Showing posts with label Blogging For beginners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging For beginners. Show all posts

Friday, 14 October 2016

Best Free 2016 Keyword Research Tool For your Website

Best Free 2016 Keyword Research Tool For your Website

Keyword research plays an important part in your website post. It can make your website/blog post popular or it can make it completely vanish your blog post. So to do keyword research, here are some of the best free 2016 keyword research tool that will make your blog post visible in this web world. 

Best Free 2016 Keyword Research Tool

Google Keyword Planner 

Talking about the free 2016 keyword planner Google Keyword Planner is ranked on the number one list. Here it is the free keyword researcher from google. To use it, you first need to signup at Google Adwords and then under tools you will find Keyword Planner. 

Google planner has variety of functions such as you can set target and you can apply a lot of keyword filters as well as it show the competition, average monthly search and other data that will exactly help in finding the right keyword for your website. 

If you own a small website then it's the best tool but now in 2016 Google had ranged (1M-10M) the keyword data for account that had no campaigns running. So it's better to use Keyword planner in parallel with other tools.

SeoStack Keyword Tool 2016 

SeoStack is chrome extension that is used for free keyword search. You just need to  download it to your chrome browser. To use seostack, click on the extension icon and it will then lead you to the keyword research website where you will enter your desired keyword. And you can also select the sources from where you want to look for  keyword.

Seostack is very simple tool which give you the option to select the country. It also shows the rank of the keyword in a search engine with big keyword trail. Also you can get keyword and volume data but it redirects to the google keyword planner. But this keyword is good for beginners. You can get Seostack Keword tool from chrome web-store.

Google Autocomplete

Google autocomplete is not a keyword research tool, but it is a technique to find out what people are searching on Google in large amount. I myself use this technique for my YouTube channel and it works a lot of time. So start using this free google autocomplete keyword research 2016 technique. 

Google Trends 2016 Keyword Research Tool

If you run a website which post about trending content then Google Trends is the best keyword tool for you. Google trends shows the data data of the latest popular searches that are going on in your Country. And also it can shows the keyword research data on your favourite topic. 

Just access Google Trends and look for  a trending interesting topic and start posting. However this research tool will only give you an idea of trending keywords. And it will be best to use with Google keyword planner.

Ubersuggest 2016 widely used Free Keyword Research tool

Ubersuggest is the free and most widely used tool for keyword research. It is loved by bloggers who had just entered into to web-world. The best part of this keyword research tool is that, it reads keywords from web, images, shopping, news and YouTube. And that's a plenty of keyword data on your hands.

Just access Ubersuggest and find the best keywords. And it also let you select your keywords so that you can use them later. 

HyperSuggest Free Keyword Research tool 2016

Another free keyword tool of 2016 is HyperSuggest which is liked bye the online community. This tool look the kewords on Google, Google shopping and YouTube. It can also reverse suggest keywords. 

Hypersuggest supports adding modifiers to suffix and prefix and it allows you to product more keywords. It also have predefined modifiers such as who, why, how and others to make search friendly keyword trails. Navigate to the Hypersuggest website and look for your keyword data.

Bing Webmaster Tools A free 2016 keyword research tool by Bing

Bing webmaster tool is a free keyword analyser tool from bing which only show the data from the Bing search engine. It almost shows the search volume data from the Bing. But it will be useful for those who wants to target people  who use Bing for their daily search.

Conclusion on Free 2016 best Keyword Research Tool 

As each keyword tool has it's own value and research mechanism, so these tools are very important for a blogger or a website content creator. Even you can use free 2016 keyword research tool for your YouTube videos. You can make searches too. These all keyword research tools provide a high quality data on keywords.

So go ahead and start using these all free 2016 best keyword research tools and you will see the improvement in your website's traffic.

Sunday, 7 August 2016

How To Set Up A Custom Domain in Blogger

How To Set Up A Custom Domain in Blogger
Now you have decided to move on to some serious work with your blog. So it's time to buy and set up a custom domain in blogger. So what's a custom domain first. In simple words creating your own property. Till now we have 'theguyscomputer.blogspot.in' as here The Guy's computer had a sub domain 'blogspot.in', but as soon as I brought a custom domain, and after setting up that custom domain the 'blogspot.in' was removed.

