Free Automatic Blog Backup Online

Not long ago, I have presented the free blog backup solution BlogBackupr. In this publication, I will show you one more way to backup your valuable blog content - blog backup system by Techrigy. Blog backup is very important because in the event your content is lost, you have the straightforward and simple way to restore it is fast. Furthermore, blog owner is able to store his blog backup anywhere, export it, and transfer it to any other compatible platform.

Blog Backup Online

The project is currently in beta testing stage and has several limitations like:

1. 50 MB limit.

To get more space allocation, all you need to do is just send the administration an email request at morespace@techrigy.com.

2. Blogging platform limitation. Blogs hosted on the following platform types are qualified for free backups:

* Blogger
* WordPress
* TypePad
* Friendster
* LiveJournal
* Serendipity
* Windows Live Space
* Movable Type
* Terapad
* Vox
* Multiply

3. Switch Blog Platforms

You can easily switch to a different blogging platform by using the ‘Restore’ feature.

4. Images & Videos

Images and videos backup is not currently supported, but the new service capabilities will be introduced soon.

There are three levels of support, and just the first one is free for all users. Levels and pricing:

Freemium

* Backup unlimited number of blogs
* Run backups daily
* 50 mb storage

Professional

* $4.17 per month ($49.95 per year)
* Restore your blog
* Backup images linked from blog
* 250MB of storage

Enterprise

* $8.30 per month ($99.95 per year)
* Restore your blogs
* Backup images linked from blog
* 1GB of storage

It is recommended to start from a free service, and if they fit your needs, you can eventually switch to more features-reach service level.

Developers Website: http://www.blogbackuponline.com/techrigy/

20% off for one week only!

I was once led to believe that replica watches are made in Asia and Europe only. I too held onto it for a long time till I saw bluefakes.com, an American site that sells replica watches of every Swiss brands that include my all time favorite Rolex among other brands such as Piaget and Rado.

I like the services offered by Bluefakes.com such as shipping within 3 days, big discounts, 24 hours accessibility and 100% free return policy.

Oh, they offer 5 years warranty on Swiss replica watches. Replica watches should be bought always from reputed dealers like Bluefakes.com

eHow is hiring writers.

"How to" is one area I am yet to develop my skill. I mean writing in depth articles on "How to" or "DIY" is so for not my forte. But I am an avid reader of e-how, an extraordinary site of just great information. I would rate them next to About.com

Even for some of my blog content ideas, I look up at ehow.com

I came to know through the feeds of Blogger Jobs that eHow is hiring writers. The advantage of writing to eHow is the freedom to write on the topics we are fully well versed with.

Another big advanatge is the scope of e-How. They deal with every topic one can think of. Also, since eHow is a big web site, one can expect to lokk forward to long term work.

For more information and to start writing, visit the link below and and create an account.

http://www.ehow.com/make-money-online.aspx?tcid=bjbiz

BlogBackupr Provides FREE Blog Back Up Service

If you are experienced blogger, then you probably know the importance of your blog data and the hard work you do to keep your blog alive. Loosing your blog data will be a nightmare. It is a good idea to perform back ups of your blog content at regular intervals so that you will not loose much of you blog data in case of disastrous crash of your blogging platform.

BlogBackuper

I am a Blogger platform user, and I am using the embedded opportunities for the data backup. However, if for some reason Blogger itself cease to exist, the blogs content and all the backups will be gone as well.

It would be good to have blog backups preserved by the third-party platform, no affiliated with blog hosting site. There is a free service - BlogBackupr - who will do all the will do it for you on daily basis. This service works with all blogs that have a RSS-feed. It runs over the Internet and takes daily backup of your blog. The good thing is - you do not have to install any software on your PC as services are purely web-based.

Currently site supports the following blogging platforms:
* Wordpress Open Source (wordpress.org)
* Wordpress.Com
* Blogger.Com

Note that there are still certain limitations as the site does not support backup of images and your blog templates at the moment. However soon the support for all media files such as images (jpeg, gif etc) or any other files that’s currently on your blog (Powerpoint slides, ZIP-files, CSS, etc.) will be introduced. This will be done automatically for all BlogBackupr-users.

Sign for the services: https://blogbackupr.com/.

I got paid by Widget Bucks.

Image via WikipediaI was casually looking at my emails when I noticed the word, "payment" in the subject of one of my emails. A decade of experience has built in a few hunches in me which always proved to be true.

