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Getting Free Content for your Blog 2007-06-26 00:30:00 As you may have heard before "content is king". Bloggers are mostly content writers. It is the content that drives traffic to your blog or website. To get more web traffic, you would add more useful content to your blog/site, however you might not be able to come up with quality content as regularly as you might wish(Reasons could be laziness, lack of motivation/interest, blogging fatigue, monotony etc.). In this situation you probably would want to keep your blog fresh with new content by getting free content for your blog/website.The easy-lazy way is to use the free available content from article submission directories, which host articles from variety of authors on various topics, most of the directories will let you use the content if you follow the terms of usage and give proper credit to the author. Most times, you just have to publish and unlatered with the author/site credit resourcebox in the post footer. However do read the republishing terms of the sites, whose content you w Read more:Content
How to add paypal donate button to your blog 2007-05-26 00:30:00 PayPal, is an eBay Company,It enables any individual or business with an email address to securely, easily and quickly send and receive payments online.If you don't have a paypal account yet, you can get a free account hereAfter you have your login ID/password,Login to your account. Then click the "merchant tools" tab, on "PayPal Website Payments Standard", find the link to donations( https://www.paypal.com/row/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick-donations-factory ).All the customizations are optional, so you can customize your button
s with options that are given and click "create button". On the next page, copy the entire code from the textbox and paste it into your template where you want it to appear. Congratulations! You have just added paypal donate button to your blog.(See the demo below)
Installing StumbleUpon links within Blogger/Blogspot 2007-05-26 00:30:00 Download one of the StumbleUpon
Icons from it's icon set here . Upload this picture somewhere on the web.(This is a preview of the available icons, select and upload any one of them.)Login to your blogger dashboard, click manage->template.On the template tab, find <$BlogItemBody$> tag Copy-Paste this code just below the <$BlogItemBody$> tag Stumble It!Replace **LINK TO stumbleit.gif** with the full path to the image that you uploaded.Save & RePublish your blog.Sample Preview:Stumble It! NOTE : This installation only works with classic templates of blogger. Read more:Blogger
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Blog Graphics 2007-05-23 04:16:00 Finding Images/videos/icons and stuff for your blog is a challenging and time consuming excercise. Here's my "unofficial" and "incomplete" list of resources for blog graphics.Bigoo.ws - Over 50,000 images, all classified as glitters, backgrounds, cursors, quotes, animations, icons etc. Also has layouts and widgets for MySpace, Hi5, Friendster.Stock Exchange - Free for personal use. Read the license here. [ License ]Yotophoto.com - Indexes images in the public domain or available for free usage under various forms of "copyleft" licensing.Freefoto.com - Free photographs for private non-commercial use on the Internet.FreeDigitalPhotos.net - Free for use in blogs, with some conditions [ License ]Blogger Help itself list these blog graphics resources for your blogs:Openphoto.netFlickr Photos - Only those with creative commons licences are free to use.http://search.creativecommons.org/ - This search engine should throw up many image resources that can be used on blogs and websites for free. Read more:Graphics
25% of the People Online Use Firefox, do you? 2007-05-20 13:02:00 "People are switching to Firefox
fast as ever, while IE's share drops every day!"read more digg storyAccording to stats released by W3Counter , Firefox is the first choice for almost 25% of the people using the net. Have you downloaded firefox?
