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Submit your WebSite or Blog to Bing.com

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Harish Nerella | 2 Comments

What’s Bing?
Microsoft’s new Bing Search Engine is currently the top buzz around the web since it offers ton’s of features like Google. It really a killer stuff. Now we Blogger’s must think of getting indexed in search engines to get ton’s of visitors from those search engines

Why Bing?
Majority of websites have already been indexed in Bing since the company had different types of search engines like MSN Search, Live Search etc., they have used the database to get the sites to index in their new search engine. But some sites have unfortunately fails to index in Bing so you can manually submit your websites to Bing after that Bing robots will start indexing your site and start displaying the search results.

How to Submit?

First you need to login into your MSN (Live or Hotmail) Account and then access the Webmaster Tools Section of Bing search engine my visiting here.

bing

Then just fill up the your Site Address, Sitemap URL and your Email, it’s optional.
Once you have filled up the details Bing will ask to authenticate site.
There are two methods to authenticate the site

Simply by Uploading an XML file to your Root Directory [public_html] – Best for WP Users and other webmaster

By Placing a Meta Tag [Place the meta tag above tag] – Best for Blogger Users

Once the submission is completed you will find a link to all your sites.

If you have successfully submitted your site or any doubts just reply below.

Also Read:
7 Great Time Saving Tools for Blogger Users
Windows Live Writer Portable
Are you Addicted to Internet???

Increase your Website Traffic and Backlinks

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Harish Nerella | 3 Comments

How to get Traffic?
Whenever you start a new website or blog it i will not get enough traffic at beginning but it will be the mail aim for all the webmasters. Most of us try to attract the visitors by number of ways and main traffic for new websites mainly depend on search engine like Google.

Since the website is too new it’s difficult to appear in search engine results Website Traffic and Backlinks

properly. So inorder to show up the results you have to wait a few months for automatically indexing them in search engines or else you have to submit them to search engines and web directories manually[An tough job indeed].

There are ton’s of webs directories spread around this Cyber world. Most of them are free but some are paid ones.

But during the manual submission you need to submit the same information i.e your name, Email, URL and Meta Tags to those different web directories.

Why to Submit???
Web Directory submission is important now a days because if you need your Website Traffic and Backlinks

website to ranked top in search engines. They not only help us to rank top in search engines but also give strong backlinks indeed..

To help new webmasters there are several web directory submission tools available in internet but most of them are become now paid one’s and some are free. These tools will automatically fill those Details such as name,email,url and other required fields from the given details and you need to enter the CAPTHCA and submit them by selecting appropriate category.

What’s the Solution?
Website Traffic and Backlinks

So inorder to help those new webmaster i have totally came up with a new free tool called Sliq Submitter it will do everything for you as i said above.
You can get more details about it in it’s offiical site.

I think that this article may help new webmasters and bloggers in getting index in search engines and traffic building. If you have any other tools or popular tools for web submission which you use then just tell us by simply commenting below.

Also Read: Windows Live Writer Portable

Free Google Adwords Vouchers worth $50

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Harish Nerella | 1 Comment

Hello Readers yesterday while surfing the web for my new adwords account i have accidentally discovered an way to get Google Adwords Vouchers for $50 Value.
So i thought of sharing with my readers and here’ it…

Update: This Method works even now [Tested on June 7th Sunday]

Please note that this method works only with new Google Adwords Accounts which are less that 14 Day’s old.
My Tip:^New! If you need to use this method just register a new Google Adwords account and use it.