I knew I have received money in my paypal but I did not expect the payment from Widget Bucks because I only joined Widget Bucks, kept their widget in one of my blogs for two weeks and removed it. It happened almost 6 months before.

The $50+ that I received from Widget Bucks was a total surprise to me. I was sure they sent it to the wrong person. Just when I was about to write to them, I decided to check my widget bucks account.

Yes, I earned it! Several people have joined Widget Bucks clicking on my link and they have made money for me. Imagine how much they would have made if I were to receive $25+ from their earnings. Widget Bucks also kept their promise of giving me $25 as a sign up bonus.

Want to join now Widget Bucks? It is never late buddy. I am lucky to you and you, to me.

PS: The image here is nothing to with Widget Bucks. It is just a jolly good image.

Free photos for your blog content.

Every blogger's aim is to attract readers to their blogs by giving useful content. But useful information is not always sufficient. This blog is a fine example. No matter how useful my information I give in this blog, it still is read by less than 30 people a day.

But whenever I place an image in my blog post that is relevant to the content, the visitors increase slightly and they also tend to comeback. But where do one search for images? Obviously there are lots of sites to look for image.

But we can't use any image that we like. Some of them may be copyright protected. Here is a place you can search for images that are free to use.

Visit Font Play for free photos. Look by categories to find the image you want.

Eat to live.

My son’s boss informed my son one day that IT employees who sit for more than 4 hours at a stretch in front of the computers need to engage the services of professional fitness trainers to avoid getting obese and pot belly.

This has to be seriously viewed at the start of their careers before it is too late, by which time, even weight loss pill won’t help. Generally, IT people eat less than most of the others and this habit of eating to live is a healthy habit.

But our metabolism tends to change depending on the age, the type of food we eat, the time of lunch and dinner and so on. So, before you are forced to suppress your appetite by taking diet pills, suppress your urge to eat even when you are not hungry.

Don’t live to eat. Focus your attention on your stomach only when it calls for.

Tips to choose profitable affiliate programs.

A new blogger who is sincerely trying to monetize his blog will easily get carried away by signing up to each and every affiliate program that he comes across by reading money making blogs.

I don't blame you if you are one, as I too was like that several years ago. Here are some useful tips to choose the right affiliate program.

1. Don't fall for big players alone assuming that they are the best. It is not always true. For example, I am sure you are aware of the stalwart CJ (Commission Junction). They only encourage U.S. marketers. Most of the their merchants will reject your application if you are elsewhere. It is true some of their merchants will auto approve your application but such merchants' products or services are not in big demand. It is my experience. (I am in India)

2. Choose and apply for products/services that will be most useful to you. This is a smart way to think on the lines of others' needs. I would definitely recommend the following two popular affiliate directories. Both have excellent products that even I am able to sell.

Pepperjam Network

My Help Hub

3. Will you buy a product purely based on popularity than need? No, you won't. At least I won't. I will remember this principle while promoting products.

4. Look for products that offer a minimum of 20% commission on sale price.

5. If an affiliate directory pays only when you reach $200, don't join even if they offer high commission rate. It is quite probable that their products are not in demand.

6. Don't accept check payments if you are outside U.S. Accept only through Paypal.

7. Be prepared to get payments only after 45 days of making a sale because of refund policy.

Christian books as Christmas gifts.

I could not refuse the invitation by my husband’s friend, a devout Christian and 76 years old. He invited us for a pre-Christmas lunch because we had already given appointment to another Christian friend for Christmas lunch.

Yesterday, we decided to buy some gifts for both the luncheon dates. My husband gave me free hand on spending limit.

Suddenly an idea stuck me. Why not swap both the friends’ products? One friend is a publisher of Christian books and videos and his products are in good demand in Singapore and Malaysia. Another person is businessman selling high-tech video cameras and accessories.

We decided to buy one or two camera accessories to the publisher friend and buy his Christian books to the other friend. I also thought of Christian music but did not proceed further.

This way, both will have meaningful gifts and we can link them both in their respective business.

Adult Content Definition by Google AdSense

I got an interesting question from this blog reader, which I could not answer right away. The question was: How Google AdSense defines adult content? Since I never considered even approaching the safe borderline of adult and porn related content, this simple question never sparkled on my horizon.

