Some of us here have been enjoying the photo editing feature on Google+ since its introduction in November, 2013 but I believe a great number of you are yet to know about this feature and how to use it.
As one of it’s techniques to land you on Google+, Google has integrated an amazing photo editing tool into Google+. Though a number of you has sworn enmity with Google+ but in this case, hatred doesn’t matter: This tool will make you use Google+.
Google+ photo editing tool allows its users to crop, enhance or customize photos they have uploaded through their Google+ account, Blogger platform, Android OS or any of Google’s services that involves photos. Google+ creates an automatic album for all the photos you shared on various Google platforms. Any changes you apply on a photo will reflect on it regardless of where it’s being used or was uploaded.
To edit a photo
Login to your Google+ account.
Goto your photos page.
Click on the photo you want to edit
This will open a light-box, click on edit inside the light-box.
Clicking edit will bring photo editing tools to the right hand-side of the screen. For the first timers, I would advice you play around with the tool until you are able to master it’s functions.
When you are done editing, hit the finished editing link to apply your changes.
Facebook has been improving over the recent years, from the introduction of Video Recording On Instagram to the amazing Recommendations Bar for Bloggers making facebook the leading social network in this present world. We do not intend to keep our loyal blog readers on the dark, so we try as much as possible to keep our loyal blog readers updated with developments of this magnitude.
Why do I need to Embed Facebook Post to my Blog Post?
First of all, I think that’s a question you need to ask yourself, considering the fact that you issued this search on google :-), but if you are reading this tip because you find it interesting, here are a few answer that was put together by me.
Embedded Posts are a way to put public posts – by a Page or a person on Facebook – into the content of your web site or web page.
The embedded post will show any media attached to it, as well as the number of likes, shares, and comments that the post has. Embedding posts will let people using your web site see the same rich information that is shown on Facebook.com, and they will enable people to follow or like content authors or Pages directly from the embed.
What Platforms are Supported?
Are you really that inquisitive? Well, it’s good news for all, because the facebook embeddable post does work on every platform (All platforms include wordpress, blogger, oxwall, joomla, even your simple html site).
Special note: You need to add the following code to any place in your <body> section
If you are using a site built with either dreamweaver, blogger or oxwall.
Embedding your Facebook Post into your Blog Post!
There are two ways of doing this, but each method depends on where your source post is located on facebook.
Embedding Code from a Facebook Post
This method is applicable, if you are embedding a post from your profile newsfeed or in the case of embedding photos and items. To embed a post, first check if the post is public by hovering over the audience selector (you’ll see a globe icon). Only public posts from Facebook Pages and profiles can be embedded. If the post is public, click on the icon that appears in the top right corner of the post on Facebook:
Choose ‘Embed Post’ from the drop down menu that appears. You will see a dialog appear with the code to embed your post in it:
Copy and paste this code into your web page in the place where you want it to appear.
Embedding Code from a Facebook Page
Assuming you have a Facebook page and you would like to share a content from your page to your blog readers, here is the way to go: Simply, goto your page and 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 is a bit complicated, at least for newbies. To get a post’s URL, simply click on its timestam
Copy the link on your address bar and go to Facebook Configurator. Paste your URL in the field provided. Once your story loads in the tool, click on Get Code. You will get two codes similiar to the image below
Simply copy the second code and paste it where you want it to appear…..
Looking for Demo? Here is a post I published some months ago, try it out and see how it goes Remember to ask your questions here and also share your testimonies with others with the aid of our comment sections.
Last week I wrote an article on Why You Must Quit Blogspot Comment System. As expected many of you contacted me, asking me how to change your default blogger comment system, in regard to that I want to start by telling you how to install IntenseDebate comment system on your Blogger platform.
CommentLuv One of the most popular used 3rd party comment system on Blogger.com is IntenseDebate. What attracts most people is the ability to use the Plugin CommentLuv. In a way, it is to encourage and also as a reward to commentators who took their time to comment on one’s blog. CommentLuv rewards your readers and helps to discover new and interesting posts by automatically adding a dofollow titled link to the comment authors last blog post when they comment.
