Easiest Way To Add Facebook Comment Box In Blogger

Facebook comment box widget to Blogger
Introduced by Facebook developers, Facebook Comment Box is one of the best social plugins for website/ blog owners. Facebook Comment Box can be embedded to your Blogger blogspot blog. It will be easier for Facebook users to comment on your blog posts with their Facebook id. The post will be also shown on commenter’s Facebook friends wall. It ensures more comments and traffics to your blog posts. Moreover, visitors can use their Yahoo id, AOL id and Hotmail id to make a comment on your blog post.

Install Facebook Comment Box Widget In Blogger Blogspot

how to add Facebook comment box widget to Blogger

I have tested and used this Facebook comment box in one of my Blogger blogspot blogs. Among many tricks, it is the easiest way to set up Facebook comment box below every post along with Blogger's own commenting system. Just follow the following steps -

1. Go to the Blogger Dashboard
2. Click on Layout
3. Press Add a Gadget
4. Select HTML/JavaScript gadget
5. Write following codes

<script>(function(d){
  var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
  js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";
  d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);
}(document));</script>
<div class="fb-comments" data-href="http://www.proseoland.com/" data-num-posts="10" data-width="500"></div>



6. Replace the url proseoland.com with your own blog url.
7. Press Save.


Hope the widget changes your commenting flavour. Let me know if you face any problem.

Top High Paying & Reliable Adsense Alternatives

top adsense alternatives that work better
Some bloggers feel frustrated because adsense team doesn’t approve or just banned his/her adsense account. It affects mind and the blog itself. They may quit blogging because they don’t know about adsense alternatives or other monetizing techniques. It is good to hear that there are some reliable adsense alternatives for bloggers. Fortunately, these alternatives can be used alongside adsense. It is also a great opportunity for adsense users to utilize them.

Why You Should Use Adsense Alternatives

1. You want to make more money.
2. Your adsense account has been banned.
3. You don’t have sufficient articles (or other criteria) to apply for adsense.
4. Adsense program has strict rules and with little mistake your account will be banned without giving any chance!
5. You have blank ad space to place more ads.
6. Some adsense alternatives are reliable. 

Best High Paying Adsense Alternatives That Work Effectively


Chitika, a pay per click (PPC) ad network, is one of the best alternatives to Google adsense. Founded in 2003, Chitika has the network of 350,000+ quality publishers. It provides Banner ads, Text Ads and Mobile ads for your site. It also helps you customize your ads colour, ad links and background. Because of relevant and customized ads, you will get more clicks and more money. The approval of Chitika account is very easy and it takes only one or two days to approve your account.

Payment System: PayPal, Check and minimum payout is $10 for PayPal and $50 for Check.



Infolinks is different and it offers more ad options which help you maximize your earnings. Infolinks provides four types of ads – 1. In-search 2. In-text 3. In-tag and 4. In-frame. Infolinks indexes site pages identifying some specific keywords and phrases and add some hyperlinks (advertising links) in your text where you don’t put any link. For in-tag ads, it adds related tags (with advertising links) within your site content. It doesn’t change anything to your website. When visitors click on the link, you will get paid.
     
You can easily use these ads along with other ad networks because Infolinks’ ads don’t need additional spaces of your website/blog to show ads. As the ads of Infolinks (in-text, in-tag) are totally linked with your content, it has more potentiality to get clicked and more money. Their approval system is very easy.

Payment: PayPal, Bank Wire, Western Union, eCheck, ACH (only for U.S. bank accounts) or Payoneer Prepaid Mastercard. You can withdraw money when you will earn $50 (or $100 for Bank Wire / Western Union Transfer).


#3 Media.net 
With the partnership of famous companies Yahoo! and Bing, Media.net seems to a good competitor of Google adsense. It combines the expertise of the Yahoo! Bing Network and Media.net to assist publishers to earn money efficiently and effectively. You can customize ad units that will show relevant ads from the Yahoo! Bing Network.
       
request for Media net


There is no question that Media.net is a wonderful adsense alternative but it is hard to get approved. To qualify, you must have:
  • Websites or blogs with high-quality content and good amount of visitors from United States/ United Kingdom/ Canada,
  • English as the primary language,
  • Followed their Program Guidelines.
If you confirm that you have all the requirements then send a request. Fill up all the given boxes and Media.net will review your information and inform you.

