Kabam: This Means War

Hello all, this is my second day on This Means War by Kabam. At first day review, I felt it similar to Clash of Clans game play. With same system implements it looked identical. But today, I tried attacking few bases through multiplayer battle. I was surprised that Kabam has decided to make the warfare to the another level. While I attack bases, even my base is exposed to opponent attack. The It drew some imaginary battle line from which we could deploy our forces for attack. The moment when the forces reach the opponent base. A wave of enemy attackers launch attack over my base. Wow! It risk my resources to be plundered by the opponents. It looks like war between neighbors. Still, it is a war game.

One big difference when it comes to raiding opponent bases is that, we can redeploy forces fallen in the battle. So we get unlimited supply of troops but limited by same set of units. Example, if you have one rocket trooper in your whole attack unit. You can deploy back only one rocket trooper for the whole battle. Well, lets see how this game play go after each upgrade.

With Command center upgraded to level 3, I was able to join alliance. The difference is not a big deal. As usual, we can send or request reinforcements from our alliance member. Also some parts could be requested from your alliance. But for now, I been raiding enemy bases like mad.

Unfortunately, I found my base attacked and a shield protects my base right now. Let see what happens next.

Kabam: This Means War

This is my first day playing 'This Means War' by Kabam. Google Play recommended to install this game. Out of curiosity I installed it. Basically, it is action strategy based game. So far, the tutorial were based on Single player mission. Nothing much on the part of Multiplayer as I had in Clash of Clans, Invasion, Royal Revolt...

Basic Terminology:

The intro part has exposed towards the basics of the gameplay. And for the purpose of this post, I will list few of them.

Power Cells: These are the elements which could be bought for some real money. Like I would be diamonds or gems for real money in other games. No surprise, you have to make deal with Kaboom for the speed ups.

Engineer's Tent: Though it may spell and pronounce as Engineers, it would simply call them builders employed in your base. At first, you would be kept incharge of a war base as usual. Nothing new on this part. Number of Engineer Tent decide how many constructions could be made simultaneously.

Command center: It is the heart of the base. It decide how many building and types of such building shall be present in your war base.

Supply collector and Storages: To be frank, I really wonder who send supply 24x7 in this game. But you will receive supply relentlessly. In this place, you could collect all your supply that have reached your base.

Red Mercury Collector: This is the vital resource of your base. Sorry, this is want the intro said about the resource. So I hope it will be the vital resource to reckon with.

Army Camps: It is the base where your units stay all day. The units must be produced from a separate barracks.

Gameplay:

Basically, I started the game under a shield. I lose shield if I enter multiplayer battle. Once I lose my base to an attack, then I gain back the shield. Feels similar to Clash of Clans where people farm with TownHall outside the walls. But for now, I would not make a flat assessment.

There are three types of game who can play. Single player mission where you fight against a Major ranked officer, one against friends and last one is multiplayer battle.

Gameplay is all about building troops and fill the army camps. Then launch attack! You end up looting resources from other bases if you win the fight. 

Overall, my first day at 'This Means War' feels like I am in another replica of Clash of Clans. The setup seems similar to that. Lets wait some time, to know more about the multiplayer feature of this game. If my base could be attack even if I am offline then it would be exact replica of Clash of Clans. So stay tuned to know more about this game.

How did I fix dead Lenovo Laptop

I was happy with my Lenovo T series laptop which is working perfect with no flaws since 2003. LOL! Even I forgot the model name. That old is the laptop about which I gonna talk about. With arduous service, the laptop died 2 weeks ago. The death was without any symptoms. A sudden death! Nothing but a black screen gazed at me. So thought of buying a new laptop. Still, to try my luck, I browsed few forum regarding my issue (though I didn't post my question or problem). I found a crazy bit of information which was weird at first. But works actually.

The info was how to reset your apparently dead Lenovo laptop. The information was quite simple yet effective:

1. Unplug your AC input cable and battery from the laptop
2. Then press power button 10 times each with 1 second intervals. Then press and hold the power button for 30 seconds.
3. Insert your battery and boot your laptop as usual. It will work!
4. Remember, do not plug in your AC adaptor cable before booting the laptop. If you do and your laptop dies, repeat from step no. 1.

