bloggertipsandtricks

Is Commenting on Blogs a Smart Traffic Strategy?

2013-03-13T12:10:00.000-07:00

Is Commenting on Blogs a Smart
Traffic Strategy?

No.

And yes.

It depends on how you do it.

Some people do it horrendously wrong.

Let’s take a look.

Curiosity-Click Traffic is Crap

If one of your primary traffic strategies is to leave fast comments on the posts of larger blogs in your niche just to get a few clicks from the passing traffic, stop. You could get more traffic from one piece of stellar content than months of that type of comment strategy.

And without good content, there’s no reason to attract a few “curiosity clicks” anyway. What’s going to make them stick around after the click if your content sucks?

Nothing.

Plus, the root motivation for those curiosity clicks is often bad to begin with. The nature of the game makes it that way.

Many new bloggers take the misguided approach of trying to be the first or second comment on every post of a larger blog. They do this because those positions in the comment stream get the most click-throughs, all other things being equal.

The problem is, in the rush for “first,” the resulting comments are often incoherent and banal. Sometimes it’s quite clear the commenter didn’t read the post, or missed the entire point in the hurry for top position.

So any curiosity clicks are usually motivated by “I wonder just how bad this bozo’s blog is going to be?” It’s true… lame blogs are entertainment for the rest of us.

So, is commenting on blogs worthless?

Nope. In fact, you can actually attract that traffic you want via a smart commenting strategy.

How Comments Can Lead to Real Traffic

So, we’ve established that great content is rule number one. Without it, all traffic to your blog is pretty much a waste.

Beyond that, the secret to blog comments that ultimately lead to traffic establish…

…relationships.

Shocking, I know.

Think about it. It’s no secret that many of the people who comment on blogs are also bloggers. They simply have more motivation to take the time to comment.

So when you meaningfully participate in the community aspect of a blog, you’re creating meaningful relationships with people who can send you significant traffic—bloggers and other active social media users.

Getting links, re-tweets, social media votes and bookmarks… this is the way that content spreads. This is the way you get real traffic that actually matters.

This doesn’t entail kissing up to the blog owner (most of us hate strategic-sounding praise). What it means is creating a network that provides the payoff for all the effort you’ve put into your content.

It takes time, but at least it actually works.

Can’t I be First and Fabulous?

I have seen some people who manage to leave exquisite, meaningful comments who also routinely score the first or second position. But I don’t recommend it.

Watching your feed reader or tweet stream that closely throughout the day has got to be distracting. Maybe I’m not as good a multi-tasker, but I find that the higher level of singular focus I place on content development, the better the content turns out.

But that’s just my opinion.

So, what do you think? Am I right, wrong, or middling?

It’s also no secret that Copyblogger readers are a cut above the rest of the crowd. So please leave an exquisite, meaningful comment.

10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers

2013-03-13T12:08:00.004-07:00

How did you get so many subscribers?

The answer is simple—I value subscribers more than any other measure of blog success, such as page views or raw traffic. Subscribers are the life blood of a successful blog in my opinion, and frankly, I wish I had more of them.

Okay, that may be a bit vague.

So here are 10 specific strategies you can begin to implement today and start getting more blog subscribers right away.

1. Make it easy and obvious

As I’ve said before in more detail, make your subscription options prominent, offer an email alternative to RSS, and ask for the subscription, preferably at the bottom of each post.

2. Be laser focused

Make sure you are primarily focusing on a particular topic, and the more specialized that topic is, the better you’ll do. It’s also key to step back and evaluate whether there are enough prospective readers in your chosen niche. It’s better to be brutally honest with yourself than to toil away and end up disappointed.

3. Offer a bribe

Relax, it’s nothing illegal. It’s an ethical bribe, in the form of a free ebook, report, e-course or audio series. Typically this only works with email subscriptions tied to autoresponders, because you want to condition delivery of the bonus on subscription.

But here’s a nifty way to do it with RSS:

If you have a WordPress blog, use the free Feedvertising plugin to link to the download page for your free gift. Since Feedvertising links only show up in the feed (and not in the post), only feed subscribers will see the link and have access to the bonus.

4. Use viral ebooks

This is a spin on the ethical bribe strategy, but instead you let other people give away your PDF ebook or even bundle it for sale with other products. The PDF in turn promotes your blog. Check out this post to see how I bundled my free Viral Copy report with a book that spent several days at the top of the Amazon bestseller list.

