Tips to Add FriendFeed Badge to Blogger

Thursday, August 28, 2008

FriendFeed, the popular social aggregator website has recently launched some cool widgets that you can put into your blog to show your visitors, the services you use and your FriendFeed activity. In my last post, i explained the way to add Share on FriendFeed Button to Every Post in Blogger. In this post, i will explain how you can add FriendFeed badge in your blog. You can see the image below to know how this badge will look into your blog. You can also see this badge in the sidebar of this website.

FriendFeed Badge
This badge is customizable. It means you can fit this badge to suit the style of your blog. You can make your picture small, medium or large. You can show/hide Logo, Picture, Services, Stats and Subscribe link in this badge. You can set the width of the badge as well. To add this badge to your Blogger blog, following are the steps.

Step 1: Login into your Blogger account using your Blogger username and password.

Step 2: Click on Layout link from your dashboard, you will see Add and Arrange Page Elements under Page Element tab. See the image below for your reference.

Add a Gadget
Step 3: Click on "Add a Gadget" as suggested in the above image. and select HTML/JavaScript from the popup dialog as given in the image below.

Script
Step 4: Copy any of the script given at the end of this post and paste it in your blog as instructed the image below.

Badge
Below are the customized script for FriendFeed badge. Before you paste this script to your blog, please replace the FriendFeedNickName in this script with your actual FriendFeed Nickname.

Style 1: Default with all options enabled


Style 2: NO FriendFeed Logo


Style 3: NO Picture


You can make large number of combinations depend on what you want to show/hide in your badge. You can follow FriendFeed's embed badge page to get more customized scripts. You can directly install this badge into your Blogger blog from this page.

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Add Share on FriendFeed Button to Every Post in Blogger

In a series of my posts about adding different services to your blog, this post will explain how you can add Share on FriendFeed Button to every post in Blogger. FriendFeed is very useful Twitter kind of service that let you share your upadtes (Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube, Google Reader, SlideShare, Digg, Picasa, Flickr) at a single place to your friends.

With the help of Share on FriendFeed Button, you can give your website visitor a chance to share your post to their FriendFeed.

Step 1: Login into Blogger with your username and password

Step 2: From your dashboard, click on Layout link as suggested in the image below.

Blogger Layout
Step 3: Click on Edit HTML tab and follow the instructions given in the image below.

Save Your Template
Step 4: Search for line <div class='post-footer'> in your template text area. Follow the image below for your reference.

Blogger template
Step 5: Copy and paste any of the script given here just below the line <div class='post-footer'> and save your template.

Style 1:    Share on FriendFeed


Style 2:    Share on FriendFeed


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See Also:-
Tips To Add Digg This Button To Every Post in Blogger
Add Reddit Button to Every Post in Blogger
How to Add Yahoo! Buzz to Your Website to Get Huge Traffic

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Add Reddit Button to Every Post in Blogger

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

In my previous posts, i discussed the way to add Digg this button and Yahoo! buzz button to every post in your Blogger template. In this post, i will explain the way to add Reddit button to every post in Blogger. Reddit is a popular social bookmarking site and adding a Reddit button to your blog can give your blog readers, a chance to bookmark the interesting posts of your blog.

Reddit provides 3 kinds of buttons to choose from. You can see these 3 different button styles in the image below. The state of the buttons will change once someone submits the blog post to Reddit. I will show the changed button states later in this post.

Reddit button
You can choose the button style, which suits to your blog layout. I have provided here the customized scripts for Blogger blogs. You can select either of the script and can add it into your blog. In case, you don't know where to put this code in your Blogger template, you can follow the post Tips To Add Digg This Button To Every Post in Blogger

Style 1:


Style 2:


Style 3:


These scripts are customized for Blogger. If you are using any other blog platform, you just need to provide URL of the post to reddit_url and title of the post to reddit_title in the above script.

When any visitor of your blog will submit your blog post to Reddit, the button state will change. You can see the changes in the image below.

Reddit Votes
Having a Reddit button to every post in your blog is a good idea and it can bring good referral traffic to your blog. You can also visit Reddit webpage to learn more about Reddit buttons.

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

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

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.

Sample Yahoo! Buzz Button 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.




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.





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

Sunday, August 17, 2008

SPAM Copy Adsense
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.

SPAM report 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.

SPAM Blog

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.

Blogger Flag Blog
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.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.

Report to Adsense 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.

Report to Google

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How to Add Google Adsense for Feeds

Thursday, August 14, 2008

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.

Google Adsense for Feeds
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.

Adsense Feed Unit
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.

Activate Feed Ads
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

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Google PageRank
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.

PR Checker

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.

