How To Verify Google Authorship For Blogspot Blog

In the recent days there has been a lot of buzz among bloggers all over the world regarding verifying Google Authorship Markup for their blogs. And so what is Google Authorship Markup ? Google introduced this new feature called Google Authorship which allows bloggers to add an image of theirs by the side of the links in Google search results. This gives bloggers a greater identity. And so most of the bloggers started to verify their Authorship markup. A few of them thought that it was difficult and they left it. Here is a tutorial which shows you on how to verify Google authorship in blogspot blogs for a single author.

Well you can verify Google Authorship only if you link your articles to your about page of your blog which has a link to your Google Plus account. And you need to link back your Google plus account to your blog. This may sound weird. But believe me this is really easy and can be done in a few steps. The following image gives you a good understanding on what is said in this paragraph.

Things that you need to verify your Google Authorship are as follows :

• Google Plus Account
• An author box in your posts (will be shown how to add one)
• An about page in your blog.

Adding An Author Box To Your Posts :

And so lets get started. The first thing that you need to add is an author info in all your posts and it should contain a link to your About Page with a rel="author"  tag. And so now lets add the author box with link to your Google Plus profile.

1.Login to your Blogspot Dashboard.

2.Go to Templates and Edit HTML.

3.Check Expand Widget Templates.

4.Find  the following code :

]]></b:skin>

5. Add the following codes just above it.

#about-author {background: #FBFBFB;margin: 10px;padding: 10px;border: 1px solid #EBEBEB;overflow:auto;font-size:17px;font-family:Cambria;}

#about-author p {margin: 0;padding: 0;}

#author-image {background: #FFFFFF url(YOUR IMAGE TO APPEAR) no-repeat;float: left;height:64px;width:64px;margin: 0 10px 0 0;padding: 4px;border: 2px solid #E6E6E6;}

6. Replace YOUR IMAGE TO APPEAR with the URL of the image that you wanna appear in the author box.

7. Now find the following code.

<data:post.body/>

8. Paste the following code just below it.

<!-- author -->

<div id='about-author'><div id='author-image'/>

<p><b>About Author</b><br/>YOUR BIO<br/><br/></p>

<p style='word-spacing: 2em;'>

<a href='GOOGLE + PROFILE URL' rel='author'>Google+</a> 

<a href='http://facebook.com/FACEBOOK USERNAME'>Facebook</a> 

<a href='http://twitter.com/TWITTER USERNAME'>Twitter</a>

</p>

</div> 

<!-- author -->

9. Modify the above code to replace :

TWITTER USERNAME : Your Twitter Username

FACEBOOK USRENAME : Your Facebook Username

GOOGLE + PROFILE URL : Your Google Plus Profile URL

YOUR BIO : Your small biography.

10. Save the template and continue to the following.

Adding Google + Link with rel tag To Your About Page :


Now that you need to add a Google Plus profile URL with the rel tag  to your About page. To do so follow the below steps.

1. Go To pages and click on edit in the about page.

2. Go To HTML mode and add the following code replacing YOUR GOOGLE PLUS URL with the URL of your Google Plus account.

<a rel="me" href="YOUR GOOGLE PLUS URL">Catch me On Google Plus</a>

3. Save the page and proceed to the following step.

Adding Link In Your Google Plus Account :

Now you need to add a link back in your Google Plus account which redirects to your site. You need to add in the Contributor To section of your Google Plus account.

1. Login to your Google Plus account.

2. Navigate to your Profile.

3. Click on edit profile.

4. Switch to the About tab.

5. Scroll down to find the Contributor To section. And add a link to your blog in that. And then click on Done Editing to save your profile.

Now that you have shown your Authorship Markup. To confirm it follow the below steps :

• Fire up your browser and navigate to this link.
• In the text box provided enter any link to your post and click on preview
• Below you can see the preview of how it appears in search results.
• And below that you can see the status of your Google Authorship Verification.
• If it doesn't show any error then you are all done. 
• It would show your picture by the side of the preview.

