ChatRoulette (warning: this is often NSFW) is a site that has caused a lot of buzz over the last week or so.
It’s a webcam site where you login to chat with complete strangers – you are randomly matched with a stranger and you both have the opportunity to find a new person to chat with at anytime.
People tend to quickly click, click, click through the people that they find matched with them until they find someone that they find ‘interesting’. Unless you do something a little interesting, wacky or happen to be an amazingly beautiful person – you tend to get passed over very quickly.
While much has been written about ChatRoulette and whether it is offensive, dangerous and moral – as I was spending a few minutes on it earlier in the week (where I must have been having a bad hair day because I was ignored by 99.9% of people I was matched with) it struck me that what I was watching was a visual of how people increasingly use the web.
Click, click, click.
They don’t stay till long – they’re always clicking
They are always looking for the next best thing
They only pause if they see something that is interesting, intriguing or completely relevant to them
They are ruthless
They are impulsive
They will judge what they see within a split second of arriving on a site
They rely upon instinct and first impressions
As bloggers – the reality is that people are making these kinds of calls about our blogs every day as they click through to them from different sources. The blank faces that you see scrolling past on ChatRoulette could be the faces of your readers – clicking onto your site, making a quick judgement about your site and what its worth and then in many cases moving on.
PS: after 3 minutes on ChatRoulette and being ignored by 100+ people I decided to experiment. I put on a clown wig, I stuck two CDs to my glasses and put on some 70’s disco music (hopefully no one took a screen shot of me doing this).
The rotation of people I was being matched with slowed down – one in 5 waved – one in 10 even chatted with me.
The take home lesson
do something different
be unique and original
make people look twice
snap people out of their ‘click click click’ stupor
Do this and you might just make people pause long enough to connect (or you could just make a fool of yourself).
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Also, I’m proud to announce the launch of our new bloggertricks addition “Blogger Templates Gallery/Showcase” website. (templates.bloggertricks.com).
It is a blogger templates directory where we showcase some of the best blogger templates on the net by various famous designers.
So, if you are looking for a new template for your blog, instead of searching tons of websites in vain,you can simply visit our site to download hundreds of new, unique and amazing templates on the net for Free. We arrange them in categories, so you can quickly browse through them and select the best template that fits your blog.
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One of the things that first attracted me to blogging was the creative genius that I saw at work in many of the blogs going around at that time.
There was an ‘anything goes’ type attitude among bloggers who were pushing the boundaries of what could be done on a blog. Of course I look back now and much of this past creativity has become quite normal now (for example I clearly remember seeing a blogger include a short video in a post a number of years back and thinking it was cutting edge).
Another thing I loved about blogging was the humor, irreverence and fun I saw happening on blogs. Bloggers were not constrained by the editorial process, policy and standards that journalists worked with and as a result some of the content that they produced was like writing I’d not seen before (note: I’m not saying that editorial processes, policy and standards of journalism are a bad thing – but that what I saw bloggers doing was markedly different to what I saw happening in mainstream media at that time).
Blogging was an exciting genre – we were cutting new ground as a community of bloggers.
Of course this tradition of pushing boundaries and expressing ourselves creatively lives on – in fact it’s a real feature of many successful blogs.
Be a Playful Blogger
In a presentation last year on principles of successful blogging – one of the points I made that tried to get at this pushing of the boundaries and new way of writing was titled – Be Playful.
Not every successful blog is ‘playful’ but many are. Whether it be in the experimentation with new mediums, tools and ideas, or whether it be in the type of content that they produce – almost anything goes when it comes to blogging.
In fact as I look back on the most memorable posts that I’ve published on my blogs it is often the ‘playful’ ones that stick out. A few examples:
How to Reduce Camera Shake – 6 Techniques (the pictures in this post where the author scribbled over her butt and asked readers to ignore it (by drawing attention to it) went over so well with readers. The post went viral on Digg and many other sites.
There are many ways to ‘be playful’ on a blog but a few starting points include:
Experiment with your voice – it is often not ‘what’ you say but ‘how’ you say it that grabs people’s attention.
Humor – careful use of humor can really make an impact upon readers.
Surprise – much of what I’m trying to get at with this post is to allow yourself to do things a little different with your blog – things that surprise your readers will make them stop in their tracks a little and take a second look at what you’re doing.
Fun Projects – pretty much any project that allows your readers to do something fun and interactive would fit into this category. On DPS this would include our Weekend Photography Challenges where we ask readers to submit an image on a theme each weekend or here on ProBlogger it’d include our group writing projects over the years. These projects are largely about fun, interacting with others and a little self promotion for readers.
How have you been playful on your blog?
