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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Facebook Recommendations Bar, How To Add?

Facebook launched Facebook Recommendations Bar (FRB) in July 2012 to engage readers browse more articles in your blog by suggesting what articles Facebook friends explicitly liked and shared. It entices readers to read more, and spend more time on your blog. This makes viewers more likely to click on the recommended articles/posts as they were liked or shared by other; which means they are worth to read. More pages being viewed, more engaged visitors become. And they will more likely subscribe your blog. Another thing to consider is, the readers will create more impresions to your blog as they are surfing around the site, thus create more cost per thousand impressions (CPM), and potentially more cost per click (CPC).

Facebook Recommendations Bar suggests additional articles as soon as visitors finish reading the blog post, after sometimes, or after readers reach a specific location on your blog. The Facebook Recommendations Bar consists of the Like button, and post/article recommendations. And it only displays posts/articles already being shared and recommended by others on Facebook. It will pop up at the bottom right corner, the same as Facebook chat box, and users can miminize it. Very user friendly, right?. That's why many popular bloggers have implemented FRB in their blog, such as Mashable..etc.

How Facebook Recommendations Bar works?

When viewers concentrate on reading a post/article, or almost finish reading it, FRB pops up, annoys, and reminds readers the existence of Facebook which they may forget. FRB recommends the other posts/articles visitors should read as these articles were likes and shared by Facebook friends, as well as, prompts to like the blog post. If the reader liked the article, it would be seen in his or her timeline, and appeared in his or her friends' feeds. We can say this is a more invasive versioin of the like button, and recommendations box of Facebook. So, this is a must-have plug-in for any bloggers, right?

How to add Facebook Recommendations Bar to your blog?

Follow the simple steps below, and you'll have the most powerful widget of Facebook available at this date and age.

Step 1: Add this code After/Below <head> tag

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<meta content='article' property='og:type'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.title' property='og:site_name'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.pageName' property='og:title'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.postImageThumbnailUrl'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.postImageThumbnailUrl' property='og:image'/>
</b:if>
<b:else/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.title' property='og:title'/>
<meta content='website' property='og:type'/>
</b:if>

<meta expr:content='"en_US"' property='og:locale'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.canonicalUrl' property='og:url'/>

Step 2: Go to Facebook Recommendations Bar Official Page

Step 3: Scroll down to the middle of the page, you will see something like this

Step 4: Click Get Code => Create a new app

Step 5: Enter your blog name and blog URL, then click Continue => Submit.

Step 6: Click Get Code again

Step 7: Copy the code in the first box ( you will paste this code into your template )

Step 8: Go to Template => Edit HTML => Proceed => Tick Expand Template Widgets box

Step 9: Paste the code you copied in Step 7, After/Below <body> tag.

Step 10: Save template

Friday, July 22, 2011

How to change blog title tags

Today, I will show an esay tip that can make your blog post likely listed in Google search results. And this has been implemented by many bloggers already. But if you haven't done this, it would be useful for you. As you can see an example below for my blog:

Which one is better? The first one is absolutely the best because Google would read your blog post title first, then blog title (in the first one); and if your blog title is too long, it would be a big disadvantage for you if your blog is still displaying as the second example. Thus, now I will guide you how to change blog title tags in every blog post. You can see the instruction below:

You're in draft.blogger.com , go to Template
Scroll down until you find Backup/Restore Template >> Click on it, then Download full template
Click on Edit Template >> Tick the Expand Widget Templates
Find this code (to find it, press Ctrl + F)

<title><data:blog.title/></title>

Replace it with this code

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <title><data:blog.pageName/> |<data:blog.title/></title> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> </b:if>

Click Save Template

Note: if you just want to show the post title only which can even make your blog posts ranked higher in search engine, you can replace

<title><data:blog.title/></title>

with the following code

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

How to add blog to Google

The main purpose of creating a blog is to let people readind your blog. But how can your blog be visible to readers all over the world. The easiest way is that you need to let search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.. know your blogs first as people tend to type in a search box whenever they want something. For now, I just focus on Google as it's the most popular search engines in the world. So, how to add your blog to Google?. To do that you need to go to Google directory, then fill the form and click Add URL button. You're done. I wish your blog will be soon indexed by Google. You can go back to Blog on Blogspot home page to get the latest tips.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Getting one way backlinks

Since Google page ranking was determined by how many backlinks your site has, bloggers have been attempting to get as many as backlinks as they can. Thus, it has made backlinks become the hot topic in the blogosphere. To get a high page ranking in Google, you don't just get as many backlinks as you can because it will take a lot of your time and your page rank may not be increasing. This is because mots of your backlinks are listed on low page ranked sites. The imporant things you need to know about backlinks is that quality backlinks are far more important than quantities of backlinks. I would say that 1 backlink in a high page ranked site would be equal to backlinks in 10-20 PR0-PR1 sites. That's why I am here today to share some quality backlinks that you can easily get from some popular sites such as StumbleUpon, Technorati, Google Bookmarks, Google Profiles, Blink List, Del.icio.us, directory free, puppyurl.com.

It would take sometime get backlinks from these sites, however, when your links have been indexed by Google on these sites, just watch your blog growing.

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