Thursday 14 February 2013

Improve Your Google PageRank


Earlier this week, I posted about Google PageRank at this link. Now, I'll tell you several ways to improve your site's Google PageRank. Your website's PageRank depends upon quality backlinks you get for your website and total count of your website pages.

1.Write Quality Content:

Everybody likes to share some good content. Create content that users want and will share with others, which will get you bunch of backlinks from other sites. Don't forget to give me a backlink from this point.

2.Guest Blogging Is A Great Move:

Seriously, guest blogging is a great way to backlink you site from an another blog or site. Also, don't forget to submit your articles to various web directories and forums. Good content never goes waste. You can also submit a guest post for our blog at this link.

3.Publicize Your Site Everywhere:

Add your site’s URL, e.g. www.bwidgets.com, into your content. Never miss a change to show off, e.g., newsletter, business cards, email signatures, press releases and more.

4.Get Backlinks From High-Quality Websites:

Ask "high-quality" websites to give a backlink on their blog. It'll improve your PageRank for sure. If your site links to delisted websites, your website might also be removed from Google’s index. Always check site's reputation before asking for a backlink.

5.Check Site's Reputation Before You Link Back:

If you receive a request for a link, check the site's reputation before giving them a backlink on your site. Also, always use 'rel=nofollow' attribute to link back to delisted or low-quality website.

6.Provide RSS Feed:

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) makes it easy for other sites to distribute your headlines and content, your RSS feed will be indexed by popular Blog search engines, including BlogSearch, and Ask.com Bloglines.

7.Keep It Up:

If your site is dead for an extended period, Google may reduce the ranking of your site. Allow your visitors to submit guest posts for new articles.

8.Make Use Of rel=nofollow:

rel=nofollow attribution tell search engines "Don't follow links on this page" or "Don't follow this specific link." This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links.

Here are some cases in which you might want to consider using nofollow:
  • Untrusted content: Most importantly, always use nofollow for example, untrusted user comments or guestbook entries — you should nofollow those links. Which will keep spammers away from your site.

  • Paid links: In order to prevent paid links from influencing search results and negatively impacting users, make use of nofollow.

  • Crawl prioritization: Search engine robots can't sign in or register as a member on your forum, so there's no reason to invite Googlebot to follow "register here" or "sign in" links.

9.Give Away:

Enable others to copy, distribute, and make use of your articles and content, as long as they give your site credit. Also, write newsletter to remind your visitors about your site. Create an embed-able widget of your site for your users.

10.Never Try To Cheat Google:

If Google suspects that you are trying to deceive it web crawler and thus its users by including hidden text, misleading or repeated words, pages that don’t match your sites description, deceptive redirects, duplicate site or pages, or other disingenuous tactics, then Google may delist your site from its index.

Wednesday 13 February 2013

Using Custom Short Domain With bitly


bitly (bit.ly or bitly.com) is a URL shortening and bookmarking service owned by Bitly, Inc., a Betaworks company. The current CEO is Peter Stern. It offers URL redirection service with real-time link tracking.

It's always a great move to use your own url shortner, bitly allows you to use your own custom domain to create short links for free. Google Short Links is also a great way to build your own custom url shortner but the fact is that Google Short Links is no more a free product. Still, you can check our Google Short Links at go.bwidgets.com.

A custom short domain is a great way to brand your content across the web! For example, the New York Times uses "nyti.ms" as a custom short domain, and TechCrunch uses "tcrn.ch".

If you were to use "example.me" as a custom domain, instead of appearing like this: bitly.com/example

your links would appear like this: example.me/example

Purchase A Domain:

BigRock is a great place to begin your search for exotic short domains. Your short domain name needs to be 15 characters or less (including the dot). You can also use your existing domain or a sub-domain. Wikipedia maintains a list of top-level domains (TLDs).

Using Custom Domain:

For using your top-level domain (example: bwidgets.com), you need to update your "A-Records" and "CNAME Records." Your domain name must be 15 characters or less (including the dot):

  • Log into your domain registrar's website.
  • Select the short domain you want to modify.
  • Find the section for managing DNS entries. The name of this section varies, but is usually something like "DNS Configuration," "DNS Records", "Advanced DNS," "Total DNS", "Host records," or similar.


Add or edit the existing A-Record for your site. You can click on images for a larger look. Also, don't copy any other IP or anything from images. There all are just for example, I'am not really editing any records DNS records.



Edit the existing A-Record for your site and change the IP address to 69.58.188.49 If there is no existing A record (which is uncommon), add a new one. The A record's "host name" should be either the character @ or your base domain (both mean the same thing). You should only have one A Record. If you have more than one, remove all others and leave only the one pointing to bitly's IP.



After editing A-Records, it's time to add a CNAME Record in your DNS.



In your DNS, enter "www" as your host name name, and that it points to value 'cname.bitly.com'. For example, if your short domain was 'fred.me' you'd point your CNAME record for 'www.fred.me' to 'cname.bitly.com.'

All done in your DNS Manager. Now, scroll down to the "adding your domain to bitly" point for next step.