How To Buy A Custom Domain

How to set up a Custom Domain in Blogger
Setting up A custom Domain in Blogger


There are a lot of domain name providers in India. So these are the following which are common
5. No-IP

And a lot more. You can do Google research too. Now before just jumping for buying a Domain name, never forget to research for discount coupons. As a result of these coupon code I got 'theguyscomputer.com'  in just 135 INR for One Year. So that's the benefit of applying coupons.

As I have brought this domain name from Go Daddy, So I will show the process of Buying domain.

First enter your desired domain name in the search bar of godaddy or the domain name provider and after that just click Continue to Cart.
Godaddy domain
Godaddy  Domain Select 

Now after that You need to enter the Coupon code and Proceed to check out for being billed. 
latest Godaddy Coupon
Godaddy Coupon 
Now Proceed and enter your details in the next tab shown. And also you need to put your Debit/Credit card details to make the transaction. 

This is a process of next two steps where you will also need to accept terms and conditions and then you will be billed as soon as you will OTA in the next banking page (though it can differs)

Now you have successfully brought a Domain name.


How To Set Up A Custom Domain in Blogger

  Now it's time to map your domain to your blogger. For setting up your custom domain you need to login to the control panel of your domain name provider with a user name and password which you had set in early steps. 

Now On top left you will see your user name with a drop down arrow key. Move your cursor there and click and a drop down menu will appear, from there just click on to 'My Products'.
How to set up a custom domain
Click on My Products 

Now after that, You need to click on '+' expand on 'Domain' Option and then click on 'Manage Dns'.
Set up a custom Domain
Domain Management 
Now After Clicking 'Mange Dns' you will see this page. Now as like shown in picture enter the details as mentioned there, except first CNAME, as you need to enter yours which will be given  in blogger. Or you will get these details in the blogger's help page
setting custom domain in blogger
Setting up Values for Domain 


Now Login to your Blogger's Dashboard and then navigate to 'Setting' and click on 'Set up third party url for your blog'. 
 Custom domain setting for blogger
Click on 'Set Up a third Party URL for your Blog


and put 'www.yourdomain name.com' there and after clicking save you will get your CNAME record. And after that you need to put that in your Domain management there which was omitted earlier.
CNAME Records for blogger
CNAME Records Copy and Paste to Domain Control Panel 


Now after putting the CNAME records in your Domain name control panel. Just wait for few minutes and then come back to blogger's 'setting' then 'basic' and then again 'Blog address' and now press save again and your new domain will be saved. 

Also do check 'redirect xyz.com to www.xyz.com' here xyz is your domain name. By this people will be redirected to your website without typing www every time. 
Redirect your custom domain
Check the Redirect Option
  


Finally we have learned and set up a custom domain in blogger. Now get yourself a custom domain fast and start dominating the internet world.

If you have any suggestion or feed back regarding this post on setting up a custom domain in blogger then mention me in comment and if you find this topic helpful then share this article with your friends too.   

Thursday, 4 August 2016

How To Add a Facebook Page To Blogger / Website

How To Add a Facebook Page To Blogger Website
If you owns a website or blog, then here is How you can add a Facebook page to your blog or website. As connecting your Facebook page to your blog can bring the potential out of Facebook to your Blog or Website.

Adding Facebook Page To Your Blog

How to add facebook to blogger
How to Add Facebook Page to Blogger 


1. First Go to Dashboard of your Blog or Website.
2. Then at blogger navigate to 'Layout' tab.
3. Now click on 'Add a Gadget' and click on 'HTML/JavaScript'
how to add a facebook page to blogger
Add HTML/JavaScipt 


4. Now paste the following code to content section of 'HTML/Java Script' tab and replace 'guycomputer' with your Facebook's Page's URL or user name.

