Showing posts with label Blogging Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging Tips. Show all posts

Which Social Networking Buttons Should You Use On Blogs?

social-networking-buttonsWeb Traffic a word heard everywhere and to achieve it, web owners will try every possible method to push themselves to a better level. In order to achieve web traffic the simplest and most effective solution is the use of Major Social networking websites. With the rapid advancement and development of Internet, more and more bloggers and webmasters are getting addicted to social tools and services for the purpose of inorganic traffic flow. Social networks are expanding widely and every year we hear of another name. By far there are over 350 big and small social connecting sites. Just a month ago we heard of Google+ and God knows how many more will evolve in future.

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The question here is that which social buttons should you use in order to increase the number of your unique visitors and thereby daily page views. It really destroys readers interest when he sees too many buttons on your site, eating their internet speed with their heavy load time. Providing efficient and easy navigation to user should be our goal. If you add each and every social media buttons like Digg, reddit, delicious, Twitter, technorati, [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/add-facebook-like-button-below-post.html" target="_blank"]Facebook like button[/a], [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/05/add-facebook-like-and-send-button-to.html" target="_blank"]Facebook send button[/a], [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/add-google-1-button-to-your-blogger.html" target="_blank"]Google +1  button[/a], linkedin, stumbleupon and so on then obviously you are increasing your web [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2009/11/11-useful-tips-to-reduce-your-blog-load.html" target="_blank"]blog load time[/a] discouraging both visitors and search engines. Readers enjoy fast load time and search engine robots enjoy crawling data at a faster rate. According to Google new webmaster guidelines, all websites with slow load time are penalized by Google and will be ranked low in SERP (Search Engine Result Page). So lets select the best traffic value buttons for your blogs.

Give Priority To Big Social Networks

By big I mean social networking websites with extremely high traffic and audience value. Use social buttons which have the greatest number of online registered users for example Facebook. It has around 750 Million active registered users. The probability that your visitor is a Facebook user is near to 90% so make sure you Keep Facebook at the top of your priority list. Second comes Twitter with 175 Million users.  Third comes the new social Giant though new but soon it will expand like fire and this new giant is of course Google+. Fourth comes [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/add-linkedin-share-counter-buttons-to.html" target="_blank"]LinkedIn[/a] with over 100 Million active users.

 

Social Networks That Counts Second

Now lets look at the traffic value of some other social networking sites that comes in our second priority list.

These names include Stumbleupon with 7 Million users, Digg with approximately 1 Million registers users and reddit.

Now here goes the order of priority from best to least best:

  1. Facebook
  2. Twitter
  3. Google+
  4. Linkedin
  5. StumbleUpon
  6. Reddit
  7. Digg

You must Keep the first 4 buttons as the main social sharing buttons on your blogs and keep others on [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/how-to-put-your-blog-name-in-menu.html" target="_blank"]Addthis Share button[/a] which contains over 350 social networking sites. This way you keep the load time performance of your blog high and will receive a handsome traffic in return.

What buttons do we use?

You can see Twitter, Facebook Like, Stumbleupon and Google+ buttons as our main focused buttons on MBT Blog and that is contradictory to the priority list I shared above. I have skipped Linkedin because it is mostly used by business professionals and my site does not address them therefore I have used stumbleupon instead. So you should decide yourself which buttons are more important for your blog's growth and success.

You can use the following social networking widgets for customizing your blogs:

  • [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/add-1-button-and-other-share-buttons.html" target="_blank"]Add Social Networking buttons below titles[/a]
  •  [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/07/add-social-networking-buttons-below.html" target="_blank"]Social Networking widget below posts[/a]

I have published many widgets on social networking buttons. You can use the search box above to choose the best widget design for your blog.

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/07/which-social-networking-buttons-should.html

Disadvantages of Pinging Servers With Windows Live Writer

[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqSAzG59rY2hdTYp4yvDK0-7DZkcEcaZXSl2nBE00QzlKdc3tj8xXgx3vlfbEz-6J2yXHA5ZtMPZXE4ESIXPKF58QGsY6g0t9u-I9u3po4FKMhBuEsG-sHt1_ChYuj5mK4bC9JD1_56-g/s1600-h/PINGING-wlw%25255B7%25255D.gif"]PINGING-wlw[/a][a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/05/use-windows-live-writer-kick-blogger.html" target="_blank"]Windows Live writer[/a] offers an option where you can ping social networks and search engines whenever you publish a new post. Pinging is not a bad thing unless you do it frequently like 3-4 times a day. According to some previously asked questions WLW team has confirmed that the Ping function if turned on can put unnecessary burden on the servers that can cause you getting banned by search engines, blog directories and social networks. [a name='more'][/a]This can badly effect your search engine listings and social network repo if you are requesting an update request frequently from different traffic sources may that be search engines or social media networks. However if you want a special attention of search engines and blog directories for a selected post then you can do that by temporarily activating your Ping function as follows:

How to Ping Servers in Windows Live Writer?