Using Custom Sub-Domain:

For using your sub-domain (example: sl.bwidgets.com), you need to update your "CNAME Records." Your domain name must be 15 characters or less (including the dot):

  • Log into your domain registrar's website.
  • Select the short domain you want to modify.
  • Find the section for managing DNS entries. The name of this section varies, but is usually something like "DNS Configuration," "DNS Records", "Advanced DNS," "Total DNS", "Host records," or similar.



In your CNAME Reconds, click on "Add CNAME Record." Every domain registrar has their on unique look.



In Host Name, put your desire sub-domain name (example: sl.bwidgets.com). In Value, put cname.bitly.com. All done in your CNAME Records. Now, it's time to add your domain to bigly.

Add Your Domain To bitly:

After setting up your custom domain, it's time to add your domain to bitly. It can take up to 48 hours for domain changes to propagate. It's easy:



Sign in to your bitly account, go to "settings" from the upper right pull-down menu, (or click here) and click on "Advanced" tab.



Enter your short domain under under "Custom Short Domain." (Located under the "Advanced" tab.)



Now, in this screen, you'll see instruction that we mentioned earlier on this tutorial. However, don’t take this step until you have updated your DNS Records. If you've already completed DNS setup, which we mentioned above then click on "Verify" button.



After clicking on "Verify," you'll see above screen. That's IT!!!

If bitly is showing some sort of error then try to double check all steps. Also, DNS changes can take up to 48 hours for domain changes to propagate. In my case, it took about two hours to update DNS. Now, your sub-domain or domain's root directory will redirect you to bitly's homepage. Don't forget to leave a comment....

Sunday 10 February 2013

What Is Google PageRank And Why Should I Use It?


What Is Google PageRank?

Google PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page and used by Google Search. Your website's PageRank depends upon quality backlinks you get for your website and total count of your website pages.

The Google Toolbar's PageRank feature displays a visited page's PageRank as a whole number between 0 and 10. The most popular websites have a PageRank of 10. The least have a PageRank of 0.

Courtesy of Wikipedia, here is an example image of how Google PageRank works:


Mathematical PageRanks for a simple network, expressed as percentages. (Google uses a logarithmic scale.) Page C has a higher PageRank than Page E, even though there are fewer links to C; the one link to C comes from an important page and hence is of high value. If web surfers who start on a random page have an 85% likelihood of choosing a random link from the page they are currently visiting, and a 15% likelihood of jumping to a page chosen at random from the entire web, they will reach Page E 8.1% of the time. (The 15% likelihood of jumping to an arbitrary page corresponds to a damping factor of 85%.) Without damping, all web surfers would eventually end up on Pages A, B, or C, and all other pages would have PageRank zero. In the presence of damping, Page A effectively links to all pages in the web, even though it has no outgoing links of its own.


Why Should I Use It?

Google PageRank is a great way to know about, which type of sites give you a backlink. The higher a page is ranked, the better it will perform in organic search results.

If you want to generate income from search engine marketing such as paid links, pay per click or banner ads, how much you will get will largely depend on your page rank. The higher your page rank is, the higher your advertisers will pay you.

PageRank is updated every 3-6 months at Google's discretion, and therefore should not be used as a definitive way to judge the trust of a website; it only gives us an idea of the website's authority and link power based on Google's algorithm.

How To Check PageRank?

There are lots of sites, where you can check your site's PageRank. We recommend you to use PRChecker.net. In this article, we effected Wikipedia and PRChecker's PageRank, by giving them a backlink.

You can also embed your site's PageRank on your site by using following code:


<a href="http://www.prchecker.net" title="PageRank Checker"><img src="http://www.prchecker.net/lookup.php?site=http://www.bwidgets.com&badge=img1"/></a>

In above code, replace www.bwidgets.com with your site's url. Don't forget to leave a comment.

Saturday 9 February 2013

Beautify Your CSS Code


Messy CSS codes just cause problems in coding. It's always hard to edit messy CSS files on your notepad. Well formatted CSS codes are really easy to read and edit. While creating templates, we write hundreds of CSS codes, and it's really hard for us to format all lines.

Also, when we write CSS codes for others, we really don't focus on code formatting, which cause some problems in future when we have to re-edit those stylesheets.

If you're thinking about to manually formatting you old codes, then it's just a waste of time when we can use an automatic CSS formatting tool.

CSS Beautify automatically formats your style to be consistent and easy to read. It's an open-source project from Sencha Labs. If you want then you can also download this tool at this link.

By using CSS Beautify, you'll be able to format you CSS codes in no time. It's way too much easy, even for Justin Bieber fans(no comments on this point).

Just put your messy CSS codes in first field, and you'll get beautifully formatted CSS code instantly:


Hope this will help you in future....Also, i want to share this good news with you all.

