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April 15, 2011March 7, 2017

Display Ads Of Different Author In Blogger

How To Display Ads Of Different Author In Blogger

Probably you know that wordpress allows you show different author ads. On the contrary blogger does not allow you. Blogger does not support plug-ins and hence you cannot share revenue with fellow authors by using third party add-ons.

Therefore this question “How one can display different author ads in blogger?” is being asked many blog users. The main advantage of blogger is that it is more customizable and allows you different certain things to do if you have HTML and PHP knowledge. There is a solution of this problem, now you can simply post ads on different author posts separately by applying blogger revenue sharing hack.

This hack will display ads links with the authors automatically after giving different ad codes for multiple authors by you. However this hack will be implemented only on one part of the blog such as below the post, navbar, footer area, below post title etc.

By following these simple steps you can easily use blogger revenue sharing hack

Login to blogger dashboard.
Now move to Layout> Edit HTML and Expand widget templates.
Now search the following code inside template:

<data:post.body/>

Now include these codes below the above mention code:

<b:if cond=”data:post.author== “Bapun”>

 <!– Bapun’s Ad code here–>

</b:if>

 <b:if cond=”data:post.author== “Lyn”>

 <!– Lyn’s Ad code here–>

</b:if>

Replace the name of authors and ad code with real one.
Finally save changes.

March 26, 2011March 7, 2017

List and Show WordPress Posts To Allow Comments and Pings

List and Show WordPress Posts To Allow Comments and Pings

The most used blog publishing platform WordPress permits the individual author for superseding the global discussion settings. You may change the settings to permit the reader for posting comments on your article, or you could even permit the link notification (aka trackback and pingback) from the other blogs at particular page level or post.

Using this feature you can allow all latest pages and posts to be produced with pings on and comments, and it can be always disabled on particular pages or posts when required.

When it comes to maintenance, WordPress does not offer a simple mode to display all paged articles or posts which contains its pings and comments. For the Bloggers who would like to make out a list of the articles and blog posts which has banned visitors and readers, can use the following trick to leave comments.

By using this trick you can stop other Blogs to trackback or pingback, and you can list out every page and post which is presently set to pingback/trackback and comment off.

Primarily, you will need to sign in to the MySQL database as it controls the WordPress blog. After that you need to the next query statement of SQL, so as to dig up all pages or posts where the comments and pings are not permitted.

SELECT * FROM `wp_posts` where `comment_status` <> 'open' or `ping_status` <> 'open';

Note: If you want to make the assortment as of database much easier, it is suggested to apply phpMyAdmin otherwise any else GUI interface to the MySQL database.

The above query will return every row (together pages and posts) in WordPress which contains either “Allow Pings” or “Allow Comments” set to disabled (uncheck). You can use only “ping_status” or “comment_status” intended for the articles that never allows trackback and pingback.

Both ping_status and comment_status field contains simply two easily understandable values which are open and closed. Open stands for allow whereas closed for not allowed.

March 23, 2011

Grammar Tips For Writers, Bloggers And Authors And TOEFL Tests Good Practice

Clif, every now and then pitches in to correct the mistakes in articles I write, which helps me improve my writing skills. Today, he pointed me to a link, where he has compiled and organized URLs from different websites, which has grammar tips for writers, bloggers and authors. A few links to good practice tips for TOEFL tests are also included.

The topics include, but are not limited:

1> How to use Title Case,

2> General Capitalization,

3> Extended rules for using Commas,

4> How to Cut clutter and use only words you need to use,

5> Difference between – “As” versus “Because” or “Since” ; “Maybe vs May be”; “Can vs Could”;

6> Forms of “to be”, etc.

Visit this link for more details.

For those who are interested, you can visit Clif’s Freeware Wiki website here.

And if you have kids at home, then here are some tips to accelerate the process of learning alphabets.

Looking to work from home as a writer in Bangalore / Mysore, drop a mail and I can help you a bit.

March 19, 2011March 18, 2011

Twitter Widget Now Makes Twitter Updates Available On Blogger- Blogspot

Twitter Widget Now Makes Twitter Updates Available On Blogger- Blogspot

For those of you who frequently blog and want others to follow your blogs on other social websites, twitter has come up with their unique Twitter Widget. This helps you to get twitter updates on your BlogSpot/ blogger and let others get to see them.

This way people can also follow your twitter updates on your blogger and get an insight to your blogs on Twitter. The twitter updates in your blog’s sidebar is going to benefit you with increased viewings of your Blogs.

To show the latest twitter updates on your BlogSpot or blogger first you need to login there. Then click to layouts and choose Page elements. After this click add a gadget icon and choose html/ javascript.

