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Basic SEO Tips to kick-start traffic!

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:36:00 +0000

Businesses are growing more aware of the need to understand and implement at least the basics of search engine optimization (SEO). But if you read a variety of blogs and websites, you’ll quickly see that there’s a lot of uncertainty over what makes up “the basics.” Without access to high-level consulting and without a lot of experience knowing what SEO resources can be trusted, there’s also a lot of misinformation about SEO strategies and tactics.

1. Commit yourself to the process. SEO isn’t a one-time event. Search engine algorithms change regularly, so the tactics that worked last year may not work this year. SEO requires a long-term outlook and commitment.

2. Be patient. SEO isn’t about instant gratification. Results often take months to see, and this is especially true the smaller you are, and the newer you are to doing business online.

3. Ask a lot of questions when hiring an SEO company. It’s your job to know what kind of tactics the company uses. Ask for specifics. Ask if there are any risks involved. Then get online yourself and do your own research—about the company, about the tactics they discussed, and so forth.

4. Become a student of SEO. If you’re taking the do-it-yourself route, you’ll have to become a student of SEO and learn as much as you can. Luckily for you, there are plenty of great web resources (like Search Engine Land) and several terrific books you can read. (Yes, actual printed books!)s

5. Have web analytics in place at the start. You should have clearly defined goals for your SEO efforts, and you’ll need web analytics software in place so you can track what’s working and what’s not.

6. Build a great web site. I’m sure you want to show up on the first page of results. Ask yourself, “Is my site really one of the 10 best sites in the world on this topic?” Be honest. If it’s not, make it better.

7. Include a site map page. Spiders can’t index pages that can’t be crawled. A site map will help spiders find all the important pages on your site, and help the spider understand your site’s hierarchy. This is especially helpful if your site has a hard-to-crawl navigation menu. If your site is large, make several site map pages. Keep each one to less than 100 links. I tell clients 75 is the max to be safe.

8. Make SEO-friendly URLs. Use keywords in your URLs and file names, such asyourdomain.com/red-widgets.html. Don’t overdo it, though. A file with 3+ hyphens tends to look spammy and users may be hesitant to click on it. Related bonus tip: Use hyphens in URLs and file names, not underscores. Hyphens are treated as a “space,” while underscores are not.

9. Do keyword research at the start of the project. If you’re on a tight budget, use the free versions of Keyword Discovery or WordTracker, both of which also have more powerful paid versions. Ignore the numbers these tools show; what’s important is the relative volume of one keyword to another. Another good free tool is Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool, which doesn’t show exact numbers.

10. Open up a PPC account. Whether it’s Google’s AdWords, Microsoft adCenter or something else, this is a great way to get actual search volume for your keywords. Yes, it costs money, but if you have the budget it’s worth the investment. It’s also the solution if you didn’t like the “Be patient” suggestion above and are looking for instant visibility.

11. Use a unique and relevant title and meta description on every page. The page title is the single most important on-page SEO factor. It’s rare to rank highly for a primary term (2-3 words) without that term being part of the page title. The meta description tag won’t help you rank, but it will often appear as the text snippet below your listing, so it should include the relevant keyword(s) and be written so as to encourage searchers to click on your listing. Related bonus tip: You can ignore the Keywords meta tag, as no major search engine today supports it.

12. Write for users first. Google, Yahoo, etc., have pretty powerful bots crawling the web, but to my knowledge these bots have never bought anything online, signed up for a newsletter, or picked up the phone to call about your services. Humans do those things, so write your page copy with humans in mind. Yes, you need keywords in the text, but don’t stuff each page like a Thanksgiving turkey. Keep it readable.

13. Create great, unique content. This is important for everyone, but it’s a particular challenge for online retailers. If you’re selling the same widget that 50 other retailers are selling, and everyone is using the boilerplate descriptions from the manufacturer, this is a great opportunity. Write your own product descriptions, using the keyword research you did earlier (see #9 above) to target actual words searchers use, and make product pages that blow the competition away. Plus, retailer or not, great content is a great way to get inbound links.

14. Use your keywords as anchor text when linking internally. Anchor text helps tells spiders what the linked-to page is about. Links that say “click here” do nothing for your search engine visibility.

15. Build links intelligently. Begin with foundational links like trusted directories. (Yahoo and DMOZ are often cited as examples, but don’t waste time worrying about DMOZ submission. Submit it and forget it.) Seek links from authority sites in your industry. If local search matters to you (more on that coming up), seek links from trusted sites in your geographic area — the Chamber of Commerce, local business directories, etc. Analyze the inbound links to your competitors to find links you can acquire, too. Create great content on a consistent basis and use social media to build awareness and links. (A blog is great for this; see below.)

16. Use press releases wisely. Developing a relationship with media covering your industry or your local region can be a great source of exposure, including getting links from trusted media web sites. Distributing releases online can be an effective link building tactic, and opens the door for exposure in news search sites. Related bonus tip:Only issue a release when you have something newsworthy to report. Don’t waste journalists’ time.

17. Start a blog and participate with other related blogs. Search engines, Google especially, love blogs for the fresh content and highly-structured data. Beyond that, there’s no better way to join the conversations that are already taking place about your industry and/or company. Reading and commenting on other blogs can also increase your exposure and help you acquire new links. Related bonus tip: Put your blog atyourdomain.com/blog so your main domain gets the benefit of any links to your blog posts. If that’s not possible, use blog.yourdomain.com.

18. Use social media marketing wisely. If your business has a visual element, join the appropriate communities on Flickr and post high-quality photos there. If you’re a service-oriented business, use Quora and/or Yahoo Answers to position yourself as an expert in your industry. Any business should also be looking to make use of Twitter andFacebook, as social information and signals from these are being used as part of search engine rankings for Google and Bing. With any social media site you use, the first rule isdon’t spam! Be an active, contributing member of the site. The idea is to interact with potential customers, not annoy them.

19. Take advantage of local search opportunities. Online research for offline buying is a growing trend. Optimize your site to catch local traffic by showing your address and local phone number prominently. Write a detailed Directions/Location page using neighborhoods and landmarks in the page text. Submit your site to the free local listings services that the major search engines offer. Make sure your site is listed in local/social directories such as CitySearch, Yelp, Local.com, etc., and encourage customers to leave reviews of your business on these sites, too.

20. Take advantage of the tools the search engines give you. Sign up for Google Webmaster Central, Bing Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer to learn more about how the search engines see your site, including how many inbound links they’re aware of.