Go To WLW Options menu and select Ping Servers as shown below,

[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpm7vAdqGDCPW-p7Jy83TwrOsoQDIDZNXfjDOrgwJAYZdKCg6elVaBL8WOmJ5S65T5H9kXMEUcbkFqo9gL8jTl9ifjPw6wyw2LXzy8jxVyAI9kuSLrZOXlrZIzrDSi26wZHWVFrQvtBsY/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png"]ping servers[/a]

Check the box and paste the following pinging URLs inside the big box,


http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

The above URLs will ping technorati, google blog search, Feedburner, Feedster and most importantly pingomatic which will update dozens of directories about your latest blog update.

Please use this utility carefully and ping all these services only when you think that your post is not indexed or needs special attention. You can do this for unique posts 3-4 times a week but not daily. But don't be too afraid of using this tool, I use it too but when I need to. Stay safe and have fun. Peace and blessings. :)

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/disadvantages-of-pinging-servers-with.html

Guest Posting at MBT- A True Rocket Ride!

This is a success story published by our Guest Poster Hassam Ahmad Awan
PAgerank 2011

Make sure that you have some basic writing skills and does not make grammatical errors. And further with more and more writing, your language would get polished. The better your article would be the more readers would like to visit your own blog. But this doesn't mean at all that your blog would get to the highest point without any of you own effort at your own blog. You need to follow the basic SEO techniques at your own blog too. 
Plus as they say "Content is king" makes quite a sense. If people would visit your blog through  MBT, they would certainly be needing something to read, and you got to make sure that you grab that moment. In an all, I would definitely recommend writing at MBT. You may want to read [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/how-to-write-and-submit-guest-post.html" target="_blank"]How to Write and Submit a Guest Post[/a], to get to know about Guest posting. 
To all of the young bloggers there, i would say- do work hard, [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/8-time-management-tips-for-bloggers-how.html" target="_blank"]manage your time[/a] well and you would certainly get the reward. And thanks to the MBT audience that liked my guest posts and gave great responses in the comments.
Thanks a Lot! :)[/a]

 

  Hassam Ahmad Awan


About the Guest Author:

Hassam is a young A Level Student who loves to learn and share tech related stuff. He has an ambition to become a Software Engineer. He is a passionate blog author and publishes regular tutorials to newbie bloggers at [a href="http://bloggingehow.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"]BLoggingeHow[/a].

You can always keep in touch with him at [a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/BLoggingeHow/126203964129170" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"]@Facebook[/a]

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/07/guest-posting-at-mbt-true-rocket-ride.html

Add Nofollow Tag To all Download, Demo & Iframed Link Pages



This is a short informative post for all those who share Download files or any other web related resources with there readers. A PageRank by Google is an important rank that determines the importance of your website or blog in the eyes of search engine spiders. A spider is a robot that is responsible for crawling your content and indexing it on data bases. Since the entire infrastructure of GOOGLE PR is based on quality backlinks therefore it very important that you should flow the [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2010/01/how-to-inter-link-pages-smartly-to-flow.html" target="_blank"]PR juice[/a] wisely and do not waste it on useless links.  By useless links I mean websites that use login structures or IFrames. An I framed webpage is not crawled by spiders because it can not access it. All social media networks have a login algorithm that allows visitors only with a unique password. When you link Facebook Profiles, Twitter or Blogger Profiles or any other social network, make sure you add the nofollow tag to them. Further you must also add a [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/add-tag-to-all-links-in-table-of.html" target="_blank"]nofollow tag[/a] to the links in your table of contents. If you write tutorials like me and share a DEMO link or Download Link then make sure you tag them as nofollow because linking files and hosting websites will drink all your PR juice and will slow down your PR progress on next PR update.


There is also a noindex tag which should be added only when you feel that even the text of the link is not important.


How to add Nofollow Tag in HyperLinks



A link has this HTML code,



<a href="http:xyz.com">Download</a>



To make any link nofollow just change the link in this way,



<a rel="nofollow" href="http:xyz.com">Download</a>



To add a noindex tag which is not very necessary do this,






<a rel="noindex" rel="nofollow" href="http:xyz.com">Live DEMO</a>






now your PR is more healthy and safe.


What links should be kept dofollow



UPDATE: A detailed post has been written please read: [a href="http://www.blogger.com/"]When should you nofollow links[/a]?


Always make it a habit of linking well established websites and services. If you are sharing a Facebook Plugin then feel free to link the developers page else if you are sharing a news on AdSense then you must link to the AdSense blog and openly mention things that matter with relevant source links. This will increase your BLOG reputation in the eyes of robots and will help you you rank higher. Blogs become authorities by linking relevant stuff and avoiding useless iframed pages.


Even I have done the plunder of linking demo and download links a lot but the better you know the good it is. I hope this little info may help you preserve and protect your newly gifted PRs and may help you to utilize it wisely. Wish you all the best.

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/07/add-nofollow-tag-to-all-download-demo.html

Password Protect Posts In Blogger!