Well that's all on how to verify your blog for Google Authorship. Got any doubts ? Post them below as comments. Happy blogging :)

How to access Gmail mails offline.

This was been asked by users many many times to google. Google enabled it. But soon the rolled back the feature due to some problem. Still this is a hot question asked by many many gmail users:

HOW TO ACCESS GMAIL OFFLINE

For many days I too have been searching a solution for this problem. And finally I found the solution. Its just a chrome extension that enables you to work offline in gmail. Even this extension has been created by Google officially. They have even announced it on the Gmail blog. So here is how you access gmail offline.

Thing you will need :

1. Chrome Browser

2. Internet connection to install the app.

3.Gmail account to access.

So lets see on how to add this extension and set it up for working in offline mode..

1. Open up your browse (Chrome or chromium)

2. Navigate to this page.

3. Click on the add to chrome button there so that it starts to download and completes installation of the extension in your browser.

4. After it has installed a new tab will open up and you will see the Offline Google Mail there below the apps tab.

5. Click on that and now you will be taken to a page where you are gonna set it up.

6. You will be shown the following page.

7. Click on the allow offline mail option and then the continue. If this page dint appear then you might probably have to login to your google account and then continue to this step.

8. And yes now you are in your inbox. Disconnect your internet connection and try it out.

Advantages of using this app :

1. You can view your mails offline.

2. The speed is really amazing.

3. You can compose mails offline which will be sent the next moment you connect your internet.

4. The advantage of it over thunderbird and outlook is that it does everthing at a jet speed.

5. The appearance is cool.

6. Greatly customizable.

7. You will be able to access everything that you can access from your gmail account except that of chat.

8. The appearance, the offline accessibility and speed are the reasons why I prefer it over Gmail, Outlook and Thunderbird.

Hope you guys too liked it. Post your views as comments. And happy mailing... :)

How to install android on your PC.

Android is one of the most poular mobile OS found in the market. iOS is a huge competition for android. But however android is free of cost. That single feature would easily defeat iOS. Most of the people in India dont have an android mobile and they are just waiting to see the appearance of android including me. Even I am a crazy fan of android and I too love to see the appearance of it. A few days back I got a tutorial on how to install android on a pc. I thought that it wouldn't work. But to my surprise I successfully installed android and it now dual boots along with ubuntu on my system. Now I am here to share about the topic. Now lets get started.

Things You Will Need :

• Android x-86 (Download link below)
• A PC
• A pendrive or any other memory devices
• Unet Bootin (Download link below)

Now lets start to install it.

1. Download a copy of Android x-86 from the official android website. You can download it from here.

2. Download the latest release. (the size would be upto 50 - 60 MB)

3. Now you have to download Unet Bootin. Download Link

4. Open Unet Bootin and you will see the following screen. Change the Disk Image to ISO and browse for the ISO file that you have downloaded from android official website. Change the Type to USB drive and change the drive letter to your USB drive's letter.

5. Click on the OK button. The process will take a few seconds or minutes depending on the speed of your computer.

6. Now reboot your system and enter your BIOS. Change the Boot Priority so that USB drive comes first followed by hard drive or CD drive depending on your wish.

7. Now reboot your system. Your system will boot from your USB drive and the following screen will be in front of you.

 

8. Now click on the Run Android without installation if you wanna run it without installing on your hard disk. If you wanna install it, click on the fourth option and continue the installation process. Its similar like that of normal operating systems.

If you are running from the live CD then you must see the following screen. (Android Desktop)

Now you are looking at your android desktop. Note that android might not that much efficient on some PC's. You can also use the android maket.

So just enjoy having it...

How to get more traffic to your blog - The power of keywords.