21. Diversify your traffic sources. Google may bring you 70% of your traffic today, but what if the next big algorithm update hits you hard? What if your Google visibility goes away tomorrow? Newsletters and other subscriber-based content can help you hold on to traffic/customers no matter what the search engines do. In fact, many of the DOs on this list—creating great content, starting a blog, using social media and local search, etc.—will help you grow an audience of loyal prospects and customers that may help you survive the whims of search engines.

How To Build Back Links to Blog

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:39:00 +0000

Here are 5 Effective Ways to Built organic back links quickly. Apart from writing quality content and promoting it through social media, it’s necessary to have some quality back links to your blog. After the recent search algorithm changes by Google, many blogs are punished for several reasons. To stay safe and ahead of your competitors, it’s necessary to take some action and building organic Back Links will surely help.

This article is written after getting inspired from a video by Matt Cutts, the head of Google SPAM Team. He clearly mentioned some good points on how to build organic back links.

WHAT ARE ORGANIC BACK LINKS ?

There are thousands of ways to build links to your blog and none of them are equal to “Organic Back Links”. In simple words, organic Back Links can be explained as the links that are naturally constructed, which usually happens when you focus on high quality and unique content.

HOW TO BUILT ORGANIC BACK LINKS ?

Here are 5+ sure fire tips that help to built organic Back Links to your blog.

1. Controversies

Indulging in a Controversy will easily highlight things mostly if you are on the negative side. You need to follow-up regularly and have to be in touch with trending topics. Words have such a great power and believe me, with a single blog post you can grab the attention of the whole media. Play it safe or otherwise you may face some legal issues.

2. Experimanting

Experimenting on things will depend on your interest and passion to achieve something. Not everyone can do experiments as it needs lot of time and patience. So, if you are good at something, then try to experiment on things and publish posts like How-to guides on your blog. This is how unique content can be built and organic Back Links will flow to your article, sometimes for years.

3. Freebies

Using a freebies to get subscribers and Back Links is an old yet powerful strategy. You cannot get backlinks immediately, but over time you can get some quality Back Links. This depends on the quality and type of freebie you are providing. If its a regular one, like a free PSD template or a free theme then there wont be much use. Try to work on creative things and give them away for free.

4. Communities

Lets consider some blogs in the WordPress niche. There are quite popular and useful blogs on WordPress that help to make the most out of your WordPress blog. Whenever they write an article or list out some resources, links to the articles on other blogs will be included. This purely depends on the author of the article and so its necessary to establish some connections with fellow bloggers.

5. Video blogging

Many have the talent to create useful videos yet don’t try it. Consistent exposure can be gained through video blogging and if you need a sort of inspiration to start with, then you can check TheNewBoston (http://thenewboston.org/tutorials.php). That guy got good programming skills and he is sharing some knowledge through his videos. Make videos and your articles will be linked on many blogs.

Bonus tip

Forum Participation also helps to get some backlinks. All you have to do is help others by providing some useful answers for questions in sections you have knowledge on. And important thing is don’t SPAM posts with single word answers, it may result in a ban.

Further upto you

That’s it from my side and if I have missed any important one, let me know through the comments section.

Paypal Donate button to Blogger and Wordpress

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 05:52:00 +0000

A great way to reward you for all the hard work and effort you've put into your blog.A PayPal Donation button allows readers to easily send money via PayPal.

PayPal Icons

These icons can be used as your donation button if you choose to customize.

Adding a Paypal Donation Button

Sign into your Paypal account and if you don’t have one you can get a free paypal account here.

Adding HTML code into Blogspot blog:

All the information you will find on the official Paypal website.

And Adding HTML code into Wordpress blog:

Login into your Wordpress blog and go to its Dashboard
Click Presentation –> Widgets
Click on the content area in front of ‘Text 1’ widget
Paste your HTML code in the content area available and save changes
Open your Wordpress blog and check donate button will be in your blog sidebar

Wordpress Donations Cloud

This paypal widget is quite useful because it's more than just a button. It allows users to link to their own site when they make a donation. Therefore encouraging your readers to make a donation.

I hope you found this article resourceful.....an effort is made to keep it short and to the point....and wish you all the best with your blogging!!!

Blog Optimization Tips, TEST your Website (SEO)

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Wed, 23 May 2012 06:09:00 +0000

Now-a-days, some really useful tools are available for checking your Website Performance optimization. This helps to load web pages faster with the best optimization techniques. In addition to informing the loading time, some of these tools also offer the ease of comparison to test the performance of your website with your probable competitors. These tools allow you to know the things that are stopping your website to load faster.

When you are planning to launch a new website or you already have an existing business, you should think about the best performance optimization is vital to improve Web site SEO to get quality traffic. SEO is very useful to make the content of your web pages more relevant, more striking, and more readable by search engines and their ramp. In the process of website optimization, it is very important to check the speed of loading the site. No matter how attractive and unique to your site, or how your content is interesting, no one has time to wait, even for a few seconds to check your site to load or not.

If it comes to optimizing the website, the first thing that could come in our list is to check the speed of loading of the site which is the time it takes to load your web page. Websites with great responsive web design and content is not quite the thing that matters. In addition, the loading time is important. The download speed site has a huge weight-age in the Google algorithms that decide your ranking. So do not you think it’s a good idea to reduce the loading time of your website!

Improved speed of your site is important not only for users but also search engine rankings as well. Last April, Google announced that they are now, including the website of speed in their search ranking algorithms.

PageSpeed Online , make your web site faster

PageSpeed online to analyze the content of a web page and then generates suggestions to make this page more quickly. Reducing page load times may reduce the bounce rate and increase conversion rates

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Techniques

SEO is an acronym for “Search Engine Optimization” or “search engine optimizer.” Deciding to hire an SEO is an important decision that can potentially improve your site and save time, but you can also suffer damage to your site and Reputation.

Tutorial for Website Optimization

You are newbie to website optimization, or simply new Google Website Optimizer, these videos will help you get all the speed!

Test the Web Page

The test tool page to help you analyze the loading speed of your websites and learn how to make them faster. It allows you to identify what a web page is fast, slow, too big, what best practices are not followed, and so on. We tried to make it useful to both experts and novices.

