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Prozine v1

2010-09-22T05:34:00.001-07:00

LK Magazine v3

2010-09-22T05:33:00.002-07:00

3Pictsel

2010-09-22T05:33:00.001-07:00

GamePro

2010-09-22T05:31:00.000-07:00

Screw Driver

2010-09-22T05:30:00.000-07:00

You need a screw driver for all those bolts! This new Blogger template features a very unique design of iron and bolts. This template can be used for most types of blogs.

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Ancient Blog

2010-09-22T05:17:00.000-07:00

Ancient Blog is a beautiful Blogger template. It has an old style with a wooden look. It has twitter, email and an RSS chicklet too. This template quite suitable for most personal blogs.

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Add "TWEET THIS" button to blogger.

2010-09-22T05:15:00.002-07:00

As per the http://en.wikipedia.org Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access.

I have seen "Tweet This" button on most of the blogs. Also some of our blogger friends inquired about it. I have found a Java Script created by Bit. Adding Tweet This will make your blog posts available for wider audiences. Here is a Live Demo.

So let's add this to you blog.

Method 1 (using a Java Script created by Bit.)

Login to blogger and backup your template. Go to Layout > Edit HTML and click on "Expand widget templates". Press CTRL F and look for following code

Then add following code AFTER above code

2. Full Button Right Side of Post

3. Compact Button Left Side of Post

4. Compact Button Right Side of Post

Now add any ONE of the above four code

AFTER

or

BEFORE

Remember to change your_twitter_user_name with your tweeter user name.

Add Google Buzz Buttons with Share Counter to Your Blogger Blog in One Step.

2010-09-22T05:14:00.002-07:00

You have Tweeter, you have Facebook an now it is time of Buzzing! And it is from our Google. Google launched it's social networking and messaging tool on Feb 2010. You can share links, text images, videos using Buzz. As per Wikipedia - Buzz enables users to choose to share publicly with the world or privately to a group of friends each time they post. And you have seen Buzz It buttons on the most of the blogs. now let's add to your blog.

Login to Blogger > Layout > Edit HTML > Expand Widget Templates. Look for the code

Now choose your any one of the following code and place AFTER

Code-

right;margin-top:-42px;'>

Code-

right;margin-top:-42px;'>

OR

Code from LeBlogger

Using the code user can select any text and/or image of the post and then can click on Buzz It button and that part will be posted. Here is the code

right;margin-top:-42px;'>

DEMO of This Google Buzz Button.

You can Change alignment and top margin of these buttons by altering value in red.

Finally save your Template.

Add "AddThis" Bookmarking & Social Sharing button to Blogger blogs

2010-09-22T05:14:00.001-07:00

Adding "AddThis" Bookmarking & Social Sharing button to Blogger blogs is very easy.

LIVE DEMO

Go to www.addthis.com

Select your blogging platform. Then select your button/toolbox style. More options are available on gallery page. Click on "Get the Code".

Now go to your Blogger dashboard >> Design >> Edit HTML >> Expand Widget Templates.

Press CTRL F and look for

Now copy the AddThis Button code you have got and paste AFTER any of above code. Save Template.

Add ‘Orkut Share’ Button to your Blogger Blogs

2010-09-22T05:12:00.000-07:00

Orkut has released its new Share application programming interface. This interface allows you to share and promote your blog posts with your friends on Orkut. In this post I will explain you about adding Orkut Share’ Button to your Blogger Blogs.

Live Demo of Orkut Share buttotn

Step 1
Login to Blogger Dashboard >> Design >> Edit HTML >> Expand Widget Templates.

Press CTRL F and look for

Now add following code ABOVE

Step 2
Now look for

or

And add following code BELOW it.

It's done. Save your template.

Credits: Thanks to www.orkutplus.net for this nice Orkut Share button.

How to Track your blog's traffic ?

2010-09-20T12:19:00.000-07:00

So you have setup a blog at Blogger successfully and also have started getting good traffic.

Now you want to track the visitors of your blog and thinking of adding a Tracker.

It's always good to track your visitors,so that you can know what is the source of your traffic.If it's from search engines what are the keywords for which you are getting more traffic.

The Best Free Tracker I think is "Google Analytics".

