Starting Your Blog:For Choosing the Domain Name & Hosting

With the increasing density of the personal blogs and the online businesses, number of people who know these basics have increased.

But still there is huge crowd out there who have the writing skills, talent and passion to go online but don’t know how to start their own blog.

Not restricting it to the personal level only, this tutorial is for all those people out there who will be able to start their own blog from scratch, after this tutorial, hopefully.

Since this is a complete tutorial for newbie’s so each and every aspect will be covered or at least it will be tried to.

Following is the checklist to start your blog from scratch:

Getting Domain Name
Getting Hosting
Making Up the Server
Introduction to WordPress
Dashing the T’s and Dotting the I’s
Getting Domain Name:

First of all, let’s have a look at what actually a domain name is. Domain name is just like the name of a house, not the address, as you need to visit some place you need name as well as the address and it must be unique.

A domain name can be regarded as the name of the house or building whereas the Internet Protocol (IP) Address  is just like the address of a place.

Domain names are merely unique words ending with specific letters. Be it a region focused name, like for Pakistan we use .pk domains or it is internationally accepted famous names, known as Top Level Domains (TLDs) with .com as most common, it is always unique.

For instance, ProPakistani.Com is a domain, so is ProPakistani.PK.

You need to buy a domain from domain registrars, such as godaddy.com or name.com. When you purchase a domain, you are provided with a domain management panel from where you can change the settings of your domain as where to point it. (we will tell you later about what pointing a domain means) For instance, you can point your domain to the hosting account where your website files are located.

Most people think this is the central part and you really need to find something different. Yes you should, but I read somewhere online, all good domain names and girls are already taken.

And as per my own experience and observation, it is not the domain name that matters but the content. Yes you can disagree with me by arguing the fact that search engines drive you traffic from keywords and good keywords in domain name can drive you handsome traffic but what to do with that traffic when the content is not up to the mark.

So get a good and attractive domain name that is just easy to remember and confusion-less. For example, avoid using characters like 0 (zero) in place O and Z in place of S.

In a single line, good domain name should be something like you do not need to spell it to someone else while passing verbally.

Still there are very famous domains out there which utterly contradict the point I gave above and common example is flickr which is surely derived from flicker without e.

Get the fact that almost 90% (rough estimate) domain names that are ruling the cyber world at the moment do not make any sense, but it took time for them to get settled, and as I said earlier, it is not the name, it is the content that matters.

Surely the next question is where to buy the domain and which is reliable. As you can google, there are many registrars out there but following should be preferred.

NameCheap (Recommended)
GoDaddy
Enom
TUCows
So once you have chosen the name and registrar, next part is how to pay. Since the absence of paypal is already being discussed very much and it really effects but still we have another solution. Simply get the UBL Wiz Card for online shopping and you are ready to go. Complete procedure on how to shop from UBL WIZ and Teen Internet card has already been discussed in detail.

Approximate price of a TLD is $10 which is approximately 860 PKR. So keep on calculating how much you really need to start a blog. Note that these are yearly based charges and you have to pay them again after one year of domain subscription for it’s renewal.

Getting Hosting:

So now you have registered a domain name and are ready to go with the next part, infact the most important one, choosing the hosting provider.

Choosing a web host is actually getting some space to put your things online. Hosting accounts are different in types, shared hosting, VPS, dedicated server, cloud hosting, etc depending upon the resources.

Whatever the type is, it’s purpose is the same, to provide you with the resources for your data that will be available online. Once you get a hosting account, you can park your domain here and by accessing that domain name, you can access your data.

As in our case, we are going to start a blog, all your blog data will go here, for instance if you are going to start a wordpress blog, your blog files, including all images, theme files, function files and your blog databases will be kept here.

Now it depends whether you are going to attract the huge amount of traffic like making a news, technology, telecom etc blog or it will be just a personal blog with fewer number of visitors.

In both the cases i would recommend to get a VPS or Dedicated server, depending upon your needs, rather than the shared hosting. Low end VPS are now available at very affordable price so better opt for the territory of your own and be the king than to share with someone else.

There was a time when these hostings were used to be very costly but competition among companies results in benefit of the customer.

