Friday 25 November 2011

How to Add Favicon To Your Blog URL Address

1:55 am Nur Sarah Rashidi No comments


Do you ever seen your blog URL? What do you see beside your blog URL? yea.. beside your blog URL address is a blogger icon.. 


The icon beside URL address named with Favicon (favourite icon). If you ask to me, do blogger icon can be changed with your icon or might be with your photo's? I will answer, "Yes, you can do that."


Now, lets get it rock!!


Generally, for me, it devided to 3 steps. These are the steps : 
1. Main Step: Create/Modify the current image and convert it to " .ico"
2. Co-Main Step: Upload to webhosting and mind the website address to direct to the favicon
3. Update in Blog: Upload the icon in your Blog template.


MAIN STEP
First you must have an image that is in .ico format. If you don't, then, refer below steps.


You don't have icon, huh? For do that, you can use favicon Generator, please check out http://www.favicongenerator.com


In the favicongenerator.com:
1. Click at the "Choose File" button to choose the picture.
2. Click at the "Open" button to Insert your image which will change into favicon..
3. Click at "Generate Favicon!" button.
4. After the process is complete, click at "Click Here to Download your favicon".
5. Save into your computer.




Co-Main Step:
Upload your Favicon to image hosting. If you don't have image hosting yet, then you can read at this post!.


Alright, now I assume you've had the URL address of your favicon. For example, I have a favicon URL address like this: http://www.tmspot.com/creative/favicon.ico  .

You must change the favicon URL address to be like this :
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.tmspot.com/creative/favicon.ico"/> 




Update in Blog
1. Login to blogger with your ID.
2. Modify in your template. Below, is the steps to modify your template.


Steps
1. Click at "Layout".
2. Click at "Edit HTML" tab.
3. Click at "Download full template" link. Save your template into computer (Important!! Just in case you don't want to change your favicon):


4. Now, in the template, with those html code, you have to place your "Favicon code" below of in the column of "<head>" and "</head>" . 


Favicon example:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.tmspot.com/creative/favicon.ico"/> 


So, now, it will be:
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.tmspot.com/creative/favicon.ico"/> 
</head>


5. Click "Save Template" button.


You are Done!! Now you have favicon at your blog URL address.


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Enjoy your new favicon.

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Wednesday 23 November 2011

How to Import Your Blog Posts Into Facebook Notes on Your Profile Page How to Import Your Blog Posts Into Facebook Notes on Your Profile Page

9:15 pm Nur Sarah Rashidi 2 comments


For a long time I struggled to find out how to import my blog posts from TheCocktailCafe.com into my facebook account. Well I've finally figured it out and decided to show mompreneurs, home based business blogs, how to maximize their online web presence brand message to your all of your facebook friends, clients and followers.
I wanted to answer some of the questions that I get on a daily basis about how to increase online exposure and what better way than to start out with the place where most of your friends, family, and future clients are? this method will take care of having to post links into multiple locations and will automatically show up as soon as you Create Post in your WordPress Admin area.
Facebook has a built-in way to display the article posts from your website blog and allow them to show as Notes on your profile page so all of your friends in your Facebook network to read, share and comment. After you log into your account:
1. Go to your Settings and drop down to "Application Settings"
2. Edit your "Notes" application (or simply click the link)
3. Click the "Import Blog" button on the right
4. Type in your website feed URL and agree to the terms.
5. Click "Confirm Import" and you are well on your way
And that's it! You will be given a preview of all your content and your done. Happy blogging and be sure to let me know if this post helps you in any way. 

Happy Blogging!
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Monday 21 November 2011