Step 1

Go to the following url http://www.swalif.net/adwords

Step 2

Just do as shown in the image

It mean “Next” in Arabic

Step 3

Just also just as shown in the image

Step 4

You can use a Disposable E-mail at www.yopmail.com ( It doesn’t not needs any password or registration , very amazing free Disposable E-mail )

Step 5

If you used a yopmail.com Disposable E-mail then it looks like as shown in screenshot

That’s it…
If you have any problems just drop your comments here…

Best Alternatives for Google Pages

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Harish Nerella | 2 Comments

Why Alternatives’?
We all know that Google Pages has come to an end since Google is not allowing any new sign up’s and also the existing customers can use the service up to this June only so not it’s the time to move from Google Pages safely and so many are confused what will be reliable other than Google Pages. So i have listed some free popular alternatives for Google Pages below…

What are the Best Alternatives?
As far i known i have listed some popular free alternatives for Google Pages

Free Webs
It’s an easy to use site like Google Pages it haves all the gadgets to grow site into a dynamic website.

Office Live Small Business

Office Live is a offer by Microsoft you will get an Domain, Hosting, Email Package everything for Free when you sign up
Office Live Small Business provides everything you need to take, promote, and manage your business online. You can create a professional online presence for free—including a Web site, domain name, and business-branded e-mail.

Weebly
Weebly helps in you creating a new website and blog for free. It will be like blogger no technical knowledge is needed. Every thing is completely drag and drop interface…
They have dozens of themes which is also suitable for hosting a small site.

Disposable Webpage
You can easily create a disposable web page with as little effort as a few key strokes and start right away at filling up the page with the content you want.

SnapPages
It’s the one of the easiest way to create a website with rich looking design it have drag and drop interface in it so no need for any technical knowledge in coding if you use SnapPages.

50Webs
It is on a reliable platform and you can host up to five domain in your account.And even have a chance of registering a free domain name from 50 webs.

The above are the popular alternatives for Google Pages as far i known. If you know any other good alternatives please reply here.

Also Read: Alternative for Nero CD Burner

7 Great Time Saving Tools for Blogger Users

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Harish Nerella | 5 Comments

Being a student and a part time blogger i can understand the value of the time, Its an important factor when it comes to writing. Its not easy always to complete a work in a very short period of time, but ton’s of thanks to the great tools available on the Internet, you can save some of your working time by using this such essential tools.Note that this all the tools will be mainly focused on Blogger Users.

So Blogger users can enjoy Now.…

This tools include gadgets for iGoogle and Firefox addons that may be useful in saving time for bloggers.

First of all come to Web2.0 i mean move to iGoogle from Google since it have plenty tools for Bloggers [Both for Blogger and Wordpress]. I would recommend you to make iGoogle as your home page and customize it your way.

iGoogle gadgets

Blogger Dashboard: Gives you easy access to the Blogger DashBoard by simply inserting your ID of your blog that you can extract the links from your group. So, you can create and edit your post, set up or edit your blog directly from your iGoogle.

Blogger Post: It’s simlar to QuickPress available in Wordpress Allows you to easily create your blog posts form iGoogle Home.

Photobucket Gadget: This Gadget will help you mainly in Uploading images to PhotoBucket.The features of the Gadgets include
Uploading pictures from your PC Directly
Browsing your photobucket albums
Getting the URL of the images
the all the features are availabe without access to Photobucket.com.

Google Reader: This is an important Gadget helps you reading the feeds from your lovable blogs directly form iGoogle Home

Blogger Buzz: Helps you in getting updated with new features and informations from Blogger Team.

Firefox Addons
We Bloggers all know that FireFox is the world’s best and good browsers for all the bloggers and others due to it’s open sourceness and plenty of Add-On’s

Here are some good FireFox Add-on’s for Blogger Users

Zemanta: When you are writing an article in your blog in real time it will suggeset tags, links, pictures and articles. Undoubtedly saves time a lot. You can insert an image with a single click and without having to worry about copyright.

ScribeFire: ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you post to your blog. An good alternative for Windows Live Writer

Photobucket Uploader: This an simple add-on lets helps you in uploading images you can right-click on an image displayed on any web page and upload it directly to their Photobucket account. It also has many features that make interaction with your Photobucket account faster and easier.