HTML Formatting You can also customize your links and add some photos to your comments. IntenseDebate supports the following HTML tags: <a>, <b>, <i>, <u>, <em>, <p>, <blockquote>, <br>, <strong>, <strike>, <img> Gravatar Intensedebate offers full Gravatar support. If you have a Gravatar they will automatically upload your Gravatar when you signup for IntenseDebate. You can choose to use your Gravatar or upload a different profile pic. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you (with pictures) on how to install CommentLuv on your Blogger blog.Note: You will not loose your old comments when you install IntenseDebate Features Of IntenseDebate:
IntenseDebate is one of the most popular feature-rich comment system for WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and many other blogging/CMS platforms.In this tutorial I am going to explain how to add IntenseDebate comment system to Blogger blog. With IntenseDebate,you can do many things than your default comment system.These are some main features of IntenseDebate comments.
Commentluv
Comment Threading.
Reply-By-Email.
Email Notifications.
Commenter Profiles.
Moderation/Blacklisting.
Reputation Points & Comment Voting.
Plugins API.
OpenID.
Widgets.
Twitter Connect.
Facebook Connect.
RSS Readers & Tracking.
HOW TO INSTALL INTENSEDEBATE ON BLOGGER PLATFORM Follow the following steps below to Install IntenseDebate On Your Blogspot. Before you start this process,you must backup your blogger template first.Save the backup template file on your hard drive.
Next, you’d need to choose how you want to display your IntenseDebate comment. To keep your old Blogger comments, choose All new posts (IntenseDebate will only appear on new posts and posts without comments). To start your comments from scratch, choose On all blog posts (IntenseDebate will hide your previous comments).
Scroll down and upload the Blogger template that you’ve downloaded in step 1 and select continue
You will be brought to a page where a new set of template code is created
Copy the codes
Step 3 – Install IntenseDebate comment system
Return to the Blogger tab in step 1
Navigate to Template
Select Edit HTML and then Proceed
Select Expand Widget Template
Replace all the template codes with the new codes that you’ve copied previously Select Savetemplate
Step 4 – Install CommentLuv plugin
Return to the IntenseDebate tab in step 2
Select configure this IntenseDebate account
On the left hand side menu, select Plugin
Scroll down till you find CommentLuv and select Activate
How to make money online:There are so many articles on “How to make money online” and over 1000 get rich quick schemes jobs online which has proven useless and abortive in assisting you in earning online. Before I continue, I want you to know that this is not a get-rich-quick scheme and I am going to tell you why it is not. This article does not promise you any sure means, through which you can make money online doing little or no jobs neither is it an investment program that you go into and sit and home. In a nutshell you have to work hard to make money through the methods you will be seeing below.
In making money online, the first thing to have in mind is that you have to be offering a service before you get paid. The services you may offer can be affiliate marketing, selling your self published e-book or someone else’s,blogging e.t.c.
1. Blogging: This is one of the most discussed means of making money online. Although most successful bloggers will just tell you to start a blog and start earning, making money online with a blog requires effort, time and hard work to keep your readers loyal. Some of the advantages of owning a blog is that you get to share your thoughts and opinion, build an audience and make cool cash eventually. You should be ready to put in your best if you want to succeed as a blogger. You can’t make money online free
–> 2. Freelancing: This is another way of making money doing various jobs online for people, organizations and companies. This method of making money is not that popular and most people do not know they can make over $1000 each week if you are skilled and have at least four (4) hours a day to put into freelancing.
3. Simply Jobs website: Another way of making money online is doing jobs for people in five $5 jobs websites. You can make money with this by selling or reselling e-books, coming up with cool ideas and selling it to people for $5. An example of this kind of website is fiverr. If you can do 5 – 6 jobs a day, you will realize up $30 daily.
4. Internet Marketing: This is another widely discussed means of making money online. You can sell your services or be an affiliate marketer (Help someone else sell their products and services and get commission on sales). If you are a writer, you can start selling your books online or become an affiliate marketer. If you don’t have any idea or experience in writing, you can go to any freelancing sites and pay a freelancer to write for you. This can serve as a steady source of income for life. You should have in mind that this also is not easy too and requires effort.
5. Website Flipping: You can start flipping websites today after you are able to build traffic to that site. It requires time and effort. I will recommend this for people with experience in making money online and building website traffic.
6. Investment programs: You can start today and invest online and watch your money grow. Before you go into this, have in mind that you earn according to what you invest. One of the fastest growing and stable investment program right now is Justbeepaid they will lend you $10 dollars to invest with first, this will enable you understand what the program is about and how quick your money can grow
7. Articles writing: Everyday, more and more people are joining the blogging community, and they are all looking for new and unique contents to publish. If you are a good writer, you can start writing today. The best place to start is with a freelancing site. You can be paid about $2 per 400 word articles. This requires creativity and experience in SEO. You can learn all about SEO writing on ezine articles courses. You can also start your own articles websites where your write and sell articles.
