Add Floating Vertical Share Bar for Blogger Posts with ShareThis

Sharing is caring. People love to share interesting content they find on the web as and when they find them. As a publisher, you have a responsibility to provide sharing options for users to share your content and else even if you have interesting content, sharing may not happen. I mean, some people will share but still there are people looking for sharing options to share content to multiple social networks. Else it is really time consuming activity for them. So you should consider about offering sharing options for your blog readers if you're think about convenience of your readers and getting more content shared. But you may not like to have whatever sharing option as it should be comply with your blog design and flow of your blog. Did you find a sharing tool for your blog par with your blog design?

How to Translate Your Website with Google Translate

How many people are on your blog or website right now? All the readers visit your site may have similar interests and with the intention of making use of your blog or website. Absolutely, you may try to write in your native language or if you think beyond, you will come up with an international language as your site language. But do you know how many of them comfortable with your language used in your blog or website? Some may just leave your site just because of the language. You can track your visitors by region and offer same content in different languages if you wish to. But it may need more effort and that may consume lot of time for you. However don't do it. I don't think anyone will try it too. Due to language differentiation, some people may not able to make use of your site though you have got very useful information. Wouldn't you mind offering your content in their preferred language?

How to Post Tweets on Your Facebook Profile

Are you rocking on Twitter? Twitter is a micro-blogging website where you can communicate with other tweeps and broadcast messages to followers interested in your updates. As you are on Twitter, you tend to tweet more interesting updates related to your niche to grow connections and find similar interested people. I know Twitter is not the only social network you get connected with like-minded friends and followers or share updates. Simultaneously you may wanna post updates on your Facebook profile to get more exposure or keep your Facebook friends and subscribers updated. But does it sounds great? I mean running around and posting same updates on Facebook. What if you can let it happen automatically without being worried about sparing time on Facebook?

How to Install Disqus Comment Platform on Blogger

Comment section is a place where bloggers and their readers gather around and interact with each other to strengthen their relationships. Obviously, it's the popular way of getting feedback for your content directly from your audience which then converts into further conversations. Sometimes this conversations go viral and end up leaving lengthy comment section and goes beyond the author-reader relationship. That's where your readers becomes more loyal and engage with your blog actively.

How to Set Up Who Can Comment on Your Blog in Blogger

How much do you care about comments made on your blog? Really you should appreciate reader comments and I know you always do. Whether someone comment on your blog or you gonna comment on someone else's blog, it helps to build relationships directly or indirectly. If you wanna know how comments help build relationships, read Adrienne Smith's commenting tips. Why do you blog? There could be many number of reasons I can think of. But the most relevant question here would be - Who is your audience? 'Cause its answer will help you to select best commenting option you need. You may have a public blog where you share your thoughts and ideas publicly. Or you may have restricted it for few people as you wanna create more private space with few contributors. So by looking at your audience, you might wanna select who can comment or cannot on your blog with available options. Did you find best comment option for your blog?

How to Add Contributors or Authors to Your Blog in Blogger

Tired of managing your blogs or seems you can't find enough time to publish fresh content on your blog? Sometimes you may find it difficult to publish posts as you were used to due to increase of workload or if you have to be away from your blog for some time. But if there are some more users willing to post on your blog, you might wanna give them a chance to publish content and keep your readers updated with brand new content. However else you may just seeking a way to add more authors and set up a blog as a team blog to contributed by set of contributors where only they can interact with the blog without exposing to public. Can you think of more reasons where you need to add more contributors on a blog?

Translate Your Blog into Different Languages with Google Translate in Blogger

What is your native language? It could be English, French, Sinhala (which is mine) or any other language you speak. When it comes to blogging, you can write your posts using a preferable language after deciding your audience. But if you are not good with languages, you have to write using a language you speak. Else as you address people around the world, mostly you may try to be fair and come up with an international language to be convenient with most of your readers. But with or without your knowledge, some people still doesn't go easy with it. Not every person good at every language. In such a scenario, would you mind make use of a translation service for your blog?