<div class="fb-page" 
  data-href="https://www.facebook.com/guycomputer/"
  data-tabs="timeline,events,messages" 
  data-width="380" 
  data-height="380"
  data-hide-cover="false"
  data-show-facepile="false" 
  data-show-posts="false"></div>
Adding Facebook Code To Blog


Now to makes changes to the Styles of your Facebook Page in your website  you can change the Value of this code to True or False as required.  Here "data-hide-cover" stands for your Facebook cover photo, 'data-show-facepile' stands for the user's faces who already had liked your Facebook Page and 'data-show-posts' controls the display of your Page's post here at your blog or website.

  data-hide-cover="false"
  data-show-facepile="false" 

  data-show-posts="false"


Now if the above method of adding a Facebook page doesn't work then you must try this method.


Adding Facebook's JavaScript to your blog's/website's  Body  

Now the above codes failed because your website or blog had missing Facebook java-script. So it's time to add it to your blog.

First go to 'Template' and click on 'Edit HTML'
edit html of blogger
Customise Blog's Template


Then click inside that HTML code and press 'Ctrl + F' and type '</head>'. Now after that search for '< body' which must be below two or three lines of '</head>' tag. Now paste below code somewhere inside the body tag.

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) 
{ var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src="//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.7";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','facebook-jssdk'));</script>  
add facebook code to blog or website
Paste Facebook code as Shown Here

Now after this save your HTML template. And now again navigate to 'Layout' and 'Add a Gadget' and then click 'HTML/Java Script' and paste the code shown in 1st method above

If you still faces the problem, then you can verify the code from Facebook Developer Page. 

Further you can check the live version of adding Facebook to your blog by this Video on 'How to add Facebook page to blogger'.






So it is now very easy to connect Facebook with your blog. Now start connecting with the people at Facebook and make a Post right now to your new people. 

If you liked the article then share this post with your friends too. And if you have any questions regarding this topic then you can let me know in comments. 


Monday, 1 August 2016

How to Add or Remove Blogger Widgets

"Wow I have now  Google+ badge to my Blog "
As blogging is not all about writing, it's about socialising and being connecting with more and more people, sharing knowledge and learning. So to be socialised in this blogging world widgets follows an important role. So today with me we will learn "how to add blogger widgets" and will be opening more ways to make your blog more social. 



How To Add Widgets To Your Blog


How to add or remove blogger widgets
Add or Remove Blogger Widget

1.First login to your Blogger's dashboard, click on the drop down arrow key to access the "layout" tab of your blog.
Layout tab for adding or removing blogger widget
Click Layout Tab for adding Widgets 


2. Now after opening on the layout tab in your blog, scroll down or look for "Add a Gadget". It's location depends upon your custom template's design. Click on it.
Click on Add a Gadget to blog
Add A Gadget to add widget/Gadget 


3. After clicking on "add a gadget" a small windows will popup. Now choose a variety of blogger widgets from the predefined list and click on your desired widget.
widgets for blogger
List of Blogger's Widget

4. And after setting it up, just click save and a message will be displayed "Page element added".
Widget added to Blog
Widget Added to  Blog



5. Now you can either preview your blog or you can save this by clicking Save arrangement on the top right of your screen.

saving widget arrangement
Saving  Widget Arrangement of Blog


6. And you are done. Now watch the changes in your blog.

How to Remove Blogger Widgets 

As we have added widgets to a blog in similar way sometime we need to remove some annoying widgets which did not get compatible with the template as in my case. However I will change the template of my blog soon.

Removing blogger widgets is very easy. 

1. As we are already logged in to blogger so look at the bottom right of your blogger widget in your blog. There you will find a Setting icon. Now Click on that.
Removing Blogger Widget
Click on that Screw to Remove Blogger Widget

2. Now a widget window will pop up. Click on Remove to delete that widget from your blog.
Removing blogger widget
Click Remove to Delete Blogger's Widget


Alternatively, you can do this by going to blogger dashboard and then clicking on "Layout". From there look for the widget that you wanted to remove from your blog. And then click on it and press remove when window will pop up .
how to remove blogger widget
Removing blogger widget through Layout window


Now one reason to add blogger widgets is socialising, other reasons are connecting blog readers to our blog's social network. As not every time our friends or people will not type the computer guy's blog address. 


Even I am a human and typing a blog address is a pain. It takes time. So why not I connect my readers to social networks?


So they can easily get my blog updates and can share their knowledge through The Guy's Computer blogger Platform. 