You need to add this code given below and save it –

div id=”twitter_div”>
<ul id=”twitter_update_list”></ul>
<a id=”twitter-link” style=”display:block;text-align:right;” href=”http://twitter.com/bapun“>follow me on Twitter</a>
</div>
<script src=”http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/<username>.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=5” type=”text/javascript”>
</script>

Replace ‘username’ with your twitter username.

For getting more than last five updates, you’ll need to increase the count accordingly to your preference. By following this procedure you shall now activate updates from twitter onto your blog’s sidebar. By Collaborating your blog accounts with social media can definitely help you to get more traffic, and it will also help you with sales conversions on your blog.

March 14, 2011March 14, 2011

Mandatory Tutorial For Bloggers On WordPress Installable Plugins

Mandatory Tutorial For Bloggers On WordPress Installable Plugins

Bloggers who have their blogs created & published on robust wordpress platform, can actually look ahead for further improving its efficiency with installations of various WordPress Plugins. These WordPress Plugins are ideally utilised to better the management of blogs such as, its appearance, quality and performance.

There are numerous Plugins readily available online for installations to better your blog management, but please be reminded that installation of some unnecessary Plugins may hamper your blog’s functioning. Hence, it’s recommended to select the right Plugins to be installed on your blogs, else they will function as negative elements on your blogs.

So, team of professionals have researched on these and found the twelve best wordpress plugins tutorial for all wordpress bloggers. Note that these plugins are not optional, but pretty much compulsory.

The choice of either installing them or letting their blogs kick the bucket is completely left to the blogger’s decisions.

The list of must have twelve Plugins for WordPress blogs are as follows:

1. The akismet:

These are a set of plugins which appear as packed up with WordPress installation file, bloggers are just required to enable them with api-key, then these akismet plugins will filter all junk comments on the blog, so that the wordpress comments section is managed with ease.

2. The all in one seo pack:

The job of the bloggers managing their blogs with adequate number of posts isn’t complete, as they also need to optimise their blogs on search engines too.
All that in one SEO Plugins package will take care of all Keywords, Number of index tags, Meta tags and descriptions on the blog.
It is the most vital plug-in to optimise blogs performance for deriving best search engine results. Bloggers can also check on other standardized WordPress SEO Plugins called headspace2 SEO Plugins.

3. The Google xml sitemap generator:

These Plugins will be creating a good sitemap of blog with auto rebuilds when the blogs are edited or a fresh post is added onto your blog.
Submission of the sitemaps created through google xml sitemap generator Plugins, will optimise search database or a computer network for better classification of blog pages and posts.

4. The super archive:

The utilisation of super archive plugins will help bloggers in the creation of a separate “Archive-Page” for wordpress blogs; this Archive-Page will hold all of blog-pages and post in one directory.
It will be easy for the blog visitants to view all archived blog contents in just one location, while search engine would truly love to consider them as a sitemap.

5. The wp contact form:

This “wp-contact-form” plugins will support the bloggers in building up a contact us form on their blogs, which in turn helps them in getting more responses from their blog traffic through emails.

6. The WordPress related posts:

This WordPress related posts plug-in will display the listing of all article associated posts, right underneath your blog-posts.
This will make the visitor’s search simpler, and it will lead them to follow article posts listed in it. This also gives a positive affect on your blogs page views and SEO.

7. The wp super cache:

During commencement of a new blog-post, the core settings made on WordPress Plugins to run several queries simultaneously and then display the page with its contents, repetition of this process will elevate the page load time
Since the utilisation of the wp-super-cache will wipe out this issue completely, by caching blog-pages, and then upon requirements, it will display them as html files, this is vital for the move of regional WordPress-blogs.

8. The ping optimizer:

Every WordPress blog is encrypted, and if any new blog is either edited or published with fresh posts frequently, then your blogs will auto send repeated pings to ping-servers.
Sending out uttermost pings will allow your blogs to be censored permanently from ping-servers. So, by utilization of this optimizer, it will auto limit your pings, by setting up the time intervention.

9. The broken link checker plug-in:

Most of the times, when the outbound links are given from blog posts, they turn out to be broken, displaying error404 page not found, due to the page source timing.
This will truly affect the seo factor, but through utilisation of broken link checker Plugins, it will auto detect and display invalid pages or the pages with 404page not found error.

10. The global translator:

Bloggers often try to make their blog to be used most frequently by traffic to view quality posted blogs, then in this case bloggers might want to translate their blogs to visitor preferred language.
To support bloggers in making their blogs readable by most visitors, WordPress global-translator is a must have Plug-in, which will display various countries flags on blogs. Upon the selection of those-flags, it will auto redirect or translate the content of blog to the user preferred language instantly.

