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Ultimate ways to make money by blogging

2013-08-17T22:06:00.000+05:30

If you want to make money online from your blog. You work many hours to develop your blog but are not earning anything then this post is ultimately going to help you. This post will also cover the different ways to earn money online.

Ad platforms or advertising programs:

Google Adsense is the best online advertising program. This is very easy to setup for your blog. You just have to sign up for Google Adsense and they will check your blog and if they found the content is original and not illegal then they will approve your account and will give you the code that you have to paste on your blog. Even it is very simple on Blogger blogs to have Google Adsense on their blog.

Read more about more advertising platforms. More than 30 advertising programs are listed there.

Selling ad spaces or private sponsorship: Private ads are those ads which you got personally from a website or company who want to be advertised on your blog. Means you can sale a ad space of your blog in sidebar, footer or header or even between posts. You can sponsor a website or a company on your blog and they will give you a monthly or annual fees. This way of earning is sure and does not depend on clicks. For private ads you should first increase your Alexa rank and visitors. So that people can take interest on sponsoring their product or website on your blog.

You can take help of these websites:

BlogToProfit

Affiliate Programs: Affilate programs are promoting other people's product on your blog or providing their link on your blog. Some websites give upto 50% commission to the people who are affiliating their products

Amazon: Amazon associates is the most popular affiliates program out there.
TXT180
iDevAffiliate
CafePress: CafePress sales the customized and personalized T-Shirts. They give a good commission to their partners of affiliate program.
Themeforest: Themeforest sales templates for all leading blogging platforms. Mostly all templates cost more than $10 and they give commission of about 30% to 50%.
For Indian bloggers: FlipKart, Shaadi.com, Yatra.com, IndiaTimes, IndiaMart, Naukri.com, BharatMatrimoney

Affiliate Networks:

Commision Junction
Google Affiliate Network
LinkShare
ShareASale
PeerFly
NeverBlue
MaxBounty
ClixGalore
ClickBank

Selling e-Products: You can sale such type of eProducts on your websites:

eBooks: If you are a good writer and have knowledge then you can use that by selling eBooks on your blog or on Amazon, Kindle Store etc. You can use PayPal to create shopping cart on your blog. For example if your blog is about like technology like ours. Then you can create an original eBook with your knowledge and can sale that on your blog.
Software: If you are a software developer then you can sale your software for some price on your own blog or on software downloads websites like CNET or Softonic
Logos or Designs: If you are illustrator, then you can create a page on your blog where people can order to create logo or advertisement for them and in return you can have money from them.

Guest Posts: There are some blogs by making posts on which you can earn good money. Below is a list of some blogs on which you can make good earnings by making guest posts:

TheTechLabz: TechLabs is my favorite because every blogger can make post on it because of large number of categories available on this blog for posts. They pay good amount of money to the guest bloggers about 50 dollars.
451Press
LinkPost
About.com
Blogitive
DeveloperTutorials: This blog pays about 20 to 80 dollors per guest blog but for posting on this blog you should have good knowledge of programming languages.
Tutorial Board
DigitalJournal: DigitalJournal shares a part of ads revenue to the guest bloggers.
WP Web Host: If you are an experienced and talented WordPress user then by making guest posts on this blog is a good idea for you.
Pro Blog Designs
Flash Mint: On Flash Mint as name suggest you can only post on tutorials about Adobe Flash.
MoneyTalksNews
WeBlogs Inc.

Donation Button: There are some good people in world who want to share some of their income to the people who helped them. A PayPal donation button on your blog can help them. Create account on PayPal and put a donation button on your blog. If someone love your blog and he like to read your posts, She or he can donate for your blog.

Get paid to review products or services:

ReviewMe: Review products and make money online.
SponsoredReviews: Similar to ReviewMe

BlogBurner: On this blog you make posts and they will put your own Google Adsense ads on the posts you made on BlogBurner.

WiseBread: They give the 100% of ad revenue of your post to you. Somehow similar to BlogBurner.

DayTipper: They pay 3 dollars for each original and helpful tip

nRelate Partners Program: You should use this program not for earning but for showing related posts to the post which the reader have read. nRelate provides a widget similar to Linked Within that shows related posts. You can connect your PayPal account with the nRelate and can show ads in related posts.

No country redirect for blogger

2013-08-17T19:16:00.000+05:30

Don't like Blogger's default country redirect then this post is going to help you a lot. Google is updating Blogger daily and many new features has been introduced or going to be introduced. One is automatic country domain redirect. Go through the post and you will find for what you were searching for.

What is country redirect: When someone visit your Blogger blog she or he is redirected to her/his country's local domain, for example, if your blog is http://yourblogsubdomain.blogspot.com, and if someone visited the blog from India, then the blog will be automatically redirected to http://yourblogsubdomain.blogspot.in. This is the Blogger's service of auto country redirect.

Why country redirect is implemented by Google in Blogger: Google says that they are providing this service so that they can manage and provide the content locally. You can read more about why country redirect on Blogger on Google answers.

Solution from Google: If you want to visit a blog on .com then you have to type /ncr after the blog's URL. For example, http://yourblogsubdomain.blogspot.com/ncr.

Why you should remove country redirect from Blogger?: Here are some reasons for you for removing auto country redirect from your blog.

