Best Blogging Blogs I Love To Read
Here are some blogs that you can read to become a better blogger:
- Problogger.net: Authored by Darren Rowse, an Australian Blogger. Great blog for beginners and a very good inspiration for experts.
- JohnChow.com: Authored by John Chow, a very well known internet enterpreneur. Blog is good for medium and expert bloggers. Raises everyday issues related to blogging and sometimes personnel life experiences by John Chow.
- ShoeMoney.com: Another good blog authored by the Shoemoney team led by Jeremy Shoemoney who is the owner of Shoemoney Media Group.
- DoshDosh.com: This is a blog authored by Maki who is one of the fastest emerging writers in the blogosphere. And here he tells you how he did it.
- DailyBlogTips.com: Another blog that really gives daily blogging tips, everyday something new and useful. The blog is one of the top blogs in the world and is authored by Daniel Scocco.
- Enterpreneurs-Journey.com: Another Aussie Blogger, Yaro Starak, revealing his experience to the world of blogging. Blog also includes podcasts with interviews of great blogging personalities.
- EBlogtemplates.com: This is my favourite. I really can't stop myself to check out what's new in the site. Lot's of cool widgets, great guidance and beautiful( and professional) templates.
- Blog-o-Ninja: ?????????Just Joking....Only you could tell if I ever become that great. Let's see.
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
How I Added Blogger Sitemap To Google
I did not want to create a sitemap so I searched the net and found out some possible ways. Amit Aggarwal from Lanol.org says:
- First login to your Google Webmaster account and then go to Sitemaps.
- Here select any previous sitemap that you submitted( that is not working properly) and delete it.
- Then click on "Add Sitemap". Then from the scroll down menu that appears select "Add General Sitemap".
- Now you will be asked to enter the sitemap URL. So there you enter: http://xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false Note: Don't forget to enter your blog's name instead of 'xxx'
- Then press "Add Sitemap" and you are done.
But still there will be some problems and then I found another solution. This time I tried this:
.../atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
And it worked. Just click the link and you will believe me. All my posts are listed there. And it also worked as my sitemap.
So what you have to do now is:
- Remove all the non-working sitemaps from your webmaster account.
- Then add a general sitemap. The URL should be: http://xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100 Note: Replace xxx with your blog's name.
- Now you are done. Your 100 posts will be listed in google. But what about more posts? Good Question.
- When you have posts more than 100 say 110 then enter another sitemap URL. This time it should be: http://xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100
- And when you have more than 200 posts add another sitemap to previous ones. The URL being: http://xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=301&max-results=100
- And so on...(See the start-index value is changing everytime).
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Monday, June 09, 2008 |
Improved Blog List layout in Blogger
Here’s a quick summary of the features that a Blog List gives you:
* Link to blogs, web pages, and feeds from your blog’s sidebar, with an optional favicon
* For pages with RSS and Atom feeds, Blog List can show last updated time, post title, and a snippet of the latest post
* Sort links alphabetically or by last update time
* Show all links, or hide some behind a “show all” link
* Import subscriptions from Google Reader
* Blog List links are visible to search engine crawlers, so your blog’s PageRank and reputation flow to those you link to
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Sunday, June 08, 2008 |
How I Removed nofollow Attribute
One more reason that we should remove nofollow is that there is no need to put it on your blog if you have comment moderation enabled. That is if you want to stop comment spamming you can do this manually and easily.
I will tell you how to remove nofollow component. First download your template to your computer in case any error occurs.
Now, how can you remove nofollow from comments:
- Find a line similar to this one in your blog template(Don't forget to Expand Widget Template) :
<a expr:href='data:backlink.url' rel='nofollow'><data:backlink.title/></a> - In this line remove the rel='nofollow' section.
- Find a line similar to this line in your template:
<a href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'><data:comment.author/></a> - In this line also just remove rel='nofollow' section.
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 |
How I Earn Entrecard Credits and Traffic Fast
There are three ways to earn credits. First: dropping cards on other blogs, second: inviting other Entrecard users to drop cards on your blog and third: by letting ads run on your Entrecard widget. We will discuss them one by one.
Dropping Cards:
- Tysblog's Bookmark List: This is great thinking. You have to install Firefox then add the bookmark list downloaded from Tysblog and just start enjoying fast "Tabbed Entrecard Dropping". Its fast and its safe. I also use this technique and recommend this to every Entrecardian. There are almost 300 blogs in the bookmark list so you can earn 250 ECs easily within 20 to 30 minutes.
- PowerDropping: This site includes 300 fast loading blogs. However some sites are slow but I think you should give it a try. The list is revised daily. So new and blogs can be seen frequently.
