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Reasons To Consider Before Enabling Google+ Comment For Your Blog

Okaztle — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:37:46 +0000

In every activity a blogger may perform there are some reason he/she should look into before taking any action because there might be a disgusting part of the activity. Google+ last week announce Google+ comment system for Blogspot Blog and now 65% of bloggers are now using it without looking to its side effect. Must Read: How To Enable Google+ Comment Box On Blogger Must Read: How to Use Google+ Comment Box On WordPress In this post i will be listing out the interesting and disgusting part of the system but believe, i love the commenting system but it something like forcing people to use their programme i.e Google+, no Google+, its not gonna work. Advantages of the New Google+ Commenting System 1. All Blog Discussions Once Place This is one of the part i like in this new commenting system. When someone shares your post on Google+, it will appear in the Google Plus Comments and moreso any replies made to these Google Plus Shares will reflect on your blog. 2. Private & Public Comments Option You’ll also love this option, unlike other commenting system, none has ever gotten this kind of privacy. The Google+ commenting system allows your readers to comment publically or privately to their Google+ Circles only. 3. Comments Sorting Your Readers can choose to see all the comments, or just the top comments or even just only the ones made by people in their circles. 4. No Existing Comments Will Be Lost Unlike Facebook comments, all of your old Blogger comments will still be visible in their position on your Blog and the comment counts won’t be lost, moreso the the facebook comment wouldnt be mixed up. The Google+ Comments will be as it is before, everything will just be moved to the Google+ comments system. 5. Looks better Yeah! As a matter of fact, the new commenting system is really clean and looks much better than Blogger’s default. Disadvantages of the New Google+ Commenting System 1. Google+ Everywhere To comment on your blog, readers must have a Google Account, i.e Google+ Account. If they don’t have one, they will be forced to create a Google account before they can comment on your Blog. Readers will no longer have the option to sign in using OpenID, or make comments anonymously. 2. Moderation Options Talking back, the default Blogger has the option to approve and reject comments but right now you wouldn’t be able to moderate comments. Without proper moderation mechanism, it will be more difficult to deal with spammers. 3. Auto Hide Spam Comment The new comment System has some options to deal with Spam comments. Google plus will automatically hide comments which it thinks is spam. You can review these hidden comments by clicking on the blue review comments bar. 4. Recent Comment Gadgets The Recent Comment Gadgets which work on Blogger’s Comment Feeds might not work properly again as these depend on Blogger Comments. 5. Custome Template Tweaking Required If you are using a custom temple you need to tweak your Blogger Template to get the new Google+ Commenting on your Blog. 6. You need a Google+ Profile To enable the feature, you will have to switch your Blogger Profile to Google+ 7. Lost Of Comments on Changing Blog URL If you change your Blog URL to a custom domain after Enabling Google+ Comments for a while, the G+ comments will be lost when you make the switch. So i’ll advice you to change to a Custom Domain before you start using Google+ Comments. Do you have any other option which i have missed? Please kindly share it with us using the comment form bellow. And let us know what you think about this and dont forget sharing is loving, share with friends.

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How to Use Google+ Comment Box On WordPress

Okaztle — Mon, 06 May 2013 10:08:39 +0000

Its not too long that Google released it’s Social Comments System and made it available for Blogger Blogs. The new comments System is more social and looks attractive than the original Blogger Comments system. The Google Plus comments System will also display social interactions made on Google Plus. After few days of Google release, somebody out there also release a plugin to make it work exacltly on wordpress blog, and thats what we are going to talk about in here right now. Must Read: How To Track/Display Post Count Views On WordPress Google+ Comments for WordPress makes the comment section tabbed seamlessly adding tabs for G+ Comments, Facebook, Disqus, WordPress Comments, and Trackbacks This plug-in lets you use the Google+ comment system thats implemented on blogger.com (unofficially) on your WordPress.org blog along side WordPress comments if desired. Remember you need to have a google account to use this comment box. How To Enable/Use Google+ Comment System On WordPress Blog There are various ways of installing plugins, firstly read the post bellow if you don’t know how to install plugin in different ways. Must Read: How To Automatically Or Manually Install WordPress Plugin Now download this plugin bellow and install it. Download Google+ Plus Comment Plugin After installation, look for the configuration page and configure it. What do you think? Let us know what you think. Incoming search terms:google comment box untuk wordpress (1)

