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Adding Blogger Contact form in your Blogger Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:36:00 -0800

Blogger have given you the service through which you can add Contact form in your any page right from your Layout in Dashboard. Yes, I can hear your scream, Where the hell is that if I have check all the gadgets in Layout menu.

Well, Why don't you go and Check More Gadgets column in the list of Blogger Gadgets. Yes, Exactly there is your Official Blogger Contact form which you can use in your blogger blog without knowing any HTML game.

I know its kind of Old Looking but I am promising you soon I am coming with a Modified Version of Contact form which will dress up this Contact form. Yes, For That Modified Form You have to install this Official Contact Form. So, Ready Let's see what steps you have to follow in order to Add Contact form in Your Blogger Blog.

1. Go to Your Blogger Dashboard>> Layout>> and click on add gadget ( Screenshot Below)

2. Click on More Gadget and click on Plus Button.

3. Rename Title as you want Click on Save & you are done…!! :)

See, Its Done... :) and You are wasting your valuable time in search 'How to add Contact form in Blogger Blog' well, it's okay, DO forget to tell me how is it?? and Do share if it helped you.

Thank you!!!

7 Latest Blog Platforms looking to rock in 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:31:00 -0800

The main aim of the new blog platforms seems to be bringing back the classic weblog.Wordpress for example is now a mainstream CMS and is used less and less as a blog platform.If one theme runs through all the new blog platforms it's a minimal interface with simplistic post editors.

Let's look at the list and see what you think

Ghost

https://ghost.org/

Ghost really is an exciting blog platform with a real focus on content.Ghost is open source and uses the tag line "Just a blogging platform" trying to distance itself from CMS platforms like Wordpress and others that are used as mainstream websites.The interface is simply stunning with an ease of use we have not seen before.The welcome video tells us Ghost is for the users and it will stay that way, Non-Profit and not looking to build and sell.

Medium

https://medium.com/

Medium was created by Blogger and Twitter co-founder Even Williams and similar to Ghost it has a focus on ease of use and putting content first.For me the Medium interface may be slightly too simplistic but that may be just what your looking for.With the post editor however I love the minimalist feel that lets you get on with creating your post with minimal distractions.

Postagon

http://www.postagon.com/

Postagon is a continuation of the simple interface blog platform.This is about a simple post editor for the blogger and clean clear content for the viewer.Again looking to to bring back the weblog Postagon has the dynamic layout to make your posts sparkle on any screen.

Posthaven ($5 per month charge)

https://posthaven.com/

Posthaven like Ghost wants to be open source with no plan to build and sell.While Ghost looked to investors Posthaven will stay afloat by charging users $5 every month.Lets face it five bucks a month is not too much if the product is great, but is it ? On first look I really like what they are doing, again the theme of minimal interface and display continues.Posthaven was launched by the creators of Posterous a site they sold to Twittter last year but this time they look to build forever supported by the user fees.

Sett

http://sett.com/

Sett really looks to community to help build an audience for their bloggers.By listing related posts from all blogs hosted on Sett this will give your posts exposure, of course it will also send people from your blog to others.The design is more "Wordpress Like" than the minimal interface other new platforms are aiming for.This for me makes it look like an OK idea for new blogs but if you build an audience over time you might want to move on and that could be a problem for Sett.

Roon.io

https://roon.io/

Roon has the tag line "The Easiest Way To Blog", I guess some of their competitors above would beg to differ.Roon is however a really dynamic platform, easy for the blogger to create and visitor to visit on all devices.Roon is free but may introduce premium extras in the future.Comments run exclusively through Twitter which I'm not sure is the best way to go and also at this time while a feature image can be uploaded Videos are not yet supported.

Glipho

http://glipho.com/

Glipho is an interesting concept "Meet Social Blogging" and they keep their word by building a blogging community were social is key.The first sign of the social angle is sign up which is available through Facebook, Twitter, Google and LinkedIn.Like Sett they are looking to refer visitors through the site with related content displayed from all blogs not just yours.Glipho has a neat drag and drop post editor with your media readily at hand something I think the big platforms will embrace fully in the near future.

So that seven interesting alternatives for bloggers what do you think ? Have you tried any of them or will you in the future ? Or have you stumble across a new blog platform I left out.

30 Free Places To Promote Your Website Online

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 5 Sep 2013 00:42:00 -0700

Creating a website isn’t just about designing and setting it up. Like a tree in the forest that falls when no one’s around – does a website without visitors actually exist?

If you want your site to be effective, active online promotion is a necessity. In case you have no experience with promoting your site, you’re probably reaching out for some Aspirin now. But promoting websites isn’t only a simple task, you can even do so much without spending a dime!

The links below provide many opportunities to promote your site for free. It will take just a little of your time, but it can seriously increase your site’s traffic.

Directories:

Directories are like phone books or Yellow Pages, except online. Submitting your site to online directories is highly recommended as it improves your site’s SEO (directories link back to your website). Make sure you also submit your site to regional, local and niche directories where your clients are most likely looking for you.

Scrub The Web

DMOZ

Entire Web

Exact Seek

Amfibi

Directorise

Hitalyzer

WhatUSeek

Link Centre

So Much

Social Bookmarking:

Bookmarking your content in popular Social Bookmarking sites is a great way of gaining quality backlinks as well as exposing your content to a broader audience.

Stumble Upon

Delicious

Clip Marks

Blink List

Tagza

Diigo

My Link Vault

Connotea

Links Marker

Faves

Search Engines:

Getting search engines to index your site quickly is a key part of gaining more traffic. Make sure these engines know that your site exists by submitting the link directly to them.

Google

Bing

Yahoo

Photo-Sharing Sites:

Photo-sharing sites give you an amazing opportunity to display visual content that is related to your business, which you can later use to refer and link back to your site. You can post images of events, coworkers, news and everything that is connected to your biz.

Flickr

Picasa

Photo-Bucket

Zooomr

Article-Submission Sites:

Just like with photo-sharing, article-submission is a terrific way to promote your site. All you need to do is write an article related to your work, organization or services, and submit it to these sites. It’s important to keep these articles actually informative. The less aggressive marketing in the article, the better the chances that readers will be interested in your site.

eZine Articles

Article Wheel

Article Geek

That's it this are some basic place where you should promote your Website or Blog. Every new post from your blog should be first added in this sites then only you will get the traffic you are seeking for.

For more help and question and query. Feel free to comment. I will come up with solution as soon as possible.

Thank you and good day :)

Fancy CSS3 & jQuery Lavalamp Menu For Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:41:00 -0700

Hi Everyone, Today I have bring a New Style Menu for your Blogger Blog which is Fancy CSS3 and jQuery Lavalamp Menu. It is amazing because as I mentioned that it is CSS3 and jQuery enabled so it looks dashing and works really very smooth you can check out its Demo by clicking the Demo Button below.

You can use this Menu in six different color by just changing a Name of Color in HTML. This Menu was first introduced and created by Insidesigns and I have bloggerized it to works perfectly with any blogger blog. Now lets go to the tutorial and see how to add this menu to blogger blog. -

Live Demo

Demo by HelperBlog

How To Add This Menu TO Blogger?

For easy understanding I am dividing the tutorial in three parts & they are as below,

Adding Scripts
Adding Styles
Adding The Menu

1. Adding Scripts

Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template
Click on Edit HTML
Hit Proceed
Find below code in your template

</head>

add below code just above it,(If you have already added a jQuery library to your blog then delete the highlighted code)

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"</script>

<script src="http://code.helperblogger.com/lavalamp-menu.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

2. Adding Styles

Now find below code,

]]></b:skin>

add below CSS code immediately before it,

/*LAVALAMP MENU BY http://www.helperblogger.com/ START*/

.lavalamp {
    position: relative;
    border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;
    background: #fff;
    padding: 15px;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 3px 6px rgba(0,0,0,.25);
 -moz-box-shadow: 0 3px 6px rgba(0,0,0,.25);
    border-radius : 10px;
    -moz-border-radius : 10px;
    -webkit-border-radius : 10px;
    background : -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgb(240,240,240)), to(rgb(204,204,204)));
    background : -moz-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgb(240,240,240)), to(rgb(204,204,204)));
 height: 18px;
        font-family: calibri;
}

.magenta {
 background : rgb(190,64,120);
 background : -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgb(190,64,120)), to(rgb(177,24,91)));
 background : -moz-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgb(190,64,120)), to(rgb(177,24,91)));
 border: 1px solid #841144;
 
}

.cyan {
 background : rgb(64,181,197);
 background : -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgb(64,181,197)), to(rgb(7,165,187)));
 background : -moz-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgb(64,181,197)), to(rgb(7,165,187)));
 border: 1px solid #2f8893;
 
}

.yellow {
 background : rgb(255,199,79);
 background : -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgb(255,199,79)), to(rgb(255,188,43)));
 background : -moz-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgb(255,199,79)), to(rgb(255,188,43)));
 border: 1px solid #c08c1f;
 
}

.orange {
 background : rgb(255,133,64);
 background : -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgb(255,133,64)), to(rgb(255,107,24)));
 background : -moz-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgb(255,133,64)), to(rgb(255,107,24)));
 border: 1px solid #c04f11;
 
}

.dark {
 background : rgb(89,89,89);
 background : -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgb(89,89,89)), to(rgb(54,54,54)));
 background : -moz-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgb(89,89,89)), to(rgb(54,54,54)));
 border: 1px solid #272727;
 
}

.magenta li a , .cyan li a, .yellow li a , .orange li a, .dark li a{
 color: #fff;
 text-shadow: 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.40);
 
}

.lavalamp a {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #262626;
    line-height: 20px;
}

.lavalamp ul {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    z-index: 300;
    position: absolute;
}

.lavalamp ul li {
    list-style: none;
    float:left;

    text-align: center;
    }

.lavalamp ul li a {
    padding: 0 20px;
    text-align: center;
    }

.floatr {
    position: absolute;
    top: 10px;
    z-index: 50;
    width: 70px;
    height: 30px;
    border-radius : 8px;
    -moz-border-radius : 8px;
    -webkit-border-radius : 8px;
    background : rgba(0,0,0,.20);
    -webkit-transition: all .4s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transition: all .4s ease-in-out;
}

/*LAVALAMP MENU BY http://bloggingsection.blogspot.com/ END*/

Now save your template.