2.    Go To [a title="http://www.vincentcheung.ca/jsencryption/" href="http://www.vincentcheung.ca/jsencryption/" target="_blank"]Encryption Page[/a]

You will see 4 boxes with names: key, Plain Text, Clipher Text and HTML Code.  We are only interested in the key, plain text and HTML CODE box. Follow these steps:

  • Enter a password in the Key Box

[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6hBN9p-9Kfj_cxMuWF2BwFiUbJO0H0KsUDuiyMoPgOIMfcvtcM87pgWmZTAd-9Zo7bXBJAyKR2YS9HutwmN0to9JnLAy4XuglDdRj1NjQMNsmcfJaprUk-P6L_27QhG44cR6S4Cxwqp8/s1600-h/image27.png"]key box[/a]

  • Next Paste the code that you copies from your Blogger Editor into the Plain Text box

[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbD0UiXpZQhg6igL1aHbVHT7GmvQPEaZWCJPP3DsFXbF-7bn27VhO-uyrMQD_Z4QoQ7P_my82hh98GhYURg2OU7Q4XbocHiO_hZ5H5SJ_FMb_cJgaVSdiqzY9PSiWE1_b7BOwRNRL7J2o/s1600-h/image25.png"]Plain Text Box[/a]

 

  • Hit the Encrypt Button below Plain Text box  
  • Copy the code from the HTML CODE box
    [a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ilqwocUJdJ3Pmn5b4Z9_3vR9TjxyLdnp87GSnhsKqQBnlTQwVMkCXZdHBfuBGhXWWpeBPon4dgQKqu1wWz5ELN9f6ewAqORRp4Ba7k5xsHnP1MdSI3BLBhgoSkZ_umBsHOXJ6ez0q9A/s1600-h/image23.png"]html code box[/a]

This is the new look of the same post you created. You will see strange illogical characters but these characters contain your hidden text, images or multimedia. You can now use this HTML CODE in any of your posts and instead of seeing the big chunk of code, the visitor will see only a link that says: Show Encrypted text How? follow the next step:

3.   Now get back to your Blogger Editor. Create a New Post. Give your post a title and paste the HTML Code that you just copied inside your blogger Editor in the  Edit HTML Mode.  You can write anything in place of this text -> Show Encrypted text but make all changes in Edit HTML mode only.

[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3M-Q5-BDV5pe3VhC4racipUV7_vBWl0M_YpG6g2BFCJsbQmJ42GxvIkiXDkZfY1Zm3ddyKmU-X3v1ndbf3cI4kIEUbEnklTi1Ro6XMhsG5zqc9y5VGqzneufJYXf3xJUUvs80ivcEpWE/s1600-h/image21.png"]encrypted text[/a]

You can also add any message below or above the HTML CODE which contains your hidden text.

I just hope you may like this new discovery and you may find it helpful. Feel free to ask any questions you may have. Peace and blessings. :>

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/password-protect-posts-in-blogger.html

How To Update Public Stats In BuySellAds?

[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipwQGsloEImW2qvwsvMPoqSHkq0MwKaHtFIm4yAwvRBPekuAYuUDD4frH6Xeakvp18TdxUq30cQkNogwFYPtShNzv7MBEoDh03yOp_MtUdSt41y2lPz3KISN1zoZA9f_imvtx3_CTjOf4/s1600-h/UPDATE-BSA-STATS%25255B22%25255D.gif"]UPDATE-BSA-STATS[/a]BSA updates your [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/pagerank-or-alexa-rank-which-one-is.html" target="_blank"]Alexa Rank[/a] and [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2010/01/how-to-inter-link-pages-smartly-to-flow.html" target="_blank"]PageRank[/a] very slowly and often you see the same old compete ranks for weeks. Keeping your public stats updated is be very effective for selling Ad spots. You can manually update your twitter, facebook, Subscribers number, Yahoo Inbound inks along with Alexa and PageRank. To do this follow the steps below:

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Update Public Stats in BuySellAds

  1. Go To your BSA account
  2. Click on Sell Ads
  3. Just next to your website thumbnail you will find a refresh link that says "Update Public Stats" as shown below,

[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiCBB0wsBzIXjXqyqtGbLp629ts5WA6TzoZga7OUOqxeh2_PV6tK7s0TaPoUgfe9cCX3tvIYQhyphenhyphenu739ARHTHz974-5RHHragOaiNPidvwf20g8-Yq8ihHmP-isaTniuWS6mIF05Y1gYCg/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png"]update BSA stats[/a]

     4. Simply hit it and after some processing, all your stats will convert to latest stats.

 

That's it! I hope this little tip proves helpful to you.

You may also enjoy to learn how to style your BSA Ads with mouse hover effects,

  • [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/how-to-style-buysellads-empty-ad-spots.html" target="_blank"]Customize BSA Ads[/a]
Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/how-to-update-public-stats-in.html

How to Write and Submit a Guest Post?

Peace Out!

  Hassam Ahmad Awan


About the Guest Author:

Hassam is a young A Level Student who loves to learn and share tech related stuff. He has an ambition to become a Software Engineer. He is a passionate blog author and publishes regular tutorials to newbie bloggers at [a href="http://bloggingehow.blogspot.com" target="_blank"]BLoggingeHow[/a].

You can always keep in touch with him at [a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/BLoggingeHow/126203964129170" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"]@Facebook[/a]

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/how-to-write-and-submit-guest-post.html

Lost AdSense Account? How To Get it Back?

Sometimes it is not your fault. Your competitors attack your site with auto clicks using a software out of jealousy without you knowing. For example look what happened to [a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?tid=268e1c8984791538&hl=en" target="_blank"]this woman[/a] and also read the nice answer given in the thread by StevenG.

Personally speaking it really hurts when you receive such an email. It can shatter your Online Income dreams in a second and leave you hopeless but should you cry all day and night for being banned and begging Google to accept you back? Of course not! There are tons of solutions for your problem because you are not alone. I have shared two different solutions for young web owners and firmly established web owners.