Blogger Toolbar: This is an Blogger Toolbar, developed by Amanda Fazani of BloggerBuster. It includes a search box, links for direct access to all the options availabe in Blogger DashBoard and “Blog This!” To create posts quickly.

Hope you will love all the tools listed here. If you have any other tools other than i listed please drop a comment here to add it.

Also Read: Are you Addicted to Internet?

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Blogger BX Errors Solution

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Harish Nerella | 2 Comments

Blogger Bx Errors If your blog on Blogger [Mine's is in blogger platform still yet], I am sure you may be facing the inevitable and annoying famous bX-error code in Blogger. This error may seem ridiculous when they are unable to continue editing your template, but there are many easy solutions to this bX-error problems in Blogger.

When this Bx Errors Occur?
These BX-errors occur not only when you are editing the template, but also to load the image, editing or choose a profile of poor adjustment. There are six easy ways (as far i known to solve this problem)

Simple Solutions:

1. Change the browser [If you are using Internet Explorer then it will be more]. So Just try the same thing from another browser (Opera recommended)

2. Remove all the active widgets from your current template before uploading a new one (of course, make a backup).

3. Delete cookies on your browser and try again.

4. Manually delete the widgets code in the template you are trying to install. For example: from <b:widget> to </ b:widget>

5. Just wait for a while and try later.

6. Just try to switch to Blogger in Draft and try now.

7. Just try cache’s and try now.

8. Simply Google it with Error Code [To have a quick solution]

9. If it continues just contact blogger regarding this.

Hope the above ways may help you to solve the problem else comment back with Error Code i will try to find the solution for it…

Internet Explorer Theme for FireFox

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Harish Nerella | 3 Comments

Why FireFox?
We all know that FireFox is one of the world’s most famous and popular browser I can openly tell that I am a Firefox lover and first i was using Internet explorer unfortunately it was too slow with my processor and crashes at most all the times so I hated it and when I entered into the world of blogosphere I have came to know about FireFox and it’s wonderful features…
So I have been addicted to FireFox and now compatible with it.

Move Now…
If you are still and Internet Explorer just now move to FireFox and during the time I am using FireFox it was at Stage of 3.0.2 and so lot of changes in Menu Navigation when compared to Internet Explorer so in first I struggled some what and to my readers I don’t need such a thing so if you have moved to FireFox now only then you must use IE8FOX since this will make FireFox to look and navigate like Internet Explorer so it will easy to use to New FireFox users.

It supports FireFox versions from 3.0 – 3.6a1 pre

Download IE8FOX Now
Also Read: Speed Up Downloading in Firefox

Get FREE Dreamhost Web Hosting Account and Domain [100% Free]

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Harish Nerella | 4 Comments

Now, this is too good to be true, but you can take a full year of free hosting and domain name in DreamHost for $119.40 for using 100% special discount coupon provided in this post, please note that this is not the DreamhostApps account, it’s a full-featured shared hosting, with top level domain.

Follow the process below to get exactly one year free hosting with domain name:

1. If you are not in U.S. Have a U.S. proxy to complete the procedure below.

2. Go here and click on ‘SignUp Now‘ icon.

3. Choose a Host a Domain and Select the Yearly Plan [One year Plan].

4. Complete all information requested, if you are not from U.S. and use FakeNameGenrerator fill in details, if you’re not ready with a domain name, you can choose a sub-domain during the registration process and in later you can select for the free domain later.

5. Use the special promotional code BARCAMPLA7 to get 100% discount.

6. Finally in the “How did you first hear about us?” Coloumn don’t forgot to enter the address http://www.guidetotech.com/2009/05/get-free-dreamhost-web-hosting-account.html

7. Now you should receive the account activation details to your email through which you have Signed up.

If you have any problem’s please reply via comment form
I am happy to help you…
Some of them tells me that it’s not working…
If that’s the proble then try after…
It’s a general problem due to over registrations…

Windows Live Writer Portable

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Harish Nerella | 2 Comments

Windows Live Writer is a great blogging tool for all the bloggers since it has unlimited under of features compared to all other blogging tools..

