Richie blogs on topics ranging from softwares, programming, web-design, start-ups and random thoughts! View his blog at techwithric.com. Follow him on twitter @techwithric
Post Summaries or the ‘Read More’ hack as it is most commonly known, has at last found its way into Google’s Blogger. One of the most requested features, the post summaries has has been implemented in Blogger Draft on the eve of 10th anniversary celebrations of Blogger.
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One of the first things that a newbie blogger does is register a co.cc domain. Similar to those lines a new service has opened. Called as CO.TV, this is registrar has been made on the same lines as co.cc. They provide free as well as premium (paid) domains.
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Forget creating a Linux OS, getting it to work is a hard task in itself, if you are a newbie. Creating your own distro not only requires careful planning and execution, but also vast knowledge of programing in linux. But gone are those days. The creators of OpenSUSE have launched a site, SUSEstudio, where, with a few clicks of your mouse, you will have your own custom linux distro!
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Getting ready-made free templates for blogger and wordpress is very easy. However the one big disadvantage of using a free template is that your blog won’t be unique, meaning that thousands of other blogs might be using the same template. The trick is to make minor modifications to your template, to make it stand out in the digital world! Follow these simple tricks.
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If you’ve had a site running for more than 6 months and getting over 500 visitors daily, it not pretty hard to figure out that 80% of them are coming from search results found on Google. And what happens if, one fine day you realize that Google has banned your site! Find out how you can play it safe and get your deserved organic search results.
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TinyURL, Burn URL et al have been around for a long time. The main purpose of these sites was to accept a long url from the user and return a short url to them, which redirects to the original page. For eg. I submit something like http://www.devilsworkshop.org/10-services-to-shorten-long-urls/#comment-113577 to TinyURL and it returns http://tinyurl.com/n74g63. This will redirect to the original page at DW. However it seems even these url shortners are too long for some people!
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Over here at Devil’s Workshop, Rahul bro has implemented a cool revenue sharing program, wherein the advertisement that appears on the post belongs to the author itself. For eg. in this post the ad that is displayed below the post title is my ad. Any revenue generated by clicks on the above ad, is paid to my adsense account. But the thing is that with plugins like Advertising Manager, this method is easy to implement in Wordpress.On blogger its a little more extra code. See how you can implement it in Google’s BlogSpot
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OK! Let me clarify right at the beginning, as the title quite clearly states, these tips are centered around blogs based on Google’s blogger.com and not ones based on the wordpress platform (although I’m planning one for it soon).
So what does it take to bring people to your blog and turn them into regular visitors? Of course content is king, but when it comes to blogger many background tips are equally important to increase views and your money!
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First of all, What are favicons? A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon is a 16×16 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage. You may learn how to make a favicon from here. Many free image hosting sites like photobucket, do not provide hosting for favicon files(.ico files) Getting good hosts to host these favicons is hard. Here is a list of top 4 sites that allows hosting of your favicon.
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Hosting has gone dead cheap these days, which has encouraged more and more people to set-up a website. Why its so cheap that in some $20 you could set-up a fully running site with unlimited hosting and unlimited bandwidth (eg. Hostgator-$4.95+ Namecheap-$9.69) This has mainly happened due to the concept of shared hosting wherein many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. These websites also mostly share the same IP address. This is a trick to find sites that have the same IP Address as yours.
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What makes our revenue sharing program unique is that ONLY your Adsense content unit will be shown on your posts.The idea to provide exposure to both, irregular bloggers and niche bloggers.
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