How to Filter Inappropriate Web Content with OpenDNS

You and I both know Internet is not a safe place even we spend most time on it everyday. Some of us just use Internet to pass time with friends and family, another may research and make use it for study purposes and most of people today define it as their livelihood. What else can you think of? I can't imagine or count how many opportunities it has made for people. It's amazing. Now it's just not a resource for people as it has already embedded with human lives. However as you surf through Internet you have to concern about your privacy and security. We have already discussed about web browser applications that helps you to improve privacy. Internet is consist of different types of websites. As you surf Internet, you might never wanna land on what you call "crappy" websites or wanna get rid of them as much as possible. However you don't have authority to remove such websites exist on the web. But would you like to filter or block them to prevent landing on them even mistakenly?

How to Add a Notification Bar to Your Website with Hello Bar

Did you ever wanted to send out a special message or notify about something special for your blog or website visitors? Ohw... I see... What kind of? Let me think... Imagine you are an blogger and you have published a new book about social media marketing. So you wanna let your blog visitors know about it. Let's think of another example. Imagine you have added a new feature for your website, product or service you offer and wanna tell about it to your audience. See, eventhough you manage a blog or website, you can have something special for your audience. Let's face it. So how you gonna tell them about it? Send them a newsletter? Spread news about it on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or other engaging social networks? But what about those who land on your site that has no contact with you?

How to Configure Your Blog with Dynamic Views in Blogger

What kind of template are you using on your blog? It may be a official Blogger template or custom template. However most probably you are using a traditional template. Actually I call it traditional 'cause your blog structure goes with a header, body including sidebars and a footer with predefined template. Have you ever think about giving a fresh new look for your blog with a new template. Sort of techy process for you but changes are what we call motivation pills for your readers. You need a change sometimes so your template. Time to time you may try different widgets, styles and kind of design stuff on your blog. That's really good, I appreciate you. But did you ever try out Dynamic Views for your blog?

How to Enable Mobile Version of Your Blog in Blogger

How does a visitor read your content or view your blog? Mostly they will visit your blog through internet browser on their computer. Or some may have already subscribed to your blog updates via email or through your blog feed. And next one which would be most considerate is mobile. Do users view you blog via mobile devices? You can find it out via Statistics tab on Blogger Dashboard. Else you can make use of user tracking tools to find out how many of mobile users reading your blog frequently. Unlike desktop web browser, mobile devices got small screen to view your content. So you have to think about optimizing your blog for mobile users. Don't you think so?

Analyze Your Website Performance with Google PageSpeed Online

If you are managing a blog or website, one of your goal would be providing a better user experience for visitors land on your pages. It may cope with many different activities on the aspect of webmasters, such as generating quality content or offering useful products, designing and styling pages with HTML and CSS, adding relevant gadgets or widgets useful for readers, displaying relevant advertisements or so on. Further you will add more scripts such as to track users to forecast strategies and identify user preferences. However as you add more and more styles, scripts, widgets on your pages, soon they will get heavy and happen to load slowly than ever before. Now you know what I'm talking about. Your page performance will be decreased and it will occur bad user experience for visitors. Would you like to get rid of unnecessary stuff on your pages and improve site performance?

How to Display Labels of Your Posts in Blogger

Did you categorize or label your posts? You should find a reason to categorize or label your posts. Else it won't help you and could be just a time consuming activity. Isn't it? Yeah, it could be the attitude hidden inside in your mind towards categorizing or labeling your posts. Absolutely, you don't need to categorize your posts for your visitors land on your posts via organic web search. It's a matter of Search Engine Optimization. But after landing on your posts, if readers interested in your content or topic you have written about, they will more prefer to seek out more similar content on your blog. Then, how would you offer a way to find similar content on your blog without letting them going through series of pages or using site search?