Webpagetest ,Test a website’s performance

Run a test speed free website from multiple locations worldwide using real browsers (ie and chrome) and connection speeds of actual consumption. You can run simple tests or testing of technologies, including multi-step transactions, video capture, content blocking, and more. Your results will provide rich diagnostic information, including diagrams of loading resources waterfall, checks speed and page optimization suggestions for improvement.

Slowcop – Speed up your website

Report of instantaneous speed. Powered by Google Page Speed, it will give you an idea of what your page is slow. The result is often spectacular – a few simple changes can save you hundreds of kilobytes in the size of the page.

Web Page Analyzer – Website Optimization

It’s free website speed test to improve the quality of the site. Enter a URL below to calculate page size, composition and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of component web page. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve the loading time of pages.

Pingbrigade

Ping brigade is a service that allows you to measure and monitor your site statistics. It provide a highly reliable monitoring system can alert you the minute your site goes down to help you restore and avoid costly downtime. Ping Brigade also offers an interactive tool to determine if your site is accessible from anywhere in the world and what kind of latency can expect your users. Finally, there is an open API to allow you to create custom types of monitoring.

Neustar Web Performance

Neustar provides cutting-edge load testing website and site monitoring services for anyone who builds, tests and operates modern sites. It’s innovative features include load testing real browser, Selenium scripts, real AJAX support and more. Coupled with extraordinary customer service, our website and application monitoring services and load testing can be used by everyone to improve and optimize the performance online.

Linkvendor – Website speed check

The site shows speedtester the duration of a given website. This value can be used to show how long a website takes to load and if it is better to optimize the site or change an Internet service provider (slow).

Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

This paper began as an effort to help teams within Google, but we thought it would be equally useful for webmasters who are new to the topic of search engine optimization and want to improve the interaction of their sites with users and search engines.

Web Site Optimization: 13 Simple Steps Article

This tutorial takes a practical approach for example based on the application of these rules. It is designed for web developers with a small budget, who are most likely using shared hosting, and working under the various restrictions that come with such a configuration.

Web Performance Optimization for WordPress

W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your site by improving the performance of your server, caching all aspects of your site, which reduces download time and to provide transparent Content Delivery Network (CDN) integration .

Search Engine Optimization Plugin , Yoast

WordPress SEO is the most complete SEO WordPress plugin that exists today for WordPress.org users. It includes an overview of all features and analysis from page to help you optimize your content pages, images, titles, meta descriptions and more XML sitemaps, and loads of tuning options between two.

Classic FaceBook Widgets

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:48:00 +0000

Facebook is the largest social networking site with more than 400 million active users and is growing larger every day! Make sure to use these Facebook Widgets to Connect with your large Facebook audience through your Blogger blog or website.

You can use these tools to easily share certain profile information, websites, blogspot blog, and businesses with the Facebook Community.

Profile Badge

Create a Facebook profile badge to share selected profile information on your website. A profile badge will allow your users to easily connect with you and add you as a friend.

Photo Badge

This photo badge allows you to share your Facebook photos on websites and blogs. Choose from a vertical, horizontal, or two-column layout and also choose the number of photos to be displayed.

Fan Badge

Display your Facebook fan pages for all to see.
Website or Business Widgets

Share Button
A powerful facebook widget which allows your visitors to share your content on Facebook!

Fan Box
Lets your users easily become a fan of your site and also allows them to view your Facebook page stream.

Page Badge
Lets you share your Facebook page (one that you have created) information on your website.

Twitter Link
Connect your Facebook page with Twitter. Whenever you update your Facebook fan page your twitter followers will be updated as well with a tweet.

Developers Widgets

Publishing to Facebook
This allows your users to publish their content and activity to Facebook.

Comments Box
Lets your users comment on your website content with their Facebook account.

Live Stream
Lets Facebook users to post and share content in real-time

Earn Money with Blogs.

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:44:00 +0000

Do you agree with me that blogs don't make money???

Some of you would say yes. Millions of you would say no (otherwise, why do I see so many advertisements on every other blog?).

Myth about Making Money

The truth is blogs can make money. But, there is no easy way out. Don't get trapped by the word "make money by blogging". Its not as simple as that. When I started off, I wrote a few posts and inserted Bidvertiser ads at all possible locations and waited for people to click. It didn't happen.

On the right path

It took me nearly a year to realize that it is not easy to make money by blogging. For a while, I started to purely concentrate on my blogging and forget about making money with blogs. This is the period I started to get many backlinks and started to build up my reader base. I got good ranks on Google, Technorati and Alexa.

Never write sponsored reviews, unless you are John chow.
This is when I was swayed by sponsored reviews. I started to make some good money by writing sponsored reviews. There were lot of offers as my blog had a good ranking. I realized that Google Page Rank is the king here. Even though everyone tries to play down Google's ranking system, they certainly have the say in your blog's success.

How to make money?

So, here's my advice to newcomers (who has an intention to make money by blogging):
Start off with a good and interesting topic to write about. It can be on car buying, advice on bikes, gardening, diabetes care or even on a celebrity. But, ensure that you write about the topic consistently. No point in writing about everything under the world.

Get your blog indexed by Google. Find out how you can get indexed and rank #1 in Google

Get backlinks from blogs with similar content/ from your own niche.

Once you have few posts, include Google Bidvertiser advertisements.

If you are going to use Bidvertiser, do not join in any traffic building networks. It doesn't help. These networks will increase your traffic, but will reduce your Click Through Rate (CTR) and eventually your earnings per click.

Concentrate on specific keywords and improve on your Search Engine Page Ranking.

If you are making money already, then it's fine. If not, try to change the location of your ads or change the colour of your links. Experiment and see whether you have any improvement in the clicks

If you still don't get clicks and your CTR lies below 2% mark, it's time to consider other modes of advertising.

Sponsored reviews are good for short term benefits. Do not use them if you have an intention to stay in the blogging world for a longer period

I have touched on few controversial issues above and certainly there will be views that are for and against them. Feel free to share your views.

Change Size of Blogger Comment form

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:26:00 +0000

How To Change The Width And Height Of Comment form in blogger.As you would have seen some using wide comment form and some using small comment from.As there are no much options in blogger to make changes in the blogger comments form but still there are some alterations like we can make,to alter its width and height.As blogger comment system is not one of the best comment system and blogger team need great modifications to be done in it to make it better and useful for readers.

Some comment system hacks you can use like are highlight blog author comments and numbering of blogger comments.