It is not the secret that the adult content is of great demand online. Google AdSense from the very beginning alienated the program from the potentially danger of entering this category of advertising.

Adult Content Definition in Google AdSense

Explicit nudity, for example, was always way beyond Google’s terms of service.

However, there are many posts that are getting really close to the mature content line. In fact, some webmasters are intentionally playing the game of attracting more visitors by intentionally bordering on that line. It is quite understandable since they might benefit from additional income from advertisers who are also close to violating the AdWords TOS, prohibiting explicit ads as well.

In the article on the AdSense owned blog, there is a post “Inside AdSense: Play it safe, family-safe“, clarifying Google AdSense position on the topic.

In short, Google replaces the “explicit” term with “family-safety”. In their own words:

“Our policy regarding adult or mature content may include any material that is not appropriate for all audiences. While this obviously includes full nudity or sexual activity, it may also include textually explicit sexual content, image or video content containing lewd or provocative poses, strategically covered nudity, see-through or sheer clothing, and close-ups of anatomy that would be inappropriate if shown nude. Additionally, topics such as sexual health and sex tips may be held to a higher standard of professionalism than content that isn’t bordering on mature”.

Google also provides a view good questions that a webmasters should ask themselves:

Would I be comfortable viewing this content with my parents or children in the same room?

Would I feel comfortable viewing this content if my boss walked up behind me while I had this content on my screen?

Of course, the level of comfortability perception varies from person to person. But the point is clear - play safe, and be safe. We, webmasters, are working for Google, and not the opposite, so we should apply common sense to define the publically accepted family-oriented guidelines.

Unbelievable blog editor.

Image via Wikipedia

The blog post you reading now is something special to me and will be to you too once you fully read this post.

I learnt about Windows Live Writer about 15 minutes ago from Blog Doctor whose author Vin is one I respect most as a consummate blogging coach.

The 15 reasons Vin has cited in his post to use Windows Live Writer to post to your blogs have aroused considerable interest in me. I love to use blog editor and if that comes from Windows itself, it must be damn good.

Some of the 15 reasons to use Windows Live Writer:

* It is free

* Post to multiple blogs.

* Save bandwidth by publishing post once only instead of continuously saving posts as you make them in a web browser Post Editor.

* Add Technorati/ Delicious/Flickr/Live Journal/Ice Rocket etc Tags to posts.

I hope you download it from here:

Technorati Tags: Blog editor,blog writer

Submit your blog feed.

FeedSee will accept your site's RSS feed immediately. No questions asked. I mean, no registration is required. Not even your email is asked; just the feed URL only.

But be prepared to use your general knowledge while submitting. Their system will ask you to answer a question. This is in place of the usual 'Captcha'.

You can also search for feeds for a set of keywords.

All bloggers who are blogging about ways to earn online by blogging should immediately submit their blog's RSS feed URL.

The reason:
I just searched their database of feeds for this keyword: "Earn money by blogging"
The result is just one feed URL and it has nothing related to the topic searched.

I searched for 'Blog Promotion'. Again nothing.

They have a database of tags. I found the tag, 'blogging' and it yielded 62 feed URLs.

FeedSee is a human edited RSS feed directory.

What is meant by web savvy?

So far, not a single inquiry for my blogging academy. Oh, there were some emails asking for 'more info' but they vanished into thin air or into the web after deciding that they are not web savvy.

Yes, in my reply email, I clearly informed that my blogging academy can take in students who are web savvy. I can't teach people who know only reading email.

Web savvy persons are familiar with:

• search engines
• search engine optimization (SEO)
• affiliate programs
• RSS/syndication
• page rank
• contextual advertising
• social bookmarking
• blogging
• text link advertising
• ppc advertising
• traffic analysis
• web forms
• pinging
• feed readers
• blogging platforms
• cpm and cpa

And they assume they too can earn without knowing anything of the above! At least, they should have came forward to admit that they are newbies.

Even God can't motivate them.

How to Delete ‘nofollow’ Attribute from Blogger Blog

Blogger by default, and other blogging software such as WordPress, automatically adds the "nofollow" microformat extension to all links from user generated content. User generated content is defined as comments or external sources such as linkbacks and trackbacks.

Difference Between NoFollow and Follow Links?

Follow Back Links

These links pass on all “link juice” to the site being linked to, which means search engines follow this link to your site and take note of it. This is why the link is called a follow link, and this is also why these links are the best for your SEO.


