How most bloggers achieve visitors and traffic

Having a top rank in Google is the holy grail for anyone who has a website. Organic Google traffic is free advertising and how most bloggers (especially those just starting out) achieve visitors and traffic to their site. It all comes down to a simple numbers game. Essentially, more traffic = more money-making opportunities from your blog. The question is, how do you get ranked higher for my blog posts using Blogger?
Before I tell you how, let me give you a quick lesson is search engine optimization (aka SEO). There are two main components: “off-page” and “on-page” optimization. “Off-page” SEO refers to tactics such as link building. The more websites that

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6 Ways To Stay Focused on blog

 



 

In November, guest blogger Alvia Lopez talked about warding off and curing blogger's block (check out the post here: Tips To Fight Blogger Block). Sometimes, though, blogger's block isn't about vision, audience, or the need to reinvent your blog. In fact, most days, it's just about distractions.

Arguably, this isn't blogger's block at all but just that: distractions. These include kids, roommates, the phone that won't stop ringing, and the cat that keeps meowing at you for the expensive wet food instead of that dried nonsense you scoop out of a bag. Your friend assumes that because you doing some work from home, you won't mind working until 5 AM and spending the afternoon helping him deal with his infestation problem instead of working.You sleep in the next day until noon but figure, what's another three hours? and end up getting absolutely nothing accomplished for your blog the entire week.

Still, whether it's distractions or blogger's block, it's important to have as many things working for rather than against you when working from the comfort of your own home.

The key to successfully working at home? Don't get too comfortable. It's easy to imagine yourself working from the couch in pajamas and pink bunny slippers, but it doesn't work this way. When you work from the couch in your pajamas in front of the TV, you spend hours watching Gordon Ramsey screaming at people instead of blogging, you spill your coffee and waste time looking for your household cleaners instead of writing advertisements, and you fall asleep at 3 o' clock in your post-lunch funk.

Prep yourself for productivity and success by pretending that you work a real job from a real office.

6 Ways To Stay Focused

1. Take a shower, brush your teeth, and wear deodorant. You wouldn't go to the office smelling like a subway, would you? Feeling clean is refreshing and will make you feel less like falling asleep on the job.

2. Wear clothes that you could imagine wearing to lunch with an old friend to a nice café. You don't need to wear heels or cufflinks—just something that's comfortable when you sit up but not so comfortable that it makes you want to lie down.

3. Work at a desk. If you don't have one, get one, and don't work at the kitchen table. That's for eating; a desk is for working. Find a desk and a chair with lumbar support on Craigslist or a used furniture store. If you don't work from an office with a desk, how are you supposed to pretend that you're doing important things that are getting you a paycheck?

4. Don't accept calls from friends or relatives unless it's during your lunch hour or after your designated work hours. You wouldn't accept them if you were working from behind a desk under your boss's nose.

5. Take fifteen minute breaks after two hours of work. Don't spend them at your desk; take the dog for a walk, do some yoga, or clean the kitchen. Doing something on your feet will refresh you from the eye strain and sitting of desktop work.

6. Keep a tally of what you've accomplished by day's end. Before leaving your desk for the day, write down your goals for the next day. Writing down a to-do list will remind you that you have to wake up when the alarm goes off the next morning instead of hitting snooze thirty times.

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Know How to Create a Blogging Community

When we blog, we must try to create a thriving blogging community. In other words, it's important that we can access a network of like-minded bloggers who can help us if we need help and vice versa. In this case, blogging then becomes more than simply writing and publishing on our own blogs; instead, it becomes an activity that allows you and other bloggers to join together into a community of voices. Once this happens, you can really see how powerful blogging truly is.

But how do you create this thriving community? Follow these tips to see if you get any ideas.

Reach Out To Professional Bloggers

One way that we can help create a thriving blogging community is to reach out to those bloggers who are more established, who have taken the time to work themselves into positions of influence. If you can make a strong connection with them, then you might be able to leverage that connection into a strong network of bloggers who can begin to join together to support one another via their blogs. Established bloggers should help younger bloggers; it is essential to the health of the community.

Respond to Commenters

Another way to make others feel as though they are part of a blogging community is to respond to them directly in the comments section of your blog. This will make your blog into an open place of discussion, and it will give you a good reputation as someone who fosters and respects that discussion. Then, when you go to other blogs, people will remember your name because you responded to them openly and let them speak their minds.

Write Posts in Reaction to Others

If you read a really interesting post at another blog that you like, then you should consider writing a post in direct response to that post. This will help create a connection between your blog and that other blog, which will further strengthen your blogging community. The other blogger will hopefully see that you've written a response and engage you in conversation, either in the comments section or at his or her own blog, thus further extending the conversation.