Using new feed icons on blogs or sites 2007-05-20 02:19:00 While exploring other sites and blogs, you must have come across those orange coloured feed icons that give you an option to subscribe to that site's/blog's feed. Chances are that you are already publishing your own feed.Here's a free resource that will give you more color options to choose from(for the feed icon), you can also download other file format of the icon to modify and customize for your blog/site.http://www.feedicons.com
Blogthings for Girls Only 2007-05-16 04:02:00 Bravenet.com offers free things for your blog like, hit counter, e-cards, guestbook, chat rooms etc.Get free web tools, click hereWant a fresh picture of a hunk on your blog daily?New Blogger Users(Drag and Drop Layouts), click this button to add to your blogger.(You may have to sign in.)OrOld blogger users(Classic Templates), Select the code below and copy-paste into your template.Put on Your Page Read more:Girls
AdSense Abuse Techniques and Countermeasures by Google 2007-05-07 11:20:00 You must have seen the use of floating layers on many sites (generally created using DHTML & JavaScript). Since these layers can move dynamically and could be programmed to follow the mouse, Placing Adsense Ads on these layers can be unintentional clicks on the ads. Google
therefore does not allow the ads to be placed on floating layers.Images as Graphical pointers beside ad units were preferred way of many ad publishers to grab the attention of the visitor who would otherwise have ignored the ads due to the “ad blindness” behavior. In this technique images or flash objects are used in order to deceive the visitors into clicking the Ad by suggesting a link between the image/flash object and the ads. Google therefore disallows any images or flash objects beside the ads, which could suggest any link between the two.Some publishers tried to hide the “ads by google” tagline by customizing the background color of the page and the color of the ad itself so that it would blend into th
Reduce clutter from your blog 2007-05-04 07:20:00 Have you seen those 10-15 or more social bookmarking buttons for technorati, digg, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, google bookmarks, yahoo myweb etc. on other pages/blogs? Instead of having all those buttons you can have a single bookmarking button from Addthis.com. Read more:clutter
Delivering your content on Mobiles 2007-05-04 07:20:00 Now, your site visitors can have the contents of your site delivered right into their mobile phones, Get your personalized button at http://www.hubdog.com/gui/affiliates.aspx and add this functionality to your blog for free.The button might look like the one below, you can add it to your sidebar.
Nominate your blog for Blog Awards 2007-05-04 07:20:00 http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com is where you can submit your blog and nominate it for any of their categories. People can then vote for your blog and comment on it. If you want to use the bloggerschoiceawards badge's on your blog, Get your badge for your blog after you nominate your site. Read more:Awards
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Generating More Revenue than AdSense 2007-04-24 00:41:00 I have been using Blogger+AdSense for over an year now, I have learnt that adding Google AdSense to your blog is a lazy way to generate revenue from your blog. You can run AdSense on your blogs, and If you are using blogger, setting it up on your blog is a piece of cake.On popular blogs it will generate decent revenue, however other blogs will struggle to make (less than impressive!) $1 per month.Since Direct Affilate Advertising programs will disapprove most blogs, Are there other alternative ways to increase your revenue? The answer to that question is YES! and the best part is that it is still free to join this network. Follow the link below to signup.Click the button above for Free Registration! Read more:Revenue
CNBC Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge 2007-04-19 02:32:00 CNBC is running a million dollar portfolio challenge. After you register on site you are awarded $1,000,000 CNBC bucks. It is a challenge of your investment strategy worth $1,000,000. There are weekly prizes of $10,000 of real prize money who makes the largest weekly percentage gain.Do you want to read what others are saying on their blogs about CNBC Million DollarPortfolioChallenge
?You can try out your investment strategies at their contest site http://contests.cnbc.com/milliondollar/main.do
Contacting Blogger Support for Features/Suggestions 2007-01-15 05:38:00 If you use blogger. you already use one of the worlds best free blogging platforms loaded with features that are essential for blogging. Do you miss a feature that you think should be included in blogger? Or perhaps you would like to make a suggestion to blogger support. Here's how you can contact them directly :http://help.blogger.com/?page=troubleshooter.cs&problem=&contact_type=wishlist&Submit=Submit Read more:Blogger
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Blog Linking 2007-01-01 11:20:00 Blog Linking
or Blog Link Exchange as its commonly called is a way to build a linked "neighbourhood" and share visitors and pagerank amongst them. I welcome you to propose a link exchange on my blog, please use the email address with subject "link exchange" to contact me.Note thatI do not link to adult, illegal or blogs/sites. Kindly also make sure that you have useful content on your blog/site. Link Exchanges are supposed to be mutually benefetial for both parties. Only text links will be allowed and not more than 5-6 words as anchor text. Add your link to my Links Directory.For a reciprocal link exchange to my Links Directory(Pagerank 2),Add the following code to your page(It must be at least Pagerank 1).Free Blog Things & Blog StuffSend an email to me with subject as "link exchange" and the url of the page where you have added my link, your blog/site link.
