Effective Forum Marketing Strategies For Your Online Business

Featureso Thursday, 30 August 2012

Blogging Tips , Guest Post , Making Money Online

This guest post is written by Quantum SEO Labs.

Several businesses are widely marketed through forums these days. Online marketers just like being on forums sharing insights and marketing their products. They use these message boards to boost their market brand awareness. Forums are a great place for expanding your connections as well as marketing products online. One great thing about forums is being able to learn a lot of new things easily.

Online marketers showcase their online products with the aid of forums. They also learn new techniques and technologies from it. Forum marketing is one thing every serious online marketer must consider.

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A forum refers to a group of people or a cluster of people hanging out in one place on the web to basically discuss a given topic. For instance, if you are interested in cars, you can join a vehicle forum where you will meet other like-minded car enthusiasts like yourself. Should you be selling a product that relates to cars, then this is a great place for you to get started.

Searching forums is but a simple task. To easily find one, you must go to Google and type in the kind of forum you are looking for, using of course the kind of keyword or keywords you are targeting.

You have to be careful when posting on various message boards especially if you are trying to promote a product. There is an unwritten rule which you must follow or you will be instantly be banned from the forum.

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Always read carefully the forum�s guidelines before you begin starting any post or thread for that matter. First of all, you must not blatantly post any advertisement about your new product, how great it is, and why people should be buying it. Or else, you will get tons of members getting mad at you for blatant self-promotion.

An important thing you should take note of as you join a forum is the use of a signature file. Like your email, your forum account likewise has a signature. This signature appears right below every post you make on a forum. You do not want to use your forum membership to promote your product directly. But, you should use the forum to mine people straight into your own list.

Your forum signature may have a link to a report which pertains to a relevant product, or link to some audio or video clip of your product. Each time they click on the link on your forum signature they will arrive at a page which will ask for their name and email address, this is what they call the �squeeze page.�

As they fill out the form, they will receive a report. The importance of a squeeze page is to help you create your list of subscribers for your online business. You can use this list in return to market your own products to them in ways you deem fit.

It is crucial that you do not spend too much of your time on forums daily. Oftentimes, an hour or so would be great. Some people can be hooked to this kind of marketing and spend almost the whole day engaging in discussions which can be disadvantageous for you and your business.

Forums are a great way for you to build a list and start making a name for yourself or your online business.

But remember to always add value to other people by providing insightful posts and beginning informational threads. Forums are also a great way of networking as well as forging relationships with people who will provide you with more opportunity for growth and added income for a successful business. I hope this article has shown you the great power of forum marketing and that you too, can leverage from it.

Enjoy forum marketing today!

About The Author

Quantum SEO Labs is a premier link building services company that offers only quality SEO services. To know more about effective search engine optimization services, visit us today at: QuantumSEOLabs.

Blogging Tips , Guest Post , Making Money Online

Effective Forum Marketing Strategies For Your Online Business

Featureso Thursday, 30 August 2012

How to Make Guest Blogging Work for You

Featureso Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Blogging Tips , Guest Post

Edit

Guest blogging has become a very effective way to scale a blog/site to high rankings on search engines � making it one of the most used methods of online marketing. Any experienced internet marketer would tell you to use guest blogging to give your new site a presence on the internet. This is not only because it�s a cheap and easy way to grow a site, it�s also very effective in helping you build your reputation online as a blog or business website.

However, notwithstanding how easy it is to use guest blogging as a means of online marketing and promotion, many people still can�t make it work for them. This blog post will be explaining powerful ways to make guest blogging work for you.

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Target Relevant Niche

When targeting a blog to submit a guest article to, there are several things you should put into consideration. Many people consider the Google page rank of the blog, followed by other criteria obtainable from SEOmoz and other SEO tools and apps. This is a very smart way to make sure your efforts are not wasted, but it does not end with that.

The blog relevancy matters! When I talk of relevancy, I�m not just referring to the niche your site and the host blog is, but the articles posted on the blog in question. If a blog claims to teach you to make money online and then all you can find on it are articles teaching you how to play poker � search engines will not value such sites. Getting a link from a site that is not valued on search engines will result in you wasting your efforts and time.

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Invest a lot of time in Crafting Your Idea

How much time do you invest in the article you�re writing for other blogs as guest post? What you must consider is that, before people consider looking at the link in the author bio, they must have enjoyed the article. And if your article is not of high standard, then the readers of the blog will not value at. And as strange as this may sound, Google has a way around making sure articles readers don�t enjoy get no rankings on the search results.

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If you want to get any SEO benefit from a guest post, make sure you�ve taken a lot of time to create the best article you can for that blog. Writing articles that are substandard will only help you get your time wasted.

Use Search Engine Optimized Keywords

Keywords are very important things you should consider when writing your guest posts. The keywords you�re using in your article should be related to the article and also to your host�s site, and then you may decide to use any keyword that fit your site niche as your anchor text, to help you increase your rankings on search engine for that keyword.

