Archive for the ‘Blog Tips’ Category

27
Dec

How to make your blog Unique?

   Posted by: Problogger   in Blog Tips

Here are a few tips to make your blog stand out from the millions of blogs out there that have standard designs.

* Customize the banner

The banner usually has the most generic designs that are common to the blogs from a blogging company or service.

You can personalize this banner by having a graphic with the dimensions of the banner.  You can also edit the graphic so that it will also include the title of your blog.

In this case, you can create your own graphic or you can purchase professional looking graphics online for less than $10.

* Personalizing photos

Of course, most of the photos that you will be posting will be your own.  However, if you don’t customize the photos before posting them, you may miss maximizing the enhancing benefits graphics can add to the page.  Adding photo borders can help the photo stand out from the page.

It can also add to the design of your blog.  You can choose a standard border or you can also create your own border which can be associated with your blog’s templates.

* Add a favicon

Don’t you think sites with icons on the address bar before the website’s URL are cool?  Many people do.  These favicons add a professional look to the URL.  These easy to do using photo or graphic editing softwares.

* Check out blog templates, layouts, backgrounds, textures and skins from sites

There are sites that offer free blog templates, layouts, backgrounds, textures and skins.  You can make use of these so your blog will not look generic like most of the blogs hosted by the service provider.

* Include RSS feeds

This is a cool way to inform people with newsreaders about your blog headlines.  Tutorials on RSS feeds are available on the internet.

* Audio makes your blog more personal

Not only does audio personalizes the blog; it can also keep your visitors coming back.  You can try having streaming radio stations, mp3 file or playlists loading with your blog.

* Advertisements

If you have signed-up with Google Ad-Sense, which I am sure you would like to do, make sure that the ads are conveniently placed that these will not hinder your readers’ ease in accessing the information on your blog.

Try using these tips and you can definitely increase and retain traffic on your blog.

26
Dec

can i self host my blog?

   Posted by: Problogger   in Blog Tips

When one has Web hosting on hand, or is eager to buy hosting, in which one feesl that the advantage will prevail over the problems of keeping up your own blog connection and installation, then you may want to take into account a package that is self-hosted, which includes Movable Type, Textpattern and WordPress.

Other hosting companies did construct the process of installation easier, permitting installation with just a click from a control panel that is browser-based. It is important that you check with a hosting company so you can view if this function is offered. Similar to hosted services, some self hosted packages are made available either for free or for a certain fee which is dependent on the type of package that you choose as well as the basis why you are using it.

25
Dec

What is hosted service?

   Posted by: Problogger   in Blog Tips, Random Thoughts

If one wishes to start broadcasting on the Web, yet does not have web hosting, one can consider looking into a hosted service, which includes Blogger, TypePad, Live Journal, and more.

These services are operated or handled for an individual, so there is no need to concern one about technical upkeep of one’s Weblog instead, one can concentrate on his blog’s appearance and content. In just minutes, after signing for an account, one can readily start his own blog.  Many such services are offered free, such as blogger.  TypePad charges a minimal amount for monthly service fee.

22
Dec

How about using a blog software?

   Posted by: Problogger   in Blog Tips

Why someone else’s software?

A lot of Web designer and creators will laugh at the belief and idea of utilizing the software of someone else. This is can be correct especially when each software greatly differs from the particular requirements that a client may have. Yet on the other hand, when it refers to a Weblog software, there is no reason for apprehension in the use of a package that is pre-written, as most packages were developed through years of study; not just knocked together over a couple of days.

In addition, one may study its feature set. For a developer, it would take a lot of time and effort to write and compose from “nothing at all” every single feature in the Weblog software packages of today. For most people, a blog is there for the main reason that chooses to publish or make known your literature and texts on the Web, so you want to spend your time more on writing than coding.

16
Dec

What is video blogging?

   Posted by: Problogger   in Blog Tips

Videoblogging is a great tool but it also has it downside.  It may slow down the computer so other may steer clear of it.  Download time may also be time consuming especially if customer is still on a dial- up connection.

But don’t let those stop you. Let videoblogging be an alternative for you, though it is best to still keep the text and pictures present in your presentation to accommodate all possible viewers of your site.

Nowadays, the more creative you are in presenting your product to the market, they more you are likely to succeed. Videoblogging offers an interactive way of selling. You involve the customers. You instill in them the advantage of your goods.  And at times, those are enough to make a sale.

It’s very difficult to download from rapidshare if you don’t have a premium account. So, if you want to download unlimited from RS, you can use some useful service like Rapidshare Premium Link Generator, here are some nice website to help you:

1. Hellorapid : Don’t limit number of download per day, but max file size allowed is 60 Mb. So you can download unlimited files that are smaller than 60 Mb. Highly Recommend!

2. Rsrip : Limit 3 files per day, unlimited fise size.

3. Rapidl : Limit 5 files per day, unlimited fise size.

4. Rapidshare Premium Link Generator :Limited to downloading 3 files in a 24 hours period. If you use the 3 downloads then come back tomorrow if you want to download more.The 3 files must be equal to 300mb. Resuming downloads is NOT supported.

