Animated Banner with Rotating Headlines

This article is about creating a nice looking banner that incorporates rotating headlines of your 5 recent Blog articles. If you have submitted your Blog to different Blog Directories, you would come across some which ask for your banner. It is nothing more than a picture to represent your Blog.Nonetheless, a nicely designed banner can attract more visitors and add a touch of professionalism to

Hyperlinks and Image Links (II)

We continue from where we left off in Hyperlinks and Image Links (I). We have looked at how we can create text links and discussed the HTML code and common attributes. In this part of the article, we shall focus on adding Images and Image Links into your Blog. We will talk about the “title” and “alt” tags in image links which supposedly help in search engine optimization (SEO). We shall end

Hyperlinks and Image Links (I)

In this article, we shall address the common queries on how to configure links such that they open in a new window when clicked, the HTML code for visitors to link to your blog, the various hyperlink HTML tags and attributes, etc.A hypertext link or text link is a piece of text which when clicked will bring you to a section of a webpage, another webpage or an electronic document. If it is an

Chat Box, Shout Box and Google Talk

The chat box you see on the left sidebar is one of the many FREE interactive tools you can get for your blogs. Call them what you like – tagboard, message board, chat box, chatter box, message box, shout box – they have one thing in common i.e., promoting interaction by allowing your visitors to leave messages or chat with one another. While it is true that your visitors can leave comments on

Bigger and Better Group

Posted by: Christine Moschella, Online Operations

Good news, Custom Search Engine fans! We've redesigned the discussion group just for you; in particular, we've added categories to make information easier to find, including several sections dedicated to CSE features and options.

We invite you to join the Google Custom Search Help Group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-custom-search to ask questions, find answers, and lend your expertise to other Google Custom Search Engine users. Our own Custom Search Guides will also be posting to this group from time to time to help facilitate the discussion with tips and clarifications.

As for the original Co-op group, we've moved it into a subcategory of the new Custom Search group and archived the posts. You can still search for topics and read posts, but you won't be able to post new messages to the group. We hope you'll find the right category for your questions in the new Custom Search group.

Before posting to the group, try searching for the answer to your question in the FAQ or in the group archives. Also, please review the Custom Search Help Charter for more details about the group, including posting tips and etiquette. We hope to have you as an active group member soon!

Submit Blog to Blog Directories (I)

How do you attract more readers and visitors to your Blog? To make your Blog more visible, the solution lies in submitting your Blog URL or RSS Feed to as many good Blog directories as possible. There are hundreds of websites touting themselves as blog search engines, blog directory hosts, feed aggregators, and traffic exchanges. A couple of the website creators are out to make a quick buck,

Submit Blog to Blog Directories (II)

This is a continued list of Blog directories to which you can submit your blog for free. If you have not read the first part, please check out Submit Blog to Blog Directories (I).Again, I seek your understanding that while comments on your experiences with these sites are welcomed, kindly refrain from posting suggestions of new blog directory sites. As you will see, where there are voting

Submit Blog to Blog Directories (III)

This is a continuation from the earlier list of Blog directories to which you can submit your blog for free. For completeness, it is advisable to read the earlier installments Part I and Part II before you read this.Feel free to share comments on your experiences with these sites but refrain from posting suggestions of new blog directory sites.Blogflux Other than a blog directory, the site also

Blog Traffic Exchange and AdSense

After doing up nice websites with interesting contents, the webmasters' dilemma is usually one of attracting visitors to their sites. Having more visitors is gratifying; it is a reward that website owners deserve for putting time and effort into their sites.Traffic exchange networks were designed to promote visitor traffic to websites or blogs. The idea is simple – members of the network surf