Low number of backlinks: If someone share your blog's link on his website or blog, she or he will copy that from address bar and will paste on his website, therefore using your blog's local domain of their country. This link will not counted as backlink to your blog's international domain i.e. on .com. Google pagerank also depends on backlinks to your blog, therefore auto country redirect also influences your page rank.
High Alexa rank: No country redirect also help you increase your Alexa rank. Because Alexa rank is different for different URLs. This is the reason why Google is on number two (Facebook is on number one) in Alexa ranking, because Google has local domains for many countries like http://www.google.co.in in India. Therefore their visitors will be counted separately and they will be provided different ranks on Alexa. http://www.google.com is ranked 2 while http://www.google.co.in is ranked between 5th to 10th position, if the visitors of these domains are totalled then Google will be on 1st position.
Your other personal reason: You can have your own personal reason like you are confused with using different URLs and SEO optimization.

How to remove country redirect from Blogger?: If you have decided to remove auto country redirect from your blog, then you can follow the following steps to do so.

Go to Blogger, then to your blog
From dashboard, go to template.
Now click on edit HTML
Find <head>. You can do this by pressing Ctrl + F and typing <head>
Now paste the following code below <head> tag
<script type='text/javascript'> var blog = document.location.hostname; var slug = document.location.pathname; var ctld = blog.substr(blog.lastIndexOf(".")); if (ctld != ".com") { var ncr = "http://" + blog.substr(0, blog.indexOf(".")); ncr += ".blogspot.com/ncr" + slug; window.location.replace(ncr); } </script>
Save the template.

Everything is done. Now you will be automatically redirected to the international domain or URL. Therefore stopping country redirect.

Which template is best for a blog?

2013-08-17T16:48:00.001+05:30

Created a new blog or want to change your current blog's template. If you are thinking that which template should be installed on your blog, then this post is definitely going to help you. Never install a template on your blog without reading this post.

If you are going to select a template by just taking a look on the design. Then stop, because a good template doesn't mean just the good design. There are the things that should be given more priority over design. If you are going to install a template, then please check these things in the template.

SEO optimization: This factor should get most of your priority, because if your blog is not SEO optimized then your blog will not get the traffic that your blog deserves and remember your blog's design will not make your blog appeared in searches. Some templates are very good in design but are not SEO optimized and after installing these types of templates, your blog may be disappeared from the results or will be ranked lower.

The search engines are changing their system of crawling every day. The search queries i.e. the text that people search in Google or in other search engines should be your priority. A SEO optimized template should be:

making good use of meta tags like keywords, description and title.
making use of h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6 tags. Post and page titles that are most important should be with h2 tags. While sidebar gadgets titles should use h4 tags. Blog title or name should be with h1 tag.
Free from bad HTML structure. Search engines are also checking these things now. You can check the HTML improvements in Google Webmasters Tools.
Free from malware: Some templates have malware in their codes. Never download and install templates from untrusted sources or websites. These templates will put your blog in Google's black list. They will never crawl or index your blog and your blog will have no traffic.

Easy navigation: Your blog's template should offer easy navigation to your visitors. Easy navigation also depend on your blog's template. For easy navigation check these things in your blog's template.

Multi-level page menu: Page menu, generally a bar at top of your blog, or sometime in sidebar, is the thing that should be considered. A multi-level page menu is recommended because it makes the navigation of your blog very easy. If your blog has many categories, a multi-level page menu help you lot to give link to your pages or posts. For example, if your blog is about a sport, your page menu on first level can have 'Teams', on second level, 'Asia' then on third level 'India' and other Asian teams. This will make your navigation very easy.
Simple layout: your template should have simple layout so that people on your blog don't get confused. Never use a template with bad layout.

Page load time: This factor also must be considered, if your blog takes lot of seconds to load, then people will not browse your blog anymore. you can check your page load time. Follow these steps to check the page load time.

Use incognito window of your browser or delete the cache from browser's history before loading the template's demo second time. Internet browsers save the images, texts, JavaScript, and many other things of a website to make you browse faster. Therefore when you browse a website second time, the website does not take the time to be loaded because the browser don't downloads the things again making the surf faster.
There are many online tools to check the page load time. You can check StatsCrop. In these tools the page load time should be less than 2 seconds. You can check your website or blog's speed or page loading time at http://www.statscrop.com/tools/website-speed

Design: Yes, this factor should be considered also for making your blog professional, eye catching and friendly. A good design increases direct traffic to your blog. A good design means:

Good Fonts: A good designed template should have good fonts. Good fonts are simple, good looking, and easy to read. The fonts which are complex and it is not very easy to read them.
Colors: A good theme should have colors that suits your eyes like green, blue or orange.

Browser Compatibility: Your template should be compatible to all leading and popular internet browsers. At least your blog's template should be compatible to these browsers:

Google Chrome: This Google's browser is used mostly in the world. However almost every template is compatible with this browser.
Mozilla Firefox: Your template should be compatible with Mozilla Firefox because it is also one of the best internet browsers in the world. Mozilla firefox is the default browser in mostly linux based operating systems like Ubuntu.
Internet Explorer: Mostly compatibility issues come from this Microsoft software. Because it is default internet browser of Microsoft Windows, your template should be compatible with this browser.
Safari: This software is default for Mac users. Therefore compatibility issues should also be checked with this browser. Because all Apple computers have Mac OS.

