Thursday, June 28, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Earn Money from In-Text Advertising on Your Website with Infolinks
Are you looking for monatization opportunities for your blog or website? Most of bloggers and webmasters looking for monetization opportunities to earn extra income via published content. As their site's user engagement grows, they will find monatization as a hidden opportunity to jump more few steps ahead. When it comes to monatization, you will find various kind of options if you google it. Once we hear about monetization, our mind will cross with banner advertisements on a website. That's how we define an advertisement on web space. But would you like to display ads without reserving any space on your website?
There is nothing to wonder about. Infolinks is a provider of pay-per-click ads for websites and their approach is not the way that other advertisers do. Infolinks offer advertisements for your text or content already available on your website. It's called as In-Text advertising where it detects suitable keywords in your content and match them with available ads. Also their dynamic proprietary algorithm is capable of maintaining relevancy of ads with your site content. So once a match found, Infolinks will integrate ads with your text and it will be activated when a user hover over the text as a pop up bubble. As it doesn't cost you extra space on your website, you can use it with other monetization alternatives too.
As it incorporate with your text, you will be say BIG "NO" for Infolinks if you are much considered about your search engine rankings and optimizations. But having the Infolinks In-Text ads on your website will not interfere with your SEO as the Infolink script based on Java Script where search engines can't crawl these ads on your site. But it could be cautious, if your visitors start to believe your in-line text are spammy kind of things. Therefore you better mention about Infolinks on your website and control the amount of links displayed within a page.
Infolinks do not impose restrictions or requirements on publishers for integrating on websites. However your application will be reviewed to find if there is any illegal or offensive activities happen on your website. Infolinks let you customize its functionality to optimize In-Text ads with your website. The links will start to appear right after you integrated the Infolinks script. It offer you popular payment methods such as PayPal, Bank Wire, E-Check and ACH with certain threshold or payout limits. However overally, Infolinks is a useful monetization option with moderate to high payout rate if you generate quality and enough content on your blog or website.
Steps:
1. Sign up for a new Infolinks publisher account.
Note: Once you signed up for a new account, you will have to wait until Infolinks team review your application. After the review, you will get confirmation email to access your account.
2. Now sign in to your account.
3. Navigate to My Websites page.
4. Now access customization options by clicking on customize icon and Save changes after the customization. There you can change,
- Appearance of In-text advertising links
- Number of links per page
- Category of your content
Note: You can see a preview of your changes in example box.
5. Now set up your Payment Details to receive payments.
6. Navigate to Integration page.
7. Select your website unless it has already selected and copy the script code for your website.
8. Now go and add Infolinks script code to your website right before the </body> tag in your website code.
Notes:
* You can control Infolinks In-Text ads and enable In-Text ads only for your preferred area on the website. You just need to enclose your preferred content area which you wanna show ads, by <!--INFOLINKS_ON--> and <!--INFOLINKS_OFF--> tags as below,
<!--INFOLINKS_ON-->
[This is my content area where Infolinks In-Text ads will be displayed. Content not enclosed by these tags won't eligible for In-Text ads.]
<!--INFOLINKS_OFF-->
There is nothing to wonder about. Infolinks is a provider of pay-per-click ads for websites and their approach is not the way that other advertisers do. Infolinks offer advertisements for your text or content already available on your website. It's called as In-Text advertising where it detects suitable keywords in your content and match them with available ads. Also their dynamic proprietary algorithm is capable of maintaining relevancy of ads with your site content. So once a match found, Infolinks will integrate ads with your text and it will be activated when a user hover over the text as a pop up bubble. As it doesn't cost you extra space on your website, you can use it with other monetization alternatives too.
As it incorporate with your text, you will be say BIG "NO" for Infolinks if you are much considered about your search engine rankings and optimizations. But having the Infolinks In-Text ads on your website will not interfere with your SEO as the Infolink script based on Java Script where search engines can't crawl these ads on your site. But it could be cautious, if your visitors start to believe your in-line text are spammy kind of things. Therefore you better mention about Infolinks on your website and control the amount of links displayed within a page.
Infolinks do not impose restrictions or requirements on publishers for integrating on websites. However your application will be reviewed to find if there is any illegal or offensive activities happen on your website. Infolinks let you customize its functionality to optimize In-Text ads with your website. The links will start to appear right after you integrated the Infolinks script. It offer you popular payment methods such as PayPal, Bank Wire, E-Check and ACH with certain threshold or payout limits. However overally, Infolinks is a useful monetization option with moderate to high payout rate if you generate quality and enough content on your blog or website.
Steps:
1. Sign up for a new Infolinks publisher account.
Note: Once you signed up for a new account, you will have to wait until Infolinks team review your application. After the review, you will get confirmation email to access your account.
2. Now sign in to your account.
3. Navigate to My Websites page.
4. Now access customization options by clicking on customize icon and Save changes after the customization. There you can change,
- Appearance of In-text advertising links
- Number of links per page
- Category of your content
Note: You can see a preview of your changes in example box.
5. Now set up your Payment Details to receive payments.
6. Navigate to Integration page.
7. Select your website unless it has already selected and copy the script code for your website.
8. Now go and add Infolinks script code to your website right before the </body> tag in your website code.
Notes:
* You can control Infolinks In-Text ads and enable In-Text ads only for your preferred area on the website. You just need to enclose your preferred content area which you wanna show ads, by <!--INFOLINKS_ON--> and <!--INFOLINKS_OFF--> tags as below,
<!--INFOLINKS_ON-->
[This is my content area where Infolinks In-Text ads will be displayed. Content not enclosed by these tags won't eligible for In-Text ads.]
<!--INFOLINKS_OFF-->
How to Set Custom Page Not Found Message in Blogger
Do you regularly write or publish posts on your blog? As you maintain your posts to be in high quality and to improve productivity, sometimes you may have to edit, update your posts or delete certain depreciated posts from your blog. When you edit, revert back a published post to draft or in the middle of something, the users navigating to same posts may see that particular page is not available on your blog. The same scenario applies for your published but deleted posts too. In such a situation a friendly, creative and customized message will definitely help your visitors to see what's wrong and get back to your blog to explore other posts. Would you mind adding friendly and customized message for your visitors?
Technically we call this message 404 or Not Found error message. It occurs when a server couldn't find or display user requested page from the site. It means the page that user is trying to view is broken temporarily or already deleted. So if you in the middle of something with your post or it has already been deleted, Blogger will show off a standard not found error message as below,
(Sorry, the page you were looking for this blog does not exist.)
As Blogger was responsible for showing this message, you had no control over it and customization of this message was impossible. But now Blogger handing over more capabilities and features to users' side to make it more preferable and user-friendly service for users. As a result of this new adding up of features, now Blogger let you customize and have your own page not found message to display for your broken and deleted pages whenever visitors trying to access that pages.
So would you like to display a custom page not found message as above? Let's figure it out. Further, you can make use of HTML and CSS to decorate your custom message too.
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Navigate to Settings tab from left pane.
4. Now jump to sub option Search preferences.
5. Find option Custom Page Not Found under Errors and redirections heading and click Edit link correspond to it.
6. Now enter your custom page not found message in corresponding text area.
Note: Your message shouldn't exceed 1000 characters, the maximum limit.
7. Click on Save changes button.
Enjoy :-)
Technically we call this message 404 or Not Found error message. It occurs when a server couldn't find or display user requested page from the site. It means the page that user is trying to view is broken temporarily or already deleted. So if you in the middle of something with your post or it has already been deleted, Blogger will show off a standard not found error message as below,
(Sorry, the page you were looking for this blog does not exist.)
As Blogger was responsible for showing this message, you had no control over it and customization of this message was impossible. But now Blogger handing over more capabilities and features to users' side to make it more preferable and user-friendly service for users. As a result of this new adding up of features, now Blogger let you customize and have your own page not found message to display for your broken and deleted pages whenever visitors trying to access that pages.
So would you like to display a custom page not found message as above? Let's figure it out. Further, you can make use of HTML and CSS to decorate your custom message too.
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Navigate to Settings tab from left pane.
4. Now jump to sub option Search preferences.
5. Find option Custom Page Not Found under Errors and redirections heading and click Edit link correspond to it.
6. Now enter your custom page not found message in corresponding text area.
Note: Your message shouldn't exceed 1000 characters, the maximum limit.
7. Click on Save changes button.
Enjoy :-)
How to Report Spam Accounts on Twitter
Do you tweet regularly? or a fan of Twitter? Twitter is a great way to communicate with your friends and followers instantly eventhough it limits your messages to 140 characters. However as a Twitter user, no one needs
invitation to follow or see your tweets as long as your tweets not protected. Therefore some people may try to abuse on Twitter in available room. Mostly some people will send you harmful links or try to get attention of yours by using @reply or @mention functions. It means either they will reply your tweets with harmful links which directs to malware websites or send you unwanted messages with the mention of your account name to get attention. It will be buggy as you regularly use Twitter and you may want to get rid of them. We can identify this behavior as spamming on Twitter. Would you like to get rid of spammers on Twitter?
As a service and a social network, Twitter needs to think about their users safety and privacy. Therefore due to this involvement of spammers, Twitter let you report spam account directly from the respective spam profile. The Twitter Rules has defined specific rules for users to identify spammy behaviors. So if you suspect an user spamming or you have no idea why they are doing this, you can report it to Twitter instantly. Once after reporting a spam profile, you will no longer get replies or mentions from the reported account and will block interaction with your account automatically. Further it will queue up for Twitter's Trust andSafety team to review and take necessary actions for that account. After the review of team, if it proved as a spam account, the respective account will be suspended.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Twitter account and locate suspected spam account.
Note: If you come across a spammy tweet, click on respective account name shown on the tweet.
2. Now click on person icon displayed on spam profile.
3. Select Report @username for spam from drop down menu.
Note: Here @username reflects spam account or profile username.
4. Now the suspected spam account will be blocked automatically and report to further review.
Enjoy :-)
invitation to follow or see your tweets as long as your tweets not protected. Therefore some people may try to abuse on Twitter in available room. Mostly some people will send you harmful links or try to get attention of yours by using @reply or @mention functions. It means either they will reply your tweets with harmful links which directs to malware websites or send you unwanted messages with the mention of your account name to get attention. It will be buggy as you regularly use Twitter and you may want to get rid of them. We can identify this behavior as spamming on Twitter. Would you like to get rid of spammers on Twitter?
As a service and a social network, Twitter needs to think about their users safety and privacy. Therefore due to this involvement of spammers, Twitter let you report spam account directly from the respective spam profile. The Twitter Rules has defined specific rules for users to identify spammy behaviors. So if you suspect an user spamming or you have no idea why they are doing this, you can report it to Twitter instantly. Once after reporting a spam profile, you will no longer get replies or mentions from the reported account and will block interaction with your account automatically. Further it will queue up for Twitter's Trust andSafety team to review and take necessary actions for that account. After the review of team, if it proved as a spam account, the respective account will be suspended.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Twitter account and locate suspected spam account.