11. The no follow reciprocity plug-in:

Most often bloggers will give out the links of other websites or blog-posts for various reasons. Then WordPress will auto include them as follow up tag inside the posts.
This will make a link-back and lead your posts to display the post in search-engine-results.
By utilisation of no follow reciprocity Plugins, automatically sets your blog posts follow up attribute to no follow automatically.

12. The stat press reloaded plug-in:

Maintaining the track record of every blog-visitor will make bloggers understand what are the likes and dislikes of its visitor. This stat press reloaded plugins will record and display the trend of blog traffic with detailed view and graphical charts.
Then the bloggers can view the traffic-statistics on their blog by utilisation of these Plugins. This can help them in identifying the target audience.

March 11, 2011March 7, 2017

Delete Older Blogs From Blogger Account

Delete Older Blogs From Blogger Account

Bloggers can create and post many blogs as there is no limit on it. If excessive blogs are clogging-up a blogger’s dashboard, then managing the new blogs may become inconvenient and difficult.

Generally, this occurs when a new blog is ready to be either edited or posted. However the cause could be anything, but there might be a requirement to remove few older blogs from your blogger account.

Few simple steps to remove blogs out of the blogger account are as follows:

Now, on the “blogger dashboard”, select on: “settings” tab.

Users can also try selecting on either “New Post” or “Customize” tab in the Navigation-Bar while viewing the blogs to be erased. In such cases, select on “settings” tab.

Now, select on the “delete blog” button on the top right corner of basic settings window page.

Now, select on “Delete This Blog” button to affirm the permanent removal or deletion of this blog from bloggers account.

Note: Before Deletion of the Blogs make note to save those blogs by downloading them on your local computer systems. There is an option provided to Export blogs on navigation bar with “Export it” button and the exported blogs are available in “.XML” format.

February 12, 2011March 7, 2017

Try Out These 30 Firefox Plugins To Enhance Your Blogging Experience

Try Out These 30 Firefox Plugins To Enhance Your Blogging Experience

Majority of the bloggers prefer Mozilla Firefox to other browsers not only because it is fast, cool or error free, but because it is the most convenient browser that possesses a number of blogging solutions in the form of plug-ins and add-ons. The Mozilla Firefox store includes some great plugins that add more intellect to blogging. Here is a list of 30 Firefox plugins which are immensely helpful in blogging.

SEO Link Analysis: A Firefox plugin that customizes Yahoo! Site Explorer and Google Webmaster, thereby enhancing your blogging experience. It basically customizes the link data in Yahoo! Explorer interface and Google Webmasters Tools by showing the Google PageRank accredited to the linked webpages, nofollow links, anchor text user etc. It helps you understand the blog SEO factors.

easyComment: You must be aware that posting comments on other blogs influences your PR, increases exposure and attracts incoming traffic. This plugins fills in the details such as Name, URL and Email in the respective fields automatically, thereby making the commenting task easier.

You may configure different profiles and values (in case you have more than one identity or blog) and simply click on the link “easyComment” located on the status bar. This saves a lot of time and makes post commenting faster.

FeedBurner Subscribers: This plugin efficiently monitors the visitors on your blog and presents you with a report to allow you to track the RSS activities. It keeps a watch on the RSS subscribers depending on how many RSS feeds have been hit. You no more need to logon to FeedBurner account. You may monitor everything from the browser itself.

OnlyWire: This add-on has ability to submit content to more than 30 social networking websites with a single click. You do not need to submit your content to various websites manually. After installing this add-on, you will have a flawless experience while you submit contents as OnlyWire bypasses all the captcha verifications during content submission on websites like Reddit, Digg and StumbleUpon.

Screen grab to WordPress: Bloggers often require screenshots of various web pages, screen activities etc. to add to their posts. Normally, you capture screenshots using keyboard or other tools, customize them and finally upload them using the image upload feature in WordPress. However, this plugin enables you to directly save the screenshots and upload them to your WordPress blogs.

Share Buttons: This add-on adds buttons of social media websites such as Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Reditt, StumbeUpon, Email etc. to your posts. These sharing buttons become visible only when you publish the posts. This add-on supports blogger platforms like WordPress.com and Blogger.

MySpace Blog Editor: This plugin would be an ideal one in case you use MySpace for blogging. It allows bloggers on Myspace to post to their posts directly from the Firefox interface itself. When you publish posts from Firefox, they automatically get published on your Myspace blogs.

You can also save drafts, use features such as drag and drop in order to copy text or images from webpages, format images and text, etc.

