I have seen many questions regarding adding a Sitemap to Google’s Webmaster Tools for a Blogger blog. Many people don’t know that you already have a Sitemap-ready file created for you by Blogger, and that all you need to do is use that one in Webmaster Tools.
In this post I will look at adding your Blogger blog’s Sitemap to the Webmaster Tools so you can keep track of your pages using those tools.
(more…)
For most home users it is very easy to connect to a printer. Older printers are usually connected to the parallel port, while the new printers are connected to the USB port. Once the printer is connected and drivers loaded you can easily select the printer from the list and begin printing.
For those on a network that have printers you can use, you have to take different steps to connect to the printers. While the steps to connect to a network printer are different than connecting to a local print, they aren’t complex and can be performed very easily.
There is always much talk about nofollow and dofollow links on web sites. Much of the discussion is about whether you should make a link nofollow. For blogs, this discussion is centered more around the links in the comments of a blog post. Many visitors may leave a comment in an effort to get a free link back to their blog with a dofollow comment link.
In WordPress you have plugins that can control whether a link in the comments is nofollow or dofollow. In Blogger blogs, however, the default is to use nofollow links in the comments of the posts. In this post I will explain how to change the comment links in a Blogger blog to dofollow, if you would like to make the change.
Many of those that write blogs usually end up monetizing them in some way. Whether it is through pay-pre-click ads, using one of the many banner selling networks, or directly selling ads, many try to make a few dollars with their blog. The problem with many of those blogs is that they lack one thing: visitors.
While they may have several hundred visitors a day, or just over a thousand, it may not be enough to sell advertising at a decent price. This is where CMF Ads comes into play – by combining the visitors from several blogs to provide much more pageviews for an advertiser than a single blog could obtain. Its companion site, CMF Direct, will help those who have monetized their blog by providing an easy way for a protential advertiser to see what advertising is available on their blog.
I have written several posts in the past about connecting multiple computers to the Internet. In those posts I usually talk about connecting a router to your modem, and then your computers to the router. Since many routers also include a hardware firewall, this has the added benefit of securing your local network, while allowing multiple computers to use one Internet connection.
What if you have more computers than the number of ports on your router? You could just connect a second router, but the easier method is to simply connect either a hub or switch to the router. In this post I’ll talk about hubs and switches and how they are used in a network.
I like to write posts that can help others complete a task, whether it is with computers, web sites/blogs, networking, or digital photos. Some times, I come across questions that get asked on a frequent basis. While the questions may seem to be simple to answer for some, I also realize that many people don’t have the technical knowledge others may have acquired through the years.
This post is going to talk about creating header images for a web site or blog, and how to make them link back to a home page. If you are new to HTML, creating such an image is very easy to do.
As I visit web sites one thing that always get my attention is the amount of time it takes to complete a page download. With web sites using more images to display the content, it can at times take much longer than necessary to finish downloading a page.
The biggest problem with the sites that do use a lot of images on each page is the size of the images. Some who manage web sites don’t realize that images need to be resized outside of the browser to decrease the download size. Specifying the size of an image in the HTML code will only shrink the displaying of the image, not the actual size. To shrink the file sizes you will need an image editor. In this post I will list a few image editors that can be used to edit your images for your web site.
If you are like me you probably have taken thousands of pictures with your digital camera. Digital cameras make it very easy to take photos, since you can view the photos immediately, and only keep the photos you like. Once you are done taking pictures, it is usually very easy to transfer them to a computer and then print them out.
Once you have transferred them, how do you organize the photos? There are many methods that people use to organize their photos, and I have my method, which I explain below.