As stated above, the steps seems weird. But to my surprise it did work! For those who use Lenovo laptops must remember these steps if you find your laptop not responding to the boot request.

And for your information, I forgot the source of the website forum. I just desperately tried these steps. It worked. So writing about it as it may help others. Once I get to know the real source, I will post them. If you know, let me know! If your laptop didn't get fixed by following the aforesaid steps, kindly leave a comment about your problem.

How to extent Wifi coverage with second router?

With those who use wooden construction material can move on with this blog post. But for those who still complain about the black spot or patchy WiFi connection inside the house, You are in right place. I am not going to present with some cut and paste article from another website. All I am going to present is my personal experience of setting up WiFi connection and extending it to increase the coverage area. Technically, to fill black spots where you won't find signal with your existing Wifi router.

To begin with you need basic things. Before getting started, have the following ready:

1. Two WiFi routers

2. Lengthy CAT 6 cable

3. PC/Laptop to connect and configure routers

4. Some patience and time. Most of you reading this article may try it for first time. So if you do fail in your first attempt, congrats! Be proud that you started learning something new!

Alright! Now let's get started with our setup.

1. First of all, decide upon which router will be your primary. It should the router which gets internet directly either through a modem or wired connection. Fix this modem as your primary router so that you can extend connection from it to the slave or secondary router.

2. Note down following configuration information from your primary router. If you are unaware of how to know those information. Open your web browser and type in the IP address of the router. In most case, it would be 192.168.1.1, if your are using D-Link router, try 192.168.0.1. For those who find this difficult may refer the user manual of the respective router. And for configuration information, following details of from the primary router may be noted:

• wireless mode
• channel at which primary router works
• security settings like WPA, WPA2, WEP
• Passphrase of your primary router
• DHCP addresses of primary router

3. That's it for the info you need from primary router. Now reset your secondary router and connect it your PC/laptop. Make the following changes to make it slave of your primary router:

• Click the LAN settings page and edit the IP address of the router to be one of the Static IP address under primary router. For example, if your router provides IP address in the range of 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.49, fix the IP address of the secondary router within this range. As our case is for home connection, I would highly recommend using last IP address which would kept idle! So in this case, set the IP address of the secondary router to 192.168.0.49. Hit save and let the router reboot.
• Now, enter the new IP address of the secondary router and select 'OPERATION MODE'. Set operation mode to 'bridge'. Then hit save and wait until router reboots with new configuration.
• Again login to the configuration page of the secondary router. Now, change the basic wireless settings to match exactly with your primary router. ONLY EXCEPTION IS ASSIGN DIFFERENT SSID TO YOUR SECONDARY ROUTER. Apart from that, change all the values like channel, security, wireless mode and it must exactly match your primary router. Now hit save and let the router reboot.

By now, you have made your secondary router work alongside primary router which would extend your WiFi connection fill black spots in your home. To connect two routers, you could prefer long Ethernet CAT 6 cable. To establish connection, plug one end of the Ethernet cable in any one of the LAN port in your primary router and plug the other end in any LAN port of your secondary router.  Place the secondary router well away from primary router to extend the WiFi coverage. That's it. It must work now.

For this experiment, I had the following equipments:

1. D-Link 816 wireless modem/router.
2. ZyXel wireless router (I had a spare router in home)
3. Cat 6/ Ethernet cable (any of them would work but make sure it is of good quality)
4. Ofcourse, an internet connection in working condition.

Nonetheless, power source is far more important. Do not forget to plug in your AC cable in your routers.

Twitter Hashtag creation Guideline

Twitter hashtag Creation

Did you know the quick and easiest way to have reach in Twitter? Haven't you found potential customer in Twitter? If not, something is probably wrong! So much money being spent on Twitter campaigns for product promotion yet waiting to harvest the gains! Now, to answer all this question. Ask yourselves now, what is your Twitter campaign hashtag? If are able to answer, you are half way done in your Twitter campaigns.

Most successful online campaigns in Twitter has striking similarity! Unique hashtag! If your Twitter campaign owns an unique hashtag then you are more than half way done in your twitter campaign. The problem is finding the unique hashtag. Brainstorming begins here! The only problem with creating hashtag is making it unique and must always point to your product or service in Twitter.