Solution to New Bloggers or Web owners:

Who is a new blogger or  web owner?

  1. Your Blog or website is just one year old
  2. Your Blog has a PR less than 2
  3. Your Alexa Rank is > 100,000
  4. You receive 100-300 visitors daily
  5. Total number of your posts are less than 60-50

If you fit into this category and you lost your account then you don't have to worry because you honestly have lost nothing! Without 1000-10,000 daily visitors, Adsense or any other Ad service is meaning less. It will take 5-6 months for you to make just $50-100 if you fit in the above category. So what should be the best solution for you?

You still can make your dream come true and earn a happy living online by taking these steps:

  1. Make a new Gmail Account with different First and Second Name and Personal Info.
  2. Setup a New blogger account with the new Gmail ID
  3. Delete your Old Blog and Import your old posts to this new one by making serious Editing. Do not republish those posts with the same titles and starting paragraph and blogger images. Shuffle the paragraphs. The best idea is to rewrite them in different words. I know this will take long but you can do that within a week if your posts are no more than 50.
  4. If your blogger account and Gmail ID is not very old and crowded then the best is to delete both of them and make a new fresh start. Don't worry this step is smart long term one, it will hurt you at first but you will be in a much better state later.
  5. If you want to keep your blogger account and Gmail ID then its better to set up a blog with upgraded Wordpress and not the free one.
  6. Do not Link to your old blog after you have set up the new one.

How am I so sure of these steps? My own home buddy lost his Adsense Account. He receives 16000 daily visitors by sharing security threat articles. He set up a blog on wordPress and now he is receiving 2000-3000 visitors on the new blog with $2-4 per day, which is not a bad startup.  If you are a regular MBT reader then you know well who I am pointing to. Hope you give this solution a good thought with a cool mind.

Solution To Well established Web Owners

The only reason why you may have lost your account could be tons of clicks made on your Ads by your competitors. Unfortunately we still live in a world of anger, envy and jealousy. You still have a hope and can do much better if you give preference to alternatives. Adsense is gone and its not precious than the hours of sweat and tears you shed in bringing your website to a bigger stage. The biggest source of your income lies in your Traffic and this is what advertisers run after. Below are 10 best alternatives to Adsense that you can try to expect a more satisfying flow of Ad Income:

  1. [a href="http://chitika.com/publishers.php?refid=mustafastc" target="_blank"]Chitika[/a]
  2. [a href="http://adbrite.com" target="_blank"]AdBrite[/a]
  3. [a href="http://infolinks.com" target="_blank"]Infolinks[/a]
  4. [a href="http://www.Bidvertiser.com" target="_blank"]Bidvertiser[/a]
  5. [a href="http://www.PocketCents.com" target="_blank"]Pocket Cents[/a]
  6. [a href="http://www.Kontera.com"]Kontera[/a]
  7. [a href="http://www.Clicksor.com" target="_blank"]Clicksor[/a]
  8. [a href="http://www.ExitJunction.com" target="_blank"]Exit Junction[/a]
  9. [a href="http://www.DynamicOxygen.com" target="_blank"]Dynamic Oxygen[/a]
  10. [a href="http://www.AdBull.com" target="_blank"]AdBull[/a]

 

So What have you Decided?

Taking a step is always better then not making any move. Let me know what you think of the solutions shared above. If you have any stories or solutions then you are most welcome to share it with us. I wish this post may help you to achieve what you still can. There are always alternatives and solutions, what matters more is how you take a positive action. Peace and blessings be upon you all.

 

This post was requested by Karan Chauhan From [a href="http://www.krackoworld.com" target="_blank"]krackoworld[/a]

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/lost-adsense-account-how-to-get-it-back.html

Anyone Can Earn Online and Be a Blogger, Just Go For it! Part-2

Now coming to the final thing that directly attaches my reason of this topic with your needs that what should be the topic for the blog? I agree that its one of the most difficult task to think on which topic you may write but the answer is always in front of you, you just need to think over it.

imagesFirst of all you must think about your area of interest, that where your all interest lies? What do you feel about something? Can you write it as a topic, if yes than that should be the topic! If not, then you can Google the topic and write it as your own, it often happens when you have a lot of knowledge and you don’t know how to gather and filter it into this form. Just take an example of pencil that is not sharp at the moment, although the graphite lead is present inside it, but it’s useless at the moment, but when it is sharped then it can do a number of jobs. Just like this you just have to enrich your this quality and write for your own skills.

This is my personal experience that there is a time when topic suddenly come into your mind and when you start thinking you get more and more things about it, if you don’t have your keyboard there, you must write it somewhere so that when you get time you can write it as your post, and just like this when you will write the next topic will automatically come into your mind and the process goes on and on. The thing is,

You just need the inertia! :)

So go for it, give your thoughts full swing and give your paintings of imaginations the remarkable colors. Let the life be filled with happiness. Keep going :) Best of Luck!

  Asjad Azeem


About the Guest Author:

Asjad is an Undergraduate Student, pursuing his B.E Degree in Computer and Information System Engineering. He loves to write and share his ideas during leisure time. Apart from techy stuff, he also enjoys writing Fiction. He takes programming as his favourite subject. You can always contact him at [a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:asjad.azeem@yahoo.com"]YAHOO![/a]

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/anyone-can-earn-online-and-be-blogger_21.html

Design and Create Blogger Widgets - The Secret!