Note: If you come across a spammy tweet, click on respective account name shown on the tweet.
2. Now click on person icon displayed on spam profile.
3. Select Report @username for spam from drop down menu.
Note: Here @username reflects spam account or profile username.
4. Now the suspected spam account will be blocked automatically and report to further review.
Enjoy :-)
How to Edit Your Blogger Template
Sometimes you may wonder how do some bloggers take control of their template and customize their templates or position widgets as they need. But there is no wonder at all. All you need is giving up resistance to change and know what you need to do exactly to result your intended changes. As other websites, Blogger is also based on markup languages. Eventhough you are much familiar with HTML and other markup languages, you may unable to find where you should deploy your expertise in Blogger. Are you still wondering where you find and take charge of your template?
Trick and Get into Template?
You don't have to trick your blog to get into your blog template. Blogger offers you the core template code and let you edit your current blog template directly via its Template Editor. All you need is basic knowledge in HTML and you have to spend some time with template code to understand structure and apply relevant changes. If you are not good with HTML sort of markup languages, it may end up being broken too. However you can reset them if something has gone wrong and also backup feature is available for your template. However if you have a reference which depicts how to do all things, you just need to follow and make necessary changes here.
What Can I Find in Template?
There you can find each and every HTML code and relevant styles used to build up your template including widget templates. If you get to template editor, you just need to modify them as your preference with the knowledge of your markup languages. Different people can customize their template in different ways. However you don't need to touch your template always to make changes to your template. Blogger let you customize background image and color of your blog, add and arrange widgets easily, change blog template without stepping into your template and more. But still there are limitations. So here you will find the way to modify your template directly. Wanna edit your template now?
Before You Go:
If you're using Dynamic Views on your blog, yet Blogger doesn't let you edit your template.
Steps:
1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Jump to Template tab.
Note: Before editing your template, you may want to save a copy of it.
4. Click Edit HTML button below your blog preview.
5. Click Proceed button to view Template Editor.
6. Tick on, Expand Widget Templates option to expand your element code and see detailed view of your template.
7. Now you can add codes or modify content of your template.
8. Once you done with modifications, Save your template.
Enjoy :-)
Trick and Get into Template?
You don't have to trick your blog to get into your blog template. Blogger offers you the core template code and let you edit your current blog template directly via its Template Editor. All you need is basic knowledge in HTML and you have to spend some time with template code to understand structure and apply relevant changes. If you are not good with HTML sort of markup languages, it may end up being broken too. However you can reset them if something has gone wrong and also backup feature is available for your template. However if you have a reference which depicts how to do all things, you just need to follow and make necessary changes here.
What Can I Find in Template?
There you can find each and every HTML code and relevant styles used to build up your template including widget templates. If you get to template editor, you just need to modify them as your preference with the knowledge of your markup languages. Different people can customize their template in different ways. However you don't need to touch your template always to make changes to your template. Blogger let you customize background image and color of your blog, add and arrange widgets easily, change blog template without stepping into your template and more. But still there are limitations. So here you will find the way to modify your template directly. Wanna edit your template now?
Before You Go:
If you're using Dynamic Views on your blog, yet Blogger doesn't let you edit your template.
Steps:
1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Jump to Template tab.
Note: Before editing your template, you may want to save a copy of it.
4. Click Edit HTML button below your blog preview.
5. Click Proceed button to view Template Editor.
6. Tick on, Expand Widget Templates option to expand your element code and see detailed view of your template.
7. Now you can add codes or modify content of your template.
8. Once you done with modifications, Save your template.
Enjoy :-)
How to Transfer Ownership of Your Google+ Page
If you are responsible in managing brands, you may already engage in Google+ to manage your brand via Google+ pages. There you will find many advantages such as being search engine friendly by having a Google+ page. But it may differ from brand to brand and according to the percentage of people who gathered around Google+ to provide feedback and notify your updates. However it's not my major consideration here. If you are the only one who manage Google+ page of your company or organization, sometimes you may not able to post updates in some situations. You can prevent such obstacles by adding managers to your page and let them post on your page. But what if you wanna transfer ownership of your page?
Transferring ownership means you are enable all permissions for your page to someone to access and administrate your page such as deleting page. There could be few common scenarios that you might wanna transfer ownership of your page. Sometimes you may wanna transfer ownership as you don't wanna manage particular Google+ page no more. Or you might wanna transfer ownership as you delete your current Google+ profile. But if you are trying to change ownership just to let someone manage your page, you can do it by adding him as a manager. Anyway if you are willing to transfer ownership, you can find out by reading through this post.
Before You Go:
You need to satisfy below conditions before you transfer ownership of the page you intend to.
* You need to be the owner of the page you are referring to.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Google+ profile.
2. Navigate to Google+ Page Management page.
3. Click Settings link under the relevant page that you wanna change ownership.
4. Jump to Managers section from left pane.
5. Click on Transfer ownership link on top right corner.
6. Now you will get a prompt to transfer ownership. Select the manager that you wanna provide owner credentials and click Continue.
7. Next you will need to confirm that you wanna transfer ownership to the person you selected. Click OK to complete the process.
Transferring ownership means you are enable all permissions for your page to someone to access and administrate your page such as deleting page. There could be few common scenarios that you might wanna transfer ownership of your page. Sometimes you may wanna transfer ownership as you don't wanna manage particular Google+ page no more. Or you might wanna transfer ownership as you delete your current Google+ profile. But if you are trying to change ownership just to let someone manage your page, you can do it by adding him as a manager. Anyway if you are willing to transfer ownership, you can find out by reading through this post.
Before You Go:
You need to satisfy below conditions before you transfer ownership of the page you intend to.
* You need to be the owner of the page you are referring to.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Google+ profile.
2. Navigate to Google+ Page Management page.
3. Click Settings link under the relevant page that you wanna change ownership.
4. Jump to Managers section from left pane.
5. Click on Transfer ownership link on top right corner.
6. Now you will get a prompt to transfer ownership. Select the manager that you wanna provide owner credentials and click Continue.
7. Next you will need to confirm that you wanna transfer ownership to the person you selected. Click OK to complete the process.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Add Share Buttons for Your Blogger Posts with AddThis
In blogging, people used to come visit your blog if they really worth what they are reading and some people might land on your blog after finding out your interesting blog posts via recommendations, web search or from wherever your content has been shared. Did you feel eventhough you have interesting posts, they have no readers as you expected? Some techies may recommend to try best SEO methodologies to bring out more users. Yeah there is greater chance to see your posts on web search. But people searching for what they need and what they feel interesting. And once they obsessed with interesting content, they would really like to share them with people who has similar interests. That will end up with gaining more traffic or readers to your content. So would you like to set up a way to share your posts in a giffy?
Sharing could result more audience for your content. In Blogger, you can offer few sharing capabilities for your readers on your post footer. But few means few sharing or not at all. The social web is consist of several hundred of social networks and there people finding for interesting content. People tend not to share and don't waste their time if there is no quick way to share your posts. Do you? AddThis is a content sharing platform which enables users to share your content quite easily across many international social networks. AddThis allows you to use personalize services and tools with real-time tracking. So you can measure all sharing happen on your blog and find what matter most to your readers. Also it reveals how many new site visits come back from shared content. As it is offering you a reliable service, reader may never find any difficulties in sharing your content. And yeah, it's easy to implement.
Before You Go:
You need to have an AddThis account before you proceed with below steps. Sign up for a new AddThis account if you haven't got one yet.
Steps:
1. Navigate to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Jump to Template tab.
4. Click Edit HTML button underneath your blog preview.
5. Click Proceed button to continue.
6. Tick on, Expand Widget Templates option.
7. Now find </head> in your template.
8. Add following AddThis script right before the </head> tag.
Sharing could result more audience for your content. In Blogger, you can offer few sharing capabilities for your readers on your post footer. But few means few sharing or not at all. The social web is consist of several hundred of social networks and there people finding for interesting content. People tend not to share and don't waste their time if there is no quick way to share your posts. Do you? AddThis is a content sharing platform which enables users to share your content quite easily across many international social networks. AddThis allows you to use personalize services and tools with real-time tracking. So you can measure all sharing happen on your blog and find what matter most to your readers. Also it reveals how many new site visits come back from shared content. As it is offering you a reliable service, reader may never find any difficulties in sharing your content. And yeah, it's easy to implement.
Before You Go:
You need to have an AddThis account before you proceed with below steps. Sign up for a new AddThis account if you haven't got one yet.
Steps:
1. Navigate to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Jump to Template tab.
4. Click Edit HTML button underneath your blog preview.
5. Click Proceed button to continue.
6. Tick on, Expand Widget Templates option.
7. Now find </head> in your template.
8. Add following AddThis script right before the </head> tag.
<script type='text/javascript'>
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true, "data_track_addressbar":false};
var addthis_share =
{
templates:
{
};
</script>
<script src='http://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=[Your Profile ID]' type='text/javascript'/>
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true, "data_track_addressbar":false};
var addthis_share =
{
templates:
{
twitter: "{{title}} {{url}} via @[Your Twitter Username]"
}};
</script>
<script src='http://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=[Your Profile ID]' type='text/javascript'/>
Add Floating Vertical Share Bar for Blogger Posts with AddThis
People always love to share interesting content with their friends and followers. Isn't it? I think you totally agree with it. As you and I are struggles with information madness, we may always find different kind of interesting
information or content everywhere on the web. Once we find those, we may provide our feedback via available ways. Next we will try to find a way to share this piece of information. Copying and pasting links on our social profiles could somewhat an old methodology. So why don't you provide your readers an easy yet simple way to share your content across the web?
AddThis is an sharing platform useful for publishers and it enables readers to share content easily. However this time it will comes up with a different layout - Vertical layout. You may have seen vertical share buttons appearing on popular websites with easy sharing capability. As like that AddThis provides you vertical share bar with popular share buttons and eventhough readers scroll your page, still they will able to see share buttons. So they don't need to scroll top or bottom again to find share buttons if they wanna share your content. It's right there available for them. AddThis offers you vertical share bar in few different sizes and as usual, they offer you analytics for the shared content.
Before You Go:
You need to have AddThis account before you proceed with below steps. Sign up for a new AddThis account if you haven't got one yet.