You can simply google  about companies providing cheap VPS solutions, also you can visit WebHostingTalk.com’s Section for hosting offers as per your budget. Or visit www.LowEndBox.com to find low end cheap VPS solutions.

Keep in mind that at start, a VPS with 512MB Ram, 5-10GB space and 200GB+ bandwidth will be enough for you (forget about CPU share at this moment).

Average price for a low-end VPS is $5 per month which is approximately 500PKR per month. I preffer finding a good yearly deal that will bring handsome discount for you and will also be hassle free as you do not need to worry every month about paying for the server dues.

For analysis and comprehensive guide on how to choose the host meeting your requirement, simply go though the detailed guide, How to choose best web host for you.

So uptil now, we have spent almost 1350 rupees (Rs. 850 for domain and Rs. 500 for web hosting).

Once you are done, now it’s time to get a little break since you have already worked alot in choosing the domain name and web host provider.

Note: This is first of many tutorials relating to WordPress and Hosting issues.

WordPress and Joomla and Drupal [Preview]

The best WordPress, Joomla and Drupal [Preview]Three most popular content management systems are WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. Following are the key features of these three CMS in brief:


WordPress:


WordPress is in fact most popular and easy to use blogging CMS. It offers a wide variety of themes both free and paid. Even a novice can handle it and use and customize it effectively for both publishing and updating content online.

First released in May 2003 by Matt Mullenweg, its version 3.0 has been downloaded over 32.5 million times.

WordPress has many interesting features including a plug-in architecture and a template system.

WordPress is being used by over 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites. In 2009, WordPress won the best open source CMS award.

Joomla:


Joomla literally meaning “Total” or “altogether” is another open source CMS for publishing content online. It has features like page caching, RSS feeds, news flashes and support for language internationalization.

Joomla is written in PHP and uses object oriented programming (OOP) techniques.

Though its stable release came in March 2011, it has been in the market since 2007. More than 21 million downloads of Joomla reported between March 2007 and Feb 2011. There are over 6000 free and commercial plug-ins available from the Joomla extension directory.

Joomla is ideal for fantastic looking website designs.

Drupal:


Drupal, a CMS released in Jan 2001 offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers; however no skills are required for basic website installation and administration.

Drupal presentation layer allows designers to create highly usable, interactive experiences that engage users and increase traffic. Drupal themes offer a wide variety and support rich customization. Major Drupal sites include whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk.

Majority of people in blogging world in Pakistan may not know much about the Joomla and Drupal as WordPress is dominant CMS as it offers almost every thing for bloggers and it is as easy to use and customize.

While Joomla is making a name for itself in recent months with its greater advertising campaign but it will certainly take some time before it can replace the WordPress as no.1 CMS.

Why we should to Secure a Web Server

Let’s start with the loggers, and why securing web server is important to them. Normally blogger are of the view that why the hell should I spend the money or energy to this so-called security; while I have no sensitive data on my blog, neither I am in serious conflict with anyone? And even if some looser gets into my blog, I will simply change my server and will restore with the backup that I take on daily basis. So not a bid deal at all.

Well, I am afraid, but it is not exactly the same! Let’s peek into those incentives that a blogger offers to a website hacker. First thing that comes in is the show off, and probably it is the most enjoyable target for hackers. Normally, it is observed that blogs are not that secure when compared to corporate websites, hence they are easy to get in.

So hackers, especially the beginners start their to careers with hacking blog sites.

It is matter of fact that hackers don’t attack blogs for fun only, there can be financial aspect with hacking a blog as well, such as many hackers attack blogs to gain its data for instance, names, emails, IPs and latter on they re-sell it (for hefty value).

Another very dangerous thing can be, what if a hacker comes in and change your google ad sense code and changes it to his/her code, even in that case, a blogger can be in deep trouble.

Small Sized Companies

Now let’s consider a small sized company, and possible damages a hacker can do by hacking its website. For example, if this small sized company is selling some online products, meaning that there are very good chances that its clients’ information is stored on web server. This information may contain sensitive data such as credit card and other similar details.

Email boxes of such small companies are not normally not secure as well, which can reveal secret information, such as tender information, ongoing projects, upcoming products and similar to attackers, which can be your rival as well.