Advertising Spots: Whichever template you chose should have good ad spots. This is very required to increase your revenue. If your template don't have good ad spots then they will not be well visible to the visitors. Good ad spots are:

In the side of title of your blog
Above post title
Below post title
In the end of post
Your template should have a sidebar to put ad.

Some trusted and free sources for templates for a Blogger blog:

Templateism
bTemplates

Google Adsense and all alternatives

2013-08-15T17:49:00.000+05:30

If your blog is older than six months and having traffic on it then why are you not earning money using Google Adsense or other platforms. This post will cover all the issues regarding Google Adsense and other Alternatives.

Google Adsense: Google Adsense is the most reliable, most popular, most loved by advertisers and publishers. Google Adwords is most trusted by advertisers who want to advertise their product or want to advertise their website. You earn more than any other ad platforms per click by Google Adsense, that is, the CPC is highest. Before you can put the ads on your website or blog you need to have your account approved on most of the platforms including Google Adsense. Google have strict policy for web publishers and thats why it is most trusted by advertisers. When you apply for approval from Google Adsense your account is reviewed by Google Engineers after sometime (24-48 hours). Your website should should not have adult content or copyrighted content. Your website should not have links that are involved in piracy or malware distribution. After approval of your account the ads start to be displayed. Google Adsense displays contextual ads for Google Search Engine.

What is best about Google Adsense:

Google Adsense pays more than any other advertising platform. CPC is highest.
Google Adsense has most easy payment methods including International Cheque.
Google Adsense is the most trusted and popular platform.
Google Adsense will display ads of your own choice and related to your content.
You don't have to pay a fee for registration.
You don't need to have traffic or visitors on your website for approval. But you need that to earn.
Google Adsense also show ads on mobiles, therefore maximizing your earnings.

What are the problems:

They are very strict to the content of your website and your activities.
A single click by you even by mistake is enough to disapprove your account.
A person can make your ads disappear from your blog by clicking the ads frequently.

We recommend you follow the following things before registering for Google Adsense:

Read Google Adsense Policy and Terms and Conditions.
You should be over eighteen years old.
Your blog's primary language should be in English.
Recommended that your blog become 3 months older or more than that.
It is recommended that you don't use other ad platforms however it is allowed by Google Adsense.
The theme or template of your blog should be good looking and interconnecting to your pages.
Create contact and about pages for your blog in which you describe what about your is and what type of text or content it have. Include your gmail using which your are registering on Google Adsense in about or contact page Contact page will also make your blog trusted by Google.
Your blog or website should not have other's copyrighted item.
Your blog should not promote anything illegal.
Your blog should have atleast some content, We recommend at least 30 to 40 posts.
Your blog should should not have paid traffic.
You should use your personal computer on which you trust that no one will click your own ads.

Remember these things after being approved from Google Adsense:

Google Adsense shows 3 ads per account on web page.
Never click your own ads, even by mistake. A single click will be considered invalid activity and your account will be dis-approved for always.
Follow the Google Adsense Policy.
Never ask the visitors to click on ads. This will make your account disapproved.

Other top advertising platforms that may be the alternatives of Google Adsense: However Google Adsense is best and no other platform is better or equal to this platform, but if you blog or website can not approved by Google Adsense due to its content or was disapproved for invalid activity, these are the top advertising platforms after Google Adsense.

Media.NET for yahoo and bing: Media.NET is the best alternative for Google Adsense and the second most popular ads platform. Media.NET shows contextual ads for Yahoo! Search and Bing from Microsoft. The policy of Media.NET is similar to Google Adsense but you should have atleast more than 100 visitors per day and more than 500 page views. Your content should be hight quality. Media.NET pays by PayPal, by Bank Transfer and Cheque. Getiing your account approved is difficult.
Chitika: Chitika is one of the best alternatives of Google Adsense but their is a problem. Chitika will not pay you money for the ad clicks from India or Pakistan and your blog or website should have traffic from countries like USA or Canada, because Chitika mostly shows ads from shopping websites that delivers their products mostly to these countries. Chitika is similar to Google Adsense in way of choosing type of ads to display on your blog or website.
Bidvertiser:
SiteScout formerly AdBrite
Kontera: Kontera is very similar to other ad platform Infolinks, because the type of ads which is in-text is very similar to Infolinks.
Admaya.IN: AdMaya shows ads from India but is available for bloggers from any country and pays about 1 to 2 rupees (INR) per click. AdMaya is easy to install on any blog. AdMaya shows very few ads. The ads are from Indian websites like shaadi.com or naukri.com. However getting your website approved is very easy.

Some other advertising platforms:

Infolinks: Infolinks pays a very little ammount of money to the publishers. But infolinks have good types of ads. Infolinks can show good results for websites or blogs with high traffic becuase the number of ad click and views are higher than any other advertising platform. You can put ads in the your own text and that will look like double underlined hyperlinks. Infolinks have many methods to pay the publishers like PayPal
IntelliLinks
SkimLinks
Triable FUSION: Their expectations are very high, and they need about half a million unique visitors from your website, frequent updations i.e. posting, good design, privacy policy page, top level of own domain i.e should not be based on blogspot or wordpress but if your website meets all these requirements you can try this platform. However pay per click of Triable FUSION is very high i.e. almost equal to Google Adsense.
Technorati Media: Newly launched advertising platform for bloggers.
B4PSAds
FXOpen
Vibrant Media
ValueClickMedia or FastClick: It is also a good alternative. FastClick make your earnings faster.
AdDynamo.NET: AdDynamo is also a good alternative of Google Adsense. AdDynamo approves almost every application in short time. Their policy is very simple to follow and they also pay for tweets. AdDynamo is Africa's leading advertising platform.
Adside
Reachli
ZEDO
Link Worth
Clicksor: Your account will get approval in the first time and the website don't need any traffic even less than Google Adsense. Ads are in text and pop-up windows.
Quadabra
Dynamic Oxygen
Exit Junction
ContextWeb
Adversal: If you want to take benefit of this platform your website or blog should have some traffic from western countries.
BuySellAds
Text-Link-Ads
iSocket
NuffNang
Affinity
Ambient DIGITAL
PopAds

This post was about:
What should or should not with Google Adsense.