Bloggers are really growing in a great number day by day. Here is a quote said by an old blogger "Newbie bloggers are not knowing about the importance of SEO". So why dont you prove that the statement is wrong. Driving traffic is a bit difficult task according to me and it would be difficult for a newbie blogger to understand the core concepts of blogging, SEO, keywords etc. Now I am here to help you guys by giving a complete tutorial on what are keywords and how are they used and how to use them.

WHAT ARE KEYWORDS ?

Most of the new bloggers have this great doubt that what are keywords. Keywords are some of the important terms that you use in your blog posts and in your blog. They are not just some random terms but the terms that search engines are able to track or crawl. You might have noticed that when you type something in a Google search you will find that some results will turn up. These results turn up only because of these keywords. You content must be rich with keywords only then your blog will get higher results in search engine results.

HOW TO FIND KEYWORDS FOR YOUR BLOG ?

Things you will neeed :

• A blog.
• Internet connection 
• And a few minutes of free time.

I have explained you guys what are keywords. Now lets see on how to find keywords that are suitable for your blog.

1. Open up your browser.

2. Navigate to this URL.

3. Now you will be redirected to Google Adwords site where you can find your keywords.

4. In the word or phrase column type some of the categories or tags of your site. Enter your sites URL in the website column. Enter the captcha and click on the search button.

5. Now they will show some of the keywords that are related to your blog and they will also show the competition for the keywords.

USING THE KEYWORDS.

Now that you have found out your keywords. The thing that you have to do is to use these keywords in your blog posts and also create categories for the top keywords and use those keywords often in your post. But see to that you make meaningful sentences. So be careful. Use the keywords efficiently.

Other tips on SEO :

1. Add meta tags to your blog.

2. Configure your robots.txt file if you are a wordpress blogger.

3. Use All in one SEO pack plugin if you use wordpress.

There are many many tips and tricks to make your blog more SEO optimizable. Just google it and you can find millions of results... Enjoy blogging. :)

How to add HTML signatures in Gmail.

Hey there guys. Gmail is one of the best email services available there. And Firefox is one of the best browser standing next to IE. You might have seen people sending emails along with signatures which are very attractive and that they can be created only with HTML. So why dont you create your own HTML signature with your own HTML knowledge. I just love to send emails with HTML signatures since they are really really attractive. So now lets see on how to create it.

Things you will need :

1. Gmail account.

2. Firefox browser

3. Firefox addons (Links given below)

4. HTML knowledge. (If you are gonna use the second addon you dont need that too.)

So now lets get started :

1. Open up your firefox browser.

2. Now install this addon.

3. Open up your Gmail account.

4. And click on the compose mail option.

5. Now in here you will see two icons to the top of the "To" field.

6. Click on the Add a new signature icon which is one the left most.

7. A new text field will appear below the To field where you have to enter your HTML code and you have to click on the save button.

8. Below is the code which I used. You can edit it.

<head>

        <link rel='stylesheet' href="http://crackingsoftwares.my3gb.com/about-author.css">

    </head>

    <body>

    <div class="mydiv">

        <img class="myimage" src="YOUR IMAGE LINK"/>

        YOUR DESCRIPTION

    </div>

Dont forget to replace YOUR IMAGE LINK with the link of your image and replace YOUR description with a small description of yours. Now click on the save button.

The code above displays just a simple image and this wont be that much attractive. So now lets do something more interesting.

1. Open up Firefox.

2. Download and install this plugin.

3. After the browsers navigate to Gmail.

4. Now in the top right near your settings you will see an option called as Wise-Stamp.

Click on the edit signature which appears when you click on it.

5. A new window will open up saying Wise Stamp Preferences.

6. This is where you have to edit your signature.

7.Complete editing your signature.

8. And click on the "Ok" button.

A message saying the success will appear and that's it you are done. Now whenever you send an email your signature will appear below and now you are ready to go. Enjoy your signature :)

Google Music - Get Invites and join...

Google has now started another new service called as Google music. Google music is a really easy way to manage music online. There is no such place online to manage music. But again just like Google plus it is still in its development stage and so it is not possible for all google users to join music. And it is available only in USA. But  no worries. I will help you to use google music in any country using VPN. And so lets get started in using it.

Getting an invite :

1. I currently have only one invite. The one who asks for the invite first in the comments would get it.

And others dont worry. You can also get invites directly from google. And for that you have to visit Google music's official site. When you visit the site from countries outside US you will be  shown a apology message like the following.

And if you wanna visit this site from countries outside US then you have to use VPN services. Most of the VPN services charge you a cost. But here is a trick to get free VPN account from VPNOD. But this is a beta account and VPNOD will soon ban this trick. So hurry up. Here are the steps to get VPN account.

1. Login to your Gmail or Ymail or any other mailing service that you use.

2. Compose a mail.

3. Fill this address in the "To" field : promotion@vpod.com

4. Fill this in the subject field : vpnod

5. Now send the email without any content.

Soon you will receive a mail with the details of your VPN account

[Credit Antidoms @ Techomag]

Now that you have got your VPN account. Do the following steps to set up a VPN connection.

Things you need :

• VPN account
• Internet connection

1. Now connect your system to internet.

2. Click on Start  and type in "Network and Sharing Center" in the search box.

3. Open the Network and sharing center.

4. Click on the setup and click on "Setup a new connection or network"

5. And in the resulting box click on "Connect to a workplace"

6. Click on "No I will create new connection" and continue.

7. Click on "Use My Internet Connection (VPN)" 

8. In the internet address field type : In the Internet Address: field, type vpn.vpnod.com

    In the destination field type : VPNOD

9. Now they will ask for your username and password. Enter the username and password that you got in the mail from VPNOD.

10. And now that it will show a message saying connecting and finally it will be connected.

Users who already have an invite 

1. Open up the mail with the invitation.

2. Click on the Get Started button there and now you are in.

Users who dont have an invite

1. Open up your browser and navigate to Google music.

2. Click on the Learn more button there.

3. In the top right of the following page you can see and "Request An Invitation" link. Click on that.

4. Now Login to your google account.

5. And in the following page you can request for an invite by click on the Request and Invite button.

It may take a while to get an invite. So be patient and get your invite. After you have got your invite you can login to your account.

IMPORTANT : DONT FORGET TO CONNECT YOUR VPN EVERY TIME TO USE YOUR GOOGLE MUSIC ACCOUNT.

And thats it your are done. Any queries just post them as a comment. Enjoy using Google music...

Adding new tabs for your facebook page.

Facebook is the best place for promoting any product. It may be a blog or a product or anything else. Almost all  the enter pruners who are in facebook have their own page using which they can promote their product. And do you have a website and wanna promote it on facebook ? Here is a great way to add new tabs to your facebook page and it is powered by google ! And this is a large tutorial and just see below to get started.

1. Lets assume that you have a facebook account and a google account.

2. Login to your facebook account and search for developers in the search box in the header.

3. Click on the first result in the search or you can alternatively go to this URL. And you will be redirected to a page where you can create new apps.

4. Click on the create new app button in the top right of the page.

5. Enter the name of the tab that you wanna create in your facebook fan page and accept to the terms and click on the continue button. Enter the captcha and continue.

6. In the description field write the description of your tab. Upload an icon (the best one to choose is your blog's favicon.) And leave the other fields to defaults and click on the save changes button.

Now Open a new tab and navigate to google sites.

1. Login with your google account.

2. If you are using sites for the first time click on the Create site button in the following page.

3. In the resulting page you will be asked to enter all your details like entering a name for your site and the url and other details.

4. Expand the choose theme area and select the blank template.

5. Enter the captcha and click on the create a new site button.

6. Now you will be taken to the page where you can edit your website and do such other things.

7. In the top right you will see more actions click on that and enter the manage site option.

8. Now in the left sidebar click on general settings.

9. Now in the page de-select the show site name in the top of the pages option. We do this because you dont want the name of this site on your facebook page right. And click the save button.