It is your one and only problem. Yet you could overcome the difficulty with flying colors, if you are ready to set proper strategy for your Twitter game. No surprise! Follow the simple guideline for Twitter hashtag creation:

1. It must be unique! Unique in the sense it must not be used by another person in Twitter. It doesn't matter if some one has made no significant reach with similar hashtag but be careful that neither of your hashtag overlap with each other.
2. Do your research prior to establishing hashtag in Twitter. Once you have made decision, you will lose your right to recall Twitter hashtag once your followers starts buzz with it.
3. Make sure it is more relevant and specific to your products and services. An generic hashtag would lead to overlapping of hashtags in Twitter. For example, #blogger in twitter indicate both using Google Blogger service and those who blog on any platform. So, make sure you are specific to your product.
4. The point #3 should not be made beyond the point that it breaks surprise to your Twitter followers. Relevancy and specific detail should not let your followers know about the surprise that awaits them till launch date. In simple words, your Twitter hashtag creation must create buzz among your followers but should not in anyway giveaway the surprise element.
5. The time of hashtag establishment is far more important! Make sure it go viral the moment you launch your Twitter campaign. Analytic tools are best friend when it comes to launching campaigns in Twitter. Once you get infographic about your followers activity in Twitter, you can make sure you get your product hashtag go viral the moment you tweet it on Twitter.

These 5 Twitter hashtag creation guideline will help you reach your potential customer through your Twitter campaigns. Something catchy will always get attention in Social media.

Google Chrome user? Working for Google!

'Google Chrome has recently taken over as the most popular internet browser with over 750 million active users.' - Kissmetrics Source: visit here.

Google Chrome
Source: wiki

The statistics is true! And one must know how serious it is to know Google Chrome has taken over other web browsers in the past decade! Well, one may advocate that Chrome is product of open source web browser project Chromium. Though, the origin seems to be legitimate open source project, Google has its work mend with the Chrome! Chrome comes with lot of strings attached. Most strings entice users to keep using it! First and foremost is the Support! Google provide support for Chrome while Chromium it is upto the community! Not only the support! Google Chrome store is one of the highlights! You get lot of plugins, games and utility. To say, it would act as one stop place to get your work done with your chrome. Those strings contain few messes that most users ignore or ignorant of.
But still I have to admit that I myself is one among those who fan Google Chrome! Yeah! It is well designed and satisfy user experience with lot of utility and plugins which I can't reject for no good reasons. Still Chrome features outweigh the intention of Google! I am not trying to villanify chrome project. A few good things comes with a cost! So the Chrome. It is free then you pay them with kind of something most people not aware of! It is time to shed some light what chrome user actually do to Google SERP!
Stop it! Did you hear me saying Google Chrome users help determine SERP? If yes, do not read back! You heard it right! If you are a Google Chrome user then you are indirectly work for Google! To make it simple, haven't you heard that Google tracks users data on Chrome browsers? If yes, fine. If no, yeah, Google tracks users browsing data. Simply, If you use Google Chrome then you provide Google with tons of data each year about the sites your browse, bookmark, shares and so on! Not to freak out! Google never collects personal data. Just relax! It is all about SEO or Search Engine optimization. They simple use the information collected to improve SERP.

What the hell is SERP?

So far I would have used SERP! If your new to these kind of stuff, then I am glad to introduce you to these terms. SERP is simply called Search Engine Result Page.

'A search engine results page is the listing of results returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query. The results normally include a list of items with titles, a reference to the full version, and a short description showing where the keywords have matched content within the page. A SERP may refer to a single page of links returned, or to the set of all links returned for a search query.' - DuckDuckgo Goodie

Alright! the definition is good enough to explain anyone who are new to these terms! Now business!

How using Google Chrome helps Google?

As you all, title is about how Google Chrome users work for Google! Yeah! The data we provide Google while we browse in Chrome is work we do for Google. Though it may not be compared to actual work we do to Google. Yet, it is valuable enough that it improves the SERP of the popular Search Engine in internet history!

Bookmarks: If you are person who bookmark web pages which ever you find useful or thinking of reading them later. You made Google note of the importance of the web page you visited. If a single page gets bookmarked by lot of users in Chrome, Google indirectly understands the importance of the web page the user visited. God damn it! I forgot to bookmark my own blog! Well, many of them must bookmark it! One or two not going make it a day.