Pros

* Link Juice - The most obvious and lucrative benefit of follow back links is the link juice they send to your site. This will help boost your rankings in search engines because most search engines (Google being the main one) calculate your rankings based largely on the amount of links you have coming into your site.

* Increased Interaction - Every visitor of your site had something they were looking for. If you own a webmaster or make money blog or site like mine, follow back links can increase your interaction because these readers are often looking for ways to get a free back link when they visit your site.

* Higher Value - If you sell links on your site, they will no doubt sell for more if they are follow back links rather than if they are no follow back links.

Cons

* Search Engine Backlash - Search engines, Google in particular, are really cracking down on follow back links. They are not only penalizing the site that sells the links or distributes them, but if they have proof of a paid link they will go even further and penalize the buyer. This could backfire on you, so you have to make sure your links look and seem organic, all while not overdoing the whole process.

* Decreased Value - Too many follow links on your page and Google will label you as a link farm and discount the value of each individual link and may even reduce your rankings. Generally speaking, the fewer follow links on a page, the more juice to pass on to each one of those links.

NoFollow Back Links


No follow back links are just like any other link, except they have a small “rel=nofollow” added to the end of them, which means that a search engine crawler will not follow the link to the next site and therefore will not index your page and mark the link as a backlink. These links will still bring you traffic though, which means they are just as useful for normal visitors.


Pros

* Make Genuine Ones Count - By keeping the majority of your links as no follow, you will be making sure your actual in-post or on site links are worth more. So if you’re selling paid reviews and paid links, it may be in your best interests to keep the paid links nofollow to increase the sales of your paid reviews and to make the actual links in your post count more.

* Search Engine Favour - Google has repeatedly been quoted as saying that sites with more nofollow links will fare better in the future, and many are pointing this out as a clue on their part that if you use nofollow links for all your irrelevant or link sales, you will rank higher in the search engines.

* Made for Users - Even though a nofollow backlink may not be helpful to search engine or a webmaster, it is made for users. There is no visible difference in the link, first of all. Secondly, you are helping keep the web clean and to maintain its high quality. Finally, since you are not changing the appearance of a nofollow link, you are still sending traffic or allowing users to visit a site of a commentator or a friend.


Cons

* Link Juice - Once again, the primary and most important factor in the entire nofollow vs follow debate is the “juice” you get from high pagerank or high quality pages linking to yours. This juice is not passed on in a nofollow link and therefore you get minimal SEO benefit.

* Reduced Interaction - Some of your visitors might be “turned-off” by a nofollow link on blog comments, and many times they will not comment if the links the blog is providing are nofollow. This can be a big hit if your blog is fairly small and in a webmaster related niche as commenting and interaction on your site and blog will dip.

* Lost Revenue - If you sell text-links on your site and you mark them as nofollow, be ready to take a hit in your revenue. Like I’ve pointed out above, nofollow text links do not bring nearly as much money or sales as a follow text link will. The reason behind this is because people who are looking for text-links are primarily looking for SEO benefit.

As you see, the advantages of removing no follow attributes in your Blogger blog are not straightforward, and you might decide not to do that removal after all. But if you want to experiment with that modification, or you are positive that potential advantages are overwhelming, you will find below the Blogger hack on how to remove “no follow” attribute from you account.

How to Delete ‘nofollow’ Attribute on Blogger

1. Login into your blogger. Usually you will bring to Dashboard after login.
2. Choose your blog and click “Layout”.
3. Click “Edit Html” subtab on the “Template” tab.
4. Before removing ‘nofollow‘ attribute (as with any other template modification), it is recommended to backup you template by clicking Download Full Template and saving in the safe location on your Hard Drive. You can re-enable it if your template modification producing the errors.
5. Check “Expand Widgets” checkbox at at the top of the Edit Template text box. This expands the Blog Posts Widget Code within which is the comments code.
6. Scroll down the template and find below code

<dl id=’comments-block’>
<b:loop values=’data:post.comments’ var=’comment’>
<dt class=’comment-author’expr:id=’"comment-" + data:comment.id’>
<a expr:name=’"comment-" +data:comment.id’/>
<b:if cond=’data:comment.authorUrl’>
<a expr:href=’data:comment.authorUrl’ rel=’nofollow’><data:comment.author/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:comment.author/>
</b:if>
<data:commentPostedByMsg/>
</dt>

7. Detele the code rel=’nofollow’ (or you can remove only no, making it rel=’follow‘) and save the template.

You are done!