Steps:
1. Navigate to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Jump to Template tab.
4. Click Edit HTML button underneath your blog preview.
5. Click Proceed button view Template Editor.
6. Tick on, Expand Widget Templates option.
7. Now find </head> in your template.
8. Add following script right before the </head> tag.
<script type='text/javascript'>
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true, "data_track_addressbar":false};
var addthis_share =
{
templates:
{
twitter: "{{title}} {{url}} via @[Your Twitter Username]" }
};
</script>
<script src='http://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=[Your Profile ID]' type='text/javascript'/>
information or content everywhere on the web. Once we find those, we may provide our feedback via available ways. Next we will try to find a way to share this piece of information. Copying and pasting links on our social profiles could somewhat an old methodology. So why don't you provide your readers an easy yet simple way to share your content across the web?
AddThis is an sharing platform useful for publishers and it enables readers to share content easily. However this time it will comes up with a different layout - Vertical layout. You may have seen vertical share buttons appearing on popular websites with easy sharing capability. As like that AddThis provides you vertical share bar with popular share buttons and eventhough readers scroll your page, still they will able to see share buttons. So they don't need to scroll top or bottom again to find share buttons if they wanna share your content. It's right there available for them. AddThis offers you vertical share bar in few different sizes and as usual, they offer you analytics for the shared content.
Before You Go:
You need to have AddThis account before you proceed with below steps. Sign up for a new AddThis account if you haven't got one yet.
Steps:
1. Navigate to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Jump to Template tab.
4. Click Edit HTML button underneath your blog preview.
5. Click Proceed button view Template Editor.
6. Tick on, Expand Widget Templates option.
7. Now find </head> in your template.
8. Add following script right before the </head> tag.
<script type='text/javascript'>
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true, "data_track_addressbar":false};
var addthis_share =
{
templates:
{
twitter: "{{title}} {{url}} via @[Your Twitter Username]" }
};
</script>
<script src='http://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=[Your Profile ID]' type='text/javascript'/>
How to Reset Your Widget Templates to Default in Blogger
If you are looking forward to personalize your template, you may always looking for customizations in your Blogger blog. Everyone wants to do customization to their blogs, simply or extensively. It can be organization of your blog, changing layout, changing fonts and colors, changing background, modifying or adding styles, adding widgets and any other personalization activity. As you deal with your template, you may have to go through lot of HTML and style changes. In most cases you have to deal with your template directly. But due to this extensive changes, you may experience that your blog doesn't respond to changes as it was used to be. Sometimes if Blogger itself roll out any new feature, you may find it's not being reflecting on your blog. Sometimes you may wonder why your elements not working totally or according to their specified settings. Also you may fail to add or arrange elements via Layout tab. Further you may find that changes in your template not working out. So if you have this kind of issues, what you can try out at first place?
I do always recommend using Blogger official templates if you wanna go beyond basic customizations, as it is a risk free and reliable option. However people are different from each other. Their tastes and abilities are different. Eventhough some users are willing to use standard templates with available customizations, some others may wish to use other custom templates on their blogs. And another portion of users will change their templates according to their needs and wants, beyond the standard customization capabilities. However when you deals with your template you may find some problematic situations as I stated earlier. This happens when your template or widgets are corrupted or messed up with some user changes. So when things not working as it should, you may have luck with resetting your widget templates to default. Resetting widget templates will remove changes made directly to your template via Template Editor and may affect to stylesheet changes. But it doesn't remove your widgets and data related to widgets. So if you have deleted any HTML code accidently, you will find this as a worthy solution. But if you have put a lot of customization into your template, you gotta try this as your final solution as you may never wanna lose your previous customizations. But it depends on your requirements and its priority.
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Navigate to Template tab.
4. Click Edit HTML button underneath your blog preview.
5. Click Proceed button to view Template Editor.
6. Now on the bottom left hand corner you will find the link Revert widget templates to default and click on it.
7. Now click OK to continue.
8. Save your template.
Note: If you are not able to find any improvement after reverting your widget templates, you can reinstate your blog to previous state by restoring your backup template.
Enjoy :-)
I do always recommend using Blogger official templates if you wanna go beyond basic customizations, as it is a risk free and reliable option. However people are different from each other. Their tastes and abilities are different. Eventhough some users are willing to use standard templates with available customizations, some others may wish to use other custom templates on their blogs. And another portion of users will change their templates according to their needs and wants, beyond the standard customization capabilities. However when you deals with your template you may find some problematic situations as I stated earlier. This happens when your template or widgets are corrupted or messed up with some user changes. So when things not working as it should, you may have luck with resetting your widget templates to default. Resetting widget templates will remove changes made directly to your template via Template Editor and may affect to stylesheet changes. But it doesn't remove your widgets and data related to widgets. So if you have deleted any HTML code accidently, you will find this as a worthy solution. But if you have put a lot of customization into your template, you gotta try this as your final solution as you may never wanna lose your previous customizations. But it depends on your requirements and its priority.
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Navigate to Template tab.
4. Click Edit HTML button underneath your blog preview.
5. Click Proceed button to view Template Editor.
6. Now on the bottom left hand corner you will find the link Revert widget templates to default and click on it.
7. Now click OK to continue.
8. Save your template.
Note: If you are not able to find any improvement after reverting your widget templates, you can reinstate your blog to previous state by restoring your backup template.
Enjoy :-)
How to Unpublish Your Facebook Fan Page
Are you managing a Facebook fan page? Yeah your Facebook fans gather around your Facebook page and see what's new happening over there. Sometimes you may wanna make few changes to your page, such as editing basic information, changing page name or adding applications to your page. In
such scenario, you may need Facebook users out from your Facebook page or just wanna make sure it's inaccessible until you done with a process on it. Hmm.... If you need you can post a message that your page is going through a maintenance in such period of time. But still they can access your page. Wouldn't it better if you can make your Facebook page inaccessible from public?
Why You Need to Make Your Fan Page Inaccessible?
Changing basic information and settings doesn't take much time. But in some scenarios if you are adding applications to your fan page, you may have to spend lot of time with the application to customize it before enable accessing for public. Eventhough you are busy with customization, meantime users land on your page may try to access them even you are not done with them. Also sometimes you may wanna edit content or remove application from your page without further commenting or accessing. Or if you have got a fresh page that should post from scratch, you may wanna synchronize posts to your wall before showing it to public. Further you may have got similar situations.
Let's Unpublish...
Are you aware of seeing your fan page before commit all changes? Then you might have to notify your users to not to access your page in such time period. isn't it? Nope. You can do it easily without passing any messages around. Facebook allows you to unpublish your page from users until you done with changes to your page. By unpublishing, your page will be invisible for external users and users who liked your page too. At that state, only administrators will be able to see their fan page with the indication of your page visibility. So if you are hoping to do any major change on your fan page, you will find this option really awesome and it will prevent you from seeing ongoing changes by other users.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Facebook account.
2. Navigate to your Facebook page.
3. Find Admin Panel on top of page.
4. Click on Edit Page on drop down menu.
5. Now select Manage Permissions.
6. Navigate to Page Visibility setting and tick on Unpublish page option.
7. Now click Save Changes button.
Note: Once your page switched to unpublish state, you will see following notification on top of your cover.
More Information:
* To publish your page again, click on publish this page link on the notification bar or follow same steps above and untick Unpublish page option.
such scenario, you may need Facebook users out from your Facebook page or just wanna make sure it's inaccessible until you done with a process on it. Hmm.... If you need you can post a message that your page is going through a maintenance in such period of time. But still they can access your page. Wouldn't it better if you can make your Facebook page inaccessible from public?
Why You Need to Make Your Fan Page Inaccessible?
Changing basic information and settings doesn't take much time. But in some scenarios if you are adding applications to your fan page, you may have to spend lot of time with the application to customize it before enable accessing for public. Eventhough you are busy with customization, meantime users land on your page may try to access them even you are not done with them. Also sometimes you may wanna edit content or remove application from your page without further commenting or accessing. Or if you have got a fresh page that should post from scratch, you may wanna synchronize posts to your wall before showing it to public. Further you may have got similar situations.
Let's Unpublish...
Are you aware of seeing your fan page before commit all changes? Then you might have to notify your users to not to access your page in such time period. isn't it? Nope. You can do it easily without passing any messages around. Facebook allows you to unpublish your page from users until you done with changes to your page. By unpublishing, your page will be invisible for external users and users who liked your page too. At that state, only administrators will be able to see their fan page with the indication of your page visibility. So if you are hoping to do any major change on your fan page, you will find this option really awesome and it will prevent you from seeing ongoing changes by other users.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Facebook account.
2. Navigate to your Facebook page.
3. Find Admin Panel on top of page.
4. Click on Edit Page on drop down menu.
5. Now select Manage Permissions.
6. Navigate to Page Visibility setting and tick on Unpublish page option.
7. Now click Save Changes button.
Note: Once your page switched to unpublish state, you will see following notification on top of your cover.
More Information:
* To publish your page again, click on publish this page link on the notification bar or follow same steps above and untick Unpublish page option.
How to Post Tweets on a Facebook Fan Page
Do you manage a Facebook fan page and communicate with your fans? But seems you addicted to Twitter. Hmmm... I hope you may love to tweet all day around. isn't it? Twitter is an effective media to grab more attention and to
engage with your friends and followers, and yet it's simple and easy. When it comes to your brand, business, organization or even to your blog, you might wanna keep your followers up-to-date with the latest news happening around. You may always prefer to update them with relevant tweets. But what about your Facebook fan page? You go and post it all again in Facebook page? Alright... Don't think about it. Let me ask you - Would you prefer if you can synchronize your tweets with your Facebook fan page?
Twitter allows you to connect your Facebook fan page and synchronize your Twitter updates. So if you are a tweetholic, now it's your turn to increase your brand effectiveness and to save your time on Facebook. After connecting your Facebook fan page, it will directly post your tweets to the fan page wall except for direct messages, retweets and @replies. Eventhough you have multiple Facebook pages, you can link only one fan page to your Twitter account. Practically, I don't think you wanna send tweets to multiple Facebook pages simultaneously. Even if you wanted, sending out all your Twitter updates to all Facebook pages may seems pretty annoying for your fans. I mean, fans may find irrelevant tweets get posted on some pages. However it's not available. If your requirement is to post tweets on Facebook page, come on this way.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Twitter account.
2. Click on the user icon shown at the top pane and select Settings from drop down menu.
3. Now select profile tab.
4. Click on the Post your Tweets to Facebook button at the bottom.
5. Now Twitter will initialize the verification of the connection between Twitter and Facebook. Then you will be display another button, Sign in to Facebook and connect your accounts. Click on it.
6. You will prompt to sign in to Facebook profile if you have not already logged into your Facebook profile. After signing in, it will request for permissions to connect with your Facebook profile. Now click Allow button on the prompt.
7. Now tick my Facebook page option to enable posting to your Facebook fan page and remove tick from my Facebook profile option if you don't wanna publish tweets on your Facebook profile too.