- U Drop I Follow: This is growing like a revolution. There are currently around 200 blogs listed on Leedoyle.com. All you have to do is to put a badge around your Entrecard widget(EW). So whenever you drop a card on other "U Drop I Follow" blog the blogger tries the best to come to your site and drop his card. So the more cards you drop there the more drops you will recieve on your blog. Smart Thinking.
- One more thing you should preferably place the Entrecard Widget above the fold on your blog. This will certainly increase the Dropping Ratio.
- The very easy and no effort way of getting ECs is to let other Entrecardians to advertise on your widget.
- If you want you can also take part in contests being held on other blogs. Nowadays many bloggers are holding contests on their blogs giving away thousands of ECs. One of the most recent contests related to Entrecardians is that on Problogger.
- You cannot drop more than 300 cards on other blogs in one day.
- Don't ever drop cards on pages with just Entrecard Widget and nothing else.
- First read all the rules from Entrecard.
- Increase your browsing speed. Read my article on Increasing Browsing Speed.
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Friday, June 06, 2008 |
How I Increased My Browsing Speed
The first thing you can do is to move to a faster browser such as Firefox(or may be Safari). These are much faster than Internet Explorer. I personally recommend Firefox to everyone. Its the most flexible, includes tabbed browsing and speed is way more than Internet Explorer.
After installing Firefox:
- Open Firefox and in the address bar type about:config and hit enter.
- In the screen that appears right click, then click new and then integer. Then in the box that appears copy nglayout.initialpaint.delay. When another box appears set the value to 0.
- Next, In the screen you will see a Filter bar. There type in pipelining.
- Double click on network.http.pipelining to set it true.
- Double click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests In the box that appears type any number from 10 to 30. I have set it 30.
- You can also install a very good add-on, Fasterfox, to Firefox that can increase the browsing speed exponentially.
If you still want Internet Explorer then do this:
- Go to start then run and then type regedit.exe and O.K
- Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Current Version. Then click on Internet Settings.
- On the right side at the top you will see default. Double click it and type the value 10.
One more thing. Go to Start then Run and type in gpedit.msc.
In the window that opens under Computer Configuration expand Administrative Templates then Network and then click QoS Packet Scheduler.
Then on the right side double click Limit Reservable Bandwidth. Under setting select enabled and set it to 0. Then restart your computer.
Next time you start browsing internet you will see superfast speed .
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
The New Phase of Entrecard
One more announcement that Entrecard made today was that now every blogger can earn 25 EC every 3 days if he writes a post on his article every 3 days. That means whether you write 1 article or 2 or more you will get 25 ECs every 3 days. So basically Entrecard pays you for doing what you are already doing, so its great.
If a person writes for Entrecard he can now earn thousands of credits for every post he writes for Entrecard however there are some restrictions.
Not only this Entrecard is giving away 50 EC to everyone who subscribes to thir blog.
For more info go to Entrecard: The New Phase
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
36,723 Entrecard Credits Giveaway By Problogger
The concept is simple. You get so many ECs just for writing about the blog you like. I too have applied for the contest and have written about EBlogTemplates. The competition is tough since the contest is recieving such a great response so hurry before its too late to get your free share of around 12000 credits. Hurry go to Problogger.net EC Giveaway.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
7 Days to Better Looking Blog-Day 7
You must understand that your articles are most important for your blog. So these are the things you can do to make your blog posts effective.
1) Write about what you like or what you have expertise in; and don't just copy the matter from somewhere else.
2) Try to be the first to write about something in your niche.
3) Try to entertain your readers by adding something creative in your blog posts. I include images, not just everytime but wherever necessary. I also try to vary the position of the image.
4) Include videos wherever necessary. For eg: You are writing a "how to" article. So with your article you can include a video from Youtube so that your readers better understand your article.
O.K this is it for today's tutorial. If you think you need more help with Blog Designing just read my Blog Designing Tutorial.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
7 Days to Better Looking Blog-Day 6
You can create a separate blog post and include information as "about me" page and title it as "About ME" and then provide the link of about me page on the top or elsewhere. If you don't want the page to appear before other blog posts(on your homepage) you can edit the date of the "About ME" post. Similarly you can add Contact page to your site. I use Kontactr for my contact application.
If you want to display a selected amount of text from the beginning of each post as a teaser so that each post can be expanded from the main page of your site just like I have then read How To Add The Blogger “Read More” Expandable Posts Link.
Da Font offers great font styles that you can use in blog designing just like I do. And if you want great images for site you can try Flickr, Photobucket, Dreamstime and Stock Exchange.
This is it for today. To read about adding post footer, bookmarking and subscription elements go to Day 5 Tutorial.
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |






