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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Stop Buying / Selling Links for PR and SE Rankings - Google

The recent PR update is very clear in pulling-out the PR of websites which is getting money and passing PR. As per the new webmaster guidelines, Google is telling that selling links and passing your PR for SE rankings is not recommended and not legal. So webmasters, please do not sell links and get caught by Google.

So, if any one is able to find such websites, please help Google to find the illegal website. Click here to register a complaint about link selling website.

Please note, you can always put ads / sponsored links in your website, but add a "nofollow" tag or add a intermediate page which will redirect to destination page. But this redirection should be blocked for search engines, you can use robots.txt to do this.

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Windows Live Writer Help for Google Blogger

Recently Microsoft has released software which supports few Google products. Among that software I like “Windows Live Mail” and “Windows Live Writer”.

You can get the LIVE software package from Microsoft at http://get.live.com/wl/desktop

This particular posting is for those who is trying to use the “Live Writer” to edit the “Google Blogger”. Some of them have tried and started commenting that Live Writer is NOT working for Blogger. Yes this is true, but this particular post will help you to setup “Windows Live Writer” for “Google’s Blogger”.

Please follow the steps carefully and you can get your Blogger running in Live Writer :)

Step1:

Download and install “Windows Live Writer” at http://get.live.com/writer/overview

Step2:

After installing, open it from the installed programs list and you will get the following screen,

Windows Live Writer

And then the following screen,

live-blog-account-create

After you get this, select the third option i.e. “Another weblog service”, and click next.

Step3:

blogger-account-input

In the above screen, fill the details as shown above. But you should enter your user name and password for Blogger, just kidding ;)

Click next,

Step4:

detecting-weblog-settings

Live Writer will try to configure your Blogger account, but unfortunately it can’t...

You will get the following screen,

select-provider-blogger

Now select the “Weblog Service Provider” as “Blogger”

As soon as you select the server provider you will get the following URL in the remote posting URL field,

http://www.blogger.com/feeds/<feed-id>/posts/full

Note: please take a look at the steps very carefully.

Now, open your Blogger's profile in a browser, the URL will be something like this,

http://www.blogger.com/profile/19941753007615453754

Copy only the numbers from the URL (i.e. in the above URL I will copy “19941753007615453754”) and replace <feed-id> in the remote posting URL field and click next.

Note: Please make sure that you have not edited the entire URL except replacing <feed-id>.

You will get the following screen; this screen will take some time, because it will download your complete Blogger setting to your local computer.

detecting-again-weblog-settings

Click next,

Step5: (Final)

Click "Finish"

Hurray! You have configured your Blogger to “Windows Live Writer”.

Note: this particular posting was published through the “Live Writer”

I can recommend this software, as this is very easy to use. Some of its positive points are,

1. You will actually type in Blogger interface and not in a regular Blogger editor

2. Instant preview, even you don’t need Internet to preview it

3. Formatting is as simple as you do in MS Word

4. Spell Check before publishing

5. Save and publish when you are connected to Internet

6. Synchronize with online Blogger whenever required

7. Add nofollow tag and target window for links very easily

So, what else you are looking for, just start posting into Blogger through Live Writer.

Thanks to Microsoft for this tool!

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Google Mobile - Android Update

The hottest topic in internet world is about the Google Mobile "Android".

The recent update from the Google team is the release of Android Mobile’s demo. Take a look at the android developers channel in youtube.com



Also, keep a close look at OHA website for all latest update.

Best of luck Google! We are expecting your mobile release very soon...

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