8. Select your fan page which you wanna post tweets and Allow Twitter to access your page.
9. Save settings.
Enjoy :-)
engage with your friends and followers, and yet it's simple and easy. When it comes to your brand, business, organization or even to your blog, you might wanna keep your followers up-to-date with the latest news happening around. You may always prefer to update them with relevant tweets. But what about your Facebook fan page? You go and post it all again in Facebook page? Alright... Don't think about it. Let me ask you - Would you prefer if you can synchronize your tweets with your Facebook fan page?
Twitter allows you to connect your Facebook fan page and synchronize your Twitter updates. So if you are a tweetholic, now it's your turn to increase your brand effectiveness and to save your time on Facebook. After connecting your Facebook fan page, it will directly post your tweets to the fan page wall except for direct messages, retweets and @replies. Eventhough you have multiple Facebook pages, you can link only one fan page to your Twitter account. Practically, I don't think you wanna send tweets to multiple Facebook pages simultaneously. Even if you wanted, sending out all your Twitter updates to all Facebook pages may seems pretty annoying for your fans. I mean, fans may find irrelevant tweets get posted on some pages. However it's not available. If your requirement is to post tweets on Facebook page, come on this way.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Twitter account.
2. Click on the user icon shown at the top pane and select Settings from drop down menu.
3. Now select profile tab.
4. Click on the Post your Tweets to Facebook button at the bottom.
5. Now Twitter will initialize the verification of the connection between Twitter and Facebook. Then you will be display another button, Sign in to Facebook and connect your accounts. Click on it.
6. You will prompt to sign in to Facebook profile if you have not already logged into your Facebook profile. After signing in, it will request for permissions to connect with your Facebook profile. Now click Allow button on the prompt.
7. Now tick my Facebook page option to enable posting to your Facebook fan page and remove tick from my Facebook profile option if you don't wanna publish tweets on your Facebook profile too.
8. Select your fan page which you wanna post tweets and Allow Twitter to access your page.
9. Save settings.
Enjoy :-)
Import and Display Content from a External Feed in Blogger
As a blogger, do you have any favorite websites or blogs in the same niche you are working on? You might have interested in different kind of sources which used to read and sometimes you may recommend some sort of useful sites to your readers too. So what if you can show recent posts from those sites on your blog? Also if you are managing multiple blogs, do you mind if you can show off recent content from another blog of yours that could have impress your readers and to gain more exposure to your content? Or do you like to list out most recent posts of your current blog? Or else what if I say you can show off external content in your blog via any available feed?
Blogger offers you the capability of adding external content to your blog via RSS or Atom feed. Simply Blogger official Feed gadget will help you to do this. You just wanna know the feed URL of your favorite website or blog. As you know feed is a lightweight, simple and easy way to syndicate content from external web sources. So using an external feed address, you can show off content from specific site on your blog. It's your choice and you can select either external feed of your choice or your own blog feed to display recent content. It doesn't matter what feed address you gonna use and from where it originated. But it matters how your readers make use of that. So when you add content to your site via a feed, make sure your readers will find it useful and helps them to discover something interesting. Else if you intend only to promote content, it won't work out in most times. However keep in mind that this Feed gadget shows maximum of 5 items and further configurations will be discussed below.
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Navigate to Layout tab.
4. Click on an Add a Gadget link.
5. Scroll down and click on Feed gadget from gadgets pop up box.
6. Now add the Feed URL which you wanna show content from, in the Feed URL field.
7. Click Continue.
8. Now you will able to configure your added feed. You can add title, change number of items to show (Maximum 5 items), show content date, source/authors. You can also find a preview of your changes too.
9. Once you done with configuration, click Save.
10. Now arrange your feed element on the layout and preview your blog after saving your arrangement.
Enjoy :-)
Blogger offers you the capability of adding external content to your blog via RSS or Atom feed. Simply Blogger official Feed gadget will help you to do this. You just wanna know the feed URL of your favorite website or blog. As you know feed is a lightweight, simple and easy way to syndicate content from external web sources. So using an external feed address, you can show off content from specific site on your blog. It's your choice and you can select either external feed of your choice or your own blog feed to display recent content. It doesn't matter what feed address you gonna use and from where it originated. But it matters how your readers make use of that. So when you add content to your site via a feed, make sure your readers will find it useful and helps them to discover something interesting. Else if you intend only to promote content, it won't work out in most times. However keep in mind that this Feed gadget shows maximum of 5 items and further configurations will be discussed below.
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Navigate to Layout tab.
4. Click on an Add a Gadget link.
5. Scroll down and click on Feed gadget from gadgets pop up box.
6. Now add the Feed URL which you wanna show content from, in the Feed URL field.
7. Click Continue.
8. Now you will able to configure your added feed. You can add title, change number of items to show (Maximum 5 items), show content date, source/authors. You can also find a preview of your changes too.
9. Once you done with configuration, click Save.
10. Now arrange your feed element on the layout and preview your blog after saving your arrangement.
Enjoy :-)
How to Display Author Information in Google Search Results
Google has recently start customizing their search results and integrating social layer with Google+ to their search results to enhance search productivity and social connectivity. As a result of that, Google introduced an
authorship markup for authors and it help users to discover useful content being published online by specific authors. This feature will greatly affect for authors and instead of content, it will helpful to promote and identify author of online published content. Impressed? If you are an author, would you like to display your information in Google search?
You can easily implement this feature on your site and authored sites and let Google to display your information with content links. Google use some techniques to identify you as the author of content and you need to have rich and useful Google profile. So Google will checks the connections between your profile and content to identify you as the author of the content. However Google is being rolled out this feature gradually and even after following necessary steps, you may find author information not appearing on search results. So you may have to wait some more time before your information appears on search results. But if you wanna verify authorship, Google has given you an testing tool to verify authorship too. So if you wanna set up authorship markup on your site or content, let's move on.
Before You Go:
Authors need a Google profile prior to show authorship information in Google search results. If you or contributors have no Google profile, create a new Google profile before proceed with steps below.
Steps:
1. Update Google profiles of all authors who has been contributing to your site by adding site URL to their Contributor to section.
How to Add a Site Link to a Google Profile
a. Go to author's Google profile.
b. Click on Edit Profile button.
c. Now click on Contributor to section.
d. Find and click Add custom link on imminent pop up.
e. Enter site name as Label and URL of site in respective fields.
f. Click Save button.
g. Now click Done Editing button on top.
2. Now you just need to link your site content to respective author profiles. Either you can link them directly to their Google profiles or via author profile page. Select relevant category and follow respective instructions from below.
Note: If you are a Blogger user, just integrate your Google+ profile to Blogger and continue to next step.
authorship markup for authors and it help users to discover useful content being published online by specific authors. This feature will greatly affect for authors and instead of content, it will helpful to promote and identify author of online published content. Impressed? If you are an author, would you like to display your information in Google search?
You can easily implement this feature on your site and authored sites and let Google to display your information with content links. Google use some techniques to identify you as the author of content and you need to have rich and useful Google profile. So Google will checks the connections between your profile and content to identify you as the author of the content. However Google is being rolled out this feature gradually and even after following necessary steps, you may find author information not appearing on search results. So you may have to wait some more time before your information appears on search results. But if you wanna verify authorship, Google has given you an testing tool to verify authorship too. So if you wanna set up authorship markup on your site or content, let's move on.
Before You Go:
Authors need a Google profile prior to show authorship information in Google search results. If you or contributors have no Google profile, create a new Google profile before proceed with steps below.
Steps:
1. Update Google profiles of all authors who has been contributing to your site by adding site URL to their Contributor to section.
How to Add a Site Link to a Google Profile
a. Go to author's Google profile.
b. Click on Edit Profile button.
c. Now click on Contributor to section.
d. Find and click Add custom link on imminent pop up.
e. Enter site name as Label and URL of site in respective fields.
f. Click Save button.
g. Now click Done Editing button on top.
2. Now you just need to link your site content to respective author profiles. Either you can link them directly to their Google profiles or via author profile page. Select relevant category and follow respective instructions from below.
Note: If you are a Blogger user, just integrate your Google+ profile to Blogger and continue to next step.
How to Embed a Tweet on Your Website
How do you use Twitter to promote your content or interesting tweets? You can share your interesting stories online via Twitter. Further you can display all your tweets on your own website using Twitter widgets too. But there may be some occasions you may wanna embed a single tweet or @reply on your site or post, just to promote or help your readers to find it interesting. And also you might wanna build up stories with displaying relevant tweets. In such a situation, you may try copying and pasting tweet text on to your post. But rather than just showing off a tweet, would you like to embed a tweet and enable other users to retweet, reply or favorite it while on your site?
The revamp of Twitter has made major changes in design and served some new features for users. One such feature is fully functional Embedded Tweets. Twitter now made it possible for users to embed and render their favorite tweets or @replys on websites in an attractive way. It doesn't matter whether it's originated from your profile or not. You can embed any kind of tweet instantly. You may find it as an attractive or useful as a promotion methodology too. In addition to showing off the tweet, readers who visiting your site will be able to reply, retweet or favorite to that particular tweet right away without leaving your site. Also it will enable users to follow specific person who responsible for that Tweet too. However if the tweet you wanna embed contain images, videos or any other media, it would display with the embedded tweet unless it has been uploaded via third party services. Actually you don't wanna worry about images uploaded directly viaTwitter and videos from YouTube in this scenario. And eventhough if particular user deletes a tweet from his profile after you embedding that on your site, the content of tweet will still be appeared on your site. However if you embed a tweet which is a @reply, it will also display the original tweet which is the one that reply has been made for. Sounds interesting? Yeah... sometimes it could be really useful for you. Let's try it out.
Steps:
1. Sign into Twitter.
2. Now find the tweet you wanna embed on your site.
3. Click on the tweet or click on the Open link appears after pointing your mouse pointer over the tweet.
4. Now find and click on the Details link next to the tweeted date and time.
5. Now you will direct to the tweet permalink page. Click on Embed this Tweet link.
6. Select HTML tab on the pop up box and grab the code for embedded tweet after setting up position of the tweet using Alignment setting. You will able to see a preview of the tweet you gonna embed at the bottom of the pop up box.
Note: You can use Shortcode tab to grab shorthand notation to render tweets on platforms which support Tweet shotcodes.
7. Now add the embedded tweet code on your site or in a post as you prefer.
The revamp of Twitter has made major changes in design and served some new features for users. One such feature is fully functional Embedded Tweets. Twitter now made it possible for users to embed and render their favorite tweets or @replys on websites in an attractive way. It doesn't matter whether it's originated from your profile or not. You can embed any kind of tweet instantly. You may find it as an attractive or useful as a promotion methodology too. In addition to showing off the tweet, readers who visiting your site will be able to reply, retweet or favorite to that particular tweet right away without leaving your site. Also it will enable users to follow specific person who responsible for that Tweet too. However if the tweet you wanna embed contain images, videos or any other media, it would display with the embedded tweet unless it has been uploaded via third party services. Actually you don't wanna worry about images uploaded directly viaTwitter and videos from YouTube in this scenario. And eventhough if particular user deletes a tweet from his profile after you embedding that on your site, the content of tweet will still be appeared on your site. However if you embed a tweet which is a @reply, it will also display the original tweet which is the one that reply has been made for. Sounds interesting? Yeah... sometimes it could be really useful for you. Let's try it out.