5. Dedicated subscription landing page

Create a page that is dedicated to nothing more than obtaining a subscription, and drive traffic to it from your blog, AdWords, or really any other source you want. You can even put it on a unique URL, and add in the ethical bribe strategy to increase signups. For more information on doing this with AdWords,.

6. Become a guest blogger

Contributing content to someone else’s blog may seem crazy, but it’s a solid strategy to gain exposure for your own blog and build your subscriber base. Just make it very clear to the blog owner that you require a very brief byline at the end of the post, with a link back to your site. And make sure it’s original content, not something recycled off of your blog.

7. Start a podcast

Start a related podcast on your subject matter, and get it into iTunes and listed in the various podcasting directories. Mention your blog in every episode and the benefits of subscribing, and try to land some interviews with prominent players in your niche. Not only will you be opening up a new promotional channel, you’re also creating bonus content that can be reused as part of your ethical bribe campaign for new subscribers.

8. Post in forums

A tried and true technique since the earliest days of the Internet is to be a helpful, proactive participant in forums that are important in your niche. People will notice that you are offering yourself up to others, and will be more inclined to see what else you have to offer with your blog.

9. Networking

This is perhaps the most overlooked strategy for gaining traffic and subscribers. Don’t badger other bloggers for links, because it rarely works anymore. Find a way to help them with something, and then eventually work that initial graciousness into a business relationship and even friendship. There are real people behind these blogs, and they respond to good will just like people do offline.

10. Cross-promotional deals

Here’s another cool way to make use of the Feedvertising plugin for WordPress.

Find a blogger that publishes related, but non-competitive content. Work out a deal where you both promote each other in your RSS feeds, using Feedvertising. If one blog has way more subscribers than the other, work out a ratio deal. Since Feedvertising allows you to create up to six rotating links, the smaller blog would promote the other blog continuously, while the larger blog would reserve one slot for the smaller blog, and use the other slots for other cross-promotion deals, affiliate links, or sponsor ads.

So there you have it, with one additional word of caution.

All of the above presupposes that you are producing the best content you can. If you honestly cannot say that you are doing your best work content-wise, start there. But afterward, using some or all of the above will definitely increase your subscriber count.

2011-03-08T06:01:00.000-08:00

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The Art Of Writing Best Content

2011-03-08T05:27:00.000-08:00

The Art Of Writing Best Content

1.Research, Research and research

If you are not well known or not confident enough to carve your posts smartly, research a lot. In such cases, what I usually do is I find out several articles about my topic in internet and download and print them. I then sped my time reading all of them carefully and highlighting the important part of them. I sketch a rough article or draft. Then when I start my actual writing, I keep all those articles spread around me and I try to include the highlighted points. Try this trick. It is very easy, effective and not much time consuming. This is the best trick I use myself to write down the posts.

2. Personal, engaging and straight

While writing posts, consider making them more personal engaging and straight. While you write your posts, add your personal touch and tone. This encourages the reader to continue reading and it makes them feel that somebody personally is teaching themselves. Make your post engaging, by trying to involve interesting facts, examples and blueprints. But always remember to put your thoughts in a straight manner so the readers aren’t distracted. Writing in points and help you doing this. Try your best to make your posts reader friendly too!

3.The KISS technique

I did not invent this term but at least, this is my one of the favorite abbreviation in blogging. It is the short form of KEEP IT SHORT AND SIMPLE. Yes, always keep your post simple and short and meaningful. Long posts may get your readers bored so make your post compact while also interesting because people nowadays want a lot of things very fast. You blog will be appreciated if you keep your blog post short and simple.

4. The title of your post

As Daniel Socosso said, Until you carve out your title smartly it will be the first and last thing that your reader will read on your blog. Title summaries your post and encourages to read the rest of the article. A catchy and unique post title makes your half business done and it is equally important as your post’s body. No matter how nicely you write your post body, if your title is bulky and boring, nobody would want to read your post. So don’t ever hesitate to spend as much time you can with your headline and come up with the best matching title for your post. Take suggestion from family and friends, do some research and use suspicious and staggering words that can easily drive the attention of the reader of your blog and have the best title you can ever think of.

5.The more you edit the better the content gets.

If you try this one, I’m sure you’ll really have a nice article with you. What I do to all of my posts is when I prepare a finished copy of my post, I do not publish it straight away. I keep it for a while (about 2-3 days) and work on other posts. Meanwhile I often have look on that post, read it and edit my the post. I do it many times and more I edit my article, consequently the better it gets. It helps you to have better content than the time you wrote it.

6.Final Proofreading.

