Related Posts Widget for Blogger Blog

If you are using the standard blogger approach, your posts are structured through time related logical way. You post new publications, and they appear in the blog history widget. Only for the explicit cases, when your reader is stunned and mesmerized by the publication he came to see through the referral site or search engine, he will dig more, exploring other publications on your blog. Other than that, he will go further, in the best case, leaving a comment. How can you keep him longer? How can you present other beautiful posts, he might find interesting? In one of the previous posts Rotating Post Widget for Blogger Blog I have already presented a way to show something extra to the reader. However, while doing what it is supposed to do, the presented widget does not show the particular articles that are relevant to the blog post your reader came to see. Therefore, embedding the Relevant Articles Widget for Blogger might represent a better solution.


The relevance of the posts is based on the tags or labels, assigned to each of the posts on your blog.

The Widget can be embedded in 9 steps:
1. Go to Layout >Edit HTML in your Blogger Dashboard.

2. Back up your existing Template before making any changes! Export your template to the safe, easy identifiable location.

3. Check the "Expand Widget Templates" box.

4. Search for the </head> tag.

5. Add the following code just before the </head> tag.

<style>
#related-posts {
float : left;
width : 540px;
margin-top:20px;
margin-left : 5px;
margin-bottom:20px;
font : 11px Verdana;
margin-bottom:10px;
}
#related-posts .widget {
list-style-type : none;
margin : 5px 0 5px 0;
padding : 0;
}
#related-posts .widget h2, #related-posts h2 {
color : #940f04;
font-size : 20px;
font-weight : normal;
margin : 5px 7px 0;
padding : 0 0 5px;
}
#related-posts a {
color : #054474;
font-size : 11px;
text-decoration : none;
}
#related-posts a:hover {
color : #054474;
text-decoration : none;
}
#related-posts ul {
border : medium none;
margin : 10px;
padding : 0;
}
#related-posts ul li {
display : block;
background : url("http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm297/zozuglogger/weed-bullet.gif") no-repeat 0 0;
margin : 0;
padding-top : 0;
padding-right : 0;
padding-bottom : 1px;
padding-left : 16px;
margin-bottom : 5px;
line-height : 2em;
border-bottom:1px dotted #cccccc;
}
</style>
<script src='http://torrentmoon.com/javascripts/Related_posts_hack.js' type='text/javascript'/>

6. Now search for <p><data:post.body/></p>

7. Add the following code just beneath the code you just searched for.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div id="related-posts">
<font face='Arial' size='3'><b>Related Posts : </b></font><font color='#FFFFFF'><b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'><data:label.name/><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>,</b:if><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<script expr:src='"/feeds/posts/default/-/" + data:label.name + "?alt=json-in-script&callback=related_results_labels&max-results=5"' type='text/javascript'/></b:if></b:loop> </font>
<script type='text/javascript'> removeRelatedDuplicates(); printRelatedLabels();
</script>
</div></b:if>

8. The default number of the posts is 5 in the code, but at this step you can modify it as per your needs, changing the number in the following line: max-results=5

9. Now Save your Template and you're done!

The credit for the gadget development goes to the Widgets4Free blog.

Submit your blog to 100 search engines.

Very early in 2000, I used to submit my (so called) websites to every search engines that I came to know of. I used several submission software and visited every website that gave me free submission to hundreds of search engines and thousands of free classifieds and FFA sites.

I was really into big league in Internet Marketing and web advertising. At least I thought so of myself.

Man, what a great and interesting experience! I learnt of so many web advertising methods; I learnt and was comfortable with every other kin of submission software.

I entered in a big way in email marketing. I bought leads. Bought email marketing software.

The end result?
Except my advanced internet marketing knowledge, nothing went up. Oh yes, I forgot! My email inbox kept overflowing with confirmations and asking for submission confirmation from all the places that the software submitted my websites.

Well, if you want to all of my experience, here is a way to get them.
Visit SEOscores and enter URL of your website/blog and your email address.
There, you can select several or all the search engines in which you want to get listed.
Repeat the whole proces every month.