A good way to use guest blogging to increase your site�s rankings on search engines is by using a variety of keywords that are related to your niche, using each set of keywords only once and using as much keywords as you can come about.

Apply these tips and set a goal for yourself this month, and you�ll see guest blogging work for you.

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Blogging Tips , Guest Post

How to Make Guest Blogging Work for You

Featureso Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Premium Email Subscription Widget With Social Media Integration

Featureso Monday, 27 August 2012

Plugins , Wordpress

Edit

You guys have been loving the latest widgets that we have been rolling since last month, and looking forward to that, here is one of the best email subscription widget (premium) with full social media integration and many other features. Its a much more advanced widget than any of the previous subscription widgets we shared before.

disqus

Plugins , Wordpress

Premium Email Subscription Widget With Social Media Integration

Featureso Monday, 27 August 2012

Google Analytics: Monitor SERP Click Through Rate and Improve It

Featureso Sunday, 26 August 2012

Blogging Tips , Google Analytics

Edit

This is one of the topics that we never touched before and there is a huge need to highlight the importance of click through rates of our blog posts in search engine results page. We never realize the real potential of our blog posts, and their connection with the visitors they tend to attract via search engines.

Sometimes we put in our all efforts to build up a single comprehensive article, but at the end of the day, there is that another posts of less than 300 words that keep bringing you the most traffic. Pretty annoying sometimes. Though there can be so many factors behind the traffic that a particular posts pulls in. But CTR through search results page is one major factor that we often neglect.

This post will particularly highlight how exactly can monitor the click through rates of our previously blog posts and learn from them for our future articles titles. Unfortunately, the best we can do via this strategy is that we can only learn from our previously published posts and the impact of CTR on them, but after all learning is the major key that would keep us pushing towards the best that is set for us.

Road To Google Analytics Pro

1-What Blog's Growth Metrics To Monitor In Google Analytics?

2-How to Add Custom Widgets to Google Analytics Dashboard

3-Google Analytics 'Real Time': Monitor Your Blog Visitors Live!

4-How To Setup Google Analytics Goals?

5-Track Your Audience In Google Analytics In Few Steps?

6-Google Analytics: Monitor Your 'Visitors Flow' To Increase Traffic

7-Google Analytics: Monitor SERP Click Through Rate and Improve It You're Here

8-Google Analytics: Monitor Exit Pages and Reduce Bounce Rate

:: Series end by 26th August 2012.

So What Is SERP CTR (Click Through Rate) ?

Did you ever realized that sometimes you tend to click the 5th or 6th link (or atleast not the top ones 1-3 positions) in search engine results page against any search that you would make? There is always something behind that particular posts that keeps on attracting readers even though though thats not among the first 1-3 positions.

The post that achieves first 3 or 4 positions in search results often gets most of the traffic for that search keywords. But its pretty normal to see few posts that keep pulling in visitors that sits at the bottom of search engine results page.

That is what we are going to monitor today. We'll see how many impressions your each blog posts gets via SERP and the average CTR that they achieve.

How To See Your Blog Posts Average CTR In SERP?

Navigate through your Google Analytics Dashboard >> Standard Reporting >> Traffic Sources >> Search Engine Optimization >> Queries.

Analyze Average CTR And Improve It

This is where the fun part begins. Average position refers to the value that your posts gets on average in SERP. Say, for a particular search term, your blog posts was placed 3rd while in the next it was at 7th position. So that average position that it would attain would be calculated by (3+7)/2 = 5.

So you could work on your blog posts that tend to attain an average position of less than 10. Thats the chance where you can improve the upcoming blog posts in the same category..

Say one of our Google Analytics posts tends to get average position 5. So as i know that these posts are performing well in SERP (Due to the content they have), so i would work on much harder on the next posts in the series and would try to optimize the titles of my very next posts in the series.

You may like to read:

4 Advices For Choosing The Best Blog Post Title For Better SEO

# Points To Improve SERP CTR

Though the post linked above would give out a greater in look of Title optimization of blog articles, though there are few of the points below that you can always apply and get the best of the results.

1- Implement Google Authorship

Read the post below to show up your profile picture besides your blog articles in SERP. That makes a huge difference when it comes to clicks. People tend to click links that are accompanied with authors profile picture.

How To Show Your Picture Beside Your Blog Link In Google

2- Post Title Limit

Make sure that you post titles are not more than 66 characters. Use our Character Count Tool for the purpose.

3- NO Weird Characters

Just let the post titles be smooth and simple. Nothing out of the box in this case. Though you can always experiment with capital Letters for an example: " Top 5 BEST Selling Products". Such titles always grab attention of the readers.

Hope this strategy would help you out find the potential behind your top performing posts and would make them even better in the future.

Stay Safe guys.

