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20 WAYS TO MAKE YOUR SITE GO MOBILE

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As we all know that the rate at which mobile internet user increase is more than the number at which pc users do. For example someone might have an internet or gprs enable phone for easier access to the internet anywhere he or she is. Making a website a mobile friendly should be a must for any website or blog owners in order to accommodate the high number of mobile internet users. In this article I will show you some easy tools and website to make your site mobile friendly especially blog site and also the site tools that allow adsense or advert on your mobile page
MOBSTAC mobstac is mainly consigned about blog site like bloggers.  I have used their services in so many of my blogs and I recommend them for a check. They give their users the opportunity to put a mobile ads like adsense mobile ads and analytics, but those who use their service for free are meant to share their earns with them. They support about 2000 mobile devices about two different themes to consider when signing up. For bloggers you just have to copy the code given to you insude your <head> part of your html blog

MOBIFY Mobify is a great mobile site converter because it gives both blog owners and website owners the privilege to customize their mobile site with css in any way they want. It gives you the tools also for putting adverts and analytics on your site. Lastly it supports over 5000 mobile devices 

MOFUSE .This is considered one of the most mobile site service provider they have powered more than 23000 blogs simply visit their site click on launch a new mobile site choose a mobile domain and insert your url for the site, Next is that you have to click on add elements to put dynamic and static designs to or content to every of your page then click on layout to transfer elements to your life live sites, Maybe by dragging and dropping them to get the best view of the site on mobile. When your are done you have to preview your site using Mofuse emulator. And for bloggers like me just check out this Mofuse is absolutely free and easier to set up in few minutes but starts for $7.95 for non bloggers as at the time of writing this

MIPPIN.  This is another site for mobile site conversion. Their services is absolutely free of charge and they are mostly used by RSS driven websites its customization is not compared like mofuse even though it is worth checking out. It also provides users analytics and the ability of the user to put adverts to his site. It can be used in over 2000 mobile devices

MOBILISE BY MIPPIN This is a wordpress plug in that gives wordpress owners the ability to make their site go mobile in as stylish way. And its displays your site from your mobile url. Just like mobstac it automatically redirects anyone visiting your site with a mobile device to its mobile version. It also converts videos into 3gp and fits photos in a horizontal dimensions

WIRENODE wirenode has low customization potentials like mofuse but it is good .From their dashboard users can configure their domain names, upload pictures, track visitors and previews your site on emulator phones. Their simply user interface lets users to personalize their mobile site with colors and images and create, edit, rearrange and delete individual pages. About 32000 website has being optimized with their service   

2ERGO Has mobilized so many great sites which looks great and loads quickly. Their user has three options of using their self-service mobile publishing and content management tools, mobile site builder or lastly their let them design the site for you. All this are in their other of its costs. 2ergo has an automatic detection of devices, real time tracking, forms collections, integrated ad service platforms and top-notch technical support

ZINADOO is another web solution that has the power to put your site in mobile form in few minutes and simple clicks. They give their users the opportunity to optimize their site in Google with their Google mobile keyword and tags and also mobile widgets  like adding videos they also connects users to their online business directory and mobiseer, a web 2.0 service for organizing, tagging, sharing and managing their favorite mobile site like mine lolzz

WINKSITE This is the first ever standard complaints mobile website builder that contains RSS driven contents and mobile community features like forums, chats sharing feeds, favorites and polls. It also gives you the privilege to put your mobile adverts on your site without asking you to give them any percentage of your share to them. Users can also direct any text or emails and twitter message to one destination which people can interact with 

MOBILEREADY (free) this is also is a great tools but its work is not to create a mobile site but to check the compatibility of your website example how it will be displayed on mobile, the tariff that people around the world are charged for viewing your site in their locations.  It tells you the problem your site will encounter as a mobile site

GOOGLE MOBILE OPTIMISER This is the simplest way to put your site in mobile viewing platforms. Simply find your way to google.com/gwt/n, enter your site url and a lightweight version will appear, but the problem here is that it is not customizable, no advert placements, no header and no images and makes so many website look useless

mobiSiteGalore This is another website builder that gives you the privilege to easily share, publish & build a mobile website that can be viewed in any mobile phone. It also allows users to design templates, customize it with colors, layouts fonts and layout on the page to create unique mobile sites.  As of the time of writing this article the price starts at $7.99 . other goodies includes click to call, add to phone book, Google search links to PayPal and checked your new site for compliance with ready.mobi 

OSMOBI This is another tools for making a mobile site but it is mainly used for open source softwares like Drupal and Joomla. You just have to download it and install in your website to work and it is absolutely free with up to 150 page views per day. So all Drupal and joomla users should check it out