Bazzill Value Pack for interesting scrapbooking!

A mini contest was announced in my old school for the thanks giving day. The contest was limited to only 200 students. The contestants were supposed to come up with unique gift ideas for the Christmas.

--->Bazzill Value Pack from a Cherry on Top

And the main rule of the contest was that the gift should be affordable by even fruits vendors.

Some of the school students are also my present math students. They sought ideas from me. I know I am not good in this area and asked my husband, a true virtuoso to suggest ideas for gifts.

He didn’t take more than 15 minutes to produce a rather lengthy list of gift ideas starting from scrapbooking supplies and ending with handmade cell phone holders made of wooden ice cream spoons.

Do you want the list?

Earn $25 per blog post.

Had you visited this blog in he last two days and had you been alert enough to have looked at the ads by Google, you would have noticed one ad with the title, "We buy article posts".

Personal Money Store is what it is-a money store where one can apply for personal loan and gets it in two hours. They disburse payday loans and also offer their credit repair services.

But they are also inviting articles from freelance writers. They are paying an average of $25 per article which equals about $.05 cents per word (excluding words such as: a, and, I, it, has, had, etc).

What they are looking for is technical writing as well as common sense writing and also humorous articles. The are article should have 525 words. They have mentioned a bunch of rules about the article they are expecting. Quite scary!

Please submit all articles through email.

Bringing more traffic to your blog - December 5, 2008 - 9th Ed.

Welcome to the 9th, December 5, 2008 edition of "Bringing more traffic to your blog" Blog Carnival. Some statistics: Submitted Articles - 92. Published Articles - 41. I want to thank all the authors contributing to the issue. Some articles were excluded from the review, since their topic of discussion did not match the main target of the carnival. I am sorry, that not all submissions were accepted, as some of the excluded articles carried a significant value.

Alex_Sysoef presents Allow Google Tell You What Search Results To Dominate posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, "In this post I want to share a very simple tip that will help you not only determine what to write about but also show you how to allow Google to tell you what search result pages they WANT YOU to dominate! It is not a lesson in SEO, although it partially covers the point, but a strategy to help you get more targeted traffic to your blog. And if you are like me - you wouldn’t mind to get a few more visitors to your blog, would you?"

Dwight presents When will my website get ranked? posted at TM Blog, saying, "Detroit Michigan Digital Advertising Agency talks about SEO, Website Design, Development and Online Marketing for consumers. Great Tips for getting better rankings."

Brian Terry presents 4 Great Ways to Explode Your Article Marketing posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, "The idea of building your online business via article marketing has been around for ages. Even before the Internet it was used by publishers to get free content from contributors in exchange of free advertising."

Andy presents Tip On Writing A Feature Article - For Online Success! posted at Personal Plug, saying, "The No.1 challenge of all marketers is getting targeted traffic and targeted paid traffic is rarely cheap. You all know that Adwords costs are skyrocketing these days just like oil prices and it is getting harder to make money using PPC."

Greg Nemer presents Free and Low Cost Web Pages, Blogs, FTP’s and Html Editors posted at INTERNET MARKETING WITH PURPOSE, saying, "Some of the very best free and low cost tools for building web pages and blogs, editing HTML, and even a few FTP programs to upload your web pages and files"

Wayne John presents 10 Cool Create an Avatar Web Sites posted at Wayne John, saying, "What web site are these people visiting to create these cartoon styled avatars? I found a mess of them, and tried each one out. If you are looking for a new look on the web, this is a great starting point."

Andy presents Top 5 Tips On Designing An Seo Friendly Website posted at Personal Plug, saying, "Getting high rankings in major search engines is essential for maximizing your visibility online and growing traffic to your small business website. More and more small businesses are realizing that the best way to reach prospective customers is through search engines like Google."

Matthew Paulson presents The Importance of Frequent Website Updates posted at American Entrepreneurship.

DebbieDragon presents Baby Stepping Your Way into Social Networking posted at Empowering Mom.

Brian Terry presents Traffic vs. Sales Conversions - Which Is Better? posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, "This is a question I get time and time again, “how do I generate more traffic to my website?”. The problem is and it’s what most people miss out on is it’s not just about the traffic."