Before a week an email arrived me as telling that

Hello I am regular reader of your blog and your blog is good when compared to some tech blogs that usually I read…

Basically I am also a blogger and i think that you can help me since you are the only guy helping on email requests since last week one of my friend asked me
How to put blog name in Twitter Updates as done By Amit of Labnol???

Then I asked him to do a search on Google but he replied back as nothing usefully found and i asked him to mail a few good blogger i know regarding this query, i have also given your site address and hopefully he mailed all the tech bloggers but none replied but at last he told me that he has got a mail and you finally helped in finding the solution for the problem

And the problem is basically i will move from place to place since my job and home is not so near one and I have to use a number of PC’s to do my Job mean while I carry all my important software like FireFox , Photoshop in my USB its my Mini Hard Drive since I have to use them mostly in my Job so only….

So as a Blogger Windows Live Writer inspired me a lot so I have googled for the latest Portable version of WLW but nothing found great so can help you in making or finding the the Latest Portable Version of Windows Live Writer.

On seeing this long mail I understood that the Guy is really in the need so I replied back

I will Find and give you the latest portable version of WLW as soon as possible mean while stay on reading the blog….

So atlast I also found nothing so I decided to create portable version windows live writer 2009 as soon as possible and finally now I created that

I am also a WLW lover so I need to tell the features of WLW 2009

The first change I noticed after upgrading to WLW 2009 is its new look and interface.

Apart from this, another thing I like about WLW 2009 from now, the border was more options to be used while inserting images.
As you can see in the image, the new frontiers such as Instant Photo, reflections, rounded corners, etc are added to the existing options. Personally, of all the options of the border, I liked “rounded corners” more. Moreover, compared with the previous version, there are more options for wrapping text around images. Besides these, there are some small changes and improvements, such as image cropping and water mark WLW in 2009 as an insert image is concerned.

The role of marking WLW in 2009 was too attractive. As you can see in the image,
it automatically appears suggestions as you start typing a name tag. For this, similar labels are not repeated.
Now, navigation, and recently posted the draft articles. As can be seen in the following screenshot, you can now easily search for projects pending or in the
recently published folder.

Apart from these changes in this update of WLW, many other minor changes which are listed here:

Support for multiple photos into a single
Insert automatically upload videos in Youtube
Auto link text
Spell check in other languages
Image cropping, tilting, water marking, etc.
Ability to search for categories, posts in the projects and recently posted items.
Order of words
Many plugins included.

So finally after this i have now successfully created the portable version of Windows Live Writer…

If you have any problems while using the windows live writer kindly respond via the comment form

Also if you need any help i am happy to help you…
So just go here to contact me

Download Links:
Download Windows Live Writer Portable [Download from GuideToTech]
Download Windows Live Writer Portable [Download from MediaFire]
Download Windows Live Writer Portable [Download from RapidShare]
Download Windows Live Writer Portable [Download from Ziddu]

Also Read: Are You Addicted to Internet???

Search Similar Images from Google Labs – New Feature for Image searching

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Harish Nerella | 2 Comments

Google Image search Google has introduced a new feature yesterday from their laboratory for image search it’s Search for similar images.

As the name itself implies that this feature allows us to find more similar images based on a image appear on search result.

Google Normal Image Search

Google Similar Images Search

For an example if you are looking for a picture of a sea shore and from the results you like a sea shore. Now just click on the image you will see as shown in the screen shot given below.

By using similar images link that appears just below the picture, you can search for more that are similar to the selected image. This new feature from the Google labs is a very fun and very useful, am i right? I played with the service in approximately for an hour with the Seven Wonders of the World, and most of the time, photos are very similar results.

This is certainly a another great feature in Google Image Search from Google labs and soon we can except this feature in the major image search….

Here’s a video demonstration of the search of similar images