Dig PageRank

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.

Xinu Returns
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.

PageRank Checker
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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Blogger Blogs Powered With iGoogle Gadgets

Monday, August 11, 2008

Blogger, the popular blogging platform from Google today made a significant change in it's interface. With new user interface, people will be able to integrate iGoogle Gadgets into the blog sidebar. Blogger has added a new Gadget directory for you to choose from thousands of iGoogle Gadget.

Now the option "Add a page Element" is no more thee when you add something to your blog. It's now renamed to "Add a Gadget". You can see the new interface in the image given below.

Blogger iGoogle
When you will click on "Add a Gadget" button, the new interface will be available and you can see from image given below, how it looks like.

Blogger iGoogle Gadget
Here is a official video from Blogger giving you a complete tour of new changes in Blogger.



Source:-
Blogger Buzz: Spice Up Your Blog with Google Gadgets!

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Tips To Add Digg This Button To Every Post in Blogger

You will be wondering to see a Digg this button with every post of my blog. Normally people use social bookmarking button such as addThis or Share This or social bookmarking scripts such as http://www.social-bookmark-script.com/, where you have choice of many other bookmarking websites along with Digg. Being the most popular social bookmarking service, Digg is something special than all other social bookmarking sites and once any of your website reader digg your blog post, you can receive good amount of referral traffic from Digg.

Here in this post, I will explain the tips to add Digg this button with every post of your blog on Blogger platform. Digg provides a dig this JavaScript. All you need to do is to paste a small code on your Blogger template. Below are the instructions-

  • Go to your Dashboard, click on Layout button and then choose the Edit HTML tab. See the below image for your reference.

    Digg this instruction 1

  • Backup your template by clicking "Download Full Template" button.

  • Click on Expand Widget Templates checkbox and search for the code <p><data:post.body/></p>

  • Replace this code with the piece of code given below. See image for reference.

    <p>
    <!-- Digg this button start -->
    <div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'>
    <script type='text/javascript'>
    digg_url = '<data:post.url/>';
    </script>
    <script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    </div>
    <data:post.body/>
    </p>
    <!-- Digg this button ends -->


    Digg this instruction 2

  • Save your Template, and it's done.
The above instructions will add a standard size Digg submit button with zero diggs in the right side of every post in your blog. By adding a Digg button with every post, you can increase the chance of your post to be dugg. The digg count will start from the time when someone first digg your post.

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Your Blog Speaks Out Your Business

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Blog can change your business
Your blog is the power of your business. Blogging is now very popular among every organization, whether you are selling some products, providing some services, doing R&D or software development. Everyone is using blogs to showcase what they are offering or what they are going to offer.

Yes, we are talking about corporate blogging. Corporate blogging is a term used for the kind of blogs published by organization to share the status of the organization with public or with the employees within the organization. Here we will talk about the blogs published for external users. Here is a question- Why blogging is so important for these organizations when they already have a dedicated website to showcase their products, services or latest updates? Well, the answer is simple.

Having a website will help you to present your organization to your related industry, while blogging will make your organization more social by taking into account the users, who are actually using your products or services. Many organizations started using blog to let users contribute to the success of their organization. Almost every Web-2.0 company has his own blog and their blog speaks out their business. A blog reach is much more than an organization's official website, because with your blog you are directly connected with your users.

Take an example of a small startup company Twitter, being a small company, their success depends more on their users. More interaction with their users will help them to provide better services to its users. They have their corporate blog for this purpose. They share daily or weekly updates about Twitter there and people leave their comments, thoughts or suggestions. That makes every user feel more close to them.

We gave an example of a small startup company, let's take an example of Google, I think, I don't need to tell anything about Google as an organization. Google has blog for almost every product or service they provide as well as a blog for the organization as a whole and these blogs provides the latest updates of their offerings.

Corporate blogging is now a part of almost every organization in any industry ranging from micro to large. So if you are going to offer a new product, service or you already providing services, don't forget to add the power of blog to your service. It's a powerful way to take your business to a new height.

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We Are Back With New Look And Feel

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Our daily visitors must have noticed that we have entirely changed the theme of our blog. We were using a theme which was quite nice but it was little slow to load. We are back to normal rounders blogger template with 3 columns to give you feeling of a blog not a website.

Hope you guys liked the new look and feel. In coming days, I will post few more new technology tips and tricks, so keep visiting your favorite Daily Technology Tips blog. If you are a new visitor, please subscribe to our blog RSS feed.

