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increased My Blogger Blog Subscription Rate

Most of bloggers use this word to convince readers to subscribe : subscribe !!

A week and a half ago I had a sudden realization. Subscriptions generally cost money. Think about that for a second. It’s jarring, especially if you’ve spent the past few months or even years incessantly asking your readers to subscribe.

Word Association

The percentage of readers who misunderstand what you mean when you ask them to subscribe is largely dependent on your niche. Readers who know what RSS is probably aren’t confused by the terminology, but most web users have no clue about RSS.

I’ve found that a good measure of reader savviness is a blog’s split between RSS and e-mail subscribers – the higher the percentage of RSS subscribers, the more savvy the readership. I write a blog about entry-level jobs for new college graduates. Despite what you might think of the younger generation, the vast majority of my site’s visitors are not familiar with RSS. 55% of my subscribers get my daily posts through e-mail.

From what I’ve heard from other bloggers this is well above average, and I believe that my percentage of e-mail subscribers would be even higher had less savvy readers not been scared off because they thought “subscribing” would cost them money. These are the readers who think of magazines when they hear “subscribe.”

They think of paying to get something.

Great Theory! Now Back It Up

I use Google Analytics’ outbound click tracking on my blog so that I can analyze the subscription behavior of my readers. This method misses RSS subscriptions from the address bar, but the people who subscribe in that way are probably the most savvy readers and are basically irrelevant to this case study.

Most of my subscribers use one of the two large buttons on my site. The buttons used to include the text “Subscribe by E-mail” and “Subscribe by RSS” along with appropriate graphics. After I had my epiphany, I switched the text to “Get Jobs by E-mail” and “Get Jobs by RSS.”

I instantly saw results.

The above graph shows the trend in clicks to my RSS feed and e-mail subscription buttons for the 8 days prior to the change and the 8 days after the change. My subscription rate has increased 254% since I made the change, and 66% of the new subscribers are e-mail subscribers.

This is in line with my hypothesis that the people who misunderstand the word “subscribe” are the same people who will choose e-mail over RSS. Although they may not be web savvy, these readers are extremely valuable. It is essential in all copywriting that you avoid unclear jargon, even if it’s not jargon to you.

Words Make All the Difference

OK, so I haven’t proven that my readers actually associated the word “subscribe” with paying money. The only way to prove that is by surveying readers.

But I believe I have shown that very small changes in word choice based on well-thought-out theories can have a significant influence on the actions that you urge your readers to take. Whether or not my theory on the connotations associated with the word “subscribe” is accurate is irrelevant. It’s results that matter, and changing one word on my blog has given me outstanding results.

When readers visit my site, I now invite them to “Get Jobs by E-mail.” Brian encourages readers to get “E-mail Updates,” and he did this way before I submitted this article to him.

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Most of us use Blogger.com to start their free blog which may be for making money or sharing your knowledge, voice through blogging. But if your blog is not Search Engine Friendly than you can not archive your goal. For this purpose you need to make your blog fully Search Engine Optimized and add meta tag to blogger so that people searching their keywords will easily knows your site. Just follow following simple steps to add meta tag to blogger.

Step 1:

Go to Blogger Dashboard > Design > Edit Html and search for <head>

Step 2:

Delete Every Thing From <head> to <b:skin><![CDATA[

Step 3:

Place following code just after <head>

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> - <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>
<meta content='Your Blog Description here!' name='description'/>
<meta content='Your Keywords here!' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='Author Name here!' name='Author'/>
<meta content='Author Email Address here!' name='Email'/>
<meta content='document' name='resource-type'/>
<meta content='all' name='audience'/>
<meta content='general' name='rating'/>
<meta content='all' name='robots'/>
<meta content='index, follow' name='robots'/>
<meta content='id' name='language'/>
<meta content='id' name='geo.country'/>
<meta content='global' name='distribution'/>
<meta content='1 days' name='revisit-after'/>
<meta content='Indonesia' name='geo.placename'/>

Replace:-

To add your own description, title, keywords. Please replace all above words with your desire words! as shown below.

