Develop a Blog

Moving out to sartikakurniali.com

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:08:00 +0000

Hi, I'm moving my personal blog to http://sartikakurniali.com. Not because I dislike Blogger.com, but because I want to have full access to my personal blog. I'm not moving my other blogs out of Blogger.com. And hoping to gain more knowledge about wordpress, which I think the best blogging platform besides blogger.com.

I still love Google, but I want to enrich the personal blog with newer user experience, like facebook connect. Since blogger.com still doing close development, it's bound to have a slower updates in features. So, follow me to my new blog ;)

Get Your Adsense Salary Cheaper and Faster with Western Union

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:57:00 +0000

Since February, Indonesian Adsense Publisher is now able to claim their pay check easier, faster, and cheaper since the option of using Western Union Quick Cash is now available. No more waiting for checks to arrive in the mail or to clear at the bank. Just simply bring:

your ID card
MTCN number and Google address (this is the payment number, you can check it at your payment history details)
and pay for the stamp (6000 rupiah)

Payment never been this instant and cheap. Usually if you're doing it the hard way using checks you end up waiting a month for the checks arrive and another month to cash in with quite expensive fee as well. using Western Union you even can collect it at any bank that provide Western Union service, like BRI, Mandiri, etc. without being their customer.

Though there are some minor set backs to this kind of payments:

You accept the money in rupiah.
You get cuts from the currency conversion and end up with a "weaker" currency. You know the score between US$ and Rupiah.
This is just my thought since this is my first time using Western Union, but I think that Western Union use the rate at the time Google sent the payment (you can check the date at the payment history). This made me got a cheaper rate on the day I cash in. So it's better to cash it sooner.
We don't get the payment notification. This isSo you have to check it yourself is the payment already sent. It should be around the 24th. Mine is.
Payments by Western Union are currently only available to individual payee names, but not to businesses.
Payments must be picked up within 60 days of issue or they'll expire. If this happens, a payment hold will be placed on your AdSense account and the payment will be credited back to your account.
There are payment limit for each country, so Adsense will divide up the amounts but still send them via Western Union.For instance, if the payout limit in your country is $3,000 USD and your payment for the month is $5,000 USD, we'll send you two payments: one for the limit of $3,000 USD and another for the remainder of $2,000 USD. If you're sent multiple Western Union payments, you'll see multiple 'Payment issued' lines on your Payment history page, each with the corresponding MTCN associated with it.

Overall I'm pleased since I get the money instanst and cheap. Not to mention I can skip my routine visit to Citibank. I can cash in at a much closer bank. Though I'm hoping that I can get the money in US$ too. Long live Google Adsense!

Shoutbox 2.0 = Pingbox

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:57:00 +0000

If you're familiar with shoutbox, then you will like this. Meet Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox™

Chat privately with visitors on your social network profiles, blog, or website through Yahoo! Messenger.

Using the Mac, Vista, Web, or other versions of Yahoo! Messenger? Pingbox works for you, too! But it's best used with Yahoo! Messenger 9.0. You will receive messages from your visitors through your yahoo messenger. This way you can reply to them real time and without have to check on your shoutbox everytime.

You even get to name the pingbox you've created and find that name as a group in your YM group list. So you'll know where the visitor finds you. It will be better to name the pingbox relevant to location you put them. To do this, is as simple as 1-2-3 and start engage with your visitors not just for web or blog, but anywhere you can embed the widget, like myspace and friendster.

Style your Pingbox

Choose backgrounds, size, color, personal greeting, and more.

Add Pingbox to your page

Add it using our one-click button, or copy and paste the code to your page.

Chat with your visitors

Sign into Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 and receive private IMs* from your visitors.

It's still private as well. You don't have to reveal you YM ID and IMs between you and each Pingbox visitor are private. Only you and person you are chatting with can see the IMs, even if there are multiple visitors viewing your web page.

Still confuse? You can try my pingbox to see what happen when your visitor contacts you. If you still lost try the FAQs.

First Payment from Chitika

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:07:00 +0000

For the past months I've been implementing Chitika besides Adsense as a way to get more from my blogs.
If you won't know what Chitika is, it's like Adsense Chitika, Inc. (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) is a full service advertising network for web publishers and advertisers. The Chitika network currently consists of 34,000+ sites with 550 million monthly human-entered searches delivering Googlesque ROI.