Blogging Tips , Google Analytics

Google Analytics: Monitor SERP Click Through Rate and Improve It

Featureso Sunday, 26 August 2012

How To Add a Featured Section In Blogger

Featureso Saturday, 25 August 2012

Blogger , Plugins

Edit

One of our readers wanted to know a possible way through which we can add a featured section to our blogger blogs as what we have added at this point time. Having a featured section in our blog is not only visually important, rather its more of a demand to increase page authority of our top performing articles. Many of us don't tend to realize that the page rank that is associated with our main domain (www.yourdomain.com) has little effect on the posts that you would publish.

By interlinking your featured posts with your main domain (Home page), you can help those articles perform even better than before in SERP (Search engine results page). So for that purpose, we can use a featured section on our blog that would highlight all the top performing articles that you blog already has, so that that would get benefited through the page rank that you have earned over the time.

How To Add a Featured Section?

Now, in Blogger its fairly easy. Its not more than adding another widget section to where ever you wish in your Blogger template. I previously shared:

Now once you add a widget holder where ever you wish, may that be footer (as what we have done here at BeH) or even any where above the fold. That could be even a sidebar, but the featured widgets that we shared previously are not designed for sidebars. Though we could connect our featured posts in sidebar via a drop down menu powered by a simple JavaScript. I'll soon share that with you guys.

Below are few featured posts widgets that you can apply once you have created a featured section on the blog.

Need Any Help?

Leave out your problems in comment section below guys. It would be a pleasure to help

Blogger , Plugins

How To Add a Featured Section In Blogger

Featureso Saturday, 25 August 2012

Google Analytics: Monitor Exit Pages and Reduce Bounce Rate

Featureso Thursday, 23 August 2012

Blogging Tips , Google Analytics

Edit

Continuing our Google Analytics series, here we have one of the most important posts in line, that features monitoring blog exit pages followed by taking up viable actions to reduce your blogs bounce rate. As we previously realized,

Analytics has a huge potential in outlining the weak areas of our blog, and in this case its, the exit pages that we have to deal with. No doubt that our blogs/websites would have exit pages, and thats pretty normal, but our further efforts to reduce the bounce rate through those exit pages could help us in retaining those readers.

And that could only be done once we would know the exact sour points.

Road To Google Analytics Pro

1-Google Analytics: 6 Crucial Metrics To Monitor Your Blog's Growth

2-Google Analytics: How to Add Custom Widgets To Dashboard

3-Google Analytics 'Real Time': Monitor Your Blog Visitors Live!

4-How To Setup Google Analytics Goals?

5-Google Analytics: How To Track Your Audience Comprehensively!

6-Google Analytics: Monitor Your 'Visitors Flow' To Increase Traffic

7-Google Analytics: Monitor SERP Click Through Rate and Improve It

8-Google Analytics: Monitor Exit Pages and Reduce Bounce Rate

:: Series end by 26th August 2012.

How To See Top My Exit Pages?

So by logging into your Google Analytics dashboard, navigate through Standard Reporting >> Content >> Site Content >> Exit Pages.

It would show up a bunch of statistics and pages (posts/articles) that have the highest number of people exiting your blog. These are the areas that you need to work hard to make those readers jump on to other reading material on your blog.

How To Study Exit Pages % and Reduce Bounce Rate?

Once you would be on the exit pages section, you would notice a bunch of articles on your blog that would be the culprits. Consider the picture below as an example. Notice the top post that accounts for almost 75% of total exits is something that we have to worry about as a webmaster. Though we know, that readers are bound to leave the blog and moving on at some point though, but we can try our best to convert that page into a way that would provide more reading opportunities to the reader and thus distracting him/her to read even more.

There are few strategies that you can begin working on to minimize the overall bounce rate of your blog due to these top exit pages.

Interlink More Articles With Top Exit Pages

Equally distributed linked articles

Not many people tend to realize the importance of equally distributing linked articles within your top exit pages posts. For the best approach, that kind of works for us is by introducing few related articles just after the introductory paragraph.

That is a point where reader tends to get a little break and is in the transition period. Next, you could link related articles to every other paragraph (if you believe the related posts is actually 'related' too).

Then few of the posts could be interlink at the end just below sign up off words. That really works! Working on these few points would surely improve the % of your top exit pages and would make sure that your readers tend to read even more after those specific pages/posts.

Now, you may like to read:

18 Common Blogging Mistakes That Kill A Blog

Blogging Tips , Google Analytics

Google Analytics: Monitor Exit Pages and Reduce Bounce Rate

Featureso Thursday, 23 August 2012

Thesis Feedburner Email Subscription Widget

Featureso Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Plugins

Edit

Many of us are fan of Thesis theme platform. Its almost like we are in love with every feature and widget that those guys place in with in their templates. The Thesis Feedburner email subscription widget that we'll be sharing today is indeed an elegant add on that you can implement on your blog and give it a further push in terms of email opt ins.

What i really like about the widget is that it features bluish background shade that seems peaceful to the eye balls. We have customized the widget so that it works smoothly with Feedburner.

Below are the few previous widgets that we shared recently:

So follow the steps below to add the widget to your blogs.