Blog Description : Write your blog description
Blog Keywords : Write the keywords of your blog
Blog Author : Write the author’s name(Your name)
Email Address : Write your Email address

Step 4:

Click on Save Template.

your blog is full Search Engine Friendly.

If you face any problem. Just Drop your comment. I will be able to help you about blogger Search engine optimization.

If you are searching for free .edu website to build b backLink, I invite you to read this article (How To Get Free EDU BackLinks) and get A list of free .edu backlink providing sites to increase your rank.

Why .edu BackLinks?

.EDU Backlinks are incoming links to a blog or website from .edu sites or blog that whav e power to increase your ranking in google and alexa.
backlinks from other then .edu site have also power but the power of .edu site will break all simple site and boost your ranking. Usually, edu sites are colleges or universities and they only link to valid resources and google trust them ,so if you get back links from this site that’s mean your site is doing good.

How To Get Free EDU BackLinks For your Blogger blog?
there is a tricky way that you can find a edu sites by searching in Google with these terms. Just copy the below lines and paste it in Google Search Engine, then start opening from No-1 and start buliding backLinks to get higher ranking.

site:.edu
site:.edu “blog”
site:.edu “log in / create account”

bloggingtrainings.blogspot.com.
How To Get Free EDU BackLinks?

1.) Just Open The Following Links.

2.) Register Or Comment On These.

3.) Fill Your Correct Information With Your Site/Blog Link.

4.) Visit You Link On Second Day And Ping It.

5.) Your Site/Blog Is Ready To Rock.

bloggingtrainings.blogspot.com.

Some Mix Collection Of .edu:
http://bcnm-dev.berkeley.edu/wp-login.php?action=register - PR9

http://tecto.gps.caltech.edu/forum/register.php - PR6

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?action=register - PR6

http://web.utk.edu/~dst/guestbook/index.php - PR5

http://forums.saa.edu/register.php - PR1
http://celebrating125years.stedwards.edu/connect/guestbook - PR3

Some Free .edu Forums:
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi
http://tecto.gps.caltech.edu/forum/register.php
http://forums.saa.edu/register.php
http://www.uta.edu/studentorgs/cgsa/forum/register.php
http://clubs.db.erau.edu/dbslavic/forum-phpbb2/profile.php?mode=register&sid=dad0f304df1b2a94f20321fc0bb0e7ea

Some Free .edu Blogs:
http://www.washington.edu/externalaffairs/uwmarketing/toolkits/best-practices/
http://blog.case.edu/webdev/categories
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/cwkramkissoon/internet-blog-1/
http://blog.students.london.edu/2009/02/internet-marketing/

Some Free .edu Sign Up Websites:
http://www.academia.edu/
http://www.educause.edu/ 

Live Writer Blogging software,offline blogging

We can do blogging offline with this software. With growing technology like Windows Live Writer blogging is no more limited to your dashboard. You can write, save and publish posts right from your computer without signing in your blogger account. Blogger HTML editor lacks many features when it comes to writing a good looking post. On contrary windows live writer is a software built by Microsoft Corporation which contains every feature that Blogger lacks.

I hate blogging without Windows Live Writer! I am sure many bloggers would agree with me on this point.

Some of the things you can’t do with Blogger HTML editor are,

You can not write HTML code just the way it looks in blogger editor because the code is interpreted as a command and blogger editor converts it to how it may look in a browser.
You can’t resize an image to whatever size you like because you are provided with only three options i.e Small, Medium and Large size.
The font type and font size is limited.
You can not undo what you have done (Going backward).
You can’t align images to the left or right of your intro paragraph.
You can not add effects to your images, like shadow effect, rounded corners, emboss, blur etc.
You can not post an image in its original size
You can not insert tables in your posts because no table option exists
You can not open a link in a new window unless you edit the HTML
You can not add a world map to your posts
And much more……………