Payment Method: Media.net has 2 payment options - PayPal and Wire Transfer. When your money crosses $100, you can collect your money.
 

Bidvertiser is another good PPC network site which provides you text ads, banner ads, mobile ads, pop-up ads and customized toolbar. You can customize ad looks (colour, font, size etc.). Furthermore, it also gives publishers an option to block unwanted ads. Sign up process in Bidvertiser is very easy and you will be approved within a few seconds!

Payment System: Bidvertiser pays you money through PayPal, Check and the minimum amount is $10 for PayPal & $50 for Check.


Clicksor is a good contextual ad network that displays relevant ads to the websites/ blogs. It offers various ad formats including -

Inline text links (like Infolinks in-Text ads) - Cost Per Click (CPC)
Text Banners - Cost/Pay Per Click (CPC, PPC)
Graphical / Rich Media Banners - Cost Per 1000 Impressions (CPM)
Graphical Banners – Cost Per Click (CPC)
Pop-unders - Cost Per Visit (CPV)
Interstitial Ads - Cost Per Interstitial (CPI)

Moreover, Clicksor gives you freedom to customize ad size, colour etc. The approval system is easy if you have good amount of page views.

Payment System: PayPal, Check and Wire Transfer. Minimum payout is $50 for PayPal, Check and $1,000 for Wire Transfer ($75 administration fee).


Exit Junction is peculiar but very useful PPC advertising network for bloggers. Exit Junction aims at only the exit traffics (Bounced traffic) of your site. When you set Exit Junction in your site, you and your visitors can’t see their ads! Then how does Exit Junction works? Visitors come to your site through search engines and after page view when they hit the back button of the browser, it takes them to an another list of search results. These are sponsored links which are based on the visitors’ typing (key)words and their current location. Since the ads of Exit Junction don’t occupy any space on your site, it can easily be used with adsense or other adsense alternatives.

Payment Method: Paypal, Check, Wire and minimum payout is $50.


Like Infolinks, Kontera places advertizing links within your site content and it doesn’t require extra space to show ads. Furthermore it provides relevant ads and its approval process is easy.

Payment: Paypal, Check and Wire with $50 minimum payout.


Dynamic Oxygen offers bloggers multiple ad formats including Interstitial Ad, Cursor Ad, Floating Ad, Message Ad, Layer Ads, Peeler Ads, Pop-Up, Sky Ad, and Anchor Ads. With innovative ad formats, good eCPM rates and online support, Dynamic Oxygen helps you monetize your entire traffic.

Payment: Check, PayPal, or Wire and minimum payout is $50.


# Other Ad Networks You May Consider

13. AdBrite is dead!


Basic Conditions
-- Don’t copy-paste content from other websites or blogs.
-- Don’t keep inappropriate (porn, racial, copyrighted) content on your site.
-- Don’t click on your ads!

What Is Best For You?
It depends on your niche, quality content and seo factors. If you have adsense ads on your site, you can easily use Infolinks and Exit Junction because they don’t need extra space.

If you don’t have adsense then you should go for Chitika, Infolinks and Media.net and/or Bidvertiser and other you like to use.

Use multiple ad networks, Wait and See what works best for you.


Final Words
The more visitors come to your website, the higher income potential will be. So get a good amount of traffics and adsense alternatives work better!

And don't forget to share your experience about adsense alternatives. 

Add Blogger Blog & Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster tools
Google Webmaster offers a free useful collection of tools that help fulfill your multi-purpose. This tool helps you optimize your site for Google search engine and increase your performance, visibility, and traffics. You will know about your search appearance, traffics from Google, Google index status, content keyword, fetch as Google, crawl stat, crawl error, sitemap, security issues and other resources. Furthermore, you can submit your blog sitemap to Google through Google webmasters tool that gives freedom to the blog owners to control blog activities.

How To Add Blogger Blog To Google Webmaster Tools



2. Sign in with your Blogger account.

3. Press Add a Site button. 
     
add Blogger blog to Google Webmaster Tools

4. Add your blog’s main URL (www.example.com/ www.example.blogspot.com)
    
add your blog’s main URL Google Webmaster


5. Click Continue

You will get a confirmation message that your blog has been added.