WP TOUCH This a wordpress plug-in for mobile viewing. It was developed after the apples design specs. It loads very fast with a good stylish look that never interfere with the regular themes so wordpress blog owners should check this out because the design in mobile is great especially when viewed with an iPhone, iPod touch,  Androids, or blackberry storm mobile device

WPTAP This is another wordpress theme plug-in that puts your wordpress blogs in a mobile form when viewed from mobile devices like blackberry, android Smartphone and so many others. I consider it great because it comes with so many features like the main web view like log in, search, categories, tags, archives, photos & so many others. It also gives the user the ability to customize it through the admin panel

WORDPRESS MOBILE PACK This is a complete tool kit for to help mobilize your wordpress blog and it also comes with a switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the your site, great extra widgets, device adaptation and an advanced administrative panel to allow users to edit the site or even write a new posts when out


Iwebkit It is mainly for iphone and ipod. it can be used even by non html graduate but it also comes with a friendly manual that you can use to do the designs. it is mainly used by small business enterprise and to crown it all it is totally free

Onbile This is another great site that makes your site a mobile friendly one all you need is to take a trip to the site fill some data and put little designs and lastly copy the javascript code and put in the head section of your blog it has a free version and a pro version that costs 4.50 ponds monthly but the free version comes with advertising and a copyright

CONDUIT MOBILE This tools can pull your web content and put it in a mobile platform. You can also add yor RSS, Twitter and Facebook feeds as well as Youtube videos, photos and Custom content to the application. Also to crown it all conduit is totally free

GOMOBI This service is offered by some domain name registrars like eNom and Network solutions. You simply have to register a domain name  with them which is .mobi domain and then you use the go mobi wizard to create a javascript that will redirect you domain to a mobile application the code is to be inserted into your full website

MOBILE PRESS This is the most popular wordpress plug in that turns a wordpress site into a mobile friendly one and it gives the owner of the blog the opportunity to different themes for different hand held devices and browsers like opera mini, uc web and windows mobile 

DUDE  this is mostly used by forum site to make their site mobile. it is usually known for its common design with all it's sites
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ADDING A FLOATING SOCIAL MEDIA BAR IN YOUR BLOGGER

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Blog  SOCIAL MEDIA BAR is a  JavaScript text plug-in that contains the share button of the major social sites like stumbleupon, facebook, digg, twitter and Google+ .
Using the above social media you are giving your reader the opportunity to share what they have read  or seen in your sites with others in those social media sites and with this you definitely should know that it will help you in your Seo (search engine optimization) so to do this,
 Simply
Go to your blogger dashboard and click on design and then click on templates designs and then click on adding a gadget
Click on the java/html add widget in the window that comes up
Finally insert this code in your empty space and save then you are good to go

 <!-- floating page sharers Start -->
<style>
#pageshare {position:fixed; bottom:15%; margin-left:-820px; float:left; border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;background-color:#fff;padding:0 0 2px 0;z-index:10;}
#pageshare .sbutton {float:left;clear:both;margin:5px 5px 0 5px;}
.fb_share_count_top {width:48px !important;}
.fb_share_count_top, .fb_share_count_inner {-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;}
.FBConnectButton_Small, .FBConnectButton_RTL_Small {width:49px !important; -moz-border-radius:3px;/*bs-fsmsb*/-webkit-border-radius:3px;}
.FBConnectButton_Small .FBConnectButton_Text {padding:2px 2px 3px !important;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;font-size:8px;}
</style>
<div id='pageshare' title="Get this from webgists.blogspot.com">
<div class='sbutton' id='fb'>
<a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>
</div>
<div class='sbutton' id='rt'>
<script src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js" type='text/javascript'></script>
</div>
<div class='sbutton' id='digg' style='margin-left:3px;width:48px'>
<script src='http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<a class="DiggThisButton DiggMedium"></a>
</div>
<div class='sbutton' id='gplusone'>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>
<g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone>
</a></div>
<div style="clear: both;font-size: 9px;text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.webgists.blogspot.com">Get this</a></div>
</div>
<!-- floating page sharers End -->

To change the position of the bar simply search for ‘right’ and input any number position that you thinks suites you or rather for it to appear on the left side simply
Remove the figure ‘right:10px’ in the code to ‘margin-left:-71px’ to any position of ur choice

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PUTTING A FACEBOOK LIKE OR RECOMMENDING BUTTON ON YOUR BLOGGER

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Facebook like button is a plug-in which any blogger or forum owner must put to his website to make a visitor tell his or her friends the way he or she feels about an article or a post this button can even send a notification to the persons facebook wall telling his friend what he or she like or recommend for others to view. It can be added on top of the post or below the post and also it can be customized into different verbs like recommends, loves, check this or like and so on