You can not do all above in a compose mode unless you add or change the HTML code in your HTML editor. But editing HTML would seem difficult for a newbie whilst pretty easy for a professional. Since most people like me have limited knowledge about editing HTML, blogger editor is of little use to all of us. Luckily! Windows Live Writer comes to our rescue. It can to do what ever blogger editor can not. It contains every feature a blogger is looking for. One of the best things I like about it is that it saves a copy of your blog interface/theme and when you write posts, it will be just like writing a post straight into your blog. See the image below to understand what I mean to say,

Moreover your images can be displayed in two different ways look below,
image thumbnail in windows live writer

Selecting the photo album option will display your images in a scattered style (with a view album link below your scattered images),
Scattered album with windows live writer

Scattered album with windows live writer

So go and download it right now by clicking the link below.
DOWNLOAD WINDOWS LIVE WRITER NOW!
To download the Latest version directly from windows live site then click here
TROUBLESHOOT:
If you get an error saying that “your windows installer is out dated” then run the following setup (below) before windows live setup (above)
Download Latest Windows installer here

Which is best WordPress or Blogger?

which blogging platform to choose to start your blogging career? The major blogging hosting platforms are no doubt Blogger and WordPress. Now to judge which one is better I have written a detailed comparison chart below that will be of great help in making a smart decision.

Note:- I am not an employee of either Blogger or WordPress. The below chart is solely my personal research.

WordPress VS Blogger Comparison Chart 2010. © My Blogger Tricks

FEATURES	BLOGGER	WORDPRESS	WHO WON?
Template Customization	Offers Free Layout/Style Sheet Customization	No style sheet customization. Payment required	Blogger
Tutorials/Help	Innumerable Tutorials on Blogger Tricks	Hardly some	Blogger
Number of un-official Themes	Innumerable Designers Creating Free Templates each day	Few Designers Involved in offering free templates	Blogger
Coding Used	Uses user friendly scripting and coding i.e HTML, XML, CSS	Uses advance scripting like php that few can understand	Blogger
Dashboard Interface	Highly user friendly. Easy to navigate.	Complicated Interface with hectic navigation	Blogger
Default Template Collection	Limited Collection Of Default templates mostly un-professional	Over 70+ high quality Templates	WordPress
Template/Theme Replacement	Default Template can be replaced by a more free professional template	No template change allowed	Blogger
Widgets	Innumerable Official and Un official Widgets available	Limited Official widgets available. Rarely few un- official gadgets available.	Blogger
Comments	No commenting editing. Moderation allowed. No Spam protection. No user friendly comment form	Comments can be edited and moderated. Spam protection available. User friendly comment form	WordPress
SEO, Optimization	Though Owned by Google, no favoritism. Manual optimization is required	Owned by a private party. Meta Tags Plugins used. Easy To optimize	Both
Blog Privacy	You can limit access to your blog to 100 Authors and 100 readers. All must be Google account holders.	You can limit access to your blog to 35 Wordpress account holders. Posts can be password protected or Private.	Blogger
Comment restriction	You can restrict comments to Google account holders, Open ID users or Any one (includes Anonymous)	Comments can not be restricted. Anyone can comment	Blogger
Blog Import	Only from one BlogSpot blog to another	A Blog can be imported from another WordPress blog or from Blogger, Yahoo! 360, LiveJournal and Movable Type and TypePad	WordPress
Posts and Comment Notification	Authors and subscribers can be notified of latest posts and comments via Email	Same here	Both
Comment Verification	Asks users to verify if they are humans using a 4-6 digit code	Does not asks for any verification. More spam effected	Blogger
Video Storage Limit	Unlimited with Google Video and an upload limit of 16GB	Just 3GB. More space on upgrade.	Blogger
Image storage limit	1 Gigabyte With Picasa Web Albums	3 Gigabytes. More space can be gained through upgrade. You can also upload.ppt, .doc, .odt and.pdf files	WordPress
File type Storage	Only allows image uploading	Allows upload of files like .ppt, pdf .doc and .odt files. More file types can be uploaded on upgrading.	WordPress
Blog Stats	Does not have any default stats system. But allows third party tracking scripts.	Has a default visitor stats system that shows statistics for two days only and does not provide detailed stats reports. Does not allow third party tracking scripts.	Blogger
Blog co-partners	100 Google account holders can be added as Administrators or Authors	35 WordPress account holders can be added as Administrators, Editors, Authors or Contributors.	Blogger
Advertisements	Displays no advertisement of its own on your blog.	Displays discreet AdSense advertisements on your blog for small percentage of the page views	Blogger
Posts By Email	Has a Mail-to-Blogger feature which turns any email account into a blog-posting application	Posts can be published using emails	Both
Post Feed On Mobile Phones	Supported	Not Supported	Blogger