Ad revenue: I guess, it must be the top priority for any company who provides top notch service. All we know is good provide service free to the users but charge advertisers for the ads. I am not going deep into the working of Adsense now! To keep it simple, lets stop with Google make revenue from ads. Alright, your browser history, pattern, cookie help Google Ads pop up appropriate Ads. So it augments revenue! If they find you were browsing for a designer apparel then Google Ads going to throw you with ads from apparel websites! So the ads get relevant with your desire. So the click through rate of the ad is high. Thus increase the revenue.

Chrome Store

Google Service: None could undermine, Google product services! Google knows if anything goes wrong with its product if the users use it from Chrome web browser! Not a surprise though! I tried loading Google services on less popular web browsers and found out that even the login form loads crazy! Finally, it made me realize that Chrome is something special than other web browsers when it comes to dealing with Google.

Well, the list here is short! We do like it or not, Google Chrome is a win-win for users and Google. Google improves Chrome and we provide input to improve chrome. It has evolved as chain action. Last but not the least! I personally prefer Chrome!

Google+ Social Media platform help SEO

Google+ Social Media

Google+, social media platform, where most of the socialmediaprenuers neglect when talking about social media issues! Well, actually, I do not mean to generalize and state all socialmediaprenuers neglect Google+. The complain is they do not get the reach as do they do in other social media such as Twitter, Facebook. Twitter and Facebook had an edge over Google+. Both them are old and were leading at the time of Google+ was in infant stage. Might be, bad luck at the time of launch! Most of the Google+ get attention due to the Google account and its integration with all other services! For now myth apart! What makes Google+ important?

• Dofollow links: Well, if your content go viral in social media platform, will it guarantee your search engine presence? What if your social media campaign hits top in SERP? Would you say no? Any body who works on social media would answer it in negative! So to make it simple, yes, Google+ links are dofollow links. If some one don't know what are dofollow links, these are the link search engine bots will follow and crawl from the page where the link is in existence. So Google+ gives your post or blog to the Google search engine! Though, it will not improve your SERP ranking to significant level, it would make your website crawled by search engine. Well, if you are targeting Google SERP, then it is a wise choice to utilize Google+.
• Share and +1: If someone does know share and +1, then they are not really good at Google+. I assume you are well aware of Google+. So each time your content gets shared and +1, your probability of getting higher up on SERP is high! These are not myth but it was proven methods employed by social media marketers! Even Twitter and Facebook has such ability, but Google+ is make significant difference to your SERP.

Action plan: If it is your business or blog, whatever it might be, it is good to have presence is all possible social media! Even if not in all, it is good to maintain interaction between your followers and your business through popular social media platforms. So make sure Google+ is one of them! Even if you don't get adequate followers, it is good have your presence in Google+. Even if you have one or two followers, their is high chance of such followers sharing about you with Google+ circles. Thus increasing your reach and popularity!

Myth: Most popular myth that evolve around Google+ is it is dead or expected to be dead! Some social media experts would cite the case of orkut and compare Google+ with them! Even orkut was owned by Google, it has to meet its death on Sept 30, 2014. So they anticipate such fate for Google+. Even it may be true! Who cares! It is good to maintain your presence until the network is live and active! So lame reason for neglecting a social media shall be the story of past. Start engaging with your followers via Google+

Buffer.com Tutorial: Social Media presence augmentation

I will assume that those who are reading this blog post are the people who is using Twitter as the Social Media Platform. Though, there exist many other platform such as Facebook, Google+, Pinterest and so on. This blog will cover augmenting Twitter presence with Buffer. Twitter is great social media platform as you will find far most reach than any other social media platforms. You do not need a campaign to gain reach in twitter. All you need is a little bit of intelligence to gain the reach to the target audience! So lets play with Twitter now.

So now coming to the tool managing your Twitter account. It is time to work with Buffer. Buffer app helps schedule tweets to your Twitter account. If you haven't tried Buffer till day, now it is time to try it. Though it may appear as simple tweet scheduling utility, it will come with inbuilt analytic for the tweets posted via buffer app. So you get insight into the potential of your tweets, reach and engagements from fellow Twitter users.

