How to Embed YouTube Playlist Player App?

Now you can embed YouTube's Playlist Player App in your website or a blog <3

If you were looking to embed YouTube like playlist player on your blog or a website than this is the perfectly working solution for you that you'll get in love with.

If you're figuring out what it looks like, you can checkout the demo below on my About page.

[YouTube Playlist Player Live Demo ##eye##]

By Default, YouTube doesn't allow the to embed the 'exact' Playlist player that it uses for it's self just as what you see in the image below.

What you can embed though is a different design of the playlist player like below though that's not we actually look forward to :) SO lets see how you can embed the actual great one that I shared above in the demo.

Installation Requirements

 1. You Need Your WebHosting where you can deploy the scripts

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• Don't Have Web Hosting?
• If not, do comment below if you're using Blogger blogs and would like to see how you can add this to Blogger blogs. I would then go ahead and share how you can do that for Blogspot. InshaAllah.
  Currently the tutorial targets if you've an access to your own web hosting. If you do, then you can use it on a Blogger blog too, as the scripts would be hosted there.

Step #1 Download The App/Plugin

Simply head over to the following link and download the plugin. Once you have the zip file, you'd then have to make few changes in the Javascript code to include your YouTube player's playlist ID and YouTube Channel ID.

[Download YouTube Playlist Player ##download##]

Step #2 Find Your Channel and Playlist IDs

Finding Your Desired YouTube Playlist IDs

To show your desired playlist videos in this player, you need the playlist IDs that YouTube gives you. You can find them as below.

1. Go to YouTube playlist of your choice and copy it's ID as shown in the image below.

2. Now simply find out your YouTube channel ID as shown in the image below. You can go to advanced account settings page and there you'll find it.

Once you have both of these things, you're all set to edit these out in the YouTube plugin code.

Step #3 Edit The Script as Mentioned Below.

Open up ytv.js file in any file editor on your computer (like Notepad++) and make the following changes as mentioned below in the image. Notice that I highlighted the playlist IDs that you want to show in the Plugin. You can add one or more.

Once you edit out that part. You're almost done. I'll tell you where and how to add these scripts to make them work. Simply follow the next step.

Step #4 Upload the Plugin Folder to Your Hosting

1. Now that you have edited that out, simply upload the plugin folder to your directory. Javascript and css file.



2. Simply add both the files in your header area of the template/page as shown below.

3. Now simply place the following code where you want the widget/plugin to appear.

Note that, where it says "channelId", you've to enter the previous noted down 'channelID' of yours.

That's all!

Once you do that, save the files you edited in your file manager of hosting and you're good to go.

Hope that was helpful for you.

Conclusion - Need Any Help?

In case you found anything confusing, you can always get back to me in the comments section of this and I would love to solve that. If you're willing to add that to a Blogger blog, do comment below, and I'll update this article for Blogger blogs too.

Best of luck! Enjoy this amazing plugin :)

HowTo , YouTube

How to Embed YouTube Playlist Player App?

Featureso Wednesday, 10 August 2016

Should I Buy a Custom Domain Name?

If you're not currently using a custom domain for your blog, make sure that you know that you're making one of the biggest mistakes. Read on and I get to explain why.

I have been planing to buy a custom domain for a while and this day has finally arrived. This was indeed due to your kind support.

 I felt comfortable with Blogger as i feel its meant for the young students who cant afford Word Press (blogging platform) hosting costs. BloggingeHow.com is now registered with HostnDomains (a local webhost). All the posts are hosted by Blogger.com for free.

As always, Google's services are quite generous towards their users. Free hosting is one of the best factors that make Blogger over shines WordPress. I had couple of small blogs on WordPress.com, i.e is a free web hosting services.

Should I Buy a Custom Domain Name?

 The problem was the unprofessional domain name (xyz.wordpress.com) that hanged out with the blog. Also WordPress.com was like the handy caped version of WordPress.org (the real WordPress you may say).

So i finally stuck with Blogger.com and bought a custom domain due to the following solid reasons. I regret i should have done that early.

How To Start a Professional Blog for Only 0.99$! [Bonus Episode]

1- A Professional Touch

Simply apply it to your self. How do you take a blogspot.com or any other sub domain hosted blog? Not seriously right?

That's natural. This is due to the mighty graveyard of the dead blogspot.com blogs laying all around the world wide web. People often get inspired with the "Money" factor of blogs/websites and they tend to build one for them selves within seconds.

It hardly takes few seconds to build a new blogspot.com blog. The problem arises when they realize that posting frequently, that is the key to success of a blog, is a big pain. They might through out 2-4 post but after that, all the air is blown out.

So it was important for me to get a custom domain as the blogspot.com domains were so badly reputed due to all these "left over" blogs on the net space.

2- I Got it for 9.3$ Approx

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• ##check## Update: Much Affordable Now! 
• Note that you can now even get it for as low as 0.99$ from Godaddy. I explained the process in the bonus episode I embedded above.

