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How To Start a Blog With Blogger Step 1

2014-03-02T09:56:00.001-08:00

After my previous article about How to Create Crest Logo Tutorial in Photoshop today i am going to share How to start blog with blogger

Start a Blog With Blogger

First of all goto Blogger.com and login with Gmail account

After that your blogger dashboard is open click on New Blog as shown in the image

a new windows will appear then fill up your blog name and blog address as you want if your blog address is available then choose a theme and press Create Blog!

Now another window will appear

That alls you have sucessfully created your blog star posting and enjoy blogging

How to Create Crest Logo Tutorial in Photoshop

2014-02-28T03:41:00.001-08:00

after my previous article about How to Clear History cache in Chrome Browser in Windows today i am going to share How to Create Crest Logo Tutorial in Photoshop

Let's See How To Create

First of all Open New Document of Custom size, Height & Width 500×500 pixels, Resolution 72 & Mode RGB Color.

Now choose the custom shape tool as shown in the image

Now chose the Sign6 in custom shape tool and draw it on your layer

after drawn you shape right click on the layer in which custom shape has drawn

then goto blending option and use all the tools as you want i am using i this tutorial emboss tool and color overly and also Drop and download shadow tool

Now Copy your drawn custom shape layer and paste it again on new layer

Then use short cut keys to resize is the short key is CTRL + T its a transform tool

Resize it and color and use all the tool as you want in blending option

Now Create a new layer then again go to custom shape tool and choose this tool as show in the images and draw it on your new project

Now go to custom tools and choose rabbit shape as shown in the image and draw in on new layer

Then copy your rabbit shape you already drawn in new layer and paste into another new layer and use short key CTRL + T to resize and right click on the right when the transform tool is on then right click on rabbit and choose Flip Horizontal as shown in the image

Your First Crest logo is ready now publish/Save it as you want choose the format and give the location to save and click on save button

You are done you have successfully create a crest logo in simple step you logo look like this below image

Note: If you draw a new shape please make a new layer because if you made a mistake in the mid of your work you will delete only layer in which mistake by you but if you work in only one layer you have delete all the things so be careful make a new layer in every tool

Thanks and if you need more information please leave a comment below i will glad to see your comments here :)

How to Clear History cache in Chrome Browser in Windows

2014-02-27T14:38:00.002-08:00

After my previous article about How To Reset Your Chrome Browser in Windows today i am going to share how to clear history cache in chrome browser in simple steps

How to Clear History cache in Chrome Browser in Windows

First of all goto top of the browser menu customise and control google chrome

then go to history tab if you like to use short key then press CRTL + H you will directly go to the history tab

Simply Click on clear browsing day as shown in the image

Then select all all the data as you need to clear or leave some thing as you like

select duration of history to clear

then click on clear browsing data

You have successfully done if you need more help please leave a comment below your reply will highly appreciate :) thanks.!

How To Reset Your Chrome Browser in Windows

2014-02-27T14:18:00.004-08:00

After my previous article about How To Delete Temporary Files in Windows 8 today i am going to share how to reset your chrome broswer in to default in very simple step

Reset Your Chrome Browser into Default

First of all go to top of the broswer customize and control google chrome

Then click on settings tab

in setting tab goto bottom of the browser and click on + show advanced setting as shown in the image

after open advanceded setting you see the reset browser setting button click on it a new window will appear

Then click on reset button will browser will reset to default

you have successfully done enjoy if you need more help please leave a comment below we will reply you thanks.

How To Delete Temporary Files in Windows 8

2014-02-27T10:48:00.003-08:00

After my previous articles How To Create A Slick Cool Shadow Logo In Photoshop today i am going to share wo to delete temporary files in windows 8

Delete Temporary Files in Windows 8

First of all go to windows start up
in default windows 8 there is no start up you have to use software to use windows 8 start up like windows 7 if you don't have please read my this article how to disable metro ui in windows 8

If you like to use startup menu software you have alternate way to go to run press windows logo + r in your keyboard key you will get run

type %temp% in run and press ok then second window will appear

select all files with the help of short keys press Ctrl + A and delete all the files.

click on yes

you have done you have successfully delete all temporary files in your PC.

If you need more information about this articles please leave a comments below your reply will highly appreciate thanks and enjoy. :)

How To Create A Slick Cool Shadow Logo In Photoshop

2014-02-27T08:24:00.002-08:00

Some basic techinques on how to make a simple textual logo look appealing to the eye.

Here’s a result we will try to achieve:

1) Create a new canvas, not too big, I used 500*500, and use the type tool to put the text on.

I used trajan pro, using a nice light gray color. To make the end result even better, I also made one letter stand out, by making it red.

2) Now you have the basic text setup, apply the following layer options:

3) Duplicate the text layer, and free transform it.

Now, right-click on the text, and select “Flip vertical”, as shown below:

4) Move the duplicated layer down a bit, so you do not have an overlap and the two layers do not touch each other.

5) Create a new layer above all, and select the Pen tool.

Using the Pen tool, create a shape like shown below, only the top part is important, so dont be pickish about the bottom.

6) Right click the shape, and select “Make selection”.

Use the settings as shown below:

7) Delete the layer containing the shape, but do not deselect your current selection yet.

Create a new layer, and fill the selection with your backgroundcolor using the Paint bucket tool.

Move the result a bit, untill you are satisfied with the result.

This is what i got:

8) Create a new layer above the previous layer, and create a straight line through the text using the Pen tool.

This is done by holding shift while making the shape.

When the line is done, just do the same as before, create a large shape above, so you actually have the text half-visible, because the top half is covered by the shape.

9) Repeat step 6 & 7, but choose a bit higher value when you do the make selection.

Move the white/background-colored parts around untill you are 100% satisfied.

10) Your done, thats it!

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5 Reason Why Should Create A Blog

2014-02-27T04:11:00.003-08:00

To be honest, my experience with blogging world is not much. I have my first blog in 2010, and it's not that kind of personal blog that people have in the beginning of blogging. My blog consist a several category mix between my favorite tv show post to some 3d tutorial. I even don't know what is niche mean. Until one day, a male blogger who lives in the same city as me, add me on Facebook. Yup, that time I spend most of my online time on playing Facebook * grin *.

So we talk and he told me several points why people should start blogging. Along with my years experience, here's why:

1. Productive Time to Learn Something New.

How much time a day you spend online?. And doing what?. Most people I know in real life can spend 2 - 4 hours a day playing games online or add comment on ridiculous status or photos on Facebook. With that hours, if you start blogging, you will learn a lot of new thing. Either it's about coding, SEO, social media, or Internet marketing.

I like to learn something new, so these thing excited me. It need time to get used to edit HTML code and practice SEO, I'm not an expert yet, but I know more now. That's why I started this blog * grin *.

