Webtalks

RSS Feed Homepage

Articles: 1, 2

Is Google the only source for your Search Engine Traffic?
2007-06-10 14:09:00
SEO, everybody is running after it. But does the Search Engine here referred is only Google ? In recent days, I have got lot of visitors from Google Search looking for blogging tips. My site is well ranked in Google. But my next concern was that I am getting traffic only from Google whereas my site is indexed by almost all reputed search engines like Live Search and Yahoo. I knew that both Yahoo and Live Search gave most importance the blog age. Webtalks now is almost 4.5 months old. I knew crawlers index content when we have got in-links. An interesting observation I made that despite getting some 600 Inlinks according to Yahoo Siteexplorer, only the homepage of blog was indexed by Yahoo Search. Yahoo Search crawlers were for some reason not following links on the root page of blog.Then I tried a method called Deep Linking.I tried to link to previous posts of mine through related links using different keywords. Also then I encouraged bloggers to link to full post URL instead of h...
More About: Traffic , Search Engine , Source

Using Conditional Tags with New Blogger Templates
2007-06-09 14:51:00
You might have noticed a strange thing in my new template. If you visit the home page of this blog, then there aren't Adsense Ads between post title and post body but when you visit Itempage { Page with one Post }, you get an Adsense Ad rectangle between the post title and post body.I have mentioned an introduction in Display your backlinks with New Blogg er templates but now I?ll be giving you a in depth analysis of Conditional Tags in New Blogger{Blogger beta} templatesUnderstanding Conditional TagsThe old blogger also used to support the conditional tag ,i.e, itempage. Anything wrapped inside these tags will be displayed only on the itempage.& now we use the New Blogger which also supports conditional tags, a bit different though<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'></b:if>A bit complicated? We?ll make it easy.Lets have a sample if else conditionIf john studies, he passes else he fails Now lets have a second look on the code<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != ...
More About: Templates , Logger

Display your backlinks with New Blogger Templates
2007-06-07 15:15:00
Some comments,some Emails asking me how to display backlinks with new blogger templates that my site offers. By default, I have turned of "links to this post" in my templates, if you want to just make it visible {whichever template you may be using}, follow these steps..1.Goto Page Elements Section of your Layout and then click on the link which edits your blog post widget2.Mark the "Links to this Post"as checked.Remember you can also drag your "Links to this post" link across your sample blog post according to your relevance3.Save changes, and then view your template.Again there would be a bit confusion.On the main page of your blog,there would only be a "link to this post" line after each post.Wheras if you view only those pages with one post{Itempage}, It will also give the Post titles and link to the linking posts.This feature is used by conditional tagsin old blogger...Itempagein new blogger..b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"Another feature "Blog This" was added on 7 ...
More About: Blogger , Templates , Backlinks , Display , Logger

How can a small/new blogger earn instantly?
2007-06-04 18:42:00
My inbox was overloading with mails from small/new bloggers asking can they make money out of their new/small blog.As we all know Payperpost requires a blog to have a decent pagerank, but that is so not possible for a blogger who has just started.If you are one of the blogger who's site is read by a wide audience despite the fact that your Alexa score is high and PR still 0, you can still get paid for blogging by a service called Smorty.Smorty is a blog advertising service from where advertisers can advertise on blogs via sponsored posts but pay the blogger only when they find it of decent quality .The best part is that its still a new organization, so there isn't much flooding of bloggers and competition is not that stiff as on PayPerPost.Your blog can easily make most of out it.You do a honest sponsored post, your post is approved and then money in your PayPal account.Price of an average post is 6$.That means for one sponsored post you get 6 $ within a week and you are free to...
More About: Blogger , Earn , Small , Logger , Blogg

We are looking for "Good" Writers
2007-06-03 11:10:00
Hi everyone out there.Over the past few days I was burdened with my template change.I spent nearly 3 hours a day for it only.Now as it is Webtalks has got some popularity in the past few days:-Got the Blog of the day award -Featured at Indian Blogger List at Digital Inspiration by our very own AmitSo an idea of guest blogging suddenly ticked my mind.If you think you are an able person to write for Webtalks, come forward. You should be having a established blog and the blog post topic can be any of the following::Internet: Burning TopicsBlogging tips/hacksSoftware reviewsWeb application reviews... Any thing from the Tech SideFor participating in this guest blogging, simply leave behind your details as a comment or simply Gmail me,i.e,NameBlog URLBlogging experience{passion/hobby/full time}In return, you will get a backlink and an oppurtunity to place your Adsense ad on the main page of this blog.
More About: Writers , Good , Look

Webtalks is changing
2007-06-02 17:09:00
If technorati can have two design makeovers, Google simultaneously testing its Web 2.0 Design why can' your {expected} favorite blog, Webtalks have something special ? Today, 2 June Webtalks have gone through its first design makeover.Possible ReasonsI felt embarrassed when I used to design templates for others and keep a simple one for my blogI was terribly bored with itSidebar continued to drop despite efforts in IE 6Too messy!My Summer break has started !So now don't be shocked to see some mind-blowing or some rubbish{depends on point of view} thingsNew features addedA rating option for each postPlanned: Summarized postsIS a New blogger Xml Template.No Buggy ads between posts { in main page]A bit neat and no sidebar dropping in IEDon't worry, you too can have a new blogger Xml template like this, or even more cool from here
More About: Changing , Chang , Chan