<div id="singlesubscribe">
<p class="headline">Get Regular Updates, Its FREE!</p>
<span class="arrow"></span>

<form onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=bloggingehow', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true" target="popupwindow" method="post" action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify">

<input id="email" class="txt" type="text" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" value="Enter your email :)" name="email" style="margin=left: 20px; width: 290px; font-size: 15px;">

<input type="hidden" name="uri" value="bloggingehow">
<input type="hidden" value="en_US" name="loc">
<input class="btn" type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="commit">

</div>
<span style=" line-height:0px; font-size:8px; font-weight:bold; align:right;
">
<a style="color:#D3D3D3;" href="http://www.bloggingehow.com">widgets</a></span>
</form>
</div>

<style>
#singlesubscribe {
    background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwRtdERsVcEU5-r0v3TVl2qLLB9BNJpe7sUU1S0EF5QX3pZui-tJfrPiO6VnxIFAZminHOc0uD3mvEedZOrDupNH_YCQqkJqF_m7hK7hwh7vF1U-CUHz3gMKxFFzgT7DVsx4y01sIeRLE/s1600/email-icon-1.png") no-repeat scroll 98% center #6C87A6;
    border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
    box-shadow: 0 0 30px #575656 inset;
    margin: 5px auto 0;
    padding: 10px;
}
#singlesubscribe .headline {
    color: #FFFFFF;
    font-size: 24px;
    margin: 5px 0 0 60px;
}
#singlesubscribe .arrow {
    background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhednm-TDQ_L7h9o9HeuneU7DKTN5b2TrB2V8jSZi7HO6SnyqWDv5o12Np_B47MoaJ38V07H1Z-g0CTwwuV_fbmQJQ9pv38XNzrzrQBP-9LhOdR4bX0fM0iFBIBkilAppnItH42ssebwUU/s1600/arrow-left.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
    float: left;
    height: 60px;
    margin: 0 0 0 20px;
    width: 60px;
}
#singlesubscribe form input.txt {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;border: 2px solid #575656;border-radius: 15px 15px 25px 5px;box-shadow: 0 0 8px #575656 inset;color: #575656;float: left;margin: 25px 10px 0 0;padding: 5px 10px;width: 145px;
}
#singlesubscribe form input.feedburner {
    width: 250px;
}
#singlesubscribe form input.btn {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #222222;
    border: 0 none;
    border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
    box-shadow: 0 0 5px #000000 inset;
    color: #FFFFFF;

    font-weight: bold;
    margin: 25px 0 0;
    padding: 5px 10px;
    width: 100px;
}
#singlesubscribe form input.btn:hover {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #111111;
}

</style>

Simple replace both the instances of your Feed burner ID (replacing our ID i.e bloggingehow in the code above).

How To Add The Widget To Blogger

Navigate towards Blogger Dashboard >> Layout >> Add a new Gadget >> HTML/JavaScript. Then paste the edit code (with all your customization links) in the widget and hit save. Thats all :)

Need Help?

In case you guys need any help, simply leave out a comment below and i would get back as soon as possible. Hope you guys liked the widget.

Plugins

Thesis Feedburner Email Subscription Widget

Featureso Wednesday, 22 August 2012

5 Blog post Ideas that Work

Featureso Sunday, 19 August 2012

Blogging Tips

Edit

This guest post is written by Syed Mustafa is a staff writer for 100Webhosting.com

Creating a blog post is easy. What�s difficult is creating one that actually gets read and spread. But regardless of what kind of blog you run, you will need �good� post ideas to keep you ahead of the crowd. And that�s where most bloggers lack. Their ideas just aren�t good enough to work and give results. So how do you go about it? How do you create blog posts that get you noticed?

Given below are five ideas that you can use right away for your upcoming posts.

Before moving on, you may like to read:

#1: Get Involved in the Conversation:

If you look around, you�ll find that the blogosphere is filled with a ton of ideas to blog about. All you need to do is find interesting blogs within your niche and get involved in the conversation.

For instance, if a blogger has written about something that you agree or disagree with, respond to him by writing a blog post and mentioning him in it. This not only helps you come up with unique content but also lets you connect with other bloggers. That�s how you �bond� and network in the blogosphere.

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#2: Curate the Best Content:

Content curation is the in thing these days. As a blogger you can help your readers discover quality content by curating it from different sources.

However, curation doesn�t mean you simply find and organize relevant links. You have to add your own opinion or add your insight to the content you�re curating. That�s how you�ll be able to add real value to your blog posts.

#3: Compile a List of Experts within Your Niche:

Let�s face it - if you want to grow your blog, you need to connect with the influencers. You need to get noticed by the experts within your niche. And what better way to do it than create a blog post that lists them out, links to them and recommends them?

There are a number of ways you can approach this idea. You can talk about the achievements of these experts, or what makes them special, or even review each of their blogs. Think out of the box and you�ll be able to create a valuable post that your readers will like.

#4: Create a Step-by-Step Guide:

The Internet is filled with newbies who are always looking for new and easy ways to do things. They want to be guided, helped and taken by hand.