Now lets continue on our tutorial on how to change the width of comment form.Just GO To Blogger Layout >> Edit/Html >> Expand Widgets >> Press Ctrl+ F >> Search For Below Codes.

<iframe allowtransparency='true' class='blogger-iframe-colorize' frameborder='0' height='275' id='comment-editor' scrolling='auto' src='' width='100%'/>

Now edit the value of codes in red that is width and height of blogger comment form.Just increase or decrease the values of width and height properties to make it alter.I am sure you will be going to love this tutorial.Best of luck!!

Celeb Blogs

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:50:00 +0000

This is a collection of some of the celebs who blog. Do check this list to find out if your favorite celeb blogs or not. If you feel that I have not included some celebrity blogger in this list then please give the name and blog link of that celeb in the comments section. This post will be updated regularly depending on the entries that I get. I would also like to mention that some of the celebrity blogs may or may not be active.

Movies and Television
Lis of all those celebs who have acted in movies or TV series or directed movies, documentaries.

Zach Braff
Actor, director, screenwriter, and producer who is known for his role as John 'J.D.' Dorian, on the TV Series Scrubs

Jackie Chan
Actor, action choreographer, filmmaker, comedian, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer. He needs no introduction

Allison Mack
German-born American actress. Known for her role of Chloe Sullivan in Smallville.

Alyssa Milano
Actress and former singer. She has played roles on television in Who's the Boss? and Charmed

David Nykl
Czech Canadian actor of film, television, commercials and theater.

William Shatner
Canadian actor and novelist. Portrayed role of Captain James T. Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise, in the television series Star Trek

Roseanne Barr
Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning American actress, comedienne, and writer. Won awards for her role in the show called Roseanne

Michael Ian Black
American comedian, actor, writer and director.He has starred in several TV comedy series, including The State, Viva Variety, Stella, and Michael & Michael Have Issues

Bill Maher
American stand-up comedian, television host, social and political commentator, and author. Has hosted on Real Time with Bill Maher and Politically Incorrect

Brea Grant
American actress known for the role of Daphne Millbrook in NBC's science fiction television program Heroes.

Cesar Millan
A professional dog trainer known for his television series Dog Whisperer

Kat Dennings
American actress.Played role in the television series Sex and the City and in the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Big Momma's House 2, Charlie Bartlett, The House Bunny and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.

Kim Kardashian
American socialite, model, actress, businesswoman and television personality

Michael Moore
Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, author and liberal political commentator. Director and producer of Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko

Paris Hilton
American socialite, heiress, media personality, model, singer, author, fashion designer and actress.

Tom Green
Canadian actor, rapper, writer, comedian and media personality.

George Takei
American actor, best known for his role in the television series Star Trek

Stephen Fry
British actor, writer, comedian, author, television presenter and film director

John Cusack
American film actor and screenwriter who has acted in Say Anything... and Con Air

Rosie O'Donnell
American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, author and media personality

Wil Wheaton
American writer and actor, best known for his role of Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation

Steve Martin
American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician, and composer

Music
List of all those celebs who are related to the music industry

Lily Allen
English pop music singer and songwriter

Thomas Dolby
English musician and producer

MC Hammer
Multi-platinum selling rapper, entertainer and dancer

John Mayer
American musician. Room for Squares and Heavier Things are some of his albums

Moby
American DJ, singer-songwriter and musician

Gene Simmons
Israeli American rock bassist, vocalist, and actor

Kanye West
American rapper, record producer, author, and singer. The College Dropout, his Late Registration, Graduation, 808s & Heartbreak are some of his famous albums

Sports
List of all the sports persons belonging to various sports

Gilbert Arenas
American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association. Plays for Washington Wizards

David Beckham
English International footballer who currently playing for American Major League Soccer club Los Angeles Galaxy

Curtis Granderson
Center fielder in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers

Anna Kournikova
Russian professional tennis player and model

Pat Neshek
Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins

Curt Schilling
Former American Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher

Indian Celebrities
I have created a separate list for Indian celebs. This list contains Indian actors, sports persons, directors and celebs belonging to other categories

Aamir Khan
Indian film actor, director and producer. Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Laagan, Rang De Basanti, Taare Zameen Par are some of his popular movies

Abhay Deol
Indian film actor. Got critical acclaim for his movies Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye, Dev.D

Abhinav Bindra
Indian shooter from Punjab and is the current World and Olympic champion in the 10 m Air Rifle event and first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games

Ajay Devgan
An Indian National Film Award-winning actor

Amitabh Bachchan
Indian film actor and one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema

Amrita Rao
Indian model and Bollywood actress

Anupam Kher
Actor in Hindi films in India and was the chairman of the Indian Film Censor Board

Anurag Kashyap
Award-winning Indian director and screenwriter. His last two movies are Dev D and Gulaal.

Bipasha Basu
Bollywood actress and a former model

Celina Jaitley
Indian actress and a finalist in the Miss Universe 2001

Cyrus Broacha
MTV India VJ and is famous as a stand-up comedian and prankster, best known for his show Bakra on MTV

Dev Benegal
Is an Indian director. Won awards for his first movie English, August

Dino Morea
Indian actor and model

Emraan Hashmi
Indian actor who is also known as the Serial Kisser

Farhan Akhtar
Indian filmmaker, script writer, actor, playback singer, lyricist, film producer, and television host. His debut movie Dil Chahta Hai was a super hit and still popular among the youngsters

Gul Panag
Bollywood actress and former beauty queen who has competed in the Miss Universe pageant

John Abraham
Bollywood actor and a former model

Karan Johar
Indian film director, producer, and TV celebrity. His movies Kuch Kuch Hota Hain, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna are very popular.

Koena Mitra
Indian actress and former model

Krishnamachari Srikkanth
Former captain of the Indian cricket team and the current chairman of the selection committee

Kunal Kohli
Hindi film director who gave the hit movie Hum Tum

Nandita Das
Award-winning Indian film actress and independent filmmaker

Madhavan
Famous Indian actor. Known for his roles in Rang De Basanti, Guru, Mumbai Meri Jaan

Nana Patekar
Highly acclaimed Indian actor and filmmaker. Has won many Filmfare awards for his roles.