Thursday 7 February 2013

Customized Labels Cloud Widget For Blogger


Here is a great Labels Cloud styling/widget invented my MBT. It looks a bit old-school but it's looks so beautiful in plain or white style templates. MBT widgets never gets old for sure. It for Labels Cloud widget so don't forget to choose Labels Cloud option in Layout section. Don't worry, i'll explain everything:

  • Go To Blogger > Layout > Click add a gadget and choose Labels
  • Inside the settings make sure to choose the cloud display.
  • Now save the widget and go to settings > Template
  • Click Edit HTML > Search for ]]></b:skin>
  • Just above it paste the following CSS code:

/*-----Custom Labels Cloud widget by www.BWidgets.com----*/
.label-size{
margin:0 2px 6px 0;
padding: 3px;
text-transform: uppercase;
border: solid 1px #C6C6C6;
border-radius: 3px;
float:left;
text-decoration:none;
font-size:10px;
color:#666;
}

.label-size:hover {
border:1px solid #6BB5FF;
text-decoration: none;
-moz-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
-o-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
-moz-transform: rotate(7deg);
-o-transform: rotate(7deg);
-webkit-transform: rotate(7deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(7deg);
transform: rotate(7deg);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Matrix(
                    M11=0.9961946980917455, M12=-0.08715574274765817, M21=0.08715574274765817, M22=0.9961946980917455, sizingMethod='auto expand');
zoom: 1;
}

.label-size a  {
text-transform: uppercase;
float:left;
text-decoration: none;
}
.label-size a:hover  {
text-decoration: none;
}

Save your template....All Done......Don't forget to leave a comment for any help.....

Tuesday 5 February 2013

Adding AJAX Page Loading Effect To Blogger


AJAX is not a new programming language, but a new way to use existing standards. AJAX is the art of exchanging data with a server, and updating parts of a web page - without reloading the whole page. AJAX was made popular in 2005 by Google, with Google Suggest.

Google Suggest is using AJAX to create a very dynamic web interface: When you start typing in Google's search box, a JavaScript sends the letters off to a server and the server returns a list of suggestions. Examples of applications using AJAX: Google Maps, Gmail, Youtube, and Facebook tabs

You can also use AJAX to create some beautiful loading effects on your blogger blog. Here we go:

  • Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML > Click on "Proceed"
  • Find and place following code below <body>:

<div id='loading'><div id='progress-bar'></div><div id='loader'>Loading...</div></div>

  • Now add following code just above </head>:

<script charset='utf-8' src='http://widcraft.googlecode.com/svn/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script>

(function($){

$("html").removeClass("v2");


$("#header").ready(function(){ $("#progress-bar").stop().animate({ width: "25%" },1500) });
$("#footer").ready(function(){ $("#progress-bar").stop().animate({ width: "75%" },1500) });


$(window).load(function(){

    $("#progress-bar").stop().animate({ width: "100%" },600,function(){
        $("#loading").fadeOut("fast",function(){ $(this).remove(); });
    });

});
})(jQuery);
</script>

<style>
#loading {
    position: fixed;
    z-index: 50;
    top: 0; left: 0;
    width: 100%; height: 100%;
 background: #3c5a76 url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1-DMF_2ELaLMFFOFWGw5wA7hTFnRimVjuZ1NftTS5Ik3tem5nDd-GMA7v1sFxfpSMyptt6qhbEoWPtIM90BTsXn4gKHFxNxVj6nKy9WpFoK9H9on6L_Xa3y7tnuyAxoe4X7ZsiJr0Pvw/s1600/Loading.gif) no-repeat center;
    line-height: 350px;
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 36px;
    color: #353231;
    text-indent: -9999px;
}
.v2 #loading { display: none; }

#progress-bar {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0; left: 0;
    background: rgb(236, 133, 0);
    opacity: 0.8;
    width: 0;
    height: 18px;
}
#loader {
 background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijoHdj8b4N4HYsdgZ5Xf8t7Cj51p8kBgOcplIV8Xse3bt2InhJi5Sidjhw-upO4DAfIce7QHeFAq-lWDBRfrBMxvpZYtj3crPvFXKQuU4hK5_gelnF1SAqe0667mph2Irnif15ensDcJE/s1600/BWidgets.png) no-repeat center 25%;
 height: 100%;
 display: block;
}
</style>

Save your template and see the magic....Don't forget to leave a comment....

Saturday 2 February 2013

Remove Attribution Widget From Blogger Mobile Template


In our last post, we discussed how to remove attribution widget from blogger. In this post, we'll discuss how to remove attribution widget from blogger mobile template.

In previous post, we showed you how to remove attribution widget from your blog but that widget can still be viewed by visiting your mobile template (If you're using). After searching on Google for hours i found nothing about this topic, so i invented my own way to do this.

In last trick, we removed this widget, now we'll hide'em. Without wasting any time, let's get started:

  • Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML > Proceed
  • Find and remove following code from your template:

<b:widget id='Attribution1' locked='true' title='' type='Attribution'/>

  • Find </body> in your template and just above it paste following code:

<div style='display:none;'>
<b:section class='hiddenbar' id='hiddenbar' preferred='no'>
<b:widget id='Attribution1' locked='true' mobile='no' title='' type='Attribution'/>
</b:section>
</div>

  • Save your template, it's done.

Let me explain this, instead of removing attribution widget, we hid this widget with css. If you only add mobile='no' property in your attribution, instead of this code, it'll only remove this widget from your mobile template. If you're copying this tutorial, then don't forget to give us a backlink on your post. Also, don't forget to leave a comment.

Remove Attribution Widget From Blogger


Today I'll show you how to remove attribution (Powered by Blogger) widget from your blog. It's always hard for newbies to remove this widget but don't worry about that.