3. Adding The Menu

Now come to Page Layout

Now come to Page Layout
Click on Add a Gadget (Below Header)
Choose HTML/JavaScript
Copy and paste below code inside it,

<div class="lavalamp dark">
 <ul>
  <li class="active"><a href="">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Blog</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Services</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Portfolio</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Contacts</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Back to Article</a></li>
  <li><<a href="#">How it Works?</a></li>
 </ul>
 <div class="floatr"></div>
</div>

Replace # with the links
Replace Home,About,Blog. etc. with your link text which you want to appear on the menu.
If you want to change background color of the menu then replace <div class="lavalamp dark"> with one of the code below.

<div class="lavalamp">
<div class="lavalamp magenta">
<div class="lavalamp cyan">
<div class="lavalamp yellow">
<div class="lavalamp orange">
<div class="lavalamp dark">

That's it Now save your Widget and you're done!!!

Hope you will like this Menu , I have tried my best to give you easiest tutorial by me but still if you have a single doubt or question you can ask me via Comments I am at your service as soon as time allow.

Peace and Blessings Buddies :)

Add New Animated Flying Twitter Bird Gadget for Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:08:00 -0700

Guest Post - In this post Dasari Harish will show you how to have a stunning Twitter bird Fly around your blog pages, landing randomly in view of visitors to Share your posts and Follow you.

"Twitter", is one of the most popular Social networking sites in the world among Bloggers to promote their blogs.There are a number of twitter widgets, scripts and plugins available to integrate Twitter with your blog.Most of the icons, buttons or badges are stationary or a fixed floating Twitter gadgets.Now here i have a very cool unique Blogger Twitter widget, an actual Animated flying Twitter Bird that flies around your blog.

This Plugin is java script based and it will display an animated Twitter bird that settles on different places of your blogs visible area. If a you scroll the page, the bird will fly towards the visible part and settle in a new place and it takes random paths for each flight.When you place the cursor over the Twitter Bird "tweet this" and "follow me" links appear,through this the visitor can tweet the article or follow you.

Add The Flying Twitter Bird To Your Blog

There are Two types here is am giving.You can have the Bird on every page of your blog or just on the post pages..

1. Twitter Bird with tweet text has Post title and URL for all post pages Only.
2. Twitter Bird with tweet text has Current Page title and URL for all Blog pages.

Add Flying Twitter Bird To Post Pages Only

1. Go to Your Blogger Dashboard Click > Design > Edit Html

Step 2. Find the following piece of code in your blogs Html : (Click Ctrl and F for a search bar to help find the code )

</body>

3. Copy and paste the following ocde directly Below / After </body>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://bloggerblogwidgets.googlecode.com/files/way2blogging.org-tripleflap.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var twitterAccount = "Your Twitter User Name Here!";
var tweetThisText = " <data:blog.pageTitle/>: <data:blog.url/> ";
tripleflapInit();
</script>
<span style="font-size:11px;position:absolute;"><a title='Blogger Widget by Way2blogging.Org' href="http://www.way2blogging.org" target='_blank'><img border='0' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></a></span><a href="http://bloggingsection.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Twitter Bird Gadget</a>

</b:if>

Important Note:-
Replace Your Twitter User Name Here! with your twitter user name.You add just the username not the entire URL of your Twitter profile.For example twitter.com/mromkarsingh , paulcrowepro is the username.

4. Save Your template And Check Out Your Twitter Bird.

Final Words

I Hope you Liked this post and don't forget to share this article with your network. :).Thanks to Omkar singh for inviting me to write a Guest post on his Great Blog.

Dasari Harish

About the Guest Author:
Dasari Harish is the Author of Way2Blogging.org, were he provides Blogger Gadgets and Tutorials. You can also follow Dasari Harish On Twitter.

Understand The Pros And Cons Of Free WordPress Themes

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 11:27:00 -0700

Guest Post - Our host is Paulius Rasytinis, in this post he looks at the advantages and limitations of using free Wordpress themes on your blog.See How To Become a guest author on Blogging Section.

There are lots of discussion about free WordPress themes and whether they are a good solution for your website. Opinions differ, but the truth is that it all depends on your website and what you wish to achieve. Small personal blogs or starter websites may benefit from a free WP theme because it is a quick and inexpensive way to setup your website. Complex corporate websites will often do better with a premium theme.

What is very important for free WordPress themes is to understand their limitations and to accept them. Chances are that a free theme won't offer many premium features, but perhaps that's not what you need at the moment. Another important thing to keep in mind is security. It's important to download free WP themes from reliable sources, such as WordPress.org free theme directory (http://wordpress.org/themes/).

Best Things About Free WordPress Themes

There are certain benefits to using free WordPress themes, especially when it comes to personal blogs and websites. Even small businesses can benefit from such a theme, especially if they're only starting out. Here are some of the best things about free WordPress themes:

Price. The main benefit of free WP themes is their price. They are free of cost so you can easily download them. If you are ready to accept that free themes won't be able to offer all the powerful features paid themes can offer, you can do well with a free WP theme. Especially if you know that your website doesn't need premium features. In this situation, choosing a free theme is a reasonable option.
Light admin panel & options. Free themes are often light with features and therefore easier to install, configure and use. This can be very useful for those who don't know much about coding and simply want to build and organize their website without much hassle.
Easy customization. This is another advantage you get with less features and options. You will be able to customize your website quickly and easily. You may get only a few color schemes and two layout options. It may seem a bit limiting, but it's much easier to customize your website and test all the possibilities before you decide which one works the best.
Experimentation. Since free themes are available free of charge, you can try many different themes without compromising your budget. All themes, especially premium ones, come with a demo, but sometimes it's good to know that you're not wasting your money if a theme fails to meet your expectations.
Your content is in the focus. Free themes usually offer less features and options, thus bringing your content into focus. Not all free themes are minimalist and not all premium themes have complex designs, but chances are that a free theme will also be free of unnecessary features so your content will be in the focus.

You Get What You Pay for

At the same time, you get what you pay for. Free themes are often not the best solution, especially when it comes to complex corporate websites. There are some features that are worth paying for and free themes simply can't compete. Here are some of the main disadvantages of free WordPress themes:

No support. With free themes, you are usually on your own. There is no customer or developer support, so you need to understand how to install, setup ad use a theme on your own (unless you can find someone to help you with this). When you have a website to run and organize, worrying about your theme and how it works is the last thing you need. The lack of support may pose a serious problem.
No regular updates/bug fixes. Similar to the previous one. You can download a nice free theme today, but it may become useless if there is a bug. Also, chances are that there won't be regular updates so your free theme can get outdated pretty quickly.
The theme is overused. Free themes, especially elegant ones with many handy features, get downloaded a lot. It means that many websites will use the same WP theme as you, which can make your website/blog less unique when it comes to design and functionality. This is why it's important to customize the theme according to your needs. That way, your website will be unique even if you choose to use a popular free theme.
Potential malicious code. Hidden malicious code in free WP themes is one of the dangers you might face if you opt to use free themes. However, malicious code is not a defining characteristic of free themes – in fact, there are so many quality free themes out there. Rather than being a problem with free themes, it is a problem of unsafe websites offering those themes. This is why it's important to download free themes from reliable sources like the ones mentioned above.

Your comments are welcome below.

Paulius Rasytinis

About the Guest Author:
Paulius is an experienced blogger who likes to share his knowledge about WordPress and WordPress Themes. He is also a co-founder of a highly powerful WordPress theme search engine that helps users to find the right theme faster than ever before.

Creating Useful links from Your Site or Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:29:00 -0700

Provide visitors with links to other sites similar to yours or a meta-index of links that would be of interest to your your target market. Do not put outbound links on your home page. Place them down a level or two after the visitors have seen all the information you want them to see before you provide the links away from your site. Links can be incorporated to Two ways:-

The First is where clicking the link loads the new page in the same browser window.(It replace the content of your page with the content of the linked page.)

The Second and preferred method is to have a link open a new browser window.(Your page stays where it is and the content from linked page opens up in the new browser window.)

The Second way in preferred because once visitors are finished with the new page, they can close the browser window and your page is still there in the "old" browser window. Try exchanging links with others so you can receive a links from their site to your site. As long as the link are value to your visitors, People will come back to see if you have found any new and interesting sites for them to visit.


Google Provides information on Employment opportunities.

You might consider asking visitors if they are interested in being notified when you update your lists of link or just make updates to your site in general. By offering this, if hey choose to do so, you have the opportunity to send people an e-mail message remind them about your site while presenting them with new information about what might be going on with your site.

How to Prepare Your Website for Increased Visitor Numbers

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:51:00 -0700

Our Host karl is Going to share some views on Increasing Visitors number on your website. See How can you become a Guest Author On Blogging Section.

While some websites are caught unawares and unprepared by sudden surges in web traffic, the most successful are often aware of the trends that indicate their visitor numbers could be about to explode.

Whether it is due to an analytics program that shows constantly growing numbers of visitors, or an investment into an SEO campaign that will bring more visitors over the coming months, for example, there could be many reasons behind a site needing to be ready to handle a higher volume of traffic.

We looked at the steps you can take that will ensure that your business moves forward and your site continues to operate with no noticeable differences on any level.

Change Up Your Hosting

This is a definite must do if you are currently using a shared server or a VPS hosting solution. Even if you are using a dedicated server, you might want to increase the bandwidth or capabilities so that your site can continue to operate when the visitor numbers explode.
The easiest way to imagine this is to compare it to a shop that opens a second branch in town, and instead of having new staff, it just splits the existing team between both. It is never going to work, and expecting to grow your revenues and cope with increased numbers on a limited server is not going to, either.

Look at Your Social Sharing Options

The great thing about increased traffic is that it leads to more traffic, snowballing so that your website becomes hugely popular and your business potentially hits constant growth.
Therefore, this could be a great time to re-launch your social media offerings so that you can score highly in the user generated content stakes. Ensure that anyone coming to your site, whether they are browsing pages or buying product, can easily spread the word through their own social streams, as well as engaging with your business with your own.

Consider Outsourcing Content Creation

When you have more visitors, it becomes more important to keep your blog or news pages up to date so that people headed to your site have an impression of a relevant, “finger on the pulse” type of business.
More people most likely means an increase in your workload, however if you have been managing your site yourself you can simply outsource things such as blog and article writing to freelancers or a content creation company. Ideally, you will be able to give them access to your website’s content management system, so that they can upload the content and keep your site fresh independent of yourself.
While increased website visitors can serve to create a feeling of excitement, it is just another opportunity for you to take your brand to the next level. Ensure you position yourself to continue the growth of your business and make the most of all increases in web traffic.