Pooja Bedi
Former Bollywood actress and currently a television talk show host

Rahul Bose
Indian actor, screenwriter, film director, social activist, and rugby union player

Rahul Khanna
Indian actor. Has acted in the movies Earth, Dil Kabaddi, Love Aaj Kal

Ram Gopal Varma
Indian film director, screenwriter and producer who is known for his movies Rangeela, Satya, Company

Ravi Shastri
Former Indian cricketer and now a commentator

Rohit Roy
Indian television star known for his roles in Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand & Swabhimaan. He has also acted in some movies and also directed a mini movie named Rice Plate in the movie Dus Kahaniyan

Salman Khan
One of the Superstars in Bollywood. He has a very large fan following and famous among the ladies. Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Tere Naam, No Entry and Partner are some of his famous movies

Sanjay Suri
Indian actor. My Brother… Nikhil, Jhankaar Beats, Sorry Bhai! are some of his movies

Shahrukh Khan
Indian actor, who has been a prominent Bollywood figure, as well as a film producer and television host. He is called the Badsaah of Bollywood and has a huge fan following throughout the world

Shekhar Kapur
Indian film director and producer. Directed the critically acclaimed movie Bandit Queen. His Hollywood movie Elizabeth has won 2 Oscar awards.

Sherlyn Chopra
Indian model, singer and bollywood actress

Shilpa Shetty
Indian film actress and model and the winner of British show Celebrity Big Brother

Shobhaa De
Renowned Indian columnist and novelist

Sudhir Mishra
Indian film director and screenwriter. Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi is one of his critically acclaimed movies

Vikram Bhatt
Bollywood director. 1920, Raaz, Ghulam are some of his popular movies

Deepak Chopra
Indian physician and author who has written extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine

Other
Clubbed all of them in this category as there were very few to create a separate category for them.

Donald Trump
American business magnate, socialite, author and television personality

Mark Cuban
American billionaire entrepreneur

Dave Barry
American author and columnist who used to write a humor column for the The Miami Herald

Cool Bookmark Buttons

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:03:00 +0000

Hi friends this is a collection of 12 beautiful hand drawn Social Bookmarking Icon sets for your Blog or Website. Enjoy this cool collection of icons and don't forget to give your valuable comments .

FreeHand ColorStroked icon pac

Color Stroked Free Hand Icon Set By mfayaz

Black Magic Marker Social Bookmarking Icons

108 free high resolution Simple Black Magic Marker Social Bookmarking Icons By My Site My Way

Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers

Set of free hand drawn doodle icons by Spoon Graphics

Handy Icons

24 free and exclusive vector icons by Web Designer Depot

Handycons: a free, hand drawn social media icon set

Free, hand drawn social media icon set containing 12 icons by Janko At Warp Speed

Handycons 2 - another free hand drawn icon set

Icon set containing 20 more hand drawn icons by Janko At Warp Speed

Social media icons

Hand made social media icons by plechi

Social Icons hand drawned

Hand drawn social media icons by TheG-Force

Free Social Networking Hand Drawn Photoshop Shapes

Set of Hand Drawn Social Networking Photoshop Shapes by My Site My Way

Sketch’d Up Vector Icon Set

Over 100 hand drawn icons in vector format designed by Oliver Twardowski

20 free Web 2.0 icons (colored pencil version)

Hand drawn Web 2.0 icons by Icon Expo

19 Free hand-drawn sketch icons

Hand-drawn sketch icons by Charfish Design

please social bookmark if you liked

Change Blogger Favicon

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:36:00 +0000

This Blog post will explain how to add favicon for your Blog

The main advantage of creating and using favicon is ,it makes it easy to find your blog or site when someone favourited or bookmarked your site/blog among several other sites.

So,ready to create a favicon for your Blog!

All you need is a program to create a favicon in (.ico) format.If you haven't a program to create in .ico format,

No Problem....you can also use png or gif format.If you have Photoshop, or any other programs like that,open it and create a 16*16 image and save it as .png or gif format [look at the below screenshot below]

Or there are so many online sites which can create a Favicon for you,just google 'free online 16*16 icon generator' .They ask you to upload a picture from your desktop,and they convert it into 16*16 .ico file.

You are just a few steps away from creating a beautiful Favicon for your site....

go to your blog dashboard>Layout>Edit Html

and look for this code

add the following code right after it

<link href='http://www.textmarks.com/images/WidgetAlphaIcon-B.gif' rel='shortcut icon'/>
<link href='http://www.textmarks.com/images/WidgetAlphaIcon-B.gif' rel='icon'/>

replace the 'icon file url' ie http://www.textmarks.com/images/WidgetAlphaIcon-B.gif both the times with the url of your icon.

Any .gif .jpg image would do; search google for favicon .ico

That's it! Now you can see a beautiful favicon in your blog.

Feel free to add the comments..... and if it works share it!

Hypertext Link Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:13:00 +0000

Whenever you add any hypertext link to your blog post, you will see that the link is underlined. However some people don't like that the link is underlined and want to remove the underline.

This is possible by adding a small code in the link. Check the two links html given below. The first link html is the normal link which is underlined. However, the second link html would not result in underline.


<a href="URL" > </a>

<a href="URL" style="text-decoration: none;" > </a>

As we can see in the code shown above, we have added just the following code.


style="text-decoration: none;"

Its just a simple thing to do which will hardly take your time.

Fluid Social bookmarks

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:06:00 +0000

You want to add social bookmarking buttons in your blog you always want to add a nice, good looking buttons. SocioFluid is one of the most popular social bookmarking widget generator. Its easy to install and you can change buttons icon size too.

To add SocioFluid Bookmarking widget below posts:

Step 1 :

Go to SocioFluid and preview the widget:

If you are not like it you can customize it, you can add or remove icons and change size of icon.

If you are not like it you can customize it, you can add or remove icons and change size of icon.

scroll down at the end of the page and press generate widget button:

If you want to add the widget below each blog posts click on 'Copy to Clipboard' to copy the code. But if you want to add the widget other place like sidebar, footer etc you can use 'Add to Blogger' or 'Copy to Clipboard'.

Step 2 :

Go to Layout--->Edit HTML---->Click on Expand widget templates.
Now paste your widget code after the line .
Click on "Save Templates" and you are done.

Publish Blogger Post by email

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:43:00 +0000

The mail to Blogger feature in the blog enables you to publish the post via Email. For this feature you have to make a change in you r blog setting. Just go to “Settings” then click “E-mail & Mobile” or “E-mail”

You can create a mail to Blogger address which you will use to publish the posts via email to your blog:

To post to your blog via email, you need to configure your mail to Blogger email address in Settings | Email:

The format of the email address will be username.secretword@blogger.com. Note that this Email must be kept secret. Otherwise, anyone who gets it will be able to post as you.