If you're doing Adsense, Chitika might be the best complement ever. Now, with Indonesian can accept payment from Paypal. It just great. You can have your payment every month to via Paypal if you reach $10.

Hack Your Blogger Post Title

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:35:00 +0000

The title of your Blogger post was generated for each page of your blog would display the blog title first, then the title of your post. This is not so good for SEO (search engine optimization) as this made keywords from your post titles appear after your blog title.

Luckily, Blogger have come up with a simple fix for this problem for those who use Layouts templates (new Blogger template). This new tag is already installed for new blogs (or if you change your existing template to one of Blogger's default ones).

However, if you have customized your template or have a third party template, you will need to change the original to the new tag for this change to take effect.

Here's what you have to do:

Go to Layout>edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard.
Search for this tag:<data:blog.pageTitle/>

Replace this tag with the following:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>

Save your template, and your done (See, this is an easy hack!)

Let me translate this code to you. This code actually saying to Blogger to show your Blog title if you open the homepage and to show your post title if you open one of the post page. This will increase the chances of your posts being picked up in search engine results for keywords which appear in your post titles (and can ultimately help draw more targeted traffic to your blog).

One nasty hack is to put your own extra keywords into it. Suppose you have blog related to cats. You can put this instead:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<title><data:blog.title/>: cats, pets, meow</title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/>: cats, pets, meow</title>
</b:if>

Now you get to see cats, pets, meow all over your page, including your homepage. Enjoy more traffic juice :)

What's Your Blog Default Feed Link?

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:54:00 +0000

If you are still confused about your feed link then how do you promote it?

This is the default feed link from Blogger:

http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

with yourblogname substituted where to your own blogger domain.

The comment feed is similar. Like below:

http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss

Now that you have your feed link, promote it so people can subscribe to your blog. You might want to consider redirect your blog feed to Feedburner and enjoy they free feed management. I'll give the how to on the next post.

We can do this because Google has acquired Feedburner and yes Google is targeting to be the mob of the internet :P Well, aren't we so lucky to have all these services?

Show Your Yahoo Messenger ID on Blogs and Websites

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:48:00 +0000

If you want to be closer to your visitors why not let them contact you and have a chat? This is different from email because you get an active interaction.

Some companies even use this kind of method to provide a cheap and effective customer service. How? They show their customer service's yahoo id on their web. So, when a visitor want to ask, complain, or what so ever they can just chat live with the staff. Pretty neat, right?

Yahoo now provides 17 options of pictures to show everyone if you're online or not. You might notice this kind of icon in your Yahoo email. It's that yellow smiley icon next to a yahoo email address. Basically, it's pretty much the same.

All you have to do is paste this code and add it into the HTML/JavaScript widget in your Blogger or paste it in your web HTML.

<a href="ymsgr:sendIM?IDYahoo">
<img border=0 src="http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=IDYahoo&m=g&t=1" /> </a>

Change the IDYahoo to your own yahoo id and you might want to change the parameter on t=1. You can pick one of these icons, below:

Or you can pick these bigger and funnier icons :)

t=10
t=11
t=12
t=13
t=14
t=15
t=16

Have fun!

technorati tags: blogger, widget, blog, yahoo, yahoo+id, Yahoo+messenger

Basic Template Customization

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:57:00 +0000

A reader of my book, kelapkelip_inthedark@yyy.com, just drop me an email because she's having problems on applyling some Blogger customization that I wrote on the book. Yes, my own blogging books :). Here's a recap of the book.

I've posted the tricks that I wrote on the book here:

If you still having problems, feel free to contact me again ;)

Add Smiley to Your Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:05:00 +0000

Do you want to make your blogger a bit fancy? Like adding smilies to it? Thanks to Aditya I manage to get some collection of smilies.

:) or :-) 
:( or :-( 
:P or :-P 
:D or :-D 
:$ or :-$ 
;) or ;-)

All you need to do is add this script in your <head> section. Go to your layout and edit HTML, no need to expand the template.

<script src='http://aditya.vm.googlepages.com/addSmiley.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

And your done. You might want to save the script for yourself to avoid slow loading on the script ;)

technorati tags: blogger, blogger+trick, blogger+tips, blogging

Blogger Now Schedules Future-Dated Posts

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:11:00 +0000

Blogger lately has been tailing wordpress for some of it's awesome features, like schedules postings. When it was appeared on the Blogger Buzz: Blogger now schedules future-dated posts
I bet many people are celebrating it.