Being playful is not something you can make a definitive list of how to do. Playful blogging comes in all shapes and sizes so I’d love to hear how you’ve done it on your blog (or how you’ve seen others do it). Please feel free to share a link below to your examples!
PS: playful blogging is also fun and can help you to get through tough patches where you feel like giving it.
2010 is here and it is time to kick start your blog into action to ensure that the year ahead it reaches its potential.
19,782 bloggers have participated in 31 Days to Build a Better Blog and the reports that I’m getting back from them are that it’s the ideal way to get a blog fired up in the new year.
Extra Inspiration and Instruction for the New Year for All 31DBBB buyers New and Old
Over the next 7 days only if you purchase the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook I’m throwing in 3 great bonuses to help you get your blog going in the new year.
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Bonus #1: Free Report: 9 Things to Do to Get Your Blog On Track in The New Year
Written in the style of 31DBBB this report talks you through 9 things that I do at the beginning of every new year. Each step gives you a practical exercise to go away and DO to help get your blog going in the right direction. Effectively it turns the 31 day workbook into a 40 day one!
Bonus #2: Podcast with Leo Babauta from Zen Habits
Regular readers of ProBlogger will know the wisdom and insight of Leo from Zen Habits. He’s grow his blog Zen Habits from nothing to being one of the most read self help blogs in the blogosphere in just a couple of years. He’s released a book (The Power of Less) off the back of his blog and has also since launched a number of other successful blogs, profitable e-books and other products off the back of his blog.
This 55 minute podcast interview with Leo goes through his history of blogging and explores much of his philosophy behind what he does including:
his recent decisions to turn off comments on his blog
how he comes up with ideas to write about
his tips for launching e-books
his decision to remove all but one ad on his blog
tips on growing traffic and subscribers
There’s lots of good practical advice in this podcast – I came away from it with loads of ideas and inspiration myself and am sure many will benefit from it.
Bonus #3: Podcast with Neil Patel from QuickSprout
Neil Patel has built an amazing reputation and brand for himself in the last 3-4 years. He’s been a part of building two successful blogs but has also work with some amazing companies on their social media presence (like AOL, HP, Viacom and General Motors). He’s also been a part of helping blogs like TechCrunch rise to the power blogs that they are today.
Neil also is the co-founder of CrazyEgg and KissMetrics and has some great advice in this podcast in a number of areas including:
Personal Branding
SEO
Productivity
Building Traffic to Blogs
The podcast goes for 42 minutes and is not available anywhere else but to 31DBBB buyers.
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These 3 free bonuses are exclusively for buyers of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog (both past and present) and they’re only available until midday on Tuesday 19 January – Melbourne time (that’s 8pm Eastern in the US on Monday 18th and 1am London time on Tuesday 19th).
If you have already purchased the workbook you should have received an email from me in the last 12 hours (sent to the PayPal email address you paid with) that contains details of where to get the bonuses. If you purchased it through SitePoint I’m working on getting you the bonuses too.
After the huge hit of my previous two Magazine style Blogger Templates Turnout Mag and SchemerMag, here is my latest yet another Mind Blowing Blogger Template “Falkner Press”.
Yes! It’s simply Mind Blowing with so many cool features including Automatic Thumbnails and Automatic Post summarize on homepage, Youtube video integration,etc.
This was converted from a wordpress theme designed by CamelGraph.com.
Main Features:
* Automatic Thumbnails on posts
* Automatic Post Summarize
* Featured Content Slider
* Adsense ready
* PSD Custom Logo Included
* Youtube Video embedding Integrated
* Fully SEO Optimized
* Advertisement Block Ready
* 3 Columns
* Social Bookmarking Icons
* Twitter Updates widget
* Feedburner Email Subscription ready
* Thumbnails on Recent Posts in Sidebar
* Integrated Search box
* Beautiful top Navigation bar
* Cross-browser compatible
* and many more….
Step by Step Installation Guide:
(Make sure you backup your current template before installing any new template)
The logo *psd (photoshop) file is included in the download file. Open it with Photoshop and Edit the logo and Save it in .jpg format.
Next, upload that image to some image host like tinypic, photobucket,etc.. and get the image link to that file. Help : Don’t have photoshop ? or don’t know how to edit the logo ? Leave a comment here with your site name.. I’ll make it for you..
Go to Layout » Edit html
Find this url
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vSvTpKey5XI/ShV2BFNh9wI/AAAAAAAAASk/l1TGzogznQw/logo.jpg
See the pattern..you can easily understand. Simply replace the WEBSITE URL HERE with your target url. Also, Edit the anchor texts to your liking (About,Archives,Contact,etc)
Step 3 : Edit the Latest Twits
If you use twitter, You can use the integrated twitter twits widget. Simply find this
<a href='http://twitter.com/bloggertricks‘ id=’twitter-link’ style=’display:block;text-align:right;’>follow me on Twitter</a>
and Edit those urls to your feedburner links.