Steps:
1. Sign into Twitter.
2. Now find the tweet you wanna embed on your site.
3. Click on the tweet or click on the Open link appears after pointing your mouse pointer over the tweet.
4. Now find and click on the Details link next to the tweeted date and time.
5. Now you will direct to the tweet permalink page. Click on Embed this Tweet link.
6. Select HTML tab on the pop up box and grab the code for embedded tweet after setting up position of the tweet using Alignment setting. You will able to see a preview of the tweet you gonna embed at the bottom of the pop up box.
Note: You can use Shortcode tab to grab shorthand notation to render tweets on platforms which support Tweet shotcodes.
7. Now add the embedded tweet code on your site or in a post as you prefer.
How to Create Pages in Blogger
Are you seeking for adding standalone pages for your blog? Yeah, that could be the exact reason you are reading this post. You might be wonder how other bloggers able to show off Contact page with their respective contact information or About page which includes information about contributors and who behind the blog. In addition to publishing posts or stories, Blogger allows you to publish information mostly native to your blog and its category in a quite distinctive way. So would you like to create some pages on your blog?
Blogger offers you to publish information in static pages using their useful feature - Pages. Pages feature allows you to create and customize standalone pages on your blog. Mostly readers will aware of the content being published on a blog and if they are interested in them, they will obviously wanna see who behind those. In addition you may wanna provide some services for your readers too. So pages feature is very useful if you wanna set up pages which are quite native to your blog and self-descriptive, such as About Me, Contact, Privacy Policy, Sitemap. Earlier it was quite hard to create pages in Blogger. But now it's a matter of a second. Here you can learn how to set up a standalone page for your blog.
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Navigate to Pages tab.
4. Click on New page drop down button.
5. Now either select Blank page or Web address option.
Blank Page - You can create you own static page on your blog by adding text or media as like as you write a new post.
Web Address - You can redirect users for external web page which might interest them.
6. If you selected Blank page, add up your content in post editor and save the page. Else if you selected Web address, specify the URL or web address you wanna direct users and save it.
Blogger offers you to publish information in static pages using their useful feature - Pages. Pages feature allows you to create and customize standalone pages on your blog. Mostly readers will aware of the content being published on a blog and if they are interested in them, they will obviously wanna see who behind those. In addition you may wanna provide some services for your readers too. So pages feature is very useful if you wanna set up pages which are quite native to your blog and self-descriptive, such as About Me, Contact, Privacy Policy, Sitemap. Earlier it was quite hard to create pages in Blogger. But now it's a matter of a second. Here you can learn how to set up a standalone page for your blog.
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Navigate to Pages tab.
4. Click on New page drop down button.
5. Now either select Blank page or Web address option.
Blank Page - You can create you own static page on your blog by adding text or media as like as you write a new post.
Web Address - You can redirect users for external web page which might interest them.
6. If you selected Blank page, add up your content in post editor and save the page. Else if you selected Web address, specify the URL or web address you wanna direct users and save it.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
How to Display Your Standalone Pages in Blogger
You may have already created some of useful pages to your blog. I mean not the posts, but static pages such as About Me which are more peculiar to your blog. After creating pages, your next consideration would be letting readers to
access them. Obviously you can add custom links by editing template to direct users to those pages. But wouldn't it be nice if you can show them as tabs or as a list easily without even touching your template?
Yeah... Blogger did that hardest part for you and allows you not only to create standalone pages, but also to display them on your blog. Further you don't wanna direct users using custom links to your pages and readers will find it more useful to discover and navigate to pages on your blog. So it's actually act as a navigation for your blog. Blogger make use of Pages widget to list all of you pages either as a list or tabs, and display them on your blog with few simple steps. Does it care only about displaying your standalone pages and getting them all on your blog? Nope, it will let you customize the style and you can include your taste to prioritize and arrange them when display them on your blog too. So you can get rid of pages you don't wanna display and leave other useful pages to make use of. Let's learn how to display your pages and get them on your blog.
Steps:
1. Navigate to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Jump to Pages tab.
Note: On this page you will see list of your static pages if you got any. Else it will just show Home which links to your homepage.
4. Now click on drop down button next to Show pages as option and select an option to display your pages in that particular way.
Top Tabs - Your pages will display under your blog header as a horizontal navigation bar.
Side Links - Your pages will display as a list of links on your sidebar.
Don't Show - You can make use of this option if you don't wanna show any of your pages or if you wanna link them manually.
5. Click Save arrangement button on the top.
6. Yeah... you made it. But if you selected to show pages, it will list all your published pages on your blog. If you wanna manage them and get rid of some pages, jump to Layout tab.
7. Now find an element named as Pages.
8. Click Edit link correspond to that element.
9. Now select pages to display and arrange your pages in the configuration pop up window.
10. Click Save button.
11. Now save your blog layout.
Enjoy :-)
access them. Obviously you can add custom links by editing template to direct users to those pages. But wouldn't it be nice if you can show them as tabs or as a list easily without even touching your template?
Yeah... Blogger did that hardest part for you and allows you not only to create standalone pages, but also to display them on your blog. Further you don't wanna direct users using custom links to your pages and readers will find it more useful to discover and navigate to pages on your blog. So it's actually act as a navigation for your blog. Blogger make use of Pages widget to list all of you pages either as a list or tabs, and display them on your blog with few simple steps. Does it care only about displaying your standalone pages and getting them all on your blog? Nope, it will let you customize the style and you can include your taste to prioritize and arrange them when display them on your blog too. So you can get rid of pages you don't wanna display and leave other useful pages to make use of. Let's learn how to display your pages and get them on your blog.
Steps:
1. Navigate to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Jump to Pages tab.
Note: On this page you will see list of your static pages if you got any. Else it will just show Home which links to your homepage.
4. Now click on drop down button next to Show pages as option and select an option to display your pages in that particular way.
Top Tabs - Your pages will display under your blog header as a horizontal navigation bar.
Side Links - Your pages will display as a list of links on your sidebar.
Don't Show - You can make use of this option if you don't wanna show any of your pages or if you wanna link them manually.
5. Click Save arrangement button on the top.
6. Yeah... you made it. But if you selected to show pages, it will list all your published pages on your blog. If you wanna manage them and get rid of some pages, jump to Layout tab.
7. Now find an element named as Pages.
8. Click Edit link correspond to that element.
9. Now select pages to display and arrange your pages in the configuration pop up window.
10. Click Save button.
11. Now save your blog layout.
Enjoy :-)
Saturday, June 23, 2012
How to Create a Google+ Page
Do you wanna promote your brand, product, business or need to create a public identity? Facebook offers you pages feature to represent your business, product, brand, organization or whatsoever publicly and allows you to keep in touch with your fans. Lately you might have
experiencing Google+ social network and it's features regarding to your private profile. Now Google+ came up with an anticipated feature which is now known as Google+ pages. Didn't you create a Google+ page yet?
Google+ page feature enables you to represent your business, product or brand with a whole new approach. Creating a Google+ page will helps you to connect with your fans, customers or followers and also enable them to recommend you. Like Google+ personal profiles, it allows you to start realtime face-to-face conversations using Hangouts. Also you can edit your posts even after you posted, if it has to be changed without losing all comments and +1s regarding to that post. So you will find more productive features when you engage with your followers. As Google+ pages connect your customers and followers in a second, further you don't need to promote your business using your private profile. However Google+ still coming up with more professional features for their pages. So if you still unable to find your category or features missing there, just be patient and be alert with upcoming features. Let's get started with Google+ pages.
Before You Go:
If you looking forward to create Google+ page, you should have a Google+ account for yourself. Create a new Google+ account if you are not a Google+ member.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Google+ account.
2. Go to Google+ Page Creation page.
3. Now pick your main category from the left pane to continue.
- Local Business or Place
- Product or Brand
- Company, Institution or Organization
- Arts, Entertainment or Sports
- Other
Unless if you couldn't find your specific category, then Other category is for you.
Note: If you have selected Local Business or Place, you have to look up for your business or place by entering your phone number. Click Locate button after selecting country and entering your phone number. If your business or place not listed on Google, it will prompt you to add your business. If so click Add your businessto Google link.
4. Fill up the form with relevant information and make sure to select best suite sub-category for your page.
5. Make sure to agree with Google+ Page Terms.
6. Click on Create button.
7. Now you will prompt to customize your page's public profile by uploading a profile picture and adding tagline which describes your page. Click Next after you done with that.
8. If you would like, you can tell your Google+ friends about your page now. Just add your circles and share on Google+. However you can do this later too.
9. Now click Finish.
Notes:
* You can manage your pages at Manage Pages page. Click Manage button to edit or change settings of your page. Else click Delete link to delete your page.
Enjoy :-)
experiencing Google+ social network and it's features regarding to your private profile. Now Google+ came up with an anticipated feature which is now known as Google+ pages. Didn't you create a Google+ page yet?
Google+ page feature enables you to represent your business, product or brand with a whole new approach. Creating a Google+ page will helps you to connect with your fans, customers or followers and also enable them to recommend you. Like Google+ personal profiles, it allows you to start realtime face-to-face conversations using Hangouts. Also you can edit your posts even after you posted, if it has to be changed without losing all comments and +1s regarding to that post. So you will find more productive features when you engage with your followers. As Google+ pages connect your customers and followers in a second, further you don't need to promote your business using your private profile. However Google+ still coming up with more professional features for their pages. So if you still unable to find your category or features missing there, just be patient and be alert with upcoming features. Let's get started with Google+ pages.
Before You Go:
If you looking forward to create Google+ page, you should have a Google+ account for yourself. Create a new Google+ account if you are not a Google+ member.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Google+ account.
2. Go to Google+ Page Creation page.
3. Now pick your main category from the left pane to continue.
- Local Business or Place
- Product or Brand
- Company, Institution or Organization
- Arts, Entertainment or Sports
- Other
Unless if you couldn't find your specific category, then Other category is for you.
Note: If you have selected Local Business or Place, you have to look up for your business or place by entering your phone number. Click Locate button after selecting country and entering your phone number. If your business or place not listed on Google, it will prompt you to add your business. If so click Add your businessto Google link.