5.RapidCheck :RapidCheck is a tool that checks whether any free accounts are available at rapidshare.de. It stays at system tray area and checks for free acounts at speciefied intervals. When free acounts detected, you will be notified by the program with an information baloon tooltip. Then you can directly go to free account registration page by clicking the tooltip

6.RapidShare Premium Links Maker :is a simple web page where you can paste a RapidShare download.

7.Rapidshare download tool without premium a/c

5
May

Get PR easily

   Posted by: Problogger   in Blog Tips, Google PR

It seems that many bloggers now a days are trying to get a PR and start earning more than they can without a PR. Getting PR with wordpress or blogspot is very easy. But getting a PR for a domain is one challenging job to do. But you can get a PR for your blog easily by following the steps. I am sure that you will get a PR soon if you follow these steps.

1. Visit other blogs and check their PR. If they have then try to make them add your blog link in their blog.

2. Add as many possible links in your blog as possible and those sites must have some PR.

3. Update your blog pretty often. Put some interesting posts which will attract new people to your blog and start a conversation in your blog on the topics you post.

4. Update your pages often. Try to create new pages now and then and make sure that those pages are useful.

These things will do for now. You will get a PR for sure. I am sure that with these steps your PR will come to min 0 from N/A :D Have fun blogging…

16
Apr

Plugins for wordpress

   Posted by: Problogger   in Blog Tips, Widgets & Plugins

Plugins play a vital role in building up a wordpress blog. You need to use good plugins to make your blog attractive and more interesting. You get to use various plugins and through those plugins you can even manke your blog more interactive. It all depends on what types of plugins you use and how you use them. You must make sure that the plugins you use are placed correctly in the place where they will look good. The plugins must do their work well. To get few plugins just visit wordpress plugins . You can download the plugins and then upload them in the plugins section (if you are using a domain running under a wordpress. For wordpress users you can directly get the plugins by searching them. You don’t have the work of uploading stuff). So have fun playing with you blog and try to make it attractive witha mixture of different widgets and plugins.

10
Apr

Google Analytics

   Posted by: Problogger   in Blog Tips

Google Analytics has been re-designed to help you learn even more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site. Instead of putting up some counter in your blog which will let you know only one thing which the number of visitors from the day you put the counter. You won’t know how many visitors came to your blog every single day and from which country and all other important information.  Google has improved the Google Analytics a lot. The new Google Analytics makes it easy to improve your results online. Write better ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives, and create higher-converting websites. Google Analytics is free to all advertisers, publishers, and site owners.

Just follow the following steps to get started with Google Analytics.  First of all go to Google Analytics and register yourself there. The you will have to add your blog url in there. After you submit your blog url in Google Analytics it will give you a piece of code to place it in your blog. Go to your dashboard and then go to the design section where you can edit the template of your blog. In that find the </body> tag. You will have to place the Google Analytics code just before the </body> tag. Once done save the changes and sit back. Google Analytics will do the rest. So go ahead and use Google Analytics now.

4
Apr

Usefull Technorati widget

   Posted by: Problogger   in Blog Tips, Technorati, Widgets & Plugins

Technorati authority widget lets you to assert your authorati. You can just show your status as an authoritative blogger using this new authority widget.Here is the methos to just ahow your authority widget oin your blog, its quite easy using a small code snippet which is given below. You just have to replace {url} with your blog URL. It wil just take few minutes to work soon after you install this widget in your blog. Below is the code snippet given.

&ltscript src=”http://widgets.technorati.com/t.js” type=”text/javascript″&gt &lt/script&gt
&lta href=”http://technorati.com/blogs/{URL}?sub=tr_authority_t_ns” class=”tr_authority_t_js”

style=”color:#4261DF″&gtView blog authority&lt/a&gt.

Technorati Link count widget lets you to display number of links to each of your post in real time- updated
live for all your visitors. This is also a simple code snippet which is given below.Technorati tracks when
other bloggers link to your blog and this widget makes it possible for you to display the number of links on
every blog post. To add the widget, copy and paste the code below into your blog’s template. You’ll be
inserting this into your blog’s HTML, not a post.

For Blogger:<script src=”http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount” type=”text/javascript”></script><a
class=”tr-linkcount” href=”http://technorati.com/search/<$>”>View blog reactions</a> Click here to know how to use this code in detail.

For wordpress: <script src=”http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount” type=”text/javascript”></script> <a
class=”tr-linkcount” href=”http://technorati.com/search/<?php the_permalink(); ?>”>View blog reactions</a>

For others: <script src=”http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount” type=”text/javascript”&gt;</script&gt;
<a class=”tr-linkcount” href=”http://technorati.com/search/{URL}”&gt;View blog reactions</a&gt; (Replace {URL} with your blog URL)