It keeps a complete track of the visitors of your blog like source,referring sites, region/country,keyword,etc.

Here is a step-by-step guide for how to add Google Analytics to your Blogger Blog.-

Just login to your account at Google Analyitcs.
Click on Add Website Profile.
Enter the URL of your blog and your country.
Now you will get a java code for tracking your blog.
Now login to you Blogger account > Layout > Edit HTML.
Scroll to the bottom, and paste it just above the closing body tag.
That's it you have added successfully a Google Analytics code to your blog, click the finish button and wait for few minutes for Google to find that code and it will start tracking your blog's visitors.

Google Analytics reports your visitors usually the next day,like on 9th you will get to see report of your blog's visitors on 8th.

But still it's the best,because it's the standard of all.

Increase traffic to your Blogger blog with Google Webmaster Tools

2010-09-20T12:18:00.000-07:00

Google the biggest search engine on the web , and you can get your blog indexed at Google Search Engine by using Google Webmaster's Tools.

You can use these Webmaster's Tools using your Google Account.Just visit the link above after you have logged into your blogger account.

Just add you blog's URL in the "Click here to add site box" and press "Add Site".

Next Step is to verify your blog.

In the "Choose Verification Method" box,select "Add a meta tag".

Now you will get a code looking like this-

Copy this code and goto your Blogger's-

Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML.

Look for this tag - "" and place the code below this tag. and click "Save Template"

Now in your Webmaster's Tools page click the verify button and yoy will see a page saying your site is verified.

Adding Blogger Blog's Sitemap to Google Webmaster's Tools.

Now this is the important step and also quite difficult if you donot know how to create a sitemap for your Blogger Blog.

Now just goto your Google Webmaster's Tools Dashboard and click on add option below sitemap.

It will ask you to choose type .... select "Add General Web Sitemap"

Now just add "atom.xml" besides your blog address like this -

http://yourblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Click "Add General Web Sitemap" and your sitemap is added to Google without anymore hassels.

By submitting your sitemap to Google you tell the Google Search Engine more about your blog,the pages it's having and it's content,helping you index more pages from your Blogger blog into Google Search Results, ultimately getting you more visitors.

As this a feed sitemap you need not update it manually, it will get updated automattically whenever you make new posts.

How to check whether your site is indexed in Google Search Engine or not ?

Here is a simple method - goto Google.com and search for "site:YOURBLOG.blogspot.com" and you can know whether your site is indexed in Google or not and if it's indexed then how many pages are indexed in Google Search Engine.

How to increase Google PageRank of your Blogger Blog ?

2010-09-20T12:17:00.000-07:00

You would like to read 'What is Google PageRank?' first.

Now that you know something about what Google PageRank is, here are some tips for you to increase PageRank of your Blogger blog.

After reading the article about Google PageRank ,you would have understood that you have to increase the number of quality links to your blog. But at the same time you sholud try avoiding linking to sites that are not related to yours.(e.g your Make Money Online blog linking to any games or any music blog will affect adversely your Google Pagerank.)

So, here are some popular tactics to increase your Google PageRank -

1. Reciprocal Link Exchange -

It is the most popular tactic used by the webmasters to increase the pagerank of their sites. Here you exchange links with other blogs of related niche i.e. you place link to a blog on your blog and in turn ask that blog-owner to place your link on his site.

It can be of two types -

Two way link exchange or
Three way link exchange

In two way link exchange, you link to the same blog where your link is placed. While in three way link exchange, you link to one blog and in turn the owner places your link on some other blog but not on the same blog.

Precautions -

The most important one - exchange links with related blogs only.
Avoid excessive link exchange. Google is strictly against excessive reciprocal link exchange.

2. One-way BackLinks -

It is getting backlinks to your blog without linking that blog in turn. But question is 'How to get quality one-way backlinks?'.

The simplest answer is 'Write quality content', and if it's really good other bloggers will link back to your blog getting you one-way backlinks.

The other methods by which you can get quality backlinks are -

I - Top Commentator - Search for blogs with 'Top Commentator' plugin installed(Google for "Top Commentators"). And make some related quality comments on their blog and get placed on thier 'Top Commentator' list.(Usually the links in the "top commentators' list are 'dofollow' in most blogs.)