Have in mind that making money online is not easy. It is a gradual process, which you have to put your time and effort to. When you become established, yoiu can earn upto $5000 monthly. Its not possible to make money online fast
Google over the years has brought a lots of amazing features to improve Blogger platform but they seems to forget about the comment system (is probably one of the worst comment system in existence) or probably they consider it unimportant.
Like most of you I have always admired the comment system of other blog platforms like wordpress, but has waited (I’m still waiting though!) patiently hoping to see a better comment system one day. (Looks like we are not going to see one in the future either).
Why You Need To Quit Your Blogger Comment System??
One of the most effective ways of retaining readers to your blog is by building a little community in your blog, like I mentioned before; Blogger has one of the most crappy comment system in existence; which is the area I think they still need to improve. On my cause of making my blog convenient for you I went for a journey, With a little research (Google Of-course 🙂 ) I managed to grab some Ideas I think I should share with you. My Discoveries!Ouch: This is a very unusual title to give to reason 🙂 but honestly I can’t think of a better title to give to it (you probably should suggest one for me). While I was still using the blogger comment system, I made a very crucial error while posting a long reply on a user comment, that was when I voiced the word “ouch” what do I do? There was no Edit or Preview Option, I had to delete and re-write the entire comment (so bad I guess?). The worst is coming…… No Threading Comments: In other comment system you might have seen a REPLY button or link attached immediately after or below each comments; this is known as threads comment. This all important feature enable you and your readers to reply directly under each comment (Not the ‘@’ trash we normally use), Without having to do some advance xml editing. Now, this is a very important feature for any blog comment system, our dear default blogger comments system do not allow you to reply directly to a comment, this can lead to confusion and Ioften see bloggers having to use ‘@’ to specify which person the were replying to for example ‘@quoyo’ ‘@gotmelsh’ I can now post a reply and it will be attached to the bottom of each comment. Enticing Comment Form: The comment form you probably have seen on wordpress comment system allow users to comment as a guest with their Name and URL, This feature entice your readers to comment on your blog post. ‘Would you want to comment on a blog that doesn’t give user the privilege to share there own blog/site?’ ‘Other people probably won’t like to either’ (that’s the devil’s tempting offer you can’t reject’) or if they have a wordpress account they can comment with that profile.But they can also comment with their social network and online profiles like *Twitter *Facebook *Yahoo *OpenId (Did You Know Your Blogger URL is an open Id?). When you leave a comment you can also add an image or video to your comment instead of adding an image or video URL that will take users out of your blog. Now that’s is a good example of a good comment system.We have ‘that devil’s tempting offer’ but please do not spam us 🙂 Email Options: This is probably the most important feature that blogger comment system lack. ‘Ask me why?’ This is becourse these option allows your readers to choose if they want to receive new comments or replies posted to the posts they have earlier commented on directly to their email whereby helping the user to know when a reply is posted to his reply… What you probably don’t know is that this feature help you a great deal to maintain a good number of returning visitors. please, remember to choose this option while commenting here becourse I would love to see you again. Ratings: Many of you know that I’m on bloggers, most time what really takes me to bloggers is to check how many people that voted (Rate) for my talks (comment). If there are so many people who does the same thing out there, then you can imagine how many returning visitors who will often come back to your blog to check if anybody voted for them. Our blogger comment system lacks this feature too… “You are beginning to realize how much features you are missing” Hold on I still need to tell you something and please do not forget to tell me something too 🙂 Your comment is very valuable to me. Moderate Options: Most Comment system other than blogger comment system allows you to reply your post comments directly from your dashboard and email. You receive an email when a new comment or reply is posted on your blog post, the same as with Blogger comments however the options to reply to a comment are much more versatile.
When I’m away from the computer for a few hours if I have received for example fifty comments I can go to my Intensedebate dashboard to manage the comments.From here I can read the comments and see which posts the comments were posted on.I can click on each comment and reply or delete the comments from the dashboard, now i can reply to comments on one page without the need to go to the blog. I Have Heard Enough! Give Me Alternative? Well I have that too, I will be lying if I said I did it all my own but I can assure that about 60% of them are actually my on Idea and please, before I share mine with you promise me you would share yours with me, ‘Ok Deal!’ Lets ride on…. I will be providing you with my idea source,. With this lets move on to our next topic. Top Five Alternatives To Your Blogger Comment System If you want to get rid of default blogger commenting system and get a better commenting interface, then you can opt for any of these commenting systems.