<center><span style="border-bottom: #8080ff 10px solid; border-left: #8080ff 10px solid; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; border-top: #8080ff 10px solid; border-right: #8080ff 10px solid; padding-top: 6px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px"><font color="#8080ff"><strong>Hello Brother!</strong></font></span></center>

 

Don't be confused with the large chunk of code above, CSS is the most interesting and most easiest web language of all. Just the way you make sentences using alphabets we use bits and pieces to create a CSS class.

So How will you design a widget?

Whether you wish to become a designer or you wish to be able enough to customize your template and posts, learning both CSS and HTML is a must now for a happy blogging career. I learnt designing by tweaking Blogger templates and by reading tutorials on [a href="http://www.w3schools.com/" target="_blank"]w3schools[/a]. There are three important practical tips that I can give:

  1. Go and Learn Photoshop. Find a nearby institute where [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2010/01/photoshop-image-editing-basics-for.html" target="_blank"]Photoshop[/a] is taught. Take a course of no more than 1 month.
  2. Start reading at least 5 tutorials per day of [a href="http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp" target="_blank"]HTML[/a] at w3schools
  3. After you learnt the basics of HTML then start the [a href="http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp" target="_blank"]CSS tutorials[/a] and read at least 4 tutorials daily at w3schools

This entire hard work will take you no more than a month. After having learnt everything, you will start experimenting and practicing them the next month and on the third and fourth month you deserve to be called a Designer!

After you have developed your designing skills then you can also go and start learning JavaScript, php, jQuery etc.

I have shared whatever that is practical and affordable to all of you. If you think you can hire a teacher for HTML and CSS then it is even more good but trust me Photoshop is the only thing I learnt in an institute, the rest of all my skills are self thought thanks to helpful internet and w3schools in general. The best thing about w3schools is that you can use their HTML editor to create and preview the code at the same time just like MBT HTML Editor. This thing will build up solid skills within a short time of span.

Keeping everything aside, I will be always there for constant help and support. I wish you may find the topic and tips today helpful in order to better enjoy your lives online. Please never give up and utilize this golden life opportunity effectively. Peace and blessings friends.

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/design-and-create-blogger-widgets.html

8 Time Management Tips for Bloggers - How Crucial it is?

1. Knowing Your Highest  Energy Level Moments


[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNa8qWYbTrbkTQ-iZ3bStv_InP47IX45RDwvsSYcfjhqAILJ7Ob7Uv9PYnMRFrrY1Nd6ah6n3b9l_SCD2Ols0THsMDuIdE6MbIbjQpBTodwBuTHr7pROQVPtcqW89WIBiQqdRklk-snE/s1600/images.jpg"][/a]As a human, we cannot be active all day long. There are short spans in the day when we feel most fit and active. This can vary to every individual. Some people feel more active early in the morning around 8 to 10 am. Some might find nights more refreshing and comfortable. What ever the case is with you, the point is that it is extremely important to find your peak hours through out the day.
These spans can be very effective in building the content for your blog. As a writer you should be in peace when writing at your blog. So knowing about your highest energy levels points in the day is important to be a successful and well timed managed blogger.

2. Build a Routine and Stick To It

3. Stand Up Against Any Distractions

4. Plan Your Work But Not that Much!

5. Choose a fixed place to blog

6. Learn Typing

8. Give Your Self a Reward


[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEgOYQBTtWWsrKGC-NLHpbUxB8NqkmLM8498peo8qN9m_wpYirnyhAEHca3t9p_SSrmpipBVzI8jpYscS_zQiuyrvu8LaYt6VFKr7dRTM-PFMUCGKK2slN1SNdpTb37svc-5-SpFTF3bs/s1600/goernment-reward-healthy-eating.jpg"][/a]Once you are done working for those two hours, give your self some reward. Why not take a round at a park, or some time at computer games, or a cup ice cream :)







Enjoy every moment of your Blogging life. Happy and healthy mind equals Best of your potentials. Hope this article could make a difference in your blogging life style.
Peace out ! =)

 hassam Hassam Ahmad Awan


About the Guest Author:

Hassam is a young A Level Student who loves to learn and share tech related stuff. He has an ambition to become a Software Engineer. He is a passionate blog author and publishes regular tutorials to newbie bloggers at [a href="http://bloggingehow.blogspot.com" target="_blank"]BLoggingeHow[/a].

You can always keep in touch with him at [a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/BLoggingeHow/126203964129170" target="_blank"]@Facebook[/a]

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/8-time-management-tips-for-bloggers-how.html

A Must Follow 3 Meal Diet Plan for Bloggers

1. Breakfast Plan

2. Lunch Time

3. Dinners is ready

From the Company:
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  Hassam Ahmad Awan


About the Guest Author:

Hassam is a young A Level Student who loves to learn and share tech related stuff. He has an ambition to become a Software Engineer. He is a passionate blog author and publishes regular tutorials to newbie bloggers at [a href="http://bloggingehow.blogspot.com" target="_blank"]BLoggingeHow[/a].