2. Sharing Knowledge.

You know what they say, sharing is caring right?. I started my first blog to give free 3d tutorial. People can spend hours to search topic on Internet. If you can provide the answer and information, why not help them. Soon your blog will grew and without you realize, you starting making money from it.

3. Jobs Opportunities.

Let's say if you in college or just finish, and love to writing. Doesn't matter what the topic is. You already running your blog for several months/years, and someone stumble to your blog, loves you writing, and want to hire you to writing staff for their media online. It's like dream job, right?.

Or if you're web designer, put your portfolio online and give graphic design/web design tips. This way you can get new potential clients.

4. Sell Your Own Artwork or Fiction.

For freelance artist or writer, having a blog, telling readers how the creative work process or give sneak peek is a good one way marketing. No need 3rd publisher. You're the publisher. With a little bit help of SEO trick, internet marketing, and social media, people can buy your artwork or novel directly from you.

5. Earning Money From Blogging.

Earning money from blogging is not a fairy tale anymore. It took a lot of work, but it can be done. I know some people who make massive income from blogging. They stop from their job and became full time blogger. Two famous way to do it is Google Adsense and affiliate marketing.

I haven't in that stage to stop my job though, but if I have I'll do it, no question about it. * smile *.

I probably missed a few points here, but if you read this post, please tell me on comments box below why you finally decide to have a blog. Together we can spread the virus of blogging!.

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How To Add Social Media Share Button Below Post In Blogspot

2014-02-27T04:09:00.004-08:00

Adding share button on your blog post will increase page views and readership. There are several style of placement you can use. My favorite is adding them under blog post. Those colorful button are fast and easy to search. For this gadget, I usually use Share This service. You don't have to add all of them. Just pick social media that you use the most or focus on.

If you like the social media button that I added under every blog post, I'll give you the code, just follow this easy blogspot tutorial for beginner:

1. Go to your blogger/blogspot LayOut, and click on Add Gadget.
2. Choose HTML/JavaScript gadget. Copy - paste code below on the gadget box:

<span id="st_finder"></span><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/widget/stblogger2.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">var switchTo5x=false;stBlogger2.init("http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js", {"sharethis":["large","Email",""],"facebook":["large","Facebook",""],"twitter":["large","WordPress",""],"technorati":["large","Technorati",""],"tumblr":["large","Tumblr",""],"pinterest":["large","Pinterest",""],"stumbleupon":["large","Squidoo",""],"reddit":["large","Reddit",""],"digg":["large","Delicious",""],"linkedin":["large","LinkedIn",""],"googleplus":["large","Google +",""],"plusone":["large","Google +1",""],"fblike":["large","Facebook Like",""]} , "bl-6f6f3ce4-f6b6-7692-9d8d-55623b908a29");var f =document.getElementById("st_finder");var c = f.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes;for (i=0;i<c.length;i++) {try { c[i].style.display = "none"; } catch (err) {}}</script>

3. Now place the gadget wherever you want. The gadget always appear on the bottom of blog post, doesn't matter where you place them. But, don't place them between gadgets on sidebar, cos when people visit your page, there will be blank space. I usually adding them below blog post gadget or on the bottom of sidebar gadgets.

4. View Blog. Now you have it.

Now, just in case you don't like my social media selection, and want to add them yourselves, follow the steps below:
Blogspot Tutorial: Adding Share This Social Button:

1. Go To Share This Platform

2. Click Next to Select Style.

3. Click Next to Customize.

Every time you pick your button on right sidebar, it will added automatically on left bar. When you finish, click Get the Code button. The register box will show up, just click x (no thanks, just give me a code) on the right bottom. Copy-paste the code to HTML/Javascript gadget box.

4. View Blog.

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How To Get An HTML Code For Buttons/Images

2014-02-27T04:07:00.002-08:00

There are many reasons why you might need an html code for an image. Perhaps you've created a button that you would like to share with others. Maybe you'd like to add larger photos to your sidebar. Whatever the reason, getting an html code for an image is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

How to get an HTML code for your photo/button:

1. Upload your image to Photobucket.

2. Go to the album that your image is in. Find and hover over the thumbnail of the image.

3. Copy the HTML code from the box that pops up. Most often, the code will automatically copy when you click on it. If it doesn't, you'll need to click on the code to put your cursor in the box, then triple click to highlight the entire code. There will be characters in the code that will not appear in the box, so be sure to copy the whole thing.
Voila! Now you have an html code for your image! There are several other online photo storage sites out there. I used Photobucket in this tutorial because it's what I am most familiar with. :)

Submit Blogger Sitemap To Bing and Yahoo Search Engines

2014-02-27T04:05:00.003-08:00

I have receive many requests from my readers to publish a complete tutorial on how to submit blog sitemap in Bing. They told me that their blog posts are not getting index in Bing and Yahoo. That’s why today I bring this tutorial for all of you so that you can learn a best way to get all of your blog posts indexed in these search engines. Being indexed in all search engines increase our organic traffic that is must for success of our blog. Before I told you how to get blog posts indexed, let’s first learn how to submit blog sitemap in Bing.

How To Submit Blog Sitemap To Bing and Yahoo?

There is no need to submit the blog sitemap in Yahoo. Submitting blog in BING will do the full job. Now let’s start the tutorial.

1. Go to Bing Webmaster Tools and log in with your Hotmail Account.
2.Add your blog URL and click on Add button at the top of the page.

3.Now copy the below code and paste into Add a Sitemap field on next page.

http://www.Techodix.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

4. Click on ADD button.

5. Now you need to verify your blog ownership by adding Meta tag in your blog template.

6. Copy the meta tag and perform below steps:

Go to Blogger > Template

Findand paste meta tag just below it

Save the template

You are done!

7. Now go back to your Bing Webmaster Tools page and click on Verify button.

8. If you have more than 500 published posts in your blog, then you must need to add more sitemaps. Go to your site dashboard in Bing Webmaster Tools and submit below sitemaps there.

For Posts between 501 – 1000

http://www.Techodix.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500

For Posts between 1001 – 1500

http://www.infoblogmaz.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500

Now you have successfully added your blog sitemap. It can take few days, usually 3 days, to get index your blog posts.

Now your blog is ready to gain organic traffic from Bing and Yahoo. Congrats

Analyze Your Competitor’s SEO Strategy

2014-02-27T04:02:00.001-08:00

There are lots of competitor analysis methods, techniques and procedures out there because there are a lot of competitive marketplaces. This article covers SEO competitor analysis. You are competing for a position on the search engines, and would especially like to rank highly on the Google search engine results pages. Your competitors are of the same mindset, so here are a few ways you can learn from them and use what they are doing to your advantage.