Don’t have Feedburner yet ? You can signup here.
Step 5 : Add Youtube Video
Go to Layout tab.. and you can see like this
Click on the edit button and paste your youtube video code.
Don’t forget to change the width and height of the video to 250 x 190 px to fit perfectly in the layout. You can edit the width and height values in the youtube embed code.
Help: How to add Youtube videos to Blogger
Don’t want Youtube Video Widget ? then, simply remove this code from the template.
<b:widget id='HTML2' locked='true' title='VIDEO (250 x 190)' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id=’main’>
<!– only display title if it’s non-empty –>
<data:content/>
<b:include name=’quickedit’/>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
Step 6 : Setup Mini Updates (Recent Posts with thumbnails)
This template has inbuilt Recent Posts with Thumbnails widget. All you have to do is enter your blog url and it will do the rest.
Look for this code in the template
home_page = "http://falknerpress.blogspot.com/”;
and replace the url with your Blog url.
Step 7 : Edit Social Bookmarking links
In the footer, you will see three widgets, 1.About me 2. Be my Frined? and 3. Advertisement widget.
The 1 & 3 widgets can be directly added by going to Layout tab.
All you need to edit is the second widget ‘Be my Friend’. Using Social Bookmarking sites is a smart way to drive traffic to your sites.. So, if you don’t have any of those accounts, Just take time to register..they are free and worth it
Edit the Slideshow…
Go to Layout » Edit html and find these lines..
Observe the pattern, it’s easy!
wait! First prepare your images… the images should be 490(width) x 280 (height) pixels. Use Photoshop or any other image editing software to crop the images to 490 x 280 px and then upload the images to some image host like photobucket,tinypic,etc.
Next, find this code
<div id='myGallery'>
<!– First Picture Start –>
<div class=’imageElement’>
<h3>Title One </h3>
<p/>
<a class=’open’ href=’http://bloggertricks.com‘/>
<img alt=’Marley And Me’ class=’full’ src=’IMAGE URL‘/>
<img alt=’Marley And Me’ class=’thumbnail’ src=’http://54800.com/wp-content/uploads/a1.jpg’/>
</div>
<!– First Picture End –>
…………………………………..
……………………………………
</div>
The pattern is like this
<div id='myGallery'>
<!– First Picture Start –>
<div class=’imageElement’>
<h3>Title 1 </h3>
<p/>
<a class=’open’ href=’LINK 1 ‘/>
<img alt=’Marley And Me’ class=’full’ src=’URL OF IMAGE 1 ‘/>
</div>
<!– First Picture End –>
<!– Second Picture Start –>
<div class=’imageElement’>
<h3>Title 2 </h3>
<p/>
<a class=’open’ href=’LINK 2 ‘/>
<img alt=’Marley And Me’ class=’full’ src=’URL OF IMAGE 2 ‘/>
</div>
<!– Second Picture End –>
<!– Third Picture Start –>
<div class=’imageElement’>
<h3>Title 3 </h3>
<p/>
<a class=’open’ href=’LINK 3 ‘/>
<img alt=’Marley And Me’ class=’full’ src=’URL OF IMAGE 3 ‘/>
</div>
<!– Third Picture End –>
</div>
Got it? Now edit those links and Save the Changes!!
Now, FalknerPress template is successfully installed!
Extras
Here are few more things you can learn about this template.. Adsense Color Codes: Here is the Color Palattes you can use to perfectly blend your adsense ads in the layout
1. Adsense in Left sidebar:
Preview:
Colors to use:
2. Adsense in Right sidebar:
Preview:
Colors to use:
3. Adsense just below Featured Content Slideshow:
(468 x 60px)
SAME COLORS as 2nd one
4. Adsense in Footer:
Colors to use:
That’s it guys! Hope you like the template
Like the template? or If you have any questions ? Comment here…
Good news guys!
I added to more functionalities to the two Free Premium blogger templates TurnOut Mag and SchemerMag that I released a couple of days ago.
1. AUTOMATIC THUMBNAILS on Homepage:
Previously, we have to add small images to the top of the post to display thumbnails on the homepage. Even, if go to post pages, the thumbnails stay as thumbnails.
But, now, I added the AutoThumbnails feature to the template. What it does?
You can add big images to your posts, doesn’t matter you add them at the top of the post or at the bottom of the post. This trick automatically grabs the picture from the post and resizes it on the homepage.. and the same pic appear in full size in the post pages.
2. AUTOMATIC Post Summarize and Read More… :
Previously, we have to edit each and every post to display the summary on the homepage.. If we don’t edit them.. the homepage looks crappy.
