Hacks n Tips for Bloggers

Be careful When answering on Yahoo Answers

One of my yahoo answers account got suspended for violating community guide lines. Yahoo can suspend your account for any stupid reason. BUT, before that its better than you take precaution about how to answer. Here are some guide lines

1) Make your Q&A network private. Go to Edit you Profile Setting and set the following settings as shown in figure..2) Give only relevant information. Don't go just answering randomly and irritating people.
3) Linking in every answers is fine as long as your answer is relevant to that question.
4) Don't vote as best answers for your other profiles (if you have any)

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Answer Questions in Yahoo Answers to bring More Traffic

Yahoo Answers is one of the most or is the most popular community where people get answers to their questions and solutions for their problems.

You can get lot of traffic from yahoo answers if you answer questions correctly on yahoo answers. There are lot of people who don't know even the basics of your niche who are searching for answers an would be more than happy if you can give them a perfect answer. One of my website gets atleast 500 visitors from yahoo answers only!!. Just think about how much traffic it can bring to you. All you have to do is just sign in with your yahoo account and start answering questions that fall in your category.

Also don't just answer as random to any question. First determine whether the question falls in your niche and answer. You can even get ideas on what to blog from reading those question and answers. Yahoo answers is one of the most undiscovered source of traffic i would say.

Yahoo answers show up in high rank in search results of google so you will get more traffic from yahoo answers. There is also another service but less popular than yahoo answers. It is answerbag.
All Da Best

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Social Twist - A new all in one Social Bookmarking Button

I just found this button showing in many blogs lately. One of the advantages of this button is that it has all options for your blog visitors to spread a word about your blog or send your post if they find it useful. This button has all options like

1. Send Email


2. Send IM


3. Blogging it


4. Social Bookmarking


5. Social networking options.

Only Important Services are listed. It is looking professional and adds beauty to your blog. They also provide statistics of bookmarking. If you find that people are bookmarking only in some form you can remove other options. It is highly customizable.

But they don't provide itemized stats like in addthis.. Anyway i found this to be a good option for those who want to give lots of options for their visitors for bookmarking.

GET IT HERE

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3 column Blogger Template: Snow White

Hi guys here is the 3 column blogger template Snow White which is made by pockettemplates which is modified by us to 3 column template.

This is a three column Template. Fixed width 980px total width. Each side bar has width of 220px.

You might Consider applying these hacks
Swapping Title with Post Title on posts


1) How To Install :
First, at the dahboard, simply go to -->layout-->edit html
Then, upload the the ( I'm you know hot to do that ! )
Save changes and done ! Easy as that !

Notes :
1) You can change the header, if u want, simply search this url " http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/4586/bannerboydn2.gif " in the html and change it with your own image link. ( 985 x 170 )

Terms of Use.
1) Please don't remove the credits.
2) You may not claim these template to be your own.

Download

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4 column Blogger Templates : Pink Girlz

I have edited the pink girlz template by blogclicks.com and made it into a 4 column template.
This is a fluid template (not fix width)


Total there are 4 columns. 3 sidebars (one on left and two on right)
SEO Hacks.
Swapped Blog's title with post title on blogger pages.

1) How To Install :
First, at the dahboard, simply go to -->layout-->edit html
Then, upload the the ( I'm you know hot to do that ! )
Save changes and done ! Easy as that !

Notes :
1) You can change the header, if u want, simply search this url " http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/4586/bannerboydn2.gif " in the html and change it with your own image link. ( 985 x 170 )

Terms of Use.
1) Please don't remove the credits.
2) You may not claim these template to be your own.

Download

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Blog Map Generator

Ok Guys I have written a script that returns you all the posts in you blog and list them as a link list. For this to work you must have RSS feeds turned on. You can post this in you blog which can be helpful for you visitors to browse through the content of your blog all of it is linked here like sitemap.

This you can use excel to sort the resulting link list

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Use Poll Daddy Polls

I just stumbled upon poll daddy's service of free polls. You can see default polls in blogger aren't that great. Poll daddy provides you more flexibility over your polls. The styles of polls are really good. The default polls on blogger give you only few options. You can see advanced statistics of votes at poll daddy. Get Free Poll Daddy Account here.
Here are the features that poll daddy provides

• A selection of skins to choose from or create your own in CSS.
• Advanced online reporting in real time of your data as it is collected.
• Set paths for your respondents using Conditional Branching.
• Insert HTML directly allowing you to add pictures, video and more.
• Full foreign language support.
• 11 question types to choose from with multiple options for each.
• Export your data as XML, CSV and subscribe to your results via RSS.
• Close surveys after a certain date or quota has been reached, and create custom start and finish pages for your survey.
• Create multi question, multi page surveys with ease using our new advanced survey editor.

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5 Column Blogger Templates

Its really rare to see five column blogger templates.. if you guys really like five column blogger templates for you blog check some of them here. The more columns you have the more widgets you can place on your blog..
5 column Blogger Templates

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More Chat Box Tools

These are two chat box applications i have come across. You can use these chat box to interact with your visitor community. As i have already mentioned these chatboxes are useful only in entertainment blogs.


Chatango

This is highly customizable. I am very impressed by its quality and you can find it on almost all anime websites like UMAIANIME. You can register a name on their website and post message using that id in any chatango shout box.
Chatroll
This is also a great chat tool. I really like the interface of this chat box. It is like a yahoo live chat room. You can see the list of users in the side bar and it is very creative.. You can register your chatbox here
Visit my other post on other types of chatbox.
But in the downside the chat box might not help in increasing content of your website. IF you make people to comment on your blog they you can have good content for you blog.

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Add Snapshot tool to your blog

Go to Snap.com and get the snapshot tool.
It is one of the most famous widget on blogs that enhance user's experience. It helps users to preview the external sites you are linking to and also helps in saving their time and hence prevents users from leaving your blog..


One can also read the rss of that blog or website which helps in user to visit that site or not :)
They also diplay text ad which you can donate it to charity organizations. You can add the script to as many blogs as you want. Just register with them and enter the blog url in which you want to add the snapshot tool and then choose the color of snapshot tool that suits your blog and copy and paste the snapshot javascript in you blog. thats all..

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Add FeedJit widgets to your blog

Feedjit provides four different types of widgets
1)Live Traffic Feed
2)Recent Visitors Map
3)Visitors to this page also liked
4) Popular Pages Today

These visits provides visitors with some important information as well as for you.
the first and second are for fun and enhance user experience with you blog and the third one shows them the general trend of visitors visiting particular page. The fourth widget shows popular pages for that day.

Get the Feedjit Widget Here

refer to lijit's blog post about widgets popularity.


http://www.lijit.com/blog/2007/06/19/june-widget-statistics/

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All Blog Content

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How to add additional ADD A GADGET

You can see 'Add a Gadget' tags in you blog layout. If you need more of these add a gadget tags

In your blog control panel go to Layout->edithtml and then search (ctrl+f ) for

showaddelement='no'


change no to yes .
and you will see additional Add a gadget tags in your layout as shown in figure.


cheers

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