Karl

About the Guest Author:
Karl is an online content writer across a number of industries, with a specific interest in the role managed VPS hosting and other host solutions can play in the growth of online businesses.

30 Best Free WordPress Themes Of 2013 (Part-1)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:21:00 -0700

We are over half way through 2013 so it's about time we looked at what WordPress Theme designers have been up to. I have selected some of the Best Free Wordpress Themes for you that will going to make your blog more beautiful and Dashing.

I have decided to give you this amazing collection in 3 Part. This is the Part-1 of Wordpress themes of 2013 of My collection in which you will find 30 amazing and most popular wordpress theme of this year. So take a look and Choose your favorite.

Note - Some of these themes have free and paid versions so look for the free download link.

Click the title of each theme to see the demo and download details.

Unlike some comments seem to suggest none of the links to themes are affiliate links, indeed within the text of no post on this site will you find affiliate links !

So Lets Start with....

GameX Wordpress Theme

A dark color magazine template with drop menu, wide featured posts slider and many more features.

WpMatrix Wordpress Theme

A bright three column theme with a simple design.

Cool Retro WordPress Theme

A very retro design with a paper hand drawn desktop design.Features include search, subscribe icons and text size controls.

Zenshop Online Store Theme

A Wordpress theme set up to be an online store.Home Page displays product thumbnails, built in checkout.

Woody Wordpress Theme

A magazine WordPress theme that comes in six colors, Blue, Black, Green, Maroon, Orange and Pastel.Social Ready, Slider Ready and two right sidebars.

CryBook - Facebook Style Wordpress Theme

This theme has been designed with an influence from Facebook.Though you don't have to stick with the Facebook blue as you can change to four other colors.

Nublu - Free Premium Wordpress Theme

Photoria - Photography Wordpress Theme

A theme perfect for Photo blogs with a large image slider and posts on the home page displayed by a large thumbnail.On post pages we find a right sidebar with social and subscribe section and more.

Xenastore - Online Shop WordPress Theme

This is a great theme for your online shop with posts working as product pages and shopping cart ready.

Yasmin Free Professional Wordpress Theme

This is a very stylish theme that can be used as a portfolio, photo blog or even a personal blog.A drop menu, social icons and search bar can be found in the header.A huge featured posts slider sits above blocks of three posts on the home page.

News Layer - News Magazine Theme

A feature packed theme with two drop down menus, Multi tabbed section and latest tweets widget in the sidebar and three footer columns.

Imbalance 2 - Unique Wordpress Theme

This is a minimalistic theme with a focus on content, would work well for portfolios.

Axis - Theme With Full Screen Slide Show

This theme is perfect for Photography, Design and Portfolio sites.The entire background of the site acts as a slideshow with a separate design for blog pages.

Danko Charity Wordpress Theme

This theme was created for charity sites with integrated PayPal among the features.

Jezz Business Wordpress Theme

The Jezz theme comes available in 5 colors good for business, corporate, product catalogue, services or portfolio web sites.

Responsive Theme

A simple theme for business or personal sites.

Balloons Unique Theme

Baloons is a cute theme with a unique design.Great for personal blogs or diary's.

Desire Portfolio Wordpress Theme

Desire is another great portfolio website theme.The theme has a large slider, three call to action sections followed by two blocks of posts and three footer columns.

Stumblr Theme

Stumblr is a beautiful two column theme with a right sidebar.Posts on the home page can be represented by a Image thumbnail or video.

Delicacy Food Blog Wordpress Theme

A blog theme with food blogs in mind delicacy has a stylish design with drop down menu and featured posts slider.

Vitrine Magazine Theme

A two column magazine theme with a left sidebar.

The Scoop News Magazine WordPress Theme

A great theme for new blogs and sites

WP-Ebuy Wordpress Theme

This is an Ecommerce WordPress theme for business or store websites.

Photum Photography Theme

A bright fresh theme to design your photos and images.It has a left sidebar with blocks of thumbnails to display your images on the home page.

Bunker, Portfolio Wordpress Theme

Another portfolio theme to display your images and designs.On the home page posts are displayed as thumbnails, post pages have a right sidebar.

Truly Minimal WordPress Theme

As the name suggests this theme has a simple minimalist design.Bright and clear with the focus on content, this theme will suit your personal blogs.

Tech Go Wordpress Theme

A professional design theme for Tech Magazine Sites.

Green Life Wordpress Themes

This is a great theme for Health, Nature and environment Blogs.The theme has three columns with a fixed width.

Wp Lanucher Site Under Construction Theme

This theme is a placeholder while you are designing your site or preparing to launch.

That's the list which is your favorite ?

Drop Your Comments And Questions Below.

Best Free Tools To Compress And Optimize Images On Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 9 Jul 2013 11:31:00 -0700

Guest Post - Our host is Salman Farooqui, who takes a look at image compression and the best tools to help.See How To Become a guest author on Blogging Section.

Image files today are the most used media type to share. However, they are often too large in size to easily share or store. This is where image compression comes to play. Image compression is technique which reduces the image size without significant reduction in image quality. Many people fear image compression because they have a misunderstanding that it is a threat to image quality. Actually, image compression is of two type - Lossless and Lossy.

Lossless image compression

Lossless image compression involves removal of some of the image data to reduce the size but the image quality remains the same and all the image details are preserved. You won't notice any change in image but the images through this method can only be compressed to around half in size.

Lossy image compression

Lossy image compression can reduce the image size to more than one tenth of it's size but the quality, though not very significant, is reduced. Lossy method will reduce some shades of color that are very similar thus reducing the overall size of the image.

So what are the benefits of image compression in blogging? Well, image compression technique is best suited for blogging. Compressed images not only reduces page's loading time it also takes less space on your hosting space and bandwidth. This is one of the best and most promising method to reduce page response time by optimizing images of your blog. It proves a boon for users who have slow Internet connectivity. They don't have to wait for long for viewing your blog.

Importance Of Page Load Time

Your blog loading time is now part of google algorithm which how decides how to rank a site in google search results. You don't want your blog to be devoid of many benefit, Do you?

Faster page loading impacts your blog's visitor bounce rate. No one wants to wait for site to load up. If it takes a lot of time people will close your site and probably won't come back. This happens with many new bloggers, they add high quality large size images as their background and on their blog. If you can easily reduce the size of the image then why load those big ones.

Optimizing your images is a must thing to do for better site speed so that users have a better experience on your site. There are many free and useful tools for optimizing images without losing any visible image quality. We will go through some of the best tools to optimize and compress your images before adding it your blog.

Original Image :

Compressed Image :

First image is 70kb and second is an optimized image with size of just 9kb. However, different image formats have different potential for reduction in size.

Offline Tools

Photoshop

Photoshop is the first name that comes to our mind when we want some image editing or optimization. When you save an image, use 'save for web' option rather than 'save as' option in photoshop. You will see a significant change in image size without compromising with your image quality. There is another cool photoshop plugin called SuperPNG. It's a free Photoshop plugin for optimizing small PNG images.

Irfan View

Irfan View is another very popular image viewing and editing tool. Apart from a lot of great inbuilt features, you can use plugins to enhance the features. One such plugin is RIOT (Radical Image Optimization Tool). This plugin creates a save for web option in irfan view menu. You can simply scroll the slider for optimized image size and you will preview the image quality for that size. It is a great tool if you want your image corresponding to a fixed image size.

PNGOUT :

It is useful to optimize pictures created by other tools. The new image is lossless meaning that the new image will be of same quality but with lower image size. It can operate from Windows run dialog box and also command prompt.

OPTIPNG :

It can convert different image to png and can easily optimize png images losslessly. An open source advanced png optimization tool recompresses optimized images further to even more smaller size without any loss in image quality.

PNGCRUSH :

Another great tool for lossless png compression. It tries different methods of compression according to your image attributes and gives you best result. Changes color type, like truecolor to indexed color if the colors are very few which reduces the image size but not the quality.

JPEGTRAN :

A nice tool for optimizing jpeg files. It supports lossless compression between different jpeg files. Another great feature of this tool is that it supports lossless rotation and cropping of images.

GIFSICLE :

Program for optimizing and manipulation, editing and deconstruction gif animation image files. Creating gif animations with GIFSICLE is very easy. It runs on command-line to create and edit gif images.

Online Tools

SmushIT :

One of the most reliable and popular online tool by Yahoo Network for lossless compression of images. It shows you the new optimized image size before compressing.

JPEG Optimizer :

Useful for optimizing digital pictures. Select a compression value from 0 to 99 and click optimize photo to get your result. You can also resize your picture by selecting the appropriate size.

Image Optimizer :

Another great tool for image optimizaion. Just visit the site, browse your file, set the quality and get the new optimized image file. A piece of cake.

Picresize :

This is basically a picture resizer tool but you can use it's picture size reduction option. Enter the desired size of the image and press OK.Let's say you have an image of 200KB and you want to change it to 50KB, picresize will do it for you in just a click of button.

TinyPNG :

Lossless png image optimization with full support for transparency. You can drag and drop up to 20 images on tinypng site to get your compressed images.

Drop your comments and questions below.

Salman Farooqui

About the Guest Author:
Salman Farooqui designs blogger templates and writes articles related to blogger, design hacks and SEO. His blog Kick Blogger publishes free blogger templates.

Discover New And Exciting Techniques Of Creating Blog Content

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:59:00 -0700

Guest Post - Our host is Anna Robeson, Anna is looking at some different types of content bloggers can use and readers will love.See How To Become a guest author on Blogging Section.

The days of simply writing content and posting it online are long gone. I've heard the phrase „content is king” time and time again, and while I do not disagree with it, hell, I've actually written an article on the subject myself, I have to say that content is not only written. Images, videos info-graphics are also content, visual content, but still, content. The problem with today's internet is the fact that it is over-saturated with information.

Let's be honest, how many of you read articles from start to finish? I don't. Even if I find something that interests me, I usually skim through the text, and bookmark it for later. Many writers are faced with a major problem: people do not read their blog. Moreover, in most cases, it is the first few seconds that attract a user. You can be sure that a block of text isn't as attractive as a post rich in images or videos. Written content is without a doubt the most popular content creation technique, and it is also one of the most poorly done. Any respected agency will tell you that high-quality content is one of the most powerful business promoters. That being said, let us discover alternative content techniques.

