Shorten and Track Your Links with Google URL Shortener

How do you share content found on a website or blog? Mostly you don't wanna copy and paste whole bunch of content you find in the source page. However you can do that if you share via email. But rather than sending content, you would prefer to share link or URL of the source content. If you are sharing links on micro-blogging sites such as Twitter, sharing whole link won't leave you much room to include your intended message as they impose character limitations in messages. Well, you can't send an URL partially. What if you can shorten the URL you sharing into few characters and able to find how many of users actually clicked on your shared link?

Are You Scaring Away Commenters?

“What? Scaring them away? What do you mean?”

What I mean is, are your readers able to comment on your blog with NO ISSUES?

I find this on more Blogger/Blogspot blogs than anything. I read a great post, I want to add a comment, and yet I can’t!

How to Set Up Your Blogger Blog with a Custom Domain on GoDaddy

GoDaddy Blogger DNS Setup can't be used to map your blog to a custom domain anymore.

Are you still on a Blogger free subdomain where your URL says myblog.blogspot.com? Well, it's up to you to be on it or move to a custom domain where things get much easier and visible. Whether you are on a free or custom domain, content is what matters most for users.

How to Create Custom URLs for Your Posts in Blogger

Do you like customizing your blog on Blogger? Yeah, mostly you would say "Yes" as you wanna reflect your personality through the look and feel, or need to have things in your way. Blogger has set of customization options that helps personalize your blog according to your preferences. Not everything, but yet most are customizable.

How to Configure Google Services for Your Domain with Google Apps

Google no longer offers free Google Apps accounts, but paid solutions.

Do you have your own registered domain for your blog or website? Having a registered domain matters as it increase visibility and identity of your brand online. When you purchase a domain name, you will get few services along with the domain name you prefer too. A few personalized email accounts, extra storage, website creation tools, online photo album are some cool features available in domain registration packages. If you need more features, you will have to pay for them. What if you can get some additional features / services for no cost?

How to Purchase and Set Up a Custom Domain for Your Blog in Blogger

Simply a domain name is an unique identifier which can be organized in different levels. Yeah it's an online identity. Owning a preferable web address for your online presence is matters as it helps you to familiar with your audience. As you know Blogger is a free blogging platform which helps online users to spread their voice.

How to Add a Contact Tab for Your Facebook Fan Page with ContactMe

ContactMe has been shut down.

Do you have a contact form on your blog or website you manage? If you are still unable to create a contact page for your site, you may missing opportunity and your visitors find it very desperate to contact you. May be you are showing your contacts publicly. But don't you think it may attract spammers more than folks who wanna contact you?

How to Disable Text Selection on Your Website

At some point, have you ever thought about disabling text selection on your blog or website? Yeah, to prevent selecting text on your pages. Not just for fun though. Hmm... It may be your whole content, or just few pages which you need to make sure your visitors can't select and copy specific texts. You content is already being copied by content scrappers and wanna figure out how to stop them?

How to Disable Right Click Menu on Your Website

Have you ever thought you wanna get rid of right click menu on your blog / website to secure the content? It is not a compulsory action, but mostly the reason would be preventing content scrappers from copying your content. Were you fortunate enough to keep away from content scrappers?

How to Add a Contact Form to Your Website with ContactMe

ContactMe has been shut down.

If you have a blog or website, you know that the interaction between you and your visitors can bring new opportunities. In general, people love to know who's behind the blog or website, and likes to inquire or provide feedback. If your blog or website is representing a business, brand or organization, providing a way to contact is essential. Do you have a contact page implemented for your readers or customers to contact you?

How to Add Facebook Recommendations Bar for Your Blogger Posts

How do you get traffic to your blog? Search engines do help bring you targeted traffic to your blog. Also, your content being shared or recommended on social networks gives extra exposure and welcome interested visitors too. Talking about promotion, you can try blogging directories, groups / communities and simply allow others to share your content to spread the word. Have you?

Drive Traffic and Get Insights for Content Being Copied on Your Website with Tynt Publisher Tools

The content you publish on your blog or website can be really helpful. I know, your content matters most to you too. Your blog / website visitors interact with your content and when they find them interesting, they will go extra mile and share it with their friends and followers too. Talking about sharing, you may have implemented sharing tools to make sharing easy. As it link back to your original content page, it helps you to get more visitors on your content.

Update Your Facebook Status from Twitter with Selective Tweets

Have you ever been wondering about updating your Facebook profile via Twitter? If you have been spending more time on Twitter to share tweets with your friends and followers, that thought might have been around for a while. So you have to head back to Facebook and share same message again. What if you forgot?

How to Show Snippet of a Post on Homepage of Your Blog in Blogger

How is blogging goes on Blogger? You may come up with post ideas everyday and you wanna share them with your blog readers. I know, you enjoy blogging. But as you write a new post, an older post will get hidden from your homepage. Your homepage get the attention of visitors. Especially, new visitors. Hence if you can deliver more content on your blog's homepage, you can maximize exposure for multiple posts too. Do you?

How to Add Follow Buttons to Your Website with AddThis

Let me ask you something. I wanna follow your blog, site or brand online on Facebook, Twitter or I'd like to know if you have a site feed, so I can subscribe and get your updates via my news reader. What would be your reply? I'm not wondering if you send me bunch of URLs for your social profiles and including feed URL. But, you gonna wait until someone gonna ask you how to follow you or your site? Do you want them to land on your site and know what's happening?

How to Configure Your FeedBurner Settings

Have you heard of blog or website feeds? Mmmm... I hope most of you know and using FeedBurner to manage your raw site feed. It's the reason you wanna know more about FeedBurner settings and stop by here, right? However every website doesn't publish a site feed, but mostly blogs do publish feed automatically.

How to Create an Online Support Community with Get Satisfaction

Get Satisfaction no longer offers new free support communities.

While managing a blog / website, you have to interact with your visitors. They can be readers, potential customers and so on. It doesn't matter what type of content, product or service you deliver. In order to improve the satisfaction of your users / customers, you have to provide a way for them to contact you, for any assistance, inquiries or to gather user feedback. Have you thought about it?

How to Find Best Times to Tweet with Tweriod

How are you getting on with Twitter? I hope you almost familiar with the popular micro-blogging website and been sending tweets around. Yet you might have noticed that Twitter stream flowing pretty faster and tweets get buried very quickly. Do you think your tweets reaching out most of your followers?

Transform Your Facebook Profile or Page into a Movie with Timeline Movie Maker

Timeline Movie Maker has been shut down. It was really fun!

Facebook is a great way to get connected with your friends and family online to share and care. You can share photos, videos, events and quite like being in a party with everyone you love. Not only your friends and family members, but also you can engage with your customers and followers through Facebook Pages. Can you recall best memories you had on Facebook?

How to Control Who Can See Your Application Activities on Facebook

Don't you love to have some privacy? Everyone does. Even on Facebook, you have settings to take control over the information you share and whom you wanna share with. Talking about Facebook, you can find many applications to use with and can be very helpful. For example, to enhance the security. But if you don't know how to set up privacy controls for your applications, some information can go into wrong hands. Were you aware of that?