Add Google Talk Gadget To Your Blogger Blog

Google Talk Gadget is a web based version of Google Talk and allows you chat with your friends on your web browser like Firefox, Internet Explorer etc. No download required.

Your can add Google talk Gadget to your Blogger blog as a page element :




Press the "Add to your blog" button at the end of this post to add Google Talk Gadget as a Page Element to your Blogger blog.

You'll be redirected to the Blogger page where you can change your Page Element Title.

You can optionally change "Width" and "Height" values by clicking Edit Content link. Default values are set to 200 for width and 300 for height.

Finally press "ADD WIDGET" button at the end of that page, you're done!

<iframe width="200" frameborder="0" src="http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/client?fid=gtalk0&relay=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fig%2Fifpc_relay" height="300"></iframe><br><font size="1">Widget by <u><a href="http://www.imessengr.com/2007/07/google-talk-gadget-new-blogger.html">iMessengr.com</a></u>

Technorati Tags : im, messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Google Talk Gadget, Google Talk, Gtalk, New Blogger, Blogger

Blogger accounts might be hacked !

Dear readers,

A friend o mine memori@, who has supported me a lot to get my blog back, has informed me today, that her blog is hacked by someone (who calls himself JAIME RUIZ). This person has deleted 2 years of work by memori@ and put his own content! I don't call these kind of people hackers, they're all lamers! There are some other spanish bloggers who's blogs are stolen by these lamers.

I do not know how this person hacked her account, but to protect your account, never share your account details on your on the net, use antivirus and antispyware software to prevent hijackers and choose complicated passwords.

If you want to help memori@, drop an email to support@blogger.com and spread the word !

Technorati Tags: memoria, memori@, Charo, hackers, blogger, new blogger, blogspot

14 Instant Messaging Etiquette Tips for Bloggers

"One of the best parts about this blog is that it puts me into direct contact with hundreds of bloggers from around the world every week. This happens on a variety of levels - comments, email and increasingly Instant Messaging. I have my IM details on my about pages which is a great thing - but also at times a frustrating thing..."

Click here to read full post.

Posted by Darren Rowse @ Problogger

Technorati Tags: im, messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Bloggers, Blogger, Blog, Blogs, blogging, blogosphere

Newsgator Post Rating System for New Blogger

Newsgator has a cool post rating system which allow your visitors to rank your post just by clicking star icons. I've made a small change on the default code and modified it for new blogger.



To add ratings, you simply need to include a javascript tag on your site where you would like the ratings to appear.

To add this code on your post footer, edit your blogger template, click on "Expand Widget Templates", locate the line <p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> and after that insert this code:

Rate this post: <script charset='utf-8' expr:src='"http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/ratings.aspx?rurl=" + data:post.url' type='text/javascript'/> (data provided from <a href="http://www.newsgator.com">NewsGator Online</a>

Save your template and you're done !

Technorati Tags: Newsgator, New Blogger, Blogger Beta, Blogger, Blogspot, Blogger Hacks, New Blogger Hacks

FeedFury - Search powered feed directory for bloggers

Dear Bloggers,

Today, I want to post about a web service called Feedfury, which is sending a lot of visitors to my blog.

FeedFury is an RSS/Atom/XML news aggregator and reader. They retrieve content from various feeds and display and link to it. Feedfury have toyed with a number of ranking systems and so far they have settled on "search-powered" listings. Their "Top 50" consists of the most viewed and searched-for articles and feeds for the current day (live) and for past days:



Unlike splogs Feedfury do not modify your content and always link directly to the source. As a publisher you can choose how much content you push to your feed and can even include your own ads that will be displayed on FeedFury.

Click here to submit your feed to Feedbury.

Technorati Tags: FeedFury, feed aggregator, feed reader, feeds, rss, atom, xml

iMessengr is back in town !

Dear my readers and friends,

After five hard days, blogger finally restored back iMessengr again.

I've experienced something spiritual today. I've dream about my blog last night (Real bloggers know what I'm talking about, right?). I was clicking the"restore link" on my dashboard and seen that I could edit my posts. There was a different message other than blogger's spam message. I woke up and said to myself, hey, it was just a dream. I slept again and dreamed about the same thing two times again. I woke up again, couldn't wait and run to my pc, opened my inbox and saw many emails telling me my blog is back :) I just couldn't believe that something like that is happened to me.