This is the point.

How could someone not get a custom domain, that costs only and only around 10$ per year. Once you get to know the advantages of branding your blog with a custom domain, you can't resist to get one for your self too.

There are many domain registrars, where you can register your domain instantly. I went for a local one just because i didn't had the facility of credit card. So it was far easy for me to grab one from a local host.

If you are student and can't get one online, you should get one from a local one. That's equally good. You just need a custom domain name.

3- Less Than 1 Days To Setup

I will explain how to get a custom domain name in my coming posts, so that it gets easy for you to understand the whole procedure. Just so that you know, you can set it all within 1 days! That is 1 days after you register your domain with the domain host.

All the DNS (domain name system) and redirecting your old blogspot.com blog within 1 days. How could some one not shift to a custom domain; i wonder.

4-Increased My Traffic By 10% !

That actually amazed me. The day Bloggingehow.com was up, it received around 10% more traffic than before. Custom domain is taken far more seriously by people and they often tend to land on a custom domain, then a sub domain blog.

I often land on custom domains from search engine results, and when i check their standings, they are merely of any worth. Literally that's how huge a custom domain can play.

Even if your blog has less to offer, people land on it just by watching the custom domain.

You can also checkout 6 Content Marketing Examples - How to Drive Your First 10,000 Visitors to Your Blog? 

The following AskHassam episode talks about how to increase your YouTube video views. Many of these strategies are relevant to a blog post too. Hope that helps you out too.

How to Increase YouTube Video Views [Bonus Video]

5- 30 Twitter Subscribers The Very Day

BloggingeHow is rising fast in Twitter world. Just a few days back we setup this little blog on Twitter and its 130+ followers already. The custom domain played a huge role in social media exposure.

I wonder how 30 of those kind people found BloggingeHow, on the very day. *Cheers* Again this couldn't have been possible without you guys.

6- More Bookmarks Rewards For Custom Domain

Custom domains often get more bookmarks then an ordinary free sub domain. As i mentioned before people take custom domains far more seriously, and love them to share with their friends and family proudly.

Though the content determines the bookmarks more, but a custom domains plays the finishing role, i would say. If a persons likes a particular blog and wants to bookmark, a custom domain name pushes him towards the bookmark button.

7- Less Back Links For Sub domains

Sub domains get a lower page rank normally due to the lower number of "quality" back links on their support. High quality blogs doesn't like to connect with the sub domains blogs. Do you think Darren from Problogger would like to promote a blogspot.com domain?

8- Hosting Is Free With Blogger-100% Up time!

As i mentioned before, Google services are quite generous. They have given the free hosting facility to their users with 100% up time. Yes you heard it right.

 According to one study by pingdot.com, Blogger had 0.0 hours of down time which made it first among the leading free Blogging platforms, WordPress being second with 0.1 hour down time. So with such a great platform with free hosting, what more can you ask?

9- Popular Advertisement Services Say No To Sub domains

Yes its true. Many of the popular advertisement services doesn't accept free sub domains. Even Adsense is not allowed on free sub domains apart from Google's own blogspot.com.

Other popular services like 'Buy Sell Ads' doesn't allow free sub domains. That means you might be loosing the major portion of your blog's potential revenue. Some blogs doesn't have high CTR for Adsense so they turn over to 'Buy Sell Ads'. And if you got a sub domain, they would return you from the door step.

How to Make Money From YouTube [Bonus Episode]

10- You Will Get Back Your Valuable Page Rank

Many webmasters experiences the fall of the sudden page rank after they shift over to their custom domains. Its because the new domain is just like a new blog for search engines in starting. But when the blog is crawled again before the next page rank update, you get your page rank back.

That's discourages for some time but now when people know the deal, its not much of a problem.
So sit back and chill out.

11- Advertisers Doesn't take Sub domains Seriously

Some people like to attract the advertisers through their 'Advertise Page'. As we discussed before, free domains doesn't get attention by popular revenue generating services so the free domain users often move to direct advertisement.

Most of them fail. As advertisers look for quality blog with huge traffic and they know that most of the free sub domain holders have very few readers.

12- It Feels Great To Be The Part Of Branded Blogs

Yeah indeed its a great feeling.

How to Start a Professional Blog on WordPress [Bonus Episode]

Are You Still Reading This post? Go Get Your Custom Domain !

What do you think? Will you buy a custom domain for your blog? Do you really care? Hurry up before all the domain names exhausts.

AskHassam , Blogging Tips , Domain Hosting

Should I Buy a Custom Domain Name?

Featureso Thursday, 4 August 2016

How to Earn 3500$ from Bluehost Affiliate Program? - And More!

Bluehost's affiliate program is among the most famous affiliate program to earn with, online.

Affiliate marketing is a crazy source to generate amazing amount of revenue from your blogs. The real online business are the ones who either have their own products, promote third party products (affiliate marketing) or offer services to their clients.

