crawlers were for some reason not following links on the root page of blog.Then I tried a method called Deep Linking.I tried to link to previous posts of mine through related links using different keywords. Also then I encouraged bloggers to link to full post URL instead of home Read more:Search Engine
Using Conditional Tags with New Blogger Templates 2007-06-09 07:51:00 You might have noticed a strange thing in my new template. If you visit the home page of this blog, then there aren't Adsense Ads between post title and post body but when you visit Itempage { Page with one Post }, you get an Adsense Ad rectangle between the post title and post body.I have mentioned an introduction in Display your backlinks with New Blogger
templates but now I'll be giving you a in depth analysis of Conditional Tags in New Blogger{Blogger beta} templatesUnderstanding Conditional TagsThe old blogger also used to support the conditional tag ,i.e, itempage. Anything wrapped inside these tags will be displayed only on the itempage.& now we use the New Blogger which also supports conditional tags, a bit different though<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'></b:if>A bit complicated? We'll make it easy.Lets have a sample if else conditionIf john studies, he passes else he fails Now lets have a second look on the code<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != Read more:Templates
The riddle is Solved 2007-06-13 08:07:00 Today is the day for me giving you the second hint for solving out the riddle in our first riddle contest. But the riddle was already solved by the webmaster of tech4novices 24 hours before. If you missed it, here’s how to solve itThecash.finoThe three repeating alphabets were from my name{Post Author}AshwiniNow give numbers to alphabets1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11T h e c a s h . f i n oNow arrange these alphabets in order5 6 7 1 3 4 2 9 10 8 11Which Gives Ashtech.infoCool?But may be you lost a golden opportunity. But don’t lose heart. I will continue such contest(s). And the next being on 25th of June .So make sure you visit Webtalks on regular basis.Now as per promise the blog review…Tech4novicesTech4novices,authored by Nauzer Elavia is a blog published via FTP and hosted on a custom domain.WithGood use of Feedburner Roatating HeadlinesStarted on May 20Using Minima white HTML template which suits 800 x 600 Screen ResolutionPossibly using Google Apps.SuggestionsAdsense above
Webtalks Riddle Contest 2007-06-11 11:30:00 Marking the 500 Technorati blog reactions, I have to give you something in return.So here it is.. my first contest.There will be only one winner who wins,A free Blog review from Webtalks{Adsense postionaing,Design,Content..}A link from Webtalks{PR 3} with Anchor tag of his choiceIf he wants, a guest post on WebtalksSo whats the contest?I have bought a domain from Godaddy.All you have to do is to solve the riddle below which indicates the URL of that domain.thecash.finoHint:three alphabets are posted in every postIf nobody is able to solve the riddle by 13 June.Next Hint would be givenIf you have solved the riddle.Go to my domain.There you will find a five digit code,Gmail it to me with your details or leave back a comment.The one who solves it first wins Read more:Riddle
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Check your back links in Live Search, Yahoo Web Search 2007-06-16 12:20:00 Google recently updated its site links
Google Webmaster tools{Sitemaps} which it does monthly.Not surprisingly my back links were some 1043. I had a quick look on Yahoo
Site explorer results.{Backlinks 789}.But according to Google Web Search
, my backlinks range around 50 thats because Google Linking Index only displays those pages which are previously having a Page rank. I was pretty excited about viewing my back links in Live{MSN} Search. But unfortunately, Live search have disabled the old "link:" operator due to abuse of their technology and Yahoo Web search automatically redirects you to the Yahoo Site Explorer when you use "link:" operatorI received an anonymous tip in my mailbox that we can also view back links in Live Search
by just changing the keywords.Have a look at thisReplace Link:webtalks.blogspot.com with webtalks.blogspot.com -site:www.example.comWhere webtalks.blogspot is your blog/site.Don't change example.comNow view your results in Live Search and view your back Read more:Check
Buying/Selling Links? Google May ban you from their indexes 2007-06-20 05:32:00 This is true, a wake up call for all those who are earning by selling or buying links. This all those participating in Advertising Programs like Text-Link-Ads. This is an effort to stop buying Google
Pagerank which is mainly based on incoming external links. The paid links reporting form is directly available in the dashboard of Google SitemapsHow will Google punish?A complete exclusion from Google´s SERPs is only one possible consequence of a spam report. Google might also choose to give a site a "yellow card" so that the site can not be found in the index for a short time. However, if a webmaster ignores this signal, then a "red card" with a longer-lasting effect might follow. So it's possible that Google is already aware of an issue and communicating with the webmaster about that issue, or that they have taken action other than a removal on a spam report.Are you the first to be punished?You can still send your Application for reconsiderationBut you can still sell links by-Adding Read more:Buying
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Webtalks Contest #2 2007-06-25 10:53:00 As I promised, here's the second contest. The winner of course gets a free blog review on Webtalks with a linkback."You need to go to the link page on my googlepages"Hint:You can find my googlepages account in my templates postThen follow the instuctions Another interesting info, we have got into the top 10,000 Tchnorati Blogs and are currently ranked5,000cool? .. looks like template business is gaining popularityBut we are hungry for more Read more:Contest
