Archive for the ‘Blogger Tricks And Tutorials’ Category

March 1, 2010

Disable Directory Browsing To Increase Security In Wordpress

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When my blog was hacked, I realized that my directories were accessible to anyone, even bots, which is really a big loophole for security. As then the other person trying to hack in to your blog knows which plugins or what important files you have kept safe in your directories. To avoid anyone access your installation folders or reveal loophole in security this simple hack comes in handy.

February 11, 2010

How To Add A Google Buzz Share Button

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An extension of its Gmail platform, Google Buzz allows users to share photos, links, status updates and videos through Gmail or through mobile technology. As an indicator of Buzz’s potential reach, Gmail is currently the third most popular web-based email service in the world, recording 176.5 million unique visitors in December alone.

January 29, 2010

Prevent Hotlinking (Save Bandwidth)

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Many a times Bloggers run out of their monthly usage without even their articles getting many hits, resulting in a downtime or paying penalty for specific hosting. This might be a result of Hotlinking, this means that the images you are hosting on your site are used by other sites by inserting same links in IMG tags, which sucks your bandwidth.

January 27, 2010

Add Floating Back To Top Icon Link

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This trick will add a floating up arrow button which will help you go back to top of page with just one click, no matter what is the position of the page, even if you are half way down the post, you can click this button to go back to top.

January 8, 2010

Change Author’s Comments Color and Styling

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A author’s comment if has different background color, or different text style or even border, helps readers to easily locate what Author has to say if a question is asked in comments or even what he thinks of the comments coming. This simple tutorial will help you achieve same and that too without any plugin used.

January 4, 2010

Show Adsense Only to Search Engine Visitors

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As we all know that regular visitors don’t click on ads, around 90% folks who click on ads are coming from search engines. Also for fact that Google pays more if your click-through rate (CTR) is higher, Google’s “smart pricing.” Being smart priced means that your click-through rate (CTR) is low and the money you earn per click is divided by between 2 and 10. Happily, this solution displays your AdSense ads to search engine visitors only, which means more clicks and a higher CTR.

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