Creating a step-by-step guide is a great way to create blog posts that not only get read, but also get linked. Besides that, you don�t really have to go too in-depth with your guide. Sometimes even the basics can go a long way. As long as you�re giving clarity to your readers, they�ll love your content.

#5: Publish Your Progress Report

If you�re a blogger who loves sharing and giving real value, then this tip is for you. Consider publishing a progress report on your blog where you make your readers a part of your journey.

There are many top bloggers who have successfully used this strategy to connect to their readers. For example, if you�re running a fitness blog, you can create monthly reports on how you�re progressing towards building a great body. It doesn�t matter what niche your blog is in, if you�re taking action, you will have something to share. And people hold progress reports in high esteem because they�re honest and powerful.

Conclusion

Good blog post ideas are everywhere. They�re all around you. But unless and until you experiment with various ones, you won�t know what works for you.

So always be open to the idea of testing out new ideas. Keep moving ahead by writing blog posts that actually push boundaries. Because that�s how stand out from the rest. And that�s how you make a difference.

Blogging Tips

5 Blog post Ideas that Work

Featureso Sunday, 19 August 2012

'The Next Web' Featured Post Widget With Shadow Effect

Featureso Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Customizations , Plugins , Wordpress

Edit

Today we have another amazing 'The Next Web' style featured post widget that has been customized to give it an Apple products touch. The elegant widget is really great in terms of utilizing space and serving the purpose. The previous widget : Blogger Featured Post Widget With Glass Shine Hover Effect was though a top class thing, but the down side was the space it requires for simply 3 featured posts. We could edit this 'The Next Web' featured post widget to add up 3 more posts, and that would take up the same space.

Looking forward to that, we are going to share this great widget with you guys. Before moving any further, take a look at the recent widgets that we shared:

Step #1 Customize the widget code

<div id="top-stories-home" class="mb-2" data-vr-zone="Photo Features">
<ul id="topstories" class="clearfix">
<li data-vr-contentbox="">
<div class="shadow">
<a class="frame" href="First Post Link">
<img class="attachment-top_stories_site wp-post-image" width="193" height="103" src="First Post Image Link ">
</a>
</div>
<div class="media-data">
<a class="title" href="First Post Link">First Post Title</a>
</div>
</li>
<li data-vr-contentbox="">
<div class="shadow">
<a class="frame" href="Second Post link">
<img class="attachment-top_stories_site wp-post-image" width="193" height="103"   src="Second Post Image Link">
</a>
</div>
<div class="media-data">
<a class="title" href="Second post Link">Second Post Title</a>
</div>
</li>
<li class="last-child" data-vr-contentbox="">
<div class="shadow">

<a class="frame" href="Third Post Link">
<img class="attachment-top_stories_site wp-post-image" width="193" height="103" src="Third Post Image Link">
</a>
<span class="last-child" style=" line-height:0px; font-size:8px; font-weight:bold; margin-left:180px;
  "><a style="color:#D3D3D3;" href="http://www.bloggingehow.com">Widgets</a></span>

</div>
<div class="media-data">
<a class="title" href="Third Post Link">Third Post Title</a>

</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

<style>


#topstories {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
#topstories li {
  display: inline-block;
  float: left;
  margin: 0 22px 0 0;
  position: relative;
  width: 200px;
}
#topstories li.last-child {
  border-left: medium none;
  margin-right: 0;
}
#topstories .frame {
  border-radius: 6px 6px 6px 6px;
  box-shadow: 0 5px 4px -4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
  padding: 4px;
}
#topstories .shadow {
  background: none repeat scroll left bottom transparent;
  padding-bottom: 7px;
}
#topstories .shadow img {
  max-height: 103px;
  max-width: 193px;
}
#topstories .media-data {
  -moz-transition: background 0.3s ease-in 0s;
  background: none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
  left: 5px;
  position: absolute;
  top: 5px;
}
#topstories .media-data:hover {
  background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
}
#topstories .media-data .title {
  color: #FFFFFF;
  display: block;
  font-size: 18px;
  height: 85px;
  overflow: hidden;
  padding: 9px 14px;
  text-shadow: 1px 0 2px black;
  width: 165px;
}
#topstories .media-data .title:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
}
#top-stories-article {
  margin-bottom: 22px;
}
#top-stories-article #topstories {
  padding-left: 15px;
}
#top-stories-article #topstories li {
  border-right: 1px solid #EBEBEB;
  font-size: 11px;
  height: 80px;
  overflow: hidden;
  padding-right: 15px;
  width: 290px;
}
#top-stories-article #topstories li:last-child {
  border-right: 0 none;
  padding-right: 0;
}
#top-stories-article #topstories li.last-child {
  border-right: 0 none;
  padding-right: 0;
}
#top-stories-article .shadow {
  background-position: right bottom;
  padding-bottom: 0;
}
#top-stories-article .shadow img {
  border-radius: 6px 6px 6px 6px;
  max-height: 122px;
  max-width: 280px;
}
#top-stories-article .shadow .frame {
  border: 0 none;
  box-shadow: none;
  height: 80px;
  overflow: hidden;
  padding: 0;
  width: 280px;
}
#top-stories-article .media-data {
  border-radius: 6px 6px 6px 6px;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
}
#top-stories-article .media-data .title {
  height: 62px;
  width: 252px;
}

  a {
  text-decoration: none;
}
  #topstories .frame {
  border-radius: 6px 6px 6px 6px;
  box-shadow: 0 5px 4px -4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
  padding: 4px;
}
  .frame, .post img {
  background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;
  border: 1px solid #E0E0E0;
  box-shadow: 0 5px 5px -5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
  display: inline-block;
  padding: 3px;
}
</style>