Large Corporation Websites

Now let’s talk about big corporations’ webistes, which can be the worst hit of any such attack. Obviously, more finances involved means more damage.

I opt not to disclose all possible treats for corporate websites (as they can be used for ill means), but its matter of fact that large companies MUST spend some time and resources in securing their web servers. For example, telecom companies, financial institutes, real estate firms and others have plenty of information saved on the back-end (in databases, or in hidden pages) to be secured.

The thing which bothers me most is that people don’t think of these security matters at all, and they are living their lives with open threats and eyes shut.

My Server is not Secure, Okay what to do then?

What can be done here is to get people hired to do security audit of you web servers. There are companies and individuals, and they don’t cost must, they make your web servers very secure up to a point where you and your customers can feel safe.

In Pakistan we have some companies that provide such web server security auditing services, but let me tell you that security is a very huge area and there are very few firms or individuals which cover every aspect of it. Additionally, I want to confess that in Pakistan, yes we lack security professionals.

We have three main domains in security auditing which are,

Network level: Network level means internal audit of your system and its service. This is very big area like here we have to cover whole network and need to audit every node, client, every port means everything.
Web level: Web level means web application level auditing and testing and this includes web server, web application and technology like wordpress, joomla, or any other inhouse application.
Wireless Testing: This is new level of testing, which includes wireless connection, wireless devices like cameras, VIOP phones, computers, networking devices and bluetooth devices as well.
So, look around and check out if your web servers are secure enough or not. Large corporations may consider big companies; however, bloggers and small sized companies with low budgets can go for freelance security auditors as well.

Drop your comments below, or contact me using contact us form on this website for any additional information you require!

Makes Yours Blog in 2 Language With 1 Click

Some time ago I wanted to have two languages on my blog - one for my natives, one international. WordPress have a solution called WPML but it's paid solution. Second thing, I have blogger running so long I don't want to transfer.

I've found simple solution!


This method changes main/home/base adress/domain and leads to same URL on other adress/domain. It's also simple installed, just one HTML/JS widget :)

What you should do before:
1. Create two blogs in two different languages.
2. Go to Settings->Search options and make a link to your own site in "page not found code" just in case :) it can look like:
There is nothing in this link, please continue on <a href="http://olesku.pl">Olesku.pl</a>.
Put your adress instead of mine ;)

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Now in both of them in Layout, create a widget "HTML/Javascript" and paste this code:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.write ("<a href=" + window.location.protocol + "//" + "theotherlanguageadress.com" + window.location.pathname + ">the other language name</a>");
</script>

Put adress of the second-language-blog in theotherlanguageadress.com and name of language used in another blog in the other language name.

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Writing new post:
1. go to blog of first language, click New Post
2. put some title
3. put the text, images etc
4. put labels etc.

5. copy all info from points 2,3,4 to New Post in other language
6. publish posts

7. now you can edit post, change titles to the proper ones in both languages, change text in second language post etc
8. don't translate labels!!!

Procedure for new pages is exactly same :)

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What you need to know:


You must have all links exact same in both languages. That's why you have to publish posts and pages with exact titles (you can edit later, but URL of post will be created at first time). Also that's the reason to have all labels exact same for all languages.

What works? Changing language while reading post, when looking for label, on archive pages.

What is not working? Every URL containing question mark (?) doesn't work. For example links to comments are not working; also changing language while looking for older posts is not -> search works by '?' sign so URLs are being shortened to everything before "?" sign. It's not so important, because most visitors will change language at first; also they probably won't be interested in comments in other language.

Another Good Looking Social Bookmarking Widget

People wants that His or Her Blog will be shared in so many social bookmarking sites And Websites readers do the same thing and the Author aspect more from readers. Heres is the new trick to add social icons display using css3 ,to Add this widget in your blog you need to add only 3 things and that are HTML , CSS and jQuery. You need to simply hover over the social media icons too see the beautiful effect of the widget which uses jQuery for the animation .

Steps to Add Social Bookmarking Widget in Blogger :

Note: Before making any changes to your template, take a full backup of your blogger template.