1. IMAGES

What most people do not know, is that written content is not the only one that can be optimized and used in order to promote a website. Everybody knows the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words", but in the world of SEO, a picture can be worth a thousand visitors or links. I've seen a lot of web owners who get a decent percent of overall website traffic from images. There are plenty of visual search engines out there which focus their queries around photos and videos. In other words, if you find some eye-candy, you can read the source article, or better yet, you can create truly unique posts which you later pin on a Pinterest board. Never underestimate the power of a high-quality image, because most of the times people want to see what it is that they are interested in, before they read about it.

2. VIDEOS

When it comes to videos, things are a little complicated. With images it is possible to takes someone else's work, as long as you give credit to the owner. The days of simply shooting, editing and uploading a film are long gone. Nowadays, in order to get a video noticed you have to take certain steps:

Did you know that Youtube is the largest search engine except Google? What better way to gain more exposure than by creating an awesome video which you can share on Youtube later?

Once you've uploaded the video, make sure that you are sociable about it. Believe me, your readership will appreciate the effort that you made in order create it. You can even create your very own, branded YouTube channel, if it is exposure that you are looking for. It is more convenient for users to listen to something while they go about their business.

Tweak your video for search engines. Basically, in order to apply search engine practices on videos, one has to edit the „Meta-data” of the post. This means that descriptions, titles and data will be branded on YouTube’s and Google's channels.

3. INFOGRAPHICS and CONTENT VISUALIZATIONS

I may be treating them at the same time, but Infographics and content visualizations have little to noting in common – except the fact that they are both visualization tools. Infographics represent a great alternative to written content, and a more attractive one if I might add. They are commonly used to present interesting facts in a more visually appealing way.

Concept visualizations, on the other hand, are a great content technique which every specialist should have in his marketing tool belt. They are extremely efficient because they can help explain complex or abstract ideas that are difficult to put into words. Simplicity, and clarity are the two, key qualities that a content visualization should have. I especially recommend it for bloggers who are trying to prove a point, or make a statement, and for business owners who want to make things easier to understand for clients.

4. GIFs and MEMEs

Animated GIFs have long been used on forums and chat-rooms, but it was only recently that Tumblr managed to make them go viral. They are a fascinating tool for promoting written content, presenting new concepts and marketing ideas. They are capable of adding that interesting visual appeal that any website needs, and to stimulate and engage with the public.

Are you familiar with MEMEs? If you are not then maybe it is time to do some research. It all began with 9gag, and now there are so many funny Memes circulating that it's hard to keep track. They are catchy, hilarious and impossible to forget. If you want to establish a personal brand, memes are the best thing you could ever do. They may not be useful for content creation, but they are the best way to interact with your readers.

5. PODCASTS

A podcast is a multimedia digital file which can be uploaded to a portable player. Many people think that podcasts are a thing of the past, but I assure you that they are very useful. Podcasts, both video and audio are an excellent solution for people who like to jog, who travel a lot or who have to commute. They can easily be uploaded to iTunes or any podcasting platform of your choosing. They give you the opportunity to be original, because they give you the chance to create irresistible and original call-to-actions.

Now that you've learned about five alternative content creation techniques, you will be able to make your web-page more dynamic and flexible. But you don't have to stop here. Music videos, SlideShare presentations, Embedded Tweets and many other strategies await your discovery.

Anna Robeson

About the Guest Author:
Anna Robeson is a passionate writer who usually consults with a digital net agency . She is interested in all things tech, and she is constantly scouring the internet for interesting new things to share with her readership.

12 Things to Do Before Applying for Google Adsense

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 30 May 2013 11:14:00 -0700

I know many of you want to make some good money with adsense right?
But it’s not easy to get into adsense program now a days. You have to do few things before applying for adsense.
Google Adsense is world’s larges Ads Network and works at Pay Per Click system. It’s paying rates are better than all of other networks which is the biggest reason it is so popular to all Bloggers and Webmasters. But since everybody is running behind them, they have made the approval system very strict. You make little mistakes and get disapproved every time. So you need a complete guidance and list of thing that you need to do before applying for Google Adsense and supposing that you are ready.

12 THINGS TO DO BEFORE APPLYING FOR GOOGLE ADSENSE

1. Privacy Policy :

One of the common mistakes that every Blogger makes and that I made many times before finally getting approved. Even though there are people out there who say that having a Privacy Policy for a Blog doesn’t makes sense but they are wrong.
A Privacy actually describes to your readers about what they will get on your Blog , what they should do and what they should not. So obviously there is nothing bad in having a Privacy Policy. While it can affect somehow on your Adsense Approval, you must give it a try. You can write it yourself or find Privacy Policy Generators online (You don’t need a lawyer anyway).

2. About Page

An About has major role and importance if you don’t want to apply for Adsense. But when it comes to Adsense, they are about Zero chances of getting approved if you are not showing this page.About page simply describes about you and your Blog . This will not only help you establish a relationship with readers but it will also make them trust upon you.

3. Contact Us Page

It’s quite obvious that everyone has his/her own opinion. What one of your readers likes may be bothering someone else. Than it is better to give them opportunity to speak up to you and tell how they feel about your Blog, what they want to be edited , what they liked or hated.
It will also show the Google Adsense Team that is viewing your site that you actually care about your readers and not only the money and Adsense.

4. Name/ Email Verification

Make sure to put you Name and Email address in some easily visible area like About Me and Contact Us pages. It will confirm to Google Adsense Team that it is the same person who applied for Adsense and not some spam, crappy bots.

5. Age Verification

I’m really laughing out typing this.
Why?
Because this is where I encountered a problem. Instead of 18, I accidentally published my age as 17 while on Adsense Application Form, it was accurately 18.
Hence there started a problem . Because Google Adsense is not for under 18 people. I realized this problem after being disproved a few times without any legitimate reason. So I advice you to be accurate while typing your age.

6. Minimum Number of Posts

There is no exact answer. Not even one. Because I have seen very established Blogs with 400+ posts and their owner telling me that Google Adsense is rejecting them while somewhere ,people with 40,50 posts are enjoying making money. Exactly what I said that there is no actual answer. However, we can always predict things. According to my experience , you should only apply after you have more than 70 posts. Posts length should must be 500+ words too.
Read : Difference Between Short Length Post Vs Length Posts – What’s Best?

7. Design

Your Blog is the biggest thing after Content. This represents your expertise ,experience and Professionalism. So be careful because anything can kill your Chances.

8. Content Type

Be careful with what type of content you are publishing. Because it is something that truly matters. Google Adsense is not for Pornographic, Illegal Items, Drugs or other Blogs / Sites like that. Also Adsense team won’t be willing to allow you to step in if you own a Non English Blog. Having posts shorter than 300 words in length is also Red Signal.

9. Providing Value

Don’t complain about not making money and don’t clearly state that your are Blogging for Money only and have no other interest in it. Because this will show them that you will not be providing values to your readers any day. Hence another Red Light glows up.

10. Top Level Domain

Those are gone far away when Adsense used to approve “Blogspot” and “WordPress.com” Blogs. As for today, you must have your own unique domain that specifies your Blog. If you don’t have one yet, stop dreaming about getting approved with Sub domains and go buy a Top Level Domain.
Another important thing about domain is it’s age. Because for most of Asian Countries, Adsense has placed an age restriction. They don’t accept any sites before they are 6 months old.

11. Other Ad Networks

If you have any other Ads placed like Chitika, Clicksor or anything, it’s time to drop them off.
Even Google Adsense allows you to use other Ad Networks along with them, it’s better to remove the ads before Applying and don’t put them back until you get a reply from Adsense Team.

12. Paid Traffic

Google hates the sites that are getting Paid traffic and mostly penalizes them so there is not a damn chance of getting Adsense Approval letter for a site that is getting paid traffic. You can bring traffic from Search Engines or any other way you want but if you want to earn via Google Adsense the right way, paid traffic is not a solution.

LinkedIn Tips, Tricks and Resources

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:22:00 -0700

As of November 2012, LinkedIn announced it had 187 million members, making it the most popular social network among professionals. LinkedIn is a powerful platform that is not used as often as it should.

Some professionals see no use for LinkedIn, some use it but still leave it on the back burner. Here are a few tips, tricks and resources that will help you use LinkedIn to its full potential.

LINKEDIN TIPS AND TRICKS

Complete your profile. Make sure to complete your profile: from your professional history to where you attended school. Be as thorough as possible.
Claim your vanity URL. Your profile will look more professional once you claim your vanity URL.
Treat your profile like your website. Keep your profile clean and up to date; check for spelling and grammar mistakes, as well as typos.
Make your profile public. Change your profile settings so that your profile is publicly visible. Don’t worry, your contact information will only be available to your connections.
Connect with those you already know. Start by connecting with those close to you: family, friends, co-workers and colleagues.
Use LinkedIn for follow-up communication. Whether you have connected with someone via email, got their business card, or left a voicemail, let them know that you will also connect with them via LinkedIn.
Give and receive recommendations. Nothing boosts morale, loyalty and friendship like an unsolicited recommendation.
Update daily. Keep people on the loop. Whatever you post will show in the news feed of your connections. Don’t know what to post? Connect your blog’s feed to LinkedIn, that way whenever you post something new it will also show on your connections’ feed. You can also talk about anything business related: upcoming events, seminars, webinars, awards.
Join Targeted Groups. Join and become part of niche-related groups; you can even start your own. Answer questions, give tips, be helpful.
Define your LinkedIn strategy. Create a LinkedIn strategy and stick to it whether when making connections, joining groups, and creating updates.
Make your connections private. There are things best kept private, i.e., your LinkedIn connections. By making them public, you are practically handing your competition your client list. To make your connections private, go to your profile settings and under your privacy controls click Select who can see your connections. Choose only you.
Make it easy for others to connect with you. Adjust your settings to make it as easy as possible, such not requiring people know your email to connect.
Find out who has viewed your profile. Check your profile statistics regularly: learn what you are doing right or wrong, and when it is time to follow-up with a contact.
Make connections where you want to do business. Connect with people inside the company you wish to do business with, or work for. Just remember to be subtle.
Include a link to your LinkedIn profile on your email signature, website, and business cards. See #11

Add a Pinterest Mouseover Button to Your Blog Images

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:02:00 -0700

Follow Blogging Section on Pinterest Here

Have you noticed this trend on blogs lately? This is a new feature I’ve seen popping up everywhere. When you put your mouse over an image on the blog, a Pinterest logo pops up prompting you to “Pin” the image. At first I wasn’t sure if I loved this feature or hated it. But after giving it a chance, I’ve decided I love it. :) I don’t know about you guys, but most of the blogs I visit have SO many gorgeous photos to pin. It seems like every photo is “pin-worthy!” Sometimes I have a hard time choosing which image from a post I want for my Pin board, and by the time I finally make the decision, hit the “Pin it” bookmarklet in my toolbar at the top of the screen, and the Pinterest pop-up screen appears with all the tiny square thumbnails, I’ve forgotten which image it was that I wanted to pin — or worse, I can’t tell which image I wanted to pin because the thumbnails are too small! So this is a feature I’ve grown to immensely appreciate, since now I am able to simply pin the image I want right there from the blog post while I’m reading.