And there are a lot of funny and cool-tech widgets which can make your blog more cool. You can add Instagram, flicker, Facebook photo gallery, Even a Talking Avatar and a Donkey Kong game (I knew you liked Donkey Kong). 

So The Guy's Computer is now going to do something with these cool Blogger widget things. Because apart from sharing knowledge on Blogging and Tech things; Entertainment matters too.

So now will all this clutter above you have learned to add some widgets to your blog. Now go run to your blog and put some blogger widgets there and If you find "Mario"  game widget for blogger then do tell me too. And don't forget to check The Guy's Computer YouTube channel.

Sunday, 31 July 2016

How To Change Blogger Template

After you have started a blog for free, it's the time to decorate your new blog with a template. As without a well visual style to your blog there will be no readers. And to make your content more appealing to everyone a custom template must be installed to your blog. So today with me we will learn how to change blogger template.

 Change Blogger Template

how to change blogger template
How To Change Blogger Template


To Change your blogger template, we first need to download a custom template. For that you can get latest 2016 SEO optimised custom template for blogger from Gooyaabi Templates Or you can manually made a search for a template for your blog at google.

After downloading a resembling blogger template which match to your blog style, it's time to apply new styling to your blog. 


Steps To change Blogger Template


1. Login to your Blogger 
2. After login click on "go to post list" icon in blogger homepage.
Go to Post list blogger
Go To Post List 



3. Now Click on "Template" 
Blogger Template
Blogger Template 


4. After that move your eyes to the top right of screen, there you will see "Backup/Restore" Click on that. 
Backup restore blogger template
Backup/Restore Blogger Template button


5. Now before uploading new template; first download a backup of     your previous template.
Backup of Blogger Template
Backup previous blogger Template 


6. Now to upload your brand new blogger template, Click on               "Choose File" and then "Upload".
How to change Blogger Template
How To Change Blogger Template 


Now finally you are done with your new blogger template. Now click on view blog to see your cool customisation.

But the work had not completed yet. You have just changed  your blog template; but with that new custom template your blog will be flooded with the predefined effects and menu by the creator of that template. Now it's time to edit these setting and modify them according to your needs.

Removing Unwanted Menus from your Blogger Template

Applying a custom template is not enough to make our blog attractive,we need some customisation to initiate a complete change in a blogger template except it's footer or header where the coder signature or the source website from the template had been downloaded as because of their hard work our blog is going to be so Cool ! and also i'ts against the Laws ! If you still do that You may be sued or your blog may be taken down!

Now let's move to the topic. First click on the "Template" as done previously then click on  "Edit Html"
Editing Html Of blogger template
Edit HTML of your Blogger Template


After clicking on "Edit Html" you will see something messy lines of code which may seem out of the mind " Yea It was out of My Mind." 
HTML Code of Blogger Template
HTML Code of Blogger Template 


But before that I need to figure out what I need to remove so I will look at my blogger template by clicking view blog. And I want to remove "Parent Category" .
Blogger preview
The guy;s Computer Blog Preview


Now in that blogger template code just click anywhere between that code and press "Ctrl+F" and type the term which you want to remove from your blog. Here I want to remove "Parent Category" from my changed blogger template. Now after pressing enter I get this result.
HTML For Blogger Template
Blogger Template HTML Search


Now it's time to remove them or to change them according to my blog. So if you want to remove them just add <!-- at the start of code and then --> at the end of code(look at the picture).This will make that piece of code as a comment and press Save Template. "WHAT! THE HECK."   
Blogger Template
Removing unwanted menu making code as comment 

Finally Parent Category had gone from my Blog.


Parent Category Removed How to change Blogger Template
Parent Category menu Removed


Similarly if you wanted to add some menu just change the predefined name by searching it in blogger template html. And don't forget to add a link to that so that Clicking on that menu will not result a blank page or nothing. You can create links by creating labels to your post. If you still don't know about the labels then I can guess you haven't read How To Start A Blog For Free completely.