Save Complete: Using this extension, you can save any web page flawlessly. Since most of the websites use CSS stylesheets to format webpages, built-in webpage saving feature in Firefox does not work satisfactorily because it does not support stylesheets.

However, this extension makes up for this drawback and has ability to save an entire web page along with all images, flash, JavaScript files, stylesheets etc.

User Agent Switcher: Different people may visit your blog through different platforms like mobile phone, web based browser, iPhone etc. However, your blog’s prime readers i.e. “search robots” use an own developed platform. User Agent Switcher ensures that your blog loads perfectly on all platforms.

By using User Agent Switcher, you can also add a toolbar button and menus with which you can easily switch user agents.

Clipmarks: Clipmarks helps you in linking to specific files rather than linking to an entire webpage. You can share desired files or a precise portion of a webpage on social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter, post them to your blog directly, email them to your friends, print them or simply save the files on Clipmarks.com.

Feedly: This plugin offers magazine-style interface in order to display your subscribed RSS feeds. It enables you to import desired RSS feeds from Bloglines, Google Reader, Netvibes or from your bookmarks and arrange them into categories or tabs. You can personalize the look by selecting options such as Title and summary, title only, video grid, image grid and entire content.

You can also filter the popular contents, share your articles on various social networking sites, synchronize with multiple computers, make use of keyboard shortcuts etc.

Better Google Analytics: This is the most important plugin for bloggers that integrates several GreaseMonkey scripts to enhance functionality of your Google Analytics account. This plugin allows auto-login to your Google Analytics account. It also allows you to add search box facility to your keyword reports, export a CSV file of your Analytics reports to Google Docs, view full-screen reports etc.

Google Global: This add-on enables bloggers to categorize the Google search results. Google Global displays both, organic as well as paid results as they emerge in distinct regions, cities, ZIP code, IP address, search pages of different languages etc.

It is also possible that you open complete results from cities, regions and countries in different tabs so that it becomes easy to compare and filter your searches.

Blog This in Windows Live Writer: This is an extension of Live Writer tool in Windows that helps you open a new Live Writer post pre-populated with title and contents of any webpage to your blog. It helps you in blogging an interesting thing on the internet quickly and easily. After writing the post, you may publish the same to WordPress, Windows Live, Blogger, TypePad etc with a single click.

KGen: This smart plugin pulls out the entire set of words from a webpage and locates the major keywords depending on the page weight. This helps you in optimizing your webpages and keeping track of your competitor secrets. It also allows you to choose keywords and then tag them when you submit your contents to networking sites or fill in the meta-keywords of your webpages.

Zemanta: As a blogger, you can use Zemanta to expand your blog dashboard with related links, images and tags in order to encourage visitors to refer to similar contents. Zemanta has ability to collect news from IMDB, Wikipedia, BBC, CNN, MusicBrainz and CrunchBase, videos from 5min and YouTube, and images from Wikipedia, Flickr and Getty.

This plugin supports WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, Movable Type, Drupal, Ning, Tumblr and LiveJournal. It also supports email platforms like Yahoo! Mail and Gmail.

MeasureIt: This is a plugin that a blogger would require every moment. Using this Plugin, you can draw a ruler to check the height, weight and alignment of a webpage. You can measure the length and width of a table, flash game, iframe etc. The vertical and horizontal center guidelines created by MeasureIt allows you to measure dimensions using multiple measurements and different units.

IE View: You must be always concerned about how your blog loads on various web browsers. Even though Internet Explorer possesses the least features, it is the widely used browser. Therefore, bloggers would certainly be interested in knowing how their blogs load in IE.

If you open your blog in Mozilla Firefox with this plugin, you will be able to load your webpage in IE by simply right-clicking on it or you can set a few websites to load in IE by default.

OneClick Installer: OneClick Installer is an extension specially dedicated to WordPress Blogs. This extension allows you to install WordPress Plugins or Themes from the Firefox context menu. Once you install the OneClick Plugin to your WordPress blog, this add-on detects plugin and theme files automatically and adds an option “Upload” to the Firefox right-click context menu.

NoDoFollow: This plugin helps recognize NoFollow links present in a webpage. It is very useful to check the webpages which don’t offer credit to posted links.

ScribeFire Blog Editor: This extension combines a popular web browser with a great blog editor using which you can create new posts, edit them and then publish them on your blog quite easily. You can easily drag & drop formatted text, make quick notes, upload and post images to different blogging platforms like WordPress.com and Blogger etc.