How To Add Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools

A Sitemap gives relevant all information to the search engines as a result, they will find your all blog pages easily. After adding XML sitemap to Blogger, you have to follow following steps -

1. Make sure that you are at the Site Dashboard,

2. Then click Crawl (left side),
     
how to add Blogger sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools

3. Press Sitemap,

4. Click on Add/ Test Sitemap,
    
Add/ Test XML Sitemap Blogger

5. Write your blog’s sitemap (atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500),

6. Then hit Submit Sitemap button.


Final Words
Submitting your blog and its sitemap to Google Webmasters Tool will ensure more organic traffic (that comes through search engines) to your blog. You can monitor and manage your blog via this tool.

How To Create & Add XML Sitemap To Blogger

add xml sitemap to blogger
A XML Sitemap is a file that contains all pages of a site systematically. As a result, search engines can properly crawl the site. However, for Blogger blog, default XML sitemap file includes 26 recent blog posts only. So there is a big chance for other blog posts not to get indexed quickly and properly. But here is a solution for you and you can list all blog posts to the sitemap. You can use the technique to the Blogger blogs with subdomain (yourblog.blogspot.com) and also blogs with custom domain (yourblog.com).

A. How To Generate XML Sitemap To Blogger Blogspot

   This is the step A and after completing the step, you must follow step B.

1. Go to the Sitemap generator website,

2. Write your blog address including http://

3. Press Generate Sitemap

Your XML sitemap has been created. In the sitemap,

“User-agent: *” meansallowing all search engine robots to crawl your blog posts.

“Disallow: /search” means - you don’t allow search engine spiders to crawl labels (category) which could be more than one for a single post.

B. How To Add Sitemap (robots.txt file) In Blogger

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard


2. Click Settings (left side)

3. Then click Search Preferences
       
add robots txt to blogger


4. Under Crawlers and Indexing, click Edit Custom robots.txt

5. Tick Yes to enable the Custom Robot.txt

6. Copy paste the previously created XML sitemap from step A

7. Press Save Changes


Done!

Got More Than 500 Posts? No Problem
If your blog has more than 500 posts, you will have to put more sitemaps. For example-

From 501 to 1000 posts /atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500


From 1001 to 1500 posts /atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500


It looks like
 
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /

Sitemap: http://example.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap:http://example.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
Sitemap:http://example.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500

You should submit each sitemap to Google Webmaster Tool separately.

Check Your Robots.txt File
You can check your blog’s robots.txt file by adjoining “/robots.txt” at the end of your blog URL in the browser. For example

http://www.example.com/robots.txt


Final Words
Robots.txt file is very crucial for any blogger. When search engine spiders come to your blog, at first, they look for the robots.txt file. It tells search engine robots/crawlers/spiders whether they crawl certain section or not.

Ping Your Blog To Get Indexed Quickly In Search Engines

ping your site to get indexed quickly in search engines
Ping service is a special service which tells search engines and blog directories to crawl and index your site. Pinging gives them a signal that your blog content is updated. As a result, your blog content will be indexed quickly. I have collected some popular links of ping services to ping my blog and I think I should share my list to my blog readers.
 

Popular Ping Services With High PR

http://www.pingoat.net/
http://googleping.com/
http://pingmyblog.com
http://pingates.com/
http://www.mypagerank.net
http://www.pingmyurl.com/
http://www.pingfarm.com/
http://www.pingthatblog.com
http://feedshark.brainbliss.com/


Pinging process is very easy – enter your blog main url, insert blog title, fill up other boxes and press Enter/ Ping Button 
 
 
Final Words
Ping hurriedly when you add new content to your blog or update any post. However, if you wait for search engines to crawl, you can lose some traffic because search engines (except Google) can take some time (weeks or even months!) to index your websites/ blogs.

WordPress vs Blogger – Which Platform Is Better For Me?

WordPress vs Blogger
To launch a website or blog, a research must be done and some crucial decisions have to be taken initially. Choosing a website/blog platform is one of them. WordPress and Blogger are dominating platforms in the blogging world. But there are some issues and confusions among bloggers regarding WordPress and Blogger. For example, what are the differences between WordPress and Blogger? Which one is better than the other? Which platform is right for me? There are pros and cons to the both platforms. So read the post carefully for choosing the right blogging format.
 