4. Fill up the form with relevant information and make sure to select best suite sub-category for your page.
5. Make sure to agree with Google+ Page Terms.
6. Click on Create button.
7. Now you will prompt to customize your page's public profile by uploading a profile picture and adding tagline which describes your page. Click Next after you done with that.
8. If you would like, you can tell your Google+ friends about your page now. Just add your circles and share on Google+. However you can do this later too.
9. Now click Finish.
Notes:
* You can manage your pages at Manage Pages page. Click Manage button to edit or change settings of your page. Else click Delete link to delete your page.
Enjoy :-)
How to Enable Google+ Direct Connect for Your Google+ Pages
Google now started to offer you more features for your Google+ pages to increase the engagement of your fans and visitors. You may have already set up a Google+ page for your business, product, brand or organization with a public identity. But does your fans know your
brand page on Google+ unless you given them a link to your page? Now Google made it easy for you. Google introduced Google+ Direct Connect feature on Google+ platform to find or to navigate to your Google+ page immediately via Google search once you search for a brand, business or organization by entering query with preceding + (Plus) sign. Once you activated or eligible for direct connect feature, your fans who comes to your page via Google search will prompt to add your page to their circles. Are you interested? But how do you make your page eligible for Google+ direct connect?
Once after creating a Google+ page for your site, you can eligible for direct connect easily. There you just need to link your site to your page and vice versa. When it comes to linking, there is two approaches - linking manually and adding Google+ badge. Here I'm gonna discuss about manual linking. As Google+ Direct Connect aids your friends, fans or anyone to find your Google+ page via Google search and add it to their Google+ circles directly within Google search, you don't wanna miss it out. Also it will helps to consolidate or synchronize your +1s between your page and site too. However you have no complicated steps to eligible for Google+ direct connect and eligibility doesn't necessarily mean your page gonna appears on Google search right afterwards with enabled direct connect.
Before You Go:
You need to have an authorized Google+ page which represent your site.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Google+ profile.
2. Click on little triangle displayed beneath your name at top left of sidebar.
3. Select the page you wanna link with your site.
4. Now carefully look at the URL of your page displayed on your browser address bar and take a note of your Page ID you find at the end of URL.
i.e: https://plus.google.com/b/111117610607219889806
5. Navigate to your page's profile page.
brand page on Google+ unless you given them a link to your page? Now Google made it easy for you. Google introduced Google+ Direct Connect feature on Google+ platform to find or to navigate to your Google+ page immediately via Google search once you search for a brand, business or organization by entering query with preceding + (Plus) sign. Once you activated or eligible for direct connect feature, your fans who comes to your page via Google search will prompt to add your page to their circles. Are you interested? But how do you make your page eligible for Google+ direct connect?
Once after creating a Google+ page for your site, you can eligible for direct connect easily. There you just need to link your site to your page and vice versa. When it comes to linking, there is two approaches - linking manually and adding Google+ badge. Here I'm gonna discuss about manual linking. As Google+ Direct Connect aids your friends, fans or anyone to find your Google+ page via Google search and add it to their Google+ circles directly within Google search, you don't wanna miss it out. Also it will helps to consolidate or synchronize your +1s between your page and site too. However you have no complicated steps to eligible for Google+ direct connect and eligibility doesn't necessarily mean your page gonna appears on Google search right afterwards with enabled direct connect.
Before You Go:
You need to have an authorized Google+ page which represent your site.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Google+ profile.
2. Click on little triangle displayed beneath your name at top left of sidebar.
3. Select the page you wanna link with your site.
4. Now carefully look at the URL of your page displayed on your browser address bar and take a note of your Page ID you find at the end of URL.
i.e: https://plus.google.com/b/111117610607219889806
5. Navigate to your page's profile page.
6. Click Edit Profile button.
7. Now click on Links section at your profile page.
8. Click Add custom link link.
9. Enter your Site Name and add URL of your site in the URL field.
10. Click Save button.
11. Now click Done Editing button on top.
12. Add below element into your homepage's <head> section.
Note: Else you can show off a link to your Google+ page on your homepage.
7. Now click on Links section at your profile page.
8. Click Add custom link link.
9. Enter your Site Name and add URL of your site in the URL field.
10. Click Save button.
11. Now click Done Editing button on top.
12. Add below element into your homepage's <head> section.
<link href="https://plus.google.com/[Google+ Page ID]" rel="publisher" />
Note: Else you can show off a link to your Google+ page on your homepage.
<a href="https://plus.google.com/[Google+ Page ID]" rel="publisher">[Content]</a>
How to Download Your Information on Facebook
Each day, how many times you communicate with friends, share content, upload photos or add information on your Facebook profile? Obviously you may never forget to check your profile frequently. Facebook is a great platform with unique features to meet your friends, families and
followers. However you may have shared a lot of content on your profile up to now. You may have shared photos and videos with your families. Or chat with friends, send messages, write on walls and vice versa. May be your Facebook profile holds information or data which you couldn't find elsewhere, even in your mobile or computer. So what if you wanna download all your information and data on your Facebook profile?
Facebook provide you a service which let you have a copy of information you have shared on Facebook. This archive includes your profile information, your list of friends, notes, events, events, messages and your wall/timeline including comments, photos, posts and other content posted by your friends. However Facebook doesn't allow you to select and download them individually. Once you request for information, Facebook will generate copy of your information and allows you to download your archive. As it has your sensitive information, Facebook will need to confirm your identity when you downloading your archive. Therefore eventhough you left your browser logged into Facebook account, no one will be able to download your information.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Facebook account.
2. Navigate to Account Settings page.
3. Now find the line Download a copy of your Facebook data at bottom and click on Download a copy link.
4. Click Start My Archive button.
5. Now again click Start My Archive button on the dialog box.
6. Click Okay button once after it displays You will receive an email when your archive is ready for download message.
Note: You will receive an email to your associated email account once Facebook initiated the process of generating information. Unless you receive an email, you better try above steps again to see if it started already.
7. Now you have to wait until Facebook generates your personal archive.
Note: It may take quite time to generate your archive.
8. Once your archive ready to download, you will asked to re-enter your Facebook password. Enter your password and click Continue.
Note: If you are accessing your Facebook account from a public computer, you will prompt to solve friend photo captcha or an SMS captcha.
9. Now click Download Archive button and it will download your content in a Zip (.zip) file.
10. Extract your downloaded Zip file with Facebook information, and double click index.html to view your information.
Enjoy :-)
followers. However you may have shared a lot of content on your profile up to now. You may have shared photos and videos with your families. Or chat with friends, send messages, write on walls and vice versa. May be your Facebook profile holds information or data which you couldn't find elsewhere, even in your mobile or computer. So what if you wanna download all your information and data on your Facebook profile?
Facebook provide you a service which let you have a copy of information you have shared on Facebook. This archive includes your profile information, your list of friends, notes, events, events, messages and your wall/timeline including comments, photos, posts and other content posted by your friends. However Facebook doesn't allow you to select and download them individually. Once you request for information, Facebook will generate copy of your information and allows you to download your archive. As it has your sensitive information, Facebook will need to confirm your identity when you downloading your archive. Therefore eventhough you left your browser logged into Facebook account, no one will be able to download your information.
Steps:
1. Sign in to your Facebook account.
2. Navigate to Account Settings page.
3. Now find the line Download a copy of your Facebook data at bottom and click on Download a copy link.
4. Click Start My Archive button.
5. Now again click Start My Archive button on the dialog box.
6. Click Okay button once after it displays You will receive an email when your archive is ready for download message.
Note: You will receive an email to your associated email account once Facebook initiated the process of generating information. Unless you receive an email, you better try above steps again to see if it started already.
7. Now you have to wait until Facebook generates your personal archive.
Note: It may take quite time to generate your archive.
8. Once your archive ready to download, you will asked to re-enter your Facebook password. Enter your password and click Continue.
Note: If you are accessing your Facebook account from a public computer, you will prompt to solve friend photo captcha or an SMS captcha.
9. Now click Download Archive button and it will download your content in a Zip (.zip) file.
10. Extract your downloaded Zip file with Facebook information, and double click index.html to view your information.
Enjoy :-)
How to Post and Comment on Your Facebook Fan Page as Yourself
Do you have a Facebook fan page? Yeah... Facebook page is a great way to broadcast information on behalf of the organization, businesses, products, brands or your site. As you engage with fans via your page, you have to communicate with them in different scenarios such
as to get feedback, to provide information they are seeking for. However as you are the administrator of your page, you may find that by default, you have to post or comment on your own wall as your Facebook page. There could be such scenarios that you may want to post or comment using your actual Facebook profile in the Facebook page you administering instead of posting as your page. But do you know how to post or comment on your Facebook fan page as yourself?
By default, Facebook fan page set up their administrators to post as the page, whenever they post or comment on their fan page. At most occasions that setting doesn't bother administrators as they wanna post or comment as the page they are administering to increase branding opportunity. But there are some situations that eventhough you are an administrator of a page, you may wanna post as yourself in that page. In such a scenario, you may have to remove yourself as an administrator and comment or post. But you don't have to. You can post as yourself on your own page eventhough you are an administrator. Personally I got such a situation and was embarrassed as I was unable to post as myself. But later on I was able to find out the relevant setting and just wanted to share it with you guys if you ever need it.
Steps:
1. Sign in to Facebook.
2. Navigate to your Facebook Page.
3. Find Admin Panel on top.
4. Now click on Edit Page on drop down menu.
5. Click on Manage Notifications.
6. Find Posting References setting and uncheck Always comment and post on your page as... option.
7. Now Save Changes.
More Information
* If your Facebook page has multiple admins and also they wanna post or comment using their personal profile, they have to follow this steps again in their profile.
* Meantime if you wanna post as your Facebook page, switch to your Facebook page from the drop down menu by clicking upside down triangle from top right corner.
Enjoy :-)
as to get feedback, to provide information they are seeking for. However as you are the administrator of your page, you may find that by default, you have to post or comment on your own wall as your Facebook page. There could be such scenarios that you may want to post or comment using your actual Facebook profile in the Facebook page you administering instead of posting as your page. But do you know how to post or comment on your Facebook fan page as yourself?
By default, Facebook fan page set up their administrators to post as the page, whenever they post or comment on their fan page. At most occasions that setting doesn't bother administrators as they wanna post or comment as the page they are administering to increase branding opportunity. But there are some situations that eventhough you are an administrator of a page, you may wanna post as yourself in that page. In such a scenario, you may have to remove yourself as an administrator and comment or post. But you don't have to. You can post as yourself on your own page eventhough you are an administrator. Personally I got such a situation and was embarrassed as I was unable to post as myself. But later on I was able to find out the relevant setting and just wanted to share it with you guys if you ever need it.