You know how the blogging inspiration doesn't always come as you want it to be. So, it helps you to save no matter how much inspiration you've got and publish it any time in the future. Or perhaps you want to publish something on a certain date but knew you wouldn’t be at a computer to make a post? Or to make your blog still alive when you're on a long vacation. I've done this several times now on my Funny and Interesting Emails blog.

You'll see the scheduled posts on my blog according to date that I've set before. All you have to do is set the post options date to somewhere in the future. Don't forget the date's format is mm/dd/yyyy, coz' some times I got myself confused too :P

When you hit “Publish”, your post will become “scheduled.” When the date and time of the post arrive, Blogger will automatically publishing the post.

One quick note from the blogger team:

If you want to give a post a date in the future but have it appear on your blog now, you’ll need to add in an extra step. First, publish your post with the current date and time. This will make it appear on your blog. Then, edit the post to change the date into the future and publish it again.

We don’t re-schedule posts that are already published, so the post will stay on your blog but sort to the very top. The same is true of future dated posts you’ve already made, so there’s no need to worry about your existing posts disappearing, or having your blog assaulted by unplanned entries in, say, 2027.

So, go a head and try it now.... :)

technorati tags: blogger, blogging, how+to+blog,

Cut Your Post to Show The Real Blog

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:22:00 +0000

Have you ever visit a blog index and you need to scroll over and over just to get to see the title of the second most recent post on the blog? It's depressing isn't it? Most of the time you arrive on a blog you wanna take a recap of the newest posts the author has made and you want it quick. It's even more crucial when it's your first time visit. You don't want to make your potential visitor to go away without seeing the "whole blog". It's the law of the first impression to me.

So how do we make the readers check on the blog better? By cutting those long posts into pieces so the they can pick on the post they'd like to read on. It's an old trick that news sites already doing it for ages. See what I mean?

Let's go to the details now...

1. Open your template --> edit HTML
2. Check on "expand widget template"
3. Find this line:

<div class='post-header-line-1'/> <div class='post-body'>

4. Place the next code under it:

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

<style>.fullpost{display:inline;}</style>

<p><data:post.body/></p>

<b:else/>

<style>.fullpost{display:none;}</style>

5. Find this code under it:

<p><data:post.body/></p> <div style='clear: both;'/>  </div>

6. Between <p><data:post.body/></p> and

<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>

Put this code:

<a expr:href='data:post.url'>Read More......</a>

</b:if>

7. So it will look like this ( the blue one is the extra code):

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

<div class='post-body'>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<style>.fullpost{display:inline;}</style>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<b:else/>
<style>.fullpost{display:none;}</style>

<p><data:post.body/></p>

<a expr:href='data:post.url'>Read More......</a>
</b:if>

<div style='clear: both;'/> 
</div>

Note that you can change the words “Read More” with anything else, like “ Continue reading”

8. Go to SETTINGS, choose FORMATTING. Fill this code on the box of the POST TEMPLATE menu:

<span class="fullpost">

</span>

Don’t forget to save :p.

9. How to use it
When you write a new post choose EDIT HTML. This code will appear automatically. This is because we did step number 8.

<span class="fullpost"> </span>

Place the part of the post that you want to hide between <span class="fullpost"> and </span> . You can make the first two paragraph to appear on the front and make the rest is hidden.

If you want to cut your older post that still appearing as a whole on the front page just do step 9 on the post.

Note that you don’t have to edit all your previous post because it is useless. This is only has effect on the front page so why bother about those old posts that already got buried ;)

technorati tags: blogging, blogger, blogging+trick, blogging+tips

Make Your Own Label Cloud

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:29:00 +0000

If you are thinking that label from blogger is not good enough since it's taking large space on your blogroll, why not try to make your own label clouds like it did on my blog here. It's catchy and it sure belongs for the web 2.0 design style. I found these nice blogger hacks from
phydeaux3.