Screen Grab with Online Upload: Using this add-on, you will not only be able to save webpage screenshots but also upload them to any image hosting website in order to share your screenshots instantly. It allows you to capture the entire webpage or a specific frame. Once you capture the screenshot, this add-on will automatically upload it to the website “Imagebam.com”.

ScrapBook: This Firefox extension allows you to save a webpage quickly and easily with correct accuracy, lightness and multi-language support. Not just webpage, but this extension can also save snippets from a webpage or the entire website and organize the saved pages in the same manner as you organize your bookmarks.

It also allows you to perform a full text search as well as filter the search collection results. You may also edit the collected webpages.

GreaseMonkey: Using this extension, you can customize the appearance of a webpage as well as customize some default functions. You may customize a website so that it looks exactly the way you prefer.

Firebug: This web application tool is incorporated with Firefox in order to allow you to edit, monitor and debug HTML, CSS and JavaScript codes in a webpage. Its advanced features allow you to edit and inspect HTML, make changes in CSS, visualize CSS metrics, profile and debug JavaScript, explore DOM, search errors etc.

Web Developer: This is yet another web development tool that is loaded with powerful features. After installation, it adds a toolbar and a menu to your Firefox browser with a number of web developer options for you to customize or view webpage details like various codes, CSS stylesheet etc. Web Developer extension supports different keyboard shortcuts for making your task simpler and faster.

SearchStatus: A blogger is much interested in Alexa rank, Google PR and complete ranking of a website. SearchStatus plugin displays all this important information needed by a blogger. The add-on also displays SEOmoz, mozRank and Linkscape along with a number of other blogging metrics like nofollow/ keyword highlighting, Alexa info, backward/related links, fast keyword-density analyzer etc.

Shareholic: Blogging generally involves sharing content with major networking sites. Shareholic Firefox plugin enables bloggers to share content with over sixty social media sites and be well-informed about latest news, videos, images and buzzes. This is an ideal plugin for sluggish bloggers who like to get things done quickly, yet smartly.

FireFTP: After installing the plugin, your Mozilla Firefox browser will be transformed into a FTP manager. You will not require any third party FTP tools. FireFTP not only transfers files quickly but also offers numerous advanced features like syncing directories during navigation, directory comparison, SSL encryption, SFTP, search/filtering, remote editing, integrity checks, file hashing, drag & drop etc.

ColorZilla: In case you wish to pick a favorite color from a webpage, this handy plugin is a useful one. This plugin easily gets the color code from one webpage and pastes it to another program. It lets you zoom-in to a webpage to check the distance between 2 points.

It also possesses built-in palette browser for you to choose from the pre-defined color sets and its DOM spying feature enables you to get information on DOM elements.

January 5, 2011March 7, 2017

How To Make Blogger Post Titles Attractive With Animated Icons

Make Your Post Title Much More Attractive With Animated Icons

The first thing you have to is to get an image icon so as to place it in your blogger blog. The pixels should be of 50*50. Choosing image can be quite simple if you search it in Google. Once your image is selected, you have to upload it in image hosting sites, like photobucket, googlepages, tinypic, imageshack, etc. Remember to copy the link of your image and then go to next step.

The next step is to create a HTML code for the image icon. You have to create a HTML code with the copied image link. In order to create a HTML code with the image link, follow the code mentioned below:

<img src=”LINK TO YOUR IMAGE HERE” style=”border-width:0px” />

Paste the copied link where your link is requested. Once this step is done, move on to next step.

Now we have to edit HTML to insert the code of the image. Follow the steps mentioned below:

Sign in to your blogger account.
Then click on Layout and then click on Edit HTML
Click on the box named Expand Widget so as to expand the Widget Template.
Then search for this code: <b:if cond=’data:post.url’> in your template. To do so you can press CTRL+F, it is the shortcut key for find.
Just above this code you have to add the HTML code.
To finish the process you have to Save the template.
Your work is over.

January 5, 2011March 7, 2017

How Can I Create Recent Posts Widget For Blogspot / Blogger Blog?

You Can Create a Widget for Your Recent Posts In Blogge:

With the help of widget for recent posts, you will make it easier for the visitors to visit to your latest posts.

There are two ways you can create a widget for your recent posts in Blogger. One is by using FeedBurner and the other one is by Blogger Gadgets. In this article only the feedburner is discussed so let’s see the steps for it.

FeedBurner:

Click on Feed after you have signed in to FeedBurner account.
Click on Publicize, you will get it from Blog’s feed menu.
You have to enable the BuzzBoost service.
Copy the HTML code.
You can either choose the post titles with or without summary.
Go to Layout then Page Elements then add a gadget and then you have to paste the code in HTML/ JavaScript.
Click on Save option to Finish the process and your work is done.