More than 30 (1 + 6 + 27 = 34) or 30+ advertising platforms for website or blog owners.

Alternatives of Google Adsense.

How to earn money using your online content or blog.

Remember:
Google Adsense is best and never loose it.
Don't keep this thing in mind that how the positions of ad platforms are sorted in this page.
We at TechiMen are not showing ads because we are struggling for visitors and the blog is new. And after TechiMen will become much older and start getting traffic, we will have ads on it.

If you know about more good ad platforms, comment below.

Shortcut file properties in windows

2013-08-14T21:59:00.002+05:30

Want to create a shortcut file in Microsoft Windows so that it open a specific file in a specific software? Also you can open a file with the shortcut key. Yes you can create a Windows shortcut file to open a file in a software. For example if you want to open a image file in png, gif, jpeg format in Adobe Photoshop or Inkscape, or you want to open a website in Google Chrome and another in Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer you can do that by creating different Microsoft Windows shortcut files. You just have to configure it.
Now see an example. E.g. you want to create a Windows shortcut file to open our blog in Internet Explorer: Just copy Internet Explorer's shortcut from desktop or from Start Menu. You can also create shortcut by copying any software's program file and then right clicking and selecting 'Paste Shortcut'. Now right click on shortcut file and select 'Properties'. You can do this by holding Alt on keyboard and double clicking the shortcut file with mouse. This is the properties window of shortcut file of Internet Explorer

Now in the 'Target" field just after the program's location press 'Space' and type our website's URL or copy http://techimen.blogspot.com and paste OR use your own file's or website's URL. NOTE: Never forget the space between the program's location and the file's location. The location of program is between "quotes" and the file's name is without "quotes" i.e. " " or ' '.

You can also create a shortcut key to launch the file or website by pressing Ctrl + Alt + YourChoiceLetter. For example, T. The complete shortcut key will be Ctrl + Alt + T. And this will launch TechiMen website or your choice's file.

This basic tutorial will help you to open different website's with their compatible browser. You can also use this trick to set some website your home page.

This tip will also help you to launch a file with a shortcut key. If you want to open a file you will not have reach its location and you will just open that by using your keyboard in seconds.

Metro Classic Template for Blogger

2013-08-12T19:27:00.001+05:30

Name of Blogger Template: Metro Classic Template

For: Gadgets, Technology, Geeks, Girls, Personal Blog, Product blog or website.

By: Templateism
Published: May, 2013

Description: The template has good and different colors. Colors are suitable for eyes and produces freshness. The publisher got the great idea of page menu and links at left side. Your sidebar will be on left side. At the top you will have announcement line announce what you want to announce from your blog or website. A great effect is seen when you hover over the page menu at left. The page menu has metro theme picture with the caption of pages. The template is compatible with all updated browsers We tested the template on Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Apple's Safari. Below announcement there is 'featured posts area' which can be customized by editing HTML of your template. The template is responsive that is when your browser's size is re-sized or on the smaller or bigger screens, the template adjusts the content of your blog to make it look perfect and the viewer don't have to scroll horizontally. However there are some cons of this template, which are, featured posts widget does not add the post automatically and you should have time and knowledge to edit the template's HTML.

Points to remember: In this template you can post image with any size but the width of images should be more than 700 pixels for no pixels blurring.

How to setup: There are no special widgets that you will have to setup and you can enjoy the template by just installing on blogger

Want to increase Alexa rank?

2013-08-12T18:30:00.002+05:30

Alexa is the website which is most popular for providing the rank of a website on the basis of traffic. Alexa say that they are 'The web information company.' Alexa rank doesn't help in increasing your traffic in any way. But there are many benefits of good Alexa ranking. Good Alexa ranking means the less rank. For example 1 is better than 2. However Alexa doesn't or we can say can't provide exact information on ranks or traffic stats. The ranks are determined on the visits of website through their system. We can say that they will have information of the visits if the visitor has Alexa extension installed on her/his computer.

Find TechiMen on Alexa to preview

How can Alexa rank help us?: Alexa rank doesn't help you increase your visitors or traffic stats but the good Alexa rank can help you in the following ways:

A good Alexa rank determines the status of your blog or website.
A good Alexa rank is the only way that can be a reason for the advertisers to contact you to show their ads on your website.
For other bloggers or web developers, Alexa rank will make them to exchange website or blog links.

How can we increase our Alexa rank?: The following steps will really help you to increase your Alexa rank. Check your Alexa rank today. Follow the following steps. Then check your rank after 15 days. You will find that the increase in your rank.