Intense Debate – I don’t know why I mentioned this first, maybe becourse I’m currently using it on this blog, but what ever the reason might be I want to assure that this is one the best comment system in existence ‘don’t know if it is the best, you will tell me???’ Though most bloggers complain that it does not have the option to export your old blogger comments to your Intensedebate data base, this is true as you might have noticed that most of our posts still have that ‘archaic’ blogger blogger comment system. This is due to we choose to install intensedebate only on new post. I will be publishing an article soon on how to add intensedebate comment system on your blogger blog so make sure you subscribe to our update via email, twitter or facebook. (I promise I won’t spam you; I hate spam too). This is now owned by Automattic, the makers of WordPress and is totally free!Features:
Comment Threading
Reply By Email: Respond to and moderate comments with ease via email
Commenter Profiles: Special Profiles for commenters so that there is more interaction between people.
Moderation/Blacklisting
Reputation Points & Comment Voting
Twitter: Tweet your comments
Widgets: widgets like blog’s comment stats, the most recent comments made on blog, most popular posts and the most recent comment
FriendFeed:(Best Feature)When comments are made in the context of a blog on FriendFeed, IntenseDebate will republish them back on the blog.
Plugins API:Developers can enhance the comments by plugins like Seesmic video comments, PollDaddy polls, YouTube videos, smileys.
Gravatar support.
Facebook Connect and Twitter Sign-in: People comment via their facebook and twitter profiles and can further broadcast the content.
Commentluv: This is not a new name to wordpress users, just incase you don’t know; this ‘luvly’ feature automatically put the latest post of your readers to their comments. (You can choose to deactivate it)
IntenseDebate In Action
DISQUS -While on my re-search journey, I happen to read some user reply and discover that this is really the bloggers choice ‘– It is the same thing that Mashable.com uses for its comments.’(I’m not saying is the best; you still have to me which is the best) I once used it on my blog ‘not this one’ but had to remove after I learned about the commentluv (yes, there is no option for commentluv). One Interesting feature of disqus is the option to export old blogger comment to your disqus comment system database: By so doing you will not loose any of comments.Features:
Social Media Reactions: (Best Feature) Display mentions and comments about post from other services around the web (e.g. Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, YouTube).
Trackbacks
Seesmic Video Comments
Pagination
Threading
Facebook Connect and Twitter Sign-in: People comment via their facebook and twitter profiles and can further broadcast the content.
Widgets like Popular posts and top commenter’s widgets.
Blacklisting as well as whitelisting people.
Disqus In Action
JS-Kit(Echo) This is also another JavaScript based commenting system.Echo offers both free and paid packages!The free package comes with threaded comments and an interface where the commenter can add videos,images,similes, etc.The commenter can also format his comments using a simple WYSIWYG comment editor. I really don’t know much about this system (and couldn’t quite link to the source page) as I have never tried them before but I do hope that their a some of you out there that do know one or more things it ‘I honestly hope you share your ideas with me; I’m very Interested’ Or you could as well try it and share your experience with us.Features:
Spam control with Akismet
Banning : Ban a person by the user name or by IP address
Gravatar Support
TrackBack/PingBack: Trackbacks/Pingbacks can be automatically be included in comments.
Comment Ratings and Karma: Users can rate comments.
Blogger Comment Sync: (Best Feature) Transparently switch back and forth between native Blogger comment system and JS-Kit Comment system with no loss of comments because comments are always synchronized with Blogger.
Emoticons: 16 emoticons are available.
Threads: Threading is also available
Pagination: Comments can be paged.
Commentluv a feature to give love to your commenter is available to only this commenting system
Photo as well as video comments.
JS-KIT (ECHO) IN ACTION
Important: Please make sure to backup your blogger templates before trying any of this system so as to remain on the safer side.
These are the three most popular commenting systems.They come with threaded commenting with Gravatar based profile images,which can make you commenting system look more professional.I personally prefer Intense Debate over the others.
Note: These comment forms come with an option to show the comment form on new posts only(means posts with 0 blogger comments)!That means your old comments will stay intact and will use the old blogger comment form.(This is optional.. you can also revert all posts to use the new commenting system.But in that case, you cant display the existing comments easily..)