WordPress vs. Blogger

In this post, when I mention “WordPress” I mean only WordPress.org not WordPress.com. It is important to notice that there are some differences between wordpress.org and wordpress.com.
 
Blogger
 
Advantages
#1 Free: Blogger is free. You don’t have to purchase a domain or hosting. You already have a Blogger account if you have a Gmail account.
 
#2 Hosting: Generally, your site doesn’t experience down times as Blogger (blogspot) sites are hosted on Google servers.
 
#3 Reliable: Since blogger is owned and maintained by Google, it is unlikely to be hacked by hackers. Google handles it very good.
 
#4 Google Adsense: It has inbuilt support for Adsense. You have been given opportunity to place ads and monetize your free site.
 
#5 Automatic Google+ Sharing: It is so much easier to share your post to Google+. Blogger platform has an option to share posts to Google+ automatically.
 
#6 Easy To Use: The Blogger interface is easy to understand. It is self explanatory to the new users.
 
Disadvantages
#1 Less Design Options: Blogger has less design options than WordPress. Bloggers don’t always get the design they want. Most of the templates are not attractive although some template designers convert WordPress templates for Blogger.
 
#2 Limited Features: Blogger platform has limited features than that of WordPress.
 
#3 Slow: Blogger platform is relatively slow.
 
#4 Unprofessional Domain Name: if you don’t use custom domain, it sounds unprofessional, for example, yourdomain.blogspot.com (sub-domain).
 
 
WordPress

Advantages
#1 Full Control: You have hundred percent controls over your blog. You can edit codes and make the site look more unique and more stylish.
 
#2 Updating: A large number of designers design and develop WordPress for users.
 
#3 Huge Plug-ins: You will get access to thousands of ‘plug-ins’ for your WordPress blog. Furthermore, it is very easy for you to install them to your website.
 
#4 Professionalism: WordPress ensures your professionalism. A good number of people use WordPress.

Disadvantages
#1 Costly: At first, you have to buy domain, hosting etc. for the purpose of keeping your site up and getting regular traffic, you should purchase them from reliable companies like Go Daddy, Namecheap HostGator etc.
 
#2 Security Breach: WordPress sites are relatively easier to get hacked than that of Blogger sites. Moreover, WordPress blogs tend to receive more spam attacks than Blogger blogspot blogs.
 
#3 Customization: Though WordPress is extremely flexible and highly customizable, you may need some coding knowledge to customize your site. This customization can be difficult for beginners.
 

Which One Is Better For You?
There are many minds since there are many people. You have to be rational to select the right blogging platform. Calculate your options and think about your budget, blog knowledge, time etc. If you are a student like me or have a few budgets, I suggest you to use Blogger with a custom domain.
 
If you have enough money to manage your blog, then you are suggested to take WordPress as your blogging platform. WordPress gives flexibility and freedom to the blog. If you are businessman or you want more professionalism, you should choose WordPress. However, you can transfer your Blogger blog to WordPress later, if you want to.

Add & Change New Templates To Blogger Easily

Blogger Template Screenshot
Blogger has a few official templates which are neither stylish not professional. After creating a new blog from Blogger, you should change the template. There are many beautiful and professional templates available on different sites and you will get them by searching in the Google. However, before installing a new template in your Blogger blogspot blog, you should download (keep back up) your template in the computer.
 

 

How To Upload/ Install A New Template To Blogspot

1. Select a template which seems appropriate and fitting to your blog.
 
2. Download the template (in the desktop).
 
3. Log in to Blogger and your now at the Blogger Dashboard.
        
add a Blogger template

4. Click on the Template tab and look at the top right corner, you will see Backup/Restore button
       
how to add a new template to Blogger blogspot

5. Press Backup/Restore button and a pop-up window will appear.
     
install Blogger Templates

6. Click on Browse button and look for folder where you keep your downloaded template.
 
7. Choose the XML file.
 
8. Hit the Upload button.
 
9. Save
 

Also Read How To Add Widgets, HTML/JavaScript Widget To Blogger

 
Hope this post will help you to add and to change your Blogger template.