Let's start to make one:

go to your template and choose edit HTML and leave the the widgets NOT exapanded.
find ]]></b:skin> and paste these codes before that.
/* Label Cloud Styles
----------------------------------------------- */
#labelCloud {text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;}
#labelCloud .label-cloud li{display:inline;background-image:none !important;padding:0 5px;margin:0;vertical-align:baseline !important;border:0 !important;}
#labelCloud ul{list-style-type:none;margin:0 auto;padding:0;}
#labelCloud a img{border:0;display:inline;margin:0 0 0 3px;padding:0}
#labelCloud a{text-decoration:none}
#labelCloud a:hover{text-decoration:underline}
#labelCloud li a{}
#labelCloud .label-cloud {}
#labelCloud .label-count {padding-left:0.2em;font-size:9px;color:#000}
#labelCloud .label-cloud li:before{content:"" !important}
paste these code after ]]></b:skin>and before the </head> tag

<script type="'text/javascript'">
// Label Cloud User Variables
var lcBlogURL = 'http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com';
var cloudMin = 1;
var maxFontSize = 20;
var maxColor = [0,0,255];
var minFontSize = 10;
var minColor = [0,0,0];
var lcShowCount = false;
</script>
Find this line <b:widget id="'Label1'" locked="'false'" title="'Labels'" type="'Label'/"></b:widget> . If you can't find it just go to the page elements sub menu and add a label widget first and replace it with
<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Label Cloud' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
<h2><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>

<div class='widget-content'>
<div id='labelCloud'/>
<script type='text/javascript'>

// Don't change anything past this point -----------------
// Cloud function s() ripped from del.icio.us
function s(a,b,i,x){
if(a>b){
var m=(a-b)/Math.log(x),v=a-Math.floor(Math.log(i)*m)
}
else{
var m=(b-a)/Math.log(x),v=Math.floor(Math.log(i)*m+a)
}
return v
}

var c=[];
var labelCount = new Array();
var ts = new Object;
<b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
var theName = "<data:label.name/>";
ts[theName] = <data:label.count/>;
</b:loop>

for (t in ts){
if (!labelCount[ts[t]]){
labelCount[ts[t]] = new Array(ts[t])
}
}
var ta=cloudMin-1;
tz = labelCount.length - cloudMin;
lc2 = document.getElementById('labelCloud');
ul = document.createElement('ul');
ul.className = 'label-cloud';
for(var t in ts){
if(ts[t] < cloudMin){
continue;
}
for (var i=0;3 > i;i++) {
c[i]=s(minColor[i],maxColor[i],ts[t]-ta,tz)
}
var fs = s(minFontSize,maxFontSize,ts[t]-ta,tz);
li = document.createElement('li');
li.style.fontSize = fs+'px';
li.style.lineHeight = '1';
a = document.createElement('a');
a.title = ts[t]+' Posts in '+t;
a.style.color = 'rgb('+c[0]+','+c[1]+','+c[2]+')';
a.href = '/search/label/'+encodeURIComponent(t);
if (lcShowCount){
span = document.createElement('span');
span.innerHTML = '('+ts[t]+') ';
span.className = 'label-count';
a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(t));
li.appendChild(a);
li.appendChild(span);
}
else {
a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(t));
li.appendChild(a);
}
ul.appendChild(li);
abnk = document.createTextNode(' ');
ul.appendChild(abnk);
}
lc2.appendChild(ul);
</script>

<noscript>
<ul>
<b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
<li>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:label.url'>
<data:label.name/>
<b:else/>
<a expr:href='data:label.url'><data:label.name/></a>
</b:if>
(<data:label.count/>)
</li>
</b:loop>
</ul>
</noscript>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</div>

</b:includable>
</b:widget>

As you might notice some of the variables in the code can be customized, you can find more explanation about how to get the label cloud fits in your blog Code for New Blogger Tag Cloud

technorati tags: blogs, blogging, blogger, label+cloud, label+clouds, blogger+beta

Search This Blog Widget

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:42:00 +0000

This widget is a must for me, not to mention after the new Google Adsense for search can't be modified to give user selection whether they want to search on web or the site. Actually this feature already built in on you Blogger navigation bar. However we already talk about how keeping this navigation bar is a waste. If you haven't read it, read my previous post here.