Grammatical, informational, spelling and other types of blunders in your post can hamper it’s quality a lot. It can also decrease the reputation of the blog and blogger himself. So don”t rush to hit that Publish button just yet. Try to check for every kinds of errors and if there are any, correct them immediately.

Remember that the popularity, reputation, traffic’s volume and your success as a blogger depends upon how you write and carve your content.These steps are really very very effective and they help you to come up always with better content. So be consistent towards your content of your blog and watch the success coming your way.

Add FaceBook Like Button For Blogger ( BlogSpot ) And Customize It.

2011-03-08T05:26:00.000-08:00

Add FaceBook Like Button For Blogger ( BlogSpot ) And Customize It.

Step 1. adding it to your template.

The button code,

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:40px;'/>
</b:if>

where to add it ?

Log into your blogger account, then go to Layout >> Edit Html.
Before doing any thing you must check Expand Widget Templates box.
And find the next Code

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

And after it, paste your button code

What, If you didn’t find the code above in your template, The try to find the following,

<data:post.body/>

And paste the button code Before it.

click Save Template and you are done.

Step 2. Customize your button & Demo.

in the above code you can customize 3 parts. and i’ve colored them to make it easy for you to recognize,

in the above code change the following parts,

like this part controls the verb that appear on your button, keep it as you see or change it to recommend if you want.
arial this part controls the font type, keep it or change it to one of the following,
lucida+grande
segoe+ui
tahoma
trebuchet+ms
verdana
light this part controls your button color theme, and you have three options, light, evil, or dark
Update, How to make it appear on your home page.

in the button code there are two parts you’ll need to remove to make this button appear on your home page, the first line and the last line, if you still don’t under stand, please see the following parts and delete it before pasting the code to your template,

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>

</b:if>

I wish you all like it and please leave your comments if you need any help, to see demo for it please click here.

13 Brilliant Blogger Templates For Showcase, Gallery And Photography.

2011-03-08T05:24:00.000-08:00

1. Simplex Portfolio

simple and clear template. 1 column with top navigation page, searchbox. jquery slider and 4 column footer, once you hover your mouse on any picture you can see it’s title, date, and comments number.

Download Simplex Portfolio blogger template.

2. 6 Gallery Blogger Templates Collection By AllBlogTools.com

this blogger templates collection created by me, ( max from allblogtools.com ),
it’s great collection that fits all bloggers coz it comes with 6 diffirent headers and yu must find yours in this collection.
it’s 2 column templates, with top navigation menu, and searchbox. 3 column at footer.
green and blue background with vector header.

Download 6 Gallery Blogger Templates Collection By AllBlogTools.com.

3. Gallery

2 column blogger template, dark background, top menubar. clear and simple layout.

Download Gallery blogger template.

4. Mosaicus Ultimate

clear and very simple gallery blogger template, light colors and background, 2 columns, right sidebar, top navbar.

Download Mosaicus Ultimate blogger template.

5. AllBlogTools.com Gallery

dark background, red color touchs, nice top menu navbar, well designed search box, showcase blogger template, 2 column, right sidebar. 3 footer column, one of the most viewd and popular blogger templates.

Download AllBlogTools.com Gallery blogger template.

6. Tequilas Flamejantes Light

simple yellow gallery template, 2 column, right sidebar, 4 column on footer, top navmenu.

Download Tequilas Flamejantes Light blogger template.

7. Tequilas Flamejantes dark

simple dark gallery template, 2 column, right sidebar, 4 column on footer, top navmenu.

Download Tequilas Flamejantes dark blogger template.

8. sGallery

amazing wooden background, really nice background, brown and orange colors.
2 column, right sidebar.

Download sGallery blogger template.

9. Hybrid Gallery

this is one of the most beutiful photography and gallery blogger templates ever. personally i love this template, gray background, profesionall top nav menu and search box, left sidebar, 2 column. + 3 footer column.

Download Hybrid Gallery blogger template.

10. Simple X Photogallery

nicly coded blogger template that uses jquery for displaying your images, 1 column, horisontal images browesing bar, top nav bar, searchbox.

Download Simple X Photogallery blogger template.

11. Showcase Light

bright colors template, gallery layout, top navbar, white and blue colors, 2 column, right sidebar.

Download Showcase Light blogger template.

12. Photoplus

another amazing jquery template, 1 column, top navbar, great lightbox like image viewer, footer 3 column, dark colors.

Download Photoplus blogger template.

13. Photoplus light

Exclusive, Integrate Facebook Comments Box For Blogger In Very Easy And Simple Steps – Fixed ( Full Guide ).