10. Now click the site layout in the left sidebar and click on change site layout. Change the width to 500 px (because the width of facebook pages are only withing 550 px) and disable header and sidebar. Click Ok and save the changes.

11. Now below you will see something named as customize system footer links. A new popup will open and enable all the options in it. Click ok and save the changes.

12. Now that you have completed editing your settings and so click on the Return to site link in the left side bar.

13. You will be taken to the page that you got at the first after choosing the name and theme of your site.

14. In the top right you will see a button to create a page for your site. Click on that.

15. Enter a name of your page. In this example let it be Contact Us.

16. Let the other options to the default and  click on create page button.

17. Add the content that you want to appear on the facebook tab and save the page.

18. Now again click on More Options > Page Settings and disable all the four check boxes there.

19. After saving the changes copy the URL of the page to clipboard.

Back To Facebook.

1. You must have opened google sites in a separate tab leaving facebook aside. Now again go back to the tab where you have opened developers in facebook.

2. Click on the "On facebook" link in the left side bar.

3. Now there in the page you will find the following settings to be edited.

Canvas Page : Any unique link to this app.

Canvas URL : The URL that you copied from Google sites (Note : Remove https and replace it with http)

Secure Canvas URL : The URL that you copied from Google sites (Note: Dont remove https)

Tab URL : The same as Canvas URL

Secure Tab URL : The same as Secure Canvas URL.

Dont forget to add trailing slashes to all the fields except for the canvas page field.

4. After editing the above options your page should look something like the below :

5. Now save it.

Implementing In Your Page.

1. In the same page in the left sidebar you will find a link called as "View app profile page". Click on that.

2. Now again in the page in the bottom of the left sidebar you will find a link named as "Add to my page" Click on that.

3. Now you will find a list of pages that you admin. Click on the page where you want it to appear. And thats it. You are done.

If you wanna add more tabs follow the whole process again again until you are satisfied.

Hope you guys enjoyed the tutorial. Any queries just comment below. Or subscribe if its good...

How to add Google plus widget to blogspot blogs.

Google plus is now becoming more popular day by day. But its new so not many widgets are available on google plus. Recently plusdev's have released Google plus widget for wordpress blogs. But what about blogspot blogs. Yes there is another service named as widget-plus that enables you to add a Google plus widget to your blogspot blog. Google plus widget is a widget that shows your profile picture and asks the users to add you to their circles. It acts similar to that of facebook's profile widget but it has an extra option of adding you to their circle. But this is not the official approach but the appearance looks great. So lets get started and see how to add it to your blogspot blog.

1. Lets assume that you have a google plus account.

2. Login to your google plus account and navigate to your profile.

3. There in your profiles URL you can find your profile's number that is displayed after the "plus.google.com/"

4. Note down that number and now fire up your browser to this page.

5. In that page click on the Get Widget button.

6. Now at the bottom of the same page you will see a settings box where you have to enter your Google ID which you got from step 3.

7. You can even include your feed and this is great in appearance when compared to the way that I mentioned in my previous post and even that was a long process.

8. Customize the widget to your needs and click the Get code button that appears in the place of Get Widget button that I mentioned in step 5.

9. Now you will get the code and a live preview of your settings. Copy this code.

10. Login to your blogger account. Navigate to Design > Page elements and add a HTML / Java Script element and add the codes that you got in step 9 and save it.

Wordpress Users can get another stylish Google plus widget here.

Thats it. Now you have added a good looking Google plus widget. Like this post ? Then come on Subscribe to Cyber Freaks. Any queries ? Post them as comments...

How to add your Google plus feed to your blog.

Google plus is now becoming more more popular and so many many new tricks are invading google plus and here is a new trick on google plus which may help bloggers. Most of you by this time must be in google plus. If you dont have one then feel free to ask an invite in the comments or contact me personally. Lets assume that you have a google plus account and you would like to add your google plus feeds to your blog (just like the twitter feed widget). Here is a way to do it. There is no official plugin for this widget but lets do this by doing some tweaks. Lets get started.