If you’ve got a blog and want to add this feature to your photos, here’s how you do it.

FOR WORDPRESS

If you’ve got a self-hosted WordPress blog, you can use the Pinterest Pin It Button For Images plugin.

Simply download the zip file from the above link, go to your WordPress Dashboard, click Plugins > Add New > Upload and upload the zip file.

Activate the plugin, then from your WordPress Dashboard, go to Settings > Pinterest Pin It.

Under the heading Show “Pin It” button on following pages, click All Pages. Click Save.

This plugin comes with the default “Pin It” button as seen in the image above. If you like it, that’s it!

You’re done! :)

You now have a Pin-It button that will appear when a reader puts their mouse over any image on your blog.

If consider yourself tech-savvy and you’re up for a little bit more of a challenge, you can also choose to use your own button style in just a few easy steps.

Customizing Your Button

You can make your own personalized button, or here is a link with some gorgeous, free Pinterest buttons. You’ll probably want to make sure that the button you choose has a transparent background and is saved as a PNG file, otherwise, if it has a background, it will be white on your image. Once you’ve chosen your image, here’s what you do:

Open the pinterest-pin-it-button-for-images.zip file you downloaded.
Drag and drop the new Pin It button into the pinterest-pin-it-button-for-images folder.
Open the ppibfi_pinterest.css file in Notepad or Text Edit and find the following code (it’s right there at the top, very easy to find! :))

.pibfi_pinterest .xc_pin {

width: 80px; height: 50px; /* Please note that the button is 80px x 50px. If you use a different size button, change this */

background-image: url('ppibfi_button.png'); background-repeat: none; /* This is the buttons image. Image can be found in the plugin folder */

It’s easy going from here. As the instructions say, if your button is a different size, change the code to your button’s width and height. Then change where it says ppibfi_button.png to the name and filetype of your image. Save the file.

If you’d like your button to be in a different position, look just underneath the previously mentioned code and find where it says

top: 5px;
margin-left: -1px;

Change these numbers to shift your button to a different position. I changed mine to top: 15px; margin-left: -15px;. You can also change top to bottom to have the button appear in the bottom corner.

Once you’re done editing, save the ppibfi_pinterest.css file, then zip up the pinterest-pin-it-button-for-images folder.

On a Mac, you can just right-click on the folder and choose Compress.
On Windows, I believe you can right-click on the folder and select Add to Zip, although I haven’t used a Windows computer in a good seven years, so my information might be a bit outdated. :)

Then follow the previously mentioned steps to install the plugin to WordPress, starting with Step 1.

That’s it! You should now have your own customized Pin It button that will appear whenever anyone puts their mouse over an image on your blog. :)

NOTE: If that all sounded like Greek, you can always just use the button that comes with the plugin. It looks great! :)

My Thoughts On This Plugin

What I really like about this plugin is that if the image is a link to another page, you can still click on the image to get to the link. For example, you can click on any photo on my blog to see the camera, lens, and settings used to take that photo. Also, when I share links or lists and use an image, I will link the image as well so all you have to do is click on the image to get to the page. This plugin does not interfere with that. It will only Pin the image if you click on the actual Pinterest button in the corner of the image. Click anywhere else on the image to be taken to the link.

When someone pins an image from your blog using this plugin, it will automatically fill in the description box with the title of your post. This can be a good and bad thing. Some bloggers (myself included) prefer to write their own description for each image, which may include hashtags or a link back to their blog. This plugin overwrites any custom description you may give your images and replaces it with simply the title of the blog post. So that may not be ideal. However, for older blog posts where you may not have set up a custom description (which is probably the majority of your blog posts, if you’ve been blogging for any length of time) this can be a great thing. It will now automatically fill in the description box with your post title. So as long as you have descriptive post titles, you’re golden!

FOR BLOGSPOT / BLOGGER

If you’ve got a Blogspot blog, there’s a super-easy tutorial to get this working for you as well.

Follow this tutorial at BloggerSentral.com: Pinterest Pin It Button On Image Hover.

So what do you do if you’re not a blogger and a blog you love doesn’t have this feature?

Great news! If you love this feature but visit a blog that doesn’t have it, there’s an easy solution. If you use Firefox or Chrome, you can install a plugin where all you have to do is Right-Click on any image to Pin it.

As you can see in the image above, the Chrome plugin automatically fills in the description box with the post title and the name of the blog. I love this! With the Firefox plugin, the description box is blank. Boo!

If you use Safari or Internet Explorer, I’m afraid I couldn’t find a plugin for this trick. If you know of one, please feel free to leave it in the comments! However, you can always install the Pin It toolbar button at the top of your screen.

So What Do You Think...

I’ve installed this plugin so you guys can see it working on my site. Feel free to pin any image from this post! I haven’t decided if I’m going to keep it yet though. What do you guys think of Pin It buttons that pop-up when you put your mouse over an image? Is it annoying and “in your face” by saying “Pin me! Pin me!”? Or is it a helpful tool that makes pinning quick and easy? What are your thoughts?

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Guest Author Box: Show Guest Author Info Below Blogger Posts

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:50:00 -0700

Due to lack of time blog authors often have to rely on Guest posters. In return we offer them with quality back links and advertisement. In order to better serve them it is important to display some info about them in a polite and attractive manner. This will encourage more and more people to write quality articles for you. We are very selective in accepting tutorials written by our readers but once the tutorial qualifies we publish their post in the best manner possible. See the example below which shows one of Blogging Section's Guest Author’s info.

To create this type of attractive box for your guest authors you would need to play with some delicious CSS and HTML . So then Lets jump straight to the main part!

How To Create Customize Guest Author Info Box

Go To Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
Back up your template
Search for ]]></b:skin>
Just above it paste the code below,

/*----------Guest Poster --------*/
.mbt-gp img {
margin:0;
border:0;
}
.mbt-gp-about {
font-size:12px;
margin:0 auto;
padding:3px;
width:580px;
background:#edf6ff;
border:#9ecfff dotted 1px;
min-height:130px;
}
.mbt-gp {
padding-top:10px;
margin:0;
font-size:12px;
float:left;
width:17%;
text-align:center;
border-right:#93C0F9 solid 1px;
}
.mbt-gp-text {
float:right;
width: 80%;
padding:5px;
text-align:left;
font:12px arial,sans-serif;
text-align:justify;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

   5.    Save your template and jump to the next part of the tutorial.

How To Add Box Below Post

Now whenever you publish a Guest post at your blog, simply switch to the Edit HTML Mode of your Blogger Editor. And drag to the bottom of the HTML codes and just at the end add the code below,

<div class="mbt-gp-about">
<div class="mbt-gp"><img src="GUEST-AUTHOR-IMAGE-LINK" width="80" height="70" /> GUEST-AUTHOR-NAME </div>
<div class="mbt-gp-text">
<p><strong>About the Guest Author:</strong>
<br />ADD-DESCRIPTION-ABOUT-AUTHOR-INFO-HERE </p>
</div>
</div>

See the screenshot below to know better where to add the code,

Make sure you replace the bolded text with proper details. The image size would fit perfectly if it is 200px by 125px.

You will have to add just the second code for every guest post that you publish. Once you understand on how to do it then doing it again and again would become more like a fun. I just hope you find it useful and worth trying. Take care buddies. :)

7 Reasons Why Acting Goofy On Your Blog Helps Business

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:39:00 -0700

Guest Post - Our host is Brianne Walter, here Brianne explains why you don't have to be serious on your blog at all times.See How To Become a guest author on Blogging Section.

Bloggers, like any other business owner in the world, take their blogs very seriously. Every bit of information they put on there and every post is somber and serious and high on information. Not many would ever want to tamper with the serious image that they have created in front of their audiences. However, as many successful bloggers know, acting goofy on your blog could be a great alternative to always being super serious. Here are a few reasons why you should consider bringing out your goofy side every once in a while on your blog.

1. It helps you and your content team relax

Goofing around is the easiest way to relax- for you, your content team and even your audiences. While always posting thought provoking, well researched pieces helps you build up your credibility but you have to remember that people love bloopers just as much as the serious stuff. Think of it as something like the signature charming sign off that your favorite news anchor used before ending a news bulletin and you would realize that throwing in a goof or two can actually help your content team feel refreshed by much.

2. It would never be as bad as you imagine

Being goofy on your blog really has no down side. Unless you have no talent whatsoever for comedy, goofing off would never had a bad repercussion on the image of your blog. In fact, posting a goofy pic or video or post on your blog will actually help people get a better sense of your confidence which would automatically get them to see your blogs in a new light as well.

3. It gives your audience variety

Building up a dedicated audience for your blog is hard work. Sustaining this audience could be the real tricky part however. But if you have the talent for providing your audience with variety, you’d have a better chance of retaining eyeballs over a longer period of time. When your audience sees that you can provide them with a bit of variety as well as what your content specializes in, they might be tempted to spend more time on your page.

4. It promotes bonding

A very well known universal fact is that people like the company of folks that can make them laugh. This also applies to the virtual world and the millions of cat videos with felines doing dumb stuff proves that. So, you have to ask yourself, if a cat doing silly things can get millions of page views, a real person doing something similar might be enough to make even your regular audience tune into your page more often. Plus, blogs are more about personal expression for both the content developer as well as the reader and little goof offs every now and then would bring your readers ever closer to you too.

5. It’s entertaining

Yes, goofs are rather entertaining and blog owners and developers should not be ashamed of sharing their own goofs with their followers. Of course you don’t have to make a regular habit of it but posting a picture of a video of behind the scene bloopers etc. keeps audiences entertained while allowing them to see your human side too.

6. You’re cool if you can laugh at yourself

The ability to laugh at oneself is not something that everyone is blessed with though the people that can pull it off without sounding sarcastic or whiny generally are considered the most self confident of all folks. The self assurance this ability gives off is also quite attractive to others which makes making friends and winning admirers a breeze too. If you can admit to and even show off having a goofy side, people will find you cool for sure.