• Step 1#Log in to your Blogger Dashboard and Navigate to Design>>> Edit HTML.

• Step 2 # Copy below code and paste it just before the ]]></b:skin> code.

/* SOCIAL ICONS - GENERAL */
.social { list-style:none; margin:30px auto; width:464px; }
.social li { display:inline; float:left; background-repeat:no-repeat; }
.social li a { display:block; width:48px; height:48px; padding-right:10px; position:relative; text-decoration:none; }
.social li a strong { font-weight:normal; position:absolute; left:20px; top:-1px; color:#fff; padding:3px; z-index:9999;
text-shadow:1px 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);
-moz-border-radius:3px; -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); -webkit-border-radius:3px; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); border-radius:3px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
}
li.delicious { background-image:url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpwO4xGwEaJG68lYPx7mI6Bwo_jLTefAaKbZJ-6BJdLwrR1tVt4jKswWJ0Xw8M748XNaHfOfITPQMyB0AZLNZ6ijTgorlSxeKNLGDf6OswsZhlQ1woY8wR8g3xXJSWe7yxdfUAWbBic62r/s1600/delicious.png")
; }
li.digg { background-image:url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja726KKOK5F1RXvVX1xEgUukMH0oLEc54yv-ORpoudpVY_fFjZU7WE9eeL3B2FhoHBmrHYo2Xg63yMm4JDfhVqdmRn9BYX5UdAMwOpp4jzAvV7NdZB4TLk2gSRi0AVpANHPWSeKdgi1TEw/s1600/digg.png"); }
li.facebook {background-image:url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2WYg9baFx-y9PK4gvv-y_Xv07NEveFvgyYNtxx4B_aOstOLIy2DsLP0XmWKyKO3rFz6uHcIbSJb3aeAphwfpTenVAxpl6K9BZdVwc7Wreim6FTVIcIXe0zGhRDEnB5xNXWoGwhGEeSKek/s1600/facebook.png"); }
li.flickr {background-image:url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSAC0J0tPVM0Mtxpb-J5mAH71YAOsBCOVQNFBvSFlpIT3JyarW62wBZ90e29AN7DNXywiTSD14tHXPEE_z0k4Zc2RocKo8rfjwzTVd_4lDcf8nNGF7o4fQlx4NEGoJXyOYCBqvJ1EntA1H/s1600/flickr.png"); }
li.linkedin { background-image:url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-5xvcvWi5EDZbhqYHW6fHzmYFMVpVIV7r02Ch5IfGqmnR4lP1EH33XmjmfeCsfoyFGW3U9fL1Ejb_xWKuP9MIJUCbQJeqhImhazNfrAy-qrg5tRPJ5fwuLF5IZwducoOckXu0_yZk-Sv/s1600/linkedin.png"); }
li.reddit { background-image:url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqvFjCcP2VVs0oWJobiwamCWY-I9yO_MGhiPS2jAjMGDIzG9tXAMtAsVYyvIpbzktzUSOsdpwzycPA3fwo-Xe0hjZ_bVBPBC9vzbqkzjix8RV9OAaMuQnaF-RsPh9hsT1VUuVjy7w7Kv4/s1600/reddit.png"); }
li.rss { background-image:url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy5CxR9ztOc6DL9HJiWbFANzJEU2SEsL5T3cVXbhyn2B5lihK_QijyqRwo3gvk2N7s-79DbI3rCXTUrpRucMgezZNd-Fu9-FF8CKXcOvotizVcp6JKKTa_5HSv4TOPKn667DJcWhXD0yiF/s1600/rss.png"); }
li.twitter {background-image:url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYoiJzApPv6MIOcPxY4Xexf8WG-8KElGNiN9yMPlEtrR3dJqbJHgmIT7VlyC1nJraqyAD7UvrO1R-7zhN053antysPf6JGwESUHJnXWpkXUIj9oXNQ45rFoIuiVobXhJYQX8uLpXfl82at/s1600/twitter.png");}