Also be sure to specify whether or not you prefer your email posts to publish automatically. If this option is not checked, then your posts will be saved on your account but will not appear on your blog until you log in to Blogger.com and publish them yourself.

Once you have saved your Settings, you can send email to your blog. The subjects of your email letters will be the titles of your posts, and the body of the emails will be the posts themselves. To include an image in your post, you can attach an image to you your email.

Note......

• Sometimes email programs append text to the bottom of each sent message; to make sure this cruft doesn't get posted to your blog, put #end at the end of your post.

Social Bookmarking Widget

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:11:00 +0000

Many Bloggers today want their end of the post shine bookmarking widget.

and let me tell you your wait is over.Not like I have never seen a bookmarking Widget below

a post.

But, I have never found it with something sexy. Yes, It has a short title "add is sexy", very

stylist and also sexy.... :). Please see the screenshot below.

And It's not that dull as it looks. It's more responsive try hovering your mouse over the same

widget below this post.

Now, I will try to explain about how to add that in Blogger.

Step 1 Go to LAYOUT -- Edit HTML -- (checked expand widget templates)( I recommend you

to Backup the existing Template first)

Step 2 Afterwards, Add this CSS composition below it.

<style type='text/css'>
div.sexy-bookmarks {
height:54px;
background:url('http://i43.tinypic.com/2ueii3t.png') no-repeat left bottom;
position:relative;
width:540px;
}

div.sexy-bookmarks span.sexy-rightside {
width:17px;
height:54px;
background:url('http://i43.tinypic.com/2ueii3t.png') no-repeat right bottom;
position:absolute;
right:-17px;
}

div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials {
margin:0 !important;
padding:0 !important;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
left:10px;
}

div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials li {
display:inline-block !important;
float:left !important;
list-style-type:none !important;
margin:0 !important;
height:29px !important;
width:48px !important;
cursor:pointer !important;
padding:0 !important;
}

div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials a {
display:block !important;
width:48px !important;
height:29px !important;
font-size:0 !important;
color:transparent !important;

}

.sexy-furl, .sexy-furl:hover, .sexy-digg, .sexy-digg:hover, .sexy-reddit, .sexy-reddit:hover, .sexy-stumble, .sexy-stumble:hover, .sexy-delicious, .sexy-delicious:hover, .sexy-yahoo, .sexy-yahoo:hover, .sexy-blinklist, .sexy-blinklist:hover, .sexy-technorati, .sexy-technorati:hover, .sexy-facebook, .sexy-facebook:hover, .sexy-twitter, .sexy-twitter:hover, .sexy-myspace, .sexy-myspace:hover, .sexy-mixx, .sexy-mixx:hover, .sexy-script-style, .sexy-script-style:hover, .sexy-designfloat, .sexy-designfloat:hover, .sexy-syndicate, .sexy-syndicate:hover, .sexy-email, .sexy-email:hover {
background:url('http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3131/sexysprite.png') no-repeat !important;
}

.sexy-furl {
background-position:-300px top !important;
}
.sexy-furl:hover {
background-position:-300px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-digg {
background-position:-500px top !important;
}
.sexy-digg:hover {
background-position:-500px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-reddit {
background-position:-100px top !important;
}
.sexy-reddit:hover {
background-position:-100px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-stumble {
background-position:-50px top !important;
}
.sexy-stumble:hover {
background-position:-50px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-delicious {
background-position:left top !important;
}
.sexy-delicious:hover {
background-position:left bottom !important;
}
.sexy-yahoo {
background-position:-650px top !important;
}
.sexy-yahoo:hover {
background-position:-650px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-blinklist {
background-position:-600px top !important;
}
.sexy-blinklist:hover {
background-position:-600px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-technorati {
background-position:-700px top !important;
}
.sexy-technorati:hover {
background-position:-700px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-myspace {
background-position:-200px top !important;
}
.sexy-myspace:hover {
background-position:-200px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-twitter {
background-position:-350px top !important;
}
.sexy-twitter:hover {
background-position:-350px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-facebook {
background-position:-450px top !important;
}
.sexy-facebook:hover {
background-position:-450px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-mixx {
background-position:-250px top !important;
}
.sexy-mixx:hover {
background-position:-250px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-script-style {
background-position:-400px top !important;
}
.sexy-script-style:hover {
background-position:-400px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-designfloat {
background-position:-550px top !important;
}
.sexy-designfloat:hover {
background-position:-550px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-syndicate {
background-position:-150px top !important;
}
.sexy-syndicate:hover {
background-position:-150px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-email {
background-position:-753px top !important;
}
.sexy-email:hover {
background-position:-753px bottom !important;
}

</style>

Now Save the template and again expand the template

Step 3 Please find this code:

then, copy paste this HTML composition after the code


<div class='sexy-bookmarks'><ul class='socials'><li class='sexy-delicious'><a expr:href='&quot;http://del.icio.us/post?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-digg'><a expr:href='&quot; http://digg.com/submit?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-technorati'><a expr:href='&quot; http://technorati.com/faves?add=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-reddit'><a expr:href='&quot; http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-stumble'><a expr:href='&quot; http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-designfloat'><a expr:href='&quot;http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-facebook'><a expr:href='&quot; http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-twitter'><a expr:href='&quot; http://twitthis.com/twit?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-furl'><a expr:href='&quot; http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-syndicate'><a href='http://feeds2.feedburner.com/YOUR-FEEDBURNER-ID' title='Subscribe to RSS'/></li>
<li class='sexy-email'><a expr:href='&quot; mailto:?subject=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
</ul><span class='sexy-rightside'/></div>

. Change YOUR FEEDBURNER ID in the code to your Feedburner Url .
Save Your Template. And it is done.

Any problems tell me through the comments Form..............

Search Widget for Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:08:00 +0000

Embed Search Box widget In Blogger Header that makes it look beautiful.

You can also Embed Google Search Box In Blogger Header, to add to your earnings Or custom search engine to your blog.

This is very important trick to increase your earnings of Adsense if you add google search as you will be got paid to get searched from your google search from your blog.

Now How to add this link unit to your Blogger Header?