I don't know how I can pay you back. I want to thank all my friends Ramani, Hoctro, Avatar, Louiss, Ricardo, Annie, Chhaya, Purplemoggy, memori, ugyen, Arpit , ggpi, isilay, yalin, Paula, TonNet, cyberbuffq, Derek Anderson, tdf, Junio, Straydog, Xavier Casanova, Amit Agarwal, Kartjik, Lexi Long, Batushkha, Özlem Akın, emrex, xthilakx, Blog Bloke, mubin, jaybong, jaguar-archie2006, toomm, mobilebay, soul-healer, Jack Squat, wwwhome, BigBadWolf, mkmnynow, cenkbut, godmode, trafficnotice, andheresjohnny, Forsh and many others, who have supported me with their comments, emails and posts in their blogs ! Please send me your url if I forgot to put your name. If I've put your name accidentally, then it was one of the false positives, and I apologize :)))

How I got my blog back:

• First of all I've created an help page, where I've told the reasons why iMessengr is not a spam blog and my feelings about this automatical disabling process.
  
• With Avatar's suggestion I've integrated a comment form, where visitors can share their opinions. I think it was a great idea because it created a synergy.
• I've shared blogger support team's email (support@blogger.com) and an email form to let my friends and visitors contact blogger and share their opinions.
• My site's feed was up and running. I've made my feed on Google Reader open to public, so everyone could see that it's not a spam blog.
• I've posted on some forums and blogger help group to let people know about this.
  
• Finally, I've emailed to blogger support everyday and told them about this accidental removal. I told my friends to do the same.
  

What I've learned from this process:

• Read other blogs and forums to determine your problem and your solution exactly.
  
• Never host your site on free hosting services. If you're able to pay for it, buy a domain and run your site on your own server !
• Always backup up your site.
  
• I did understand very well, how important is to build a community. Read other blogs, forums, mailing groups! Write your own thoughts, share your opinions with others, make friends !
  

As Isilay said in her comment, nothing destroys a blogger’s trust and motivation faster than the suspicion that he is being treated unfairly. But I've got my blog back with your support. Thank you again. Please contact me anytime if you need a friendly hand.

Deniz

Technorati Tags: im, messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, messenger

How to use Adsense Section Targeting on New Blogger

What is section targeting? Here is the official information on Adsense Help Center:

Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text and HTML content that you'd like Adsense to emphasize or downplay when matching ads to your site's content.

To implement section targeting, you'll need to add a set of special HTML comment tags to your code. These tags will mark the beginning and end of whichever section(s) you'd like to emphasize or de-emphasize for ad targeting.

The HTML tags to emphasize a page section take the following format:

<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
Page Content
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->


Now, how can you implement Adsense Section Targeting on New Blogger? I suggest you to use above the code before and after post titles and post content to get relevant ads. You should add the codes above before and after Post Title and Post Content tags. Look for this portions of code and add lines written in red color:

Post Title

<b:includable id='post' var='post'>
<div class='post uncustomized-post-template'>
<a expr:name='data:post.id'/>
<b:if cond='data:post.title'>
<h3 class='post-title'>
<b:if cond='data:post.link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.link'><!-- google_ad_section_start --><data:post.title/><!-- google_ad_section_end --></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><!-- google_ad_section_start --><data:post.title/><!-- google_ad_section_end --></a>
<b:else/>
<!-- google_ad_section_start --><data:post.title/><!-- google_ad_section_end -->
</b:if>
</b:if>
</h3>
</b:if>


Post Content

<div class='post-body'>
<p><!-- google_ad_section_start --><data:post.body/><!-- google_ad_section_end --></p>
<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>


Technorati Tags: google, adsense, section targeting

3 Column Thisaway Templates for New Blogger

There is a temporary code problem with the hacked templates.

If you need 3 column or other bloggertemplate, please visit Blogcrowds.com.

Feed behavior in New Blogger

Blogger moved to Atom 1.0 as a feed format. (Old Blogger blogs used Atom 0.3.) One of the new features of Atom 1.0 is an element which identifies the date/time at which a post was updated; this adds to the element, which identifies when a post was initially published.

Here's the trick: New Blogger now sorts your Atom 1.0 source feed by updated date, not by published date. So, if you decide to update an old post from months ago, it will suddenly leap to the top of your feed as the newest item, re-exposing your subscriber base to this old content (and whatever update you have since provided).

Posted by fburner @ Feedburner Support Forums

Technorati Tags: xml, feed, atom, rss, atom 1.0, atom 0.3, syndication, blogger, new blogger, blogger beta

3 column Rounders Templates For New Blogger

There is a temporary code problem with the hacked templates.

If you need 3 column or other bloggertemplate, please visit Blogcrowds.com.