You can always keep in touch with him at [a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/BLoggingeHow/126203964129170" target="_blank"]@Facebook[/a]

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/must-follow-3-meal-diet-plan-for.html

Disadvantages Of "Blogger Template Designer" Templates

 

 

The above class is the CSS code for styling the Header.  You can clearly see the variables indicated by the dollar sign ($) Now suppose if you wish to edit the background image of your header or change the border colours, font style etc. then how can you set the values when everything is in variables? Of course you can do that if you have some prior knowledge of web languages but this would be difficult to new bloggers.

  • The widget code is also programmed differently using Macro:param tags. See this code,

<aside>
          <macro:include id='main-column-left-sections' name='sections'>
            <macro:param default='0' name='num' value='0'/>
            <macro:param default='sidebar-left' name='idPrefix'/>
            <macro:param default='sidebar' name='class'/>
            <macro:param default='true' name='includeBottom'/>
          </macro:include>
          </aside>

 

This is the new way of adding dynamic tags to your widgets so that they could be edited directly using "Template designer". Previously the widget <b:section> tags were used which was easy to understand and replace as compared to this.

  • Further simple tags like <body> has been messed up into something like this,

<body expr:class='&quot;loading&quot; + data:blog.mobileClass'>

In all blogger tutorials we always mention <body> tag and it will now turn a headache for new bloggers to find the same <body> tag in the new template designs.

Conclusion:

In a nut shell as a web designer myself I can only advise you all to kindly stick to custom templates which are far better coded and optimized compared to blogger templates. With custom templates you have complete command over your layout coding and doesn't have to reply on the template Designer tool. You can apply all blogger tutorial tricks to your custom templates easily and can better implement them. I felt it important to discuss this topic as most of you were facing problems in applying the tuts and tricks. Hope this make things clear.

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/disadvantages-of-template-designer.html

Free Blogging Apps for iPhone / iPod Touch

[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA3k1TDzFlVy38TEihXjw5smPpmQ7F-fH3W1UQx1tcObcFWKPufZT0-kwExZnAFVtv6vewFjBEql1bOq5YafQZY0ZJBMDi0QocXJ3Gn3TqLoDzvXM5nVkeaGlg5oWoL8dbbqM8MOJAu9o/s1600/penmyblog4.jpg"][/a]

[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvrLrZ43iSrUfiSgRZLoEdYW2Vw2snykiLzgp5a6oO-YQedx8elNCd8oHHdsr528CoG1A886vRRoEyePWncelewX2U9NAmLAyEWpVrphEW6Q0U7CSaiEF1rp2E7JPd7Ph9ks0gE6TZPOI/s1600/penmyblog.jpg"]pen my blog[/a][a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA3k1TDzFlVy38TEihXjw5smPpmQ7F-fH3W1UQx1tcObcFWKPufZT0-kwExZnAFVtv6vewFjBEql1bOq5YafQZY0ZJBMDi0QocXJ3Gn3TqLoDzvXM5nVkeaGlg5oWoL8dbbqM8MOJAu9o/s1600/penmyblog4.jpg"]pen my blog[/a]




[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqUUABZK6m09U9FOKsKWXNc6pwlf53rDDubbtu4wNYR3bC_Y5AMAAwfbNFIhErV6dswgMlUP-EmuTWmm9jguFe3QpTESBTCsLd82A-VA05c4gEVWkOVH7VLsQuvcTyJLkv3Q47VpVz3o/s1600/penmyblog2.jpg"]blogging app[/a][a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuhOmcoP3m_-wB_V6Ei-ssZkqhSLNAHAqVaTj6RupRn_-SQHg3HHfB2YzWohrn0EKi57oe1KjUTOQSQq0LO-kP7J0yiJ_hOZzvtTtCF3u5FdhEWjJb3E70iMdLxDEH9ESoi5SrQyOGZfA/s1600/penmyblog3.jpg"]iphone blogging app[/a]

A really simple and user friendly app i must say. I have used it for couple of days. It works but its not the best. You can view your posts, write a new one easily. But the big draw back is that you cant see images within your post. Thats simply awful. Also the layout doesn't have much to offer. It would be better if there was some option to view the stats, revenue and stuff. 
But still in the end its a free app. So what we want more.

Blog Write (Lite):

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 2.2 or later
This app is my personnel favorite among these two. At least you get to view the images in your post. Also it supports other blogging platforms like WordPress, self hosted WordPress.

[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQKdYY4ZvY7tDj8IbCHfi2yoPkyid-KX6RGpY_mo07b5DDNoQ5ibRGA7zj8XFJcQGEhhx96p6OQR2CkHYmZbp4t7LUKBsxnSUGgxfPdV9uiwZ_XtuGl_1EkCWCt92J1ZZxDNzGdiPWyY/s1600/blogwriter.jpg"]blog write blogging app[/a][a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYbTRs2YXc_teZjS3LIexK8ZlJyvuG0p2LjuXm45xMm6KGnfGDz0XPBcs8swRF6qDMYFQarsqy-3NrifIdHCTkdqi3Qs8pjqNcX6zMyBgHtfsu5XbNT7UlZf48_zygTDaz6rRrKwgh72w/s1600/blogwriter2.jpg"]blog write feeds[/a]