Create a Local Blogger Meet-Up

You can also foster community among bloggers by organizing a local meet and greet in real life. This might at first be a little weird, since many of us are so used to interacting online, but it could be a great way to talk about things other than blogging. There's something nice about seeing others in real life who have committed so much to building a blogging community. It can rejuvenate a community.

Share Link Love

Finally, as a blogger who is interested in building a blogging community, you should do your best to share link love as much as possible, especially with those bloggers whom you respect. Sharing link love will help search engines track your blogs and it will also show readers that you have a larger blog network that is an important part of the community.

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6 Tips To Heart-Stopping Post Titles

 

Don’t judge a book by its cover is such a trite adage.  While there’s merit to it, most people—especially in the blogosphere—don’t heed it.  An ugly blog with scrunched up images and missing links aren’t going to get awards.  Similarly, readers who come across boring blog post titles will say, “Meh,” and go back to Facebook.  Like it or not, your post title is your book cover, and unless it’s made of gold, your post will go unread, unappreciated, unloved.Make sure your posts get the love they deserve by giving it an appropriate title.

6 Tips To Heart-Stopping Post Titles

1. Be friends with your thesaurus.  Instead of writing “5 Great Ways to Blahblahblah,” look up words that convey more urgency, thrill, and drama.  For example, instead of great, use awesome, striking, jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, etc.

2. Note that some words are just inherently more eye-catching than others.  Many comedians agree that some words (or even some letters) are funnier than others.  For example, Dave Barry in his book Dave Barry Talks Back takes one phrase (“Richard Nixon wearing a necktie”) and then makes it funnier: “Richard Nixon wearing a neck weasel.”  In another example, the word brouhaha is funnier than uproar.  Canoodle is funnier than hug.  Smithereens is funnier than pieces. You get the point.

3. Keep it short and simple, unless long, complex, and tongue-in-cheek is the angle you’re going for; this does have its place, but that place is probably not your particular blog post title.  Needlessly complicated titles indicate similarly complicated blog posts and are a sign to readers: this post was written by a) an amateur blogger or b) a self-indulgent blogger.

4. Take risks.  Dare to tell readers that this single post will change their blogging habits forever.  Dare to tell them that the following 5 points are the only things they need to know about solar energy.  Dare to tell them what to do: “Stay Productive While Working from Home!”

5. Use lists, numbers, and bullet points in your post, and use numbers in your post title.  Instead of “Ways to Make Your Blog Not Suck, “ readers will instinctively gravitate to something more substantial: “7 Ways to Make Your Blog Not Suck.”  Moreover, numbers are promising: they promise a certain number of things, and readers love certainty. 
Besides, most readers like to open a blog post, read the key points, and go on about their day.  Few people in the blogosphere are interested in a novel at that particular point in time.  Lists of some sort break up long, boring text and draw in the eye.  Even if readers don’t read the rest of the blog, they’ll at least read the list.

6. Keep it honest.  Don’t promise something to the reader in the title and fail to deliver it in the post.  Are the tips really that awesome, or have you merely regurgitated what another, more hard-working blogger wrote two months ago?  Are there really 7 ways to make your blog not suck, or are there more

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Important Tips For Using Labels On Your Blog

 

Every time you write a post on your blog you have the option to add some Labels to that post.While most Bloggers don't give much thought to the labels they use and some don't add any labels at all they can be very beneficial to your blog in a number of ways, but only if used correctly.Using labels in the correct manner can help your blogs performance in Search, leading to more traffic and labels can be a great way for visitors to navigate your blog keeping them browsing through your archive.So by simply following a few rules and putting some thought into the labels you select you can get more traffic to your blog and increased page views from that traffic.

Lets look at some of the mistakes i see made all the time.

Using Long Labels - Your labels should be short using the minimum number of words possible.Examples i have seen such as "Going To The Shop" Should Be simply "Shopping" then that label can be added to a more wide range of future posts.


Non Specific Labels - Above we changed "Going To The Shop" to "Shopping" and not only did this make it shorter it also made it more specific.A label i seen on a Great art blog recently was "Stuff I Drew This Week" ...Hmmm... Would "Latest" Or "Latest Work" Or "Latest Drawings" not work better ?.

Too Many Labels - A huge percentage of Bloggers are guilty of this, basically thinking More is Better.Are you one of those that think if i add Tons of labels to every post it will help ? I know i was when i started Blogging in the dark old days.In fact lots of labels are just messy and of no benefit whatsoever.