Look at Their Website With SEO Eyes:

Be a SPY to Beat Your Competitors in Search Results

Telling people to look at their competitor’s website in order to gain a bit of SEO insight is such a crap piece of advice that you see littered around the net. So, here is what you look for:

1. The Words That Are in Bold

They have been put in bold for the sake of the search engines. The search engines still key in on the words that are put into bold within the text of a website. It is an old trick that a lot of people now choose to ignore, but you will find that it is still applicable as your competitors are using it and they are ranking above you.

2. Look For The Words That Affiliate Advertising Has Keyed Into

Do your competitors have affiliate advertising? And if so, are one or two words in the text highlighted? Underlined? Or are anchor texts? If so then the page was no doubt created to hold those keywords.

3. Mirrored Words Throughout The Page

Take a look at that title, the URL, the anchor texts, and the content itself. Look for words that seem to appear in all of them or most of them. These are the keywords that your competitor is trying to optimize for.

4. Look At The Source Code of The Website

This is going to give you some very nice information and it can be found using a regular web browser. You just press CTRL+U and the source code will appear for the page that you are looking at. Now press CTRL+F and a small search bar will come up. Here is what you are searching for:

Keyword

It will highlight different things depending on how the page has been written. Some web designers may have made it easy on you and have a keywords Meta tag that is clearly defined; in which case a search for the word “keyword” will take you right to it. Look at all the occurrences of the word “keyword” as it will be close to the keywords for the web page.

Description

This may take you to a number of different places in the source code. You are looking for the Meta description. This piece of text will act as a good example for your worn Meta description, and you will notice that one or two of the mirrored keywords are in it too. You may also wish to optimize for those mirrored keywords.

H1 This will take you right to the H1 text. It should be a short phrase or sentence that is surrounded by the H1 tag. This tells the search engine that the phrase and words within are important. It makes inspiring reading when coming up with your own keyword profile and H1 text.

Word counters will show you their keywords

Find a good word and phrase counter online. Do not pay for one as most of them are free, just search out good ones. Copy the content of your competitor’s page and cut out any unnecessary text such as guarantees, disclaimers, sitemaps, etc. that may also be on the page. Paste the content into the word counter and see which words seem to appear with routine frequency.The important words that appear there are probably not on there by accident. They are probably there because the webmaster is optimizing the page for them. Use your frequency list to update your keyword list with new/important keywords. Then run the text through a phrase counter. You are looking for phrases of two or more words that have been repeated. Look to see if they appear to have repeated by accident. If they look suspiciously like key-phrases, then they probably are. You can steal them or write anti-SEO against them when you optimize your web pages.

Take a look at their ALT text

It is now common practice to embed a keyword or two into the ALT text of the web page images. Look at the descriptions within the ALT text of the images by looking at the source code, or hovering your mouse pointer over the image (this does not always work). If all else fails then go to your Internet options on your browser and turn off your image loading. Go back to your competitor’s website and all of the images on there will not load and you will be able to see all of the ALT text.

Conclusion

Once you have gathered enough information through the various means listed above, you can start to alter your ON-Page SEO to match and beat that of your competition.

You can create a keyword profile that is as full and varied as theirs. Plus, you are collaboratingthe keywords that you came up with, with all of the keywords that you have researched from your competitors. This will mean you will be able to narrow down your keyword profile to the most powerful and usable keywords. You will also be able to see what your competitors are trying to optimize for. If the competition is too harsh then you can go out of your way to optimize for something else by avoiding the keywords you discover on their websites.

Adding A Contact Us Form In Blog Embed code

2014-02-27T03:54:00.003-08:00

Contact Us form is always prove it self important for any publisher.Its an important way to communicate with your visitors in a convenient manner.Not only it will help you to improve your services it could also make your community more reliable as user will able to communicate with you live with out any barrier.But Blogger does not provide this service you have to work a bit to make it working for you.In Blogger users can communicate with comments but they cannot send you a private message so its better to have a contact us form to make personal stuff private.So today we will learn How to add a contact us form in blogger before we start adding it lets look at its features

Its Free to use no need to spend a single penny
Its have anti spam protection in form of Captcha to stop spamming bots
Send and receive unlimited forms
Stylish Contact us form with mouse over hover
Email Required to stop spamming
Don't need any registrations

Its very important to have a contact us form as user use it to send there feedbacks regarding your services.So adding a contact us form is a smart move to make your audience feel the this community has good standards.So let us start working with out wasting any time

1.Setting Up Contact Us Form

Go to http://www.foxyform.com/ and select the fields you want in your contact us form i.e Title,Name,Subject,Email.You have to specify which fields are required. These required fields must be filled out by the user or the form will not be submitted.

Final Words

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All In One SEO WEB TOOLS For Blog/Site

2014-02-27T03:52:00.005-08:00

After Successful response from visitor of my older widget about Character Counter, Adsense parser, Meta tag generator, Hex code generator, HTML to XML Converter,and many more. so today i am posted another Free web tools and webmaster services. I think it's very helpful for you to find Free SEO tools like Page Load Time, Backlinks checker, Broken Link finder, Reciprocal Link checker and Meta tag are provided here. You have to do just enter your domain or your website page url in the below appropriate text box and click check button....Result will be Displayed on below the text box.

With help of below SEO and Web Tools you can better way to handle your seo task everyday. You can analyze of your website or blog from Speed tester, Find your site backlink (How many backlink you receive find here), Check about reciprocal Link, How many Link are broken in your website or blog page and also check about your meta tag.

1. Speed Tester

Check web page size and load time.

2. Backlink Checker

Check backlinks to your domain or web page.

3. Reciprocal Link Checker

Check whether your link partner is still linking back to your site.

4. Broken Link Checker

Check for broken links in your web page.

5. Meta Tag Checker

Extract your web page's meta information and tags.

Blogger Sitemap Generator

2014-02-27T03:51:00.001-08:00

Here give you blogger sitemap generator tool for blogspot user where Webmaster create HTML sitemap of easiest way. Sitemap is a blood of all blogspot blog and website.In sitemap you can see all the post link of your blog or website.
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How To Create Blogger Sitemap Generator ?

<script src="http://www.abu-farhan.com/script/daftarisiblogger/blogtoc-min.js"></script><script src="http://techodix.blogspot.com//feeds/posts/default?max-results=9999&alt=json-in-script&callback=loadtoc"></script>

You have to just copy and paste the above code and paste this code in your HTML Section of your blog page. Don't forget to replace http://techodix.blogspot.com/ Just add your domain name here. That's it.

