Related Post widget For Blogger

The power of suggestion may be the strongest way to make someone do something. It's like your friend asking you to visit a website or watch a video : you will do it 90 % of the time, right? Using that technique, we can encourage visitors on our blog to read even more posts! How? Using a simple recommendation widget of course! Putting it strategically below each post (where readers usually end up after reading the current post) can tell readers what to do next. In this case, putting numerous links with pictures of your other posts can influence readers to go and read your other posts! However, most people don't know how to code such widgets, so there are websites that can help you make these widgets for FREE! Here they are

Outbrain
Outbrain is a simple widget that allows you to customize certain features of your widget before putting it on your blog. It is compatible with many platforms such as blogger, Drupal, Wordpress, Typepad and Squarespace. You can also get the Javascript code manually and install it to your blog/website. They allow you to insert certain features such as star ratings or like buttons. The design is also very modern and suitable for any blog layout.

LinkWithin
LinkWithin is one of the most popular choices for this kind of widget for bloggers. However, I don't see why. It is easy to setup and all, but Outbrain has a much better design and no bugs as compared to LinkWithin, which shows even posts that you've deleted (yes, I had that before). Thus, I'm just going to put this here if you want to try it out.

Facebook Like Button Before Each Post

Add Facebook Like Button Before Each Post in Blogspot, Let's keep this short and simple. Facebook is AWESOME, everyone is using it, you want it to be connected to your blog. Alright! Let's get started!

Step 1
Locate this code in your HTML code (For blogger users, go to Design > Edit HTML. Then, tick expand widget templates) :

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


Step 2
Copy this code:

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

Step 3
Paste it after the code

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

Save You Work and Enjoy Your Facebook Shearing Button.

Google Sitemap For Blogger

Google is the best search engine. As google is used by most users so it is a great way to get new visitors to your blog. Adding your site to google webmaster tools increases your blog’s visibility in search engines which means more traffic.

Adding Google Sitemap

1. Login to Blogger Dashboard.

2. At the end of the page, under Tools and Resources box – Click on Webmaster Tools.

3. If asked, enter username and password again to Login.

4. Your Blogspot blog is now verified and it is added to Google Webmaster tools.

5. Inside Webmaster tools, click on Submit a Sitemap and add the following code inside the box:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

6. If you have more than 200 posts then replace value 100 by something bigger number like 500.

You have successfully added the Google Sitemap.

Meta Tag For Blogger

After My Last Post on SEO Friendly Blog Title today i am writing about Meta Tag For Blogger or Meta Tag For Blog. Meta Tag is little bit difference from HTML Meta Tag.

A meta tag that provides information about a Web page. The information that you provide in a meta tag is used by search that someone searching for the kind of information the page contains will be able to find it. The meta tag is placed near the top of the HTML in a Web page as part of the heading.

Adding Meta Tag For your Blog’s Home Page
Follow Some Steps to Change Some Code in Your Blog Template


Layout>edit HTML


Copy out the following code into a text file

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content="Your keywords separated by commas"
name="keywords"/>
<meta content="Your Site Description" name="description"/>
</b:if>

1.Replace Your keywords separated by commas with your site's keywords.
2.Replace Your Site Description with a good description of your site. 


Take into consideration the following character limits.
a)The maximum size of your site description should be 150 characters.
b) It would be better to limit the keyword size to 200 characters.


Now copy out the edited code and place it within the head section of your blogger template.. It would be appropriate to place it below the title tag code.

Blogger or Wordpress Who is the Best

A constant debate is simply Blogger vs Wordpress. My quick post here is going to give you my personal opinion on it, with no technical info.

I would first like to say I currently like Blogger more than Wordpress. Read on to find out why.
Well, I like Blogger (for now) is because it's a lot more flexible when hosted by the default company. In Wordpress.com, you cannot change the theme or install plugins. You can in Blogger. But of course when it's self-hosted, all that changes. Wordpress has millions of more features than Blogger, bigger userbase, better plugins. Blogger is great for small, quick posts while Wordpress is great (Amazing) for professionals and novices alike.

End? Use Blogger if you want the free hosting with more features on your blog. Have your own host? Wordpress is the only way to go.

How to Get More Traffic to Your Blog

You will need visitors to your site that are looking for exactly what you are offering, which is known as targeted traffic. Here are ten proven ways you can drive quality traffic to your affiliate marketing business site and increase your online income.