No Labels - Yes from one extreme to another while some people think they should keep adding labels until they are told to stop others just don't bother or don't understand.Labels are important and as i said when used properly can be a great benefit to your blog.

So how should you use your labels ? - A great example of how helpful Labels can be and how it works is my Blogger Templates Site called BestBloggerTemplates.Net.On BestBloggerTemplates.Net i have hundreds of Templates in lots of different styles.While some visitors like to browse through all the templates most have a specific type of template in mind.To accommodate this i have broke all the templates into Categories simply using Labels.

Here are some examples -  I add the label Two-Column to any template with Two Columns, Left-Sidebar to any template with a left sidebar, Black to any Black colored templates, Simple to all the plain and simple templates, Magazine to templates with a Magazine layout, Featured-Slider to templates that have a Featured Posts Slider added.In all i use 63 different labels on the template site and every time i publish a new template i pick 5-6 labels from that 63.

BestBloggerTemplates.Net Labels

Now if you visit BestBloggerTemplates.Net looking for a template that would be good to display your Photographs you can click on the label 'Photography' and be presented with a list of templates.

So lets quickly step away from Templates and look at some other examples, On a cookery blog you can use labels like Breakfast, Dinner, Supper and Snacks for people looking to cook a specific meal.Use Italian, Chinese, American to find recipes by country.If your latest recipe was a Hot Curry Dish you would add Chinese and Dinner and all future Chinese Recipes and Dinner recipes will be categorized with it.

By now you should be seeing how specific labels can help visitors navigate your blog.You can also see how a label such as "Going To The Shop" would be of no help.


So how can the use of proper labels help your blog in search ? - There are a number of ways not least the labels pages.When you click on a label and are presented with a list of posts using that label the list of posts are on a 'Label Page'.This page of course has it's own URL and so is another page of your blog.Another page for readers to view and increase page views but also another page for Search Engines to crawl.Each label page will be crawled and indexed by Google and the other main search engines and in some cases a popular label page can rank quiet high in search results.

Linking To Labels - Do you Bookmark or build links to your blog posts ? As i often mention here on Spice Up Your Blog you should be Building Links to your content.Building links to your Labels Pages is also a great idea.This can be a unique way for people to Land On and Discover your blog and of course the search engines will follow the links you create to those pages.


Formatting - You may have noticed when i gave examples of the Labels from BestBloggerTemplates.net the labels with two words were separated by a Hyphen or Dash.Why ? Well it's really a personal thing and i use it on all my blogs.By using the Hyphen you are making the URL much tidier as a space between the words will be automatically filled up.

With Hyphen : http://www.99blogger.com/search/label/Social-Media


Without Hyphen : http://www.99blogger.com/search/label/Social%20Media

I do hope this post helps you understand just how beneficial the labels you use on your blog can be when used correctly.If your labels are a mess or you just didn't use them get to work on it straight away and you will soon see the benefits.
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How to Get High Search Engine Rankings ? Do a Keyword Density Analysis of your Blog Post

It is said that “The better the keyword density, the higher your page ranking or higher search engine rankings may be”. High Search Engine Rankings can be obtained only by producing keyword rich content. To ensure high search engine rankings one has to properly optimize his post such that a particular set of keywords attain the maximum density in the post.

Ensure High Search Engine Rankings

With millions of Internet pages all trying to capture the same reader’s attention, it is more than important to rank highly on search engines. The best way to climb in rank and get high search engine rankings is with the appropriate keyword density. Checking a text’s or a Post’s keyword density is a quick and easy task.

Textalyser – “Welcome to the online text analysis tool, the detailed statistics of your text, perfect for translators (quoting), for webmasters (ranking) or for normal users, to know the subject of a text. Now with new features as the analysis of words groups, finding out the keyword density, analyze the prominence of word or expressions and thus ensure high search engine rankings. Webmasters can analyze the links on their pages”.

How to get High Search Engine Rankings

1. Collect your words. Before you can check a document’s keyword density, you will need to collect the document. If the document is in written form, the text will need to be typed into a word processing program before checking the keyword density.
2. Visit the Textalyser website (see Links below).
3. Copy and paste your document into the provided empty box. This box should contain the entire document you wish to check for proper keyword density.
4. Read the results. The Textalyser tool offers a plethora of information about the document you analyze. Scrolling down the page, the program will give the top keywords and their total density for the document.

Tip :

If the keyword density is too low, try adding a few more keywords and recheck.

Always add keywords to the word processor file on your computer and save.

Never change the document only in the Textalyser box.