First of all install the Alexa extension i.e. Alexa toolbar (Download) to your computer.
Ask your visitors to install the toolbar.
Your own visits to your website or blog will also increase Alexa rank.
Ask your friends to download Alexa toolbar and make your website or blog their homepage.
Link Alexa on your blog or website by creating a post.
Number of your visitors increases Alexa rank. Increase your visitors.

Facebook likebox in lightbox for new visitor

2013-08-10T22:17:00.000+05:30

What if you ask your first time visitor on your website to like your Facebook page, about 90% people will exit and about 10% people will like your page. Your Facebook page's likes is the status of your page on Facebook. Isn't it? Yes it is this widget will help you little to increase likes. Even we used this for sometime to increase our likes on TechiMen but we later removed it for no reason. This widget help you make your blog more professional and good looking and the increase in your Facebook likes. The best thing is that this widget only ask to like those visitors who visit the blog or website for the first time. If somebody clicks anywhere except on likebox, the likebox lightbox disappears. The pop-up likebox also disappears when the page is refreshed/reloaded or F5 is pressed.

So let us come to the point 'how to install it on your Blogger blog?':
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger then to your blog
2. Now go to layout from dashboard.
3. If you already have HTML/JavaScript
OR
Click on Add Widget in any section "Sidebar or Footer" and select HTML/JavaScript
4. Now copy the script below (after changing 'TechiMen' with your Facebook page username or page id) and paste in the HTML/JavaScript widget

5. Now click on 'Save'.

Now the widget will work when somebody visits your blog or website first time or deletes its cache/cookies and browser history. I hope it works for you.

Free internet download managers

2013-08-09T16:44:00.001+05:30

If you are looking for a free alternative of Internet Download Manager then you come to the right post on TechiMen. IDM is very good software to download anything from internet more conveniently and faster than inbuilt downloader of your Internet Browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, IE, or Apple Safari). You can stop or pause download and then resume them. You can add downloads to list and then start downloading when you are not surfing internet. What do you feel when your download is about to complete then your internet connection lost and your download is broke, then you try to resume the download and your browser says that you have to download it again and the download can't be resumed. Its frustrating for you. Isn't for you? Yes it is. And what happens your system restarts or shuts down suddenly due to any reason (For example, Power reasons or any) Therefore here are the free alternatives of your favorite Internet Download Manager.

Following are the links of all top alternative softwares' official download pages.

Orbit Downloader

DAP or Download Accelerator Plus

FDM or Free Download Manager

Internet Download Accelerator

EagleGet Downloader

DAM (Download Accelerator Manager)

Go!Zilla

Mipony

FlashGet

Get Go Download Manager

JDownloader

FRD or Free Rapid Downloader

Remember many softwares mentioned above are newly launched and therefore may be charging money after sometime but most of them are free and will be free for download and distribution.

Cricket Mag Template for Blogger

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Name of Blogger Template: Cricket Mag

For: All blogs or websites which post news or articles about any sport specially cricket.

By: Templateism

Published: August, 2013

Description: The template is designed for the blogs which are about cricket. But the template can be customized for any sport. For example Soccer, Tennis, Basket Ball or any other sport in this world. The template can also be used for news blogs and websites. The template has green and black theme with a background picture in which there are bats, balls, and the wills. You can customize the background image by going to Template > Edit HTML. The template has a great looking social pages menu buttons that are very light gray colored and become colored and more stylish when mouse is hovered over the buttons. The template also serves featured posts, and most recent posts. Footer is designed perfectly like any professional template. The template also has 'Related Articles' widget below posts and 'Share it please' above posts by default. The template has great advertising spots where you can place your adsense widget/codes. Templateism claim that the template is not just 'SEO friendly' it is 'Highly SEO friendly' and will bring traffic quickly after you start posting. The pages menu at the top of template is the most interesting part of template because it is multi-level. For example you can place your pages like: Teams > South Asia > India. Things to remember: You can post images of any size but we recommend you to post images with ratio 59:44 (e.g. 590 X 440 or 1180 X 880). Don't try to extend the title of your posts more than 50 characters or less than 30 characters. How to setup: There are no instructions for 'How to setup' for this template.

Social sharing buttons floating bar

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This widget will the option for your visitors to share your posts on their social network. The widget has button for all popular social bookmarking websites. The widget is floating sidebar with the buttons of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIN, Pinterest, StumbleUpon and Reddit by default. You can also add Technorati by adding 'technorati' in script. See the post 'How social bookmarking can help you?'

Follow the below steps to install the widget:

1. Login your Blogger account and go to your blog.

2, Now go to the 'Layout' from dashboard.

3. Open any HTML/Javascript widget if you have already added some

OR if you don't have added any HTML/JavaScript widget

Add a gadget/widget in the sidebar.

4. And chose HTML/JavaScript

5. Now copy the following code:

6. Paste the code in the HTML?JavaScript widget and click save
7. Everything is done and you can now easily share your post to all the networks and your visitors can also share the posts.

You can preview the widget in action by clicking on the below button:

How to create video tutorials?

2013-08-04T21:06:00.004+05:30

Everyone want to make their technology website or blog more professional with video tutorials. But when it comes to 'How?' you will search a software that may help you. If you don't come to a software that can you help you then this post will help you with the software.

Screencast-O-Matic is the best free software I found on the web for recording your computer screen, audio from microphone, notes and from webcam. Best thing is that the software can create high quality videos and both free and paid versions are available. There is no watermark or advertisement in videos created by Screencast-O-Matic even in the free version.