Buffer.com

Take a close look at the image posted above! Do you wonder what made big difference to those tweets? This is what the objective of today's blog! What made that great difference to the tweets? Most of us would under estimate the analytic data! A short version of the analytic would prove that posting at right time will get lot of visitors to the tweets. Still, a little chuck of socialmediapreneurs would argue that hashtag has made the great difference! Well, if it so then here is the evidence to prove it otherwise. 

Getting engagement on social media platform, especially, when it comes to Twitter, it depends on variety of factors as mentioned below:

1. Posting Time: At which time of the day, you schedule your tweet is far more important! So if you are planning to schedule your tweet in Buffer then it is good to brainstorm the timing of your tweet. When most users would be online? Your reach depends on number of users online. The impression of your tweet with online users would augment your presence. While you can not use it as thumb rule! Each niche has its own peak time. To find out when you will get more reach depends upon your experimentation with Twitter. So If you are tweeting your niche then it is good to schedule your first scheduled tweets by distributing it equally in the day. It is effective method if you try it for a week to know more about which day and time, you get more engagement.
   
2. Followers: Well, it is factor which is beyond your control. Your engagement, at least for first few engagements, depends upon your followers. Twitter is like domino so it depend upon the one who first engage with it! Think about one of your followers who has some 400 followers in his account. What happens if he retweets your tweet, your tweets is visible to some 400 more users! What if the case if some with 75k follower retweets your tweet? That is your tweet potential. So know who might retweet or engage with your tweet once posted.
   
   Though it might look little naive to know followers, it is good to know your audience. As I stated earlier, this is factor which is beyond our control. Could be able to control who follow us? Damn! It is not Facebook! So you have got to manage with what you have got! But it is nothing to worry about. Twitter is all about engagement! You are not going to gain anything with just broadcasting your tweets. As far as possible make it engaging! Engaging tweets gets good amount of impression among online users.
3. #Hashtags: Comes the most debated strategy among socialmediapreneurs! But the truth is using hashtags gets wide reach among online users. If your tweet is related to trending topic in the Twitter then you have wide reach than expected. The impression of your tweet is many fold as trending topics usually have considerable population of Twitter users interacting with the tweets posted, either they like it or not. So planning your #hashtag usage is very important factor.

Yet never use too much hashtag than expected. If you wish to have wide audience then it is good to plan your posting schedule accordingly. Using too many hashtag will make users assume that you are spammer! Yes! Most of the tweets in Twitter are spam, advertising products. Worse part is it includes false advertising. Even I have received DMs and mentioned tweets stating about job opening. But clicking the link will lead you directly to a dating site or provide a survey in which we have to sign up! So spams are too common. So make sure you do not gain the spammer tag in Social Media. So avoid using too many hashtags in your tweets. Better try using maximum 3 hashtags!

Twitter Tweet using Hashtag!

For instance, consider that you are going to tweet about a topic, say 'wordpress seo plugins', good we got the keywords. If my math is right, we got 3 keywords for utilization. To draw maximum attention, I would use it as

'Top #wordpress #seo #plugins for your blog'

That's it, actually it will sound like a true sentence! But most of the tweets which I encountered where poorly written. For instance, the same statement was written as

'Top plugins for your wordpress blog. #wordpress #seo #plugins'

In the above mentioned example, we lost word economy. Note this point, no one will read it deeply as they do it with story books! You must catch attention in the first look and make the user engage with the tweet.

Buffer.com Tweet Scheduling

That's it, the above mentioned factors work well for creating text of your tweet. Now it is time to use Buffer to schedule them to your need!

Now, Login into buffer.com! If you did, then you are holding a basic account which let you schedule maximum 10 tweets in queue. So it is limited functionality! Never mind! We could get our initial reach through these 10 scheduled tweets. So at initial level you do not need an 'upgrade to awesome'. 

Now click on 'What do you want to share?' and compose your tweets and click on 'Add to the queue'. That's it you have scheduled your first tweet! First part is over!