If you are concerned about how your website or Blog’s Search Engine Rankings for specific search phrases, but have never used a keyword density analyzer, the Textalyser is what you are missing. So, next time remember about search engine Optimization in Posts of your Blog

Hope these tips will get you High Search Engine Rankings. What do you think,  Which phrase has been repeated in this Post to ensure High Keyword Density and which phase in this Post will help me in high search engine rankings.

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How to Improve Alexa Ranking for New Blogs - 5 Power Tips

Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, which includes a meter traffic and importance of a given web page, as with Google PageRank. Recently, I wrote an article on how to optimize the google pagerank . The Alexa ranking usually increases according to the number of users who visit a given page with the Alexa Toolbar installed.

The increase in Alexa Ranking is important only as a commercial vehicle. Networks and many webmasters are concerned about the Alexa ranking of pages in that they use it as an indicator of the value and relevance of a given page.

5 Powerful Ways to Improve your Alexa Ranking for Newer Blogs 

Probably some of the ways and techniques to improve the Alexa ranking has been described in this first article. Only in this way is that you will attract readers and users interested in learning it. Increasing or improving the rankings is important, but never forget that more important than that is your audience. Work with her and for her, with quality and dedication. The rankings are the work of background.

Install the Alexa toolbar – As already mentioned, install the Alexa toolbar will help you increase your own ranking Alexa. Set as your home page, because that will make you also add a few extra points.

Place the widget on the Blog Sidebar – Placing the widget helps Alexa by the promotion of the service and increase your ranking. Every page view is counted by the widget making Alexa update your blog’s rankings more quickly.

Use Alexa redirection – Try putting this link on your websites http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http://www.xyz.com , by replacing the address of your website or blog. You can place the link or hidden at the end of each post for example. Each click will be counted as a visit and is told only 1 visit per IP.

Optimizing posts old – If you have any post older, receiving tens or hundreds of visitors every day, because it is well positioned in search engines, enjoy it by putting a widget or a link to the Alexa ranking.

Talk to the administrators of local cybercafes – and propose a monthly or annual plan to install the Alexa toolbar on all computers, and set your blog as homepage. Although this type of agreement is not as easy to achieve, results are very interesting and positive.

What do you think of improving Alexa ranking ?

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How to Increase Blog Traffic

When people give advice on increasing blog traffic, usually they will tell you things like: "Write what you know" or "Send good posts to higher traffic blogs" or some such thing. Sure, that work on occasion, but I’ve found that Increasing the Traffic to a Blog requires some Skills which you Must Acquire and Know About…

Skills or Things that Should Be Known.

I have seen for the past few Days I have been following my own articles which I wrote and Has Definitely Boosted My Blog Traffic.

• Simple & Easy Ways to Improve your Blog and its Traffic and Visitors
• Translation Widget for Your Blog – Give Translation Options to your foreign Visitors
• What to Do when there is Nothing to Blog about – 10 easy Tips
• A Summary of Tips & Tricks to Improve your Blog and Increase Its Traffic – How to get More From Less ?
• How to Increase Feed/RSS Subscribers to Your Blog – Tip 1
• 5 Best-est SEO Tips for every Blogger – Get More Search Traffic to your Blog
• Are You Tracking your Blog Visitors ? – You Should – Check Out Why ?

Hope these Articles will Help you a Lot in Increasing your Blog Traffic. Do Write in your Comments …

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How to Calculate Actual Daily Visitors of a Site using Alexa Traffic Details ?

Previously, I had posted about how to improve alexa ranking for new blogs. Today, I have a very interesting Article for you which will help you to Find How much Traffic a Site Gets using Traffic Details from Alexa.

The Simple Formula to Calculate Daily Traffic from Alexa Traffic Details

Step 1 – Go to http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/xyz.com (Replace xyz.com with your Site Name) . Click Reach

Step 2 – Find the “1 month’s Avg” (one month’s average) See Pic Below.

Here My Blogs “1 month avg” = 0.00125

Step 3 - Multiply the figure with 545454

For Eg. I am multiplying my own 1 month avg with 545454. ie 0.00125 x 545454 = 681 (daily unique visitors). Wow this is almost 90% accurate.

For My Old Blog Realtrix ie, 0.00278 x 545454 = 1518 (daily unique visitors). That’s again 96% accurate.

Similarly I found Amit Agarwal’s Labnol.Org is 0.0296 x 545454 = 16,145 (daily unique visitors). I don’t know how accurate it is but seems accurate upto 60%. I have heard labnol gets more than 30k visits per day.

PS : I can’t guarantee that the results will also be positive for all sites. But its worth a try.