Steps:
1. Sign in to Facebook.
2. Navigate to your Facebook Page.
3. Find Admin Panel on top.
4. Now click on Edit Page on drop down menu.
5. Click on Manage Notifications.
6. Find Posting References setting and uncheck Always comment and post on your page as... option.
7. Now Save Changes.
More Information
* If your Facebook page has multiple admins and also they wanna post or comment using their personal profile, they have to follow this steps again in their profile.
* Meantime if you wanna post as your Facebook page, switch to your Facebook page from the drop down menu by clicking upside down triangle from top right corner.
Enjoy :-)
How to Integrate Your Google+ Profile with Blogger
Nowadays Google+ is another brand new social media platform evolve on the Web. Recently Google+ introduced Google+ Brand Pages exclusively for users who wanna promote their businesses, brands and organizations. As a Blogger user, it was really cool feature to embrace
your fans and followers gathered around you and to keep them alerted with your updates. The search engine giant Google use this Google+ platform to interconnect users and to offer single identity whenever you use Google products including Google search. As a result of this phenomena, now you can associate your Google+ profile in your Blogger blog. Would you like to use Google+ profile in your blog?
In addition to sleek UI, dynamic views and other features, Blogger now looking forward to make use of Google+ social platform to connect each other users. As Google started to revamp Blogger, now they started to integrate Google+ social experience in Blogger. You can use your public Google+ profile for your Bloggerblogs to maintain single identity and it will link your posts and comments to your Google+ profile. Once you associated your Google+ profile, it will replace your Blogger profile and start to use your Google+ profile name and image whenever you post or comment. In addition, you will be able to share your posts to Google+ from your post list and link to your profile in search results. However Google made this switch completely optional and if you don't mind using your Google+ profile name, it would be perfectly match for you.
Before You Go:
* Make sure you have a Google+ profile. If you have no Google+ profile yet, sign in to Google+ with your Google account.
* This switch replace your Blogger profile completely and doesn't transfer your Blogger profile information to Google+ profile. So if you need them, you better take a note of your information.
* Your Google+ profile should have set to Public. If you are not sure about that, you can check that as follows.
i. Sign in and navigate to your Google+ profile.
ii. Now scroll down and check for Profile discovery option at the About tab.
iii. If it set to Profile visible in search, then your profile already set to public. Else click Edit Profile button and change that setting.
Steps:
1. Navigate to Blogger Switch Profile page.
2. Read the instructions on the page and check the option I've read the above and fully understand...
3. Click Switch Now button.
4. Now you will ask to enter your Google account password again to reconfirm your identity. Enter your password and click Sign in button.
Notes:
* After switching, Blogger will display your Google+ profile name and profile picture whenever you comment on Blogger blogs. But it won't affect for comments you made previously.
* You can revert back to your Blogger profile within 30 days from the profile switch.
5. You will prompt to add your contributing blogs to your Google+ profile. Select your preferred blogs to be added and click Add button. Else you can Skip this.
Enjoy :-)
your fans and followers gathered around you and to keep them alerted with your updates. The search engine giant Google use this Google+ platform to interconnect users and to offer single identity whenever you use Google products including Google search. As a result of this phenomena, now you can associate your Google+ profile in your Blogger blog. Would you like to use Google+ profile in your blog?
In addition to sleek UI, dynamic views and other features, Blogger now looking forward to make use of Google+ social platform to connect each other users. As Google started to revamp Blogger, now they started to integrate Google+ social experience in Blogger. You can use your public Google+ profile for your Bloggerblogs to maintain single identity and it will link your posts and comments to your Google+ profile. Once you associated your Google+ profile, it will replace your Blogger profile and start to use your Google+ profile name and image whenever you post or comment. In addition, you will be able to share your posts to Google+ from your post list and link to your profile in search results. However Google made this switch completely optional and if you don't mind using your Google+ profile name, it would be perfectly match for you.
Before You Go:
* Make sure you have a Google+ profile. If you have no Google+ profile yet, sign in to Google+ with your Google account.
* This switch replace your Blogger profile completely and doesn't transfer your Blogger profile information to Google+ profile. So if you need them, you better take a note of your information.
* Your Google+ profile should have set to Public. If you are not sure about that, you can check that as follows.
i. Sign in and navigate to your Google+ profile.
ii. Now scroll down and check for Profile discovery option at the About tab.
iii. If it set to Profile visible in search, then your profile already set to public. Else click Edit Profile button and change that setting.
Steps:
1. Navigate to Blogger Switch Profile page.
2. Read the instructions on the page and check the option I've read the above and fully understand...
3. Click Switch Now button.
4. Now you will ask to enter your Google account password again to reconfirm your identity. Enter your password and click Sign in button.
Notes:
* After switching, Blogger will display your Google+ profile name and profile picture whenever you comment on Blogger blogs. But it won't affect for comments you made previously.
* You can revert back to your Blogger profile within 30 days from the profile switch.
5. You will prompt to add your contributing blogs to your Google+ profile. Select your preferred blogs to be added and click Add button. Else you can Skip this.
Enjoy :-)
How to Create a Facebook Application for Your Site
Nowadays Facebook is a renowned social media platform with unique set of features evolving on the Web. Facebook has given the opportunity to use their native functionality to improve user experience on websites and blogs. As it has more simplified, convenient and personalized
social experience, more and more users started to integrate Facebook social platform in to their websites. Basically Facebook offers social plugins to use with their sites to embed social features on their sites. But if wish to integrate Facebook platform more deeper into your site, then you need to create a Facebook application for your site. Oops... but do you know how to create an application for your site?
You need to register your site with Facebook to grab an application for your site. However you can implement Facebook social plugins on your site easily without registering your site. But if you wish to integrate Facebook platform more deeper in to your site, you should register your site with Facebook to get application ID aka API key. For example, if you wish to simplify and enhance user registration and sign in by using Facebook login button, then you have to get a Facebook application for your site to use with Facebook JavaScript SDK to access rich set of client-side features for authentication and authorization purposes. In addition, to enhance the usage of XFBML implementations of social plugins, to moderate all comments made via Facebook comment plugin in your site, you need to register your site with Facebook or create a Facebook application for your site.
Steps:
1. Navigate to Facebook Applications page.
2. Click on Create New App button.
3. Enter the name you wish to have for your application in App Display Name field and enter your preferred namespace for your application in App Namespace field.
Note: Namespace must be at least 7 characters and it will use for Open Graph and Canvas page if you gonna make use of them.
4. Now check I agree to the Facebook Platform Policies option.
5. Click Continue button.
6. Now you will prompt to enter captcha text. Enter captcha text in the box and click Submit.
7. Now you will navigate to application summary page and move on to Basic Info Heading.
8. Enter your domain or subdomain in App Domain field.
Note: If you are hosted your website or blog on a free domain, then add your subdomain here. For example, if your blog on Blogger platform, it should be specified as blogspot.com.
9. If you prefer you can select category of your application via Category drop down box.
10. Now scroll down and find the heading Select how your app integrates with Facebook.
11. There click on the Website section.
12. Now enter your site URL in the Site URL field.
13. Now click on Save Changes button.
More Information:
You can find your Facebook Application ID aka API key on the top of Facebook Application page correspond to your application. Further you can explore other settings for your application from the left pane.
social experience, more and more users started to integrate Facebook social platform in to their websites. Basically Facebook offers social plugins to use with their sites to embed social features on their sites. But if wish to integrate Facebook platform more deeper into your site, then you need to create a Facebook application for your site. Oops... but do you know how to create an application for your site?
You need to register your site with Facebook to grab an application for your site. However you can implement Facebook social plugins on your site easily without registering your site. But if you wish to integrate Facebook platform more deeper in to your site, you should register your site with Facebook to get application ID aka API key. For example, if you wish to simplify and enhance user registration and sign in by using Facebook login button, then you have to get a Facebook application for your site to use with Facebook JavaScript SDK to access rich set of client-side features for authentication and authorization purposes. In addition, to enhance the usage of XFBML implementations of social plugins, to moderate all comments made via Facebook comment plugin in your site, you need to register your site with Facebook or create a Facebook application for your site.
Steps:
1. Navigate to Facebook Applications page.
2. Click on Create New App button.
3. Enter the name you wish to have for your application in App Display Name field and enter your preferred namespace for your application in App Namespace field.
Note: Namespace must be at least 7 characters and it will use for Open Graph and Canvas page if you gonna make use of them.
4. Now check I agree to the Facebook Platform Policies option.
5. Click Continue button.
6. Now you will prompt to enter captcha text. Enter captcha text in the box and click Submit.
7. Now you will navigate to application summary page and move on to Basic Info Heading.
8. Enter your domain or subdomain in App Domain field.
Note: If you are hosted your website or blog on a free domain, then add your subdomain here. For example, if your blog on Blogger platform, it should be specified as blogspot.com.
9. If you prefer you can select category of your application via Category drop down box.
10. Now scroll down and find the heading Select how your app integrates with Facebook.
11. There click on the Website section.
12. Now enter your site URL in the Site URL field.
13. Now click on Save Changes button.
More Information:
You can find your Facebook Application ID aka API key on the top of Facebook Application page correspond to your application. Further you can explore other settings for your application from the left pane.
How to Post and Comment as Your Page in Google+
Recently you have learnt How to Create a Google+ Page for your business, brand, product, organization or whatever entity you wish to represent. I hope it would help your brand, business or organization to engage with interested Google+ users and customers to convey your
up-to-date information of your business, brand or organization. It will also enables you to find interested people in your niche and it is an opportunity to expand your fan base for your business too. But after creating a Google+ page, did you try posting or commenting on your Google+ page as itself? Or did you ever wanted to comment on another Google+ profile as your page?
Google+ introduced business page feature to represent your brand, business or organization. So you can use your Google+ business page to inform whatever goes officially or unofficially with your business or organization to your followers and customers. Also sometimes you may wanna comment as your page to respond to your followers or to engage with an discussion too. However if you directly visit to Google+, it will use your personal Google+ profile initially. But to post or comment on your page or elsewhere as itself, first you need to switch to your business page. If you couldn't figure out how to post or comment as your page, now you can find out how to.
Steps:
1. Sign in and navigate to Google+ Home page.
2. Find your profile picture and name at the top of left sidebar. Click on the drop down icon beneath your name.
3. Select your page name to switch to your page and now on you will be able to post and comment as your page until you switch back.
Note: If you wanna switch back to your profile again, use drop down icon beneath your profile picture and name at the top left of sidebar.
Enjoy :-)
up-to-date information of your business, brand or organization. It will also enables you to find interested people in your niche and it is an opportunity to expand your fan base for your business too. But after creating a Google+ page, did you try posting or commenting on your Google+ page as itself? Or did you ever wanted to comment on another Google+ profile as your page?