Peter Jones presents Bauu Institute: Successfully Building Links via Forums, Blogs, and Social Networks for Book Marketing posted at Bauu Institute and Press, saying, "How to build links to your blog or website to increase it’s traffic."

Jessica presents 10 Top Notch Link Building Tactics for Real Estate Websites posted at Real Estate License Information; Real Estate License Training.

Buildify presents Are You Using Social Networking Enough for Your Corporate Blog? posted at Buildify.

Kiltak presents How to write posts that people will actually read posted at [Geeks Are Sexy] Technology News.

Alex_Sysoef presents Blog Carnivals As Source Of One Way Links posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, "Blog carnivals is perhaps one of the most underused methods and yet - one of the very effective ways to Build One Way Links for FREE. I don’t know about you but incoming link is an incoming link and taking a few minutes to do some simple submissions in my book is VERY EFFECTIVE way to build your blog authority."

cfgoulart presents Blog Promotion and Free Website Content posted at Making Money Resources, saying, "Free content for your blog, help increase traffic to your blog with more content, very interesting."

swollenpickles presents Why I’ve lost faith in Google posted at Swollen Pickles.

Peter Jones presents Bauu Institute: Resources for website page rank building posted at Bauu Institute and Press, saying, "How to bring more traffic to your blog via directories, article marketing, and forums."

Erika Collin presents 100 Fun & Useful Search Engines for Writers posted at LearningXL.

HowToMakeMyBlog.com presents Get Traffic By Building Your Blog Awareness posted at HowToMakeMyBlog.com, saying, "Brand awareness is a marketing concept that refers to a consumer knowing of a brand’s existence. We can translate this into blog traffic building and call it blog awareness."

gazzali presents How To Rank High In Google posted at PROenrichment.

Abel Christianson presents Add Url To Search Engines posted at Adsense Templates Blog.

Brian Terry presents 5 Red Hot Tips To Effective Forum Marketing posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, "You’re NOT allowed to advertise or market directly through your forum posts, this is seen as spamming the forums. It’s a “surefire” way to get banned from ever posting to them again. Here’s the secret to highly effective forum marketing…"

Peter Lee presents Squidoo Secrets Revealed: Drive Unstoppable Traffic To Your Home Business | Work From Home Business Blog posted at Work From Home Business Blog.

Ian Richardson presents 5 Ways to Make Your Website Sticky posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, "This is an excellent article on 5 effective ways to make your website sticky."

Greg Nemer presents Time Saving Tools and Strategies For Twitter posted at INTERNET MARKETING WITH PURPOSE, saying, "Time Saving Tools and Strategies for Getting More Web Traffic To Your Blog Using Twitter"

Wayne John presents One Simple Method to Keep Visitors on Your Site posted at Wayne John, saying, "One method I use to help keep visitors on my site is by creating my hyperlinks so they open a new window when they are clicked."

Amanda Dry presents Getting Backlinks To Your Webpage | Ashley’s Picks posted at Ashley’s Picks, saying, "Get more traffic by creating backlinks."

Welly Mulia presents 4 Ways To Promote An Affiliate Product And The Most Effective One Is… | Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

DebbieDragon presents Get More Traffic to Your Blog posted at Empowering Mom.

Anthony McCune presents Thinking Of Starting A Business? The Top 10 Tips posted at The Lives and Times... of Anthony McCune.

The Investor presents Why blogging for money will not make you rich posted at Monevator.com, saying, "Why do people blog for slave-labour wages? While some bloggers make a lot of money online, most people it’s a somewhat unrealistic dream."

Alex_Sysoef presents Why “More” Is Better? posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, "An inspiration for this post was recent conversation with one of my friends, who is brilliant internet marketer but blogging, using WordPress as platform of choice, is rather recent for him. It made me realize that what many of us bloggers accept as common knowledge might have the learning curve for him and many others. In this post I want to describe - Why “MORE” tag is a must have on blog and how to implement it. And as always - this post is based on my personal opinion and something that I use and has proven beneficial to me."

Fiona Veitch Smith presents Dofollow Search Tool is online posted at Hippo Web Solutions, saying, "Use the Dofollow Search Tool to identify blogs that reward commenters with search-engine-friendly links that you can use to boost your own PageRank - and by doing so attract more organic search traffic."

