Word Counter is a tool which counts the number of words in an inputted group of text.This is a very useful tool for bloggers and webmasters to understand the length of their post.
How To Use? Simply copy-paste the text for which you want to count the number of words in the box below.Then press 'Calculate Words' button to count.
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Submitting your site to different search engines is a very important step to build up your traffic.Quality of search engines also plays a very important role in building up traffic.Technorati has an Alexa Rank of around 2000 with more than 400,000 backlinks.That is why you should submit your site to Technorati which is a searching engine for searching blogs.
Why You Should Submit Your Site To Technorati? If you are a blogger and you wish to run direct advertising on your site then you should keep reading.Advertisers look for Alexa Rank,Google PageRank,Technorati Rank,etc. to know your site popularity.So you need to have a better Technorati Rank too.
Does Site Submission To Technorati Cost? No,you may not need to pay in order to get your site listed in Technorati.
MeasureIt is a browser extension for Chrome,Firefox and Safari to measure pixels online.This is a very useful extension if you are a blogger or web developer.MeasureIt allows you to draw a ruler across the screen to measure the width and height.A translucent overlay comes across the screen while measuring to avoid clicks.
This tool will be very useful when you want to:
measure website component size without even looking at the original source code
measure header images of websites
design a responsive website
re-size your site components
before applying padding styles in CSS for your website
Buttons helps you to add links in an attractive and convenient way.It also helps the visitor to quickly find the link without reading the whole post.Moreover it gives a professional touch to your blog.Buttons can be made highly attractive with CSS which forces the user to click on it.This post will teach you how to add buttons to your blogger post.
How To Add Buttons To Blogger Post?
Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Templates > Customise > Advanced > Add CSS
Copy-Paste any of the below CSS code.
Then copy the button code and paste it in your desired location.
Switch to HTML view and replace the the button name.
Then go back to Compose mode.
Add the link to the button name text.{To make the button open the link in new tab simply check the open link in new tan option in link to option.
Videos are a great way to convey your ideas.Most bloggers use video sharing sites like youtube,metacafe to upload their videos and to embed it in their post.A video sitemap tells Google exactly where, and what the video content is on your site. It helps Googlebots recognize video content, and display it in therelevant search results page..This is the only way to get video previews on search results for your site. But creating a video sitemap can be very difficult and time consuming if you already have many videos on your site.But Complete PC Guide have found a solution for this.
Copy the xml code and paste it in a new notepad file.
Save the notepad file as videositemap.xml (Extension should be .xml)
Then upload the sitemap file to your blog directory using FTP.
Path yourdomainname.com/videositemap.xml
Go to webmaster tools and sign in.
Go to your site dashboard.
Go to Crawl section and click Sitemaps.
Add a sitemap from the top right button.
Fill the url path.
Click Submit.
If you are working to build traffic to your site then consider submitting a video sitemap.What do you think about video sitemaps?Is there any simple method than this?Tell us your thoughts in the comment sections!
Design plays a major role in improving site traffic.Many people uses blogger to create a free blog.Blogger doesn't have any premium templates like WordPress has.But you can change your blogger template to a custom template.There are many sites which provide free blogger templates.It is therefore very important to choose a perfect template for your blog.In this post you can learn how you can choose your perfect template.
7 Essential Things To Look Before Choosing a Blogger Template
Design
Having a good design is very important!You should always make sure that you choose the right template for your niche.Imagine a tech site running a sports or news site layout.Therefore always choose a good template that suits your niche rather than what looks the best.
Compatibility
In order to make sure that your site looks same on all web browsers you need to run a template that is compatible on all web browsers.All users are not using the same browsers therefore to make your site look the same for all run a template which is compatible on all web browsers.You can perform cross browser testing here.
Responsive
Now a days people use different tech gadgets like smartphones, tablets,etc. for surfing internet.Different gadgets have different screen resolutions.With a responsive template you can run the same template on different screen resolutions without tampering the template look and feel.A responsive design automatically adapts to different resolutions.
Search Engine Optimized
Templates should be optimized for search engines to improve your SEO.If the template is not optimized for search engine then you will see a significant drop in your traffic(Assuming your current template is SEO optimizes).Therefore always make sure about it before applying any changes.
Site Loading Time
Everyone hates slow websites.Slow website can increase the bounce rate of your website resulting in poor traffic.Too many scripts and CSS styles can also increase the page load time.There are different tools to check site load time.Google's Page Speed service analyzes the page load time and gives the recommendations to improve the site performance.
Trusted Source
Downloading templates from trusted sources is very important.Otherwise there is chance of having malicious scripts and codes in your templates.Templates from non trusted sources may contain low quality backlinks and redirects.In my personal experience I have once seen a huge drop in my traffic due to a redirect link in the template.Therefore always go for trusted sources.
Identify a trusted source by the number of templates,registered domains,no.of followers or feed subscribers,alexa rank,google page rank,ssl verified(https),etc..
Premium Templates
This is an optional point to consider.Premium templates will be optimized for search engine which means they won't have any malicious scripts or codes in them.They will provide a much better flexibility for you to easily edit the template.Premium templates will also make use of the latest coding languages like HTML5,CSS3,etc. and other latest services.( Create a free HTML 5 website )
Leave a comment about the tip that is most important to you when considering a good template and tell why is it so! If you have any doubts or questions please feel free to ask via the contact us page.
Everyone likes to make money.If you are an internet surfer then why not make some money online by doing part time jobs.There are different ways of making money online.One of the best and growing method is by displaying ads on your site.So if don't have a site create a free site now.The different ways of making money online are through displaying ads,affiliate marketing,offering help,text link advertising,etc.In this post I will explain these methods in more detailed so that you can decide what to choose for monetizing your blog.