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=recommend&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:40px;'/>
</b:if>

To add this to your blog posts just log in to your blogger account then click on the blog you want to put this in. Then in your dashboard click on design then go to html design. After the html design comes up. I will like you to back up your blog during any html changes in your local drive in case things goes wrong even though it won’t. Then expand your widgets by checking the box on the right top of your html codes
Click on ctrl+f to find a code
There are two codes that you need to find depending on the place where you want to place your like button (if it is on top of the post or below the post) some people goes for the top so that people may recommend it even before reading it or rather some people might put it after the post to make the reader recommend it after reading it. So to put it before the post simply search for this code

<div class=’post-header-line-1/>

And after it paste the button code
But if you prefer putting the code after each post then search for using Ctrl+f

<data:post.body/>

Then put this in you finding box and click find if you want this it be in your blog posts floor and paste the code below it

THEN TO CUSTOMISE IT TO YOUR CHOICE OF WORDS
Simply search like using Ctrl+f to find like and put any verb of your choice
E.g. recommend, good, likes, great and so on
To change the color, your also search for light, in this you have only three color options which are
Light, 
evil or
 dark

To change the height you got to use the same search button to find the width or height and give your designated size

To change the fonts search for the Arial: this part controls the fonts and you can change it to lucida+grande, Tahoma , verdana, trebuchet+ms or segoe+ui

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5 THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE CHOOSING A DOMAIN NAME

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Domain name is the name given to a website or a blog as to make it unique from others.  And because of this uniqueness you have to make it to be real. For example if a site that is a based on health issues starts answering www.electronics.com or an electronics site answering a name like www.goodhealth.com . So  you see,  it looks so foolish. Today we are going to treat the methods of giving your site a domain name that will make it

  •   To stand out from others in other fields
  •   Search engine friendly or keyword friendly site
  •   Disadvantages of including your personal name to your blog or site name
  •   The best domain extension to use for a site
A domain name is expected to go with a phrase or a single word that is related to the information the site plans to give to the public because this helps your visitor to know without visiting the site what your site is all about thereby giving him the confidence to click on it. Example “www.seotips.coma visitor will never wait for a spirit to tell him that this is a search engine optimization help site. So, try and get a phrase that says it all.
MEMORIZABLE NAMES -: Use names that are easy to memorize don’t use names that are hard to remember for example names like “www.webgists.com” can never be forgotten even if the person lost  his memory
 

LONG TERM AND WIDER USE: Always  bear in mind the time interval your domain is meant to spend online or what the site is going to look like in the next eight months. Let’s say a blogger likes corvette cars, and he decides to start a blog on that topic, but after a while of so many research he got the domain corvettecentral.com.  It is a good domain because it has the main keywords  in it and so on but if the blog grows after one year , it will reach a peak and in order to make the blog grow more he has to cover more other sports car. Then you see he has being trapped by his by his domain name and the only option is to continue with the limited audience of that car only which is almost the end of the game

KEYWORD MATCH URL -: Use keyword rich "exact match” naming convention subject or keywords first then plural variation e.g.  www.seotips.com where seotips is the keyword phrase you attempt to rank well for.  Check this out, let’s say there is a site on page rank 4 with the url www.franklinblog.com/seotips.html and yours goes with www.seotips.com automatically if all things went well the search engine must rank you above the page rank 4 compared to that has 'seotips" just in the "url" So, you now believe with me that domain name have power in seo helps 

Note: You can put prefix or suffixes of your name or nick attached to the site rather than giving it your whole name which won’t help at all or if you want people to know you are the owner of the site then create a page for about the author page for people to check you out.  Because people will not for any reason  search for your name except for tangible reason
DOMAIN NAME EXTENSION-: Domain extension is another problem if you have being getting the web gist you will know that Google have for some time removed some sites from their index especially some specific extensions like ".info" which made domain sellers to reduce the price just to get it off. Again there was a time adsense stopped displaying in every .co.cc sites. It has being confirmed that Google adsense  accept domain with .com easier than other domain extensions.  Now the question is which one am I going to trust just?
 As you know some extensions are made for specific area and purposes like
.eu for Europe,
.In for Indian,
. gov for government official sites,
 .edu for school websites,
.ir for Iran or Iraq based sites,
.us for United States,
 .uk for United Kingdom,
.ng  for Nigeria,
 .tv for television stations,
.org for organization,
.info for information,
.com for company,
.xxx for sex sites,
.mobi made especially for mobile
All these has its own important and it tells us where the server might be located
Note: That the locations of the server you are using might help in your traffic, So don’t host a site you are expecting US based citizen in Australia