But, with the additional feature I added, doesn’t matter if you have 1 post or 1,000000 posts, the trick will automatically summarize the text for you on the homepage..
What next..?
With these two additional features, Personally I feel, these are the top 2 Blogger templates of all time with so many features included…what do you say..?
So, why not test the layout on your blog..?
Download the Turnout Mag here and SchemerMag here.
————————————————- NOTE : You DON’T need to change these if you are downloading a FRESH COPY now!
Downloaded the previous version (2 days ago) and want to change to this one?
Simply make these couple of changes..
1. FIND THIS: </head>
AND ADD THIS CODE AFTER THAT <SCRIPT type='text/javascript'> var thumbnail_mode = "no-float" ; summary_noimg = 230; summary_img = 200; img_thumb_height = 80; img_thumb_width = 80; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT src='http://myblogtalk.com/bloggertemplates/turnoutmag/autoreadmorethumb.js' type='text/javascript'/>
and REPLACE it with this..
<DIV expr:id='"summary" + data:post.id'><p><data:post.body/></p></DIV> <SCRIPT type='text/javascript'>createSummaryAndThumb("summary<data:post.id/>");</SCRIPT>
After very good response on my previous Magazine style Blogger template Turn out Mag, I decided to go for one more Magazine style layout.. so, here it is..
Releasing SchemerMag Magazine style 3 Column Blogger Template:
As usual, this is a wordpress to blogger conversion.. wp theme by Chiq Montes of wpthemedesigner.com and converted to Blogger by me.
Special Features:
» Thumbnails on articles (automatic resize)
» Google Adsense/banner ready
» 3 Columns
» SEO Optimized
» Featured video
» Read more..(automatic summarize)
Step 2: Adding Adsense banners to header and on top of every post
2.a: Adsense on header
Just go to Layout and edit the gadget as shown below and paste your adsense code (468 x 60px) and save it..
2.b: Adsense on above first post (even on labels,search pages)
Just go to Layout page and edit the ‘advertisement’ gadget as shown below
Step 2 : Edit the logo text
The .psd file is included in the template download file. Just open it with photoshop and edit the text and save it as image file (.jpg or .gif). Next , upload to any image hosting servies and copy the image url of the uploaded image.
Next, go to Edit html and replace this image url in the template with the one you just copied now.
http://i43.tinypic.com/er0iyo.jpg
Extract all files from this folder and save to your computer.
Log in to Blogger and choose the blog you wish to install this template for.
Choose the Layout>Edit HTML tan.
Near the top of the screen, you will see the option to “Upload a new template”. Click on the “Browse” button and locate the red_silver_web_20.xml file on your computer. Then click on the “Upload” button.
This will upload your new template to your blog and save this instead of your existing template.
Once installed, you can change the links in the navigation bar by editing the template directly. The links to be changed may be found in this section of code in the template:
<!-- This is the navbar section which you can edit to include your own links --> <div style='height: 40px; padding: 10px 0 0 0; margin: 3px 0 0 0;'> <!-- Home Page Link --> <a class='nav-section' expr:href='data:blog.url' style='color: #fff; text-decoration: none;'>Home</a> <!-- About link add your link here --> <a class='nav-section' href='#' style='color: #fff; text-decoration: none;'>About</a> <!-- Contact link add your link here --> <a class='nav-section' href='#' style='color: #fff; text-decoration: none;'>Contact</a></div> <!-- End navbar section -->
You will also need to change the date settings for your blog to ensure the calendar widget is properly displayed.
For this, go to Settings>Formatting in your dashboard, and ensure the date is set to the YYYY-MM-DD format.
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ChatRoulette (warning: this is often NSFW) is a site that has caused a lot of buzz over the last week or so.
One of the things that first attracted me to blogging was the creative genius that I saw at work in many of the blogs going around at that time.
2010 is here and it is time to kick start your blog into action to ensure that the year ahead it reaches its potential.
Written in the style of 31DBBB this report talks you through 9 things that I do at the beginning of every new year. Each step gives you a practical exercise to go away and DO to help get your blog going in the right direction. Effectively it turns the 31 day workbook into a 40 day one!
Regular readers of ProBlogger will know the wisdom and insight of Leo from Zen Habits. He’s grow his blog Zen Habits from nothing to being one of the most read self help blogs in the blogosphere in just a couple of years. He’s released a book (
Neil Patel has built an amazing reputation and brand for himself in the last 3-4 years. He’s been a part of building two successful blogs but has also work with some amazing companies on their social media presence (like AOL, HP, Viacom and General Motors). He’s also been a part of helping blogs like TechCrunch rise to the power blogs that they are today.
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