7. It helps you stand apart from rival blogs

No matter what topics your blog espouses, you know that there are at least a handful of other blogs that are writing about the same thing. While this kind of rivalry is amazing for development of content, its quality and putting the reader first, it also makes it hard for both established blogs as well as new entrants to the game to stand out from the crowd. This is where posting about the occasional goof could set you apart and help you create a wider fan base in the long run.

Brianne Walter

About the Guest Author:
Brianne is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, travelling and reading books. She contributes to Hydroxycut.

10 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic with Google+

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:09:00 -0700

Google+ is the fastest-growing social networking site. It's a perfect place to connect with people around the world, build relationships, and drive readers to your blog. To get you started, following are 10 tips to help you increase blog traffic with Google+ right now.

1. Create a Complete Profile or Page

If your blog can be identified as a business or brand, then create a Google+ Page for it. If not, use your personal Google+ profile to connect with your blog audience. The first step is to create a comprehensive profile or page that fully describes who you are, what expertise you bring to the table, how to find your blog, what your blog is about, and what makes it special. Follow me on Google+ here.

2. Connect with People

Once you've created your Google+ profile or page, you need to start connecting with other Google+ members. Search for people you know first. Then look through the people they follow to find more interesting people to follow. As you spend time on blogs and other social web destinations, look for links to connect with interesting people on Google+.

3. Create Circles

Next, you should create circles to categorize your Google+ connections and then place people into appropriate circles. For example, create circles for your blog readers, your blog post sources, people who influence your target audience, people who can help you promote your blog or publicize it, and so on.

4. Send Targeted Messages

As you publish updates to Google+, you can choose which circles to share those updates with so the right audiences get the right messages. This is a great feature that ensures people don't receive the updates you don't want them to see.

5. Publish Interesting Content

Don't just publish links to your blog posts over and over. That's boring and will be viewed as excessive self-promotion. Your Google+ stream of updates should be interesting and meaningful to your audience, not spammy. Therefore, publish and share interesting updates and links that your target audience will find value in and appreciate seeing.

6. Create Sparks

Create sparks to track keywords related to your blog topic and jump into relevant conversations. Share content and updates that other people publish related to your blog topic that your audience is likely to enjoy, and look for new people to connect with on Google+ and blogs to follow outside of Google+.

7. Host Hangouts

Google+ hangouts are video chats between up to 10 Google+ members. You can host a hangout and promote it as a small virtual webinar or tuturial session. Think of how you can tie a video chat session with your blog topic and what kind of valuable information you could share in such a session. Then promote it on your blog as a special event!

8. Host Huddles

Instead of holding a tweet chat on Twitter, you can hold a Google+ huddle, which is a text chat between Google+ members. For example you can promote your Google+ huddle on your blog as a question and answer session between a small group!

9. Integrate and Cross-Promote

Use social media icons, Facebook social plugins, Twitter widgets, and so on to integrate your blog marketing efforts and cross-promote your content. Give people as many ways to find your blog and interact with you as possible.

10. Be Active

Update your Google+ stream frequently with new content, and make sure you spend time commenting on other members' updates as well. The more active you are, the more likely people are to remember who you are, recognize what your blog is about, and click through to read your posts!

How To Use Google + Ripples To Find Influential Bloggers In Your Niche

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:47:00 -0700

Well, the first thing we should probably do is explain what Google+ Ripples are. For those of you who have not come across this useful tool before, it’s essentially an interactive graph of those who have publically shared one of your Google+ posts.

This visual representation of your publically shared posts by others provides fantastic insights into the natural flow of viral content within your niche, and can help you to identify and connect with industry influencers.

Of course, other social media sites provide this sort of data, but it’s usually only available via third party plug-ins. Ripples is Google’s own effort at conveying this sort of info, and it does so in visually friendly and intuitive way.

Using Ripples

If a post has been shared publically, there will be an option to ‘View Ripples’ when you click the little arrow on the right hand corner of the specific post. If you click this you are then led to a graph, which provides the information.

This graph is quite self-explanatory. The top left corner shows the number shares in total and also recently. Each of the bubbles within the graph displays a person’s name and their status when they shared the graph. The most interesting thing though is the size of the bubble.

The larger the bubble, the more shares that particular person contributed to your post. So, if a person has a larger bubble they have provided more clout or influence for that specific post. This allows you to easily see who’s encouraged others to share onwards.

Clout

We’re all aware of the importance of influencers in an industry and some have more of this ability than others. Google+ Ripples makes it extremely easy to see who is influencing and driving interaction to your posts via a quick look at the size of their bubbles.

Nurturing a relationship with these influencers is very important and can allow you to reap huge benefits if you’re a little bit savvy. Add to this how visual and easy to understand it is and there’s no excuse for not making the most of it.

Circles

The next step is to group those you deem as niche relevant influencers and those you see as benefiting your posts beyond the immediate repost. Create a circle of these folks and then begin to build a relationship. This is easily done and sending them exclusive content, first peeks, using the hangout feature and also plain old direct interaction go down a treat. That all said, you still need to focus on the other 95% of those in your circles as they are often your bread and butter.

Influential Ripples

It’s also possible to increase the chances of getting an influencer in your field to share your posts with a little calculation and research. There are influencers in any field and then again there are influencers– people who have hundreds of thousands of followers and provide huge potential if they share an article.

The downside is that these people may not be in your circles and so you have no chance of them seeing your Google+ post. Unless!

How to Get the Influence of Influencers

Step One

Firstly, find the largest influencer in your niche or industry and find a post that they shared with their circles. Now look at the Ripple data.

Next, find out who the original poster was and make sure that this original poster has a reasonably strong following.

The industry leader will have shared the original posters post and you can assume that there is an element of trust between both.

Step Two

Connect with the original poster by one of the usual means – Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn – they’re usually on the Google+ profile. Try and build a relationship with that person by providing them with something of interest or value.

When you are friendly ask the person to share one of your posts via their Circles. You can then hope it will catch the influencer’s notice and they will repost it. Of course, if this doesn’t work, it’s still getting a lot of notice via your new found interaction’s followers.

Step Three

Do this with a number of people in contact with the industry leader and you will greatly increase the chances of them seeing your post.

So, take a look at Google+ Ripples and remember that by engaging with these power users you get the extra edge and you and your posts can significantly benefit.

The Best Type of SEO Blog Post There Is (And Why You’re Not Using It)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:17:00 -0700

As bloggers, we tend to overestimate our core audience. It’s nice to think that all of our readers will dive into our content with some basic idea of what they’re doing. The idea is that there’s no reason to define well-known terms or concepts because you assume your audience already knows about them. And if they didn’t, you’re assuming they’ll open up Google and take a look for themselves.

The harsh reality is that by taking this approach, you could be losing out on hundreds of first time readers. It’s important to realize that a section of your audience is aspiring to join your niche, and just needs to know how.

Imagine that John is a business owner looking to start a business in professional organizing. John heads over to Google and types in “what is a professional organizer?” He arrives at a blog post that explains the concept, and then searches the blog for more information. John just became an avid reader of the first organizer blog he’s ever visited, and the blogger just received a new reader and prospective client or customer.

DEFINITION POST: GOOD FOR SEO, GREAT FOR NEW READERS

There are two reasons why definition posts rock for building up the authority of a blog…

There are thousands of people just like John who are looking for someone to explain their niche and its vocabulary in easy to understand words.
People often search “what is..?” phrases on Google.

The thing about definition posts is that right now, most definition posts are found on adsense or free article websites. If you’ve ever had to do research for a bit of writing, or if you were looking to get started in a field, you know that information on these websites is generic and often largely unhelpful beyond getting the basics down.

As a blogger, you can offer a first-time reader more than “just” a basic definition. Definition posts are a portal into your blog’s deeper content. When writing definition posts, you have the chance to introduce readers to a new concept and help them get started with other, in-depth information. A few well-placed links in the posts and a “how to get started” section and you’ve just converted a possible reader into a dedicated one.

HOW TO WRITE A INSANELY HELPFUL DEFINITION POST

Here are a few key highlights to get you started:

Break General Topics Down into Small, Informative Posts
Use Easy to Understand Titles (e.g.Free Blog Vs. Paid Blog)
Link to More Informative Posts on Your Blog
Don’t Link to External Sites
Provide an Example of the Concept

What are you waiting for? Head out and write a definition post for your blog today and share the link in the comments below. Show us how you’re introducing readers to your niche.

Improvements to the Blogger template HTML editor

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:24:00 -0700

Whether you’re a web developer who builds blog templates for a living, or a web-savvy blog owner who prefers to make changes to your template using HTML, CSS or JavaScript, you may be interested in some enhancements that we made to Blogger’s Template HTML Editor.

Your blog’s HTML template is the source code that controls the appearance of your blog. This template can be customized to appear however you’d like. The improved HTML template editor now supports line numbering, syntax highlighting, auto-indentation and code folding to make editing your template much easier.

Suppose we wanted to move the date of a blog post underneath the post title, similar to the Blogger Buzz blog. To do this, follow these steps:

Click the “Template” tab on the Blogger dashboard, then the “Edit HTML” button, to see the new template HTML editor:

Locate the “Blog1” widget quickly using the new “Jump to widget” drop down:

This widget controls how your blog posts are displayed. The code inside the widget is folded by default. Clicking the new fold markers ‘►’ next to the line numbers expands the widget and reveals a set of “includable” tags:

Inside the “main” includable is the block of code that renders the post date:

Cut the post date code section and move it to where we want it, in this case, under the post title in the “post” includable:

To check our changes, click the new “Preview template” button to see the updates:

The post date is exactly where we want it, so tab back to “Edit template”, hit “Save template” and we’re done!

Finally, we’ve added a “Format template” button that automatically cleans up the indentation of the template, and made it possible to search for text by pressing “Ctrl+F” once you’ve clicked into the editor. To find and replace text occurrences one by one, use “Ctrl+Shift+F” or to find and replace all occurrences at once, use “Ctrl+Shift+R”.

We worked on this project as part of Google Australia’s BOLD Diversity Internship Program. We hope you enjoy the changes we’ve made!

(Cross-posted from the Blogger Developers Network)

Top 15 Killer Tips To Increase Page Rank!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:03:00 -0700

Page Rank is a link analysis algorithm which is used by search engines to determine relative importance of your link within their database. Here I’ll tell you how to increase page rank.

How is Page Rank Calculated?