2011-03-08T05:22:00.000-08:00

Exclusive, Integrate Facebook Comments Box For Blogger In Very Easy And Simple Steps – Fixed ( Full Guide ).

Step 1. Disable Default Comments.

The first thing you should do it to disable blogger default comments. because you don’t want to have 2 comments forms.
go to your blogger account, navigate to settings >> comments
and next to comments field choose Hide, then scroll down and click Save Settings

Step 2. Generate your Facebook App ID.

now you should generate your own facebook app id, it’s really easy and one step process,
just go to this page, facebook developers

then click + Set Up New Application

enter your application name, ( you can type any name )

and check agree and click Create Application

then click on Connect tab (on the left tabs-list) or see the next image.

and fill the following info.
Connect URL : Enter your blog url and you must enter it with an ending dash. (for example: http://myblogname.blogspot.com/) .

Base Domain you must type blogspot.com

then click strong>agree and click Save Changes
on the next page facebook will generate you alot of info. you’ll need only one line, it’s App ID:
just copy it and keep any where, we’ll need it in the next steps. please see the following image to see where you’ll find your facebook App ID:.

Step 3. Codes To Add To Your Template.

you must add the following codes to your blogger template to ensure that the comments box will work for your blog in the right way.
and in this step we’ll add the following codes,

xmlns attribute
SDK script
Open Graph protocol tags

Adding the xmlns attribute :

please go to your blogger account again, and navigate to, layout >> edit html >> and checkExpand Widget Templates
then find the following code,

<html

you’ll find it on the top of your code. second or third line, and after it add the following code,

xmlns:fb='http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml'

you must type a space before it and after it,
here is an example.

<html  xmlns:fb='http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml'  expr:dir='data:blog..............2005/gml/expr'  >

Adding the SDK script Code :

search for

<body>

and after it add the following code,

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>
    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
    FB.init({
      appId  : 'YOUR   APP ID',
      status : true, // check login status
        cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the   session
      xfbml  : true  // parse XFBML
    });
  };

    (function() {
    var e = document.createElement('script');
      e.src = document.location.protocol +   '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js';
    e.async = true;
      document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);
    }());
</script>

but please don’t forget to change YOUR APP ID to your app id ( you got it in the previous step ).

Adding the Open Graph protocol tags:

copy the following code.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<meta   expr:content='data:blog.pageTitle' property='og:title'/>
<meta   expr:content='data:blog.url' property='og:url'/>
<b:else/>
<meta   expr:content='data:blog.title' property='og:title'/>
<meta   expr:content='data:blog.homepageUrl' property='og:url'/>
</b:if>
<meta   content='MY-SITE-NAME' property='og:site_name'/>
<meta   content='http://google.com/help/hc/images/logos/blogger_logo.gif'   property='og:image'/>
<meta content='YOUR-APP-ID'   property='fb:app_id'/>
<meta content='YOUR-FACEBOOK-PROFILE-ID'   property='fb:admins'/>
<meta content='article'   property='og:type'/>

and change the colored text to the following,
Change MY-SITE-NAME with the one you want to appear when a user likes a page. (Gil likes Helping on Facebook)

Changehttp://google.com/…/blogger_logo.gif with your blog logo, or remove the all tag if you don’t want it.

Change YOUR-APP-ID with your application ID number.

Change YOUR-FACEBOOK-PROFILE-ID with your own facebook user profile ID.

after making this changes add the above code just before

</head>

now we finished adding the facebook codes to your template, please don’t touch anything and continue to the next step.

Step 5. Adding the Comments Box to your blogger template.

please find the following code.

<data:post.body/>

and after it, please paste the following code.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<p align='left'><img alt='' class='icon-action' height='51' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS1BGmgBjgiHwRLn9ImJeNbxGVJnfrR1AZ9Hyda0_1Te8ves9JbOQOs4zM5l_76OAcRJEvLN4dhv91lmOv5GQFIMAUcBsfRLR7WaOUnqUeyIA-34JG9hu_j40UAE7HVd1etlo567_SuNk/' width='331'/></p>
<div><fb:comments width='450' expr:title='data:post.title' expr:url='data:post.url'   expr:xid='data:post.id'/></div><div style='background-color: #f2f2f2;border: solid 1px #cccccc; font-size:10px; padding:3px;width:100%;'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='16' src='http://allblogtools.com/imgup/1-2010/allblogtools-blogger-templa.gif' width='16'/> <b><a href='http://www.allblogtools.com/' target='_blank' title='blogger templates'>AllBlogToolsFacebook comments for blogger</a>  brought to you by <a href='http://www.allblogtools.com/' target='_blank' title='blogger templates'>AllBlogTools.com , Get Yours?</a></b></div>
</b:if>

To change the width of your comments box, please change 450 to what ever you want, it’s in pixels,

and now please click Save Template , then check your blog. i wish it looks great and works perfectly.

