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If you are a Blogger, You have to Tweet – Says Technorati Analysis

Posted by on September 24, 2011 2 comments

Yes if you are a blogger, you blog, then you have to Tweet. Why? Lets see.

Bloggers use Twitter much more than does the general population. Yes it is true. Bloggers say they use Twitter to promote their blogs, bring interesting links to light, and to get a feel for what people are talking about.

In year 2009, the trends set by Twitter, the most eminent microblogging service today have made a huge impact on bloggers & have came as the leading blogosphere trends for this year. This is what State of the Blogosphere 2009 report from the blog search engine, Technorati analysed while leading blogosphere trends for 2009.

About 73 percent of bloggers use Twitter, compared to about 14 percent of the general population. About 52 percent of Twittering bloggers are syndicating their blog posts to Twitter.

Technorati found that blogs with more than 100 page views a day received just 0.83 percent of their page views from Twitter referrals.

In fact, some bloggers (26 percent) spend so much time on Twitter that it has eaten into the time that they spend updating their blogs.

Now look at the bloggers are not using Twitter. Among the bloggers who don’t use it, 35 percent say they simply don’t understand the point of it. Another 54 percent say they feel no need to blog the details of their personal lives, in spite of the popularity of personal musings.

Technorati’s report also focused on the growing political influence of bloggers. The blogosphere’s impact on elections, from local politics to national elections, is growing. (Image Credits: Technorati)

Do you agree with the report from Technorati? Is Twitter is impacting the global nature & future of blogging? If yes, How?

Comment & Share your views with us. Follow Inforids on Twitter.

How to Backup and Synchronise Bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox

Posted by on September 23, 2011 No comments

If you bookmark a lot of websites & love to save important webpages as bookmarks, it’s always a good idea to have them backed them up somewhere. The best backup place, of course, is the Internet where all your bookmarks stay safe from any possible hardware failures that may cripple your PC.

We are going to How to effectively backup and synchronize your bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox, one of the most widely used web browsers.

Delicious for all!

Del.icio.usDelicious is no stranger to us, being the largest online bookmark organizing and sharing service. Meanwhile, Delicious also offers official add-ons for Firefox and Internet Explorer that keep the bookmarks in your browser and your Delicious account completely synchronized. If you’re using another browser, simply grab the Bookmark on Delicious bookmark-let and use it to save bookmarks in your Delicious account (rather than your browser).

You can add Inforids.com on delicious.

Of course, Delicious isn’t the end of the world, and you can choose from various other options if you want to. Read on!

Mozilla Firefox

We all love Firefox. With over 6000+ add-ons and counting, there are always more than one ways to get something done with this browser. And backing up bookmarks is no exception.

Like IE, manually backing up bookmarks in Firefox is dead simple.

Using Xmarks

Xmarks (previously Foxmarks) is a solid add-on that can sync your bookmarks and even passwords across multiple PCs. In addition, Xmarks can suggest tags for new bookmarks, and show information about your visited sites based on this bookmark database.

Xmarks is also available as Foxmarks for IE 6 / 7 and Safari 3(Mac OS X only), though with significantly less features.

How do you organise, backup and sync your bookmarks? Let us know your techniques. Say in the comments.

How to Post Updates of Google Sidewiki Entires Directly to your Blog | Video Tutorial

Posted by on September 22, 2011 No comments

Google Sidewiki launched to the world as an entirely new way to share information across the web. This new Google Toolbar feature allows you to contribute your own insight to any webpage, as well as read information shared by others right in your browser’s sidebar.

Google Sidewiki uses a special relevancy algorithm to display the most helpful entries first, and also has built-in technology to display your entries on other sites which contain the same snippet of text.

Also you can use Google Side-wiki’s ability to post your Google Sidewiki entires directly to your blog. You can watch a quick video tutorial of how it all works below:


After this Blogger blogs are powered with connection with google Sidewiki. This can be a good source of traffic to their sites. So, Blogger who use & comment alot using Sidewiki can use this feature to direct post their sidewiki entries on their blogs.

Using .htaccess to Prevent Images Hotlinking & Saving your Web Hosting Bandwidth

Posted by on September 21, 2011 2 comments

Did you ever noticed that your images are being hotlinked on someone else’s server and consuming your server bandwidth? This is actually is direct linking to a web site’s files (images, video, etc.).without your permission.

It is bad, as it not only stealing our images, it also take advantage of our bandwidths. Since web hosts charge based on the amount of data transferred, bandwidth is an issue.

Hotlinking should be stopped because others undesirable consequences like switcheroo can often occur.