Ways to monetize you blog

8:18 pm Nur Sarah Rashidi No comments


If you want to monetize your blog, you have to ask yourself a series of questions, starting with what kind of blog is it, and do you have any readers? If you’re not getting readers at your blog, you might as well put all your money-making plans on hold. Even if you got the greatest pay-per-click program in existence with the highest rates (which won’t happen if you don’t have readers) you can’t make money because there’s no one there to click the ads. Generate traffic first, and then worry about monetizing your blog.
If you have a steady stream of traffic, then the best ways to make money from your blog depend on the type of blog you have. If your blog is a general interest blog, it’s probably harder to make money from that than a specialized niche blog. Of course, if you have thousands and thousands of readers, you can run general advertising for things people typically need like credit cards, mortgages, insurance and very general basic things.
If your blog is general interest, though, no one is coming to your blog searching for cheap insurance, the best way to refinance a mortgage, or a better rate on a credit card. They’re coming to read how you burned the cookies, your thoughts on today’s politics, and the latest celebrity gossip, or whatever you’re blogging about.
But if you pull in thousands of unique visitors over a month, you could still make some money from these kinds of advertisers because a certain percentage of them will click the ads, and a certain small percentage of them might buy. This is a hard way to monetize that requires thousands and thousands of readers.
If your blog is smaller and more of a niche blog, you have many more options. Lots of people use Café Press or other sites that will print custom t-shirts, mugs and items for you. You could have some principle of your blog, your logo, or some great concepts you created printed on these items and link to them from your blog.
You can use the mother of blog money-makers, pay-per-click ads like those through Google and Yahoo. Don’t just sign up and assume it’s all automated, though. You have to watch the ads that show up, the click-through rates, and your pricing. If the ads that are showing up aren’t targeted closely enough and aren’t getting good click-through rates, you’ll get less per click than otherwise .So watch your statistics and make adjustments as needed. These pull off your keywords, so be keyword focused when you write posts.
Affiliate marketing is a top way to monetize a blog, too. If your blog is about how to lose weight, for instance, you can promote a weight loss product or information that has an affiliate program. When people follow your link to that product and buy it, you get a commission. The more narrow your niche, the easier it is to monetize your blog because the people coming there are looking for specific information and products.
Happy blogging,
Creative Inc.
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How to auto-share your blog on Facebook

7:30 pm Nur Sarah Rashidi No comments


Since Facebook has been around everyone who is everyone online, well almost everyone, has joined. Now how do you attract those users on Facebook to your blog? If you are using WordPress as your blogging platform there is an option to allow you to auto-share your blog posts as soon as you post them to your Facebook Profile and the Facebook Fan Pages you are an admin for.
You have always been able to import your blog’s RSS feed into your Facebook notes but this keeps the readers within the closed facebook eco-system and doesn’t do much for your traffic.
When you are trying to monetize your blog with advertising this traffic is extremely important. There are also third party facebook applications that allow you to import your blog but again this traffic is kept within the facebook application where those applications monetize your content with ads. Great for sharing your content but not so great for generating revenue for your blog.
Continue reading to find out how to auto-share your blog on Facebook.


Well this shouldn’t be a problem any more with the WordBook plugin by Robert Tsai. This plugin will allow you to cross-post your WordPress(.org) blog posts straight to your facebook wall or the wall of your Fan pages. Looking at the growth in downloads Wordbook is experiencing this is proving to be a very popular wordpress facebook plugin.
Wordpress plugin that auto-shares your blog to Facebook
Wordpress plugin that auto-shares your blog to Facebook



For WordBook installation:

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Saturday 19 November 2011

What is URL?

11:18 pm Nur Sarah Rashidi


In computing, a Uniform Resource Locator or Universal Resource Locator (URL) is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource.

A URL is technically a type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) but in many technical documents and verbal discussions URL is often used as a synonym for URI.

On the Internet, a hostname is a domain name assigned to a host computer. This is usually a combination of the host's local name with its parent domain's name. For example, en.example.org consists of a local hostname (en) and the domain name example.org. The hostname is translated into an IP address via the local hosts file, or the Domain Name System (DNS) resolver. It is possible for a single host computer to have several hostnames; but generally the operating system of the host prefers to have one hostname that the host uses for itself.

Any domain name can also be a hostname, as long as the restrictions mentioned below are followed. For example, both "en.example.org" and "example.org" can be hostnames if they both have IP addresses assigned to them. The domain name "xyz.example.org" may not be a hostname if it does not have an IP address, but "aa.xyz.example.org" may still be a hostname. All hostnames are domain names, but not all domain names are hostnames.

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What is favicon?

11:13 pm Nur Sarah Rashidi No comments

A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a shortcut icon, Web site icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more smallicons, most commonly 16×16 pixels, associated with a particular Web site or Web page. A web designer can create such an icon and install it into a Web site (or Web page) by several means, and graphical web browsers will then make use of it. Browsers that provide favicon support typically display a page's favicon in the browser's address bar and next to the page's name in a list of bookmarks. Browsers that support a tabbed document interface typically show a page's favicon next to the page's title on the tab, and site-specific browsersuse the favicon as desktop icon.
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