Customize the code above by editing those colored tags as to what they point to. For example you need to place your first article link where First post link is mentioned.

NOTE: And make sure that your images are of dimensions 190x103 px.

Step #2 Place the widget on your blog

Navigate to your Blogger Dashboard >> Layout >> Add a gadget >> HTML/JavaScript. Paste the customized code with in it and hit save. All done folkes!

Need Help?

In case you need any help customizing the widget, leave out a comment below and i would love to get back to you.

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Edit

Many of our readers like to get different styles of email subscription boxes with attractive CSS effects. Another aWeber style email subscription box is here on your disposal. We have an elegant looking header for the widget. The widget would best suite on a grey background as we have some transparent images filled with few grey backgrounds.

Though you can use it over any other color scheme, but with a little tweak that is listed below too. So lets heads up and get through the steps you need to apply the widget to your blog.

Before moving on, you may like to see are previous amazing widgets that we shared:

Step #1 Customize the widget

<div class="fixed-widget"><div class="widget-container">

<h1> Get Daily Updates</h1>

<p>Subscribe to BloggingeHow Updates (Free)</p>

<fieldset class="inputs">
<form target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=bloggingehow', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true" method="post" action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify">
<input id="email" class="email" type="text" value="Your Email..." style="width: 192px; font-size: 15px;" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;" name="email">
<input type="hidden" value="bloggingehow" name="uri">
<input type="hidden" value="en_US" name="loc">
<fieldset class="submit">
<input class="sean orange-btn" type="submit" value="Sign up" name="commit">

</fieldset>

</form>
</fieldset>
<span style=" line-height:0px; font-size:8px; font-weight:bold; margin-left:270px;
">
<a style="color:#D3D3D3;" href="http://www.bloggingehow.com">widgets</a></span>
</div>
</div>
<style>

.fixed-widget p {
    background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibfKC2RtY807p0jFw_sIPHoo-xWoondfscgf0T6aYO1Ms5UYSScti2fS7WtPJ53RTaoykWMV-kTHzwUtzQEa5wefTRwGGDEAavpYsP1KL20pENTMbYS0bCXokT9PkJIIo9-X3RWkS9ocM/s1600/highlight.png") no-repeat scroll center top transparent;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: 700;
    height: 50px;
    letter-spacing: 0.08em;
    margin: 0 0 10px;
    padding-top: 4px;
    text-align: center;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #111111;
}
.fixed-widget input[type="text"], .fixed-widget input[type="email"] {
    border: 1px solid #D8D9D4;
    color: #555555;
    display: block;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: 500;
    height: 36px;
    margin: 0 0 10px;
    padding-left: 6px;
    width: 192px;
}

.fixed-widget a:hover {
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: none;
}
.fixed-widget fieldset, .fixed-widget form {
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: 210px;
}
.fixed-widget form {
    border-top: 1px solid #E5E5E1;
}
.fixed-widget fieldset.inputs {
    border: 0px;
    border-top: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
    padding-top: 10px;
}
.fixed-widget fieldset.inputs label {
    display: block;
    padding: 0 0 5px;
}
.fixed-widget fieldset.submit {
    border: 0px;
    padding: 1 50 10px;
}
.fixed-widget .orange-btn {
    background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJYXBss_GLyNTAvVSZWqpm5Uy77hyphenhyphenwsSbNJqqUxfYKpd8X9W-j-7qXZpmntJly4frfFjXAuQasA1nOsh7QTcNGyWxs_O7ccyv7shNsjlfFthNdJ6fsfnzHMxuSwaljMtDZg3oVkc-T54/s1600/gradient-orange2.png") repeat-x scroll center top #FF6B29;
    border: 1px solid #CC5721;
    box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #FFA04D inset;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    cursor: pointer;
    display: block;
    align:center;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: 700;
    height: 30px;
    letter-spacing: 1px;
    line-height: 28px;
    padding: 0 25 px;
    text-align: center;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #D35E24;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    width: auto;