Page Rank is calculated by various algorithms made by search engines, in simple words, Page Rank is calculated upon the number of links on your site; these links Include:

Backlinks.
Inbound links.
Internal links.
External links.
No-Follow links.
Do-Follow links.

Google and other Page Ranking sites analyze these links and assign a numerical page rank from 1 to 10 to your website. Below we will discuss Top 15 Killer Tips To Increase Page Rank

How To Increase Page Rank?

1. High Quality Content:

In order to increase Page Rank you must have unique quality content which your readers want to share with their friends. You can read Tips For Writing Engaging Content.

2. Site Submitting:

To boost Page Rank you must have high quality Backlinks and the best way to generate quality backlinks is to submit your site on different web directories and article directories.

Some Good Web And Article Directories Are:

DMOZ
Yahoo Directory
Best Of The Web
Ezine Articles
Article Base
Go Articles

3. Guest Posting:

This is one of the most used and best technique to increase Page Rank. Most Blogs have options of guest posting through which you can post at their blog and get two or three backlinks in return to your blog this really helps if you are posting on good Page Rank Blog with the same Niche as yours.

4. Link Exchange:

This is one of the most old techniques but it still works, in order to get a good PageRank you should get higher Page Rank sites to link to your site, through this you will firstly get a good Page Rank and will get traffic from that site.

5. Keep Updating:

Google really likes Sites that keep their content fresh and unique. The more you post, the more Google will crawl your site and the more chances for you to increase page rank

6. Commenting On Other Blogs:

Commenting is a very crucial process in generating a good Page Rank. In Blogging Community you must be very socially active. Some Blogs are Do-Follow, which can help you generate back links to your site by just commenting on their posts. Nowadays most blogs have CommentLuv Plugin installed on their site which automatically places a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment.

7. Social Bookmarking:

Social Bookmarking is a very effective method to increase Page Rank because by sharing your Site on different Social Sites you will get a free Backlink and Traffic. Some of the most popular Social Bookmarking Sites Are:

Facebook
Google Plus
Squidoo
Digg
Hub Pages
Stumble Upon

8. Website Accessibility:

If Your Website is down for a long period of time, Google may reduce the ranking of your site. So You should always keep Your Website accessible.

9. Using Commonly Searched Keywords:

As You know people search using keywords and not the whole sentence so if you have used a keyword which is very frequently searched then you get a higher chance of your website being visited and MORE VISITORS = BETTER PAGE RANK.

10. Website Advertising:

You can make an Ad or a banner for your site and advertise it on different website, through this you will get good back links and traffic.

11. Create Multiple Pages:

If You create multiple Pages on Your Site this will strengthen your internal linking and will ultimately increase Page Rank.

12. Participate In Forums:

Google loves forums that are most frequently updated and by getting a back link from these forums you will succeed on increasing Page Rank.

13. Using Signatures:

You can add a link to your website in your online signatures. For example, you can add signatures in your email and forum posts but don’t try to spam because you can be blocked.

14. When Does Google Re-Evaluate Page Rank?

Google Re-Evaluates Page Rank about Three to Four times per year, so almost every Three months Google calculates Your Page Rank again.

15. Never Use Illegal Tactics:

Using illegal tactics can get you banned from Google and Google is very smart so never think that you can deceive Google because if they find out that you are using illegal techniques which are against their policy they will block you. Stay away from those tactics using these legitimate techniques will improve traffic.

Over to You!

Which methods do you use to increase page rank ? Do share them with us.

8 Perfect Gift Ideas For A Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:26:00 -0700

31 Days to a Better Blog by Darren Rowse –Darren just released a new version of this amazing e-book for 2012. I bought this e-book early in my blogging career and it was the BEST investment I could have made in my blogs. I attribute most of my blogging success to this little e-book which is FULL of tips and ideas from the problogger himself. This man built a blog from scratch to earning a six figure income each year. He’s definitely doing something right and shares a lot of his expertise in this e-book.

Web Hosting – Having your blog on your own hosting gives you more control and more peace of mind about your content. Your content is safer and is less likely to disappear or become inaccessible. Sometimes the price of web hosting scares bloggers from making the important switch from Blogger to WordPress – a crucial step if you’re wanting to make more income from your blog in the long run. It’s so important to choose the right host – I’ve personally worked with several web hosts in my blogging career and have my thoughts and recommendations on each here: How to Choose a Web Host

Market Samurai – One of the hardest parts of blogging is SEO (Search Engine Optimization). That’s the art of getting your blog to rank higher in the search engines so that more people will find it. More people seeing your blog links in the search engines like Google and Yahoo means more traffic for a blog – and thus potentially more income. Market Samurai is a great tool that does the reserach for you to help you make the little changes necessary to improve your blog’s SEO and get your blog seen by more people.

Night at a coffee shop to work for a couple hours – As a work-at-home mom to two little ones, some of the best “gifts” my husband has given me during my years of blogging have been some nice quiet evenings to myself to JUST focus on blogging. It’s amazing how much you can get done in a couple of quiet hours to yourself, with a cup of coffee. I always come home refreshed and more ready to keep up with my blogging tasks in the weeks to come.

Custom Blog Design Makeover - There are blog designers out there to fit everyone’s budget. Of course, you do get what you pay for… and you might be thinking that you do not have that kind of money to be investing in your blog. Can I offer a word of advice here? One based on personal experience? That investment may be worth more than you can know right now! Having a blog design that I loved, right from the beginning, would have saved me countless hours of tweaking my own designs – and it would have probably saved me money, too! Remember that time is valuable, too – give the gift of time and beauty to that blogger on your list with a custom blog design. Here is a blog designer who’s definitely worth looking into: Berries and Cream Blog Design

Some personal training/mentoring – Whether you’re just getting started with blogging, or you’ve been doing it for a while now, getting the personal input of someone further along in the journey can be just what you need to breathe new life into your blog! Looking for ideas for how your blog can make more money? Gain more followers? Get more notice? Consider having someone there to walk you through how to change your blog, with hands on advice just for you with a blog mentor.

**Write a Tribute to Your Blogger and ask to have it published on one of their favorite blogs – Tell the story of your blogger’s blog – what they write about, how much they love it, what they’ve learned. Tell about what it’s like living with a blogger. Then, email the post to one of your blogger’s favorite blog owners and ask if they might consider publishing it. What a sweet way to pay a tribute to all the work your blogger has put into their blog! Plus, you’ll gain them some traffic AND the notice of one of their “idols”!

A Premium Theme: I recommend Thesis –** If you can’t afford to hire a blog designer as suggested above, purchasing a premium WordPress theme is your next best option. Premium themes give you so many more options in working with the design of your blog than the generic, free WordPress themes available. With a premium theme and little bit of time to research how to make your blog look the way you want it to (there are hundreds of resources out there, just a Google search away!), your blog can take on the look and functionality that you’ve always wanted it to. Here at Blogelina, I use and love the Thesis Theme. If you’re looking for something that requires a bit less coding, I would also recommend the Genesis themes andElegant Themes.

40 Facebook Tips – Make Your Blog More Interactive

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:43:00 -0700

Facebook is the Internet’s biggest social network. Are you participating yet?

Some Facebook Tips To Boost Your Reader Interaction

Have you checked your Facebook settings lately? You might be surprised at the personal information you’re sharing.
Did you know that you can use Facebook as a Page and not just your personal profile?Use it to post to Facebook and “Like” other Pages.
Have you customized your Facebook page?Add tabs to grow your mailing list, showcase your content and more.
Get and keep more Likes on your Facebook page by offering special discounts and freebies that are only offered to fans of your page.
Do you have a Facebook commenting policy? It’s a must for Pages with a large following.
According to Crowdspring, 51% of Facebook users are more likely to buy from companies they are following.
Facebook now has over 800 million users. 200 million of those were added in 2011 alone.
More than half of Facebook’s active users log in every day, totalling 400 million daily visits.
Get more Facebook followers by offering a video, report or other content that can only be viewed by those who Like your page.
Tagging is a great strategy to strike up a conversation on Facebook. You can tag updates, photos and more.
Get more of your email subscribers to Like you on Facebook. Set up an interesting poll and invite your subscribers to respond.
Most brands don’t do Facebook right.According to study by Socialbakers, brands answer only 5% of Facebook Wall posts.
Have you checked your Facebook Insightslately? Check them to find out your reach, engaged users and virality.
Most people have Facebook Like buttons on their blog posts, but did you know you can put a Like button on ANY web page?
Facebook Like buttons can add a social boost to your website and give you more exposure, so use them readily.
Make your content easy to share on Facebook by including a Facebook Share button in your blog posts.
Have you considered using a Facebook commenting system on your blog? With so many people using Facebook, it’s a seamless integration for many websites.
EdgeRank helps Facebook decide which content to show to users in their “Top News.” It’s a mathematical calculation based on how connected you are to the particular user, how popular the content is and how recent it is.
Facebook EdgeRank Tip #1: Encourage interaction when you make posts. Ask questions, create polls and get them talking.
Facebook EdgeRank Tip #2: Readily share content from a variety of sources. When users click the link, it contributes to your EdgeRank.
Facebook EdgeRank Tip #3: Post regularly because the freshness of your content is a factor in EdgeRank.
Fun Facebook Fact: Did you know that creator Mark Zuckerberg has red-green color blindness and that is why the site is mainly blue?
Starting a Facebook Ads campaign is easy.Just look at the ads on the right side of the page and click “Create an Ad”.
Test different headlines and images on your Facebook ads, but not at the same time.
Keyword targeting your Facebook ads is likely to increase your conversion rate, but you may not get as many impressions.
Personalize Facebook ads for better results.If people can see how their offer is of interest to others they follow, then they’re more likely to take action – see more tips in Facebook Ads 101.
Facebook Groups are a great way to connect with new people and to encourage open interaction. Have you joined or started one lately? (Consider joining a Blogelina Blogging Buddy Group – start getting the blogging support you deserve!)
Got tagged in a less than professional photo on Facebook? Open the photo page and click “Report / Remove Tag”. You can remove it without reporting it.
Have you added new “Likes” to your Facebook Page? Show yourself as someone connected with your niche by liking relevant pages.
Have you used Facebook’s list feature? It’s a great way to broadcast your content only to the people you want to share it with.
Have you tried Sponsored Stories? It’s a way to get certain posts more visibility on Facebook.
Facebook Timeline is a new type of profilethat allows you to showcase the photos and things that represent you best.
Facebook Events is a great way to create online or in-person meetings.
Did you know you can unsubscribe from Facebook updates on a person-to-person basis?
Find out what you have in common with your friends with the “See Relationship” feature. You can see how long you’ve been connected on Facebook, Likes you have in common, friends in common and more.
Is an ad on Facebook really bothering you?Hover over it and click the X to hide it.
Don’t want to bombarded by the chat feature on Facebook? You can make yourself unavailable for chat by changing your settings.
Don’t use the Poke feature if you want to make a connection on Facebook. Start a dialogue instead.
Set a daily budget for your Facebook ads, to make sure that you don’t get any surprises.
Remember to create your Facebook username URL for your personal profile and your Facebook Page, too.