These are nothing but my own lame idea and re-search, I know there hundreds others but it’s your turn to tell me about them (Remember the promise you made to me earlier). ‘to share with me’
Finally, Bloggers can keep readers to their site by using this fantastic recommendation bar. It’s designed to display additional recommended articles right after readers have finished reading an article or spent some time on your blog. It will collapse on page load and expand once a reader has reached a specific location on your blog or finished reading the post.
Only those articles are displayed that are previously liked or shared on Facebook. The number of likes are displayed under each article along with page title and a thumbnail. It also contains a like button and previously contained an Add to Timeline button that has been removed now.
Unlike Facebook Recommendations box which offered related stories but with lack of user friendly interface and engagement, Facebook bar will force readers to stay longer on your site leading to increased pageviews, page impressions and thus traffic.
HOW TO INSTALL ON BLOGGER
This widget works on both blogger blogs and wordpress blogs. Now i’m going to take you true on how to add it on your blogger blog, the amounts of comment i get will determine if i’m going to show the wordpress tutorial. follow this simple steps to add on blogger:
Step1: Create a Facebook Application For this plugin to work you will need to create a Facebook App in seconds. The below method is the standard and correct method for creating any FB App you like.
In the box that pops up, type “My Recommendation Bar” inside the App name field and leave other options as default. Click continue.
4. Enter the captcha security code. Click Submit 5. You are app is almost complete. Just click Website with Facebook Login tab and inside the box input your blog URL. See the screenshot below. Do not touch remaining options and click Save Changes.
6. You will see two strings of alpha-numerical characters. One is App ID and the other is App secret. Just copy the App ID code and keep it save in a notepad. We will need it later. Congrats App finally created! Lets proceed to step2. Step2: Add “Recommendations Bar” To Your Blog Follow these steps to add the bar to Blogger:
Go to Blogger > Template
Backup your template
Click Edit HTML > Proceed
Search For this : <html
Replace it with this code: xmlns:fb=’http://ogp.me/ns/fb#’ This will make the plugin compatible in older versions of internet explorer also. Since blogger templates are coded in XML therefore inserting this XML namespace will enhance the plugin performance and compatibility.
5. Next search for <body> and just below this tag paste the following code: Note: If you are using the new blogger templates like Simple, Awesome Inc., Travel, Watermark or Picture window then please search <body for instead. Make sure to paste the code below the entire body tag.
</p> <div id=’fb-root’></div> <p> <b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == “item”‘></b:if><b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType != “static_page”‘></p> <div style=’z-index:999999; position:absolute;’> <fb:recommendations -bar action=’like’ max_age=’0′ num_recommendations=’3′ read_time=’10’ side=’right’ site=’https://ewtnet.com’ trigger=’40%’></fb:recommendations></div> <p></b:if> You are almost done. Make these changes:
Replace *************** with your 15 digit App Id that you saved in step1.
6. Save your template and you are all done! Visit your blog and scroll down about 50% of your page and wait for 10 seconds for the plugin to expand. Enjoy the new way of free pageviews juice! 🙂
Optional Steps
Below are optional customization and control options. You can skip them if you want max_age: will decide the age limit of articles. Sometimes you don’t want to display too old articles so you can set it to display up to 1-180 days old posts. But if you don’t want to take age into account then let it be 0 as default. num_recommendations: You can set how many articles to display. By increasing or decreasing the value 3 read_time: As soon as the user reaches a specified location, the plugin would expand and before expanding it will take some time. I have kept it equal to 10 seconds, you can increase it to 30 or more as you wish. side: You can decide the location of plugin. By default it shows up towards the bottom right corner of your page. You set it to float to left trigger: On page load the plugin collapses and as soon as it reaches a specified location it expands. You can choose that location in three ways i.e. onvisible, X% or manual. I prefer locating the trigger point by percentage for better pageviews. The widget will expand as soon as the user scroll downs 40% of your page. You can increase or decrease this value. If you wish that the plugin must expand as soon as the reader reaches the end of your article then instead of pasting the code between the purple lines paste it just below data:post.body tag and use the value onvisible instead of 40%. The widget will display only on post pages and not on homepage or static pages. To display it on all pages, then simply delete the purple bolded lines
This is another fantastic blogger widgets I would like to share with you, it cost me a sleepless night to be able to set this up. With just a few steps we can setup this amazing widget on your blog.
Don’t save the template just yet, replace the following:
http://your-post-link1,2,3,4,5 with your links to your post. http://your-image-link1,2,3,4,5 with your post image link. Post content summary and post title with your post title and summary.
Now save your template and view your amazing blog!!