1.Login to your blogger
2.Go to LAYOUT tab
3.Then EDIT HTML tab
4.Click On EXPAND WIDGETS to expand html
5. Search the below code in red

<div class='descriptionwrapper'>
<p class='description'><span><data:description/></span></p>

Now Add the seach code after these lines.

If you want to add your google search then add the google search code from adsense.

If you want search unit to be placed above the description and below title then place the search code above these red lines.

Comments Widget in 30 seconds

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:10:00 +0000

In case you directly want to show the comments widget on your Blogger Blog within 30 seconds, then follow this step:

Sign in to Blogger, Go to Layout -> Add a Gadget -> Feed widget[see the Image]

Then in the given feed field,

Add this:

>>http://YOURawesome_blog_here.BLOGSPOT.COM/feeds/comments/default

Then customize it to your needs ;select the appropriate options and save it.

It's done .Place the widget in your layout where you want

Dont forget to share this post if you liked.

Have a nice day! will be back soon....

Floating Icons BUTTONS on Blog[see the corners]

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:35:00 +0000

Get the three floating icons as on this Blog [in the corners]

This would drastically help visitors on your subpages to easily head to your main page or subscribe your rss or even get back to top if your blog post is to long
these icons being floating on the browser catch the visitor's attention easily , following more clicks on the icons.
You first need to add this code in a html/javascript anywhere on your Blog
the code goes as follows

<a style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:5px;right:5px;" href="#" title="Back to Top"><img src="http://www.wj.com.au/pageimage/top.gif"/></a>

<a style="display:scroll;position:fixed;top:5px;right:5px;" href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/widgetBlogger" title="Subscribe RSS"><img src="http://aux.iconpedia.net/uploads/1674674503.png"/></a>

<a style="display:scroll;position:fixed;top:5px;left:5px;" href="http://www.widgetBlogger.co.cc" title="GO to HOME"><img src="http://www.mintothed.com/images/home_icon_link.jpg"/></a>

,.The first paragraph of code is for the floating "back to top" dont edit it
the second paragraph of code is for you RSS feed ; edit the highlighted portion with you feed
URL
I use Feedburner [Know About feedburner here]
Anyway your default feed would be
http://YourAwesomeBlogHere.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

and
http://www.YourAwesomeBlogHere.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Third paragraph is for "Home" edit the highlighted portion in 3rd para with your Blog URL

That's it you got your army of floating icons to make your visitors get to the things you want them to see.

All search engines and search engine submittors

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:43:00 +0000

This is not the complete list of search engines but are enough to give an start to your blog ,as you will find countless amount of search engines on web you wouldn't have heard of.

Website Submission Services

There are many websites on the net offering free website submission services to search engines .The list of search engines are by and large the same. Some offer free to send your URL to more than a hundred search engines . Is it necessary to have your webpage listed in all the smaller search engines

GOOGLE TRANSLATE WIDGET

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:13:00 +0000

Let your readers easily TRANSLATE your BLOG with this highly compact widget.

These super-mini flags are powered by Google Translate. The languages available at the click of a flag are

Chinese, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.

It can easily be added to any blog platform or website!
just add a html/javascript with the following code

<div style="padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px; text-align: center;"> <div align="left"><a style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Google-Translate-English to French " onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Czh-CN&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;"><img alt="Chinese" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA" height="24" src="http://imgcash4.imageshack.us/img518/261/chineeseoq9.png" style="cursor: pointer;" width="24"/> <img alt="French" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Google-Translate-English to French " height="24" src="http://www.imzers.com/images/flags/french-flag.png" style="cursor: pointer;" width="24"/></a> <a style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Google-Translate-English to German" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cde&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;"> <img alt="German" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Google-Translate-English to German" height="24" src="http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/3466/germanke6.png" style="cursor: pointer;" width="24"/></a>  <a style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cja&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;"> <img alt="Japanese" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA" height="24" src="http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/8905/japaneseyq6.png" style="cursor: pointer;" width="24"/> </a> <a style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cko&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;"> <img alt="Korean" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA" height="24" src="http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/6545/koreanfa6.png" style="cursor: pointer;" width="24"/> </a> <a style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA " onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cru&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;"> <img alt="Russian" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA " height="24" src="http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k515/Pratik_Parulekar/flag_russian.gif" style="cursor: pointer;" width="24"/> </a>  <a style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Google-Translate-English to Spanish " onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Ces&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;"> <img alt="Spanish" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Google-Translate-English to Spanish " height="24" src="http://www.bitbybit.dk/carsten/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/spanish_flag.png" style="cursor: pointer;" width="24"/> </a>                  </div> <div style="float: left;"> <sup> Powered By </sup><a href="http://www.widgetblogger.co.cc/2009/07/google-translate-widget.html"><img style="border:none;" alt="google" src="http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/7661/googlelogode0kn0.png" class="gsc-branding-img-noclear" title="Google Translation Widget"/></a></div> </div>

It's over!Happy Translating....

Credits:Widgets for free <

TWEET ME Twitter button

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Twitter has gained much popularity nowadays with increase in its users and a great source of traffic for bloggers. As me too has started using twitter a lot and i am loving it,its really feel great when see your Twitter followers increasing. You can follow me here

Login to your blogger.Then got To Its Layout > Edit Html > Expand Widgets
Search for this line (ctrl+F)

,Just add the below codes after it:-

<a expr:href='"http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading " + data:post.title + " @twitter_username " + data:post.url' title='Tweet it on Twitter'><img src='http://Link_to_twitter_image'/></a>

Replace the green codes above with your twitter username and image link of twitter uploaded on your server. we even have got for u tweet me twitter images

Now save your template and you will be able to see tweet me button below each blogger post which can be tweeted by your readers

get us in your mailbox..Enter your email address:

Subscribe to WidgetBlogger by Email

Access blocked sites,blogs

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:37:00 +0000

Countries like China block some really great sites and here are some ways to defy those bans.......

1) Using IP Instead of URLThis depends on the software/application used. Sometimes blocked sites are stored as a list of URLs (eg. www.yahoo.com, www.donwload.com,etc) and typing the IP instead of the URL might sometimes work. In a local computer, doing a ping domain.com command in Command Prompt (Mac users use Terminal) will return you the IP address. You can also do it online via http://www.whatsmyip.org/.

