Archive for the ‘Blog Tips’ Category

Adsense Booster: How To Earn More With Adsense

Friday, July 31st, 2009

If you are an Adsense user, one thing I am sure you will always want to increase your earnings. There are many optimization techniques one should follow in order to improve Google earnings. Here are few important concepts for you to increase your earnings with Adsense by making small changes into your ads. If you are a newbie, you will definitely get benefited with these videos,
Ad Position

This is the most important aspect which is usually ignored by the users.  The ads should be placed where the users can view them. If you are going to place your ads in the footer where no one view them, its of no use. This video demonstrates how this could be possible with a real life example.
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Show Related Comments From Social Media Sites on your Blog

Friday, July 17th, 2009

wordpress-logoPlugin’s were the heart and soul for a wordpress blog to run its functionality smoothly, there were lots of plugins available, Now i would like to write about a plugin named BackType Connect to find conversations on other social media that’s related to your content and displays them inline or alongside the comments on your blog.

Features

It Displays comments from other blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, and more and displays them on your blog. You can configure exactly what sources you want to display related conversations from Summarize, display comments inline, or append them to the end of your comments section Your readers can even respond to the comments BackType Connect displays Currently, this plugin supports conversations from:

Twitter – tweets that link your posts
FriendFeed – on the entries for your posts
Digg – on the submissions for your posts
Reddit – on the submissions for your posts
Hacker News – on the submissions for your posts
Other blogs – whenever someone links one of your posts

Download BackType Connect plugin Here

8 Tools to Share Music and Songs on Twitter

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Guest post by Srikanth AD

Twitter is becoming more and more popular day-by-day and many people agree that Twitter is the one of the best social networking sites. If you are a music lover and use Twitter then you can now share music that you are listening with your friends and followers on Twitter. twitter

Here in are tools that help you to search and share music on Twitter.

Song.ly – This cool Firefox extension allows you to share the links to mp3 files and playlists with your friends on Twitter. After installation, with a single click you can tweet the short URL of songs. Just right-click on the song link to tweet it onto your Twitter account.

TwittyTunes – This is another FireFox extension that allows you to tweet the titles of the songs that you are currently playing. Using this tool you can control how many and how often you want to tweet. It even allows you to tweet URLs of the websites that you are viewing, mp3 links and video links: all links are shortened before tweeting.

Twt.fm – This is a popular music channel on the web. In Twt.fm, you can search for music by entering an artist name or track name. You can directly listen to songs from your browser and you can tweet the song URLs with a single click.

BLIP.fm – Search for a song or an artist and select a song from the search results and play it to listen and click it to tweet it. Yes, blip.fm is that simple, searching and tweeting songs URLs is very easy on this site. Whenever you tweet, it will also blip on this site, sharing on this site is called ‘bliping’.

Twisten.fm – This site allows you to search, listen and tweet. Just login using your Twitter ID and search for music. If you love the music and want to share it, just click on the update button, a shortened URL of the song is generated and tweeted onto your Twitter account. When a user clicks on the URL, he can listen to the song directly from the web browser itself.

Songza.com – Allows you to search, listen and manage your own playlists. If you come across a song and want to share it with your friends on Twitter or Facebook, then click on it and select the network on which you want to share and enter the username and password. You can also add a message to the tweet along with the shortened URL of the song that you have selected. You can also tweet link of your playlist and share multiple songs at one click.

Dora.fm – Is a popular radio station on web. Using this free web service, you can listen to songs and search for available music. This web service uses the services of ‘Bit.ly’ for URL shortening and ‘Pandora’ for music streaming. Searching, listening and tweeting using Dora.fm is really simple.

Song.ly – This is a free web service where you can search for your favorite artist or title and listen to songs. This is one of the popular web service to share songs and music on Twitter. Just type the artist or title of the songs and Song.ly will search it for you on the web and returns back the search results. Click on a song to play it and with another click you can tweet short URL of that song to your friends. When your friends click on the URL they can directly listen to the song from the web browser without downloading it.

Guest blogger Srikanth writes on Tech Inspiration blog about tips, gadgets, and technology.

How To Highlight HTML Codes in Blog Posts

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

It is always suggestible for the author to write posts in very attractive and beautiful way so that the reading ability and enthusiasm of the visitor remains live. In this post I will explain how the procedure to highlight codes( Whether it may be CSS, PHP, Java, HTML…) in different colours. There were lots of plugins for wordpress which serves the purpose but here I am choosing Syntax Highlighter Wordpress Plugin. Just Follow the simple instructions and you can play in colours with codes.

1. First download Syntax Highlighter Wordpress Plugin.

2. Now install the plugin and activate it. ( To know How to install Wordpress plugin, just check this post)

3. Now create the code you wish to post

<pre class="brush:[code-alias]"> …Your Code Here </pre>

replace the "[Code-alias]" segment with the type of code you have. You can see all the available brush alias here.

For Example a C# code will look like this:

Hello1.cs

public class Hello1

{

public static void Main()

{

System.Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");

}

}

The screenshot to see how this plugin highlight’s your codes is attached for your reference.HTML Code highlighter

Create Free Twitter Style Logo

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Have ever thought of making logo in twitter style, Then just check this website TwitLogo which generates twitter style logos for free and instantly

Features:lazytechie-twitter

Generate Twitter like logos.
Generate unlimited logos as you like (FREE…!!!!!!!!!!)
Customize logo colours and text size.
Download created logo to your computer.

This tool itself is very simple to use and easy to use.