Top 10 Tips For Increasing Blog Traffic

2014-02-27T03:49:00.003-08:00

Increasing blog's traffic is every blogger's aim. Whether for reaching out to a larger audience, or generating more income through a blog, or to create awareness about a particular topic, he needs more traffic on his blog for his efforts to be of any worth. You might spend all the time and hard work you want on your blog. But unless you don't have a decent traffic, all your struggles will be in vain. Hence, the more traffic, the better.

Are you waking up daily, eager to check out your blog's traffic, only to find out that there has been little or no improvement in your stats whatsoever? There must be something you are doing wrong, or not doing at all! Here is a list of things you can do to increase your blog's traffic. Or rather, here is a checklist to help you ensure that you are doing all the necessary things correctly.

Post frequency and Timings

Post frequency and timings are extremely important for your blog's rankings. First of all, search engines such as Google like to see fresh content on websites. If your blog is struggling for traffic, then you must publish at least one post daily. The more frequently you publish posts, the more quickly your rankings and traffic grows. For example, our other blog SEM had a million+ Alexa ranking when it started! We have been publishing two posts daily for the first two months. And in those two months, the Alexa improved dramatically and it now stands at around 50,000!

Post timings are important as well. Not only do you need to be consistent in your timings, you should also choose a time that's globally significant. Choose a time windows that best suits your majority audience. Our publish timings are 12 01 am each day! Not only does this suits our audience, it also is consistent timing. Once you choose a time, stick to it! Not publishing posts on your fixed time can drop your Alexa! This is what happened to me at SEM once or twice. I made a mistake in scheduling my post, and it didn't publish at the set time. As a result, the Alexa didn't improve, despite the two brand new posts published that day!

Build Backlinks

Backlinks are very important for a blog, but only the quality ones. Backlinks refer to in-bound links to your blog from other sites. Backlinks give you instant traffic from other sites. But be careful about them. Trust me, you don't want cheap backlinks to your blog. They will hurt your rank instead of improving it. Never buy a backlink package such as "1,000 backlinks for $9.99" etc. Try to build genuine backlinks on sites with a decent rank.

How to build backlinks? Well there are many ways. Participate in forum discussions, and recommend some content on your blog to others. Also add your blog's URL to your signatures. This will leave a link to your blog each time you post a comment on a forum. Another way of increasing backlinks is by guest posting on other blogs. Write for other blogs in return for backlinks.

Advertise!

If you've got some money on hand, then why not advertise your website? Advertising your blog is one of the best ways of increasing traffic, since it gives you instant exposure. Ads on sites relating to your niche can give you much more benefits as compared to other sites, since the traffic on similar niche sites is interested in exactly the kind of stuff you, or other similar sites have.

Interact!

Interacting with your audience is the key to retaining and increasing your traffic. Adding stuff like polls, questions, surveys and forums can increase your interactivity. Also, use such a writing style that addresses the readers directly. Be casual and friendly, and don't be (too) formal.

Write Articles

This method is highly effective. Not only does it give you immediate traffic, it also gives you quality backlinks that improve your traffic in the long run. Write an article on a topic relating to your website, and submit it to popular article directories, such as Squidoo, Hubpages, Ezine Articles etc. For example, say you have a blog about affiliate marketing. You can write an article on affiliate marketing tips, and then mention your own blog in that article. Then submit that article to popular directories for traffic and backlinks.

One thing though. Try not to write on sites that give no-follow links. Such sites include eHow, articlesbase, examiner etc. Sites like Squidoo and Ezine Articles don't give no-follow links, which is preferable.

Discuss Recent Trends

Discussing hot topics can get you in search engines' good favour. Google likes to see the latest content. Not only that, people also want to see latest content. Discussing latest topics gives a good impression of your blog being up to date. Not only that, it draws a lot of traffic, and indeed contributes a lot towards this very blog's traffic.

Guest Blogging

Encourage guest posting on your blog. There are many advantages of doing that. First of all, it will increase your post frequency, which, as we already discussed is a good thing. It will also reduce your workload and effort. Secondly, it will increase your traffic slightly, since fans from the guest's blog will want to read what their writer has written on another blog. Be careful about this though. You have to give out backlinks to the guests' blogs. Too many out going links without a nofollow attribute and your rank will start to drop!

Apart from inviting people to write for you, you can write for others as well. This will get you a backlink. Write multiple posts on quality blogs, and you will see your backlinks increase and your rankings soar! This is one of the best way of building genuine backlinks

Apply SEO techniques

Search Engine Optimization is so vast a topic that entire books have been written on it. But you don't need to read books. All you need do is learn some basic SEO techniques, and apply them to your blog. SEO is extremely important if you want search engines to find your blog easily.

You should be familiar with the most basic SEO methods. Keep keywords in mind while writing titles and introductory paragraphs. Also write two or three line meta descriptions for your posts. If you are using WordPress, then you'll need to add meta keywords as well. Complete these basic steps and you're done with the basic SEO, although this is, by no means, the end of it.

Also, learn how to generate and submit a sitemap for your blog to major search engines. This is an important SEO step that every blogger needs to take to ensure that all of his posts and pages are indexed properly.

Use Social Media

You'll be surprised at how useful social media can be. Make public profiles on popular networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ etc. These will help you build a fan base of your blog. Social Media is also great in the sense that it provides you a much greater exposure through your fans than you could get on your own. So share your new blog posts on social media not only to gain extra traffic, but also to retain your existing traffic.

Use Q&A Websites

Q&A websites can be a great source of traffic for blogs. Get active on popular Q&A sites, such as Yahoo! Answers, Wiki Answers etc. Search for questions related to your area of expertise, and answer them. Then provide your website link as a source. For example, if you are an affiliate marketer, answer some questions regarding the field, and answer them well. Then give the link to your blog. You can also do this on popular forums such as Blogger Forum etc.

These were some of the tips for increasing blog traffic. These are, by no means, the only ways. There are literally thousands of ways you can increase your blog traffic. But hopefully, these basic tips will guide you in building your basic audience. Thank you for reading. Cheers :)

Add Google+ RSS Feed Widget For Blogger

2014-02-27T03:48:00.003-08:00

As all blogger know that What is the importance about RSS feed. If called RSS in one word I called it's a"blood of blogger" because RSS give us all details about blog. It also call as a sitemap. All webmaster increase traffic of his blog via social networking site (Facebook+twitter),Google+. Google+ is one of best competitor of Facebook now a days. Today Google had reached more than 90 million users.

As early no official widget or any RSS feed which we can embed blogger to display your profile stream of recent posts of Google Plus.but Thanks to Google+RSS has now providing a free service enable us to generate an RSS feed for our personal Google+ Profile and pages which we can add to a Simple Feed Widget in blogger.

Let's Go...

Below to see the Informative blog in action and read the entire content About how to add a Google Plus updates Widget (Gadget) in your own blogspot blog.