In this tutorial, you'll learn about removing locked widget from your blog, just like Attribution widget. Not much to explain, let's get started:

  • Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML > Proceed:
  • Find following code in your  template:

<b:widget id='Attribution1' locked='true' title='' type='Attribution'/>

  •  Now, just replace locked='true' in above code with locked='false'. Save your template.

Now your attribution widget in unlocked. If you want remove, then you can remove it from your layout section. In next post, i'll show you how to removing attribution widget from your mobile template.

Thursday 31 January 2013

Display Your Feed On A HTML Page


About every blogger now is using feedburner to publish their feed. By using feedburner, you can get realtime stats and subscriber count. You can even use a custom domain with feedburner. You can display your feedburner feed on Blogger with a simple feed widget but you can't use that widget on your html site. Don't worry, you can still display your feed on a static html or your website by using BuzzBoost. Here we go:

Go To FeedBurner > Click on your feed:


Click on the "Publicize" tab, and then click on "BuzzBoost" in the list at the left side of the screen (see image below). At this point BuzzBoost will give you a number of different options. Choose your preference and click on "Active" button. If you’ve already activated BuzzBoost you’ll see the option to save instead of activate.


Once you choose your settings and activate BuzzBoost you will be provided with the piece of code. Copy the code provided by FeedBurner and paste it into your page wherever you want it to be displayed. You're completely free to use my feeds on your blog:

<script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WidgetCraft?format=sigpro" type="text/javascript" ></script><noscript><p>Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WidgetCraft"></a><br/>Powered by FeedBurner</p> </noscript>

It's done, you can also style this code by using some css:

.feedTitle {
background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% whitesmoke;
padding: 10px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
border: 1px solid rgb(81, 104, 59);
}
.feedburnerFeedBlock ul {
margin-left:0;
padding-left:0;
list-style-type: none;
}

.feedburnerFeedBlock ul li {
padding: 5px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-bottom-color: #E0E0E0;
}

.feedburnerFeedBlock ul li span.headline a {
color: #990000;
text-decoration: none;
display: block;
}

.feedburnerFeedBlock ul li span.headline a:hover {
color: #535353;
}

#creditfooter {
display: none;
}

Tuesday 29 January 2013

Create A Free Android App For Your Blog


Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later purchased in 2005.

It's really great idea to create a native Android app for your blog. In this tutorial I'll show you how to create an Android app without any App Development knowledge. Download an example at this link.

AppsGeyser is a free service that converts your content into an App and makes you money. Your app will have all you need including messaging, social sharing, tabs and full support for HTML5 enhancements.

Visit AppsGeyser and Sign Up. After signing up, click on 'Create App' button. You'll see a big list of app tabs. Now we have to choose a suitable tab for our app. I'll tell you about two different methods:

Using Mobile Site

If you're using Blogger Mobile template or you have a mobile version of your site then you can choose 'Website' option:


In next page fill up your site details and preference (I'll use my second blog WWE Fans Nation to explain this tutorial):


In Website URL section fill your mobile sites url (http://www.yourblog.com?m=1 for blogger users.) Fill all fields and then click on 'Create App' button. It's Done!!! In next page you'll receive downloading link and more options about your app. You can download this app by clicking here.

Using Feed

You can also create an Android app using your blog's feed. Click on 'Create App' button and in next page choose 'NEWS Feed' option:


Hope you're using feeds on your blog. In next page fill up your feed's url and some details:


Now fill your feed url (Ex: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WWEFansNation) and fill your app's details. After completing this form click on 'Create App' button. In next page you'll receive downloading link and more options about your app. You can download this app by clicking here.

You can add more than one tabs to your app. Also, you can monetize your Android app using AppsGeyser's publishers program.

You can also publish your app on Google Play by paying one time 25$ fee. Don't forget to leave a comment.

Wednesday 23 January 2013

Stylish CSS Sprites Menu For Blogger

It's always hard to find a suitable menu for your blog. We're making that decision more hard for you by sharing another awesome menu... :p Remember, you can't change menu option, because it's an image based menu. Here we go:

  • Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML > Find ]]></b:skin>.
  • Just above ]]></b:skin> post following css:

/*Menu Stars BWidgets.com */
.bwidgets-nav {
    display:block;
    height:72px;
    margin:30px auto;
    position:relative;
    width:525px; }
.bwidgets-nav ul {
    float:none;
    list-style-image:none;
    list-style-type:none;
    margin:3px 0; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li {
    background-image:url('https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdoeMzNPpTXbvyIK9XVcaPLMaIhPyECOa_ZkXtlYYXdu1DqXelgqfZhxHE9Ps3pQcNvJU6MsF1FRkgyF9aPSF5-FTLhZUMgTU32xvQK_9YRann8kyme9ND8jXlg-9vDc28lmAL2s0yW9I/s1600/SpritesMenu.png');
    background-repeat:no-repeat;
    float:left;
    height:72px;
    margin:0px;
    padding-top:5px;
    position:absolute; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li a {
    display:block;
    height:100%;
    width:100%; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li.sm1 {
    background-position:0 0;
    left:0px;
    width:125px; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li.sm2 {
    background-position:-125px 0;
    left:100px;
    width:124px; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li.sm3 {
    background-position:-249px 0;
    left:200px;
    width:124px; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li.sm4 {
    background-position:-373px 0;
    left:300px;
    width:125px; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li.sm5 {
    background-position:-498px 0;
    left:400px;
    width:126px; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li:hover {
    z-index:1000; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li.sm1:hover {
    background-position:0 -75px; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li.sm2:hover {
    background-position:-125px -75px; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li.sm3:hover {
    background-position:-249px -75px; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li.sm4:hover {
    background-position:-373px -75px; }
.bwidgets-nav ul li.sm5:hover {
    background-position:-498px -75px; }
/*Menu Ends BWidgets.com */

  • Now save your template...
All done with this past, now it's time to add html mark-up of this menu on your layout.

