How To Create a Google Profile Page?

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Add Facebook Like and Send Button To Blogger Blogs

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Social Share Widget With Counters For Blogger

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Style Post and Sidebar Titles With Google fonts In Blogger

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How To Integrate AdSense In Google Custom Search Engine?

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Add Facebook Send Button to Blogger Blogs

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I studied briefly the statistics , the proactive approach Google and Yahoo take and the way they market their firms . While studying it all , I found one thing very clear everywhere - Google is a developer and Yahoo is a user . Yes .
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ALEXA’S TOP TEN GLOBAL WEBSITES 2011

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PS: Alexa's  Traffic Rank are time dependent. The top ten sites below fluctuate a lot in ranking within a week. So the rankings below are in accordance with 26th May 2011.

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How To Create Google Custom Search Engine?

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Most of you are well aware of AdSense terms of service and how strict the rules can be when it comes to "fraud clicks" or "Accidental Clicks". Probably you might have not heard of accidental clicks that much as you hear of fraud clicks. So here goes a simple explanation for both of them
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Add a Cute Flying Twitter Bird To Your Blogs

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I am sure you will love to see that bird flying.  So here goes the demo,

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Windows Live Writer 2011 Amazing Features

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Some of the new Features include,

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Top Ten Facebook Applications 2011


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Create Wordpress Subscription Form

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It's a long time since we last released a widget. The widget today is really a useful one. It is a smart container which displays the total number of subscribers, contains RSS link, Facebook link and Twitter link. It also contains a beautiful subscription form where visitors can submit there emails to receive free website updates. This Widget is made Compatible to work with all browsers especially with IE8.

I named it Wordpress Subscription Form because you might have seen such widgets on every Wordpress blog and Blogger lacks it.

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Newer, Older, Home Links Not Visible In Blogger

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Use Windows Live Writer & Kick Blogger Editor!

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Now how can one really use PayPal in a country where PayPal does not function. The solution is more simple than you can Imagine. Follow up:
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Few days ago, as i leaned back and rested my head against the chair, I thought "Why do I use facebook?" Is there any way to get out of this addiction? Any possible way? What are those things that keep me stick to Facebook?" ...And then there was a list of reasons, reasons why I cant stop using Facebook. Here they are!

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Facebook Social Bookmarking Widget


I hope most of you have downloaded the free Social Media Buttons which are designed just how Facebook Buttons are designed. In today's tutorial we will learn how you can add those buttons to your blogger blogs. The steps are similar to the earlier Social Bookmarking widget that we shared. click here for For Demo
Facebook-Bookmarking-Widget


Steps To Be Followed

  1. Go To Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
  2. Back up your template
  3. Check the Expand Widget Templates box
  4. Then click Ctrl + F and in the browser search box paste this,
data:post.body
    5. Now Just above this code paste the code below,
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<table border='0'>
<tr>
<td>
<!--Stumbleupon-->
<a expr:href='&quot;http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Stumble' src='StumbleUpon Button Link'/></a>
</td>
<td>
<!-- Twitter -->
<a expr:href='&quot;http://twitthis.com/twit?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Twitter' src='Twitter Button Link '/></a>
</td>
<td>
<!--DIGG-->
<a expr:href='&quot;http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=&quot;  + data:post.url' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Digg This' src='DIGG Button Link '/></a>
</td>
<td>
<!--Email a Friend-->
<a expr:href='data:post.emailPostUrl' expr:title='data:top.emailPostMsg'>
              <img alt='' src='EMAIL Button Link'/>
          </a>
</td>
<td>
<!--Facebook-->
<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action= like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; margin-top:16px; height:40px;'/>
</td>
</tr>
</table></b:if>

    6.  Simply Replace the blue bolded text with button links I shared in last post on Facebook Buttons. Finally save your template and you are done! :>
You may also like to check these social bookmarking widgets
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Download Facebook Style Bookmarking Buttons

Facebook-Bookmarking Buttons

Its really hard for any addicted blog publisher to abandon posting for such a long period. My exams have finally ended and fortunately I am on vocations now and ready to Gear Up once again! =) The only thing I can do now is to provide you all with as many tutorials and blogger resources as possible. For a happy start let me present some beautiful Bookmarking Buttons which have exact look, feel and design like the Facebook Like Button.

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