Conclusion

When choosing a blogging service three things are most important than anything else which are,

Template Editing
Huge Image Storage Capacity
Huge Video Storage Capacity

Believe it or not Blogger has all these three features and is undoubtedly a blessing to millions of teenagers and people from other classes who can’t afford to pay online. The Template editing feature of Blogger is one of its best feature. Within a year of blogging a guy like me who didn’t even know what CSS, HTML, XML meant, is now playing with codes day and night. Blogger made my life meaningful and interesting and will surely be a blessing to you too. Blogger is surely the best free Blogging Service available in Blogosphere if equipped with a good web hosting service.

Which one do you think is the best?

Send FREE SMS With Gmail To Any Mobile In Any Country?

Amaizing trick : Short Messaging Service is great! It is fast, it is cheap, and it is convenient! Not to mention verypopular especially among the youth. It lets you connect with your friends and family no matter where in the world you are. A few years ago, Google launched its SMS chat service via Gmail. But then it withdrew the service and took it back to its lab. This service was relaunched some time back, but was limited to very few countries, like U.S. etc. Well here's a good news! Google has, very recently, introduced updates to the service. Gmail SMS messaging is now available across a lot more countries, including Asian countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, India etc. You can now send texts to a lot of networks in many countries,absolutely free!

So what's the big deal?

This is a very useful service. If you use a prepaid mobile network, and if you are out of credit (like I usually am :P), you can send texts for free to people who are texting you! And even if you have some credit, but don't want to spend it uselessly, you can just log in to your Gmail account, and easily type and send a message to any of your contacts. I have started using this service for when I can't locate my cell phone, or am feeling to lazy to type a long text on the small, cramped qwerty keyboard. I prefer typing with a proper keyboard. Sit back and relax, and let your friends do the annoying typing on cell phones :). About this service, Google says;

How to send texts?

Sending SMS is simple. You of course need to have a Gmail account for sending SMS.

Step 1 : Adding a new contact

Sign in to your Gmail account, and open up the Chat pop up menu from the bottom left if it already isn't there. Click on the little arrow, and Add a new contact.

You will asked to enter an email to invite a contact. Note that if you want to chat a friend that is already your contact, then you can skip ahead to the next step.

Step 2 : Adding mobile number

Now, hover on a contact of yours, and click on the Send SMS button as shown below.

Note : If you haven't sent that contact an SMS before, of if you haven't added their number, then instead of the Send SMS button, there will be a Chat button at the exact same position. Click on this button and you will see a small pop-up at the bottom right of your screen, as shown below.

Click on the Continue this chat over SMS button. This will only appear if you haven't added their number, or haven't sent them an SMS before. Otherwise, you will be able to enter your SMS in this pop up. Once you click the continue button, you will be prompted to choose a country and mobile. This is the contact's mobile number. Add a number and then save.

Step 3 : Chat away!

Once you have entered the mobile number, a pop-up will again appear at the bottom right exactly where the previous one did. This is your chat box. You are now ready to go! Type a message in the text field , hit Enter, and sit back and wait for your friend's reply!

SMS credits

This is a smart way Google has found to encourage the use of this service. Initially, you are given fifty credits, which means you can send out 50 messages. For every one message sent, one credit is deducted. But for every message received, say when someone replies to your Gmail text, you get 5 credits. So tell your friends to stop being miserly, and start replying to texts :). You can not, however, exceed the 50 credit limit, no matter how many replies you get.