1. Write Articles For Your Own Blog

Well-written, informative how-to articles are proven traffic baits for affiliate marketing business sites. Use the resource box to provide additional links and include links in the content body to similar or additional information that can only be read on your site.

2. Create Email campaigns

Email campaigns, used carefully, can easily drive targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing business site. By providing highly relevant and valuable information in the body of the email message and then offering a link that will take the recipients to your site.

You can provide the full content in the email message and then offer a link inviting the recipient to view more similar write-ups on your site. Or give only a portion of the content in the email and offer the rest on your affiliate marketing site. A link in your signature should also be provided.

4. Ezines and Newsletters

Information is what people are searching for on the internet. By using proven methods to drive targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing business and offering a free ezine or newsletter about the subjects your visitors are interested in, will result in many visitors opting-in to receive your information.

Offer your visitors free bonuses such as eBooks for signing up to your free newsletter. Either use a separate landing page to handle the subscription process or have the subscription box placed above the fold on your website where it is clearly visible.

5. Use Discussion boards and forums

You can encourage other members to react and send you a reply by leaving useful and thought-provoking comments on discussion boards and forums. This will enable you to build a networking relationship from here. Be sure to sign with a link back to your affiliate marketing business website.

6. Social bookmarking sites

You will find that these sites are a rich source of targeted traffic that you can drive to your affiliate marketing business site. Your market demographics are also easier to define so sending out invitations to potential leads and members is much simpler.

7. Allow bookmarks on your web pages

You can drive traffic to your affiliate marketing site by allowing your readers to bookmark certain pages that contain good content. This will help promote those pages and your website to other people who might be interested in the same subjects.

8. Offer freebies!

Everybody loves a freebie! There’s nothing like a free gift to drive targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing site. It’s easy to implement and can be relatively cheap or even free. Also, you can offer these visitors an incentive to sign up for whatever campaign it is you are promoting.

SEO Friendly Blog Title

This is a simple things to make your title of your blog always SEO friendly.
Follow Some Steps to Change Some Code in Your Blog Template

Layout>edit HTML

Find code at your template

<data:blog.pageTitle/>

Replace With The Following

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>

<title><data:blog.title/></title>

<b:else/>

<title>>data:blog.pageName/></title>

</b:if>

Finished! Now you have an SEO-friendly page title.

Make Colorful Tables in BlogSpot

BlogSpot blogs are rich with options that gives you freedom to design and create whatever you want using CSS and HTML. Blogger post editor doesn't has the option of creating HTML tables but no worries we can make tables with rows and columns ourselves and not just dull grey tables, fully customized tables with background colors and smooth and neat edges and borders. This  tutorial will be divided in two parts for simplicity. The first part will give you basics of understanding the structure of tables and the second part will let you customize the tables. After reading both parts you will be able to create MS Excel type style sheets and much more.

How To Create HTML Tables For Blogger Blogs?

This is how a simple table code with 2 rows and 2 columns looks like,

<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400"><tbody>

   <tr>
      <td>Row 1, Column 1</td>

      <td>Row 1, Column 2</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>       <td>Row 2, Column 1</td>

      <td>Row 2, Column 2</td>
    </tr>

  </tbody></table>

This code will create the following table,

Row 1, Column 1	Row 1, Column 2
Row 2, Column 1	Row 2, Column 2

Now lets understand some basics of this HTML structure:
Understanding every basic is not required for you as bloggers so I would be sharing things that may not create confusion and yet prove really helpful.
(1)  The starting and ending brown highlighted areas shows the start and end of your table structure. Where I have set border="1" and if you don't want borders then set border="0". There you can also see cellspacing and cellpadding. Just let let as it is. To set width of the table you will need to control width="400"
(2)  The tag <tr> indicates a row and tag <td> indicates a column. In the above table you can see two columns in a single row. This is because I have added two <td> tags inside <tr>and </tr> . This part of code is represented by,

<tr>
      <td>1</td>

      <td>2</td>
    </tr>

If you wish to add 3 columns to a single row then we would add <td> thrice ,

<tr>
      <td>Column-1</td>

      <td>Column-2</td>

       <td>Column-3</td>
    </tr>

What if you want 2 Rows and each row contains 4 columns? Here goes the complete code,

<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400"><tbody>

<tr>
      <td>Column-1</td>

      <td>Column-2</td>

       <td>Column-3</td>

           <td>Column-4</td>

    </tr>

<tr>
      <td>Column-1</td>

      <td>Column-2</td>

       <td>Column-3</td>

       <td>Column-4</td>

    </tr>

  </tbody></table>

Two <tr> tags because we created two rows and 4 <td> tags in each row because we want 4 columns. The result would be,

Column-1	Column-2	Column-3	Column-4
Column-1	Column-2	Column-3	Column-4

That's all for this post. The next post will take you a level further in letting you understand how to add backgrounds to each table cell and I am sure you will like it more.