For the search this blog widget I prefer to put it on my blogroll or sidebar, like I did on this blog. If you don't know what a sidebar is then take a look at this blog dictionary that will give you a look at some terminology that you'll find once you live on the blogosphere :p

Okay, enough with the chit chat here are the codes for the widget:

<div id="search-box"><form id="searchthisblog" action="/search" style="display:inline;" method="get"> <input id="search-box" name="q" size="20" type="text"/> <input id="search-btn" value="Search" type="submit"/> </form></div>

This is how to add the widget:

Go to Layout choose Page Elements sub menu
Add a HTML/Script page elements on section that you'd like to see this widget
Insert the codes above and your done.

technorati tags: blogger, widget, blogger+template, blogging

Blogosphere Dictionary

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:47:00 +0000

This a list of some terminologies that you have to know when you are blogging. It's a newbie list but it will help you to understand what bloggers are talking about in the bloghosphere :)

blog

short for Weblog. A Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.”

archive

a blog widget that give links to all your previous post

blogger

a person who owns a blog and blogging

blogosphere

is a collective term encompassing all blogs and their interconnections. It is the perception that blogs exist together as a connected community

bookmark

is when you save the URL of a web on a browser, so when you want to visit it again you don't have to type the URL all over again

comment

a respond from visitors or even the author about a post

CSS
A method of markup that allows users to define how certain HTML, XHTML, or XML structural elements, such as paragraphs and headings, should be displayed using style rules instead of additional markup.

default

In general computer-speak, a selection made automatically in a program if the user specifies no explicit selection.

feed

is a technology that gives blog abilities to provide a way for visitors to have updates of the blog without have to visit the blog itself.

footer

the lowest section of a blog usually shows copyrights of the blog

form

HTML
markup that lets browsers solicit data from users and then deliver that data to specially designated input-handling programs on a Web server. Briefly, forms provide a mechanism to let users interact with servers on the Web.

full time blogger

a person who makes a living from blogging by making money online from placing ads e.g Adsense, selling links, etc

header

the top section of a blog usually shows title of the blog and its descriptions

HTML

HTML

(Hypertext Markup Language) nevertheless provides a rich lexicon and syntax for designing and creating useful hypertext documents for the Web.

link

a part of the web document that connect you to a different URL. It can be a picture or text.

post

a piece of article in a blog usually it has its own URL and can contain text, images, videos, and links.

sidebar

similar to a blogroll it usually the narrower colom of a blog. The wider usually contains the post and it called the main colom

URL

The primary naming scheme used to identify Web resources. URLs define the protocols to use, the domain name of the Web server where a resource resides, the port address to use for communication, and a directory path to access named Web files or resources.

widget

a small gadget or mechanical device. Computing a component of a user interface with a particular function.”

XHTML

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, a reformulation of HTML as an application of XML 1.0

XML

Extensible Markup Language, A system for defining, validating, and sharing document formats. Its main difference from HTML is that you can create your own elements.

technorati tags: blogging, blogger, blogging+guide, how+to+blog, create+a+blog

Remove Your Blogger NavBar and Gain More Space

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:28:00 +0000

You see it by default for all blogger blogs especially when you are using blogger's default template. There is this navigation bar on top of your blog. And it's kind of distracting since it takes your hot spot on the top of your blog.

More reason to remove it because it also have flag button to mark your blog as spam. What if someone is evil enough to give you a flag? :p The next blog button can make your visitor gone and navigate away from your blog. So I don't think there is a reason to keep it, except it provides searching abilities to your blog. But hey... just put adsense searching box and you can make money too :D and plus I know how to move the search this blog feature to somewhere suitable.

Not to worry, here is a simple script to remove it:

#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}

All you have to do is edit your blog template in html mode ( you don't have to expand it) and paste it after your <head> tag and you're done.

technorati tags: blogger, blogging, blogger+template, template

Combining Technorati Tags to Your Posts

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:09:00 +0000

Do you know Technorati? If you haven't this is a good way to know where you must first claim your blog. Here's a quick brief of Technorati. Although the site is not that powerful like in the early days it's still gain its credibility.

Now what's the catch? You have a blog but it won't mean that much in the web unless you make it loud so everyone can read your posts. How? Promote your blog. Here's one way you can do it. You can use Technorati fame. By combining Technorati tags to your post. It really helps to get a link from a big rank like Technorati.

Let's say you want to add blogging as your tag, like this.

technorati tags: blogging

You must add this code below at the end of your post in the html section. Pretty neat, right?

<p><img id="image329" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png" alt="Technorati" /> technorati tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/blogger" rel="tag"></a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/blogging" rel="tag">blogging</a> </p>

That just one tag. What if your post talks about bloggers, fame, make money online, and so on? You must do it again by replacing the word blogging in the code below. aaa.. that's not cool. Doing it and have to write all those code, right?