Next, we need to analysis our posted tweets! Buffer app comes with inbuilt analytic system which will track tweets posted using Buffer. If you wish to experiment with your niche schedule 10 various tweets of same niche to the queue at different time intervals. So that you may get insight of the audience that you might reach next! If you get too much of positive response at particular time, then it is good to mark it along with the day and time in the week. We can assume we might get good reach to the target audience with minimal efforts on those day!
Important: There is no hard rule to rule social media. your initial reach depends on your experimentation! Don't relent until you complete the objective!

Must Try Twitter Management tool to Increase Social Media presence

Anyone who is serious about Social presence must try these tools

Twitter tool Everyone must try

The importance of social media which has direct influence on brands, sales, marketing has reached far from mere social networks that are used to connects friends to connecting end consumers with brands and products. A product or service neglecting its presence in social media will not find its day on internet. Have you seen any blog/product without social media share buttons? I guess answer would be no. Now such social media presence is just clicks away. One of the most powerful and convenient such network is Twitter. When you are working for a brand, managing the official Twitter handle would be tedious if are serious on targeting audience. Apart from promoted tweets, tools to manage followers, list, tweeting on updates are importance aspects which cannot be neglected by any social media marketer. So for those who are busy with Twitter handle must try the following 4 awesome tools to manage Twitter account.

TweetDeck

#1. TweetDeck: TwitterDeck by Twitter. For those who wish Twitter in new form, TwitterDeck is place to start with. It is easy to use, simple interface. Instead of boring 'new tweets' notification, Twitter Deck uses live update news feed reels. The interface look like running a football commentary except here it is tweets from various people. The reel gets updated every second. But make sure you have adequate bandwidth for the month. 'Activity' column consumes most data as it provide far more update than your home page Twitter feeds. 

Commun.it

#2. Commun.it: I may face ire of commun.it fans for placing it in second position. Placing it second doesn't mean it lacks features or inferior to others. It is a powerful Twitter Analytic tool for anyone. The sole object of commun.it is to create engaging user experience. Provide analysis on whom to follow and unfollow, who retweeted, top followers and so on. But basic free version has its own limitations. 20 social engagements per week and tweet scheduling is available only in the pro version.

Buffer.com

#3. Buffer: Commun.it paid version supports tweet scheduling. But buffer prime purpose is tweet scheduling. It comes with analytic tool. It provide insight on which tweet you received clicks and number of visitors who checked the tweet. As always, buffer free basic version has its own limitations. You can schedule 10 tweet if own a free account. It is up to you to manage those 10 scheduled tweeting.

Hootsuite

#4. Hootsuite: Hootsuite is effective twitter management tool. Actually Hootsuite is overall social media management tool if all the features are taken into account. You can manage all popular social media accounts from Hootsuite. If you haven't tried hootsuite, you must try it today. It is a must have tool for all social media marketers. I didn't find any restriction as I did in buffer. No limit on scheduled tweeting. Limited analytic capability for free basic account. For serious social media marketers, bulk tweet uploads are available in pro version.

Each tool has it's own merits and demerits. If you are able to use all the tools, then you can create your own business with these tools and take control of your social media experience.

Tutorial: Add Original Social Media Share button on Blogger

For any one who uses Blogger platform to create blog will be provided with stock old share button which would be hardly noticed by the readers. All of them are small icon which is most of them might ignore if someone do not read until end of the post.

Default Blogger Share Button At the end of Each Post

But most of us wish to have social share button which would stick at a fixed position, so that it might appeal to the reader for a share. Unlike Wordpress, Blogger is short of plugin libraries. But this fact will not going to stop us from creating our own floating Social Share Button for Blogger.

Floating Social
Share button

To create your own social share button, you do not need a expertise knowledge as a professional web designer would do. All you have to know is simple Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V technique. It would not even take 20 minutes to setup your own floating social share buttons on your new blog. All you have to do is simply follow the steps mentioned below. 

Unlike other tutorials, I am not going to instruct on how to edit Blogger Template to add Social Media Share Button.

Steps to Add floating Social Media Share Button:

Step 1: Collect code from all social media website to which you wish keep share button. This is important but tedious job as you have to collect share button code from all your desired social networking websites. But Search Engines would help you find relevant code.

Bing Search for Twitter Share button

In this instance, I made a search for Twitter share button in Bing. The first result was the official Twitter page which help you create 'share' button for twitter. 