To Get Started go your mouse to Google+ to RSS and create a feed url of your google+ Profile

you can use your google+ account to allow permission to access your profile stream.

When you complete this process you will be able to Manage your profile and locate your Google+ Profile RSS Feed.

Just Right Click from your mouse to RSS icon from your profile and go to Copy Link Location or Copy Link Url. This is your Google+ (plus) RSS feed url of your Personal G+ Profile stream.

If you want to Publish a Google+ Page feed click above and find New(Green button)

and paste your Google+Page Profile ID Number(21 Numerical words.

then click on save and you find the test feed button where you find your Google+ Page RSS feed.

Now Talk About How To Add This Feed To Blogger

Go to blogger.com and login with your username and password
Go to dashboard
Go to Design>>Page Element
Ad New Widget and choose ad a new feed gadget from layout
Here you can paste the Google+ RSS Feed url and change from choice about title and other option as suit you need. You will be see the preview how your gadget will look like.

Finally in the End save your gadget and enjoy the newly created google+ stream gadget for your blog.

15 Ways to Drive more traffic to Your Blog

2014-02-26T14:47:00.004-08:00

15 Ways to Drive more traffic to Your Blog

There are many different factors that make blogs much better than other Web Pages, including the speed at which blogs are indexed, the ability to submit to blog directories & normal directories, pings and track backs. All these things help drive more traffic to blogs. Here are 15 popular techniques you can use to drive more traffic to your blog:

Publish short posts frequently

Using your main keywords, publish as much short posts as you can on a daily bases. Short posts don’t take much time to write, but they are very popular amongst blog readers. Publishing few short posts a day, will keep your blog within the radar of search engines for longer, giving your blog more visibility.

Submit to My Yahoo

When you submit your own RSS to My Yahoo it is automatically indexed by Yahoo.

Submit to Google’s reader

When you submit your own blog RSS to Google’s Reader the Google Blog Search will index your site for you.

Trade links

Add a link directory to your blog and trade links like as often as possible. Although it may take a little more time than simply submitting to a search engine one time, this method is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your site.

Ping your posts

Use ping sites like ping-o-matic. Ping your site each and every time you add a new post.

Comment on other blogs

Do not just leave short comments like “I agree.” Leave well thought out replies that will force readers to wonder who wrote that and take more interest in YOUR blog.

Submit to directories

Submit your blog to traditional directories such as DMOZ. Directories increase relevance with Google. DMOZ is very picky, but you have nothing to lose by trying.

Submit RSS

Submit to as many RSS Directories and Search Engines as possible. This is an easy process that can give you a lot of visibility.

Submit to search engines

Submit your blog to traditional search engines such as AltaVista, and MSN.

Use track backs

If there is a blog that you refer to or quote and it is highly relevant to your subject, leave a track back. It increases your link popularity and you may even gain a few interested readers from the linked site.

Go offline

Use newspaper ads, public bulletin boards, or business cards to let as many people as possible know that your blog exists.

Link from your email

Ad a link to your blog in your e-mail signature block.

Use Groups

Find a relevant group on Google groups, Yahoo groups, MSN groups or any of the thousands of other FREE group services and find like minded people and talk with them. Make sure your use your blog URL like it is your name.

Use Forums

Forums are one of the best places to go for advice. Go to forums and find problems to solve. Make sure you leave your blog name, but be tactful about it; some forums get annoyed with those who selfishly drop a few links to their own site and leave.

Tag your blog

Tagging is a new idea that has erupted across the web. Sites like Del.icio.us, Technorati and many others have a social feature that allows you to place your article under keywords or “tags” that everyone interested in that tag can see.

Although these are some of the most popular ways to drive traffic to your blog, do not limit yourself to tips and lists. Use your imagination and you will come up with many many more ways to drive traffic to your blog!

Top 9 SEO Tips for Web Masters and Bloggers

2013-09-01T11:17:00.001-07:00

Do you want to be number one in the search engines?

Do you want your content to rank higher than your competitors?

Are you working hard on developing the best content you can?

If the answer to these three questions is ‘yes’, then you should read and heed the following.

9 SEO tips to get better results in search engines.

SEO

Tip No. 1 -The Title

You need to ensure that you have a title tag and that it is less than 70 characters long. You should have your keywords in the title and make it as interesting as possible. It can be really hard to keep an interesting title to 70 characters and it takes skill and practice. But once you get this mastered you’ll get more visitors and more conversions. This is probably the single most important part of each post because without a good title nobody will ever even open your post.

Tip No. 2 – The Description

Your description should sell your page as well as describing what’s on it. When you’re looking through search results, you’ll be struck by descriptions that contain the keyword and provide a solution to the problem you’re looking for. Ensure that you keep the description to less than 155 characters and catch the attention of the people browsing through the search engine results.

Tip No. 3 – The Page Hierarchy

You should ensure that you use h1, h2 and h3 tags in the correct way. H1 is for the main page title, subheadings should be h2, and sub subheadings should be in h3. When you are optimizing your site, you need to think about how search engines view your content and these tags are crucial to the process.

Tip No. 4 – Give Credit to the Author

Google is of course the biggest search engine out there with upwards of 60% of the market share. By linking your content to your Google Plus account you will get an image in the search results and you will get better exposure in Google. This will increase your visitors exponentially and enhance your brand image too.

Tip No. 5 – Use Internal Links

Every page on your website will have a certain amount of link juice that it can be pass to pages within your website. It’s not only external links that can increase your page rank and be a positive indicator in the search results. Therefore it’s crucial that you interlink your pages and funnel towards the key content that you want to promote.

Tip No. 6 – Use a Site Map

Site maps are XML files that tell the search engines exactly which pages are in your site. You could also prioritize certain pages and explain to the engines how often you’re updating so that they will come back and crawl when necessary.

On Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools you can submit the site maps so that they are found by the search engines and used to increase the efficiency with which your website is indexed.

Top Tip No. 7 – Canonical Link and Duplicate Data

One of the worst things for search engine presence is to have duplicate content either within a website or on different websites. You should therefore ensure that you re-direct old web pages to the new ones and if necessary use a canonical link in the head of your web pages so that search engines understand which page is to be indexed.

Top Tip No. 8 – Use Webmaster Tools

Lots of the search engines have webmaster tools interfaces that enable you to find out more about how your website is performing and how it is viewed by the search engines. You should certainly use the services provided by Bing and Google. You can find out about links to your websites, broken links within your websites, keywords being searched and showing up in the search engines and even crawl stats from the search engine bots. By using these tools you can understand your business presence online much better and also fix issues that are coming up.