Kano presents Free Keyword Research Tools - Wordtracker GTrends posted at Online Money Making Guide, saying, "Keyword research is one of the linchpins of your efforts to make money online. The Wordtracker GTrends free keyword research tool is a great way to plan your next online endeavor or maybe just tune up your current one. This article looks at what the Wordtracker GTrends keyword research tool is and how you can use it."

Peter Jones presents Bauu Institute and Press: Check Your Competition’s Traffic. posted at Bauu Institute and Press.

Kara-Leah presents Why writing a communications strategy matters - even for a yoga website posted at Prana Flow NZ, saying, "A website is a way to communicate, and if you’re running your own website you could benefit massively from writing a communications strategy for your site. Simply a plan of attack that articulates your key messages, audience and how you’re going to reach them, a strategy is something that anyone can write. Join communications professional K-L Grant of Prana Flow NZ as she leads by example and puts together a communications strategy for her yoga website."

Naren Ghimire presents How to Write a Great Article and Drive Huge Traffic to Your Website or Blog? posted at Spiritual Pub, saying, "Writing is a powerful medium that allows you to connect with people and the world. Not only does it let you pour out your inner feelings and emotions, but also it helps you discover your true self. If your article is great, then it will motivate others in their personal, social and spiritual growth, and can also light a match of inner revolution in their lives. This article discusses seven sutras that will help you create an article that truly resonates, strikes a chord in millions of readers, and helps you drive a huge traffic to your website or blog."

Wayne John presents Modifying Your Blogger Header The Blogger Way posted at Wayne John, saying, "A common thing you’ll find when you start blogging is that you’ll want to make changes to your template. If you use the Blogger blog system, it can be easy or extremely difficult depending upon what you want to do. This post will show you where to go to modify your header as well as some advice as to how to approach the issue of modifying your header image if you choose to do things yourself."

Kathleen Gaga presents Teleseminars - One of the Best Ways to Build Your Business and Your Revenues posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, "Holding live workshops and seminars are a good way to build a business. However due to current economic trends, the traditional methods of holding and conducting workshops make it very difficult to execute and get participation. In addition, the costs involved in getting a venue, audio visual aids and providing refreshments for the participants make it quite expensive and there are many factors that could prevent the event from being successful and profitable. Learn why teleseminars are one of the best ways to build your business."

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Dynamic Tree DTree for Blogger Blog

In course of my experiments to bring normally dynamic content in the Blogger blog to the appearance and functionality of the static Websites, I was trying to implement the Blogger hack, allowing displaying the blog Table of Content in the Windows Explorer similar interface. While there are multiple scripts available online for this modification, I had to try several of them before I actually found one, which worked right away with relative simplicity. It is my pleasure to offer it to you. All credit for this excellent script is to the author of The Blogger Guide. I will repost the article without modification in respect to the script developer.

A tree control (i.e. the GUI element found in the left pane of Windows Explorer) provides a useful way of organizing a set of hierarchical items. This article will present a method to incorporate such a tree control in to Blogger blogs.

Before we proceed, let’s take a look at how our final tree will look like.

Content Tree on Blogger Blog

Now let’s see how to include a tree like the above in your blog.

Step 1
First step is to include two resources, a JavaScript file and a CSS file, in to the Blogger template. Copy the following two lines of code and insert them in to the head section of your template.

<link href=’http://thebloggerguide.googlepages.com/dtree.css’ rel=’StyleSheet’ type=’text/css’/>
<script src=’http://thebloggerguide.googlepages.com/dtree.js’ type=’text/javascript’/>

You can copy it immediately under the <head> tag as shown in the figure below. (These two resources are hosted on the Blogger Guide companion site. Don’t worry, there is no tracking code or any thing of that sort there. It’s used purely for hosting files referred to from these articles)

Content Tree on Blogger Blog

Save your template and exit Edit HTML mode.

Step 2
Next step is to write the code necessary to create the tree. I will first present a sample code and then explain it.