}
.fixed-widget .orange-btn:hover {
    background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJYXBss_GLyNTAvVSZWqpm5Uy77hyphenhyphenwsSbNJqqUxfYKpd8X9W-j-7qXZpmntJly4frfFjXAuQasA1nOsh7QTcNGyWxs_O7ccyv7shNsjlfFthNdJ6fsfnzHMxuSwaljMtDZg3oVkc-T54/s1600/gradient-orange2.png") repeat-x scroll center bottom #FF6B29;
}
.fixed-widget .orange-btn:active {
    position: relative;
    top: 1px;
}
.fixed-widget {

    width: 300px;
}
.widget-container {
    background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU5zetZRsuFVuE6PsVXn1W8T5UjGtw-pLUkokH8k9ompgke7ezXdIKpFJstGdPEoIeP595JDqB9_5jknZjgdHDg_62oaJykQXLFNccnMvVyZKMHj0wadEPLkVzrkgTT82tNshQ4ddgHe0/s1600/gradient-big-grey2.jpeg") no-repeat scroll center top #F0F1EC;

}
.fixed-widget h1 {
    background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcaXb5FVQClLncsB6Yym8S2gz7w10c6Z0Al6xBKKBuNHN4gpGNNiy0HDGT3A676e3AtZzKp9wtcByC8zFzjVCwfpfhz44cKTW-knTnWs1xl-nYZAfsg4w2u3vEiI0G6zKsvBdJ5NsaIQI/s1600/fixed-sidebar-header.png") no-repeat scroll center top #F0F1EC;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: 900;
    height: 60px;
    letter-spacing: 0.08em;
    line-height: 39px;
    margin: 0;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
    position: relative;
    text-align: center;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #D35E24;
}
</style>

Add the title of your choice by replacing the Get Daily Updates text while to replace the paragraph, edit Subscribe to BloggingeHow Updates (Free) text. Next you have to replace your FeedBurner email ID by replacing bloggingehow in both of its occurrence.

That's all, Now in the next step you have to add it to your blog. Before adding the finaly edited version, you can preview the widget in our Online HTML Editor.

Replacing the header?

To replace the header with a new custom one, simply replace this image https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcaXb5FVQClLncsB6Yym8S2gz7w10c6Z0Al6xBKKBuNHN4gpGNNiy0HDGT3A676e3AtZzKp9wtcByC8zFzjVCwfpfhz44cKTW-knTnWs1xl-nYZAfsg4w2u3vEiI0G6zKsvBdJ5NsaIQI/s1600/fixed-sidebar-header.png link with your new header background link. Make sure that the width of the header is 300x60px.

Step #2 Add the email subscription widget to your blog

Go to Blogger Dashboard >> Layout >> Add a gadget >> HTML/JavaScript. And paste the entire code with in it.

Thats it. Hope that was easy to follow. Now simply place the widget on the places that receive highest CTR and impressions.

For more widgets, you may like to read:

Need Help?

In case you're facing any problem, simply leave out your comment below. Stay safe guys!

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CSS3 Featured Post Widget With Zoom Mask Effect!

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Edit

Many of you would have noticed the new featured articles section that we have introduced in our footer lately. It one of the amazing featured post widget that is waiting for you to be applied on your blogs. The power of CSS3 is really highlighted in this widget that shows up some amazing zoom/slide effects once you hover the mouse over it.

You can add as many featured articles in the widget as you wish. Its really easy to customize and you could play up with the CSS values to make it suite to your needs.

DEMO VIDEO!

Follow the instructions below to apply the widget to your blog.

Before we move on, you may like to view other amazing widgets that we recently published:

Step #1 Customize the widget code

<div align='center'>
<div id='background'>
<table>
  <tr><td>
  <div class='view view-first'>
  <img src='First Post Image Link'/>
  <div class='mask'>
  <h2>First Post Heading</h2>
  <p>

First Post Paragraph </p>
  <a class='info' href='First Post Link'>Read More</a>
  </div>
  </div>  </td>

<td> <div class='view view-first'>
  <img src='Second Post Image Link'/>
  <div class='mask'>
  <h2>Second Post Heading </h2>
  <p>Second Post Paragraph</p>
  <a class='info' href='Second Post Link'>Read More</a>
  </div>
  </div>
</td> <td>
<div class='view view-first'>
  <img src='Third Post Image Link'/>
  <div class='mask'>
  <h2>Third Post Heading </h2>
  <p>Third Post Paragraph</p>
  <a class='info' href='Third Post Link'>Read More</a>
  </div>

  </div>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>
  <div class='view view-first'>
  <img src='Fourth Post Image Link'/>
  <div class='mask'>
  <h2>Fourth Post Heading </h2>
  <p>Fourth Post Paragraph</p>
  <a class='info' href='Fourth Post Link'>Read More</a>
  </div>

  </div>


  </td>
  <td>

  <div class='view view-first'>
  <img src='Fifth Post Image Link'/>
  <div class='mask'>
  <h2>Fifth Post Heading </h2>
  <p>Fifth Post Paragraph</p>
  <a class='info' href='Fifth Post Link'>Read More</a>
  </div></div>

  </td>

  <td>
  <div class='view view-first'>
  <img src='Sixth Post Image Link '/>
  <div class='mask'>
  <h2>Sixth Post Heading </h2>
  <p>Sixth Post paragraph</p>
  <a class='info' href='Sixth Post Link'>Read More</a>
  </div>
  </div>