Displaying Ads
This is one of the most popular method used by bloggers.There are many ad networks like Adsense,Chitika,media.net{Yahoo | Bing network},etc.These will allow you to place different ads to your site.The ad network will display the most relevant ads for your site.You earn money either for each click or for every 1000 impressions for your ad in this type of network.Getting approved with Google Adsense can be difficult with no unique content.Only apply for ad networks like this once you have a good amount of visitors per day.Otherwise you will end up optimizing your ads rather than producing unique content.You can also have direct advertising for your site with sites like buysellads.You get paid for displaying the ad for a specific duration by selling your ad space directly to advertisers.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing also means to display ads on your site.But there is a change on how you get paid.You can easily display the company's ads on your site without any site requirements.For example,consider that you are displaying ads of amazon on your site.In this case you will get paid only when a user purchases an item through the ad link.Here there is no CPC or CPM.You get a commission for each sale of the product.
Check this link to learn more about amazon affiliate.There are a lot of sites that offer affiliate marketing.Almost all online stores and web hosting companies has its affiliate program.
Text Link Advertising
These are link advertising which means keywords in your article are converted to links that redirects to the advertisers website.These type of ad networks pay either for each click on the link or a fixed amount per month.There are many of these networks such as Viglink,Skimlink,etc.You cam read more about these ad networks and how they pays here.
Get Paid To Offer Your Help Or Assistance
The first three methods explained in this post can be done only if you have a site.But this is quite different from other methods.You might not have heard about this way of making money online.You get an amount for offering your assistance.For example" I say I will edit your blog for 5$ ".When someone is interested in this deal they pay me and that is how you earn.It can be of any assistance or help.Some of the sites that allows you to do this are Fiverr,GigBucks,Zeerk,SEOClerks,etc.Check out other top sites like this here.
Have I missed something?What to add further in this post?Tell us in the comments.Out of these what you likes the most and why?Leave your valuable comments below.
YouTube is a growing platform for video shares.With its free services many people own a youtube channel.Videos are great way to learn something than by just reading.Many blogger uses youtube to share their videos on youtube and then embed the video in their post.But by default youtube has a default style for embedded player.In this post I will explain you thedifferent methods of customizing the youtube embedded player.You can also learn to add light version of the video player to decrease page load time.
How To find video ID?
The video ID can be located from the URL of the video.For example in this URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85GqVYeyn18 the video ID is 85GqVYeyn18
Different Customized Players
Style 1 : Default Player
The default player can be easily embedded into your webpage.The code for the default player is given below.
This is a light weight version of the player.This embed player doesn't have the button panel and id chromeless.This player has a thumbnail preview with a circle play button at the center.This is a quick way of loading your webpage.This code can reduce your page size by over 300kb.We highly recommend to use this.
To add an embedded player like this use the below code.
<divclass="youtube"id="Your Video ID"style="width: 320px; height: 180px;"></div>
Replace the video ID with your video ID.Change the size of small player,normal player and big player by changing the values inside resizePlayer(***, ***) with your desired width and height respectively.
Style 4 : Change The Playing Video
If you want to embed a video player that has an option to change the playing video use the code below.
<styletype="text/css"> #videoDiv{ margin-right:3px; } #videoInfo{ margin-left:3px; } </style> <scriptsrc="//www.google.com/jsapi"type="text/javascript"></script> <scripttype="text/javascript"> google.load("swfobject","2.1"); </script> <scripttype="text/javascript"> /* * Change out the video that is playing */ // Update a particular HTML element with a new value functionupdateHTML(elmId,value){ document.getElementById(elmId).innerHTML=value; } // Loads the selected video into the player. functionloadVideo(){ varselectBox=document.getElementById("videoSelection"); varvideoID=selectBox.options[selectBox.selectedIndex].value if(ytplayer){ ytplayer.loadVideoById(videoID); } } // This function is called when an error is thrown by the player functiononPlayerError(errorCode){ alert("An error occured of type:"+errorCode); } // This function is automatically called by the player once it loads functiononYouTubePlayerReady(playerId){ ytplayer=document.getElementById("ytPlayer"); ytplayer.addEventListener("onError","onPlayerError"); } // The "main method" of this sample. Called when someone clicks "Run". functionloadPlayer(){// The video to load varvideoID="ylLzyHk54Z0"// Lets Flash from another domain call JavaScript varparams={allowScriptAccess:"always"}; // The element id of the Flash embed varatts={id:"ytPlayer"}; // All of the magic handled by SWFObject (http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/) swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/"+videoID+ "?version=3&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=player1", "videoDiv","480","295","9",null,null,params,atts); } function_run(){ loadPlayer(); } google.setOnLoadCallback(_run); </script> </head> <bodystyle="font-family: Arial;border: 0 none;"> <table> <tr> <td><divid="videoDiv">Loading...</div></td> <tdvalign="top"> <divid="videoControls"><p>Select a video to load:</p> <selectid="videoSelection"onchange="loadVideo();"> <optionvalue="Video ID"selected>Video Title </option> <optionvalue=" Video ID ">Video Title </option> <optionvalue=" Video ID ">Video Title </option> </select> </div> </td></tr> </table>
Change the default video to load by replacing the video ID with your video ID in the video to load section.
To add different options change the video ID and the video title at the end of the code.The below is demonstration of the code.
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Select a video to load:
Style 5 : YouTube Player Generator With Custom Options
If you want to add a different styled player then use the Youtube Player Generator.It offers a variety of custom options.
How can we improve this post?Which player you liked the most.Tell us your opinion in comments.