1. Login to your plus account.And navigate to your profile where you can find your # number. You can find your # number from your profile URL.

2. Now navigate to the following URL :

http://plusfeed.appspot.com/YOUR PROFILE # NUMNBER HERE

Paste it in your browser's address bar and dont forget to replace "YOUR PROFILE # NUMNBER HERE" with your own profile number that you got from step 1.

3. You will now see a page that shows some XML codes. Note down this URL and this is your feed's URL.

4. Now go to feedburner and enter the URL in the text box given there and click on the next button.

5. Now you will see a page where you can select a URL and a name for your feed enter your desired name and a URL that you feel as comfortable and click the next button.

6. And click the next button in the following pages too.

7. Now you will be shown a page where you will be asked to add your feed to blogger.Ignore that page and navigate to Publish tab on the top.

8. Click Buzz Boost in the left sidebar. Enter your needs and click on the activate button.

9. After you have activated it you will get an HTML code which you can add it to your blog to see your Google plus feed on your blog.

This feed will have a simple appearance. You can make some tweaks using CSS and add it to your site so that it suits to your site. But if your templates background is white then the default one will suit you.

And thats it. Hope this was a useful tutorial. Do your like it ? Then subscribe to us to get such more tricks. Or do you have any problems just mention then in comments...

How to star posts in Google plus.

Google plus is now evolving as a great social networking site and it has now crossed the 10000 milestone in the number of members in it. But facebook took upto 800 days to cross this milestone. So Google plus is considered as a Facebook killer by most of the people but a few think that Google has copied facebook. Yes of course it has copied some features but there are many new excellent features in Google plus and the best one is Huddles. So lets come to the topic.

Most of you must be in Gmail by this time and so you will surely know about the starring option which you can use to star some of your mails that you like and so that you can access those mails easily whenever you need it.

So why dont you star posts in Google plus. Yes ! you can do this easily. Here is a simple chrome extension that enables you to star posts in Google plus.

Install Circle star chrome extension that you can find here.



After you have installed it you are ready to go now.  But just take a look at the below points to use it more easily.

1. For seeing it in action just login to your google plus account and allow it to load completely.

2. After it has loaded completely you will find a star button to the right of the button. Just click on it to star it.



3. After you have starred it you will find the starred posts in the right sidebar just above the "People in your circles" tab.

4. Those starred posts will be available in the right sidebar so that anytime you can access that post by just click on the topic.

5. The disadvantage is that the newer posts that come into the stream dont have the star button and so you will have to reload the page each and everytime a new post comes in and if you wanna star it.

And thats it Happy starring. Any problems just post your comment about it.

How to find who has removed you from their circle in google plus.

Google + is now becoming an emerging social network and it is considered as an facebook. But the drawback in both facebook and google + is that you cant find who has un-friended you and also who kicked you out of their circle. Google + and facebook dint wanted you to make feel bad that they have un-friended you or they have kicked you out of their circle. But still if you wanted to know it here is a way to do it.

1. First of all navigate to this page.

2. Click on the install button over there.

3. If you have not already installed kyntex on your browser then it will ask you to install it. Just download and install it.

4. Now you have to create a account in kyntex to install the app.

5. But dont worry this is not a long process. You can even login with your google or facebook account.

6. After you have logged in click on the install button below the title "Google Minus".



 7. And now that you have installed it. And now you MUST reload google plus for the effects to take place.

8. When you are logged in to your google plus account and when some one removes you out of their circle you will get a notification in the top right corner of your browser saying that he has removed you out of his circle.

Dont have an Google plus account. Just contact me to grab an invitation !!!!

In the same way you can also install other kyntex apps which also includes facebook unfriend finder. My most favorite apps are google minus, facebook unfriend finder and plus one any where. These are the best apps of all time by kyntex.

That's it. Hope this was a helpful post and also dont forget to share your views in the comments...