How to Post Your Facebook Updates on Twitter

How many social networks you have heard of? Think... Absolutely, you can take you time. Err... Seems like it takes more time. Alright, think about it later. Okay? What if I ask, what is your favorite social network? You will come up with an answer in no time. Was it Twitter? or Facebook? or something else? However if you are interested in Twitter and Facebook, you can count on. Currently, Twitter and Facebook are popular social networks on the web. Eventhough you on Twitter and Facebook, are you spending most of your time on Facebook? Or do you wanna share interesting facts or information you share on your Facebook with followers on Twitter at the same time?

How to Create a Group on Facebook

There's one thing that my Human Resource Management lecturer always used to say - Each person is unique. People can be differentiated with their skills, abilities, ideas, intuitions or such qualities. But being unique doesn't mean that we wanna stay away from each others. People mostly working together to be effective and efficient instead of being individuals to achieve goals. They always find something similar among them to get connected and stay in touch. Something they all love. Like you and me. Yeah, Common Interests. People love to get together and talk and share about them. That is where the need of a "Group" pops in. Don't you wanna get into a group and share interests with like-minded people rather than exposing all of them to public or other friends who are not interested in?

How to Customize Comment Label in Blogger

Sometimes you wanna customize your blog to be par with your expectations and requirements to improve productivity. Or just to enhance the design of your blog. Did you ever find that Blogger comment label is buggy or irritating? Oh... I must have told you before. Comment label is the text displays number of comments published in related to a particular post. Usually it appears on comment section just above comments made on a post. It's just show off the comment count. When it comes to designing or customizing your blog, you may find that there's no setting to customize comment label as you need. However you can customize this label at your template. But do you know how to customize it?

Two Simple Questions You Wanna Ask from Twitter

Hi tweeps, how are you doing? Ohw, are you a tweep? I mean are you on Twitter? Twitter is a great way to connect with similar interested people and to stay it touch with updates happen around the world. Unlike other social networks, Twitter help you to communicate instantly and easily with your friends. Also lately few of friends and I was able to help out another Twitter friend on Twitter too. It was such a great experience for me on Twitter. It's the wonder of social media. isn't it? If you are on Twitter, I wanna ask you two simple questions, you know, just for fun though - (i) When did you join Twitter? (ii) How often do you Tweet?

How to Add a Google+ Tab for Your Facebook Fan Page with Cercoe

How are you doing on Google+? Almost addicted? Or feels boring and staring at it? Else you just started to play with Google+ to give more exposure to your content. But the question is, did you get more attention to your content on Google+? Sometimes you may find that Google+ does better in creating conversations. But sometimes even not a single interaction. Just go through your old posts on Google+ and you may find a solution yourself. You can analyze the posts that have more interaction and try posting future posts on identified productive time slots. That's your best shot. Apart from that, what if can get more exposure for your Google+ posts on Facebook?

How to Add Google+ Share Button for Your Posts in Blogger

I do assume now you are much familiar with Google +1 button and it's functionality. But if you are not much into it, I'd like to elaborate. Using Google +1 button, you can recommend content on the web. We call them +1s or recommendations. The +1s made via Google +1 button acts as recommendations for your content and pages. Also those recommendations will be visible for users in Google search results too. Did you install Google +1 button for your posts in Blogger? If not you can implement +1 button by reading Add Google +1 Button for Blogger Posts. When someone clicks on a +1 button appears on your blog post, in addition to increment of recommendations, it prompts to share your post on Google+ too. But what if someone just need to share your post on Google+ without recommending it?

Schedule and Maximize the Impact of Your Tweets with Timely

Timely has been retired. You can try alternatives: Buffer / HootSuite

What... You hate Twitter? How could you possibly hate that cute birdy? Absolutely you are not hating the Twitter birdy. But you may have fed up of it's productivity for you. There could be loads of reasons why you are not in love with Twitter. After spending time on Twitter, you might have realized that your tweets not being retweeted as you thought. Is that the reason you gonna keep Twitter out of your sight?