  • Go To Blogger > Layout > Add A Gadget > HTML/JavaScript > Paste following code:

<div class="bwidgets-nav">
<ul>
<li class="sm1"><a href="#"></a></li>
<li class="sm2"><a href="#"></a></li>
<li class="sm3"><a href="#"></a></li>
<li class="sm4"><a href="#"></a></li>
<li class="sm5"><a href="#"></a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Replace all # in above code with your links.....Save It.......

Don't forget to leave a comment.... :)

Sunday 20 January 2013

We Are Now Accepting Guest Posts


It's time for me to take some rest, while you can get featured on TricksPanda.com & BWidgets by writing a guest post for our blog. It's a great way to promote your blog or profiles. You'll be free to write any legal thing on your guest post.

How To Submit?

It's easy, just email me your guest post on contact[at]bwidgets.com. (.html or .zip)

You'll Get...

You'll get full credit of your guest post, also a backlink to your blog. Don't forget to email me your name and website. I'll also post "About Author" column below your guest post. It's great way to get more fans.

More Info:

Niche:

  • Blogging
  • Web Designing
  • Internet
  • Android
  • Google
  • Social Media
  • Money Blogging
  • WordPress

Supported formats:

  • .zip
  • .html
  • .txt

By submitting a guest post you accept:

  • It's an original and fresh post. (No Copycats Allowed)
  • We can modify your post. (Only to make some changes, not much)
  • Your post is totally legal. (Only legal posts accepted. Not for hackers.)
  • I'am Awesome. (Most important point)

Saturday 19 January 2013

Blogger File Hosting Solution


Unlike WordPress, Blogger doesn't provides file hosting. You can only upload images on your blog via Picasa. Every blog owner needs some kind of file hosting to host their scripts, projects, documents and all. In this post, I'll discuss upload several sites, which provides free file hosting. All sites are powered by Google.

Picasa: Picasa is Google's official image hosting website, where you can host all your images. It's totally free and it works via Blogger's image uploader. Your blog's all images are hosted in Picasa.

YouTube: YouTube is Google's video hosting website also world's #1 video hosting website. You upload and embed your videos on your blog via YouTube. It's a great way to promote your blog with your videos. It's totally free, and you can also earn some money via YouTube.

Google Code: Google Code is best place for all developers. You can host your js, css, html, swf, zip, images, txt and bunch of more files formats on Google Code. Google Code is also totally free and it provides 4GB space. You can learn about hosting your files on Google Code on our site.

Google Sites: Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. You can also hosts your files on Google Sites. It supports css, js, zip, swf, images and bunch more files formats. It provides 100MBs of free storage per site. You can create unlimited sites on Google Sites. Best part of Google Sites is that you can use your custom domain.

Google Drive: Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service by Google. Google Drive gives all users 5 GB of cloud storage to start with. A user can get additional storage, which is shared between Picasa and Google Drive, from 25 GB up to 16 TB through a paid monthly subscription plan. It supports images, videos, html, js, css and more. You can learn more about Google Drive's supported file formats at this link.

Wednesday 16 January 2013

How To Screen Capture Your Android


So recently i bought a new Android phone, and i was trying to capture above screenshot. It's going to be a very useful tutorial for you. We just need a free software from Google Play. You don't need a rooted for this tutorial. First go and download Screen Capture Shortcut from Google Play. After downloading and installing open the software:

As you can see in above picture, In first option (Capture From Notification) select Yes. Now your software is totally activated and you can capture image any time. So still wondering who to capture?

Now when you want to capture any screenshot just slide your notification bar down:

As you can see in above picture, after clicking on 'Screen Capture Shortcut,' your phone will capture your screen in 0.5 seconds.

You can also change notification type, capture time and all other options in your app. Hope this will work you...Don't forget to leave a comment...

Wednesday 9 January 2013

Monetize Your Blog With InfoLinks


Lots of peoples are blogging just for money, and they are not getting much success in it because Google Adsense is still not accepting their application or they banned them. If you want to earn some money with your blog with some high-quality ads (Way much better than ClickSor) then you should join InfoLinks.

InfoLinks is world's leader in Text-Links advertising. It's very easy to use, and you earn some good amount with it. It gives you four different types of advertising options (including inText, inTag, inSearch and inFrame), and you choose any of it (maybe all four).

For those of you who are wondering about payment options, you can get your payment via eCheck, Paypal, Wire Transfer and Payoneer pre-paid debit card.

Even if you're using Adsense on your blog, then InfoLinks is also a good way to get more from your blog. In my opinion Adsense + InfoLinks is best way to earn for small and medium publishers. Don't worry....It's 100% safe to use InfoLinks with your Adsense account.

Get Started By Clicking Here.