So, What Your Alexa Say ? Reply in Comments…

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Get Traffic from Facebook - Automatically Submit New Blog Posts in your Facebook Wall

Facebook is a really nice way to get traffic to your blog. Traffic from Facebook mainly means your friends visiting and people searching on facebook. So it implies only certain category of posts will attract traffic from facebook.

Although I don’t get any visits from facebook on my daily tech related posts. But some posts work well. The 3 post which gave me a good number of hits are Bollywood Bloggers in India, Register for MTV Roadies Battleground and Why Obama is the Coolest.

Getting Traffic to your Blog using Facebook

Well these posts are very much Offtopic but atleast they gave me some traffic from facebook friends and users. Hence I suggest that your submit your blogs’ feed to your facebook notes, so that your facebook wall is updated automatically updated when new posts are published in your blog.

 How to Add Blog Feed to Facebook Notes and Publish The Automatically in your Facebook Wall

If you haven’t placed your blog feed to facebook can follow the steps below :

Login to your facebook account, point to Tab Settings on the menu bar, and then select Application Settings.

 On the page appears, click the application of Notes.

 Find Notes Settings on up right, and then click Import a blog.

 On the page of Import an External Blog enter your blog feed address into the Web URL (For eg: http://www.telabela.com/feed)

 Then click Start Importing button. On the page appears, click Confirm Import at the bottom of the page.

After This whenever you post something in your blog it will be updated to your facebook wall automatically. A Nice way to promote your Blog. Very Helpful if you have large number of friends in your facebook friend list.

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How to Stop Someone From Sending you Scraps on Orkut ? How to Ignore someone on Orkut ?

Recently, one of my friends was being Bugged with some Sort of Annoying Scraps being send by some unknown person. Even I had this problem once when a guy was sending me loads of “unwanted” and Irritating Scraps. In case if you are facing the same you should know How to Stop Someone From Sending you Scraps on Orkut ?

Previously, on orkut there wasn’t much options for your orkut security. But now, a lot of strict measures & new security measures along various Privacy Options on orkut have made orkut a bit more Safer.

Getting Back to the Topic, Well you can Easily Stop an Unknown person from Sending you Scraps Just By Ignoring Him/Her.

How to Ignore someone on Orkut ?
Step 1 : First go to his/her profile, a look for more » in the profile
(given just below the display pic – see screenshot – left)

Step 2 : Then click on more » . After clicking it will bring up a few Options (see screenshot – right)

Step 3 : Now, Click Ignore User from the list.
(see screenshot – right)

Step 4 : Finally, that person will be in your Ignore List.
(see screenshot below).
This means he/she won’t be able to scrap you or send you unwanted friend requests any more.

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Facebook Trick: Find Out Who Deleted you from FriendList

Check Who Removed You from their Facebook Friends List

Facebook Friends Checker userscript for firefox regularly checks your Facebook friends to check

whether anyone has removed you from their friends just to find who stops following you on twitter.

Facebook Trick: Find Out Who Deleted you from FriendList

Requirements : Firefox, Facebook Friends Checker, keeps track of when you get removed from

someone else’s friend list by regularly checking to see exactly who is de-friending you.

When the script detects that someone you used to be friends with is no longer one of your friends,

a message will appear informing you about who it was and giving a link to their profile page.

The script checks by default once per hour when on Facebook, but this time can be increased through :

Tools > Greasemonkey > User script commands… > Set time interval to check for removed friends…

> Facebook Friend Checker Script : Install.

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Unhide Facebook Notifications, Status Updates in News Feed

Previously, in post about enhancing facebook user performance we

mentioned that one could hide status updates from friends or applications they disliked.

But, in case you want them back here is a quick guide to unhide status updates, notifications

of friends and apps. in the news feed (home page).

Unhide Previously Hidden News Feed Status Updates from Friends, Apps

1. On the Home page, scroll Down to the very bottom of the page and click Edit Options.
   
2. Select Either Friends, Pages, or Applications from the top of the list.
3. Locate the Friend, Page or Application that you wish to unhide and click the associated
4. Add To News Feed button.
   
5. Click the Close button.

Now, you will be able to unhide the status messages you were missing out from your news feed.

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How to Subscribe to Facebook Notification Feed

The best thing I like about facebook updates is their Notification system which alerts you whenever

someone comments, posts on your wall replies etc. anything related to you. So if you want to stay more

connected to your facebook notifications the best way would be to generate a rss feed of

your notifications and subscribe it via any rss reader.

How to Subscribe to Facebook Notification Feed

Step 1 : Login into your FB account.

