How to Add Yahoo! Buzz to Your Website to Get Huge Traffic

Recently Yahoo! Buzz from Yahoo Inc. opened for everyone. Yahoo! Buzz can be a good choice for all webmasters looking for new ways to increase their website traffic. The nature of Yahoo! buzz is pretty much similar to Digg, but the reach of Yahoo! is much more than any other website. In this post, I will explain how to add Yahoo! buzz to your website.

Yahoo! provides buttons for a publisher who wants to be a part of Yahoo! buzz. These buttons are pretty much similar to other social bookmarking buttons such as Digg it button, delicious button or Slashdot button. Yahoo! buzz provides you more than 14 types of buttons ranging from smaller to large in size to suit with the style of your website. You can get the button code of your choice from http://buzz.yahoo.com/buttons. You can see two Yahoo! buzz buttons on the left side with their code on the right side in the image below.

I would recommend a button which provide all of these functionalities given below.

• Provide a story’s headline upon submission.( yahooBuzzArticleHeadline )


• Provide a story’s summary upon submission.( yahooBuzzArticleSummary )


• Provide a story’s category upon submission.( yahooBuzzArticleCategory )


• Provide a story’s media type upon submission(yahooBuzzArticleType )


• Automatically pull the URL associated with the page where the button lives upon submission.( yahooBuzzArticleType )

The code for this button is given below. Just copy and paste it to your website after changing the above options according to your need.

yahooBuzzArticleHeadline is your story headline.

yahooBuzzArticleSummary is your story summary.

yahooBuzzArticleCategory is your story category in which you want it to submit. The possible categories are- business, entertainment, health, images, lifestyle, politics, science, sports, travel, usnews, video, world-news

yahooBuzzArticleType is the media type of the story. The possible media types are- text, image, video

yahooBuzzArticleId is the URL of the story.


<script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Yahoo! Buzz is now open!";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Welcome new publishers.";yahooBuzzArticleCategory = "science";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = window.location.href;</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" badgetype="large-votes"></script>

If you have a blog, you want to add Yahoo! buzz button to each blog post. You can follow my post Tips To Add Digg This Button to Every Post in Blogger. You just need to place Yahoo! buzz script given above in place of Digg script. Blogger blogs can use any customized scripts given below. First one will create a large button with vote count and second one will have all the options as discussed earlier.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" badgetype="square"><data:post.url/></script>

<script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = <data:post.title/>;yahooBuzzArticleSummary =<data:post.title/>;yahooBuzzArticleCategory = "science";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = <data:post.url/>;</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" badgetype="large-votes"></script>

Yahoo! Buzz can bring huge traffic to your website, if your story gets a chance to appear on Yahoo! main page.

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How to Report a Website or Blog to Google

Is your website being copied? Did you see SPAM results in Google search? Did you see a blog or website that is violating the Google AdSense Terms of service (TOS)? If you are looking for the ways to contact Google in order to report any of these problems listed above then this post will help you.
In this post, I will explain several possible ways to contact Google to report a website or blog.

Google Search Results: If you want to report a website to Google, which is appearing in Google search results against a search keyword and that website is having serios problems such as Hidden text or links, Misleading or repeated words, Page does not match Google's description, Cloaked page, Deceptive redirects, Doorway pages, Duplicate site or pages or any other problem. You have two ways to report such website to Google.

• Authenticated Form in Google Webmaster. It requires Google account. You need to login into Google webmaster in order to report for a blog or website.


• unauthenticated form. You don't require Google account. You can report a website to Google.

Below image can give you an idea of the information you need to fill in order to report a website to Google.

Your report will help Google to improve search results.

Copyright violation: As I wrote earlier, if someone is stealing your copyright contents, you can always submit notice to Google to remove that site from their search index. Such complaint comes under Digital Millennium Copyright Act. You can read here more about how to file a DCMA complaint against a website.

SPAM Blog Reporting to Blogger: If you want to report a SPAM blog to Google, You can report it from http://help.blogger.com/?page=troubleshooter.cs&contact_type=Spam. You need to enter the SPAM blog URL as shown in the image below.



You can also report SPAM blog with the help of Blogger navigation bar with every Blogger blog. See the image below to know how to report SPAM blog. Many bloggers hide this default navigation bar. For such blogs, earlier method of reporting can be used.


Google AdSense Policy Violation: If you notice a website or blog which is violating the Google TOS. You can always report to Google AdSense team. There are two ways to achieve that.