Optimize Blog Title For Search Results


Your traffic from search depends on your content and post titles. I guess now it's time to give a bit attention to your blog/post title for a better SEO. Sorry for bad editing, i recently formatted my pc, and right now i don't have Photoshop. Let's focus on topic....

It would be better if Title Starts with your Post Title and ends with your Blog Title.I do believe that it will definitely improve your Click Through Rate.

  • Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML
  • Find following code in your template:

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

  • and replace it with:

<!-- Start www.BWidgets.com: Changing the Blogger Title Tag -->
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/><b:if cond='data:blog.pageName'> ~ </b:if><data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>
<!-- End www.BWidgets.com: Changing the Blogger Title Tag –>

  • Save Your Template......That' IT!!

After saving the template take a look at your blog post pages and your will notice the change in titles in your browser's title bar.

Soon Google bot will re-index your pages with new improved page titles.

Saturday 5 January 2013

Manually Adding Disqus Comment Box On Blogger


Previously we discussed about adding Disqus comment system to Blogger. Now i'll tell you how to add Disqus comment system manually on your blog.

If the Disqus gadget installer isn't working, you have the option of manually installing the gadget on your Blogger site. This will require editing your Blogger template HTML, so it won't work with Dynamic Views templates.

  • Go To Blogger > Layout > Add A Gadget > HTML/JavaScript
  • Enter Disqus as the title and the following code for the content:

<!-- Disqus comments gadget -->

  • Click save and the window will close....

Now all done in Layout section of your blog, now it's time to move to the Template section.

  • Go to your blog's Template section and then click the "Edit HTML" button > Proceed
  • Click 'Expand Widget Templates' box
  • Search for the widget you just created in your HTML template by pressing Ctrl-F (Command-F on OSX) then typing Disqus. You should find the following line: 

<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='Disqus' type='HTML'>

  • Below that locate and DELETE the following code right before the closing tag. The section you're deleting should look like this:

<b:includable id='main'>
  <!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
  <b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
    <h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
  </b:if>
  <div class='widget-content'>
    <data:content/>
  </div>
  <b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:includable>

  • Now before the closing </b:widget> tag, add the following Disqus code

<b:includable id='main'>
            <script type='text/javascript'>
                var disqus_shortname = &#39;EXAMPLE&#39;;
                var disqus_blogger_current_url = &quot;<data:blog.canonicalUrl/>&quot;;

                if (!disqus_blogger_current_url.length) {
                    disqus_blogger_current_url = &quot;<data:blog.url/>&quot;;
                }

                var disqus_blogger_homepage_url = &quot;<data:blog.homepageUrl/>&quot;;
                var disqus_blogger_canonical_homepage_url = &quot;<data:blog.canonicalHomepageUrl/>&quot;;
            </script>

            <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
                <style type='text/css'>
                    #comments {display:none;}
                </style>

                <script type='text/javascript'>
                    (function() {
                        var bloggerjs = document.createElement(&#39;script&#39;);
                        bloggerjs.type = &#39;text/javascript&#39;;
                        bloggerjs.async = true;
                        bloggerjs.src = &#39;http://&#39;+disqus_shortname+&#39;.disqus.com/blogger_item.js&#39;;
                        (document.getElementsByTagName(&#39;head&#39;)[0] || document.getElementsByTagName(&#39;body&#39;)[0]).appendChild(bloggerjs);
                    })();

                </script>
            </b:if>
                <style type='text/css'>
                    .post-comment-link { visibility: hidden; }
                </style>

                <script type='text/javascript'>
                (function() {
                    var bloggerjs = document.createElement(&#39;script&#39;);
                    bloggerjs.type = &#39;text/javascript&#39;;
                    bloggerjs.async = true;
                    bloggerjs.src = &#39;http://&#39;+disqus_shortname+&#39;.disqus.com/blogger_index.js&#39;;
                    (document.getElementsByTagName(&#39;head&#39;)[0] || document.getElementsByTagName(&#39;body&#39;)[0]).appendChild(bloggerjs);
                })();

            </script>
</b:includable>

  • Now change EXAMPLE to your site's shortname.
  • Click Save template. Assuming there are no errors, Disqus should properly show up on your site now.

Blogger Add Widget Not Working

Want to add a new widget but Add Widget button is not working? Yea, you're are not the only one who is facing this problem. Blogger has a new bug, in which Add Widget button is not working. Thus, you can't add Disqus and other type of widgets on your blog.

If you're new to Blogger, then you should know that you can still add widget to your blog. Browse some widgets from our site or other sites. Click on Add to Blogger button and a pop-up will appear. In that window, Add Widget button will not work so Copy all the code from 'Edit Content' box and manually add that code to your blog:


How To Add Disqus Comment Box

Now, you can't add Disqus widget from this way....To add Disqus comment box on your blog read this article.

Floating Social Sharing Bar Widget For Blogger


This amazing sharing bar is created by W2B. It's a horizontal sharing bar with several social sharing options. Lot's of big websites are using this type of widget on their sites. It'll surely approach your readers to share your posts on their social profiles. Time to add it..

  • Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML > Proceed > Check the 'Expand Template Widgets' checkbox.

This widget contains jquery so if your blog already has jquery script then remove it from our code.