[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxvvbsbDmuxeXG1Cc5pmiNKwUvSjF3cC_HeAT0dEBwhIwyPotF8OaUYHu69sjmEVIUSI6q738lJIqnGvcTnn4NBovkwbRGHLdYh-vE2q5Xe3W5YF16SbwL-UAQmFzIJCKRo-JoGklfyp0/s1600/blogwriter3.jpg"]blog write Editor[/a][a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEomfJldW8OEtx5sdM2RXo4Vp_4bdcUlvhYkJj4ErqhyphenhyphenRhaYPebpsAjpXQkdguUYmBNwuwbjkF4fKtjI0WItlorMS2V2g8QmtsPAVB4zz0uEPJgGoXaq1cs3nmbjp9eIqwm4Y3zS0uP5Q/s1600/blogwriter5.jpg"]blog write Image[/a]

[a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqNE4bgIN5pcw_K3mMUCU9WUqMdkpUh7gpgE3r5g_9fcaSgd0JoCnfQCoDAWAd3cxiXvl6ld_T3sxYfSqsb7-u6SCYPz2MlWVpdEjMVc-isLNNGaA2bJldeQRNcHNWGUWFquX-XhM8Kbc/s1600/blogwriter7.jpg"]blog write post list[/a]

Final Judgement :

"Blog Writer" is definitely my hero as it has low system requirements and offers more then "Blog My Pen". Now you can work on your blog more than before. So try both of these apps and start using which best suites you. Until then, me going to play with those apps :)

  Hassam Ahmad Awan


About the Guest Author:

Hassam is a young A Level Student who loves to learn and share tech related stuff. He has an ambition to become a Software Engineer. He is a passionate blog author and publishes regular tutorials to newbie bloggers at [a href="http://bloggingehow.blogspot.com" target="_blank"]BLoggingeHow[/a].

You can always keep in touch with him at [a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/BLoggingeHow/126203964129170" target="_blank"]@Facebook[/a]

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/free-blogging-apps-for-iphone-ipod.html

Macbook Pro - Every Bloggers Dream

Connectivity

Other Basic Features

 

 

 

 

Cost

In short MacBook Pro is a must for every blogger to enjoy the best blogging experience anywhere, anytime. You can get it at $1199 from [a href="http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro?aid=AIC-WWW-NAUS-K2-CONFIGURE-MACBOOKPRO-15-INCH&cp=CONFIGURE-MACBOOKPRO-15-INCH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"]here[/a].
 6074322513670103934Fahad Uddin


About the Guest Author:
Fahad is an Undergraduate Student, pursuing his B.E Degree in Computer and Information System Engineering. He is an excellent programmer and part time blogger. He Writes at [a rel="nofollow" href="http://mycsnippets.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"]My C Snippets[/a]. You can always contact him at [a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/fahd92" target="_blank"]Facebook[/a]

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/macbook-pro-every-bloggers-dream.html

7 Advantages Of Using Facebook Comments Box

3- Receive New Blog Comments Notification on Facebook

Whenever a comment is left on any of your posts you will be notified via Facebook Notification system. Same is true when a comment is liked or responded by another visitor or reader. The readers are also notified of replies made on their comments at your blog.

 

4- Threaded Comments

Your readers no more need to feel neglected because you no more need to reply them all at once. Rather you can pay them proper attention by replying to each reader under their comments. This way a comment thread is set up which further makes the conversation more useful and fun!

4- Comment With Profiles - No Anonymous Comments

You can now happily turn off the "Anonymous" comment option by going to Blogger > Settings > Comments . The users as I said can use any of their ID to leave a comment so you really no need to worry about who is commenting!

5- No Spam Comments Possible Now

You will get more relevant comments with no spam as users will have to use their personal IDs to leave a comment and spam robots are surely incapable of doing that.

6- Delete Comments Easily Without Leaving Window

In Blogger comment form to delete a comment you need to click the trash icon and the you are taken to a separate window where you select the option of deleting the comment permanently. But With FB comment box you Delete comments just the way you delete comments on your FB profile. With a click of a mouse!

7- All links are by default no follow

The links left on your comment box are by default tagged as nofollow and according to the FB developers search engine robots can not crawl the content of your comments as the plugin is enclosed inside a iframe where robots can not enter to crawl data. This way the quality of your content in the eyes of search engines will increase because the robots will have to crawl only the body of your posts and not the distracting comments.

What do you think now?

I shared the advantages above and tried to put forward the best advantages this widget could offer to bloggers including me. I just hope this widget could help you further increase your blog traffic and enjoy blogging even more. Have fun. :)

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/10-advantages-of-using-facebook.html

Play Flash SWF Files In Blogger - My First Flash Movie!