• Fill Policy Violation contact form.
• Ads by Google link in Google ads. Process explained below.

You can always report AdSense policy violation to Google from the site itself, where Google ads are being displayed. See the below image for the process of doing this.

As shown in above image, when you click on Ads by Google link in any AdSense unit being displayed. It will take you to a new webpage. From this webpage, you can send a policy violation report to Google. Follow the image below to check this webpage.



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How to Add Google Adsense for Feeds

Google just opened Adsense for Feeds. Now you can place relevant ads in your blog or website feeds. In this post I will explain the process of adding Google Adsense in your feeds.

Step 1: Login into your Google Adsense account with your adsense username and password.

Step 2: Click on "AdSense Setup" tab and you will see "AdSense for Feeds" option along with Adsense for content, search , referrals and mobile. Follow the image below.


Step 3: Click on Adsense for Feeds link and you will be navigated to a new page to create your ad units for feeds. Follow the image below.


Most of the options in the above image are same as in other ad units such as Ad Type, Frequeny, Post Length and feed position. You can also create channel to track the performance of ads unit.

Step 4: At the bottom of the above image, you must have noticed a text "You have no feeds in your account yet". This tells that you don't have feeds in your Google account. If you have an account with feedburner.com, you can go for migrating your feeds to Google.

In order to use Google ads in your feed, you either need a feedburner account or you can burn a new feed as the option given in the bottom of the above image. Currently, the process of migrating feeds from your feedburner account to Google account is manual.
You can follow Migrating to a Google Account in order to use AdSense for feeds to proceed for the migration.

Step 5: If you don't have account with feedburner, you can burn your feed right there from your adsense account. Check the above image, you will find a link at the bottom of the image with text "burn a new feed". Click on this link and you will see a popup requesting for your blog or feed URL. Follow the image below.


Click on next button as given in the image, if you have more than one feeds, it will prompt you to select any one from the available feeds. Just select feed and press next button. Now save your ad units by using save button at the bottom (See image in step 3 for your reference) and you are done.

Below video from Google will provide introduction of Adsesne for feeds.



You can also read official Google article What is AdSense for feeds? to get more details over adsense for feeds.

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Best Google PageRank Checker Tools

Google PageRank, the green bar from Google for billions of websites over the internet. This green bar is making crazy to millions of webmasters around the world. Here in this post, I will write about the best Google PageRank checker tools available over internet that works just fine with less or no problems.

1: Google PageRank Checker is the best PageRank checker website with fast and correct results. This website offer free service to check Google PageRank of any website.



This website also allow you to generate Google PageRank button which can be used to check the PageRank of every page of your website right on your website. You just need to get the generated code and put into your blog or website. You can see this in action from the left sidebar of this website.

This website also provide you PageRank checking tool that you can embed in your website to let others check their PageRank from your website. You can see that tool in action below.

Check Page Rank of any web site pages instantly:

This free page rank checking tool is powered by Page Rank Checker service

2: Dig PageRank is another cool website which tells the current Google PageRank value of your website in over 700 datacenters. The speed of this website is quite fast and results are accurate.



This website is very useful specially when Google PageRank update takes place. You can see the difference in PageRank values in different datacenters.

3: Xinu Returns is another good website thats not only tell about your Google PageRank but also the screenshot of your website, the Alexa ranking, Technorati authority, Dmoz directory listing, number of indexed pages in Yahoo!, Google, Google Images and Live, Number of backlinks in Yahoo!, Google, Live, Ask and many more. The best thing about this website is that it provides everything about your website to you.


You can know the number of social bookmarks in different social bookmarking websites, number of RSS feed subscriber according to feedburner subscriptions, your website diagnosis and W3C validation as well as your domain information. If you will select all these options together, the speed will be little slow, so you can select and deselect the options according to your requirements. The user interface is a Web-2.0 clean interface.

4: SEO Centro Google Datacenters (DC) PageRank (PR) Check tells your Google PageRank value in 30 datacenters. Enter the URL and the security code and let it go.


The performance of this website is acceptable. They provide other PageRank check options such as Google PageRank checker for multiple URL's

There are other tools also on the internet that tells the Google PageRank of your website, but I found the above listed tools very useful in terms of speed and accuracy. You can always check the exact Google PageRank value of any webpage if you have Google Toolbar installed in your browser. Just visit that page and check the green bar.

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