Twitter Share Button Code

Now, copy and paste the code which is provided in the code box to a notepad or text editor which ever you wish to use.

Similarly, collect code for facebook, Tumblr, google+, etc.

Step 2: Now goto Blogger.com. Enter your credentials and open up your blog to which you wish to add Social Media share buttons. It is simple as adding a widget when it comes to blogger.

Step 3: Now Select 'Layout' from the side bar. You will see the layout of your  blog.

Select Layout

Then select 'Add a Gadget' in your layout window. And now select 'HTML/Javascript' gadget from the menu. 

HTML/Javascript Gadget

Step 4: A window will open with two text boxes. One for title and another for pasting your HTML/Javascript code.

HTML/Javascript Gadget box

Now copy and paste all the code from your notepad or text editor in the 2nd text box as shown in the figure. Next is to make it floating in your blog.

Code:

<style>
.pos_left{
float: left;
position: fixed;
left: 10px;
top: 200px;
}
</style>

This above mentioned piece of code is called CSS or Cascading Style Sheet. It is responsible for the design of you web blog. Now, it is made so that our share button floats on the left side of the screen.

Merely adding the above will not make your bar float. You have tell when the style code to get activated.
Code:
<style>
.pos_left{
float: left;
position: fixed;
left: 10px;
top: 200px;
}
</style>
<div class='pos_left'>
<a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a>

<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script>
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3";
  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);

}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
<div class="fb-share-button" data-href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/" data-layout="button_count"></div>
</div>

The above sample code contains share button for twitter and facebook. If you wish to add more button for shares, you can place your code between div tags.

For novice users, you can simple copy and paste the code in HTML/Javascript Gadget box in your blogger layout.

Note: All share code is from official Twitter and Facebook web page. No editing has been done to the code except for the CSS and div tag additions.

If you like the post, please share to all your social media. And this tutorial need some knowledge of HTML, CSS and javascript. So not everybody can understand in a single go. So patience is your best friend. Trail and error might get your problems fixed. If you find any problem please report it in comment section.

Search Engine Optimization

Many people are good at creating website for business. The importance of website has been realized by many small and medium scale businesses. The internet augment the local business with providing local business information to customers. Well, how far is your business reached your targeted customers? Many business owners could not able to answer this question! Most of them whom for which I worked had little knowledge when it comes to Search Engine Optimization! Many local traders and business man think, once they publish website for them, they will be visible in internet. But they are ignorant of the fact that internet is lot more flooded with spam and duplicate websites. Even if they had some direct search of their business name, they do not have their website listed within the top 10 results of the search engine. 

A survey mentioned that any website which gets to the 1st position in the search result has 80% Click Through Rate (CTR). It means, if you business website get to the top of all the search results, then you have got 80% chance that person searching will click and visit your website. So others who appear in the 2nd to 10th position has got to share 20% CTR. The other pages may not even get a chance to get a click from the search engine result.

A sample WordPress blog on Test with Bing

Here is a sample WordPress.com blog. I used the 'Words of guru' subdomain name. When I get search for the domain I got second spot in Bing search result. So I will lose 80% CTR to the Wikipedia page which define the word 'Guru'.

Note: This blog is hosted under the domain name Words of Guru.

Well, time to end our childhood stories for now. Here we will get into the serious topic.

What is Search Engine Optimization?

Search Engine Optimization or simple called SEO, is a process which employ various method to affect visibility of a website or webpage in search engine's search results. SEO involves mostly with the organic search. Paid search results or ads are different story.

Law Crumb Blog domain level SEO

Well, there are many ways SEO is done. Most common of them is link building. It fetch far more result than just conventional methods of optimizing web pages for search results.

Why SEO important?

Domain name search in Bing

Now, lets take the domain name 'chennailife.tk', It is brand new web blog just had its first post today. It is just raw blog and has one post to its name. For this experiment, I didn't add any bells and whistles of SEO to chennailife.tk. Now, I did a Bing search, entered the domain name in the search box. The result would be startling. You may find surprised that search engine worked as if such a domain was not in existence. To play it fair, I did this search 2 hours after getting that blog live. I guess it is fair time enough to know about a domain. If not, may be after a week it may appear. But the point is most of the local business are in dark inside internet. A little basic SEO like submitting a site to search engine would have yielded some result. It is always good to have something better than nothing. Yet, you can find many other methods to SEO your business.

