Hacks n Tips for Bloggers

Where to upload pics to post in blog

Google provides options to upload your images. They are stored in picasa web albums http://picasaweb.google.com/. Unfortunately they don't give you direct link to the image. The space provided by google is limited to 1GB. There are other websites that provide space for hosting pictures for free and give you limited bandwidth. There are some services i suggest like Photobucket and Imageshack. They give you direct link to you pictures which you can share on you blog. By the way how to post a pic
here is the code

<img src="http://url-to-the-picture" />

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Rss -the web feed

Rss is one of the most used webfeed format. I have been using them. It helps in bloggers notifying their reader about updates.Many visitors donot like email subscription because it fills their mail box with lot of mails ( i don't like mails). Rss is a convenient way of being in touch with a blog or website. Here is a good video explaining what is rss. The publisher is common craft.


The explanation in the video is simple and effective with diagram.
The software i usually use is google reader (though firefox is convinient)
You may find other options like blog line, my yahoo (depends on your taste).

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The span tag

Span tag in html is very userful. You can make text colured or you can highlight text or you can add image to particular portion of text etc...

This text is colored

<span style="color: red;">This text is colored</span>

<span style="background-color: yellow;">This text has yellow background</span>

<span style="background-image: url(http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/2830/background2ru0.gif);"gt;This is a text with background image</span>

 <SPAN TITLE="This is the tool tip box">This is What You Get</SPAN<

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How to disable right click in blogger

Are you frustrated of some one stealing your content? Disable right click on your blog. There are many javascripts that help you to prevent right click on your blog. Here are some of the right click disabling scripts . Search google with no right click and you will find many useful javascripts to do the job. Some of them pops a message that javascript is disabled etc...

                 Above javascripts cannot prevent your visitor from copying the content from source code. If you want your content to be secure don't keep it online :)

                 I don't recommend disabling rightclick. I find it annoying. You shouldnot disable right click for  a large portion of visitors who have no intention to steal content. It is unprofessional to do so. Even then if you insist there are other ways to protect your content like keeping your image in the background and adding a transparent pic on the foreground.

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Social Bookmarking

Is it important to have a social bookmarking button on your blog. I use social bookmarking tools often. I have plugins installed on Firefox. I don't think these buttons are necessary on a blog. Anyway these buttons are convenient if you are at the end of the page and you can bookmark them instead of hovering mouse to the top. But many bloggers have signs instead of name of bookmarking sites on them. Most of friend don't know what these signs are for(even i don't know some of them). Here is an interesting video that explains social bookmarking





I think sharethis button would do a good job but, uncluttered addthis button is more appealing to me. Because the javscript button dropdown menu loads faster and it has symbols along with name of the social bookmarking website. However people who already know social bookmarking have tools to bookmark your site even if you don't provide one on your blog. The button acts as polite reminder for them to bookmark your site/page

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Join the Ucomment IFollow movement

When i comment on a blog i want it to be useful to time and worth of my time so that i can bring extra traffic to my site. Many of the blogger templates have this "NOFOLLOW" inserted in code for "comments" to prevent spam (which no longer works). This discourages comments. Many beginners get frustrated due to lack of comments (which is one of their main source of motivation, but writing passionately will make your blog popular anyway). You should join U comment I Follow movement. Go to your HTML source code in the blog (goto layout ----> edit html & check Expand Widget templates button).

Now search for NOFOLLOW word in your source code and remove rel='nofollow' where ever it appear. Now the visitors who comment on your blog get a back link to their blog by which the google & other search engine bots can crawl to their blog. Also display a badge (get one form here UComment IFollow Badges) on your blog which tells your visitors that commenting on your blog is beneficial .

But there are other views. Most of the big blogs keep this nofollow attribute to prevent spam by humans... Read my post about Ifollow bandwagoon for beginners?

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Activate the Pigshot Service in Feedburner

Feedburner provides you a very good service that  updates major listing services like technorati,bloglists,pingomatic etc that your blog's content is updated. This is very useful. There is no need for you to go and ping those services manually, feedburner pings them automatically for you. Of all it also includes other pinging service pingomatic which ping a large no of services (12 or more i guess). I recommend all blogger who are using feedburner to activate this service. To activate this service goto publicize in your feed's control panel then goto pingshot and click on activate button.By default it ping 6 services. But you can add 5 additional services which includes alexa also.

Below are the default options

• * Technorati — Technorati is the authority on what is going on in the world of weblogs
• * My Yahoo — a customizable web page with news stock quotes weather and many other features
• * Bloglines — helps you subscribe to and manage lots of web information
• * Newsgator — tracks it all and brings the web pages to you
• * Google Blog Search Pinging Service — A way to inform Google Blog Search of weblog updates.
• * Ping-o-matic — Pinging lets dozens of services know you have updated your site and increases traffic to your blog

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