 So, let’s finalize for any website that is based on business or money making should go for .com which means company and it is the extension recognized by Google for money making site so what is the purpose of your site
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HOW TO START A GOOD BLOG SITE FOR MONEY MAKING

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This question has being in the mind of so many ‘blogger dreamer’ but today we are going to make things clean like a spring water today. It will go like this:-
  1.   Meaning of a blog,
  2.   Its categories
  3.  Types of blogging platform
  4.  Making your right choice
  5.  Questions to ask yourself before going for a platform
WHAT IS A BLOG?
A blog is a web platform that is designed to
disseminate information about a particular thing(s) or let’s say
Products or personal information on the internet. I guess you know that but let’s pretend you didn’t.
In blogging the reader is given the privilege to ask a
question or contribute to the topic or article being talked about
the main point is that blog converts monologues into conversation.
         HERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF BLOGGING CATEGORY
Group blogging - This is a single blog with many authors having posting right to the blog
Photo - This is a kind of blogging that deals with pictures and designs
Public relation - This is a blog geared by giving public the latest information
Link blog- This is the same as normal basic blog but with only links and without commentary
Journals -This is usually Diaries, usually expository and of interest to the writer, family and friends
other there are many other types of blogging categories but lets go with this one to make things short and easy
Because of the rate in increase in blog users corporate bodies has even engaged in blogging, that is many companies now see this as a way to reach to their targeted audience in a more direct way
Now how do I start my blog?
Do I need to be an html, css, xml or php expert to start my blog?
The answer is NO.
Now we are in the ring of what we are talking about. There are different types of blogging software
FREE HOSTED BLOG and
SELF HOSTED BLOG
Hosted blog cost little or even free to set up so is a big plus for many people especially for beginners who has no experience at all but this has so many disadvantages like limited designs, logo of your service provider (navigation bar or in favicon images) being displayed thereby making it unprofessional and if you later want to start a new self hosted blog it might affect your search engine rankings and lastly your blog might get banned without your notice if any TOS is violated
Self hosted blog- this is meant for professional bloggers especially those who want to make money with their blog because this makes you have control over your blog template designs in this one you have to pay for your domain name and hosting space .The only disadvantage is that you blog will go down if your hosting service provider goes down

Popular types of blogging platforms



BLOGGER. This is a free hosted blog service from Google it has being there for many years but due to some reasons it is only good for personal blogging. It takes about ten minutes to set up and you must have a gmail account

WORDPRESS. This have both free hosted blog and also have self hosted software that can be downloaded and get it uploaded to the server. They have hundreds of plug-ins to make your site more dynamic than other platforms
Plug-ins is simply a script that adds an additional functionality to your blog and wordpress has a directory full of plug-ins that you can use

BLOG.COM. This is also a free hosted blog some people prefer them because their naming (www.yourblogname.blog.com) is shorter compared to blogger (www.yourdomainname.blogspot.com)
LIVE JOURNAL. This is used to set up online journals it is a good collaboration and networking tools but is not easy to customize and also this is not a good option for blogging for money

TEXT PATTERN. This is good for those that are technically inclined and it is also a self hosted blog it uses custom formatting with wizard interface it is much more customizable than live journal

TYPEPAD (hosted)/ MOVABLE PAD (self hosted) this is another option to consider in blogging TYPE is a paid blogging platform it ranges from basic to pro
Note : if you are thinking of high traffic from search engine then go for wordpress blog and again it is easy to customize
These are the list of blogging platform you can install on your server
Wordpress
bBlog
b2evolution
windows live writer
text pattern
subtext
serendipity
roller weblogger
radiouserland
osCommerce (for e-commerce sites)
Nucleus cms
lifetype
greymatter
Drupal
blosxom
expressengine
movabletype

Here are some hosted blogging platforms (needs no installation like the aforementioned)
blog.com
blogger
livejournal
open diary
typepad
wordpress
xanga
Windows live spaces
Now it is left for you to decide which plat form suites you

For example:
1. Do you need something that will be easy to set up and use?
2. Are you new to blogging and new to internet platforms?
3. What is your technical skill level?
4. Are you going to change the look of the templates and other
customization?
5. Do you need to have little, moderate or a lot of control over the interface?
6. Will you require spam control features, such as captchas and comment
moderation?
7. Does the platform you are considering offer support and assistance?
8. Do you need to be able to have more than one person able to post the
blog?

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