Asad Abbas Malik: Blogging tools

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Easy-to-use Blogging Tools & Options; Windows 8 Training Brochure


		Glipho makes blogging social Jun 12, 2013 9:11 AM If you took a dash of WordPress, added a sprinkle of Twitter and a tablespoon of Facebook, you just might end up with Glipho--or, at least, what Glipho hopes to become. Billed as "the social publishing engine," Glipho is a cloud-based service that aims to build a social community of writers and help those writers increase their visibility. Note: The "Download Now" button above and below the full review and on the Product Information page takes you to the vendor's site, where you can use the latest version of this Web-based software. »Keep reading the review and try it now »Check the product specs or try it now

		Learn Windows 8 basics with Microsoft's 'training brochure' May 29, 2013 6:25 AM Windows 8 is here to stay, and whatever tweaks Microsoft makes in its upcoming Windows Blue release, many users find the new interface difficult to master. There is a manual of sorts, though how anyone would ever find it is beyond me. It's called the Windows 8 End User Training Brochure. It's a very handy little resource, a 36-page introduction to Windows 8's interface and operation. Note: Clicking on the "Windows 8 End User Training Brochure" linked text in the article will take you to the Microsoft page where you can download it. »Keep reading the article

Saturday, December 29, 2012

How to Change Blog's Mouse Cursor with CSS?

Google Image!

This is a very small tip for those who want to change their website or blog's mouse cursor. I came across many websites and blogs who have changed their cursors either to different styles or to images. So simply they useCSS property to change the mouse cursor. It is easier to change the cursor for the entire website or for a part of the website. So here in this tutorial I'm going to teach you about this.

As you know CSS is the most beautiful web language to style websites and any kind of webpage. And CSS3 new properties has changed the entire concept of web designing. Now you'll no more need of using jQuery and Flash for your websites, because CSS3 does the job for you.

Make Money with PPC Ads in 2013 [Urdu Video Tutorials

The phrase making money online is not rare now, and is no longer a mystery. This phrase is among the words which are searched the most now a days. A rapid growth has been seen in the new users of internet for the sake of money, now hundreds of people join the internet not only for connecting with people but also formaking some money online. The United States and other western countries' users had already have the concept of making money online since the starting of this century; but in countries like Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria etc, it got popular among all just few years back. Now every second internet user tries to find the real ways of making money and also wants to become an entrepreneur. So keeping this in mind, we started a series of video tutorials about earning with internet and thus, we are coming up with PPC ads networks' tutorial which is considered the best and the easiest way to earn money online on the internet.

Today, we're going to learn about PPC ad networks and my tutorial will be containing two video tutorials in Urdu language and also I'll give you information as much as possible through this article. As you know YouTube is blocked in Pakistan, so I've started uploading my video tutorials to another website [tune.pk]. So you everyone will be able to watch today's tutorials in Urdu.

Google Explains How to Write a Proper Reconsideration Request

Your blog can really make your life a complicated one if it gets into the bad lists of Google. Throughout my career as a blogger, I have come across many newbies who are often way too worried for their blog ratings. It has also been seen that sometimes a blog with a considerable rankings and readership goes under a sudden change, bringing disaster that keeps on increasing. It is important to understand the significance of a consistentgood progress when it comes to an online earning business because, that is where you have no boss to appeal and no actual help to get the things fixed up for you. However, Google seems merciful enough to let the suffering bloggers a chance to help their blogs and offers a reconsideration request form that the bloggers have to fill and submit to the Google Team.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Why Your Blog is not Earning Money? Possible Reasons Explained!

Most of bloggers on the internet do blogging to earn some money and support their families. I read on several forums people asking for help on how toincrease earning and why their blog is not making money. So I thought to give some tips to my fellow bloggers. I will discuss in detail why your blog is not earning and what remedies should you take to increase the earnings.

8 reasons you can consider when your blog is not making good money. You can write these 8 reasons in a notepad file or somewhere in a notebook etc to remember that you have to work on these points in the future to increase your earning with your blog. The number of reasons I can assume are below:

#1. More Earning needs more traffic:

Blog traffic is defined as the visitors received by a blog. So the first thing you may be lacking is that your blog has not good number of visitors and that is the reason you are not making money.so, if your blog is having low traffic. This is the first reason why you are not earning from your blog.

#2. Low Click through Rate

If you are Adsense or other ad network publisher you would certainly know that CTR stands for click through rate i.e percentage of people clicking the ads. So the second reason why a blog doesn't earn can be a low CTR(no or low clicks on ads).you will earn more when you have good ad CTR.