  • Now search for </head> and just above it paste the following script.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<style type='text/css'>
/*<![CDATA[*/
    #w2bSocialFloat {clear:both;padding: 6px 0;display:block;background:#FFFFFF;}
    #w2bSocialFloat td{padding:4px;margin:0;border:none;}
    #w2bSocialFloat td iframe{max-width:82px;width:82px !important;}
    #w2bSocialFloat.w2bFloatSocial{position: fixed;top:0;z-index:9999999;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;-webkit-box-shadow:0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.15);-moz-box-shadow:0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.15);box-shadow:0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.15);}
/*]]>*/
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
// Set the Top Offset
$theOffset = 0;

jQuery(document).ready(function(b){var a=b("#w2bSocialFloat");a.wrap('<div id="w2bSocialPlaceholder"></div>').closest("#w2bSocialPlaceholder").height(a.outerHeight());a.width(a.outerWidth());e=a.offset().top-$theOffset;b("#w2bSocialFloat iframe[src*=plusone]").closest("div").css("max-width","82px");b(window).scroll(function(){d=b(this).scrollTop();d>=e?a.addClass("w2bFloatSocial"):a.removeClass("w2bFloatSocial");f=b(".post");if(f.length!=0){c=f.outerHeight()+f.offset().top;d>=c?a.stop().animate({top:"-150px"}):a.stop().animate({top:$theOffset+"px"})}else d>=e?a.css("top",$theOffset+"px"):a.css("top","0")})});
/*]]>*/
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://widcraft.googlecode.com/svn/w2b-blogger-pinit.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://widcraft.googlecode.com/svn/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
    // Twitter
    (function(a,b,c){var d=a.getElementsByTagName(b)[0];if(!a.getElementById(c)){a=a.createElement(b);a.id=c;a.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";d.parentNode.insertBefore(a,d)}})(document,"script","twitter-wjs");
    // Google + (plus)
    (function(){var a=document.createElement("script");a.type="text/javascript";a.async=true;a.src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js";var b=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];b.parentNode.insertBefore(a,b)})();
    // Stumbleupon
    (function(){var a=document.createElement("script");a.type="text/javascript";a.async=true;a.src="https://platform.stumbleupon.com/1/widgets.js";var b=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];b.parentNode.insertBefore(a,b)})();
    // Digg
    (function(){var a=document.createElement("SCRIPT"),b=document.getElementsByTagName("SCRIPT")[0];a.type="text/javascript";a.async=true;a.src="http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js";b.parentNode.insertBefore(a,b)})();
/*]]>*/
</script>
</b:if>

  • Let’s add the final Social horizontal bar widget code. Add this code before <data:post.body/> tag.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div id="w2bSocialFloat" class="w2bSocialFloat">
<table  width="100%" class="w2bSocialFloat">
    <tr>
        <td>
            <a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" expr:data-url="data:post.url" expr:data-text="data:post.title">Tweet</a>
        </td>
        <td>
            <iframe expr:src="&quot;//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;send=false&amp;layout=button_count&amp;width=80&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font&amp;height=21&quot;" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:80px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
        </td>
        <td>
            <div expr:id="&quot;w2bPinit-&quot; + data:post.id" style="display: none;visibility: hidden;height: 0;width:0;overflow: hidden;" class="w2bPinitButton">
                <data:post.body/>
                <script type="text/javascript">
                    w2bPinItButton({
                        url:"<data:post.url/>",
                        thumb: "<data:post.thumbnailUrl/>",
                        id: "<data:post.id/>",
                        defaultThumb: "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRFeTajLrpW3Ob3OROSkVTJHcqjYWgEQYiB7xij6-xhs-MlLu4luvA8RGzk2ZUHD_jhY0AaCJ5oPUTCHy4fj7rUwE2Y3yIyczyOFnNJwfdOEDTloXopSafrvBATwoIgLl6cLhTOi0iMN8/s1600/bigthumbnail.png",
                        pincount: "horizontal"
                    });
                </script>
            </div>
        </td>
        <td>
            <div class="g-plusone" data-size="medium" expr:data-href="data:post.url"></div>
        </td>
        <td>
            <su:badge layout="1" expr:location="data:post.url"></su:badge>
        </td>
        <td>
            <a class="DiggThisButton DiggCompact"></a>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</div>
</b:if>

Save Template....That's It....

If you found the <data:post.body/> three times, then search for two lines below:

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

Place the Widget code in between the two tags.

Friday 4 January 2013

Adding Disqus Popular Threads Widget To Blogger


Previously i shared two Disqus widgets. Now it's time to share third widget, which is a way to show some recent popular posts/threads of your blog. I don't have much to say about it right now so let's just get started.You can also use below code on your html document or wordpress.

  • Go To Blogger > Layout > Add A Gadget > HTML/JavaScript > Paste below code:

<div id="popularthreads" class="dsq-widget"><h2 class="dsq-widget-title">Popular Threads</h2><script type="text/javascript" src="http://wwefansnation.disqus.com/popular_threads_widget.js?num_items=5"></script></div>

  • Replace wwefansnation.disqus.com with your site's Disqus ID.
  • Replace 5 with the number of threads your want to display.

Now save and you're done.!!!

Disqus Popular Threads Widget For WordPress:

You can download add Disqus Popular Threads Widget to WordPress with this plugin.

