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Friday, June 18, 2010

Blog Entries

How to Choose Appealing Topics
for Blog Entries
When composing any blog entries you always want to
strive for making the content useful in some way to the
readers. Remember that all popular blogs got that way
due to the fact that the content was appealing to the
people who viewed it. With that said it is always wise to
keep the blog reader foremost in your mind when
composing any entries.

You need to consider what is of interest or concern to them
and how can you address this in your blog posting.

Keeping your readers interest at heart here are 5
'avenues of thought' you can explore to create a post
that will intrigue them.

Latest News

Learn to keep your eyes open for any news that is of
relevance to your site and therefore may be of interest to
readers. Whether you are reporting news or perhaps
sharing your insight on it your blog posting should focus
on presenting it in a way that will intrigue your visitors.

Instructional

Since you know what is of interest to the blog reader you
can present content that targets teaching them a talent
or skill within their field. It can simply be a shortcut you
may have discovered or perhaps even a new resource.
It can even be a reply to a question left on the site which
is all the better.

Humor

Humor is like a universal language that can be used with
almost everybody and usually is received in a positive
manner. The best thing about using humor is it does
not need to be relevant to the theme of your site.

Who out there can not benefit from a good laugh?

Product Review

Some of the most popular blogs focus primarily on giving
their readers product reviews that are relevant to their
areas of interest. Researching and critiquing products or
services helps save the readers time and also strengthens
their loyalty to your site.

The trust and loyalty you develop here can be very useful
for marketing purposes online!

Advice

Offering advice on a particular subject is a great way to
open up a discussion on your site. Some may have
additional information to contribute whereas others may
offer constructive criticism on your advice. In either
case you are getting readers to become more interactive
which is something that everybody benefits from and
enjoys. Remember that blogs are socially oriented and
that is the root of their popularity with readers.

The blog entries you compose should always target the
interest of your readers since it is their loyalty that can
create popular blogs. Although the blog reader will not
always indicate their preferences it is up to you to
consider what it is that is of interest to them. The 5
suggestions discussed above are likely areas that
readers would find appealing and directions you can
pursue when considering topics for your blog posting.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Some Tips for Bloggers

Add Google Buzz Buttons with

Share Counter to Your

Blogger Blog

in One Step.



You have Tweeter, you have Facebook an now it is time of Buzzing! And it is
from our Google. Google launched it's social networking and messaging tool
on Feb 2010. You can share links, text images, videos using Buzz. As per
Wikipedia - Buzz enables users to choose to share publicly with the world
or privately to a group of friends each time they post. And you have seen
Buzz It buttons on the most of the blogs. now let's add to your blog.


How to adjust height and width

of Blogger Header?



920 is the width of your header and 90 is the height of your header.
Just adjust these values to suit your template.

or

Go to Edit HTML and look for


Visit/Hit counter for individual

posts

of blogger blog.


Visit/Hit counter for individual posts shows how many time a post
is visited/viewed.

You can change red text to - Viewed / Visits etc.



Popular Posts or Most

Commented

Posts widget for blogger



Many of the Bloggers want to show their users list of the Most
Popular posts on their blog.Many such "Popular Posts" widgets
have been available for Wordpress blogs but there was none
available for Blogger blogs.

Recently one such widget have been devised for Blogger.It is
based on the number of comments each post gets.So,the most
commented post will be the Most Popular Post of your
Blogger Blog.



My previous Popular Posts widget was based on Yahoo Pipes and it is
not working now. But never mind. Today we have a fully
working step by step procedure for it.


So let's add this widget to your blog.


STEP 1

Go to Dashboard > Layout > Add a Gadget > HTML/JAVA Script.
Give the title "Popular posts" or "Most Commented Posts"
or anyone other you like. Now copy and paste following
code and add to Content box. That's it.

Click here to get the code.

Save it.


STEP 2

Explanation :

Add your blog URL to
home_page = "http://medimania.blogspot.com/";

numposts- how many article that count

maxshowresult - maximum no. of posts you want to show.

It was very easy!