#3. Low Cost per Click

If your blog traffic is good and you are having a good CTR, and you are still scratching your head why you are not making money. Then, I guess your blog has a very low cost per click. That is you are earning very low for each ad clicked.

#4. How to increase blog earning

We have discussed the probable reasons why a blog does not make money. But it will not be okay if we stop here. Because we have just found the problems and without looking for solution we won’t succeed. So now I will give you some tips how you can make more money from blog.

#5. Use minimum ads

Many of newbie’s are curious to earn quickly and for that reason once they get adsense approval they straight away place ads all around, and they think they will earn more by doing this.

But No! the cost per click also depends on the number of ads appearing on the blog. If you place two ads on home page you will witness different CPC compare to five or six ads on home page. The ads appearing above the folds carries the highest CPC. So never place so many ads on you blog as it will affect your earnings.

#6. Ad placement matters

Ad placements are the positions/places where you place your ads. It also affects your earnings. Always use ads in prominent places so that it catches visitor eye. And whenever possible place text ads near to your content and image ads in header and sidebars.

#7. Use keywords which pay more

If you have used adword keyword tool. You would have certainly noticed that when you search a keyword there is a little column of average CPC.The average CPC is the maximum amount of money an advertiser is willing to pay for a keyword. So use those keywords which have higher search volume, low competition and high cpc.

#8. Your blog niche?

Well, the blog niches also affect earnings. Usually Entertainment blogs have low earning potential compare to insurance, blogging, making money blogs. So always create a blog in a niche which pays higher.

Buddies, this is my first guest post in my blogging career.I have tried my level best to make things crystal clear. Hope you appreciate my efforts. I am thankful to the blog owner Wali khan for giving me the honor to write for an esteem blog.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Reposition Navigation Buttons in Blogger!

The navigation buttons or links that are displayed at the bottom of each comment section in BlogSpot blogs enable visitors to switch between new and old posts or move from one post page to another ordered by date and time. These buttons become less of use when number of comments increase too much. Normally readers do not even observe the navigation deep down and this results in loss of precious pageviews. I have always emphasized that value pageviews more than unique visitors because it is indeed pageviews that turns into revenue generating page impressions both for AdSense or any other Ad Network. You might have seen the More, Next and Previous button showing inside the top black sticky bar on MBT homepage and post pages. It is really not possible to shift a Post data item to any other widget section in blogger. Doing such results in "Data variable not found in dictionary" error or similar.

We played a work around and used Cascading stylesheet Position properties to allocate fixed positions to these buttons anywhere on the page. This is again a unique addition to Blogger Customization and being implemented for the first time. The tutorial today will not only help you change the position of navigation links but will also teach you to install a custom sticky bar just like the one we are using on our blog. We are pretty sure you will find today's tutorial really easy yet delicious!

PS: Tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE9 & Safari.

STEP1: Adding the sticky bar

First comes first. I have already shared a detailed tutorial on adding a stickybar to blogger. Please first install a stickybar on your blogs and then try step#2 of today's tutorial.

Read: Create a StickyBar!

Note: The style that I am using on MBT is different from that of the tutorial so if you want a similar color theme then simply copy the stylesheet from MBT source file or let me know to help you.

STEP2:

Now comes the interesting part. What we will do here is simply shifting your current Newer, Older & Home buttons to the top left of the stickybar and replace them with more fancy buttons like the one we are using. Follow these steps:

Go To Blogger > Template
Backup your template
Click Edit HTML and then check "Expand Widget Templates"
Search for the following CSS classes and delete them all: You will find three such classes or more starting with either #blog-pager or .blog-pager

#blog-pager {
------
}

#blog-pager-newer-link {
----

---

--
}

#blog-pager-older-link {
-----

---

--
}

5. Now after you have deleted them, add the following code in their place:

#blog-pager {
text-align:center;
}
#blog-pager-newer-link {
position:fixed;
z-index:9999;
margin-left:-320px;
top:0px;
margin-top:5px;
}

#blog-pager-older-link {
position:fixed;
z-index:9999;
margin-left:-290px;
top:0px;
margin-top:5px;
}

#blog-pager-more-link {
position:fixed;
z-index:9999;
margin-left:-20px;
top:0px;
margin-top:5px;
}

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
#blog-pager-newer-link {
position:fixed;
z-index:9999;
margin-left:-627px;
top:0px;
}

#blog-pager-older-link {
position:fixed;
z-index:9999;
margin-left:-597px;
top:0px;
}
}

What we did in step4 and step5 was simply replacing your old code with the new one.