Thursday 3 January 2013

Optimizing Your Blog's Load Time


Your site's loading time is a vital factor in its ability to engage its readers. Our users don't like a site, which takes way to much time to load. Even we like Google Search because it takes very little time to load. Optimizing your blog/site's loading time is a must, and today we'll learn about it. Here comes the Service called PageSpeed Insights.

What is PageSpeed Insights?

PageSpeed Insights analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster. Reducing page load times can reduce bounce rates and increase conversion rates.

Test Your Blog's Score

Go to PageSpeed Insights and Enter the URL and Press Analyze.After a bit of loading you will get a detailed deport discussing your site's loading time. You'll get a lot of reports on where your site's loading time is good or bad. You'll get your report in five parts:

  • High priority. These suggestions represent the largest potential performance wins for the least development effort.
  • Medium priority. These suggestions may represent smaller wins or much more work to implement.
  • Low priority. These suggestions represent the smallest wins. You should only be concerned with these items after you've handled the higher-priority ones.
  • Experimental rules. These suggestions are experimental, but do not affect the overall PageSpeed score.
  • Already done!. There are no suggestions for these rules, since this page already follows these best practices. Good job!

Now some very important things to consider while optimizing your Score

  • Combine images into CSS sprites: This becomes very important if you're using lots of icons on your site.
  • Optimize images: Properly formatting and compressing images can save many bytes of data.
  • Minify JavaScript: Compacting JavaScript code can save many bytes of data and speed up downloading, parsing, and execution time.
  • Place CSS in Head: Any external CSS file should be placed in the <head> tag as it helps in fast rendering of the Page
  • Specify image dimensions: Specifying a width and height for all images allows for faster rendering by eliminating the need for unnecessary reflows and repaints.
  • Remove Unused CSS and JavaScript: If you're not using a css or javascript then don't forget to remove it.

Here are several reasons of your blog's low speed

  • Leverage browser caching: Blogger doesn't give you access to the .htaccess file where you have to set the expiry date for your resources, making them cacheable.
  • Default CSS File: Blogger loads a CSS file namely bundle.css ,over which you have no control. This file contains default styling of Blogger widgets.
  • Slow Widgets: Remove Gadgets like Facebook Like Box and Followers Gadget, as the images of members that are loaded ,very badly effect Load Times and Page Size.

Every blog has their own different problems and some of them are their publisher networks like Clicksor. Don't forget to leave a comment with your score...!!!

Wednesday 2 January 2013

Adding Threaded Commenting System To Blogger


Most bloggers are already using this system on their blog, but i never used it because i'am using Disqus commenting system, which is better than Blogger commenting system. My brother created a blog call My Droid Arena, and he is using this threaded system in his blog.

After using this trick your Blogger comments will have a reply option. Now let's get started:

  • Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML > Proceed.
  • Select (Tick) the "Expand the Widget" Box.
  • Search for the following code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
  <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
</b:if> 

  • Once you find the above code, replace it with the following.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'>
         <b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
           <b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
         <b:else/>
           <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
         </b:if>
       </b:if>
       <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
         <b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
           <b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
         <b:else/>
           <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
         </b:if>
       </b:if>

Now go ahead and save the template. That's it for this time. You can also customize this system with some css.

Adding Disqus Top Commenters Widget To Blogger


Previously i shared Disqus Recent Comments Widget, which was an awesome way to show some recent comments and this time i'am going to share Top Commenters widget with you guys. It's a great way to show your site's most active commenters. You can also use below code on your html document or wordpress.

  • Go To Blogger > Layout > Add A Gadget > HTML/JavaScript > Paste below code:

<div id="topcommenters" class="dsq-widget"><h2 class="dsq-widget-title">Top Commenters</h2><script type="text/javascript" src="http://wwefansnation.disqus.com/top_commenters_widget.js?num_items=5&hide_mods=0&hide_avatars=0&avatar_size=32"></script></div>

  • Replace wwefansnation.disqus.com with your site's Disqus ID.
  • Replace 5 with the number of commenters your want to display.
  • Replace hide_mods=0 with hide_mods=1 if you want to hide moderator's name from this widget.

Now save and you're done.!!!

Disqus Top Commenters Widget For WordPress:

You can download add Disqus Top Commenters Widget to WordPress with this plugin.

Tuesday 1 January 2013

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Using Google Web Fonts In Blogger


Every blog needs some perfect fonts to match their content. There are lots of websites where you can get some free and paid fonts, but Google Web Fonts are totally free to use and it's hosted in Google's Server. From this tutorial you'll learn how to use these fonts on your blog, website or anywhere.

Here We Go

First go to Google Web Fonts and select your favorite style by clicking 'Quick Use.'


Now scroll down a bit and you will see a link tag code , copy this code and also copy #2 text (Web Font Family Name) as shown in image below:


Now Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML and paste Font Style Sheet just below <head>:


Now search and add the CSS to use this font, just before the ]]></b:skin> tag :

h1 {
font-family: WEB-FONT-NAME ;
}

Replace WEB-FONT-NAME with your web font name which we copied earlier. In this font our web font name is 'Freckle Face', cursive. So make this code like:

h1 {
font-family: 'Freckle Face', cursive;
}

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