Top Tip No. 9 – Develop Superb Content

Everyone has heard the maxim that “content is king”. But in my opinion it’s much more important than that. You should have superb quality content with great titles that will entice people into your website. If your website is displayed in the search engines a hundred times a day but only one person clicks, and they ‘click and leave’ straight away, you’ve generated no business. If you are found ten times per day five click and two buy, you are on to a winning formula.

The content needs to be readable, interesting, flowing, and to the point. Using infographics and rich media can enhance your brand and your conversions too.

Stay Up To Date With SEO

SEO has changed since the Panda and Penguin Google updates. It is important that Webmasters and Bloggers stay up to date with the trends online. It is equally important that content is developed with the future in mind. This means reading and understanding the search engine guidelines on content and link building. As a general rule you won’t go far wrong if you produce top quality interesting content that features your keywords and keyword synonyms.

Keep your finger on the pulse of SEO but following a few authority figures on Twitter. That way you will ensure your content always hits the search engine mark.

30 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Website

2013-09-01T11:15:00.000-07:00

Are you looking to increase traffic to your website? There are many ways to increase traffic to your website. Majority of people believe the only way to driving traffic will cost them money. There are different methods of driving traffic that you pay for, and the majority of them are free. Increasing traffic to your business, website, or blog is the key to building a larger audience. I have enlisted in this post the top ways to increase traffic your website. The benefit of increasing your traffic is to improve visibility, ranking, and increase revenue.

1. Write Articles is one of the most powerful ways to generate traffic for your website. Here is a list of free article sites that I personally use at the given moment.

Squidoo.com
Hubpages.com
Isnare.com
Goarticles.com
Getarticlesdone.com
Ezinearticles.com
Articlecity.com
Technorati.com
Buzzle.com
Suite101.com
Seekingalpha.com
Associatedcontent.com
Examiner.com
Articlesbase.com
Xomba.com
Flixya.com
Bukisa.com
Triond.com
Hellum.com
Oondi.com
Shetoldme.com
Digitaljournal.com

2. Commenting on blogs is another great strategy for generating traffic. When leaving a comment on someone else website make sure the site is relevant to your niche. Other things to take in consideration for your comment to be approve is to provided content, be respectful, and know what your talking about.

3. Social bookmarking is another source for building traffic. Here are my favorite social bookmarking sites.

Twitter
Pinterest
Facebook
Google +
MySpace
StumbleUpon
Reddit
Delicious
Digg
Tweetmeme
Fark
Slashdot
Friendfeed
Clipmarks
Newsvine
LiveJournal
Meet Up
Orkut
MyLife
Ning
Tagged
Deviant Art

4. Facebook Fan Page is a tool to drive traffic to your website. Creating a Facebook Fan page is very easy process and free.

5. Facebook ads are a popular method of buying traffic for your site. Facebook ads provide targeted, demographic, and direct traffic.

6. YouTube is a free marketing channel that everyone should use to drive traffic to their websites. Did you know YouTube is the second largest search engine? YouTube is a free online tool we should be using for online marketing.

7. Referral Program is a great way to drive traffic through the word of mouth. Offer your potential customers a discount if they refer your services to their friends.

8. Facebook groups are a great way to promote your blog post to boost your traffic. I join other Facebook groups with relevant topics and start posting my blogs. I get tons of free traffic using Facebook groups.

9. Join a forum group to boost traffic to your site. In the forum group your able to post or answer questions. In a forum group, you can easily become an expert on your field and built credibility. They are forum sites for all types of niches. Here are a couple of forum groups I have using in the past and still use.

Top Forums for SEO

forums.searchenginewatch.com
sitepoint.com/forums/
seoforums.org
seomoz.org/community
forums.digitalpoint.com/
forums.seochat.com
highrankings.com/forum
seo-guy.com/forum/
forums.site-reference.com
seoblackhat.com/forum/

10. Ebay is a great source to drive traffic to your website. Ebay currently has over 60 million customers. How do you generate traffic from Ebay? All you need to do is create a good About Me Page in your Ebay account. In the about me, page Ebay allows to promote your website.

11. Newspaper Ads is another tool to drive traffic to your site. Contact your local newspaper and place an ad.

12. Search Engine Optimization is a terrific way to drive organic traffic. Make sure to optimize your site by taking advantage of keywords and excellent content.

13. Backlinks area great for search engine optimization and driving organic traffic. If your looking to buying high quality backlinks there are many companies where they can be purchase. Here are a couple of companies I have bought backlinks.

Thehoth.com
BruteforceSEO.com
Buildmyrank.com
3waylinks.net
Massarticlesubmitter.net
Onlywire.com

14. Guest posting will help grow your brand and is a popular option to drive traffic. I have included a link with various sites with high ranking that allow guest posting.

Http://blogging.org/blog/sites-that-allow-guest-posting/

15. Investing in E-mail listing will help your website drive tons of traffic. I have enlisted some of the organizations that provide E-mail listing services for a reasonable price.

Aweber
Get Response
Mail Chimp
Constant Contact
Campaigner
Benchmark Email
IContact
Campaign Monitor
Jango Mail
Boomerang
Ezine Director
Jango Mail

16. Free E-book is another way to drive traffic to your site. The e-book is a free incentive for customers to return to your site and add promotional links inside the book. There are many ways to create an e-book for a low cost. I have enlisted a couple of sites to buy or hire someone to create an e-book.

Freelancer
Fiverr
Fastcinco

There are also companies that allow buying private label rights. These companies let you buy the e-book and let you change the title, content, author info, and even sell them and keep every penny.

Master-resale-rights.com
Plrebooks.co.uk
Sallys-ebooks.co.uk
Floodle.net
Plwholesaler.com

17. Clickbank helps promote your product and increases your website traffic. Majority of the traffic will be from affiliate marketers. Affiliate marketers sign up to promote your product sending traffic to your website.

18. Flickr is a free tool to drive traffic to your site. Anyone that uses an image through your Flickr account has to give an image credit which will drive free traffic your site.

19. Create a blog and drive traffic to your website.

20. Sign up for answer websites. The answer websites are a place where people place questions about specific niches who are trying to find an answer. Becoming the expert at the answer websites will drive free traffic to your site. I have enlisted some of the sites you can sign up for free to drive organic traffic.

Answers.yahoo.com
Ask.com
Allexperts.com
Answers.com
Blurit.com
Anybodyoutthere.com
Funadvice.com
Askville.com
Askmehelpdesk.com
Answerbank.com
Answerly.com
Answerbag.com
Friendfeed.com

21. Use Podcasting to drive traffic to your website. Podcasting is one of the newest crazes over the Internet. Podcasting is continually growing daily, and its a great way to get your website traffic.

22. RSS Feeds on your website will also help promote traffic. The RSS Feeds are one of the most powerful traffic driving tools a blogger can use to create backlinks and rank higher in the search engines. Feedburner allows blog owners to create and manage their RSS Feeds.