A few samples of Search Engines:
InfoTiger.com
Rediff.com
ScrubTheWeb.com
EntireWeb.com
SearchIt.com
SusySearch.com
Abacho.co.uk
SearchUK.com
AxxaSearch
Al-Bawaba(Arabic)

Share your feedback here for the benefit of other bloggers. Be a guide.

Are you aware of this?

Elevated toilet seats that are advertised as handicapped toilet by the new generation home developers quickly got the nod of the contemporary architects.

A few years ago, the same concept was ridiculed by the real estate developers.

Now, every hotel, motel and hospital is announcing that they now are handicapped friendly.

Do you know who the largest seller of raised toilet attachments is? It is none other than the famous allegromedical.com that is known for dealing with thousands of life enhancing products that include exercise & fitness equipment, nutritional dietary supplements, maternity/baby supplies and outdoor gear.

Even highway gas stations are advertising ultra modern rest room facilities with special toilets for handicapped people.

This was one area that cried for attention and I am glad that there is an awakening among people. I would say Allegro Medical is a pioneer in promoting handicapped toilet.

Earn by writing for Bukisa.

Bukisa encourages writers to register with them and continue their writing and at the same time pay them for their work.

What can you do in Bukisa?
You can publish articles, share slides, submit videos & audio and what not?

The payment-how much?
Not much but if you are writer of great content and if you build up a loyal readership base, then you can make some decent sum.

The rate of pay?
It is now $3.42 per thousand impressions.

What else?
Sure, you can happily participate in their community, find new friends, rate their content and leave your comments.

Advantage:
You can republish your own articles that you have published elsewhere.

Disadvantage:
The article you submit to them should contain 250 words minimum. This put me away. I don't understand this minimum words requirement.

Fast Blog Ranking Search with SERP Finder

SERPs Finder is a free SEO (Search Engine Optimization) utility that allows you to find rankings of your pages in all major search engines. SERPs Finder can easily check search engine position of your site for a given query in Google, Live Search, and Yahoo! Search.

Despite it’s simplicity it is one of the most powerful tools of its kind, unlike many others it searches for position deeply, analyzing first 1000* of search engine results. It is also incredibly fast, the only practical limit is the speed of your network connection.

*Note: Authors got some complaints from the users who got their access to Google temporarily blocked after excessive use of this product, so the depth of the search was reduced to the first 100 results instead of 1000. It is possible to rewrite the program to search the first 100 results trough only one Google query (currently there are 10 queries).


The utility is light, fast, and portable. You can run it from your USB disk with no installation on the Hard Drive needed.


Website: http://www.4neurons.com/other/SERPs%20Finder/


Download: http://www.4neurons.com/click/click.php?id=20


Screenshots:

The software is so simple, that its operation can be presented in two screenshots.

Step 1

SERP Finder

Step 2

SERP Finder

To save earth, stay thin.

I have a soft corner for fat people. My heart reaches out for them. It is not by choice that they are fat! I agree it is not applicable to all the obese people but still…

Ok, here is some motivation for them to get thin:
Reuter quoted two British scientists”: “Each fat person emits one ton of carbon dioxide more every year than by a thin person. This will add up to an extra one billion tones of carbon dioxide a year in a population of one billion overweight people. The EU estimates each citizen accounts for 11 tones of greenhouse gas emissions a year.

A considerable quantity indeed. The earth is concerned and so should we and the obese persons more so.

No? Not enough to reach out for the best appetite suppressant for some obese people? Ok, how about this for an explanation?

“Moving about in a heavy body is like driving around in a gas guzzler.”

That should do! I believe so.

Free resources for beautiful WP themes.

I want to tell you about three great places where you can browse through hundreds of wordpress themes.

Please don’t ignore it. I know you have come across resources for WP themes. But how many times you have noted them down and helped bloggers by writing about your find through your blog?

After all, isn’t that our job as a blogger? Whenever, you learn a new resource, please put it in your blog. It is your duty. You will be very happy to note that it helps thousands of bloggers who are searching for blogging resources.

Here are three places one can browse and select WP themes.

* http://www.wpthemesfree.com/

Here are excellent themes with great color combinations and appropriate headers.

* http://themes.performancing.com/

This is too good a resource to bypass. Themes-in hundreds literally are neatly classified under various names and topics.

* http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

Find very many popular WP themes that are downloaded thousands of times.