Filed Under Asides, Fatih Syuhud
Technorati (technorati.com) is one of the standard bearer as far as blogging is concerned. It’s also one of the biggest blog directory and aggregator. To be included in Technorati, you need to claim your blog using these simple steps:
1. Register to make account on Technorati in this link: http://technorati.com/account/signup/
2. If you already joined, just login to your Technorati account.
3. After sign-in / login, Copy this to your browser and click “Enter” http://technorati.com/account/claims/new
4. Enter your blog URL address. Example, http://farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com
5. Login to your blog. Complete Your Blog Claim by putting the code provided by Technorati into your sidebar or post / article.
6. Back to Technorati. Click “Complete Claim” on Technorati. Done.
NOTE:
1. You can claim more than one blogs at one account.
2. To see your claimed blog and make edit if necessary, visit this link after you sign-in/ login: http://technorati.com/account/claims/
Kamis, 14 Mei 2009
Claiming a Blog on Technorati
Rabu, 13 Mei 2009
Popular Posts Widgets or Hacks for Blogger Blogspot
Posted on May 13, 2009
Filed Under A. Fatih Syuhud
Showing the popular posts or top post of your blog article certainly will make visitors stay longer in your blog. So far as blogger.com/ blogspot goes, this Most Popular Post / Favorite Post / Top Posts widget are not available by default. But, blogger.com/blogspot opennes to Javascript motivate many blog savvy to create many hacks including this Popular Post thing.
Here are some hacks or widget to make Popular Post Widget in your blogger.com/blogspot blog:
I. Top Post Widget (Most Viewed Posts) from Postrank.com
Visit http://www.postrank.com/publishers/customize to start
1. Enter your blog URL in the “Specify your website address” box. Example, http://farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com
2. Choose a Theme
3. Display Options on how many popular posts you want to display.
4. Quick Install: Just copy/paste the code given into your Layout -> Page Element -> Javascript / HTML.
5. Save. Done.
Note: If it’s the first time you put your blog URL there, wait for a moment to let postrank.com index and crawl your blog first. Come back again after a few moment (could be hours) to start the procedure. See the LIVE DEMO here (at the top right sidebar.
II. Popular Post Widget(Most Commented Posts) from Bloggerbuster.com
There are two methods.
The first one is via Feed (showing only 5 most popular posts)
1. After login to your blogger.com account -> Layout -> Add Element -> Feed
2. Copy/paste this code: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=1cf38ae68efbe859c4ba1ee239cec099&_render=rss&num=50&url=http://farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com
3. Change farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com into your own.
4. Save. Done.
The Second method is using Widget. Read the details here.
III. Popular Posts Hack (to be continued)
Do Follow Comment for Blogger Blogspot
Filed Under A. Fatih Syuhud
To create a do follow comment (you comment I follow) in Blogger.com / blogspot follow this simple step:
1. After login to your blogger.com account, -> Layout -> Edit HTML -> Expand Widget Template
2. Find the code <a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'>
3. Delete rel='nofollow' or just delete and replace it with this code: <a expr:href="data:comment.authorUrl">
4. Save. Done.
Tips: To find the wanted code in blogger template, press CTRL+F and enter the wanted code in FIND box at the bottom of the browser. Example: enter <a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'>
Note: Do follow modification is necessary to encourage your blog visitors to comment in your blogspot blog since any link in the comment box will be regarded by Google and other search engines as “Vote” to a particular link in the comment box.