23. Web 2.0 Sites have huge traffic and are a great way to drive free organic traffic. I have enlisted some of my favorite Web 2.0 Sites.

Ehow.com
Typepad.com
Yelp.com
Blogger.com
Photobucket.com
Wordpress.com
Craiglist.com
Wikipedia.com
Blogcode.com
Blinklist.com
Techcrunch.com

24. Email Signature. All of your emails should have your website address in the bottom.

25. Business Cards are another great form of getting free traffic. Provide everyone you meet with a business card with your website address. I have enlisted some of the top sites to buy business cards.

Vista Print
123 Print
Zazzle
Businesscards 24
Go Print
Juke Box
Overnight Prints
Print Runner
Uprinting

26. Search Engine Directory. Increase your visibility by adding your website to search engine directory. I have compose of the top search engines to add your website.

Yahoo
Google
Bing
DMOZ
Alta Vista
Go
Hotbot
Galazy
Lycos
Alexa Internet

27. Place ads on Micro Websites. Using micro websites to drive hoards of targeted traffic to your website. Here are my favorite micro websites.

Fiverr
Yooker
Fascinco
Tenbux
Zeerk
Gigbucks
Dealerr
Gighour
Taskarmy
Zeerk
Mturk

28. Advertise on outsourcing sites. Offer your product or services to different countries. I have enlisted my favorite outsourcing companies.

Freelancer
Odesk
Elance

29. Create an interactive community in your blog. Adding a blog comment field on your website will allow for everyone to join the conversation. In return make sure to respond to everyone comment Google loves interaction. A great plugin I used for WordPress is Comment Luv.

30. Sign up for free Gravator account. Every time you leave a comment on blogs your picture and website address will automatically appear.

20 Amazing and Free Blogger Templates 2013

2013-08-30T14:48:00.001-07:00

20 Amazing and Free Blogger Templates 2013

Here is the list of 20 blogger templates that you are free to use on your blog:

Newline

Newline is a simple pink-themed blog template for mostly girly, anime, or art blogs. There is a drop-down menu and YouTube videos can be placed on the header.
Link to template: http://www.soratemplates.com/2013/07/newline-blogger-template.html

Videoism

Videoism is the perfect theme if you are doing a video site or video portal, somewhat reminiscent of Vimeo or YouTube layouts.
Link to template: http://www.templateism.com/2013/07/videoism-blogger-template.html

Elice

If you want something a bit more elegant or professional, Elice is a great theme for you.
Link to template: http://www.blogtipsntricks.com/2013/07/elice-responsive-blogger-template.html

Minimum

As the title implies, this is quite a minimalistic white Blogger template for you to use, along with social media buttons and widgets.
Link to template: http://www.blogtipsntricks.com/2013/01/minimum-responsive-blogger-template.html

Main Photo

For photography enthusiasts and such, Main Photo is a neat-looking theme with a photo slider.
Link to template: http://www.main-blogger.com/2013/03/update-main-photo-responisve-blogger.html

Catalogspot K2 E-Commerce Blogger Template

If you are looking for an E-commerce blogger template for your online store, check out this wonderful and free template.
Link to template: http://loefa-cebook.blogspot.com/2013/06/catalogspot-k2-e-commerce-blogger.html

DCM-WHITE

Here is another blogger template that is aimed at photography enthusiasts and photojournalists. It uses jQuery to arrange posts into blocks of colorful squares that have graphic effects.
Link to template: http://urang-kurai.blogspot.com/2013/05/dcm-white.html

DCM V2 – SPRING

This is a bit similar to the above theme, except in a more professional and dark tone, using only black and green.
Link to template: http://urang-kurai.blogspot.com/2013/07/dcm-v2-spring-green.html

Elite Minima

If you need a theme that’s very light and elegant (especially for wedding sites or related content), this theme is for you. The typography is excellent and everything is customizable.
Link to template: http://www.way2blogging.org/2012/02/free-premium-blogger-template-elite-minima.html

Fixedbee

Here is another free and (white) light-colored theme. This is perfect if your posts have front photos on them.
Link to template: http://loefa-cebook.blogspot.com/2013/06/fixedbee-responsive-blogger-template.html

Super SEO

As the name implies, this Blogger template is directly aimed at SEO blogs and is in a clean white theme and has social media icons.
Link to template: http://www.gallerybloggertemplates.com/2012/11/super-seo.html

Johnny Tampan Blogger Template

The theme is black and a dash of yellow. It is quite modern and fits photos or movie posters and such.
Link to template: http://www.mastemplate.com/2013/01/johny-tampan.html

Adsosive

Adsosive is a white / light-blue theme that has unique photo borders (raindrops).
Link to template: http://www.ivythemes.com/2012/11/adsosive-blogger-template.html

Valor Blogger Theme

This theme has a nice photo slider for wide pictures and another one (perfect for movie posters or game covers) below.
Link to template: http://newbloggerthemes.com/valor-blogger-template/

Pinfinity

As the name implies, it is a blog template reminiscent of Pinterest, only with different colors.
Link to template: http://www.soratemplates.com/2012/08/pinfinity-blogger-template.html

Zylyz Blogger Template

If you want a template that is HTML5-powered and has fancy colors (magenta and purple) then this one is for you.
Link to template: http://newbloggerthemes.com/zylyz-blogger-template/

Exelencia

This theme is somewhat similar to Pinfinity except for some difference in layouts and typefaces.
Link to template: http://www.ivythemes.com/2012/10/exelencia-blogger-template.html

Lantern Blogger Template

Has a (really) wide photo slider. You can use it as either a personal blog or a tutorial blog.
Link to template: http://newbloggerthemes.com/lantern-blogger-template/

Johnny Jazztube

As the name implies, it is a video blog theme that imports videos from YouTube. It has some nice sidebars and menu layouts for you.
Link to template: http://www.mastemplate.com/2012/06/johny-jazzytube.html

Spot Times

This is a unique template that makes it look like a web version of a newspaper.
Link to template: http://bloggeritems.com/templates/spot-times-daily-press-blogger-template

Conclusion

There are many free high-quality themes for blogger out there, but here are a few templates to start with.

49 Most Downloaded WordPress Themes

2012-11-23T14:42:00.001-08:00

At least five new WordPress themes are introduced everyday on this free Net and that gives us a few good thousands of free Wordpres themes floating around the internet. Have you ever wonderedwhich amongst are all time most downloaded themes? You will be surprised they are not as nice as you expected them to be, but check out this fact – The #1 most downloaded theme I’ve compiled here have got 47,000+ (and counting) downloads and #49 still maintain 6500+ (and counting) downloads. They are not overrated, I believe they are few of the best when they were firstly introduced and as time goes, they still pickup some downloads here and there.