How Are You Benefiting From Facebook In Your Blogging?

Share in the comments below!

Shameless Blog Promotion 2013: Your Blog Post Publishing & Promotion Ritual

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:56:00 -0700

Writing blog posts is one thing, promoting them is another. And although Great Content is the cornerstone of blogging success, promoting your posts is just as important. The question then is: ‘How do I promote my blog posts?’

Back in 2010 I did a post called ‘Shameless Blog Promotion’. I always send it on to clients to help them get going with promoting their posts. But it’s 2013 now. Some things have changed. So, time for an update!

I have condensed this rather lengthy post down into a 9 point action list for you to take away. Below the image you’ll find much more details.

Optimise: SEO checklist

The process of promoting your blog post starts before you publish it. Knowing your target audience, gaining insights into their needs and writing unique content that add value to them is the very essence of blogging.

But there are also some tactical thingies you need to get right so your blog posts are found in search engines.

So now that you’ve published your optimised blog post, and it can be found in search engines, you can now start with your shameless blog promotion ritual.

Syndicate across your company outposts

Your post is on the company blog, so you can now share it across your company’s outposts across the social web. Needless to say you can have many, but be sure to cover your:

Facebook page
LinkedIn Company Update (with a targeted update to your followers)
Twitter channel (using the right hashtags!)
Google+ company page (adding an insight or summary)
Pinterest channel (because of course you’ve used an amazing picture, right?)

Needless to say, your blog should also have a RSS feed so that people can subscribe and your latest post is automatically pushed out to them.

Share with your personal network

Next to your company’s social outposts, you can also share it across your own personal network. Again, you’ll have your favourite channels, but obviously you should consider a status update in LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ as well as sending out a tweet on Twitter.

Also, consider adding a link to the fresh blog post in your company email signature!

PR with your immediate network

The best way to start promoting your content is to start with the people closest to you – your friends, family, colleagues and closest network. Ask them to retweet, share or like your post.

Make sure the content you are asking them to share adds value to them and their network. So be selective! And be personable. Drop them a personal email or give them a call. Like any good PR would do

Also, make sure you are building on your email list. Even when it’s your personal network, colleagues and friends. Again, be personable. Ask them what they value most.

Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking is not as hot as it was back in 2010. Still, if your content fits the channel, social bookmarking sites can still be great traffic generators. There’s loads of them, but the most important ones are: Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit and Delicious.

Also, make sure your blog gets listed with blog search engine Technorati.

Content curation

Content curation has been a hot topic in the social media space for a while now. Content curation means that you are continually finding, organising and sharing content of a specific theme or topic with your target audiences. There are many tools available. These are my favourites:

Scoop.it is a great tool for curating a topic over a sustained period of time. Storify.com is a great tool for curating news worthy stories. Get your account going, and make sure your fresh post gets added to these channels each time to increase visibility and reach! Here’s a handy little tutorial on Scoop.it to get you going.

You can also consider to submit the feed of your blog for submission on aggregation service Alltop or send in your optimised RSS feed for promotion on Flipboard. However, make sure your blog is publishing frequently and your content is nothing less than great.

Engage in discussion groups

Now your blog post is getting shared by your network, sent out to your email list, added to social bookmarking services and some curation platforms, it’s time to start activating some people through some good old engagement and conversation.

So, post your fresh blog post in relevant LinkedIn groups, get on Google +, join and post in relevant communities, and if possible consider adding your post to an answer thread on Quora. Remember, the web is social. Nothing wrong with engaging people and asking them for their opinion.

Comment on other people’s blogs

Now that you’re already engaging with people on social media channels, it’s time to expand the conversation to relevant blogs. Get onto Google or Google Blog search & Technorati, find relevant blog posts and join the conversation in the comment section.

However, when you leave a comment on somebody else’s blog, make sure it’s a genuine and relevant comment. Leaving a link to one of your blog posts in the comment section of somebody else’s blog is OK, but contribute to the conversation above anything else.

Any more tricks in the bag?

There’s many ways of promoting your blog. You just need to figure out what form of promotion best fits your content and objectives.

Let’s look at a few more options:

Guest blogging:

A classical tactic of promoting your blog is Guest Blogging. The upside of blogging on someone else’s platform is that you are reaching a new audience. The downside is that it’s very time consuming, and well, erm … it’s not your platform

Either way, make sure you do it well!

Content syndication:

Content syndication enables you to spread your content across different networks. The upside is that you are potentially reaching new audiences. The downside is that you are giving up some control over your content.

My advice is to take the time to research all the different options. And look before you leap.

Reformatting your content:

Depending on the type of post you are publishing, a tutorial, an opinion piece, a review or an industry commentary, think of ways to reformat your content. Your post can also become a powerpoint presentation on Slideshare, a PDF download on Scribd or a video on YouTube or Vimeo.

Reformatting your content helps to increase reach, find ability and traffic to your blog.

Advertising:

Advertising your blog content is maybe a bit unconventional. However, since Facebook rolled out their targeted advertising platform you can now amplify your best posts via your Facebook Page to your network of Likes and their friends.

Out of all the Facebook advertising options, these ‘Promoted Posts’ have the highest CTR. So, adding Facebook advertising to the Shameless Blog Promotion checklist makes sense!

A round-up

I have condensed this blog post into a 9 point action list of stuff you need to do before you publish your post:

Optimise: SEO checklist before you publish
Syndicate: to your company outposts
Share: with your personal network
PR: with your immediate network
Bookmarking: e.g. Digg, StumbleUpon
Curation: e.g. Scoop.it, Storify
Engage: e.g. LinkedIn groups, G+ discussions
Comment: on other blogs
Advertise: Facebook Promoted Posts.

Consider all the tricks in the book, but focus on your actual content, adding real value and having relevant conversations!

After having read this post, are there any major tactics I left out? Looking forward to you comments!

Thanks for reading, happy blogging & enjoy your shameless blog promotion. You now know how to promote your blog posts!

10 Best & Popular Tips to Planning Idea For a New Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 7 Apr 2013 12:31:00 -0700

Today i am gоіng to write an article for nеw bloggers whо wаnt to start nеw blog. In thіѕ article i wіll write ѕоmе tips thаt уоu ѕhоuld kеер in mind bеfоrе starting a blog.Almost еvеrу nеw blogger dо mistakes on thе initial stage оf blogging.A Common ѕауіng іѕ thаt "Every human bеіng dо mistakes in thеіr live" but it dоеѕ nоt mеаn thаt wе dо mistakes аll thе times wе саn overcome thеѕе mistakes wіth thе planning so mау be уоu wіll tаkе thеѕе tips as planning.

Choose a Blogging Platform

Thеrе іѕ a lot оf blogging plateforms lіkе Blogger, WordPress, TypePad etc.Blogger аnd WordPress іѕ mоѕt common blogging plate form thаt іѕ bеіng use largely. I am аlѕо uѕіng Blogger аnd i suggest use blogger bесаuѕе іtѕ free no nееd a hosting plan to host уоur blog.If уоu wаnt to mаkе a blogger blog уоu саn use thе fоllоwіng link

Choose The Name Of Your Blog (Domain Name)

Domain Nаmе іѕ vеrу іmроrtаnt bесаuѕе оf thіѕ people knоw уоur blog аnd visit уоur blog. Itѕ јuѕt lіkе уоur business nаmе whеn уоu start a nеw business уоu decide thе nаmе оf уоur business. If уоu hаvе mаdе a free blogger or wordpress blog thеn уоu wіll gеt a free sub domain as "example.blogspot.com" or "example.wordpress.com". But i suggest уоu dо nоt use thеѕе sub domains јuѕt purchase уоur own.

Tips To Purchase a Domain Name

It Shоuld Represent Yоur Blog аnd Related To Yоur Blog.

Yоur Domain Shоuld Be Short аnd Appropriate

Blog Domain Shоuld Attract Thе Visitors аnd It Shоuld Be Easily Memorable

Design Of Your Blog

Yоur blog design or template ѕhоuld be simple аnd user friendly. Eаѕу To Navigate аnd It ѕhоuld Be attractive for уоur visitors.

Content Of Your Blog

Content іѕ аlwауѕ thе king оf уоur blog.If уоu don’t hаvе good аnd unique content thеn whаt аll уоu dо to decorate уоur blog gоеѕ waste. Be Yоurѕеlf аnd dо nоt copy paste frоm аnу оthеr website specialty frоm Wikipedia.

Frequency of Posting

Plan уоurѕеlf hоw frequently уоu post аnd hоw оftеn уоu update уоur blog.It mау be 2 posts for 3 days or 4 posts per week plan ассоrdіng to уоur convenience.Plan posts for future to avoid delay.

Blog Promotion

Promote уоur blog on vаrіоuѕ forums аnd social networking sites. Now a days social networking site are playing a major role in success оf a blog bесаuѕе now a days еvеrу оnе use social networking sites to connect wіth friends.So mаkе use оf social networking sites lіkе facebook,twitter,google рluѕ etc.

Maintain Good Relations With Your Fellow Bloggers

Commenting on оthеr blogs аnd maintaining a good relation wіth уоur fellow bloggers аlwауѕ hеlр уоu in building уоur blog.

Guest Posting

Guest posting іѕ a good wау оf building bасk links аnd drawing attention tоwаrdѕ уоur blog.

Use Share, Follow And Good RSS Button

Uѕіng cool share ,follow аnd RSS buttons attract уоur blog аnd increase thе number оf followers to уоur blog.So if thеrе іѕ an update thеу wіll соmе bасk to уоur blog оnсе again,you саn kеер уоur readers intact wіth уоur blog.

SEO(Search Engine Optimization)

Now thіѕ іѕ thе word whісh mаnу newbies are afraid whеn thеу hear.SEO іѕ nоthіng but a strategy оf improving thе visibility оf a website or a web page in search engines lіkе google, bing аnd yahoo.Do a lіttlе research on SEO to bесоmе a successful blogger.