Link Exchange

Hi, you all must be knowing the importance of backlinks and its impact on your blog's traffic. Here I start the link exchange programme for this blog.

If you want to display your link here, just place link to my blog and comment here with your blog rul, I'll check whether my link is place or not, and if placed , will immediately place your link here.

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The complete list Free Blogging Platforms.

Now-a-days,blogging has been sought a great source of earning some good online income.But still many people wonder from where to start.So,here I am providing the complete list of free blogging platform available over the internet -

1. Aeonity.com
2. blog.com
3. blogates.com
4. blogetery.com
5. blogger.com
6. blogr.com
7. blogsome.com
8. blogster.com
9. bravenet.com/webtools/journal/
10. clearblogs.com
11. ehow.com
12. googlepages.com
13. hubpages.com
14. iseekblog.com
15. myspace.com
16. pbwiki.com
17. quazen.com
18. rticlz.com
19. sampa.com
20. squarespace.com
21. squidoo.com
22. stikipad.com
23. thoughts.com
24. tumblr.com
25. wikispaces.com
26. wordpress.com

As per the PCWorld.com,top 5 among the are -

1. Blogger.com
2. Wordpress.com
3. Typepad.com
4. Tripod.com
5. Squarespace.com

Got Error while uploading Template - bX-2nuf8g

After making the first post here,I thought of changing the Blogger template.I never liked the default templates provided here at Blogger.After finding a suitable template (after 2 hrs. of search), I just tried to upload it to my blog , but I got this error message from Blogger - bX-2nuf8g. I tried one more time but same message.I retried for 5 times more,but in vain.

Then I just checked my other blog by uploading the template there, doubting if there is any problem in that specific blog, but still the same error message - bX-2nuf8g.

Then I searched blogger help for this error message.There I got to know that this message ( and every message starting with "bx-" have no specific meaning.They adviced to delete your cookies and cache and retry. But this also didn't help ,then I used 2nd option available there - Report your Error Message to Blogger.

here's the link for that -
http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help/web/report-your-bx-code-bug-here

Well let's see what Blogger can help me with.

UPDATE:
Solution - Just change your browser,I tried with Apple Safari and got my work done.

At last added a Custom Domain from GoDaddy.com to Blogger!!!

As I am blogging since last 1 year I know the importance of having your own domain.

I changed to custom domain on the 2nd day of starting the blog at Blogger,because if I've done that later,it would have resulted in a great drop in my traffic and low rankings on the search engine result pages.

I choose Godaddy.com for registering a domain,because it's cheapest, safe, and has partenered with Blogger for providing custom domains.But it costs $10/domain per year if you purchased it through Blogger.Thats why I purchased it directly from GoDaddy.com using some promo coupons and got the domain registered for 5 years for $35.75 only.

So you have registered a domain with GoDaddy.com, next -

1. Login to your account at GoDaddy.com .
2. Click on "Manage Domains".
3. Click on your domain where you want to host your Blogger blog.
4. There will be one option availabe - "Total DNS Control And MX Records".(Note- You will not get this option unless you click on your domain.)
5. There will be a record prefixed - "www",in front of it there will be edit option(image of a pencil), click it.
   
6. In the option "Point to Host" - enter this - "ghs.google.com".Please DO NOT change anything. Click ok.
   
7. That's it you have added google's server to your domain.
8. Now if you want to can check whether everything is fine or not,open Command Prompt(Start>Run>Command).
9. Type - "ping www.yourdomain.com" and press enter.
10. If everything is ok you will a response like this -

    Pinging ghs.1.google.com [72.14.207.121] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 72.14.207.121: bytes=32 time=85ms TTL=247 Reply from 72.14.207.121: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=247 Reply from 72.14.207.121: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=247 Reply from 72.14.207.121: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=247 Ping statistics for 72.14.207.121: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 85ms, Maximum = 89ms, Average = 86ms

11. Now everything is done add your custom domain to your Blogger blog.

This way I got my blog address changed from "the-webmasters-blog.blogspot.com" to "webmasters-blog.com".(I must rather say "www.webmasters-blog.com",because Blogger can add either "www.webmasters-blog.com" or "webmasters-blog.com" to my blog,and I preferred first.)

Update:
I was completely unaware that with Godaddy domain I've got a Free Godaddy Hosting Account,hence I added it to Blogger.
But now I've decided to Host another Wordpress Blog at the Godaddy Domain - www.webmasters-blog.com and also have one Blogger blog => free-blogger-help.blogspot.com

How to add a horizontal navigation bar or menu to Blogger?