Here I present you “49 Most downloaded themes of all time” (until the date this article was created at least).

Vistered Little 1.6 [download]

Mistylook 3.2 [download]

WP-Andreas01 1.5 [download]

Water 1.1 [download]

Japanese Cherry Blossom 1.0 [download]

Chaoticsoul 1.0 [download]

Cordobo Green Park 0.9.2 Beta 12 [download]

Mesozoic 2.0 [download]

Sky3c 2.0 [download]

Andyblue ver 1.3 [download]

Ocean Mist 1.2 [download]

Freshy 1.0 [download]

Mandigo 1.14 [download]

Foliage Mod 1.02 [download]

QWLIM! 0.3 [download]

Waterlily 2.5 [download]

Blue Horizon 3.0 [download]

Tiga 1.0.2 [download]

Fallseason 1.0 [download]

3k2redux klein [download]

Black Minimalism 1.0 [download]

Glued Ideas – Subtile 0.39 [download]

Grey Gets Green [download]

Brajeshwar [download]

I feel dirty 1.0 [download]

Andreas04 2.0 [download]

Hemingway 0.19 [download]

Wucoco – 3 Column [download]

DFire 1.0 [download]

TerraFirma 3.3.1 [download]

Light 1.0 [download]

Orange Crush 2.16 [download]

Neo-Sapien 0.5 [download]

3k2redux klee [download]

Dark Blix 1.5 [download]

Mambopress 2.3 [download]

Silver Lexus [download]

Unsleepable [download]

Into The Light [download]

Broad Leaf [download]

CITRUS 06 [download]

Beach House [download]

Isulong SEPOH 1.2 [download]

Natural Nouveau [download]

Hemingway Reloaded 1.0 [download]

D3SIGN 4UCK 1 [download]

1024px [download]

Anthosia 3c [download]

BlackPhoto 1.0 [download]

Increase Traffic With Landing Sites

2012-11-23T14:38:00.000-08:00

Landing sites are the immediate page you see after clicking in from a SERP (Search Engine Result Page). Here’s a better definition of Landing Sites.

Landing sites are well known from the eCommerce world – ever experience you searched google for "cheap colgate toothpaste" and found an online reseller, and the site you landed on from google was exactly about colgate toothpaste? What if we grabbed the google search string from the visitor, and made the front page listing a mix of related posts to what he searched for and the newest posts?

Whenever you do a query in any major search engines and you happened to clicked-in to a site with landing sites, you will be greeted with:

Welcome messages
Which search engines you’ve come from
The keyword(s) you’ve searched
More content related to keyword(s) you’ve searched

Why Is Landing Sites Necessary?

Imagine if a Google surfer queried; got it your site and saw an informative landing site that provides he/she more related content, you might just got yourself a regular reader. Landing sites can also prolong the duration a reader stay at your site, thus leading to more impressions and hits. Who knows, it could help some ads CTR too.

Installation

Installing landing sites plugin for WordPress is easy, but you might end up spending some tedious time customizing it to perfectly suit your blog design.

Download landing sites plugin for WordPress (theundersigned.net) | Read installation

How To Widgetize Non-Widget WordPress Theme

2012-11-23T14:32:00.001-08:00

Consider this – If you found a WordPress theme that you like so much but it is not widget-supported, don’t give up just yet. Methods below helps you to widgetize non-widget theme to a drag-drop widget theme. Download Widget plugin from Automattic, upload them accordingly and follow the 2 steps below.

Step 1

Look for functions.php (Create one if you don’t have). Insert the following code into it, save and close. We are done with functions.php. Basically what this codes does is – it register the sidebar as dynamic.

<?php
if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar();
?>

Step 2

Here’s how a typical sidebar.php will look like.

<div id="sidebar">
<h2>Search this site</h2>
<div id="searchdiv">
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="20"/>
<input name="sbutt" type="submit" value="Go" alt="Submit" />
</form>
</div>
<h2><?php _e(‘Archives’); ?></h2>
<ul><?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?></ul>
<h2><?php _e(‘Categories’); ?></h2>
<ul><?php list_cats() ?></ul>
<h2><?php _e(‘Meta’); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>">RSS</a></li>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
</ul>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>
</div>

What you need to do here is to enclose an an-if statement into sidebar.php. The addition of codes are in bold.

<div id="sidebar">
<h2>Search this site</h2>
<div id="searchdiv">
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="20"/>
<input name="sbutt" type="submit" value="Go" alt="Submit" />
</form>
</div>
//
<?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’)
|| !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?> // added
//
<h2><?php _e(‘Archives’); ?></h2>
<ul><?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?></ul>
<h2><?php _e(‘Categories’); ?></h2>
<ul><?php list_cats() ?></ul>
<h2><?php _e(‘Meta’); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>">RSS</a></li>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
</ul>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>
//
<?php endif; ?> // added
//
</div>

That’s it. The theme now is now widgetized. You can now do the drag-drops like the widget themes. Here’s a goodWordPress widget resource. Thank you to Daniel who tipped me on this, I’ll share this on your behalf since you are not writing a tech blog :)

Execute PHP In WordPress Post, Page And Widget Sidebar

2012-11-23T14:29:00.000-08:00

If you are still struggling on how to insert PHP Codes inside particular blog post, page or a widget sidebar for execution; the following tutorial is for you.

Executing PHP Codes In WordPress Page/Post

Installation

Download phpexec.txt
Rename phpexec.txt to phpexec.php
Upload to /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plug-in from WordPress administration menu

Usage

Anywhere in your post/pages where you want to execute a PHP Codes, insert <phpcode> before your php codes and </phpcode> your php codes.

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<phpcode>    
    <?php    
        echo "Current date and time: ";    
        echo date("l dS of F Y h:i:s A");    
    ?>    
</phpcode>  

Security

If you are running a blog with multiple users, you need to determine who can run this plug-in. Alter the settings in your Administration Menu. Options -> PHPExec

Executing PHP Codes In WordPress Widget Sidebar

Installation

Download the plugin.
Rename execphp.txt to execphp.php
Upload to /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plug-in from WordPress administration menu

Usage

This plug-in work like a normal text widget except that it allows execution of PHP Codes. You can create up to 9 instances of this widget.

Desktop Fun: Dark Skies theme for Windows 7

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Add some dark colors, mystery and foreboding to your computer desktop with the Dark Skies theme for Windows 7.

This set of wallpapers comes with 10 high-resolution images of dark horizons and flocks or birds burst forth across the sky, seeming to portend doom, and also cows.

Did you know that dark colors in your screen will save energy in your computer? This is the right set of wallpapers that can help you save battery in your laptop. Use the download link below to get this dark wallpapers.

Dark Skies theme direct download link