PLAY-FLASH-BLOGGERPlaying a flash file in any blog or website is really easy but unfortunately we still see tutorials where a long complex code is shared whilst you can just add few lines of code to let things play. I previously shared a list of [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2009/05/free-high-quality-clocks-no-adds.html" target="_blank"]10 high quality flash clocks[/a] all embedded in our blog post and they work just fine. I will share the same code here.[a name='more'][/a] But first I guess you will enjoy a sample flash movie that I created for my [a href="http://qiyamah1.blogspot.com/2009/01/long-awaited-movie.html" target="_blank"]School class mates[/a] back in the year 2009, when I had just started learning blogging. The Following movie is surely approved for appropriate audiences! =p

 

 

To Play the flash file in full screen kindly [a href="http://www.mdn.fm/files/311609_hp0sc/shaheer1.swf" target="_blank"]click here[/a]

 

Adding Flash files in Blogger Blogs

To Add a flash file in blogger posts, sidebars, footers etc. just use the following simple embedding code,

<object><param name="movie" value="Add_Flash_File_Direct_Link_Here"><embed src="Add_Flash_File_Direct_Link_Here" width="300" height="300" wmode="transparent"> </embed></object>

 

Make these changes:

  • Replace Add_Flash_File_Direct_Link_Here with the Direct URL of your flash file. You can upload the flash file at [a href="http://www.mdn.fm/register/?r=7971" target="_blank"]Mydatanest[/a] and then you can get the link from there.
  • Make sure you keep the width and height equal to the original resolution of the flash file for better quality. By default the width and height parameters are each set to 300px in the above code.

Add the code to your posts, publish it and view your blog to see it live in action. Have Fun! :>

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/play-flash-swf-files-in-blogger-my.html

Anyone Can Earn Online and Be a Blogger, Just Go For it! Part 1

I just hope you liked the idea above and I would soon publish the remaining part of this topic.

 asjadwallAsjad Azeem


About the Guest Author:

Asjad is an Undergraduate Student, pursuing his B.E Degree in Computer and Information System Engineering. He loves to write and share his ideas during leisure time. Apart from techy stuff, he also enjoys writing Fiction. He takes programming as his favourite subject. You can always contact him at [a href="mailto:asjad.azeem@yahoo.com"]YAHOO![/a]

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/anyone-can-earn-online-and-be-blogger.html

How To Create a Google Profile Page?

google-profilesOn April 21, 2009 Google Inc. introduced the "Google Profile". Google profile is more like creating your online portfolio where people can read about you in detail. You can write about your work experience, location, education and business. Most importantly you can add dofollow links to your websites. When people search for your name, your profile will appear at the bottom of the search results if you are one of the top matches. The new Google buzz service can be used only if you have a Google profile where people can follow you and keep themselves up to date with your daily buzzes. In order to create your Personal Google Profile Page then Kindly follow the steps below,

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How To Create a Google Profile Page?

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/05/how-to-create-google-profile-page.html

How To Make a Mobile Version Of a Blog?

UPDATE:- Blogger has recently Added the Mobile Version Support. [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/06/make-mobile-version-of-your-blogger.html" target="_blank"]Make a mobile version of your blogger blogs now by clicking this link.[/a]


mobilize-blogger blogPeople are just now beginning to understand that there is another option for monetizing their websites. There is the mobile option that they are probably lagging behind in.

Consider for a moment just how many people have cell phones today. Smart phones, IPhones, Tablets and such are all taking our communications to the next level. People use these devices everyday for simple things like communication and for a variety of other things like finding information that they need via the Internet. The funny thing is that they say that by the year 2012, there are going to be more phone connected to the Internet than actual computers. Think about that for a minute. Right now there is on average one phone per person per household in comparison to only one computer per household.

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[a href="http://gmbhnews.com/view/MyBloggerTricks.html"]Mobile Version Of MY Blogger Tricks [/a]

It is said that Google activates over 350,000 Android devices each day. That is not surprising considering most people use their phones for much more than just phone calls these days. Now that you are starting to realize how many people there are searching for something on the Internet via their cell phones, you are probably beginning to understand why a mobile website is so important. Normal websites just do not display very well on a hand held device. Besides, what good is having a website that most devices can not access?

A place like the [a href="http://gmbhnews.com/make-mobile-site/" target="_blank"]Mobile Site Maker[/a] is invaluable because they can help you with your [a href="http://www.gmbhnews.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"]mobile website[/a], especially since you probably have no idea where to start. In fact, getting a mobile website up and running is as simple as it gets. It does not matter what sort of mobile website you need. GMBHNews.net can help you realize your mobile website plans in very little time at all, no matter how big or small it may be. They will also help you monetize that site with Google Adsense or other advertising. They will use their own [a href="http://gmbhnews.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"]popular mobile site[/a] to launch yours as well thereby driving traffic to it in no time! With a 30-day free trial and only $9 per month for the standard plan (that's less than $ 0.50 US per Day) to create and monetize your mobile site, you can't go wrong! Other [a href="http://mobify.me/features-pricing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"]sites charge an arm and a leg[/a] for lesser services! You simply can not beat their prices and services!

They also offer a variety of different service plans for those customer that wish to get a little more. Remember, it does not matter how small or how large your operation is. Once your mobile site is up and running you can just let it go on autopilot and make money for you even while you sleep!

The sample Video below will further help you better understand how its done.

 

 

About the Guest Author:

Gmbhnews Mobile Service is a mobile site creation and monetization service that makes it very easy for publishers to create and monetize mobile versions of their websites in less than 60 seconds. Christina Clark Co-founder of [a href="http://www.gmbhnews.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"]www.gmbhnews.com[/a] mobile portal and [a href="http://www.gmbhnews.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"]www.gmbhnews.net[/a] mobile services Blogger at [a href="http://www.blog.gmbhnews.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"]http://www.blog.gmbhnews.com[/a]

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/05/how-to-make-mobile-version-of-blog.html
 
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