II - Comment on Dofollow blogs - Recently there has been some revolution in blogging and many bloggers have removed the 'nofollow' attribute from their comments,in order to encourage comments on their blog.Now you get a backlink whenever you comment on such 'dofolow' blogs with your url.
But the tough part is to find the 'dofollow' blogs of related niche.You can Google for terms like "U Comment I Follow',"Dofollow blogs list' etc.

III - Posting on Forums - This one is also very effective.Many forums allow signatures at end of post of user,thus getting you a backlink.But you should take precaution to post on forums related to your niche only,,otherwise it won't help you.

IV - Submitting to Directories - This can get you some backlinks,but it's very time-consuming.Also your links are placed very deep not giving you much benefit. The only directory I would recommend is DMOZ, but it's very difficult to get yourself listed at DMOZ.

V - Submitting to Social Bookmarking Sites - This one I really missed,thanks 'FADI' for reminding me about it.What you can do is , then submit your posts to these bookmarking sites yourself or your readers can submit it. This will get your blog some links,but all these links will be placed deep, thus passing very less pagerank to your blog. But I think something is better than nothing and also these social bookmarking sites can get you some visitors as well.

At present I am remembering of these methods only,I'll update this post if I remember any more.

Also if you would like to add any method or suggest any coorection , plz leave a comment and I'll make suitable changes in post.

Google PageRank explained in a simple way.

2010-09-20T12:15:00.000-07:00

Everybody using internet is aware of the power of Google.Google is everywhere whether its search engine, email, social networking, online marketing, blogging etc.

But most important of all these is it's search engine which share approximately 60% of all searches made all over the world.This explains the importance of rank SERP (Search Engine Results Page) fo Google.The higher the ranking on SERP the more free visitors you will get from Google.

While displaying the results for a particular query Google takes into consideration a lot of factors.

Two most impotant factors being (source - Google's Corporate Information) -

PageRank Technology
Hypertext-Matching Analysis.

Now here comes the importance of Google PageRank.

What is Google PageRank?

According to Google - PageRank is Google's view of importance of a webpage. Pagerank is given out of 10.

Thus a webpage with a higher pagerank will be more important in view of Google as compared to the one with lower pagerank. Hence, a webpage with a better pagerank will get higher position in the SERP.
e.g. A webpage with Google PageRank of 5/10 will be more important and hence placed higher in Google SERP than the webpage with Google PageRank of 3/10.

How does Google determines a PageRank for any webpage ?

Lets see what Google says -

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important".

So Google takes into account the backlinks each webpage gets from different other webpages. Each backlink a webpage gets is considered as a vote by Google in the favour that webpage. But at the same time Google also analyzes the webpage from which a baclink is given.

Let's examine the following figure for some better understanding -

In the above figure A,B,C,D,E and F are different webpages. Here you can see that page C has got a higher pagerank than page E,even though it have fewer links as compared to page E. It's because of the importance of the page from which page C is receiving a link and also the number of outbound links from that page. In the above case as you can see page B has got most importance and is having only one outbound link to page C, so upto 90% of its PageRank is carried to page C.

In the essence, a page with higher baklinks from quality pages (those with higher pagerank) will have a better pagerank.

Thus, improving your Google PageRank helps you by getting you more visitors through search engines and ultimately can result into a better revenue from your website/blog.

How to FeedBurner's email subscription and feed-count chicklet to Blogger blog ?

2010-09-20T12:14:00.000-07:00

You can see that I have put a FeedBurner's email subscription form with the feed count chicklet on my blog on top of my right sidebar.It's one of the popular method to promote your blog and to make some ersious long-term loyal reader's for your blog.

I've chosen FeedBurner because it's very popular and simple to use and also provides a host of services to help you keep track of your feeds.

So to add it to your blog, first register an account with Feedburner.

After registering an account successfully with FeedBurner, you will see following screen, enter your Blog url as mentioned below.

Click 'Next', keep the settings as it is which come in next pages and go on clicking "Next", until you get this screen.

Once you get this screen, goto 'Publicize' and look for 'Email Subscriptions' on left menu -

Click 'Activate' and copy the code from the next screen.

Similarly look for 'Feed Count' below it and choose your favourite colour and save and get code.