Limitations of free version: You can keep only one video to be edited in the software. Don't get confuse with the production of software because software can produce unlimited videos for free but you can only keep a single video to be edited, for example, you can add notes etc. There are no more limitations in the free version. You can click 'Done with the video' to create more videos.

Features:

High quality videos.

Options of video size: HD, fullscreen and many.

We can show or hide mouse clicks, mouse cursor.

We can add notes.

We can pause recording.

The software is very easy to use and you will master it in very soon.

You can upgrade to paid version with lot of more features.

Tips:

You can create a channel on YouTube and upload your video tutorials to that.

Give link to your related post in the video and in the description on YouTube. This will help you increase visitors on your website.

Don't forget to embed the video in the related post.

Social bookmarking to increase website visitors

2013-08-04T20:27:00.002+05:30

Want visitors instantly for your new blog or website? If yes then social bookmarking is a way to increase your visitors. For example if you had more than 500 friends on Facebook and no visitors on your blog or website then you should not wait to make use of your Facebook friends to increase your traffic. Being genuine we don't think that social bookmarking is the way that will increase your blog or website's page rank many times but it only helps you to increase the visits. You should know all the following things to increase your web traffic with the help of social bookmarking/sharing:

What is social bookmarking: Social bookmarking is to share your posts URL on the social sharing sites (e.g. Facebook, Google+, Yahoo etc.). If you are a blogger, then you must have seen sharing buttons below the posts of your blog or if not then someone other's blog. If you don't have these buttons on your blog's post then this post "Social sharing buttons floating bar" can help you.

Why social bookmarking: Your website is on web but how you will your friend's or people that you have a website. Social bookmarking even increases the web traffic to your website if your blog doesn't come in big G's (Google) search.

How to social bookmark: You can social bookmark by just clicking social share buttons if your blog has social sharing buttons widget if you don't have you can install or you can manually social bookmark by going to the social bookmarking website and posting the URL/link of the post/page you want to share. For example, in Facebook you can update your status by the link or in Twitter you can tweet the link.

Websites for social bookmarking:

There are number of websites for social sharing. But the 95% people are not going to visit any website other than Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or hardly Pinterest or LinkedIN. We suggest you to only share on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Don't waste your time on other websites. Use that time in posting quality content on your website that we have experienced on TechiMen.

Tips:

You should make the title of share attracting and short but genuine

You should ask your friend's to share the link

You should ask your friend's to retweet (on Twitter)

You should create page on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter

Your pages should be professional. These posts may help you 'How to design Facebook cover page?', 'How to design Twitter cover or header?' These posts have the layouts that may help you designing your pages on Twitter and Facebook.

You can also create a channel on Youtube. You videos can advertise your blog or website. You can create tutorials (See this post 'How to create video tutorials') if you have a website similar to TechiMen.

Retina: A template for technology websites/blogs

2013-08-01T19:47:00.000+05:30

Name of Blogger Template: Retina
For: Websites or Blogs about technology, tutorials, geeks, tutorials, gadgets, apps et cetera.
By: Templateism
Published: June, 2013

Description: Retina template suits every blog. If it is personal, about geeks, technology, games, softwares, information, SEO, illustration or anything. Retina template is perfect with its blue colored superb fonts. Retina template is premium and is free for download by Templateism. The template has many categories to show posts on the homepage of your blog and your blog's home page look fantastic and static page. Your blog or website becomes professional. The most of the leading tech websites uses the similar templates. The template has great footer. The template shows the team members of the blog/website. The widgets above footer are really good. Everything is perfect.

Things to remember: You should fix the number of characters of the post titles in your brain because if you post the posts with different length of titles then at the homepage of your blogger home, the posts in two columns will not look great.

How to setup:

Posts: you should upload images with ratio of Width:Height 14:9 (e.g. 280X180 or 1400X900) for best results on homepage.

Featured posts (Technology, Sports, etc.): To feature posts in technology or sports on home page just label the posts with respective label. E.g. if you want to feature a post under technology label that 'Technology'. If you want to edit the featured categories you can do that by going to your blogger account > your blog > Template > Edit HTML. Then find by pressing Ctrl+F and typing the name/label of categories there and replacing with your own category.

Automatically convert all Rs. to Rupee symbol

2013-07-30T17:39:00.001+05:30

Want to use Rupee symbol instead of Rs. or Rs on your blog or website? Here is the method to do so. Rupee symbol is now very common to be used on websites and blogs. The complex method is that you put an image of Rupee symbol before every amount in Rupees. Sometime you will forget to put the image and sometime you will be lazy to do so. But we have a very simple method to do so by using a JavaScript being provided by WebRupee. You can also avail this service on your Blogger's blog. Even it is simpler to be installed on Blogger.

Steps:
1. Go to </body> section of your webpage's HTML code.
2. Copy the following script from here and paste before </body> of your page's HTML

3. Done. Now all the Rs. and Rs will be changed to Rupee Symbol. Even in the new post you just have to type Rs or Rs. before the amount and the JavaScript will automatically convert the text into Rupee symbol.

For 'Blogger' bloggers:
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger and login.
2. Now go to your blog and select 'Template' from dashboard.
3. Click on 'Edit HTML'
4. Find </body> (You can do this by pressing Ctrl+F and typing </body>)
5. Now copy the following script from here and paste before </body>

6. Done. Now all the Rs. and Rs will be changed to Rupee symbol automatically in every post of your blog.

If you are facing any problem installing the Rupee symbol on your blog, just feel free to comment.