New Feature Request for Blogger : Autosaving 2006-05-19 23:10:00 Ever since autosave feature was added to gmail, I was waiting something similar for blogger too. I like to use the blogger interface to write/publish my blog but it lacks a very convenient feature called "autosave". I find it quite frustrating when I have typed the contents and lose all my work because of computer/browser crashing. I therefore request Blogger
Guys to consider adding this feature to blogger.Update(05-17-2007): The autosave feature has been added now. The contents are saved in a cookie file, so it is possible to recover the post even if you were disconnected from blogger. Thank You, Blogger Team.
One of the BEST blog polls (UC) 2006-04-18 02:33:00 A polling system is very essential to a blog. My observations are that visitors interact with the website using a voting system more than they do using comment system or sending email. This could be due to the "laziness factor" as interacting with the voting sytem takes just a click or two. Therefore my recommendation is to have a blog poll on your blog for making your visitors interact with your website/blog, keeping their laziness factor in mind.The poll that I found attractive enough to include in my blogs is from http://www.dpolls.comHere are others that you can try as well :http://www.blogpoll.com/http://www.polldaddy.com/http://www.vizu.com/index.htmlhttp://www.pollpub.com/http://www.addpoll.com/http://www.blogpolls.com/
Get listed as #1 at Google : Your Blog 2006-03-28 00:00:00 When I was new to blogging, All my blogger friends would brag about their blogs being #1 at google. Actually, becoming #1 at google isnt as difficult as some people would like you to believe. Here's your tutorial to become #1 at google. Remember, this is not a Search Engine Optimization tutorial. This article aims to teach newbies, a few tips/tricks about google, to get their blog/website to rank at the topmost position of the blog.First do a google search of your blog url . So putting theory in practice, I shall do a google search of "zerodollarchallenge"(no spaces or quotes). Make sure that there are no Top Level Domains listed
in the search, ie :zerodollarchallenge.com, zerodollarchallenge.net, zerodollarchallenge.org, zerodollarchallenge.info etc. At the time I started this blog, there were no such domains listed against my blog url. If you see Top Level Domains listed, try your another blog url. Once you find the right blog url, Submit that blog url to google http://www.google.co Read more:Google
Reciprocal Link Exchange Page 2006-03-25 08:13:00 Blog Link DirectoryNote: Want to see your link here? See instructions here. http://www.bloggershomepage.com Bloggers-Get More Hits to your Blog with Free Blog Ads Read more:Exchange
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Add Adsense Link 2007-04-24 02:32:00 To Add Adsense
Link to you blog you need to first signup for google adsense account. Signing up is FREE and FAST( you probably would need a email address other than gmail).Click the graphic below and Follow the link to sign up for Google Adsense.
How Do I Leave Comments 2007-03-22 02:00:00 Blogger.com offers a good commenting system built into it's blogging platform. You can find the link to "Post a Comment" under every blog post. Clicking on the link will open a new page where you can enter your comments and read what others have commented on that post.Depending on the security settings of blog, you might have to log into your blogger account and/or pass the visual verification process to post your comment. Additionally, you might have to wait for the comments to be moderated by the blog author, before it is added on the comments page. To discourage spamming in comments, all links on the comments will automatically carry a "rel=nofollow" attribute. Read more:Comments
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AdSense Tip of the Day 2007-05-06 11:20:00 So, what URL do you type on your addressbar to get to the official AdSense site? is it http://www.google.com/adsense , Here's an AdSense Tip that will save you some time and keystrokes. type adsense into the addressbar and press ctrl+enter, the browser will connect to http://www.adsense.com and auto redirect to the official Google Adsense page. I hope this tip is useful to you.
Blogs Unite Against Iraq War 2007-04-19 01:30:00 "One Million Blogs
for Peace" movement began on Iraq
War's fourth anniversary with 217 blogs. They hope to have 1,000,000 strong by the fifth anniversary.read more digg story
Google PageRank Widget & Script 2007-04-16 14:21:00 Here's a widget/script that will display the pagerank of the current page.New Blogger Users(Drag and Drop Layouts), click this button to add to your blogger.(You may have to sign in.)OrOld blogger users(Classic Templates), Select the code below and copy-paste into your template.And another one, Read more:Google
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