If proper SEO has been done, then search engine would bring up your website or web page within top 10 results. To have online visibility SEO is the key. Your presence depends on how good the person do the SEO job.

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How Budget Smartphone can make you sick

Budget Smartphones

Smartphones, a great utility at present era. A man without smartphone is not good for business. It may be iPhone, Android, Firefox, Symbian, whatever you know. Without smartphone, individual is lost. Even it may result in identity crisis! With increasing smartphone market, especially, in developing countries have raised few questions yet to be answered.

Though the matter of questing the use, adaptability, social condition are out of our control. Now the real point for consideration is how for the budget smartphone made us sick!

It is better to switch our time machine back to early 2000's where smartphones are only for business people who type a lot on the go. Busy with emails and organizing teams to get the job done! With Blackberry took the guardian role when it comes to business relying on smartphone to make executives keep in touch with it workers. Smartphone made the life simple and making the work a touch away.

But with Android and iOS, the theory on smartphone took a twist. It spread like a wildfire among the public. The smartphone usage among the public outrun the top executive who had the monopoly to carry a smartphone.

The smartphone did come with its own effect. The price of the smartphone were too high which made it beyond the reach of majority. Even it took toll on one month pay for an individual. Yet, business is business. None can refute it. The Smartphone makers had other plans to reach masses with budgetary phones. For those, affordability matters, hardware makers produced stripped down version of high end smartphone so everyone could carry one without distinction.

See also: Is your website mobile-friendly? 

But such product has its own wises. 

Strip Down Processing Power: Most prominent point when it comes to budget smartphone is strip down processing power. You won't get as much power as you do when compared to main stream high-end models. The sad part is it is obviously true. When a high-end model comes with new kind of processor, the budget smartphone will come equipped with processor of old high-end model. 

Limited RAM and Multi-tasking: Next crucial aspect for smartphones are Random Access Memory, also simply known as RAM. With limited RAM, apps find very space to linger. Cramped RAM will force close applications and kill background processes which we won't notice at most times. Have you felt delayed notifications for messaging services like Whatsapp, Viber, Hike, etc? When you open those apps, you receive notification that some one has sent you a message! 

And Multi-tasking, with limited RAM, applications find no place to run when you switch to other application. It virtually kills your multi-tasking abilities. Unless the apps provide to saving application state, applications will tend to close when you switch to other app.

Low Internal memory: Flash memory are costlier than SD card memory. To cut cost, budget smartphones will provide limited internal memory space for applications. Virtually, it will constrain the user to very few apps to use. Consider, 1 GB of Internal memory in a budget smartphone. Not more than 10 to 15 apps could be installed provided each app is 30-40 MB of size and occupy some space for App data. Apart from the apps you install, Google updates will start filling up your internal memory. Further, some apps disable the capacity to move apps to internal storage. So if you are kind of person who install apps which don't support SD card storage, you will be constrained to limit your choice of apps. Simply, you have to sacrifice your wish for usability of the smartphone.

And most people who use budget smartphone would have encountered often 'The device has insufficient space' when updating a app from store. Limited internal memory? Then No more app installation and insufficient space to update applications.

Lagging Games: Here comes the interesting part, avid gamers, kiss good bye to your gaming. Budget smartphone will not handle all resource hungry games. If you do manage to install some, the game lags or skip frames and make the game play awkward. Not all smartphone will result in lagging games or force closing the game apps. But some factors play important role. With limited processing power, RAM, it will throttle your gaming experience. If you are avid gamer, who wish to do some fun gaming, better look out for standard model of handsets. Consider yourself as buying PSP or portable gaming device which would cost you more than your smartphone.

Substandard Handset maker: With smartphone market expanding at rapid pace, many handset makers came to play in the market. To cut cost, to improve affordability, some handset makers prefer sub-standard materials. Not all, but some of them. The life of the budget smartphone getting shorter than ever. The low quality materials shorten the life span of mobile handsets. Remember the days of Nokia handset? Rock-solid durable handset which could even survive a fall from 1st floor of the building. Actually, it did. But contemporary smartphone would not able to survive accidental fall to floor.

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