#Step 3. Copy below code and paste it just before the </head> tag. ( No need to add
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
&lt;script type='text/JavaScript'&gt;
$(document).ready(function()
{
// Hide all the tooltips
$(&amp;quot;#jquery li&amp;quot;).each(function() {
$(&amp;quot;a strong&amp;quot;, this).css(&amp;quot;opacity&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;0&amp;quot;);
});
$(&amp;quot;#jquery li&amp;quot;).hover(function() { // Mouse over
$(this)
.stop().fadeTo(500, 1)
.siblings().stop().fadeTo(500, 0.2);
$(&amp;quot;a strong&amp;quot;, this)
.stop()
.animate({
opacity: 1,
top: &amp;quot;-10px&amp;quot;
}, 300);
}, function() { // Mouse out
$(this)
.stop().fadeTo(500, 1)
.siblings().stop().fadeTo(500, 1);
$(&amp;quot;a strong&amp;quot;, this)
.stop()
.animate({
opacity: 0,
top: &amp;quot;-1px&amp;quot;
}, 300);
});
});
&lt;/script&gt;

- No Need , to add jQuery in above code (first line in above code) if you are already using it.

• Step 4 # Now Save the template and navigate to Design >>> Page Element.

- And now Click on Add a Gadget where ever you want to put your social bookmark icons and choose HTML/JavaScript.

- Paste the below following code in the HTML/JavaScript Gadget and save the template.

<ul class='social' id='jquery'>
<li class='delicious' style='opacity: 1;'><a href='http://www.delicious.com/'>
<strong style='opacity:0; top: -1px;'>Delicious</strong></a></li>
<li class='digg' style='opacity: 1;'><a href='http://digg.com/'><strong style='opacity:0;'>Digg</strong></a></li>
<li class='facebook' style='opacity: 1;'><a href='http://www.facebook.com/'><strong style='opacity:0;'>Facebook</strong></a></li>
<li class='flickr' style='opacity: 1;'><a href='http://www.flickr.com/'><strong style='opacity:0;'>Flickr</strong></a></li>
<li class='linkedin' style='opacity: 1;'><a href='http://www.linkedin.com/'><strong style='opacity:0;'>LinkedIn</strong></a> </li>
<li class='reddit' style='opacity: 1;'><a href='http://www.reddit.com/'><strong style='opacity:0;'>Reddit</strong></a></li>
<li class='rss' style='opacity: 1;'><a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/BestHowToBlogger'><strong style='opacity:0;'>RSS</strong></a></li>
<li class='twitter' style='opacity: 1;'><a href='http://twitter.com/'><strong style='opacity:0;'>Twitter</strong></a></li>
</ul>

• Step 5.# Finally Save template and its done!.

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SEO Tips for Social Networking Websites

Social networking sites are very popular. Many people around the world meet their friends online and chat with them using a social networking website. One of the best parts of the social network is that it can be used as a SEO place. There are many people all around the world discuss on some forums which can be used as a SEO place. It is a new opportunity for Search engine optimization strategy. There are thousands of social networking websites all around the world can be used as a SEO platform. These are some popular names, Face book, LinkedIn, Orkut, MySpace and Twitter etc. They can be used for Search Engine optimization.

• Networking Groups : Search engine optimization on the Web casting sites is also very good because there are thousands of people search on Video and Audio streaming sites. These sites are mainly focused on the Music video and streaming services. But they are also a better social platform. For the Search engine optimization on any social networking site you must have a secure account on any social networking site. You have to be an active member of each of the social networking sites on which you want to do Search engine optimization. You must join several groups. Get friends and contact old friends and make new contacts on a periodic basis on these social networking sites. This is one of the best things you can do with your account on these social networking sites in addition to adding updated content of your site.
• Link Building opportunities : You also have Link Building opportunities on these Social networking sites. You can do several important things using social networking page of your website. First all you need to do is to attract visitors to your Social networking page on the social networking site. Now use your Social networking page as a Pointer to your website. So when you will get visitors on your Social networking page you will also get people on your site using your page on any social networking site. It is important to attract a lot of Social networking page visitors, because some of these targeted visitors might click on your website link in the social page.
• Link to your Site : Since social networking sites puts the rel no follow tag on their links that mean you cannot get search engine credit. There are sites like social networking sites and Google Profile and YouTube that put a rel no follow tag in the early stages of a page. Once the page has earned some trust and reputation on the social network, the rel no follow attribute is removed. It is very possible that social networking sites will adopt this kind of approach in the future. That will be a great step to increase the popularity of your site. Do not underestimate referral traffic from rel no followed links from social networking sites. If you have a lot of traffic for your social networking pages, then a lot of the visitors landing in your social networking page might purchase products or avail themselves of your services, so aside from getting a link, the referral traffic contributes to your website conversion rate from social network, which in some instances is more important than getting a link on social networking sites.
• Join Discussions Groups : If you want to make a social network very effective for your website you must join different discussion groups. One of the important things to remember is when you join these discussions you must bring good and accurate information about anything they are discussing. Always provide quality feedback and try to help others as often as possible, which build relations with the discussion group members. Always try to be positive about your information.