Now place the code on your blog wherever you want it.

What is Entrecard ? How does it help ?

2010-09-20T12:10:00.001-07:00

Entrecard is basically a Blogging network, encouraging bloggers to check out other's blogs.

Here you visit other Entrecard user's Blog and drop your card, which shows the blog owner that you visited his blog. Similarly, if other bloggers visit your blog and drop their card, you get to know that they visited your blog.

It is really a very useful way to get good early traffic to your new blog. We all know that how frustrating it can be to see low traffic figures for our new blog instead of writing some good content. As you can see, I am also using Entrecard in my sidebar.

They also have a currency at Entrecard - Entrecard Credits (EC).

You get 1 EC for each card you drop at other's blog.You also get EC for showing other Entrecard user's adverts using 'Entrecard Widget'. These EC for adverts depends upon how long is the waiting list for advertising on your blog and also on your blog's PR and Alexa Rank.

Now by collecting these EC's you can buy the advert's on other user's blogs and get some traffic for your blog.

And if you cant wait for the EC's to accumulate slowly, you can buy more EC's at following rates -

1000 Entrecard Credits - USD$9.50
5000 Entrecard Credits - USD$47.50
10000 Entrecard Credits - USD$95.00

So, in the essence, if your blog is new and you want some good early traffic, you should really give a try to Entrecard.

What is Alexa rank ? How accurate is it ?

2010-09-20T11:55:00.000-07:00

It is a subsidiary company of Amazon.com which ranks different websites based on the traffic for that site.

The Alexa rank is taken as standard on many advertising networks for accepting new publishers e.g. Text Link Ads, Pay Per Post etc.

How "Accurate" is Alexa rank ?

No lets first see how Alexa works and how does it ranks sites.

Alexa ranks websites based on the visits by internet users using Alexa Toolbar to any site. The important point is Alexa does not take into account the visits by users not using Alexa Toolbar.

I just compared two of my sites, one site was related to Bollywood and other related to Blogging and Webmaster resources. As per Google Analytics daily visitors for my Bollywood related site was 2000 and that for Blogging and Webmaster resources related site was 1300. But the Alexa rank for my Bollywood site was >100,000 and that for Blogging related site was between 80,000-85,000.

Now lets see why is it like this - it is less likely that visitors for Bollywood site having Alexa Toolbar installed as compared to visitors for Blogging site who are mostly webmasters and having Alexa Toolbar installed. So although my Bollywood site get more visitors but still have less Alexa rank as compared to Blogging site.

Thus you can see how 'Accurate' is Alexa rank.

One more fact about Alexa tooolbar - it is considered as a spyware, adware software by many Antivirus programmes. McAfee detects Alexa toolbar as an adware, 'Potentially Unwanted Programme'.

Many other security softwares also detect Alexa Toolbar as an adware and spyware.

But still many sites consider Alexa rank as standard.

Mysterious Trip

2010-09-20T04:19:00.002-07:00

Description

DEMO: Mysterious Trip in Blogspot
Author:
Designer: Desktop Chaos Design
Views: 3,156

Azurepress

2010-09-20T04:19:00.001-07:00

Description

DEMO: Azurepress in Blogspot
Author:
Designer: Desktop Chaos Design
Views: 348

Romance

2010-09-20T04:17:00.000-07:00

Description

DEMO: Romance in Blogspot
Author:
Designer: Ayliak Design
Views: 1,551
Added: Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 at 11:14 am

Basicpress

2010-09-19T02:05:00.001-07:00

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DEMO: Basicpress in Blogspot
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Designer: Desktop Chaos Design
Views: 1,201
Added: Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 at 11:20 am

Vermillionpress

2010-09-19T02:04:00.000-07:00

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DEMO: Vermillionpress in Blogspot
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Designer: Desktop Chaos Design
Views: 431
Added: Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 at 11:25 am

iMovies

2010-09-19T02:03:00.002-07:00

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DEMO: iMovies in Blogspot
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Designer: Ayliak Design
Views: 1,733
Added: Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 at 12:07 pm

Future Abstract

2010-09-19T02:03:00.001-07:00

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DEMO: Future Abstract in Blogspot
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Designer: Ayliak Design
Views: 339
Added: Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 at 12:17 pm