Is PayPerPost the right choice for your blog?
2007-05-31 15:01:00
Webtalks reader, Carl, who read my previous article about low adsense earnings of bloggers followed me up via Email for more information on PayPerPost and does his site really need it or not. PayPerPost lets you do sponsored posts and then earn money at a decent price. A sponsored post will make you earn anywhere between 5 $ to 500 $ depending on the rating of your site. Its almost similar to ReviewMe but a bit more helpful for small bloggers because as it is small bloggers very rarely get an opportunity to get Blog Reviews. For PayPerPost, you need to have a PayPal account. For a higher rating of your site in PayPerPost, you need to have a high PR and a low Alexa traffic rank. When you have registered your blog, you?ll start getting sponsored post opportunities. This is a terribly good opportunity for small bloggers who don?t make much out of Adsense. I was also planning to start sponsored posts {15 $ per post} in my blog, but when I read their Terms, my mind changed. Why? ...
More About: Payperpost , Choice , Choi

View any XML feed inside your Gmail Inbox
2007-05-30 14:52:00
A feed burner icon today is very common in sites with most of them being blogs.Some of the blogs offer subscription to blog's XML feed via Email.What about those who don't?Many people, like me, are too lazy to check in their Google Reader everyday where I had subscribed the feeds of my dailies. How about a rotating headline right inside your G mail In box where you commonly see some sponsored links and some latest headlines from news blogs.To customize your Web Clips..1.Goto Settings2.Click on Web Clips3.Add your site's Xml(RSS) feed URL in the Search box4.Wait for confirmation5.EnjoyI recommend that you do not use the feedburner feed url as it not always works
More About: Gmail , View , Feed , Inside , Inbox

Technorati introduces Technorati advanced search
2007-05-24 15:15:00
In a short period of time,Technorati have re-designed its website and added / removed some features.The new look has a bit of professional touch in it.Technorati now have added a new part in their family, Technorati Advanced Search Technorati Search is an advanced version of their previous Technorati Search.What is a new cool feature added to this advanced search is their syndication options.For example, your looking for something about the New design of Analytics, simply advance search it and then subscribe it through your favourite bookmark option.If you are a webmaster, you can subscribe to the backlinks for your URL,so that you do not have to search daily.Blog authority which gives a pleasant idea about the blog's placement in the blogosphere.They previously displayed a line "XXX links to this URL".Now they have removed it from normal search and have added to advanced search "XXX reactions to this blog"Something strange I noticed is that when I searched for my back up wordpress...
More About: Intro , Vance

Wordpress like plugins for new blogger
2007-05-23 15:01:00
A Webtalks reader asked me a simple question?Are there any widgets which are similar to wordpress plug-ins. The answer is yes .There are some widgets created by professionals which are almost similar to wordpress 2 plug-insLabel Cloud widget: In wordpress, label is also known as category cloud. By default, the new blogger displays labels and a number just after it indicating the number of posts in the label. You can turn it into a label cloud with the broad label being of the biggest font size by simply copying this code from here .This is the one, I used..Archive calendar widget : By default, the new blogger has three archive lists. Hierarchy, flat list and a dropdown. In contrast, wordpress has a calendar archive .Purplemoggy and phydeaux ,boh have created separate widgets for it. You can get them here and hereRecent posts widget: As I have explained in my previous article, for displaying a list of recent posts, you need to convert into java script. This can be done here. A maximu...
More About: Wordpress , Blogger , Plugins , Like , Logger

New Google Analytics Design open for all
2007-05-19 15:20:00
Yesterday, I got a no-reply letter from Google Analytics team, that they have finally opened the new design for all users which they announced some days back.On visiting, the first observation I made was that this is the beta version and the previous design is still available who are not comfortable with the new design.This is the perfect guide/ tutorial for those who want to learn how to use the New Beta Google Analytics designStill the graphics are awesome and are using the flash player, so it will still take time to load but the good thing is that not everything is in Flash.What I really like about the new design is this hover effect they have on their graphsThe Drag and Drop functionality of graphs is still enabled, something new is the visitor location map like that of Frappr Maps but a bit neatSomething more is traffic sources.I had to previoulsy visit MyBloglog tracker to see from where my visitors are coming.This time Analytics wins it as it is giving each and every real ti...
More About: Design , Open

Blog Reviews.. An innovative way of building backlinks
2007-05-18 16:39:00
Ever since Dot com Mogul John Chow started is reviewing program and a free link exchange program,this system has attracting more and more bloggers per day.This time the victim is Darrin.Let us see what does he have in store for us...Darin.CC is a blog about Search Engine Marketing. He is offering to link to your blog if you review his blog and you could win a Free Nintendo Wii in the process!How I see it?Though I find it somewhat similar to johnchow dot com, Darrin has his own taste for things.For I can say that yellow is his favorite color{Anyone could guess that:)}Its not hosted on wordpressIt is top ranked in most popular blog directories and has a decent alexa rankAdsense Tip::Since you are using only one banner on each page, your CPM earnings wouldn't be that high.I recommend you insert adsense around each post so that you can earn through CPM as well and your high traffic doesn't goes a waste.The second victim is Kevin and he has shown us that we can Win a mascot at Blog gin...
More About: Building , Reviews , Backlinks , Innovative

Fix your blogger template sidebar Drops
2007-05-17 15:30:00
When your site gets a visitor and finds that one of your sidebar has been pushed below the posts, he?ll consider your site of not a decent quality and you might lose a regular reader The ready made templates which are available for Blogg er s are from the side of some world class designers but when a blogger places an image, video etc. in the middle of the post and the width of the images/video is more than that space provided, in some versions of Web browser, the sidebar tends to drop ,ie, it slips down blog posts this is also known as float drops. I had a similar problem when one of my friends said that the left sidebar is dropping for my Minima three column template in some old versions of Internet Explorer. My site is loaded with a lot of stuff and maybe in some web browser my sidebar falls. My site in short was looking a piece of crap without one sidebar. A normal css definition for a sidebar looks like #sidebar-wrapper { width: 240px; float: right; wor...
More About: Template , Sidebar , Logger