Increase Alexa Rank Tips

Below is quick tips  how to increase/reduce alexa rank:

1. Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.
2. Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks every day. According to some, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.
3. Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers. Be sure to link to Alexa’s full explanation of their toolbar and tracking system so your readers know what installing the toolbar or extension entails.
4. Work in an Office or own a company? Get the Alexa toolbar or SS Firefox extension installed on all computers and set your website as the homepage for all browsers. Perhaps it will be useful to note that this may work only when dynamic or different IPs are used.
5. Get friends to review and rate your Alexa website profile. Not entirely sure of its impact on rankings but it might help in some way.
6. Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic (i.e. visitors with the toolbar already installed). This gradually has effects on your Alexa ranking.
7. Flaunt your URL in webmaster forums. Webmasters usually have the toolbar installed. You’ll get webmasters to visit your website and offer useful feedback. It’s also a good way to give back to the community if you have useful articles to share with others.
8. Write content that is related to webmasters. This can fall in the category of domaining and SEO, two fields in which most webmasters will have the Alexa toolbar installed. Promote your content on social networking websites and webmaster forums.
9. Use Alexa Siteinfo on your website URL. Try this: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bungtutor.blogspot.com . Replace thebestsolver.com with the URL for your website. Leave this redirected URL in blog comments as well as forum signatures. This redirect will count a unique IP address once a day so clicking it multiple times won’t help. There is no official proof that redirects positively benefit your Alexa Rank, so use with caution.
10. Post in Asian social networking websites or forums. Some webmasters have suggested that East Asian web users are big Alexa toolbar fans, judging by the presence of several Asia-based websites in the Alexa Top 500. I suggest trying this only if you have the time or capacity to do so.
11. Create a webmaster tools section on your website. This is a magnet for webmasters who will often revisit your website to gain access to the tools. Aaron Wall’s webpage on SEOTools is a very good example.
12. Get Dugg or Stumbled. This usually brings massive numbers of visitors to your website and the sheer amount will have a positive impact on your Alexa Rank. Naturally, you’ll need to develop link worthy material.
13. Use PayperClick Campaigns. Buying advertisements on search engines such as Google or Exact Seek will help bring in Traffic. Doubly useful when your ad is highly relevant to webmasters.
14. Create an Alexa category on your blog and use it to include any articles or news about Alexa. This acts as an easily accessible resource for webmasters or casual search visitors while helping you rank in the search engines.
15. Optimize your popular posts. Got a popular post that consistently receives traffic from the search engines? Include a widget/graph at the bottom of the post, link to your Alexa post or use Alexa redirection on your internal URLs.
16. Buy banners and links for traffic from webmaster forums and websites. A prominent and well displayed ad will drive lots of webmaster traffic to your website, which can significantly boost your rank.
17. Hire forum posters to pimp your website. Either buy signatures in webmaster forums or promote specific articles or material in your website on a regular basis. You can easily find posters for hire in Digital Point and other webmaster forums.
18. Pay Cybercafe owners to install the Alexa toolbar and set your website as the homepage for all their computers. This might be difficult to arrange and isn’t really a viable solution for most. I’m keeping this one in because some have suggested that it does work.
19. Use MySpace . This is a little shady so I don’t recommended it unless you’re really interested in artificially inflating your Alexa Rank. Use visually attractive pictures or banners and link them to your redirected Alexa URL. This will be most effective if your website has content that is actually relevant to the MySpace Crowd.
20. Try Alexa auto-surfs. Do they work? Maybe for brand new sites. I think they are mostly suitable for new websites with a very poor Alexa rank. Note that there be problems when you try to use auto surfs alongside contextual ads like Adsense. They aren’t also long term solutions to improving your Alexa Rank so I suggest using with caution.