Using control over.htaccess is one of the most efficient way to prevent image hotlinking. Go through the following steps:

Creating & Placing .htaccess in Root (main) directory

Simply open a notepad & save it as .htaccess without any extension behind. If already have the .htaccess uploaded to your server, simply edit it like in step 2.

Editing .htaccess File

Paste the following code in the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite2.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ http://yoursite.com/other_image.jpe[NC,R,L]

Note: In Last line of the above code the image other_image.jpg is not hotlink protected or your server can go into an endless loop.

In the above code yoursite2.com can used be stop hotlinking from specific outside domains only, such as myspace.com, blogger.com and livejournal.com

If you want to display 403 Forbidden error on hotlinking simply paste the following code instead of the code shown above.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite2.com [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ - [F]

Remember, Hotlinked images can only be replaced by other images, not with an HTML page.

Using .htaccess to prevent hotlinking helps you block some legitimate traffic using these techniques.

What do you think about other ways to prevent images hotlinking on your blogs? Do you like this technique? Share with us your views.

How to Twitter from your Gmail account using TwitterGadget

Posted by on September 20, 2011 3 comments

Twitter is now most popular micro blogging, it is no less than an addiction & has become very common service to meme “what are you doing”. So, making this service more useful I have come up with a great tool which allows you to use Twitter while checking email on Gmail.

Gmail, the most used powerful service from Google, has a very good feature called Labs, which adds usability power to your Gmail account by adding various addon features & more experimenting features that are under developments.

Gmail labs feature using which you can embed twitter into your Gmail inbox. TwitterGadget is a new tool that essentially allows you to have all of the main features of Twitter inside of Gmail as a Google Gadget.


To Use Features of Twitter inside of Gmail  follow these three steps:

Log into your Gmail Account & Go to Settings.

Click the ‘Labs‘ Icon & Enable ‘Add any gadget by URL‘, then click ‘Save Changes‘

Click ‘Gadgets‘ & Enter the URL

http://www.twittergadget.com/gadget_gmail.xml

& then click ‘Add‘

You’re done! Enjoy using Twitter in Gmail.

How to Avail WordPress Ping Facility to get Max Exposure and Inbound Links

Posted by on September 19, 2011 No comments

In my last post, We have just seen how to update all those popular & most used search engines in one click, about blog updates using Ping-o-Matic.

For WordPress user, updating & notifying different services & search engines becomes more easy as wordpress as integrated Update Services Feature.

Update Services are tools you can use to let other people know you’ve updated your blog. WordPress automatically notifies popular Update Services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPC ping each time you create or update a post.

In turn, Update Services process the ping and updates their proprietary indices with your update. Now people browsing sites like Technorati or Sphere can find your most recent posts!

Ping Services That I Use

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://bblog.com/ping.php


http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2


http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php


http://ping.feedburner.com


http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php


http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/


http://rpc.pingomatic.com/


http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2


http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping


http://topicexchange.com/RPC2


http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates


http://xping.pubsub.com/ping


http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2http://1470.net/api/ping


http://api.feedster.com/ping


http://api.moreover.com/RPC2


http://api.moreover.com/ping


http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2


http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping


http://bblog.com/ping.php


http://bitacoras.net/ping


http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC


http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc


http://blogmatcher.com/u.php


http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc


http://coreblog.org/ping/


http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt


http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/


http://ping.amagle.com/


http://ping.bitacoras.com


http://ping.blo.gs/


http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/


http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc


http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/


http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc


http://ping.feedburner.com


http://ping.myblog.jp


http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php


http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php


http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php


http://ping.weblogs.se/


http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2


http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/


http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2


http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/


http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/


http://rpc.newsgator.com/


http://rpc.pingomatic.com


http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping


http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2


http://topicexchange.com/RPC2


http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php


http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b


http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php


http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2


http://www.blogoole.com/ping/


http://www.blogoon.net/ping/


http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates


http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1


http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php


http://www.blogsnow.com/ping


http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi


http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php


http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud


http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php


http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php


http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2


http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/


http://xmlrpc.blogg.de


http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

This is the list of Pings that I use to notify & update different services. This is a recommended ping list for a WordPress blog.

If you want the update services to be pinged, just Copy & Paste all the above update service URIs listed under “Update Services” on the Setting -> Writing under the administration screen.

Every time you post these services will be notified of your blog post increasing your online exposure & inbound links.

Our 100th Post & A SEO Link Building Contest

Posted by on September 18, 2011 3 comments

Inforids.com has had 100 posts with this! We’ve made it a long way since our humble beginnings from April 19th, 2009 on. Online for about 6 months we’ve had more than 1000 comments, thousands of unique views, and now we have reached our 100th post & we’re going to run a contest.