Step 2 : Go to facebook.com/notifications.php. It will open an daily archive of your notifications.

Step 3 : On your right you will see a subscription box with two ways to subscribe to the notification feed.

Step 4 : Select the subscription method you like. To Subscribe via Google Reader etc click "via RSS".

Step 5 : Now add that feed generated to Google reader or any other feed reader you are using.

That’s All. Now you will receive your facebook notification updates right in your RSS reader.

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How to Add a Email Subscribe Button Below Blog Posts - Let people follow you through Feeds

Many People have Asked me this ,and today after Prateek asked “how to add
which you have added to end of your blog posts.” , I decided to Post it here.
Adding this will increase the chances of visitors to subscribe to your blog feeds hence improve your Blog Traffic.

Step 1 : Its really simple, Just add the Following Code from the Text File given Below…

Copy The Code : EmailSubscribeButtonCode.txt – Click

Step 2 : Now look for <p><data:post.body/></p> in the template. Make sure to “Expand Widget Template” in the Edit HTML page.

Now add the code given below, just beneath <p><data:post.body/></p>
Save your Template.

Step 3 : Now in the template Look For

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1671967

This is my blog’s Feed Burner Subscription link. Replace This with yours.

Ok, Now Save your template… If you face any problems freely ask in the Contact Form Below.

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The Simplest & Smartest Way to Add a Digg Button to your Blog Posts - Enjoy the power of Digg for every Post

If you

want to add a Digg Button to your Post , then follow the simple Steps as Given Below.
For Example .. A screenshot of my friends blog

 

• First log into your Blogger Dashboard.
• Go to layout.
• Then Click Edit HTML.
• Mark ‘Expand Widget Temlates‘ .
• Now search for the following code… <p><data:post.body/></p>
• Now place the following Code just Above (before) <p><data:post.body/></p>

<div style=’float:right; margin-left:10px;’>
<script type=’text/javascript’>
digg_url = ‘<data:post.url/>’;
digg_window = ‘new’;
</script>
<script src=’http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js’ type=’text/javascript’/>
</div>

• Now Save your Template.

Enjoy !! ..

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How to Show the total Number of Posts & Comments in your Blog ?

I installed this widget today and I must say its really working Well for me. A Simple hack but really a Must Have for all your Blogs. This widget show the total number of Blog Post Published and the Total number of Comments In your blog.

Well, one good this is that more people are subscribing to my Blog Feeds after adding this to my Blog. See Pic Below.

Follow the Steps Given Below to Install the Widget :

1.Log in to your Blogger account.
2.In your Blogger Dashboard, click on the "Layout" link.
3.This will bring you to the "Page Elements" tab. Decide where you want to insert the statistics widget and click on the "Add a Gadget" link accordingly.
4.Scroll down the list and click on "HTML/JavaScript" button.
5.This will open the "Configure HTML/JavaScript" window. In the title section, please type "Blog Statistics" or "Blog Information" or "Blog Data" or any title you wish to.
6.In the content section, copy & paste the following code exactly:

<script style="text/javascript">
function numberOfPosts(json) {
document.write(‘Total Posts: <b>’ + json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t + ‘</b><br>’);
}
function numberOfComments(json) {
document.write(‘Total Comments: <b>’ + json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t + ‘</b><br>’);
}
</script>
<ul><li><script src="http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=numberOfPosts"></script></li>
<li><script src="http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=numberOfComments"></script></li></ul>
<center><span style="font-size:75%;"><a href="http://www.snaphow.com/" rel=”dofollow”>Get This Widget</a></span></center>

7.Remember to replace the text "yourblog" with your blog address. Note that you replace it in two locations.
8.Click on "Save" button and Check your blog.

You will see a small widget in your sidebar with the "Total Posts" n "Total Comments".

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Related Posts with Thumbnails for Blogger

Related Posts with Thumbnails for Blogger

Displaying the links to related posts along with a thumbnail of the

corresponding post will help you increase the page views/user .Users will be tempted to go for the

 related posts when they are presented attractively with thumbnails.

This is another first release from me.This one also uses the media thumbnails generated by blogger for each post.

For displaying the thumbnails,this widget will use the images uploaded for the post using the

blogger image uploader(from the post editor) [Update - Now supports external images also.]