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How To Enable Google+ Comment Box On Blogger

Okaztle — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:57:57 +0000

Google can’t stop surprising its users with an amazing cool features likewise the frustrating ones. You might be curious why i said “the frustrating once” you will understand right in this post. Given that the search giant already controls blogging platform “Blogger” and social network “Google Plus”, it seems natural for the two platforms to meet somewhere in the middle, and that meeting has now occurred. Must Read: How To Display Post Views Count On Blogger Blog Google released it’s Social Comments System and made it available for Blogger Blogs. The new comments System is more social and looks attractive than the original Blogger Comments system. The Google Plus comments System will also display social interactions made on Google Plus. Must Read: How To Add Google Plus Widget To Blogger Even as Google is shutting down most of their resources, they are still rolling out with even more Awesome stuffs. They are truly making a lasting community with their ideas and scopes. Must Read: How To Remove Blogger Attribution Widgets (Powered By Blogger) Google plus as one of the best online source of traffic. As little as it is, it can drive some huge amount of traffic to your blog and to crawn it all; it makes Google crawler index your site much faster than normal. Must Read: How To Shorten Google+ Profile Url Into Vanity URL This works exactly like facebook comment box, if you submit your blog link to Google plus community and your friends or anybody comments on that post, it will show on your blog as a comment and if a commentator land a comment on your blog, it will also reflect in the community where your link is. How To Enable Google+ Comment On Blogger Blog 1. Login to your blogger dashboard and Click On Google+ as shown bellow. 2. Now tick “Use Google+ Comments on this blog”. Thats just it.. And you are good to go. Note: Before this comment system could work, you will need to already link your Blogger profile to Google+ i mean you should active Google+ profile for Blogger. I know it will be a good news to wordpress users that this could be possible too on WordPress, Yes! It is, and i’ll be writing on it after this particular post. To get informed about the next post, kindly subscribe to our mailing list and it will be sent to your email address. What do you thinks about this post and Google progress? Please let us know by using the comment box below. Remember that your comments and thoughts are highly recommended and appreciated. Incoming search terms:comment box url blogger (1)

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5 Most Common Reasons Why You Fail To Build Your Blog Readership

Okaztle — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:11:04 +0000

As you all know Blogging really needs efforts to grow and retain its value for both readers and search engines. Receiving only traffic is not the main goal of any blogger. The needed part is a powerful readership around your blog. Everbody need readers to read its content not just visitors who come and go just for the information they are looking for. We all know that readership is based on traffic. Receiving decent traffic means there is a major chances of building readership. But readership is not totally dependent on traffic. The factors and the reason most bloggers fail to build blog readership will be discussed right here.. 1. Writing for Search Engines Most new bloggers start posting any thing they like to post without any proper knowledge of how to write best content. Your content should not target the search engines. Try to write something under your niche that your readers would love to read. If they like your content then they bring new traffic to your blog and also convert from visitors to readers. 2. Poor Presence on Social Media Its not a doubt that Social Media sites have proved themselves having the right audience you want for your business. There are millions of regular visitors on major social media sites like twitter and now on Google Plus too. If you are not active on those great sources of traffic sites then you are really missing targeted audience as well valuable readers. 3. Poor Relationships with Existing Readers Having examined many blogs where nobody is there to solve reader’s queries and doubts. Blog owners just post content, sit and relax. They never take interest to communicate with their readers by replying to their comments. If you are in same shoe, better put that shoe off and put on unique one that makes up your audience interest and start communicating with your readers today because readers at early stage of blog are very important. They shouldn’t be ignored if you really want to achieve your goal of blogging. 4. Lack Of Blogger’s Communities Participation Its no doubt that blogger’s communities and forums are one of the best sources of receiving targeted audiences. There are countless readers who are engaged in communicating with each other to share their views and ideas on a specific topic. You are not being fair to your blog if you are not participating in those communities. Keep in mind that generating quality content for your blog is not enough if you are unable to make it reach the correct audience. There are lot of big blogs with a strong readership and you have to target those readers. I suggest you start using Bloggers.com if you are not already using it.. And bellow are some other you may make use of.. BlogAdda.com IndiBlogger.in Forums.DigitalPoint.com SitePoint.com/forums Making use of the above communities will really help you, start using them if you haven’t start.. 5. Poor Consistency Most common reasons to the failure of maintaining blog readership is the consistency by which you are updating your blog. You may have heard that regularly blog update is neccessary to increase blog traffic but if you are not consistent with your blogging timings then you can never get the real readership. You should let your readers know your posting schedule so that they can land on your blog at that exact time to read what’s newly written on your blog. It will not only increase your blog readers but also you will gain trust of readers and search engines also by showing that you are really serious about your blog career. Conclusions The above 5 major reasons were the reason i arrived at that might have caused your blog readership to fail. If you feel that you are not working on any of the above strategies or lacking some then start working on it starting from the end of this post.. Your comment is appreciated if you have any question about the reasons above..