Now for the real thing you can do this instead of tying long codes. You can do it automatically. This is how:

Copy the code below.
Right-click on your bookmarks toolbar and select New Bookmark.
Change the Name to whatever you want. I use “Technorati tags”.
Paste the code into the location box.

javascript:(function(){var a='';var t=prompt('Enter Tags without commas:','');if(!t) return;var tr=t.split(' ');a+='<p><img id=%22image329%22 src=%22http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png%22 alt=%22Technorati%22 /> technorati tags: ';for(var i=0;i<tr.length;i++){if(i > 0){a+=', ';}a+='<a href='+unescape('%22')+'http://www.technorati.com/tags/'+tr[i]+unescape('%22')+' rel='+unescape('%22')+'tag'+unescape('%22')+'>'+tr[i]+'</a>';}a+='</p>';prompt('Copy this code, press OK, then paste to your blog entry:',a);})()

If your tag consist of two words use '+', like real+blog. Just like that. I found this cool hack on Hogg's blog, but I already change the code a bit. Feel free to use it and tell me what do you think about this trick :)

technorati tags: blogger, blogging, how+to+blog,

Easy Tips to Promote Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:21:00 +0000

Here are some simple tips to promote your weblog and make it profitable popular.

Post to your blog by using keyword rich content. Just use they keyword your targeting and emphasize it.
Submit your blog to My Yahoo and Google Reader
Every time you post, ping it. Use services such as pingomatic, Pingtheempire and Coreblog to ping multiple sites at once.
Submit your weblog to big search engines and directories like Google and DMOZ, or small or middle directory such as Women Directory.

Use any forums to put your signature to, such Bloggerforum, it will help your website to get more traffic.

Submit your website to as many RSS Directories as possible.

Leave your comments on other weblogs with your blog url listed in the signature. But make sure that your comments are relevant to the topic and the topics are relevant to your blog. Don't spam other's.

Tag your weblog by using sites such as Del.icio.us- and Technorati

Exchange links with other sites that are relevant to your website or add a link directory for this purpose.

Meet the RSS Feed

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:01:00 +0000

Do you know what the icon mean?

You must have seen it on sites and your favourite blog. It means that the site or blog support News Feed technology. With this technology you can subscribe site’s or blog’s content (text, video or audio format), through a Feed Reader. One of popular News Feed technology today is RSS Feeds.

What is RSS?
RSS is a technology breakthrough in newest news delivering automatization. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or there are who call it Rich Site Summary. RSS was introduced around 1997. with RSS you can automatically get the newest news (auto update) in a small application. The newest news is automatically downloaded by the application. It’s like subscribing with a mailing list.

RSS technology based on XML, a standard that is used widely in information exchange between application in the internet. Besides RSS, other standard that often used in newest news delivering is Atom.

What advantages do I get by subscribing RSS Feeds?
With this technology you can keep up the newest thing on your favourite site or blog with out have to visit it every one of them.

What kind of sites supports News Feed?
Big sites like like Yahoo, BBC News Headline, CNET and many others support this service. Besides online news sites, personal sites (Blogs) have also support it.

Does blogginghowto.blogspot.com support News Feed?
Yes. I realized that my visitors need practical solution to check the newest article fast. My News Feed can be access through http://feeds.feedburner.com/HowToStartABlog

What News Feed standard that is used by developablog.blogspot.com?
With SmartFeed™ technology that supports all News Feed standard (RSS dan Atom) you can use any Feed Reader application to subscribe.

How do we subscribe to developablog.blogspot.com News Feed?
To subscribe you need a Feed Reader application. Right now there are more than 2.000 Feed Reader application, usually called News Aggregators for text based or PodCatchers for podcast. If you use Windows, one of recommended freeware is FeedReader. Click here to download the application. To access News Feed email-collection.blogspot.com, put the Feeds URL http://feeds.feedburner.com/HowToStartABlog-> Feed (or use shortcut F3).

This is an example on a Feed Reader application:

Other way is to subscribe with browser facility that you used. Some browser already supported News Feed, for example Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari (Mac OS). If you are a Firefox user you can just used the "Live Bookmarks" facility by clicking the Feed Icon that appears on the Location Bar of your browser.

Besides both ways above, my News Feed can also be access using Online Feed Reader web based. We have pick for you the most popular Online Feed Reader used today. All you have to do is pick one that you like and click the icon on my blog’s footer. The advantage from this Online News Feeder is you can access it from anywhere.