How to install a template on Blogger?

2013-07-30T16:58:00.000+05:30

Are you bored with Blogger's own default template or theme and want to install an awesome template for your Blogger's blog. Actually Blogger support third-party templates to be installed on your Blogger's blog beside the Blogger's own default templates. For example, TechiMen is also powered by Blogger but we don't use Blogger's Template. So you can also use any template you want to install on your blog.

There was a time when people said that there are not good templates for Blogger's blog like Wordpress have. But now these are only excuses. Actually these people are lazy because they are not updating their Blogger Template with an awesome looking template from free template providing websites like bTemplates, Templateism, etc. (see the full list of such websites -under updation)

So follow the following steps, and you will be able to install the template you want to.

Steps:

1. Download a Blogger template from a template providing website like bTemplates, Templateism, etc.

2. Now find the .xml file you downloaded. If you you have downloaded a zip file then extract that and find the .xml file.

3. Go to Blogger, login and go to your blog

4. Now click on 'Template' from dashboard.

5. Then click on 'Backup/Restore'

6. Now click on 'Choose File'

7. Now select the .xml file from your computer.

8. Click on 'Upload'

9. Done. Now you can customize your template by clicking on 'Edit HTML'

Flying Twitter bird on your Blogger blog

2013-07-30T16:12:00.000+05:30

Want to make your blog readers wonder when they see a Twitter bird flying on your blog. Actually this Twitter bird flies when someone scroll your page down. It sits anywhere on your page. When you hover the bird with mouse you have two options: 'tweet this' and 'follow me'. The Twitter bird make your readers to easily follow you or share your post on Twitter in a creative and lovely way. So why are you waiting just follow the below steps and you will be able to put the Twitter bird on your blog.

Steps:

1. Go to Blogger, Sign in and go to your blog.
2. Go to 'Template' from dashboard
3. Click on 'Edit HTML'
4. Find </body> in the HTML (You can do this by pressing Ctrl+F and typing </body>)

5. Now copy the code below from here and paste the code just above </body> in your template's HTML

6. Replace TechiMen with your Twitter username.
7. Now click on 'Save'. (NOTE: If the HTML is not being saved. Then make the code friendly by using 'Postable Service'. You can post the code there and click 'make it friendly'. Then copy the code from there and use. Now the HTML will be saved)

Videoism: A template for video blogs

2013-07-24T13:51:00.004+05:30

Name of the Blogger Template: Videoism

For: Video Blogs or Video Hosting Websites

By: Templateism

Published: July, 2013

Description: The template is for video portals or blogs. We tested the template on Google Chrome and the template worked well after setting it up. The template is SEO friendly and has many features that a video portal should have like video counter, featured videos etc. Basically the template's theme is sky blue font on white background (However you can customize the font colors by going to 'Edit HTML' in Template section on your blog's dashboard).

How to setup: Before you setup the template you have to install the template (click here to check how?) to your Blogger's blog.

1. Posts: To embed video use the following way, because if you try other way to embed the videos, then may be the video's thumbnails do not work on the home page of your video blog/portal.

2. Featured Videos Widget: To add this widget you have to go to Blogger > Your Blog > Layout> Add Widget > HTML/JavaScript. Now paste the following code there in the widget and click 'Save'

Label 'Feature' those posts of videos you want to feature. You can also customize this to your choice.

We hope that you will enjoy the post. Comment if you are facing problems using this template.

Stop copying content from your blog or website

2013-07-23T14:45:00.002+05:30

Want to stop people copying content or text from your blog or website.

This is the easiest way to stop people from copying your content.

Tired of copycat bloggers, who copy your content and post your content on their blog. Then we have solution for you and this is really easy to do.

Today we have a trick to beat the copycat people who steal your content and increase their traffic and you got nothing for your creativity. Isn't it irritating? Yes it is. Because I feel this myself when I search my post on Google and that takes me to a blog which has exactly same content that I have posted on TechiMen.

Let us come to the topic that 'How to stop people from copying text or content?'

Steps:

1. Copy the following code

2. Now paste this in HTML of your website

3. Done. Now the code should work.

For Blogger Users:

Steps:

1. Log in your Blogger account

2. Go to your Blog's dashboard

3. Go to 'Layout'

4. Now create new widget and select 'HTML/JavaScript' or select any of your existing 'HTML/JavaScript' widget (Example Facebook Likebox).

5. Now paste the above code there. Save the widget

6. Done. It will work absolutely.

If you have more ideas about blocking the content copying then comment.

Remove/add 'Date' and 'Posted by' from posts

2013-07-21T18:51:00.002+05:30

Want to remove or add 'Date' from your Blogger posts
Here is the answer of 'How to remove or add' 'Posted by AuthorName' and Date from your posts.

First log in your Blogger Blog
Then open 'Layout' from dashboard
Now click 'Edit' in 'Blog Posts' widget
Select options you want to show and what do you want not to show
Done. Very simple. Isn't it? Comment.

If it doesn't works. Then comment below. I will try my best to resolve your problem.

Facebook Timeline Cover for Facebook Pages

2013-07-21T17:50:00.000+05:30

I have posted this post for you to design the Best Facebook Cover for your Facebook Page. For layout of Facebook Cover for Facebook Profiles click here for my post on 'Facebook Timeline Cover for Facebook profiles' on TechiMen.