Creating your online presence at social networks will take a lot of time and dedication to the work. If you work hard and build relations with the people then it will be good for your website. This is how you can use the social networking sites for SEO of any website. You can also use the Web Casting site for the SEO of your site because Web Casting sites are also a great platform for social network.

This is a Guest Post by Jenilia. He has an excellent knowledge on different types of network hacking techniques and hacking prevention

Google Webmasters Site Verification WordPress Plugin - Download

Google Webmasters tools is a useful service of Google. Using Google Webmasters tools, you can check several things about your website or blog. Before using Google Webmasters tools, you must verify your website in Google Webmasters tools. Verification is not a difficult task however Google has made more easier by launching their official plugin for Wordpress called " Google Webmasters Site Verification WordPress Plugin". Here is how you can use this plugin.

How to Verify Site using Google Webmasters Site Verification WordPress Plugin

Using this plugin, you can easily verify your WordPress.org self-hosted. Google needs verification to ensure that we own the website. After verification, you will get a lot of information about your website's performance and ranking in Google search engine. 

Until Now, there were only few methods to verify your website i.e. meta tags, links to Google Analytics or upload an html file to your server or as recommended add a DNS record to your domain name configuration. But now, Using official plugin, you can easily get the job done in few minutes. Follow these steps.

• Install Google Verification Plugin in your WordPress blog
• Activate This Plugin
• Click on "Start Verification" from left sidebar of WP admin.
• Now click on "Grant access"
• Its Done!

This plugin has made the verification process really very easy. This will make more easier to know the valuable records of your website using Google Webmaster Tools.

Embed and Play MP3 Files in Your Blog/Website using Google

If you ever wished to embed or play an mp3 music file (song, sound track etc) in your blog or webpage then this article will be use for your because here you will come to know how you can play an mp3 song within your webpage. Google, few months ago, launched a flash mp3 player. That's a useful tool using that makes us able to embed and play mp3 files using web address of that mp3 file. You can control volumes and can pause the sound track any time. Here is how you can embed mp3 file.

How to Embed or Play Mp3 files in Blog or a web page ?

Seriously, its really easy to embed a file. We will be using Google Flash player to do this. The amazing thing about this flash player is, Google have not yet placed any branding on this player (i.e. powered by Google text). So, will hardly guess that this is powered by Google. Use below given code to embed a file.

<embed type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf” quality=”best” flashvars=”audioUrl=MP3link” width=”500″ height=”27″></embed>

There may be many more flash audio players available on the web however, this one is simply the best player and this is easiest way to embed mp3 files.

Things to Do if Some one is Copying Contents from Your Blog or Website - Guide

Today, blogging has become so much popular, now large number of internet users have their own blogs, several of them have monetized their blogs to earn money from blogs. Bloggers, who are lazy or do not have sufficient ideas or lacking English language skills, copy the contents from other blogs and paste them as it as in their blogs. Some bloggers do not paste entire article or post and changes few lines or words in the article however this is still called "Stealing Contents" which is unlawful. If some one is copying contents from your blog, here are necessary steps you should take to avoid content stealing.