What if you lose all the credits? Well, you will receive one credit after 24 hours. A smart way to increase your credits would be to send a text to your own mobile phone, and then replying to it any number of times to refill your credits!

What are the charges?

Google does not charge anything for this service. However, since this is a new service to most countries, some carriers might charge you for it. Usually, you won't be charged for sending SMS through Gmail. The receiver might be charged a small amount if he chooses to reply to that message. Otherwise, standard messaging rates apply. Read more aboutSMS Charges at the Google Chat Support page.

Supported operators

The reason that this service is so exciting for us is that, it wasn't available for our country before. Not only for us, but for most of our readership as well, this is a big news. The inclusion of this region shows that Google is working to expand its services, which is a good thing. Previously, in the U.S, this service was limited to a few operators. Now, all U.S operators are supported. And the influence has expanded outside the U.S as well. Now, more than 50 countries are included, with hundreds of supported operators. And this influence is expanding fast! For Pakistan, Ufone and Mobilink, the major mobile operators in this area, are supported. In India, Reliance, MTS, Aircel, and other major networks are supported.

Here is a complete list of the Supported Mobile Operators. If your country is listed, but not your carrier, don't despair! Now that so many countries have been included, supporting carriers is not that big an issue. It's only a matter of time before more operators are included by Google. Just wait and see. If your country isn't listed, Google promises to include more countries very soon. So keep your fingers crossed :)

What do you think?

This definitely is a big breakthrough, especially for Asian countries. Check out this service and let us know about your experiences. And if you find any problems, let us know so that we can discuss the problem and look for solutions. Happy text-chatting :)

http://www.google.com/mail/help/intl/en_il/sms.html

http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/42704/google-brings-back-sms-texting-to-gmail/

http://support.google.com/chat/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=106015

Embed Facebook Posts in Blogger.

Social media has taken the web by storm, and is now increasingly being integrated with various services.Social recommendations have now become a lot more important then they were a few years ago as compared to organic search, which goes on to show that the way the average internet surfs is changing. And it's no wonder that every social network wants you to share its content all over the web. For that effect, Facebook, following into the footsteps of YouTube and Twitter, has launched embeddable posts, which will enable blogs and websites to share status updates, pictures and videos that are on Facebook.

Sharing your Facebook posts on your blog page cold could help with the engagement on your site. But before you can embed a post, that particular post needs to be public. Posts with restricted privacy settings won't be embeddable. So if you're trying to embed your own post, make sure it is Public first.

How to Embed Facebook Posts to your site

Now, there are two methods to embed posts. The "Embed" option within Facebook posts, and the Facebook Configurator tool. Both these methods will generate a code that can be embedded on any platform or website, and not just on Blogger.

The "Embed" Option

Facebook is introducing this option within Facebook posts. If you click on the little drop-down arrow next to a post, you will see an "Embed post" option sitting there, among other options.

If it's a photo, you'll see an Embed button underneath the photo where you normally find the Download and Delete options. Once you click on that button, Facebook will give you an embed code which you can add anywhere.

Although this is the easier way (apparently), Facebook is only slowly rolling it out to profiles and page. Right now, only about 5 Facebook pages have received this option, including Mashable, CNN, The Huffington Post etc. So for now, it doesn't have any real use. And that is what most other blogs will tell you. But what they won't tell you about is the second method, with which you can embed any post!

Manually creating an Embeddable post

In my opinion, this is the easier option. But it involves a bit more work. You first have to grab the URL of the Facebook post you want to embed. For photos, you can easily get the URL by clicking on them. But for other media, it isn't as easy. At least it doesn't appear so at first. To get a post's URL, simply click on its timestamp (see below).

Copy the URL from your address bar, and then go to the Facebook Configurator tool. Paste your URL in the field provided. Once your story loads in the tool, click on Get Code. You will get two code segments that look something like this.

The first is the code for the Facebook JavaScript SDK. You might already have this on your blog if you've previously installed Open Graph or some Facebook widget. But in case that this method doesn't work, then you can paste this code segment anywhere within your <body> tag. Having it twice won't do any harm.