  <p style=" line-height:0px; font-size:8px; font-weight:bold; text-align:right;padding-top:0px;"><a style="color:#D3D3D3;" href="http://www.bloggingehow.com">widgets</a></p>


  </td>


  </tr>


</table>
</div>
</div>
<style>

#background {

background: #FAF8CC; width:100%; border: 1px solid #C9C299;
}

.view-first img {
-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear;
-moz-transition: all 0.2s linear;
-o-transition: all 0.2s linear;
-ms-transition: all 0.2s linear;
transition: all 0.2s linear;
}
.view-first .mask {
-ms-filter: "progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=0)";
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
opacity: 0;
background-color: rgba(219,127,8, 0.7);
-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
}
.view-first h2 {
-webkit-transform: translateY(-100px);
-moz-transform: translateY(-100px);
-o-transform: translateY(-100px);
-ms-transform: translateY(-100px);
transform: translateY(-100px);
-ms-filter: "progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=0)";
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
opacity: 0;
-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
}
.view-first p {
-webkit-transform: translateY(100px);
-moz-transform: translateY(100px);
-o-transform: translateY(100px);
-ms-transform: translateY(100px);
transform: translateY(100px);
-ms-filter: "progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=0)";
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
opacity: 0;
-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear;
-moz-transition: all 0.2s linear;
-o-transition: all 0.2s linear;
-ms-transition: all 0.2s linear;
transition: all 0.2s linear;
}
.view-first:hover img {
-webkit-transform: scale(1.1,1.1);
-moz-transform: scale(1.1,1.1);
-o-transform: scale(1.1,1.1);
-ms-transform: scale(1.1,1.1);
transform: scale(1.1,1.1);
}
.view-first a.info {
-ms-filter: "progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=0)";
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
opacity: 0;
-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
}
.view-first:hover .mask {
-ms-filter: "progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=100)";
filter: alpha(opacity=100);
opacity: 1;
}
.view-first:hover h2,
.view-first:hover p,
.view-first:hover a.info {
-ms-filter: "progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=100)";
filter: alpha(opacity=100);
opacity: 1;
-webkit-transform: translateY(0px);
-moz-transform: translateY(0px);
-o-transform: translateY(0px);
-ms-transform: translateY(0px);
transform: translateY(0px);
}
.view-first:hover p {
-webkit-transition-delay: 0.1s;
-moz-transition-delay: 0.1s;
-o-transition-delay: 0.1s;
-ms-transition-delay: 0.1s;
transition-delay: 0.1s;
}
.view-first:hover a.info {
-webkit-transition-delay: 0.2s;
-moz-transition-delay: 0.2s;
-o-transition-delay: 0.2s;
-ms-transition-delay: 0.2s;
transition-delay: 0.2s;
}
  .view {
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
margin: 10px;

border: 2px solid #000000;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #e6e6e6;
-moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #e6e6e6;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #e6e6e6;
cursor: default;
background: #fff url(../images/bgimg.jpg) no-repeat center center;
}
.view .mask,.view .content {
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
position: absolute;
overflow: hidden;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
.view img {
display: block;
position: relative;
}
.view h2 {
text-transform: uppercase;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
position: relative;
font-size: 17px;
padding: 10px;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
margin: 8px 0 0 0;
}
.view p {
font-family: Georgia, serif;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 12px;
position: relative;
color: #fff;
padding: 10px 20px 20px;
text-align: center;
}
.view a.info {
display: inline-block;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 5px 40px ;
background: #000;
color: #fff;
text-transform: uppercase;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 1px #000;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 1px #000;
box-shadow: 0 0 1px #000;
}
.view a.info: hover {
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 5px #000;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 5px #000;
box-shadow: 0 0 5px #000;
}

</style>

Now simply edit the link above with your own featured post links. Every different post boxes codes are highlighted with different color so to distinguish them easily. Note that the paragraphs should not be longer than 75-80 characters.

Use our character count tool to count the characters in your paragraph that you wish to add in.
Once you have customized the widget as per your needs, its time to add the widget to your blog.

Step #2 Add the widget to your blog

Navigate to Blogger Dashboard >> Design >> Add a Gadget and paste the entire code with in it. OR you could add the widget directly into your blog template via going in Edit HTML option.

In case you wish to delete any section of the featured post widget, simply remove the following occurrences of section below:

<td>
  <div class='view view-first'>
  <img src='Fourth Post Image Link'/>
  <div class='mask'>
  <h2>Fourth Post Heading </h2>
  <p>Fourth Post Paragraph</p>
  <a class='info' href='Fourth Post Link'>Read More</a>
  </div>

  </div>


  </td>

Need Any Help?

Hope you guys liked this amazing featured post widget. In case you face any problem while applying the widget, just drop out a comment below and we'll together try to fix that.

Stay safe guys!

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