We’ve really enjoyed writing these posts up and plan to keep on churning them out.  One thing we’ve missed though is discussion & link love. Blogs are great for a lot of reasons, but perhaps the best reason is the fact that you can comment on posts with your own ideas, get link love and get into conversations with other readers.  In doing so, you can get new ideas, offer your own expertise, and make new connections in the process! It’s a win-win scenario for everybody.


So to foster some more discussion, project writing & link love on this blog, we’re going to run a contest.

The Contest

The objective of this contest is to collect some Best Search Engine Optimization Techniques to allow people to discover, interact & help  new bloggers and to share the link love.

Topic of Post: Search Engine Optimization Techniques

Rules to Participate:

  1. Write a post on your blog about only ONE Search Engine Optimization Technique that you think, is needed for search engine optimization. Describe how this technique affected your blog and how it affected your blog traffic & ranking. There are no limitations on the number of words so feel free to write a short or long post. ** You can also enter if you have already written a post on your blog but it should be published after 31 December 2008.
  2. Send us an email using the Contact form (below this post)with your name, post title and permalink of the post.
  3. Make a Comment below to enter the contest (**Do not write your post link in the comment.)
  4. After We publish the final list of selected entries you write a post on your blog linking to all of them.

In order to avoid some selfish participants would receive backlinks and not link to other people rule number 3 will ensure that every participant agrees to link to every other participant.

The mathematics behind it is pretty simple, if 50 people participate in this contest you will write a post linking to 49 people (according to rule 3)and in exchange you will receive 49 quality backlinks as link love.

So, As a prize if 50 participants are selected then each one will get 49 quality backlinks as link love.

Contest Deadline:

Entries can be submitted until 30 November 09 (Monday) and the final list of entries will be published within 2 days after that.

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So, We are looking for some Best Techniques for Search Engine Optimization.


Yahoo Meme Oversteps Twitter | Allows you to Meme Text, Photo, Audio & Video

Posted by on September 17, 2011 No comments

Meme (meme.yahoo.com) from Yahoo! is a light blogging and self-expression tool available in beta. With that launch, Yahoo Meme can be accessed to everyone who is having an Yahoo account.

Connect With Inforids on Yahoo Meme

Meme helps people quickly share what they are interested in and passionate about – including text, photos, video, music – with the world. Its design is incredibly simple to use and supports multimedia and text formats.

Just Meme Photos, Audios, Videos in Addition to Text

Yahoo Meme is built just an Step Over Twitter, the most popular Mini-Blogging platform. Why? Lets see.

What Yahoo Meme offers to People?

* Post own content(Text, Photo, Audio, Video) and repost the content of others that they find interesting
* One-Click reposts for simple and easy publishing
* Follow other Meme users and comment on their posts
* Remove content from their Meme including previous updates, reposts, comments, etc.
* Check out the most popular posts
* Consume and create content via their mobile devices
* Content limits are up to 2,000 characters and up to 7MB per photo

What Yahoo Meme offers to Developers?

Meme offers an open API built on top of the YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) platform. Developers can use this open API to create new applications based on Meme as well as easily create mashups with other products through YQL.

Follow Inforids on Yahoo Meme (http://meme.yahoo.com/inforids/)

Getting Ready to Convert your Blog into A Money Making Machine

Posted by on September 16, 2011 No comments

Before you start, to take a journey of converting your blog into a money making machine, I am going to tell you the first requisite thing to focus on.

What you will need to Kick Start?

Yes, that’s important. To get the taste of the fruits you need to plant the tree first. So, to start with you need to establish the base onto which you are going to work.

(Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlhank/3760913731/)

(Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlhank/3760913731/)

First you have to setup a blog & start blogging. What is a blog? This quick video helps you understand that.

I had already covered Starting a New Blog for Free using a free tools for setting up and publishing your own blog online. With its easy-to-use and customizable templates, you can create an account and start blogging right away.

You can also choose to go with hosted blog(with custom domain) & start with wordpress as the blogging platform.

Go for a Valid Payee name & Email address(For AdSense)

Sign up for a valid email address(I prefer Gmail, Why?) if you not have already & enter correct full information there. Make sure that you are using a strong password. For Google AdSense, this email & your valid present resident address, will the basic necessity.

Payments will be made out to the name on your account, so make sure to include your full and valid name.

Go for a new Paypal Account(Its Free)

For most of the online money transactions you need to Sign up for a Paypal Accout. You can Sign up here.

Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.

Paypal is a free, most secure, widely used online service for online money transactions. This will be helpful to you in future & making everything easy while joining the Affilates program.

Once you have done with that you ready to make money online.

I am going to cover Does your website meet all the necessary requirements? & most of everything that is required to convert your blog a Money Making Machine in my next articles.

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