<div class="dtree">

<p><a href="javascript: d.openAll();">open all</a> | <a href="javascript: d.closeAll();">close all</a></p>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--

d = new dTree(’d’);

d.add(0,-1,’Favorite Articles’);
d.add(1,0,’3 Columns’);
d.add(2,1,’3 Columns Explained’,’http://bguide.blogspot.com/2008/02/three-column-templates-explained.html’);
d.add(3,1,’Skeleton of a Template’,’http://...’);
d.add(4,1,’Adding a Third Column’,’http://...’);
d.add(5,1,’Layout Wire Frame Editor’,’http://...’);
d.add(6,1,’3 Columns with LR Sidebars’,’http://...’);
d.add(7,0,’Blog Traffic’);
d.add(8,7,’How to Monitor Visitors’,’http://...’);
d.add(9,7,’Feedjit’,’http://...’);
d.add(10,7,’Exclude Your Traffic from GA’,’http://...’);
d.add(11,0,’Customizations’);
d.add(12,11,’Add a Custom CSS class’,’http://...’);
d.add(13,11,’Related Posts Table’,’http://...’);
d.add(14,11,’Limit Widgets to Specific Pages’,’http://...’);
d.add(15,1,’3 Column Step by Step Guides’,’http://...’);

document.write(d);

//-->
</script>
</div>

The first line defines a generic div element and applies the class dtree in to that. This CSS class is defined in the dtree.css file which we included in Step 1 above. Next line inserts two buttons (in fact, links) to Expand and Collapse all the nodes in the tree. Thirdly, you find a Javascript enclosed within a <script> element. The first line in the script, d = new dTree(’d’), creates a new tree object to which we can insert nodes. The following lines which start with d.add(...) are the statements that insert all the nodes in to the tree. Then the last line of the script, document.write(d), renders the created tree on to the browser.

The add() function of the dTree takes in several parameters. The first 3 parameters are required (i.e. you must provide values for them) and the other parameters are optional. The above example uses the following 4 parameters.

• Node ID - A unique numerical ID number. Assign a sequentially increasing number to each new node.
• Parent Node ID - If you want to create a child node, then the ID of the parent node should be given here. This will be ’-1’ for the root node. (See the first d.add(...) line in the example)
• Node Name - A textual description for the node
• Node URL - If you want the node to link to some resource (e.g. an HTML page or some online image), provide the URL of the that resource as the 4th parameter.

For a full description of the add() function see here. You don’t have to provide consecutive (or adjacent) IDs for all the child nodes at a given level. For example, node 15 of the above snippet is attached as a child of node 1 called ’3 Columns’. You can have the nodes anywhere as long as you maintain the uniqueness of the node IDs and provide the correct parent node IDs. Step 3 Once you finish adding the nodes, copy the entire code starting from the <div class="dtree"> to the corresponding </div>. Then insert the entire code using an ’Add HTML/Javascript Element’ widget of the ’Add Page Element’ option. Place the widget where you want the tree to appear. Save the template and view your blog. You will have the tree sitting nicely in your blog! One limitation is the fact that node names do not wrap at the edges. So you have to give names that fit withing the width of the containing sidebar (or whatever location). Let me know what you think of it and also if you come across any problems when installing it.

Acknowledgment: I have used the free tree control offered by Geir Landrц at Destroydrop. The original files have been slightly modified to make them available online, to be used inside Blogger.

Note: You are free to use the resources used in Step 1. But if you do use, please link to this article from your blog.

If you want to see the practical implementation of this script, you can visit my new blog Data Recovery Techniques.

George Foreman is concerned about your health.

--G5 grill from George Foreman--

After prolonged procrastination, I decided to attend one day cooking class. Don't laugh at me please because, "Mom, do you need to learn at this age" question you may entertain.

The story goes like this: My husband suddenly picked up a liking for grilled food after he tasted a grilled vegetable sandwich.

Now he wants me to learn to use a sophisticated grill so that he can order (how dare) me to make him a grilled dish daily.

To pacify me, he bought a sleek looking G5 grill from George Foreman who has sold almost 100 million grills so far. He even managed to buy a recipe book full of grilled food.

For healthy grilling, he gathered a few ingredients too, claiming that he researched for them. I am sure he got them from the recipe book he bought.

Why males are still chauvinistic?

In-text advertising pays.

After much procrastination, I signed up with Kontera and I have already inserted their ad code on this blog. You may see their in-text ads in some of the posts in this blog.

Kontera has been in this field for long. They now offer in-text advertising and publishers can benefit from this financially.

Kontera’s ContentLink In-Text Website Advertising lets you monetize your content in real-time, resulting in an increased revenue. These in-text ads always point to us whether our content has really proper keywords to the topic we have written on.

The above point is important and may force us to re-read our blog post and modify if necessary. I was given to understand that Kontera provides more control and better usability than some of the other networks that offer inline text ads.

Any insight?