Step 1: Take a License

First of All, you must have license that you own particular contents and you do not allowed others to re-publish those contents. You can have such license either by visiting concern license department  but as most of bloggers do not bother to visit some Government office to get a license for the protection of their online contents, it becomes difficult. Some countries even dont issue such licenses. So, in such conditions, you can take Creative Commons (CC) License from Creative Commons Organization. This organization issues 6 kind of licenses allowing you to share your work or to protect it. Here is how you can get a license

1. Visit their official website for licenses http://creativecommons.org/
2. Click on ‘Choose License’ button in right side
3. Fill a form and select the appropriate options
4. This will register your Website’s content in free and generate a script
5. Paste that script in all pages of your websits.
6. Thats it !

Step 2: Who is Copying Contents from Your Blog or Website

Its important to determine who is copying your blogs, means where do copies of your articles exist. Go on following plagiarism-checking Websites and paste the URL of any of your post and press Enter. Within few seconds, these online plagiarism-checking tools will show you the results mentioning those websites where the SAME article exists. If these websites do not show you any result, this means your article is not copied anywhere, If it shows number of links, it means those links have copied you contents. So, here we Go, Now we know who is copying our contents.

• Copyscape
• DupliChecker
• Plagiarisma
• Plagium

Step 3: DMCA Protection

 DMCA stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act. All online services provider companies such as Search Engines, Website hosting providers, Media hosting websites etc follow this act to protect copyrights of others. According to this DMCA

“DMCA Title II, the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (“OCILLA”), creates a safe harbor for online service providers (OSPs, including ISPs) against copyright liability if they adhere to and qualify for certain prescribed safe harbor guidelines and promptly block access to allegedly infringing material (or remove such material from their systems) if they receive a notification claiming infringement from a copyright holder or the copyright holder’s agent. OCILLA also includes a counter notification provision that offers OSPs a safe harbor from liability to their users upon notice from such users claiming that the material in question is not, in fact, infringing. OCILLA also provides for subpoenas to OSPs to provide their users’ identity.” ( source: Wikipedia)

You can take benefit of DMCA so that you could take steps if some one copies contents from your websites. First of All, go to DMCA Website and register your website with them, Now they will give you a DMCA badge, affix that DMCA badge in your website. Now, if you find out that some has stolen your contents, use DMCA Toolkit, using this Toolkit, you will be able to prove your ownership of contents and claim online service providers to take legal action.

If there are ways to copy, there are ways for protections also. You must follow above given tips to protect your contents and if some has copied then take the appropriate steps as mentioned in above article.

Show Widget On Particular Pages Where You Want

Showing a widget or gadget on particular post or page can be done easily if you are using wordpress for blogging platform because there are thousands of ready-made plugins to do that (you should read blogger vs wordpress). But what if you want to show a particular widget on some particular post, page, homepage or archive only ? or what if you dont want to show a particular widget on a particular page ?. Its not easier as there is no option for using plugins in Blogger/blogspot blogging platform. So, How you can do this in blogger ? Well, its not much difficult, only you have to follow below given instructions to show any widget on homepage, post, page or achieve.

How to Display a Widget on Particular Page ?

• Login in your blogger account
• Click on Design
• Now, add a gadget, If you are adding Javascript/HTML gadget then copy the text whatever you write in TITLE of that Javascript/HTML gadget.
• Now, click on EDIT HTML and then CHECK Expand Widget Templates.
• Search for the Title of your Javascript/HTML. (simply, press F3 and search for title of your widget)

Suppose if your widget title is, My First Widget, then search for my first widget.

Then you will find the text which will be surrounded by this kind of code which is given below. Now, if you want to show subjected gadget only on Homepage add <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'> code just below <b:includable id='main'> and </b:if> above </b:includable>as i did in below shown code.

To Show Widget on Homepage of your blog only

<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='My First Widget' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

To Show Widget on Post Pages (also called "single post") of your blog only

<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='My First Widget' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>

<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

To Display Widget In Archive Pages

<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='Widget Title Name' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "archive"'>
<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>

<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

To Show Widget on Particular Post

<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='Widget Title Name' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "BLOG_PAGE_URL"'>
<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>

<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

To Show Widgets only on Static Pages

<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='Widget Title Name' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "static_page"'>
<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>

<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

Thats it ! You should also try Blogger Page Numbers hack on your blog to add page numbers on your blog.