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Adding Favicon Icon To Blogger Url

March 30, 2009 Tutorial Blog 5 Comments

Have you wondered how these little icons appear next to the web addresses, like the one you see above? When you visit the sites or bookmark them, these icons will make these URLs stand out. These are “Favicons” or “Favorite Icons”.

You would first need to have an icon which you would like to use, bearing the extension .ico format. If you search your hard disk, you might find some icons which are generic. I would suggest that you create one to represent your own unique identity. There are quite a number of free icon editor software which you can download from the net.

As for myself, I went to Download.com site and downloaded a very small program called Imagicon which can transform images into .ico format. I created an image using Photoshop. You can use any image or pictures if you do not wish to create one. Next, run the program. It is rather simple to use. While you can create icons in 2 sizes – 16×16 and 32×32 – I would think a 16×16 icon is preferable since it is readable in most older browsers.

If you do not wish to download any software, you may also try creating an icon online. Just enter the keywords “online icon generator” into your Google search bar, and you should be able to find several programs that you can try.

Blog Comment Helping in Page Rank?

March 28, 2009 Tutorial Blog 1 Comment

There are four types of blog commenting systems used by the majority of blogs:

Blogs that use comment moderation and “rel=nofollow”. Reserved for blogs that receive a lot of traffic and want to make sure no comments are spam and no comments are left just for PageRank purposes.
Blogs that use no comment moderation and “rel=nofollow”. Reserved for blogs that will let users post whatever comments they want, but the links will not serve any PR purpose but only traffic.
Blogs that use comment moderation and links follow. Usually reserved for blogs that promote leaving comments because the links will follow, but don’t want many spam comments to plague their blog.
Blogs that use no comment moderation and links follow. These blogs have no comment moderation meaning comments will go up instantly and link follow through to your website to boost in PageRank.

The PageRank Search tool allows you to search Google using any keyword(s) you wish. It will then return, in order of Google relevance, the sites associated with those keywords. Each result displays a graphical bar with the PageRank of that particular site

Make Money with Shopzilla

March 25, 2009 Tutorial Blog No comments

Shopzilla Logo

Shopzilla is an ad network (currently in beta) that pays per click (CPC). I have been using it since last month and it has done really well on my product related site – DigitGeek.

I have tried many ad networks on DigitGeek like AdSense, Kontera, Amazon, TTZ Media, Chitika and WidgetBucks and none have done as good as Shopzilla. It has to be because Shopzilla has clickable images on their ads which gets it more clicks.

Both Chitika eMinimalls and TTZ Media used to have clickable images, but stopped it later. They even made their ads display only for some countries. I hope Shopzilla wont do this in the future as it can reduce the Click Thru Rate a lot.

As long as they don’t do it, Shopzilla will be a good alternative to programs like Chitika’s eMiniMalls, TTZ Media and WidgetBucks.

They offer different content types like ‘Top Search Results’, ‘Custom Text Links’, ‘Search Boxes’, “Banners’, ‘Product Pods’, and ‘Text links’.

Blogging History

March 19, 2009 Tutorial Blog 1 Comment

According to Wikipedia, the largest free encyclopedia, the term “weblog” was first used by John Barger in 1997. In May, 1999, Peter Merholz converted the word into a new term keeping the characters the same. He made it “we blog” instead of “weblog”. He especially pointed out the term “blog”. Shortly after that, this word was globally accepted both as a noun meaning a weblog and as a verb meaning “to post in someone’s blog”.

One of the early blog sites “Xanga” had 100 weblogs in 1997, which surprisingly turned into 50 million by the end of 2005. People started using blogs globally in 1999. Blogging started becoming popular when among others, Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan from Pyra Labs created their blog publishing tool Blogger. Using this site anyone can start blogging within minutes. The whole system was free and very attractive. Surprisingly, Google bought the whole service in 2004. Blogger is still a free blog-publishing tool, but under the banner of Google. The words “weblog”, “weblogging”, and “weblogger” were inserted into The Oxford Dictionary in March, 2003. This purely indicates the magic of the word “blog”, which is still the favorite publishing system among millions of people.

By the end of 2001, blogging had become more popular. Everyone focused on the possibilities and importance of blogs. Shortly after that people started researching on blogging. Even schools of journalism were very interested in the whole process.

There are other publishing systems like Wikis and CMSs, which also gained popularity in the meantime. CMS stands for Content Management System and these are generally used for publishing articles, news content, or general content in a website. They are especially built for maintaining every kind of website. Joomla, CivicSpace, Typo3, and DotnetNuke are popular CMS software systems.

There is also a special kind of CMS that is called a Wiki. In Wikis any user can modify contents, and all the posts are editable by general users; and usually, Wikis are devoted to a specific audience. A Wiki tracks every change made by the users so that you can find who changed the information and why. One of the most popular Wiki engines is MediaWiki. A blog is also a kind of content management system but the main purpose is to maintain the articles chronologically.