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5 Must Follow Guidelines Before Interviewing Any Blogger

Okaztle — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:16:53 +0000

Interviewing a blogger is often same things as marketing your blog with the audience of that respective blogger whom you’re interviewing. By interviewing a blogger, you and your blog will be into the limelight as the interviews will be shared by that respective blogger and readers. He/she is likely to have good audience around him/her which would be interested in knowing what questions you asked and what the answers were. At this stage your blog will start receiving huge traffic and reputations among the audience. But i should let you know its not easy to interview a top Blogger at all, on proceeding i’ll ask you the following questions. How many of you have tried interviewing a blogger? How many of you have really succeeded in interviewing a blogger? Finaly Did you fail in getting a nod from a blogger for interview? Its very clear some might have failed and not have abdicated the idea of interviewing a blogger by now and you would probably be thinking of some fresh ideas for your next blog posts. Must Read: 6 Steps On How To Massively Drive Traffic To A New Blog I cant tell how you feel when you started reading this post but what i guess right now is either you’ve failed trying to interview a Blogger or just thinking of getting a Blogger to interview, whatsoever the case is, i guessed you are in the right place to decide and get the most out of it.. Before proceeding i’ll be listing out the five(5) key guidelines you should be prepared for Before conducting any interview. Must Read: Blogging Tips That Can Benefit Your Blog 1. Selecting a Blogger To Interview 2. Building Communication Between The Two Parties 3. Medium Of Communication 4. Purpose of Interview (POI) 5. Approval Of the Respective Blogger 1. Selecting a Blogger To Interview The most hectic part of Interviewing a Blogger is the process of selecting a blogger because it involves pinning down the skills, interest of your audience and comparison between various bloggers. It would be bad if you compare between two or more bloggers because each one of them have their own flavors. This is all done, after Selecting the blogger of your choice, its time you move to the next step which is Building Communication Between the two of you.. 2. Building Communication Between The Two Parties I’m sure that some of you would be having a good relationship with tons of pro bloggers. The process of building communication and selecting a blogger often depends on whether you know the blogger already or you just wanted to know him. Assuming you know him well, you would have build a strong Communication Between the two of you but Assuming you just wanted to know him because he/she is a very popular blogger. I can’t guarantee Approval if you are just knowing the blogger for the first time unless he/she knows of your existence. For you to build your existence in them you need to follow their social profiles and Blogs often and often. Hey! Wait!!! Don’t rush into sending friend request to them, that sucks. Better still simply follow their public update and follow their twitter profile and follow their updates. Often leave meaningful comment on their blog and don’t spam because you’ll be marked out, make sure you don’t post short comment such as “thanks for the post” “good job” and the likes.. 3. Medium Of Communication The basic keys already been shared in the No.2 above, guessed i don’t need more stress here. Social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Google Plus, LinkedIn etc. are great platforms to improve your communication with the respective blogger. Make use of these communication mediums wisely. 4. Purpose of Interview (POI) At this point you will need to ask and answer one question on your own Why do i intend to interview that respective blogger? what’s your purpose. A blogger will be eager to know your purpose behind interviewing him and be aware that it’s the only way to impress him/her with your intentions and skills. 5. Approval Of the Respective Blogger Following the steps mentioned in this article appropriately then there is [...]

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