2) Redirection with Short URL serviceSometimes the URL you intend to browse might be ban, but converting them to another a shorter URL with short URL services might just help you to bypass the settings.Here’s 2 Short URL service you can use – MooURL, SnipURL

3) Google CacheSearch engines like Google and Yahoo cache webpages and these cached pages are stored in search engines themselves, which likely will be added to the blocked list. Click on the ‘cache’ will bring you to a cache version of the page, as updated as how Google caches it.

hope this helped you................

EMAIL ME Hack

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:01:00 +0000

This post helps to add a "Email me" link in your blog/webpage.

With this,if some one clicks on the "Email me" link, the visitor's microsoft outlook express will be open by default.

If he/she wants to send via others like gmail,yahoo,rediff,etc..they will simply copy your email address from the outlook express and send.

So,how to do this?

it's very easy

just add this javascript/html and place it wherever you like on your blog

<a href="mailto:abc@yahoo.com">Email me </a>

change the email address to yours

Peel over page effect Hack Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:45:00 +0000

You may have before seen a peel over effect on some proffessional website and not knew how to get that on your blog this post will help you get that on your Blog
you may use it to shoe advts ,rss feeds or whaterer you want and link it too

Here is the hack to do so..
just follow the steps they are short and sweet
Just login to Blogger,
Go To Layout > Edit Html > Press Ctrl + F[find]

Now place these codes above it

<style type='text/css'>
img { behavior: url(iepngfix.htc) }
#pageflip {
position: relative;
right: 0; top: 0;
float: right;
}
#pageflip img {
width: 50px; height: 52px;
z-index: 99;
position: absolute;
right: 0; top: 0;
-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;
}
#pageflip .msg_block {
width: 50px; height: 50px;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
right: 0; top: 0;
background: url(http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/resource/news/rss.jpg) no-repeat right top;
}
</style>

<script src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function(){

//Page Flip on hover

$("#pageflip").hover(function() {
$("#pageflip img , .msg_block").stop()
.animate({
width: '307px',
height: '319px'
}, 500);
} , function() {
$("#pageflip img").stop()
.animate({
width: '50px',
height: '52px'
}, 220);
$(".msg_block").stop()
.animate({
width: '50px',
height: '50px'
}, 200);
});

});
</script>

Red line is the image you want to show
Now search for

place the following code after it

<div id='pageflip'>
<a
href='http://feeds2.feedburner.com/widgetblogger'><img alt=''
src='http://www.wallheaven.com/page_flip.png'/></a>
<div class='msg_block'></div>
</div>

Thats it enjoyy and any prob tell me through the comment form;)
Special thanks to Anshul dudeja:)

MARQUEE-Scrolling text and link hacks

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:34:00 +0000

Marquee can considerably increase the viewers attention towards the text or link rolling into it.

It is used and is can be useful for any announcements on your Blog.

>>How to add the scrolling text in your blog?

Let me explain it:

ONE Adding simple scrolling text:
Here is the code to add a simple scrolling text from right to left side

The output:.....

code to simple scrolling text

If you want some more attention of your Viewers,

Change the Background color to the text,

Note: Use matching and favourable colours that look good with each other.

The output:.....

code to simple scrolling text

You can choose your background colour by replacing the hexadecimal code(#99ccff).
Click here to see the codes of the different colors.

Here are some mode attributes to learn:


direction="left"

direction="right"

direction="up"

direction="down"

The above attributes tells the text which direction to scroll.

Apply whichever you want

Here are its examples ....................

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code to simple scrolling text

code to simple scrolling text

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More attributes:
You can add this attribute to alternate the text means it will bounce within the coloured area.

Like this

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Its Code:-

You can also set the speed up the widget text with a simple attribute:

The lower the scroll amount value, the less speed it moves,
the html code adding scrollamount would be

(for scrollamout =2) in this marquee it would be at this speed

code to simple scrolling text

(for scrollamount=10)

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TWO

   Pausing the text when mouse is over the text:
   It is very useful when the reader wants to read the text,and the scrollamount is big,sothat he will put the mouse over the text to pause the text and read the matter:
   Here is the code for it

It will have the following feel

code to simple scrolling text

(Roll the mouse over the text)

THREE

Changing the text colour:
Here is the code to change the text colour:(Add it before the marquee tag)

The whole code would be like

code to simple scrolling text

Here are the codes for various colours

Here is the important and most useful one, adding hyperlinks in the scrolling text
Hyperlink means a link when clicked go to another location(site).
Let's see how to add hyperlinks to the scrolling text:

FOUR

Adding hyperlinks(open in the same window):

sample sode for it.

Replace the Link#1,Link#2,Link#3 with the text and url#1,url#2 and url#3 with the desired url addresses.

The output will look like this

EtalkIndia Colour Codes Gmail

If you want to open the links in new window,here is the code:

Here's the code for it

That's it!Now you can add this to your blogger sidebar,in the blog post,where ever you want.

If you want to put this in sidebar,then sign in to your blogger account>click the add a page element> and paste the code in html/javascript and save the changes .This is shown in the below pictures.

happy marqueeing

If you have any doubts, ask your questions via your comments.

Tell us which widgets you need us to post

Ads below every Blog title Widget

noreply@blogger.com (happy epitome) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:53:00 +0000

Every blogger wants to get some money for all the hardwork he/she puts in for Blog.

So we also know that one of the best available publisher heaven is Adsense...Bidvertiser

You place ads on your Web-Blog ,on pages and places they appear prominant for your viewers.

I thought which place would be more 'visible' ,other than the place after the Title.

And moreover let me tell you that this code wont pop up in your read more column on your Homepage [if u have enabled READ MORE],there your visitors will naturally see the summary

of the Web-page Blog post.

As i said before your blog earnings depend mainly on your Weblog's traffic and on your

ad placement.

This is in accordance with the Google Adsense Terms of service.

I am personally using the same Hack Widget on this blogger Blog. You can see bid ads below the post title on my post pages.

now lets know how to set it up.

go to Adsense or Bidvertiser and get the Ad selected

Now copy the ad code to parse it

Parse It Here{{untick the "add blockcode" on the parsing site}}

Copy off the parsed code..
Now login to your blogger account.
Goto Layout> Edit Html and expand the widget templates.
Find this piece of code

Now paste this code before it.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
Put your parsed
adsense code here
<br/>
</b:if>

So friends now enjoy this Widget on your Blog

won't you give us backlink; add the code on the right sidebar to do that..

[if u are viewing in email u might not see the code; click on the title of post to see the original post]

More such amazing Blog Widgets coming soon..so stay tuned..