6. Next search for the following chunk of code:

Note: You are only concerned with finding the two highlighted codes. The code inside them may look different for your template so just finding these two highlighted tags and then follow step7.

<b:includable id='nextprev'>
<div class='blog-pager' id='blog-pager'>
    <b:if cond='data:newerPageUrl'>
      <span id='blog-pager-newer-link'>
      <a class='blog-pager-newer-link' expr:href='data:newerPageUrl' expr:id='data:widget.instanceId + "_blog-pager-newer-link"' title='Previous'>« Prev</a>
      </span>
    </b:if>

    <b:if cond='data:olderPageUrl'>
      <span id='blog-pager-older-link'>
      <a class='blog-pager-older-link' expr:href='data:olderPageUrl' expr:id='data:widget.instanceId + "_blog-pager-older-link"' title='Next'>Next »</a>
      </span>
    </b:if>
<span id='home-link'>
    <a class='home-link' expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'><data:homeMsg/></a>
</span>
    <b:if cond='data:mobileLinkUrl'>
      <div class='blog-mobile-link'>
        <a expr:href='data:mobileLinkUrl'><data:mobileLinkMsg/></a>
      </div>
    </b:if>
</div>
<div class='clear'/>
</b:includable>

7. Replace the code inside them with the following code as shown below:

<b:includable id='nextprev'>

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
   <b:if cond='data:olderPageUrl'>
      <span id='blog-pager-more-link'>
      <a class='blog-pager-more-link' expr:href='data:olderPageUrl' expr:id='data:widget.instanceId + "_blog-pager-older-link"'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjADQmW8JV6H_vKjPHcSvU1p1iWh2q9jN4Gva1hLYZ-jrdWoddH14fyyiksgbobypkTAWHdLBjb3JxuQU1rN6n9kbZ8r2j3PUBJFaz_YMNf3p9GrJg19lWcuMsAA8gmhekiWFK5kPfFvUov/s400/more.png'/></a>
      </span>
      </b:if>
</b:if>

<b:if cond='data:blog.url != data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<div class='blog-pager' id='blog-pager'>
    <b:if cond='data:newerPageUrl'>
      <span id='blog-pager-newer-link'>
      <a class='blog-pager-newer-link' expr:href='data:newerPageUrl' expr:id='data:widget.instanceId + "_blog-pager-newer-link"'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_qa93au7qR1u3iBONng65wqFNUR1hLl5jQgQm7aQNmI-QNdmwkVjgvtjOjKIoGrZDZxiNcnPTzI6b7wc19BiXMcRezTfj-5Hqi0_mF3j6Rs4dBnTkLJ5yKRgGXQ4axqKKelxmG_EJlZUz/s400/Previous.png'/></a>
      </span>
    </b:if>

    <b:if cond='data:olderPageUrl'>
      <span id='blog-pager-older-link'>
      <a class='blog-pager-older-link' expr:href='data:olderPageUrl' expr:id='data:widget.instanceId + "_blog-pager-older-link"'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEganfiV3BBNw3lf_IE6tg27GXCJCqk2xYOXqgForNGUxF-HfeMJzn5S7GRTkfkc7JkaHiRd0iLkTE42BR7jjYtX38-R7aegxAsNeKRqFnYCOvXSEo_yv_PhkZe1YxzVy7GFRBc_berW58Ks/s400/Next.png'/></a>
      </span>
      <b:else/>

    </b:if>

</div>
<div class='clear'/> </b:if>

</b:includable>

It was that easy!

8. All done! Visit your Blog to see it functioning just fine. :)

How it works?

Previous will display newer posts

Next will display Older posts

More will display on homepage alone.

Button More is responsible for displaying the next set of previously published posts. It will show a bunch of posts depending on the number of posts you allowed to be displayed on homepage.
The other two buttons will help the visitor to navigate between next and previous page. If the visitor is on your newly published post then the Previousbutton will not show up and Next will show alone.

Everything is operated using conditional statements provided by XHTML 1.0.

If you are looking for read more buttons then do check our Icons and buttons categorythat has been downloaded over thousands of times and found on almost every Blogger blog today: Download from here

Questions?

I have one last paper on 29th Nov after which I will be free for one month to help you all with every query you may have. The blog is being maintained by co-authors because I am not currently available. I am writing posts as soon as I get some spare time. You are most welcomed to ask any question you may have related to this post. Off-topic questions should kindly be avoided. I just hope you find this new addition useful to your overall Pageviews. Wish you more power buddies. Peace and blessings.

Asad Abbas Malik