Hint to our Riddle Contest #2 2007-06-30 09:05:00 So.. it was a bit tough? because most of the people couldn't figure it out, the second hint to our Riddle
contest#2You need to follow linkYou may visit sourceHope this makes it all the more clearThe winner will get an exclusive free blog review {including linkback} Read more:Contest
John Chow - Blog Review 2007-07-04 08:07:00 "Make Money Online" what a keyword targeting tactic! Just because of this keyword john chow dot com receives atleast 150 unique visitors a day that too only from GoogleJohn Chow dot Com is a blog that helps you make money. If you review his blog, he’ll link to it and send you a lot of traffic.John chow has been recently an internet celebrity not because he earns 12,000$ but he is featured at Leo Laparte.Google has already issued a yellow penalty card that means has will not be featured on the firt SERP for popular searches just because of his overloading link baitInterestingly, all other search results for john chow showed that publishers are celebrating when Google penalized him but to the rescue, until he receives a red card from from Google there are 100% chances that he will be back. Infact two of his unique words mogul and ramblings can be found in many blog's descriptioncoming back to the review, John chow dot com was started by john chow to write down all of his thoughts {ra
Managing your feeds well 2007-07-06 09:00:00 A web feed is a document (often XML-based) which contains content items with web links to longer versions. News websites and blogs are common sources for web feeds, but feeds are also used to deliver structured information ranging from weather data to "top ten" lists of hit tunes to search results. The two main web feed formats are RSS and Atom.A {new} blogger blog by default comes integrated with many atom feeds.Summary: When submitting your blog to blog directories, they always ask for a feed URL. I always used to submit my full RSS feed, and I was surprised to see that in My Blog Catalog neighborhood, there were many members who read my blog feed daily but didn't subscribe to it.If you want a bit more traffic to your site instead of giving your full feed, you can give summarized feed which comprises of headlines and only some portion of the post and excludes images within posts so visitors who click any one of the headline will reach straight your blog's post. URL ishttp://yourblo
Get your blogger drafted' 2007-07-12 07:50:00 Just when blogger used to sounded boring, blogger has something for impatient bloggers like me, The Blogger in Draft.Blogger in draft is a special version of Blogger where we try out new features before releasing them to everyone. Think of it as our sandbox, or laboratory, or just “Blogger + new things.” By taking your feedback and looking at what works and what doesn’t, we’ll be able to make features that much better when releasing them to everyone.To enable some of the most cool widgets, you need to log on from draft.blogger.com/draft instead of blogger.com . Don't be scared your posts won't be lost neither would be your template and also when you feel Blogger in Draft is crap, log in back from blogger.comwhat will I win?Some of the most cool widgets like a dynamic poll element {of course adfree) which is already published for regular users too.A search box powered by Google coop which collects sources from your entire blog and also linked blogs/websites and too is dynamic.
Money in experiments 2007-07-15 04:10:00 Failure takes you to success. Failure here referred is of my sponsored posts. I have done two them, one by smorty, and another of Fring both have pocketed me 12 $ only. I haven’t yet received a customer from Review Me marketplace, so to give out my blog a bit exposure and also fresh air, I have signed up with Sponsored Reviews .There are many causes that have led me to this decision and I’ll point out a few for you I received less amount from services such as smorty and didn’t receive any from ReviewMe . Limitless LimitsMy Review Me price for a sponsored post cannot be decreased below 60$. I think that was too high but for sponsored posts, I can pick my price anywhere between 20$ – 100$ I want “profits”Payout for review me review is 50% of the total amount whereas for a sponsored reviews review it is set at 65%.Moreover I can bid for the amount below or equal to the settled amount Its Vice VersaAny Advertiser on Review Me will look for an appropriat Read more:Money
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Review:Aloe Vera Products India 2007-07-14 07:50:00 The winner of our second contest was again Nauzer instead of John Chow {as many thought} because his review came just after my hint.Nauzer as you remember was the winner of our first contest too.. others please gear upThis blog is about Aloe Vera
based Health, Nutrition and Beauty Products
from ,Forever Living India
.Its again a blogger blog and is using one of our 3 column template.The site's homepage is all text and well managed, well done Nauzer! {All text means a very quick loading time}. The site's homepage contains an static title less posts which serves as an introduction to its visitors. How did she do that?A Blog is like a diary where the newest entry is placed first.Remember you can change the date of your publishing by going to Post options and then changing it.You cahange the year to 2099 as I have done{just example} to make the post a static one at homepage.Similarly, if you want a separate section for links , publish a post dated 5-6 years back {depends on blog age. inc