Does blogginghowto.blogspot.com provide article delivery by email?
Yes. If you pick to subscribe by email, please follow the link Subscribe to Develop a Blog by Email
Email will be sent every time a new post is posted. You can stop subscribing anytime through the link on the email.

Do I have to pay the subscribe the News Feed?
No, there are no charge for the service.

technorati tags: rss, rss+feeds, syndicate, news+feed, subscribe

Delete Blogger NavBar

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:12:00 +0000

You see it by default for all blogger blogs. There is a navigation bar on top of your blog. The reason to delete this navigation bar is because it takes space on the blog and not to mention they are on the top of your posts.

It also have flag button to mark your blog as spam. What if someone is evil enough to present you lots of flags? The next blog button can make your visitor gone and navigate away from your blog. So I don't think there is a good reason to keep it, except it provides searching abilities to your blog. But hey... just put adsense searching box and you can make money too :D

Here is a simple script to remove it:

All you have to do is edit your blog template in html mode and paste these code after your <head>: tag and you're done.


#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}

Spread Your Feed

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:55:00 +0000

Knowing where to submit your blog is important but knowing where to submit your feed is also a good deal to boost your traffic.

New websites appear everyday and many like to borrow content from your feed. You could be losing thousands of potential one-way links by not submitting your feed feeds to these locations - so let's get started!

Top Places to Submit Your Feed

1. Yahoo! or Yahoo! News
2. The Open Directory (DMOZ.org)
3. More Over
4. Syndic8
5. New Is Free
6. News Knowledge
7. Guardian Weblog Guide
8. Genecast
9. Technorati
10. DayPop
11. Feedster
12. Bloglines
13. Blogdex
14. Topix
15. Popdex
16. BlogCritics
17. BlogStreet
18. Blogwise
19. BoingBoing
20. 2RSS
21. We Blog A Lot
22. Globe of Blogs
23. Open Weblog Directory
24. BlogTree
25. Blog Universe
26. The Truth Laid Bear
27. Memigo
28. Bloghop
29. Blog-O-Rama
30. Contents Matter
31. PubSub
32. FastBuzz
33. Blog Search Engine
34. EatonWeb
35. RDF Ticker
36. Blog Digger
37. Bloogz
38. Blogz
39. Blizg
40. Blog Matcher
41. Scripting.com
42. Columbia Newsblaster Submit to: blaster[at]cs.columbia.edu (replace [at] with @)
43. News Trawler Submit to: customerservice[at]newstrawler.com (replace [at] with @)
44. RocketInfo
45. Headline Spot
46. Kiosken
47. Crayon
48. Diarist
49. Library Weblogs Submit to: scott[at]lights.com (replace [at] with @)
50. Kmax Submit to: email[at]kmax.ws (replace [at] with @) -recip. req.
51. Findory
52. Stephen’s Web
53. The Weblog Review
54. BlogTrack
55. Bulkfeeds
56. Klog News
57. My Wire Service
58. All Headline News
59. News Mob
60. Ping-O-Matic
61. Spurl
62. Science Port
63. YENRA
64. BlogPulse
65. EasyRSS
66. XS News
67. RSS Reader Submit to: info[at]rssreader.nl (replace [at] with @)
68. Choredata
69. NewsAlert.com
70. Blog Category
71. Feeds Farm
72. NGOID
73. BlogDir
74. Search 4 RSS
75. Blurt It!
76. Feed-Directory
77. Terrar
78. RSS Knip
79. News Trove
80. Fyber Search
81. Step Newz
82. Swoogle
83. News Interceptor or Submit to: info[at]newsinterceptor.com (replace [at] with @)
84. GetBlogs
85. Geek Philospher
86. LS Blogs
87. Wil’s Domain
88. Desk Feeds
89. Your Weblog Here
90. Postami
91. SHAS3
92. Complete RSS
93. News Feed Directories
94. MyMSN
95. The Feed Directory
96. Every Feed
97. Blog Rankings
98. Blog Hub
99. News Fire
100. Nooked
101. RSS Feeds Directory
102. Read A Blog
103. Feeds 4 All
104. Plazoo
105. Feed24
106. RSSFeeds.com
107. Feedmap
108. RSS Network
109. IceRocket
110. Bloggernity
111. Blogs Small Business
112. BloggerFind
113. Red Tram
114. FindRSS
115. RSS Locator
116. Feed Cat
117. Rate It All
118. Blog Fuse
119. Explore Blogs
120. Blogs by Women
121. FeedBomb
122. Jordo Media
123. Blogtastic
124. The Blog Resource
125. Blog Scholar
126. News Net Plus
127. Rojo
128. Feedminer
129. RSSFeed.org
130. Feed Nation
131. Feeds2Read
132. FeedPub
133. Bloggoriffic
134. Feed Park
135. The House of Blogs
135. Finding Blog
136. Blog Top Sites
137. Google BlogSearch
138. Blog Sweet
139. BlogFlux
140. The Vital
141. 5 Star Blogs
142. Bulletize
143. RSS Mad
144. Blog Bunch
145. Feedshot
146. Blog BiB
147. Blog Explosion
148. Blogion
149. Blogazoo
150. Blog Directory Sumit
151. Bloggeries
152. Blog Soldiers
153. About
154. Blog Clicker
155. Blog Advance
156. Industry Blogs