We have seen a horizontal menu or a navigation bar on many websites and blogs especially the wordpress blogs.But very few Blogger blogs have a horizontal navigation bar like we have here at our blog.



Here are some simple steps for setting up a Horizontal Navigation Bar -

Step 1.-Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML. Here find this - /* Header */

Step 2.- Add this code below that -

#menu ul li{
font-size:100%;
list-style-type: none;
display:inline;
padding:0px;
margin:10px;
border:0px solid;
}

#menu li a{
color:#dfffed;
}

#menu li a:visited {
color: #57E964;
}

#menu li a:hover {
color: #F88017;
background: #ffff66;
}

You should edit this code after step 6,so that you could know how does it looks like.

(Edit margin values for placement,and various html color values below for respective colours.)

Step 3.- Find this -

b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'

Step 4.- Change -

1. showaddelement='no' to showaddelement='yes'
2. maxwidgets='1' to maxwidgets='4'

Save template and go to Page Elements.

Step 5.- In the Header , Add Page Element > Add HTML .

Step 6.- Leave the title Blank and add the following code in text field -

<div id='menu'>
<ul>
<li><a href="Your URL">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="Your URL">Advertise</a></li>
<li><a href="Your URL">About Me</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS">Contact</a></li>
</ul></div>

Add your desired values in above code marked red. Save it.

Now you can edit the code in Step 2.

Submit your blog to High PageRank Directories.

As many of you know that submitting your blogs to different directories will help you in increasing traffic.

How does it help ?
- By submitting your blog to directories and getting listed there will increase exposure of your blog to Search Engines. Also it increases your PageRank which determines your Search Engine Result Position (SERP),thus getting you more traffic.

Where to Submit your Blogs ?
- Here is the complete list of oneway directories with high Pagerank.

1. dmoz.org - PR9
2. 2rss.com - PR7
3. kids.yahoo.com/submissions/suggest_site - PR7
4. ExactSeek.com - PR7
5. Jayde.com - PR6
6. SuperPages.ca - PR6
7. Patient.co.uk - PR6
8. BestCatalog.net - PR6
9. Gimpsy.com - PR6
10. Bizweb.com - PR6
11. Haaba.com - PR6
12. Canadopedia.com - PR6
13. Web-Beacon.com - PR6
14. ClearLeadInc.com - PR6
15. aigam.com - PR6
16. BooksMusicVideo.com - PR6
17. Chiff.com - PR6
18. WebWorldIndex.com - PR6
19. IllumiRate.com - PR6
20. Americasbest.com - PR6
21. SoMuch.com - PR6
22. Re-Quest.net - PR6
23. PsychNet-UK.com - PR6
24. Clickey.com - PR6
25. ProudlyCanadian.net - PR6
26. turnpike.net/directory.html - PR5
27. Earthstation9.com - PR5
28. Re-quest.net - PR5
29. MavicaNet.com - PR5
30. Greenstalk.com - PR5
31. Smallerbizz.com - PR5
32. Emfind.com - PR5
33. Hoppa.com - PR5
34. prolinkdirectory.com - PR5
35. AllTheBizz.com - PR5
36. Click4Choice.com - PR5
37. Websavvy.cc - PR5
38. iMarvel.com - PR5
39. CyberWebSearch.com - PR5
40. DC2NET.com - PR5
41. cantufind.com - PR5
42. Josh.nu - PR5
43. verajane.com - PR5
44. thewebsite***istant.com - PR5
45. Webs-Best-Directory.com - PR5
46. MyAllFish.com - PR5
47. Yeandi.com - PR5
48. Bontonic.com - PR5
49. AllFreeThings.comR5
50. fitnesspros.net - PR5
51. SmartLinks.org - PR5
52. charolabap.com - PR5
53. money-talk.org/directory - PR5
54. cgbee.com - PR5
55. findsome.info - PR5
56. wordforums.net - PR5
57. xoron.com - PR5
58. csdir.org - PR4
59. findingblog.com - PR4
60. linkaddurl.com - PR4

It may take a long time before you can see the results (usually 2-3 months).

How to add search form widget to Blogger ?

Many Bloggers do not like the default navbar at the top, and remove it from their template.

But in the process they lose the search form available with the navbar.It is very useful for a reader to search whatever he wants in your blog.

Now you can add the search form widget to your Blogger blog,by clicking on the following button.

On clicking the above button you will be directed to Add Widget page.Just select the blog where you want to put this widget and click 'Add Widget'.

That's it you have successfully added a 'Search Form' widget to your Blogger blog.