Its all in the URL and title 2007-07-13 08:46:00 I recently conducted a small survey across the google searches and concluded some interesting things:Say we are searching for the most blogged person of 2006 - "Harry Potter"The first result comes out to be harrypotter.warnerbros.com. Actually harrpotter dot com auto matically redirects you to this site, transferring all of the google juice to it. Interestingly, backlinks for this site according to Google were some 1,340and the fun is the site ranked #6 for the same query have sum 2,500 backlinks according to Google. Mugglenet dot com is a fan site of Harry Potter and contains the term Harry Potter in its title too.So why is it ranked below Harry Potter dot com?1.Dont stuff excessive keywords in your titleStuffing excessive keywords in your homepage may lead the Google Technology to think that the site is targeting many search terms via title eg. Mugglenet besides targetting Harry Potter also targets, Daniel Radcliffe,Emma Watson , Rupert Grint... wheras Harry Potter dot comtargets onl
Adsense referrals 2.0, where the honest earns 2007-07-18 08:16:00 Its been a while since google adsense team have officially anounced for their release of adsense referrals 2.0 to all Adsense
publishers. While checking my daily totals a tip in green box came that my account has been upgraded to Adsense Referrals 2.0.I rushed to it as I was eagerly waiting for it.Why?Expanded product inventory: While many of you have had success referring one of our Google products, some of you weren't able to find a product that fit the context of your site. Referrals 2.0 offers products from thousands of AdWords advertisers, so you can find the right ads for your sites.Category and keyword targeting: With thousands of products available, it can be difficult to decide which ads will perform best on your site. That's why we give you the option to refer products by category and keyword. You can narrow down the types of ads you want to display and let AdSense figure out which ones will perform best on your site. Whether you want ads for a specific category, advertiser Read more:honest
Webtalks 2007-07-20 09:53:00 It looks like a page rank update is quite near. I'm quite busy updating old/broken links. In that process, I have to update again and again my posts. That may result to a flood of repeated posts in the readers of my current feed.I have a solution for that.I have syndicated a new feed from feedburner which will not publish a post which is updated after it is published.The subscription options are below{though I'll not delete the previous feed,I recommend, you subscribe to the new one to avoid crap}OPTION 1- GET UPDATES IN YOUR INBOXEnter your email address:OPTION-2-WITH YOUR FAVOURITE READERclick here to subscribeAnd we have got few subscribers already...I believe more from will shift soonDelivered by FeedBurner
Changing Blogger title for Postpages. 2007-07-23 07:22:00 In recent, I have changed the title of my blog' home page to Webtalks- Blogging,Online Money Making,Tech Tips wheras the title for Post pages{Itempages}is Post title ~Webtalks. This has given a major boost to my Search Engine rankings.Now the question is How do I have two separate titles for the same blog's homepage and post page.By default, your Blogger
's title on the top left displays your blog title, and if it's in the items page, it'll include your post title as well.eg, Webtalks:Changing
Blogger Title for Postpages.By copying the coding from below, you can change the default behavior of the title tag.Step 1-Goto Blogger Dashboard>>Layout>>Edit HtmlStep 2-Backup your templateStep 3-Follow the instructions belowFind this code in your XML template{in header}<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>Now replace it with<!-- Start Widget-based: Changing the Blogger Title Tag --><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><b:section><b:widget locked
I can smell the Pagerank update 2007-07-22 02:43:00 Page rank plays a vital role in describing your web site's placement in the web especially for advertising.Page rank is updated aprox. 3 months [more details].Last time it was so on April end.This would be the second update our Webtalks is going to have, in the first one it got a Page rank of 3. While checking around my pagerank in different Google DCs I observed many of them were down possibly hidding the new PR. Currently I can't give you the exact date but make sure you visit Matt Cutt's blog as he is an google employee{Googler} and will provide further information as to when will it begin.You can also perform a quick check around the iwebtool pagerank prediction tool as other tools I noticed were using the same technology.I can see that Webtalks will get a PR of 4 if all goes well though I was expecting a bit more from it after Google Webmasters back link count showed ~ 4000 linksI'll just scribble down what I'm upto to push my PR from 3 to 4+Optimizing and providing the cutt
Want a fake Google Pagerank 2007-08-02 08:33:00 Recently I came across a new term Fake Google
PR. When I read about it, I thought it as a joke but when it worked, I was shocked. Crackers have done it again! Didn’t spare Google Pagerank. With fake Pagerank you can get a PR the toolbar displays on your site of your choice. This is good enough to fool an advertiser. You can find the steps how do it below{thanks to black hat seo){But I don’t recommend doing so}1. Buy a domain{don’t experiment on established one}.2. 301 Redirect the domain either in you .htaccess, PHP header (anything server side) to a page with the desired page rank. It’s better to redirect to something relevant. For example, if you are doing a mortgage site, redirect to a mortgage site.for php the code is:<?phpheader(”HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently”);header(”location:http://www.seoblackhat.com”);exit;?>3. Link to the page with the redirect from another of your sites that gets regularly spidered by Google. Since you use the Alexa Toolbar, you shou
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