Bluehost has been my first ever web hosting that I counted on Alhumdulilah! Very soon, as I trusted their service thoroughly, I become their affiliate and decided to recommend it to everyone around me.

This post goes out for all the brothers and sisters who look forward to jump into affiliate marketing and can't figure out what to promote and earning a decent amount while doing so.

To setup a self hosted website, you need a web hosting. So web hosting is one of the most common affiliate products that people promote online and making a living.

The following post is structured in the form of a FAQ which helps understands the topic better InshaAllah.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is when you promote third party products and when you make a sale, you earn a commission out of those sales.

For example, Bluehost offers 65$ to start with, on every sale a person makes for them. That is a one time payment that they make to you, in a response to a life long customer that you gave to them.

How Do They Track The Sales You Make?

When you become their affiliate, they would give you a dedicated affiliate link, that is unique to you. When you share that with your readers on your blog or anywhere online, and when someones clicks that link, they're redirected to Bluehost's website.

Now if the visitor buy Bluehost's hosting, you would get an email that you just made a sale!

That is a great moment! <3 So all of  your sales are linked to your affiliate link and you get to see all the statistics and sources that brought you sale in your Bluehost Affiliate Dashboard.

How to Become Bluehost's Affiliate?

You can simply head over to the following link and signup for their affiliate program.

[Signup for Bluehost's Affiliate Program ##eye##]

You'd see the following form that you have to fill up. After that you hit 'Sign Up' button and that's all. Your application then goes into approval mode. They'd get back to you via email once your application is approved.

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• ##check## Valid Website/Blog
•  Make sure that you have a valid website/blog URL that you have to put in the form. This shows them that you've a serious online presence.

 Meanwhile your application is under approval, you have to fill up Tax Form, which is required to withdraw your earnings.

How to Withdraw Bluehost Affiliate Earnings?

You can withdraw your affiliate earnings via:

1. Paypla
2. WireTransfer (For higher incomes)

How Much Does Bluehost Offer Per Sale?

 By default, Bluehost offers 65$ per sale that you make for them. Though, there are odd cases. They often offer more amount per sign up like 100-125$ per sign up to limited amount of blogs that they feel would be able to bring back more sales initially.

Also, once you start making 5-10 sales per month, they would increase your per sale bounty to over 150-200$ +. You can request that to their customer support and they happy do that :)

Though they need to see the sales stats that you made for them since few last months.

What it Takes to Make 3500$ per Month With Bluehost?

Step #1 Increase per Sale Bounty (Optional/Request)

You can request their customer support to increase you initial bounty to 100$ per sale. (A simple request)

Step #2 Plan to make 35 sales per month. 35 sales = 3500$ per month. (With 100$ per sale).

To make 35 sales, you have the following options:

Use Your Blog

#1 Place Banners

You can use different banners on your blog as shown below. I'll share my personal banners in the following screen shots that I use and also there are tons of free banners in Bluehost's affiliate section that you can use.

You can go to Dashboard >> Banner Or Widgets and find out various banner designs you of various dimensions that you feel would be suitable for your blog.

#2 Write Bluehost Reviews

You can write high quality Bluehost reviews on your blog and use your affiliate links with in the post. The more visitors would read your blog, the more sign up would you get. Generally on average you need 100-150 readers to your blog post (that talks about Bluehost) to make a sale.

Now you can do that maths. Though these numbers are not a surety. If you're into a relevant niche where people would like to sign up for the new web hosting, you'd be surprised to see how many sales you can make easily. InshaAllah.

#3 Write Instant Reviews On Sales

Bluehost often sends the affiliates emails on various holiday occasions for massive discounts that you can offer to your readers. On moments like Christmas, Black Friday, 4th June etc Bluehost sales are amazing!

Even like more than 60-70% off. :)

SO by making the most out of these sales, you can get a huge spike on your affiliate sales by writing a quick blog post on these moments by offering your readers massive discounts :)

#4 Use Google AdWord Ads To Drive to Your Landing Page

I've seen so many people making the most out of Adwords ads to drive traffic to their blogs, that are actually meant to convert that traffic into the sales.

Though this can take quite some iterations to find out the best ad banner that you could use that would convert into your sales.

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• Be Aware
• You can easily loose quite some money on this one, as Google Adwords is pretty expensive and you can easily loose quite some on that if you don't have the most converting banners.

Conclusion

Hope these insights helped you out. Even if you aim to make 1000$ with Bluehost, I would recommend you to first set a goal. When you'd have a clear goal in mind, you can work upon it and create more blog posts, more video content to market.

A Handy Tip

Never go out of the way to promote any affiliate product you promote. Only soft market it. It's in fact not marketing. It's like helping others. When you take that approach, your blog posts would show the tone you'd take.

Just go out to help your readers with setting up WordPress, offer them services etc, and you'll see sales coming by InshaAllah.

Hope that helped :)

affiliate marketing , Bluehost , Making Money Online

How to Earn 3500$ from Bluehost Affiliate Program? - And More!

Featureso Tuesday, 2 August 2016