Now first we need to get the link of that posts with particular labels. To do that first click on the "layout" and then "Add A gadget" and search for labels from that menu and add it to your blog.
How to add labels to Blog
Adding Labels to Blog


Now after saving the layout, you will see labels shown in your blog template, and then clicking on label will show all the post associated with that label and then you can copy the link from the address bar. After your work you can either leave those labels on your template or you can remove them.

Blogger's labels link
Copy Labels link 


Now Add a name between ">NAME<" these angle braces. And put the link in "href=#"  replace "#" with the link associated with that label. And then click save template.
Adding link to Template HTML
Adding Label link to menu in template HTML


Now finally after this long mental torture of codes and all we are now here at the end and your blog is going to be an awesome blog after learning how to change blogger template. So do some custom changes to the looks of your blog but don't forget to backup your template first because for the first things can be messed up.

So if you do have some questions, or some suggestions to make some cool changes to blogger template then comment. So Keep liking and sharing our blog and do check The Guy's Computer on  YouTube.

Saturday, 30 July 2016

How To Start A Blog For Free

How To Start A Blog ? 
With increasing blogging mania, a lot of people are searching for How To Start A Blog For Free and why not? As blogging has changed the life of lot of people around the world. And writing a blog is the best and easiest way to share your knowledge with the people over the internet with less time. So here is the simplest and easiest way to start your own blog in just few easy steps.

Starting A Blog 

How to Start a Blog For Free
How To Start A Blog for Free in 2016



For starting a blog, you first need a Google Account. If you are totally new in the web word and don't have a google account then you can Create Google Account for free. 

And now you are ready with your google account then next step is to navigate to the Blogger. As soon as you are there at blogger's homepage, you will need to sign in using your Google Account. 
Blogger Signin
A Google Account is Used to Sign in To Blogger


Success ! you are now on the Blogger's homepage. Now on the top of the left there you will see "New Blog", just click on that to create  a new blog.
how to Create a Blog
Click on New Blog To Create a new Blog


Now After clicking  on new blog, a new window will pop up, there you will need to put a title for your blog which is about to born in this google world. And of course without a web address how would people navigate to your new born blog ? And then after putting an address(Does the address matches your blog title?) you will need to select a template. Don't worry if you don't like any of them, you can Customise you Blog's Template later.
how to create a new blog
Setting Blog Title and Address


Now after you have clicked on Create blog! as of you had done now ! You will see blogger's dashboard with lot of options on the left of it. Now turn your eye balls on to the top left of your screen. Now there is a Pencil like structure in front of you. That's it Click on that and you will be ready for your brand new blog post.
Create new post in Blogger
Click to Create New Post 



Now Fellas! Put some catchy title to your first blog Post. And start writing on your favourite stuff. As a catchy title will add some life to your newly started blog and also visitors too. 

Blog Post Title How to create a Blog
Create Post Title And Write awesome Content


Blogger had gave us a lot of new features like Changing default Font from a predefined list, though it is not a big list, it's just a font family. You can change it. With that you can change the Text Size, And creates Cool Heading, sub-headings as required! Even you can add a video to your blog Like I had done on the topic How to create a blog on Blogger 2016.


Now you have completed your first awesome Blog post ! But wait a minute. Don't just publish it, click on the Preview button on the right of your screen. You don't want the world to see your awesome post with a glitch. Were you ? And also don't forget to add a label to your post. 


Now What the Heck that label is? Label is just like a tag to your post, which will describe the what topic that blog post is regarding. 

Now don't just post like a dumbo ! Wait a minute and click on Permalink to check the link, whether the automatic generated blog post link resembles your blog post title or not. If it is not, then click on custom to change it to your title keywords. As it will help search engines to reach to your awesome blog which you just started for free.
Add the Permalink
Check For The Permalink
   


Now You are ready to Publish your first Blog post in your brand new blog that you just have started and have not paid anything at all. 

After you have successfully started your first blog post for free, now it's the time for sharing your blog post to the social media website and other micro-blogging websites.

 As in 2016 blogging and internet is a place which can change the fate of your life not just by making you popular, but with your awesome blog you can earn a decent income in upcoming years if you get dedicated to Blogging.  


If you loved reading this blog post ! or you do have some appreciation or question on starting a blog then you can tell me in comments. Keep visiting and be with us in this awesome journey of Blogging.  
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