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Your Success with Yahoo Search Engine - Drive Traffic

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Increase Traffic from Yahoo
Yahoo!, the second largest search engine after Google is suppose to be the toughest search engine for webmasters to rank high. Yahoo! search algorithm is very different from Google and this is the reason, a website ranking good in Google may not rank well in Yahoo! In this post, I will explain few tips to get success with Yahoo!, tips to get good amount of traffic from Yahoo search engine. Tips to perform well on Yahoo for your keywords.

Your success with Yahoo is dependent on Yahoo itself. Yahoo provides various tools for webmasters in order to bring them good amount of traffic from Yahoo! search engine. In this post, we will explore all these tools in details.

Yahoo! Publisher NetworkYahoo publisher network helps you to increase the reach of your website to new readers. Here is what you can do with Yahoo! publisher network.

  • Submit your blog or website RSS feed to Yahoo!

  • Allow other users to subscribe your RSS feed in their My Yahoo! pages using Add to MY Yahoo! button.

  • Submit your website to Yahoo!

  • Manage effectively your website with Yahoo! site explorer
Submit RSS feed to Yahoo! :

If you are not aware of RSS feed, refer to the post here. Once you have feed of your blog or website, you can take advantage of one of the world's most popular feed reader "My Yahoo!". Yahoo! has a large feed database and in order to have your website feed in their feed database, you should first login into Yahoo! using your Yahoo! login id and password. Once login, you can follow this page to submit your RSS feed to My Yahoo! page and Yahoo! feed database.

Once your feed is added, Yahoo! will do the rest. Depend on the frequency of your contents update on your website, Yahoo! will check your feed. You can also tell Yahoo! about your latest updates using Ping. The URL for the ping is-

http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=[THE URL of your RSS feed].

In case, you are not aware of Ping, refer to the post here.

Add to MY Yahoo! :

Webmasters can have "Add to MY Yahoo!" button on their blog or website to let others subscribe the feed of your website in their "My Yahoo" webpage. Add to my Yahoo! button is very handy and comes in two style "Long button" and "short button with text" as given below.

Add to My Yahoo!

Add to My Yahoo!
You can click either of the button in order to add the RSS feed of my blog to your My Yahoo! page.

Submit your website to Yahoo :

Yahoo! provides you an option to tell to Yahoo! about your website or you can say a request to Yahoo! to include your website in their search engine. You can find it here http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html. In the above link, you will find Yahoo! search submission and Yahoo! directory submission. You can submit your website and website feed to Yahoo! for free.

Mange your website with Yahoo Site Explorer :

Yahoo Site Explorer Yahoo site explorer gives you complete control over your website in Yahoo!. You can track the progress of your website with Yahoo! site explorer. You can see what all pages of your website are there in Yahoo! search index. You can track the internal and external links to your website. Most of the webmaster prefers backlinks calculations of Yahoo! than Google because it shows all your backlinks. If you are not aware of backlinks, refer to the post here.
You can submit and track the feed of your website in Yahoo! site explorer. You can delete the URL that you do not want Yahoo! to index. More about the process of submitting your blog or website sitemap to Yahoo! site explorer is given here.
If you want to drive traffic to your website from Yahoo!, follow all these steps in order to expose your website to Yahoo! and let Yahoo! throw thousands of readers to your website every day. Make your success with Yahoo!
Very recently Yahoo! launched a new look and feel for Yahoo Site Explorer. You can access it from http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/new

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Google Tips to Avoid Public Service Ads on Your website

Saturday, August 2, 2008

We all know that Google Adsense script is advance enough to display best possible ads on your website that matches the contents of your website, but sometimes webmaster see public service ads on their website. One of the main reasons of these ads is the lack of contents on their website. Google today shared few points to remember for every webmaster that use Adsense on his website.

Google crawlers have tough time finding the right ads in case your website has no or very little contents. According to Google, avoid using too much flash, image and videos because it will affect the relevancy of the ads displaying on your website. If you are heavily using flash, images and videos, then along with these, you should provide some contents in order to let Google crawlers displaying best and targeted ads on your website.

Google tips for webmasters are-

  • Because of the reason that Google crawlers can't read text within an image, always provide text with image.

  • As I already said in my earlier post 16 Tips to Make Google Friendly WebPage that always add proper TITLE and ALT tags with images.

  • Final tip is to include more text contents in your website.
If you taken into consideration all these points while making a flashy and image/video based website. You can avoid public service ads on your website. In case you are not aware of what is PSA, i have explained it below for your reference.

Public Service Ads: According to Google-

PSAs are non-profit organization ads that are served to pages when targeted ads are unavailable, or when Google is unable to gather content from the page. Publishers do not receive earnings for clicks made on PSAs.

Source:-
Inside AdSense: A picture isn't always worth a thousand words

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