Google+ introduced business page feature to represent your brand, business or organization. So you can use your Google+ business page to inform whatever goes officially or unofficially with your business or organization to your followers and customers. Also sometimes you may wanna comment as your page to respond to your followers or to engage with an discussion too. However if you directly visit to Google+, it will use your personal Google+ profile initially. But to post or comment on your page or elsewhere as itself, first you need to switch to your business page. If you couldn't figure out how to post or comment as your page, now you can find out how to.
Steps:
1. Sign in and navigate to Google+ Home page.
2. Find your profile picture and name at the top of left sidebar. Click on the drop down icon beneath your name.
3. Select your page name to switch to your page and now on you will be able to post and comment as your page until you switch back.
Note: If you wanna switch back to your profile again, use drop down icon beneath your profile picture and name at the top left of sidebar.
Enjoy :-)
How to Enable Comment Moderation in Blogger
Reader comments are very useful and it's a great way to get exclusive feedback to your content. By default, Blogger enables comment form to each of your posts and let readers to drop their comments underneath your posts. But sometimes you may find that some users
trying to make comments which can be considered as spammy. However, practically you can implement comment guidelines to follow and display them publicly for readers to prevent this abusive behavior. But still guidelines itself may not control spammy comments. So would you like to take control of comments before they published on the page?
Yeah... you can take control of the comments being published on your blog. You can take control of the comments, if you wish to review comments before they published on the page. So it will enable you to catch any spammy comments before they published and your readers will find your comment section more useful for them as another source of information. If you are seeking for comment moderation, let's figure out how to enable comment moderation in your Blogger blog.
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Navigate to Settings tab from left pane.
4. Now click on Posts and comments tab.
5. Scroll down and find Comments section.
6. There you can find Comment Moderation setting with three options - Always, Sometimes and Never. Select preferable option suite to your needs.
Always
This option will enable moderation for comments whenever someone leaves a comment on your blog. So you have to review all comments before they published. Once you selected this option, optionally you will be able to enable comment moderation via email too. Add your email in Email moderation requests to field if you would like to moderate comments via email. Else you can moderate comments as usually via the Comments tab.
Sometimes
This option let you moderate comments which will be made on your older posts. You can select which posts need comment moderation by specifying a number of days in For posts older than field. Optionally you can moderate comments via email by specifying your email in Email moderation requests to field. Else use Comments tab to moderate comments.
Never
This option will disable comment moderation and comments will be published right away.
7. Now Save settings.
Enjoy :-)
trying to make comments which can be considered as spammy. However, practically you can implement comment guidelines to follow and display them publicly for readers to prevent this abusive behavior. But still guidelines itself may not control spammy comments. So would you like to take control of comments before they published on the page?
Yeah... you can take control of the comments being published on your blog. You can take control of the comments, if you wish to review comments before they published on the page. So it will enable you to catch any spammy comments before they published and your readers will find your comment section more useful for them as another source of information. If you are seeking for comment moderation, let's figure out how to enable comment moderation in your Blogger blog.
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. Navigate to Settings tab from left pane.
4. Now click on Posts and comments tab.
5. Scroll down and find Comments section.
6. There you can find Comment Moderation setting with three options - Always, Sometimes and Never. Select preferable option suite to your needs.
Always
This option will enable moderation for comments whenever someone leaves a comment on your blog. So you have to review all comments before they published. Once you selected this option, optionally you will be able to enable comment moderation via email too. Add your email in Email moderation requests to field if you would like to moderate comments via email. Else you can moderate comments as usually via the Comments tab.
Sometimes
This option let you moderate comments which will be made on your older posts. You can select which posts need comment moderation by specifying a number of days in For posts older than field. Optionally you can moderate comments via email by specifying your email in Email moderation requests to field. Else use Comments tab to moderate comments.
Never
This option will disable comment moderation and comments will be published right away.
7. Now Save settings.
Enjoy :-)
Promote Your Blog and Interact with Bloggers at BlogCatalog.com
You may publish interesting and quality content, follow ethical tips when writing or creating content, make use of social media and bookmarking sites to distribute your content and maintain your blog carefully. But sometimes you may feel lonely. You tend to think blogging is
not for you or no one cares what you are trying to say. One reason for this imagination could be knowing that you don't have enough readership or followers in your niche. You may wonder why other bloggers have that much readership eventhough their blogs have no much quality content as yours. However if you are believe in yourself and provide quality content, then the reason could be having no enough exposure on the web. Just publishing content could not help you to reach or achieve more exposure to your blog. So what about giving a try by sparing some time rather than being idle or giving up on yourself?
If you suffer from lack of readership, Blog Catalog will show you the way to promote your blog and to get more exposure. Blog Catalog is a social network for bloggers where bloggers can interact with other bloggers and find more readers in same niche. In addition to connecting with bloggers, Blog Catalog community will let you find interesting blogs, posts and friends related to your niche. This community will help you to share ideas, start discussions and make things happen online. If you can recall we have discussed another bloggers community earlier, Bloggers.com.
Steps:
1. Go to Blog Catalog Sign Up page and create a new account.
Note: Make sure to check Blog Catalog activation email in your inbox.
2. Now navigate to Blog Submission page.
3. Fill up all the relevant details and click Submit Blog button.
4. If you are not aware of special offers, skip the next page by clicking No Thanks, Just take me to my blog link.
5. Now you will be directed to your blog page. In order to approve your blog, you need to verify blog ownership. Click Verify Here link and use preferred option to verify your blog.
* After adding verification link, badge, meta tag or widget, it will take no longer than 24 hours to review your blog. However it may depends.
6. Further you can complete your profile at account settings page and if you need to change your blog details, navigate to Blog Setting page and click Settings button to modify details.
7. Now you have successfully signed up and added your blog to Blog Catalog blog directory. Now you can discover more interesting blogs, articles and bloggers there.
not for you or no one cares what you are trying to say. One reason for this imagination could be knowing that you don't have enough readership or followers in your niche. You may wonder why other bloggers have that much readership eventhough their blogs have no much quality content as yours. However if you are believe in yourself and provide quality content, then the reason could be having no enough exposure on the web. Just publishing content could not help you to reach or achieve more exposure to your blog. So what about giving a try by sparing some time rather than being idle or giving up on yourself?
If you suffer from lack of readership, Blog Catalog will show you the way to promote your blog and to get more exposure. Blog Catalog is a social network for bloggers where bloggers can interact with other bloggers and find more readers in same niche. In addition to connecting with bloggers, Blog Catalog community will let you find interesting blogs, posts and friends related to your niche. This community will help you to share ideas, start discussions and make things happen online. If you can recall we have discussed another bloggers community earlier, Bloggers.com.
Steps:
1. Go to Blog Catalog Sign Up page and create a new account.
Note: Make sure to check Blog Catalog activation email in your inbox.
2. Now navigate to Blog Submission page.
3. Fill up all the relevant details and click Submit Blog button.
4. If you are not aware of special offers, skip the next page by clicking No Thanks, Just take me to my blog link.
5. Now you will be directed to your blog page. In order to approve your blog, you need to verify blog ownership. Click Verify Here link and use preferred option to verify your blog.
* After adding verification link, badge, meta tag or widget, it will take no longer than 24 hours to review your blog. However it may depends.
6. Further you can complete your profile at account settings page and if you need to change your blog details, navigate to Blog Setting page and click Settings button to modify details.
7. Now you have successfully signed up and added your blog to Blog Catalog blog directory. Now you can discover more interesting blogs, articles and bloggers there.
How to Implement Facebook JavaScript SDK on Your Website
Have you ever heard of Facebook JavaScript SDK? May be or may be not. But if you ever try out Facebook social plugins on your website or blog, then you may have come across with this name. Facebook plugins need to communicate with Facebook servers whenever they
rendering and deal with user actions. Due to thisphenomenon Facebook uses JavaScript functionality with their plugins itself. But JavaScript SDK provides enormous features like ensuring appropriate plugin being rendered on your site, authenticating users, sharing and more.
If you are using XFBML version of Facebook plugins in your site, then you have to include Facebook JavaScript SDK to enhance the performance and functionality of your plugins. However you can use JavaScript SDK for different purposes. If you are willing to render only social plugins, then you can implement BasicJavaScript SDK on your site. Else if you wish to access more advanced features such as Authentication, Server side API calls you need an application ID to initialize JavaScript SDK. For that purpose you have to implement JavaScript SDK with Application ID. So to make use of advanced features using JavaScript SDK, you need to be a Facebook member. However here you can learn how to implement Facebook JavaScript SDK in your site eventhough you are a Facebook member or not.
Steps:
You gonna add Asynchronous JavaScript SDK which is most efficient than Standard JavaScript SDK and it simply ensures faster page loading. However it has no complex procedure when implementing. Just select your preferred JavaScript SDK version and add it right after <body> tag, in a new line.
Notes:
* Your HTML body tag may contain some other attributes too. So when you search for body tag, search <body keyword and do not alter existing body tag.
Basic JavaScript SDK
You can use this version of JavaScript SDK if you are not seeking for advanced features. If you just need to render only Facebook social plugins, this will be enough for you.<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({appId: '[Your Application ID]', status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true, oauth: true}); };
(function() {
var e = document.createElement('script');
e.type = 'text/javascript';
e.src = document.location.protocol +
document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);
}());
</script>
rendering and deal with user actions. Due to thisphenomenon Facebook uses JavaScript functionality with their plugins itself. But JavaScript SDK provides enormous features like ensuring appropriate plugin being rendered on your site, authenticating users, sharing and more.
If you are using XFBML version of Facebook plugins in your site, then you have to include Facebook JavaScript SDK to enhance the performance and functionality of your plugins. However you can use JavaScript SDK for different purposes. If you are willing to render only social plugins, then you can implement BasicJavaScript SDK on your site. Else if you wish to access more advanced features such as Authentication, Server side API calls you need an application ID to initialize JavaScript SDK. For that purpose you have to implement JavaScript SDK with Application ID. So to make use of advanced features using JavaScript SDK, you need to be a Facebook member. However here you can learn how to implement Facebook JavaScript SDK in your site eventhough you are a Facebook member or not.
Steps:
You gonna add Asynchronous JavaScript SDK which is most efficient than Standard JavaScript SDK and it simply ensures faster page loading. However it has no complex procedure when implementing. Just select your preferred JavaScript SDK version and add it right after <body> tag, in a new line.
Notes:
* Your HTML body tag may contain some other attributes too. So when you search for body tag, search <body keyword and do not alter existing body tag.
Basic JavaScript SDK
You can use this version of JavaScript SDK if you are not seeking for advanced features. If you just need to render only Facebook social plugins, this will be enough for you.<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({appId: '[Your Application ID]', status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true, oauth: true}); };
(function() {
var e = document.createElement('script');
e.type = 'text/javascript';
e.src = document.location.protocol +
'//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js';
e.async = true;document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);
}());
</script>
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