Better Commenting System And Form For Blogger, IntenseDebate.

2011-03-08T05:21:00.000-08:00

Better Commenting System And Form For Blogger, IntenseDebate.

Step 1.

go to IntenseDebate.com and click sign up, fill the form with a true mail, username, and password, then click signup.

you’ll need to verify your e-mail, so please go to the email account that you used to register, you’ll find a message from IntenseDebate.com, please check it, you’ll find an activation link, click on it, and you are done.

Step 2.

now go to your blogger account, and navigate to >> layout >> edit html >> and click Download Full Template, and save your template in a convenient place on your hard drive.

Step 3.

now go back to IntenseDebate.com and on the top right area click login, and log on to your account, after you are loged in your account, on the right side bar
you’ll see this title, Manage blogs/sitesbelow it please click Install IntenseDebate.
then you’ll be taken for a page asking you to type your blog url,
enter your blog url and click next step.

Step 4.

After clicking next step. in step 3, you’ll go to page separated for 2 parts. on the left hand, there is a sidebar contain 2 questions,

- How would you like to install IntenseDebate?
- Widget
- Template
please choose Template, ( check the box next to it )
- Which blog posts should have IntenseDebate comments enabled?
- Only on new posts
- On all blog posts
please choose On all blog posts ( check the box next to it )

and then scroll down till you see a button titled ” Browse ” click on it, and choose your blogger template that you downloaded in step 2, then click Upload file.

Step 5.

IntenseDebate.com will modify and generate your new template automatically , and on the next page, you’ll see your new template code, please see the next image.

as you see in the above image, please click on the box, then copy the new generated template code.
then go to your blogger account and once more again, navigate to >> layout >> edit html >>
but this time select all the current template code ( ctrl + A ), delete it, then paste ( replace ) your new template code, and click, Save Template now go to check any of your blog posts.

How To Use Google Custom Fonts For Blogger.

2011-03-08T05:19:00.000-08:00

How To Use Google Custom Fonts For Blogger.

For years, Bloggers and web-designers were using those simple web fonts to style their blogs and templates. They didn’t had an option to change those fonts as there were only some fonts accepted world-wide as web fonts. It was impossible to use another fonts on web pages as they would appear in ten monitors in ten different styles ! Their appearance may change in respect of the change in the OS, softwares … etc of that computers. So web-designers were trapped under those countable fonts…

But now Google has launched their new service Google web fonts with the slogan – ‘Making the Web Beautiful!’. This service will allow you to use custom fonts on google font directory on our blog/ websites without any sign-up or anything else. As it’s from ‘Google’, It doesn’t have any complications and it’s also completely free for commercial and private use.,No restrictions held or no harsh laws. This could make your blog look more stylish and is applicable for blogger blogs too. Don’t get amazed, It’s True ! I’ll show you how to do it with blogger.

Step 1 : Back-up Your blogger template

It’s always the first step for any blogger tutorial. I’ll be using this step as the first step for all my tutorials on allblogtools. You should always take a back-up of your blogger template before testing any hacks on blogger.

For this, go to Design or layout -> Edit HTML -> Download full template

Step 2 : Select your Font

For this, Go to Google Font directory and select any one of those stylish font, which you want to use on your blog.

Step 3 : Get the Code for your Font

In this tutorial I’ll be using the Tangerine font, Which I liked the Most. For this just click on the name Tangerine and a new windows will open. Select The tab named ‘Get the code‘.

Step 4 : Add the Code to your Blogger template

Now you have to copy the Code they provide and you have to add the code to your blogger template, just after

<head>

tag of your blogger template.

The code may look something like;-

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

Important : ?Please add a Forward slash (“/“) before the the end of the tag (“>”) of this code. i.e, The above code should look like ;-

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>

This is because blogger use XML for coding which won’t allow unclosed tags like this. So you have to close this tag by adding the forward slash.

Now Copy the code and paste it just after

<head>

. It should be the first code after the

<head>

section. Otherwise it could cause problems while displaying the text in IE and may be in Firefox.
Please remember to add the forward slash before the end tag. and now please click Save Template

now the code required for Google web font has been added to your blog. Now you have to can use google fonts in your blog by applying it on any widget tags.