Related Posts Widget with Thumbnails for Blogger

Here are the detailed steps to install the related posts widget for blogger with thumbnails

1.First of all Login to your blogger dashboard and navigate to Layout > Edit HTML and

check the "Expand Widget Templates" check box

2.Now look for

</head>

and replace it with

<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles Start--> <!-- remove --><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> <style type="text/css"> #related-posts { float:center; text-transform:none; height:100%; min-height:100%; padding-top:5px; padding-left:5px; }  #related-posts h2{ font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Georgia, &#8220;Times New Roman&#8221;, Times, serif; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0em; padding-top: 0em; } #related-posts a{ color:black; } #related-posts a:hover{ color:black; }  #related-posts  a:hover { background-color:#d4eaf2; } </style> <script type='text/javascript'> var defaultnoimage="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u4gySN2ZgqE/SosvnavWq0I/AAAAAAAAArk/yL95WlyTqr0/s400/noimage.png"; var maxresults=5; var splittercolor="#d4eaf2"; var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts"; </script> <script src='http://blogergadgets.googlecode.com/files/related-posts-with-thumbnails-for-blogger-pro.js' 

type='text/javascript'/> <!-- remove --></b:if> <!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles End--> </head>

3.Now Find

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

If you cant find it then try finding this one

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

Now immediately after any of these lines(whichever you could find) place this code snippet

<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code Start--> <!-- remove --><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> <div id='related-posts'> <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'> <b:if cond='data:label.isLast != &quot;true&quot;'> </b:if> <script expr:src='&quot;/feeds/posts/default/-/&quot; + data:label.name + 

"?alt=json-in-script&callback=related_results_labels_thumbs&

max-results=6&quot;' type='text/javascript'/></b:loop> <script type='text/javascript'> removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs(); printRelatedLabels_thumbs(&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;); </script> </div><div style='clear:both'/> <!-- remove --></b:if>  <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'><b:if cond='data:post.isFirstPost'> <a href='http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/08/related-posts-thumbnails-blogger-widget.html'>

<img style="border: 0" alt="Related Posts Widget For Blogger with 

Thumbnails" src="http://image.bloggerplugins.org/blogger-widgets.png" /></a>

<a href='http://bloggertemplates.bloggerplugins.org/' ><img style="border: 0" 

alt="Blogger Templates" src="http://image.bloggerplugins.org/blogger-templates.png" /></a> </b:if></b:if> <!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code End-->

4.You can adjust the maximum number of related posts being displayed by editing this line in the code.

var maxresults=5;

5.To edit the title of the widget you can change this line of code

var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";

6.To change the default thumbnail, you can edit this line of code

var defaultnoimage="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Z5B80kWiHZ2iOkn5tu3XBWO9KWgZctlYwMqztjwAyVhZdq8b72C2z5sa5eu_yLuTZyYRbieSCgpvQpN-OrPezGPkaAiD6Ajlj34LyUvNbWtVh2s2X_s9DlQPnBU1hBiYA2KZ3sTYetc/s400/noimage.png";

7.To Change the Colour of the Splitter Line , edit

var splittercolor="#d4eaf2";

To change the other colours and all you will have to modify the CSS

If you fall into troubles implementing this,don't panic.. :) .

just leave me a comment here and i will help you out. If you like to give me any suggestions on

how to improve this widget,then it would be really great.

How to display the related posts on every page and not only on the post pages?

Just remove the two lines starting with <!-- remove --> from both step 3 and step 2.

that is lines

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

and

<!-- remove --></b:if>

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Best Related Posts Widget for Blogger – Show Simlar Articles Below Blog Posts Plugin

A relatively easy method of increasing page views on your blog is to add a list of related posts below each article or displaying them in the SideBar. Now there is a Related Post Plugin for WordPress but there is no such one officially available for Blogger. So here is the Solution. This offers readers a ready-made reading list of other articles on your blog, which are of a similar theme or subject matter.

Installing Related Posts for Blogger Widget for your BlogSpot Blog

Installation

 

Option 1 – Add Related Posts Widget to Sidebar

Step 1. Click the button below

  

Step 2. Move the new sidebar widget to a position you like

The new sidebar widget will be created at top of your sidebar, you may want to move it a better place. Remember to save. Tip: You actually can drag this sidebar widget and drop onto after Blog Posts widget, then this widget will show up after comments.

Step 3. Go to one of your blog post

You have to see it in action in single post, you will not see the Related Posts list in your home page of your blog. Just randomly choose one of your blog post.

Option 2 – Add Related Posts just below your Post Content

Step 1. Go to Layout/Edit HTML/Edit Template Step 2. BACKUP your template! Do not skip this! Step 3. Check Expand Widget Templates, then Find a block like:

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/>  ...</div>

Step 4. Add one more line to be:

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/>  ...</div><div id='related_posts'/>

Step 5. Go to the end for:

</body></html>

Step 6. Add two more lines to be:

<script src='http://www.google.com/jsapi'/><script src='http://brps.appspot.com/brps.js' type='text/javascript'/></body></html>

Depending Upon whether you install the Related Post Blogger widget in the Sidebar or Below the Post, you can also make customizations according to your Need by looking Below. Enjoy !!