Now you can paste the shorter code segment in your source code wherever you want to display the Facebook post.

Need a demo?

Check out this post I've embedded from over our Facebook page. See how it works.

Best Desktop SEO Software to Optimize Your blog

Whoever said you need to go to online services each time you want to look over at the Search Engine Optimization of your website? SEO is not a one-time process. Rather, it's an on-going one, which might make going repeatedly online to different sites a drudging work. To make it easier, there are certain desktop SEO software that you can install right to your computer, and they will work in the background when you're not interacting with them, hence making ordinary tasks SEO tasks easier for you. Here are the 10 best desktop SEO software to optimize your website.

Web CEO Professional Suite

Web CEO Professional is a complete Suite for webmasters, SEO professionals, and even search engine marketers. It integrates more than 12 different tools for SEO related tasks into a single workspace, From keyword research to building targetted traffic, and from finding a niche to performing site promotions on search engines, there's a lot you can do with this powerful SEO Suite.

Traffic Travis

Traffic Travis is all about optimizing your site for increasing traffic. It is a comprehensive SEO software that will give you insights into your competitors, and will suggest ways to improve your ranking and come up ahead of the competition. It can be used to remove errors in your site, and to build quality backlinks.

Internet Business Promoter

This is another great SEO Suite for professionals. Like Web CEO Professional, it also offers a lot of tools. But the primary use of iBusiness Promoter is analysis. Whether you want to do some keyword research, or analyze competitions, or simply want to track how well your keywords are doing, then iBusiness Promoter is for you. It will help you get into the first page of search engine results.

AdvancedWeb Ranking

Advanced Web Ranking can be rightly termed as a complete SEO Software. It provides a complete solution for managing all the SEO related tasks. It provides the most accurate and comprehensive keyword research tools, measures and improves search engine traffic as well as revenue, does effective link building and analysis, provides integration with Google Analytics, provides automated reports, updates and backups, and comes with complete data privacy and enhanced security and reliability.

SEO Power Suite

SEO Power Suite provides world-standard SEO software. It helps to improve the search rankings of your website on the search engines by doing proper keyword research and analysis, building quality backlinks, content optimization, and by doing other SEO tasks as well. SEO Power Suite comes in Free, Professional, and Enterprise versions. It provides powerful tools which make SEO tasks easy and effective and result oriented. Its toolkit includes tools such as Rank tracker, SEO SpyGlass, Website Auditor and LinkAsistant.

SEO Elite

SEO Elite offers a massive collection of traffic generating tools; reveals how a webpage ranks high in search engines, finds high PageRank sites, finds Super Affiliates, monitors reciprocal links on partner sites, backlink search, reveals how many and which pages each major search engine has indexed, regular updates of your search engine rankings, analyzes and compares special search commands on Google, reveals exactly which sites your competitors are advertising on, uncovers penalized sites you may be linking to, finds link exchange partners, and submit articles to article directories.

Microsoft Free SEO Toolkit

You can make your site search engine friendly using Microsoft Free SEO Toolkit. Free SEO Toolkit eases your efforts for search engine optimization (SEO). It can be downloaded for free. Free SEO Toolkit provides detailed analysis of your website and provides helpful suggestions to improve the overall relevance of your website in the search results. It helps you to grow your website traffic and revenue, controls the access and display of website content in search results, and improves the overall user experience as well.

Apex Pacific SEO Suite

SEO Suite is one of the most advanced and powerful SEO Software which comes with more than 25 SEO tools delivering high quality website optimization. It combines Web Ranking Software as well as Dynamic Submission Software and has hosts of other useful features as well. It comes with Web Site optimizer, Link Building Tools, Reporting Tools, does keyword research and analysis and also monitors the rankings for keywords and does lots of other tasks as well.

Screaming Frog

Screaming Frog is a SEO Spider software that lets you crawl a site or a link list quickly, scanning for target keywords and attributes, or checking for errors or inconsistencies. You can do a lot with this handy tool. And we demonstrated some of the ways you can use it in a previous post. Read the following post for more information.