Feedshake - merge multiple XML feeds

I've found a great service and I think it's useful for bloggers:

FeedShake is a free service for merging, sorting and filtering multiple XML feeds. (Atom, RSS, Podcasts). Each time you request your feed from Feedshake's server, subfeeds are parsed, filtered and merged into a unique RSS 2.0 feeds. If you want to show multiple feed links on your blog, you can shake them on Feedshake and use an unique feed URL to show topics from different blogs and websites.

If you want to give a try, I've created a new feed for Blogger Beta related web sites : Blogger Beta Hacks



Update:
Ramani from Hackosphere already reviewed this service on 08/12/06. Blogger Beta's Layout manager still doesn't accept this newly generated feed URL. Ramani had to used RSS-to-Javascript.com to display feed links.

Technorati Tags: feedshake, atom, xml, rss, syndication, feed

3 column Minima Templates For New Blogger

There is a temporary code problem with the hacked templates.

If you need 3 column or other bloggertemplate, please visit Blogcrowds.com.

3 Column Son of Moto Template For New Blogger

There is a temporary code problem with the hacked templates.

If you need 3 column or other bloggertemplate, please visit Blogcrowds.com.

Social bookmark new blogger posts with AddThis

AddThis helps you promote your content online by making it easier for your visitors to collect it, save it, and distribute it to social services. AddThis allows your visitors bookmark individual posts by clicking one single button. Here are AddThis blogger beta codes for different kind of buttons:




Click here for the code.




Click here for the code.




Click here for the code.

Please note that, this codes are for bookmarking blogger beta posts. If you want to get code for your default blog URL, visit AddThis.com

Update:

Thanks go to Jean Michel, who has warned me to update the code.


Permalinks for other blogger beta related posts:

Technorati Link Count Widget for blogger beta
Sand Dollar template hacked for blogger beta
Show recent referrers on blogger beta
Adsense beside the post text on blogger beta

Technorati Tags: blogger, blogger beta, new blogger, blogger hacks, new blogger hacks, Social bookmark, Social bookmarking, AddThis

Technorati Link Count Widget for new blogger

Technorati Link Count Widget allows you display the number of links to each of your posts in real-time. Technorati tracks when other bloggers link to your blog and this widget makes it possible for you to display the number of links on every blog post.




To add the widget to your blogger beta template:

Find the following line:

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/>

Replace it with:

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>
<script src='http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount' type='text/javascript'/><a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/search/" + data:post.url' rel='linkcount'>View blog reactions</a></p>

For more info visit Technorati.


Permalinks for other bloggers related post:

Technorati Link Count Widget for blogger beta
Sand Dollar template hacked for blogger beta
Show recent referrers on blogger beta
Adsense beside the post text on blogger beta

Technorati Tags: blogger, blogger beta, new blogger, blogger hacks, new blogger hacks, Technorati, widgets, wigdet

3 Column Sand Dollar Template for New Blogger

There is a temporary code problem with the hacked templates.

If you need 3 column or other bloggertemplate, please visit Blogcrowds.com.

Show recent referrers on new blogger

Put this HTML in your site or blog's code someplace:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reeferss.com/log"></script>

Now the referrers to your blogger beta will be automaticallly logged by reeferss. com

Click to page elements links on the template tab on blogger beta. Add a feed element with this url:

http://www.reeferss.com/rss?u=http%3A//yourblogname.blogspot.com

Do not forget to change yourblogname.blogspot.com to your blogspot url.

Now you can show latest 5 referrers on your blog.


Permalinks for other bloggers related post:

Technorati Link Count Widget for blogger beta
Sand Dollar template hacked for blogger beta
Show recent referrers on blogger beta
Adsense beside the post text on blogger beta

Technorati Tags: blogger, blogger beta, new blogger, blogger hacks, new blogger hacks, referrer, referer

Adsense inside the post text on new blogger

I've added a table to Blogging Secret's code to put adsense near the text on a new blogger post.

Example:




# Find the line below div class="post-body"

<p><data:post.body/></p>

# Add this code between [p] and [data:post.body/] tags:

<table align="'left'"><tr><td align="'left'">YOUR ADSENSE CODE</td></tr></table>

Update:

I've replaced Blogger Digest' method with Blogging Secret's method, because it's not violating Adsense TOS.


# Replace the comment lines from your adsense code:
<!-- and //-->

With:



# Save your template. You're finished.

This method does not alter the adsense code, it only decodes < and > for xml template.


Update :

You can use css if you don't want to use a table. (Method from Tech One)


Link for other blogger related posts:

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