Previously, Google Accounts only functioned as an email account (better known by GMail Accounts). But now GMail account (Google Account) has been transformed into multi-function accounts for Internet marketers, especially for those who use Google tools like Adsense, Adwords, Analytics, Maps, Docs, etc.. But there are still many of us who are also very helpful with Google Mail itself because of its features that are not owned by any other mail services, such as for example: Free POP3, Free Email Forwarding, etc. (most other mail service charged a fee for those services). Now for those of you who are Goggle Mail users who frequently opened directly through web browser like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Opera would really enjoy the easiness provided by Google so far. But, don’t you know, GMail can do a lot of things for us than just send and receive email. If you want to know more detail about GMail, Google has now provided a special blog that discuss all about GMail. The GMail Blog is located at http://gmailblog.blogspot.com.
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To increase Pageview on your blog, one effective way could be implemented is to add a Related Post below every post we are writing in the blog. Most Internet users are wondering if finding related topics article that he liked. Adding Related Posts on WordPress is very easy. You just need to choose one of many Related Posts plug-ins that are available in WordPress. Install it and then activace it. That’s it. There are so many plug-ins Related Post at WordPress, one of them is WordPress Related Posts. But, who to do this on Blogger (Blogspot)?
The trick is very easy. Please login to Dashboard of your Blogger. Click the "Design" then select "Edit HTML" to edit the template code, please give a tick on the ‘Expand Widget Templates‘.
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Some people asked me. Why there is no post about trading anymore in my blog? Do I already stop trading? The answer is BIG NO. Yes there are several reasons why I never write article or analysis about stocks, forex and options trading in my blog recently. First I have a plan to create a separate website specifically to discuss about investing and trading. I purposely made it like this because if i write all my posts in this blog, the contents of this blog will not focus to a particular topic. The visitor who does not understand about trading would be confused to read the articles about trading. Meanwhile, traders who want to read the articles about feeling a little disturbed with posts that had not related at all with trading. So, therefore for the future, I will just write something about my personal life experiences, blogging tips, and collections of motivational articles in this blog.
To analyze traffic to my website/ blog, usually i use Google Analytics as my tools. For blog that used WordPress platform, i also frequently use WordPress Stats plug-in which is very easy and simple to use. Nah… for Blogger platform, beside Google Analytics there is another way to analyze our website statistics. Want to know how? Just visit to draft.blogger.com. Then you’ll enter into slightly different dashboard than the default blogger dashboard you usually see.
I check the “Make Blogger in Draft my default dashboard” to make this page as my new default dashboard each time i visit blogger.
In this dashboard, you’ll find a new menu on your blog called Stats
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Several years ago we still had a problem with language to attract visitors from all over the world to visit our website. But thanks for Google. Because of their powerful technology, we do not need to open our dictionary each time reading an article on the internet. Just use Google Translate, and we can easily read foreign language we don’t understand. The common way to translate a website is enter translate.google.com and enter the url you want to translate and click translate. The other way is search on the google search engine and click “Translate this page“. But don’t you know that you can even add google translate feature on your website? With google translate feature, you don’t even have to open translate.google.com anymore.
This will make an internet user who visiting your website can directly translate your website without enter translate.google.com anymore. Just choose the language from your website, and it will directly translated into the language choosen. Read more…
A lot of my friends ask me about how to change favicon in their blog / website. If you don’t know what is favicon, favicon is the icon that usually appear on the left side of our title in the tab of our browser. The icon also appear as bookmark icon on your browser. The favicon is more like a logo for your website and it is advised that you use one to make your website more beautiful. I will explain how to add / change the favicon in website and the most used blogging platform (WordPress & Blogger)
Create a Favicon File
The first thing you must do is create a favicon file. You can create this by Photoshop or other graphic design tools you usually use. Icon files usually recognized with ico extention. But, for this you don’t have to use *.ico file , it can be any image file (GIF, PNG or ICO) but make sure the size of the Favicon is not too big or it will make your website become slower to open. Make sure sizes are square, it can be 16×16, 32×32, 64×64 or 128×128 (It’s better not use size larger than 128×128). Read more…
I frequently read a status update on Facebook using inverted text (upside down text). Sometimes i also update my status using this upside down text. Just like you see on this status update below
Maybe you ever encountered upside down text like the picture above? I myself once ever wondered how to make these inverted .. Once i checked how to type these inverted text, i found that there were a lot of generator for these…
Well if you want to know how to write upside down, follow these instructions:
* Open http://www.sherv.net/flip.html pages
* Type the word / sentence in the column above
* And the text directly converted into upside down text, just copy and paste the results to your status update on Facebook. You can also use this for messenger (like Yahoo Messenger, MSN, Google Talk), website, twitter and many other platform.
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When you writing a post on your blog, sometimes you want to include HTML tags or code into the post, especially if you’re writing a blog about about making website with HTML or the HTML tutorial. You have to demonstrate it by telling any formula in the HTML code into the post. Well .. Did you know that not all the HTML tags and code can be written in post by simply typing a character on keyboard or by copy paste the code to your post (This at least applies to Blogspot. It shouldn’t be a problem to type directly on WordPress).
For example, if you want to write HTML like this sentence:
<b> example of bold </ b>
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I used Mac as my primary OS. But i still can’t get away at all from MS Windows. Don’t get me wrong, i really love Mac OS X Leopard. But i still can’t say goodbye to Windows. So i still use Parallel Desktop to run Windows on my Leopard. Why? Because there are some software only supported on Windows and i couldn’t find its replacement on Mac. Besides Metatrader 4 which is used for forex trading (there is no mac version for MT4 platform until today), Windows Live Writer is one of them. I’ve tried Blogging Tools on Mac like Marsedit & Ecto , but i still prefer Windows Live Writer for my blogging writer tools. The good part of this software is it’s free !!!
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Recently I found a problem on my blogger blog. This is just a small problem but quite annoying for me. I miss the option to Add a Adsense Gadget feature in the layout screen on Blogger. Usually if we click Design and click Add a Gadget there will be 20 gadget choices on popup. But one of my blog has only 19 gadget choice (and the missing gadget is Adsense Gadget). The same thing happen when i click Monetize on Blogger menu, there only one tab shown which is Amazon Associates. All Adsense tab like Adsense Overview and Adsense For Feeds is missing.
After query some search on Google and Blogger help, i couldn’t find any answer to solve this problem. And then i tried to check my blog setting more deeply. And the problem is solved. So if you have the same problem with me, just read this guide below.
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