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Customizing Related Posts Widget Plugin's Title & Number of Posts (Optional)

By default, if your blogs are written in English, you should be more likely having no need to customize the widget title. However, if your blog is not a normal blog or not in English. For example, it's a food/cuisine/etc or written in Japanese. You could set the title to Related Recipes or 関連記事 (translated by Google Translate). Here is how you can do that: Change the original code:

<script src='http://www.google.com/jsapi'></script><script src='http://brps.appspot.com/brps.js' type='text/javascript'/>

into

<script src='http://www.google.com/jsapi'></script><script type="text/javascript">window.brps_options = {  "title": "<h2>Hey! Check out my other related posts!</h2>"  "max_results": 5  }</script><script src='http://brps.appspot.com/brps.js' type='text/javascript'/>

Notice that we have a new <script> block. You can also use HTML in it, you may need to as shown above since normal Blogger widgets use <h2> as title. If you don't use, the widget may look different. "max_results": 5 = Number of Related Posts you Want to Show

Advanced Design CSS Customization of Related Posts Widget for Blogger Plugin (Optional)

The DOM looks like:

div#related_posts h2 /* By default. If you customize brps_options["title"], it will be whatever you set */ ul  li

If you want to set CSS of every related post item of list:

#related_posts ul li {  /* CSS here */  font-family: Arial;  font-size: 1.2em;  font-weight: bold;  color: #888;  }

If you want to set CSS of default title of list:

#related_posts h2 {  /* CSS here */  }

Why Should you Install the "Related Posts Widget for Blogger" ?

• More Click Through Ratio (CTR) for your Pages
• More CTR = More Adsense Impressions.
• Gives Readers easy Navigation (about what to read next )
• Makes your Posts Sticky

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BloggingTips: Writing Effective Articles to Advertise your Blog

One essential tip in blogging is learning how to write interesting articles to advertise your blog. This tips works for promoting blogs as well as advertising your Squidoo lens, your Facebook page and other links.

Blogging Tip #1 – Language is Important

Consider your skill in writing. It’s a fact that in the online world; most users can’t even write in English: they know how to communicate in English but not in a readable article. A badly written email or blog might work if the message is good and easily understandable, but not an article.

This is actually a problem since not only do most internet users don’t understand English, but they also have a lot to offer to us that do. In these cases, hiring a writer is an option. Though this, they write your articles in return for you translating one of theirs into your language and submitting it in your country.

Just be watchful of your deals with writers. Remember, that’s blogging tip #1:  communicate as effectively as you can, even in different languages if you can make it happen.

Tip #2 – Give the Right Message

Write your articles in a way that they deliver your intended message. Writing your articles can be done in two ways:  Seriously, where you will make a fortune, or jokingly, where in you will give your readers a laugh, that helps in persuading them to return.

By doing this, you will get good comments thread going on with your topic. The trick is to write in such a way that interests readers, even if you write in a silly way.

Try to consider these examples: Monty Python got to be a world-wide phenomenon because of their silliness, and the same was true of Basil Fawlty, the Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy.

Tip #3 – Try to choose your mood

If you’re no good in being silly, then try being serious, but in writing such articles you have to be accurate with your facts considering that serious readers are very watchful for mistakes and accuracy of the article.

Try to write authoritatively on the topic of your blog. If you don’t have much idea on this, then get your content online and change it to be uniquely yours. The main point here is that you’re providing readers with useful information that benefits the reader. Aid them in solving a problem or save them time in what they are currently working on.

Tip #4 – Be more Informative than Videos

Remember that you’re competing against audio and video. One good tip is that you should consider what audio and video cannot provide, and then provide it.

Here’s an example:

You’re offering statistics on how much money your products save customers that purchase it. This can be more prominent when represented in bold red letters, maybe in italics and underlined, than just shown via audio or video.

Tip #5 – Write From the Heart

Write naturally:

Write what comes into your head as you write on a topic that you love. Don’t be too conscious of your articles spelling or content, otherwise, this can result to getting your article to appear stilted and unnatural.

Correction of the mistakes in an article can come in later, when writing, let everything flow from your heart without the constraints of online article writing rules.

Remember that it’s a blog and not an essay, most of your readers will be as good at English grammar as you are!  Take that in any way you like to – it came from the heart!

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