Step 5 : Add the CSS code for Font to your Blog.

Now the last and final step. In this step, you have to specify where you want to add the font and have to add the css code for it.

If you want to make the font appear for a specific sentence only in your blog post, then use the HTML code ;-

<div style="font-family: 'FontName', serif;">Your text</div>

in the above code change

FontName : to the font name that you chosen it from google.

Your text : to any text you want.

If you want the font to appear for your

Blog titile
Post title
post body
sidebar fonts

you have to add the CSS code for it. Don’t worry, It’s very very easy.

Here I’ll tell you How you can change your post title. For this you have to search for the title css code

.post h3

.post-title h3

This is the common css code for post title in blogger. now we have to add the css code for the new fonts for this code,. For this, add/modify these lines below the above codes.

font-family: 'Your Font Name';

The code should look something like ;-

.post h3 {
font-family: 'Your Font Name';
}

Here I had added the css code for Tangerine. You should post the css code between the “{” and “}” tags of .post h3. Like wise you can add the css code for other position too by modifying the css code.

Here i’ll mention the main positions and the common css code for each position. Please note that it may change if you are using any custom template.

Title : h1
Post title : .post h3 or .post-title
Post font : .post-body
Sidebar : .sidebar h2

the above tags helps you to change the font for any position of the above 4 tags.
for example, if you want to change the post font,
in the above table, you can see that the tag to edit for the post font, is .post-body
so you have to search for .post-body in your template, and below it, add the following line.

font-family: 'google Font Name';

the final code should looks like

The code should look something like ;-

.post-body {
font-family: 'Your Font Name';
}

These above values may change in some custom themes. But these are the common seen tags. If you didn’t find the tags with this, try searching similar tags.

Adding QueryLoader (‘LazyLoad’) Script For Blogger And Customize It.

2011-03-08T05:18:00.000-08:00

What is the QueryLoader (LazyLoad).

QueryLoader is a blank black ( can be changed ) screen that covers your blog till all content loaded, which means that your visitors won’t see the actual loading of your blog, instead of that, they will see a loading page with a bar and percentage of the overall blog loading, it’s build using j-query and css. easy to apply to your blogger blog, and customize able.

Step 1, adding the jave files.

In this step we will add a scripts files to your blogger template.
Please navigate to your dashboard >> Design >> edit html , and please find the following code,

</head>

And exactly before it add the following code

<script src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://blogger-loader.googlecode.com/files/queryLoaderpre.js' type='text/javascript'/>

Step 2, adding the jave Codes.

And on the same page, please find the following code,

</body>

And before it add the next code,

<script>
QueryLoader.selectorPreload = &quot;body&quot;;
QueryLoader.init();
</script>

Step 3, adding the Css Codes.

now on the same page too, find this code,

]]></b:skin>

And before it , add this code,

.QOverlay {
background-color: #000000;
z-index: 9999;
}

.QLoader {
background-color: #CCCCCC;
height: 1px;
}

.QAmt {
color:#FF530D;
font-size:50px;
font-weight:bold;
line-height:50px;
height:50px;
width:100px;
margin:-60px 0 0 -50px;
}

now Click Save Template
And your blog now have the script installed and ready, click preview or view your blog to see the script in action.

Additional Step, Customize the colors.

Now this is an extra step and you can do it or not, as you like,

If you want to change the colors, you have to change values in the css code, “step 3″
Please look at the following image to know what what you should change to get your own style.

If you wondering about how to get your own color codes, i think you should have a look at our amazing color codes tool here.

What is Fail Blog

2011-03-08T05:13:00.000-08:00

What is Fail Blog
September 17th, 2009 | Author: admin
As the name of this site: what is blog implies, this blog is intended to educate its readers on the different types of blogs. You may have heard the term fail blog and wondered what is that? A fail blog is a blog like any other in terms of its technical composition. It’s the content of the blog that makes it unique. The fail blog is very much like the TV show America’s funniest videos. This blog consists of pictures and videos and stories of people who are attempting to do something and failing miserably.
Fail blogs are extremely entertaining, they often don’t last for very long and usually they will have a short voice over video that introduces the situation and comments you through the different areas that exist. You will find an amazing variety of failures. People trying everything from skateboard tricks to motorcycle stunts and people just trying to walk down the street.
If you just need a good laugh give a fail blog a try. They can certainly make you have a better day because you will know that however bad your day is, it is definitely better than that guy on the fail blog.

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