The list was collected by Orange County SEO Expert, Steve Wiideman.

If you find any broken link or any new great site to submit to, please do tell me.

technorati tags: blog, blogging, blogs, weblog, rss, xml, syndicate

Blogging for Money or Just The Fame?

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:02:00 +0000

I guess every thing relateds to blogs have been gaining popularity more and more and I don't know when it's gonna reach a stagnation. I'm hoping not in sometimes around :p

The blogosphere in getting larger and larger and so does the companies that support blogs, like blog providers, blog engines, company that provides ads for blogs, company that meets blogger with company who wants a review, like reviewme.com, etc.

This is might seems popular right now, but only a few doing it right and really thinks this really works, not just some scams. Survival to the fittest :p To think that blogging or any kind of online activities can also make you money is a point. Many bloggers already done that, like problogger.net. Well one simple and effective way to avoid all those scams is when you think the program is just too good to be true, just say goodbye. No pain No gain. That's all I can say.

When you see some famous blogs you can tell the content is what really matters. Some of them even don't have any kind of design and just playing it simple and clean. But that doesn't mean that design is not an important aspect. Blog is a media so the content is VIP. Because it's a media it can really effect people just like tv and other media. So the content is the one that making all that money. It's funny not all of them is real writer and they can beat real writer in earning. It's not easy to live with a writer's paycheck. Like many artists little will succeed and it takes the right writing to make a hit.

As a media that means you can use your blog to promote anything. From yourself, your house, your books, your company, your works, even other sites, other products, etc. As long it's a good content anyone will read it and even thinking buying the products you've mentioned. That's why having great contents can get you money from ads and reviews.

What I am trying to say is that you can choose to blog for money and fame at the same time. Since your money is coming from your fame (but you still can stay anonymously if you prefer to). However it's gonna be hard on you if you choose to blog for money without the fame.

technorati tags: blogs, blogging, weblog, make+money make+money+online, money, living, media, popularity

AdSense for Search

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000

This an introduction video for the new improved Adsense for Search. This a new feature that allows you to control your Google custom search engine to bring more relevant search and ads. You even can define the sources of your searching.

I haven't tried it, but I'm intrigued by the video :P

technorati tags: adsense, google, google+adsense, make+money+blogging, youtube, video+tutorial

Meet an AdSense Publisher: Tim Carter

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:22:00 +0000

If you're not sure about using Adsense can give you money try watching this video and meet a successful Adsense publisher, Tim Carter. Tim is the founder of AskTheBuilder.com and had used Adsense for years. Well, it might inspired your Adsense earning :)

technorati tags: adsense, google, google+adsense, make+money+blogging, youtube, video+tutorial

Demo: Managing Ads

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:19:00 +0000

This is another demo to make your life with Adsense easier. Now you can manage ads that you have created before with out doing all the code generating all over again. All you have to do is log on to Adsense and manage your ads. After you made the appropriate changes it will take around 10 minutes to see the changes being applied.

technorati tags: adsense, google, google+adsense, make+money+blogging, youtube, video+tutorial

Demo: Generating Ad Code

noreply@blogger.com (retsu782000) — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:17:00 +0000

Thia demo will show you how to get your Adsense code. This is really a newbie video, but it's simple and very well made. Try and watch it if you still looking your way with Adsense.

technorati tags: adsense, google, google+adsense, make+money+blogging, youtube, video+tutorial