The profile picture and cover of your Facebook Page influence the visitor of your page. If your page looks good and professional that will force people to like your page. And if your page look ugly or unattractive then she or he will leave the page immediately. Here I at TechiMen designed the layout for Facebook Timeline Cover for your Facebook Page.

You can also observe the following layout of FB Cover for pages with the page profile picture layout. Just use this and design both of your page profile picture and the cover by using your creativity.

Here are some examples of Facebook pages using creative Facebook cover and profile picture. These pictures will inspire your Facebook Timeline Cover.

Gucci Facebook Page: Logo background meets the Facebook Cover

KLM Facebook Page: Having the logo in profile picture with its logo and a flying airplane in the Cover. Good creativity. Isn't it?

Nike Facebook Page: The photographer is full of ideas.

Woodooz Facebook Page: For all things you can do. Yourself. Their slogan matches their creativity.

You can also have look on more this type of Facebook Covers. Just search 'Creative Facebook Cover' in GOogle Images Search.

Facebook Timeline Cover for Facebook profiles

2013-07-21T17:44:00.001+05:30

Want to design a creative Facebook Cover Layout for your Facebook Profile's Timeline.

This is the Facebook Cover Layout for Facebook Timeline for Profiles. For layout of Facebook Cover for Facebook Pages click here for TechiMen post on the 'Facebook Timeline Cover for Facebook pages'.

TechiMen designed the Layout for that which will absolutely help you to design a creative Facebook Cover for your Facebook Timeline. Here is the updated layout for Facebook Timeline Cover. The size of Facebook Timeline Cover is 851 pixels X 315 pixels, i.e. the height of Facebook cover is 315 pixels while the width is 851 pixels.

The following layout shows the Profile Picture Size and location on Facebook Cover and How it looks when you applied the cover to your profile. You can show your creativity in by a creative Timeline cover and Profile picture to the visitors of your timeline. Just use the mentioned layouts with your favorite Vector Editor or Photo Editor and I hope you will have good results. I have also given some examples of the creative Facebook Timeline cover in end of the post to have some ideas how it works? You can use Inkscape or Photoshop to design your Facebook Timeline Cover. You just need the basic knowledge of Photo Editing or Vector Graphics.

Here are some examples of creativity by some people. Just have ideas from these and use your creativity to design your own Facebook Cover.

Design Twitter Header or Cover Layout

2013-07-18T12:44:00.001+05:30

Want to design your Twitter Header creatively?
How to make Twitter Header?
TechiMen will help you.
Visit our Twitter Page for example.
The design of your page or profile on Google, Facebook, YouTube or on any site influence people's brain and they can know what you are.
The Twitter Header is also something that attracts people on Twitter. Therefore we at TechiMen designed a layout for Twitter Header. Many people also call Twitter Header as Twitter Cover.
Following is the layout designed by us for Twitter Header or Cover that will help you to create stunning Twitter Header.

Tips:

The size of Twitter Header of Cover should be 520X260.
Do not place any logo or text where will be your name, username, description, location or website.
You can use any Vector Editor (Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator). Inkscape is free available open-source Vector Editor.
You can request for the Inkscape SVG file or Photoshop File which is editable from us by mailing us to dsbaisoya@gmail.com.
You can create Twitter Header online here.
You can also create the file in 1200X600 size as Twitter recommends for good quality.

Our Twitter Header For TechiMen

Our Twitter Page after uploading above Twitter Header.

Websites from where you can download ready-made free Twitter Header or Cover for your Twitter profile.
TwitCover: The website has creative Twitter Headers or Twitter Covers. They also have online app by which you can design your own Twitter Header online.
TwitrCovers: The website shows the preview when you hover your mouse pointer on a cover. You can chose your cover by choosing categories.
TwitterHeaders: You can directly upload the Twitter Header to your profile from here. Online Header creation option is also available.

Some other examples are here:

If you want to create these type of Twitter Headers you should have a little knowledge of Adobe Photoshop. Just place your body in the image, so that your head remain in the profile picture area. Then upload the header to twitter. Then crop the profile picture area from the header and upload the file as profile picture on Twitter. And it will work. Enjoy

To create these type of Headers just capture your photo. So that you remain in centre of the photo. Now adjust the photo using Adobe Photoshop, So that your face come in the Twitter profile picture area.

Find where are Folder Options in Windows 7

2013-06-19T13:44:00.001+05:30

Where are the 'Folder Options' in Microsoft Windows 7?

In Microsoft Windows XP, The folder options were simple to find. But in Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft has made some changes. If you want to find the folder options in Microsoft Windows 7. And the truth is that Folder Options are more easy in Microsoft Windows 7 to find.

You can do this by just typing 'Folder Options' in Start

Check the screenshot.

Or if doesn't work, You can find the Folder options by following the following steps:

Go to My Computer (or press Windows + E)
Click on 'Organize'
Then click on 'Folder Options'
Here you can chose the options you want.
Done.Check e screenshot

Other Method is by Going to Control Panel.

How to switch windows in Microsoft Windows 7

2013-06-19T13:37:00.001+05:30

This post is about changing or switching the windows
Ways to switch windows in Microsoft Windows:
1. By using mouse
2. By pressing Windows+Tab

3. By pressing Alt+Tab