Removing Blogger Newer Post, Home, And Older Post

Bloggers / Blogspot users are always seeking ways to customize their blog to express their personality more. Common template usage are to be avoided by advanced users, so are its common features, such as the links "newer posts, home, and older post". Removing them will make Blogger / Blogspot websites appear more uniquely customized.

Recently, I had removed these Blogger / Blogspot default links, which are usually located in the bottom section of all the pages, below comments. My only reason to remove them was because they “feels” too Blogger / Blogspot for me.

These three links does not always appear together, you know. They depend on which post you are currently viewing. If you are reading the newest post, of course you will not see any "newer post" link, since there is no newer one. The link "older post" works vice verse. The home link is likely to be similar in some cases, when you are currently visiting the "home" page, you definitely do not need the link "home", right? Blogger/ Blogspot programmers are not that dumb you know :D

In the middle of the process, an idea to keep the home link intact flashed inside my head. However, still I deleted it, since I did not have any home page yet, actually. The home page was only my latest post.

The removal technique itself requires a little bit of knowledge in HTML and CSS programming, since you will need to edit your template. However, this is very easy, so you don't need to worry even if you are a newbie.

To do it, access your template editing from layout section, then find these codes in "comments" region, which represent the setting of displaying the links of "newer post, home, and older post":

/* Comments
----------------------------------------------- */
#…
#…
#…

#blog-pager-newer-link {
float: $startSide;
}

#blog-pager-older-link {
float: $endSide;
}

#blog-pager {
text-align: center;
}

In case you are not familiar with the template codes yet, "find" tool of your browser can help you handsomely, I often use Firefox' myself. Once you find the codes, you need to add some other codes not to display them, and here they are:

#...
display: none;
}

The next step, you will have to add the removal codes to each of them. It's very simple my friend, just like this:

/* Comments
----------------------------------------------- */
#…
#…
#…

#blog-pager-newer-link {
float: $startSide;
display: none;
}

#blog-pager-older-link {
float: $endSide;
display: none;
}

#blog-pager {
text-align: center;
display: none;
}

Now, save the template, and it’s done! If you put the codes right, they should not be displayed any longer. To check, refresh your blog and pay some attention to the appearance. Now your blog shall taste less "Blogspot" :D

Note: To recover / show the links again, simply remove the added codes (removal codes).

Do you face any difficulties in applying the trick above? Feel free to share it on the comments section.

FREE Automated Social Bookmark Backlinks!!!

Okay, now that I have your attention I want to tell you that it really is a FREE offer. I recently stumbled upon IMAutomator ad signed up for a FREE account to see if there was a catch.

There is a catch, it will only submit your website to 15 of the different social booking marking websites within their list and it will only perform 10 submissions a day. For FREE, that is fine with me. While the social bookmarking websites are ones you probably have never heard of, it is a FREE service and it does create a backlink with your specifications (including deep-linking).

So, why do they give the service away for FREE? Well, the idea is to move you up at a later date to the PRO account at $24.95 a month which gives you access to all their social bookmarking websites and more.

Here are some videos to better explain the service:

IMAutomator Introduction:




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2010 - The Web Shown in Numbers!

Are you curious as to what happened in 2010 on the Web, well you have come to the right place as Pingdom recently released some stats from a large set of different sources and I am going to also share those here for your viewing pleasure.

Original post - Internet 2010 in Numbers

Here we go.....


Email

* 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.
* 294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
* 1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
* 480 million – New email users since the year before.
* 89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.
* 262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).
* 2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.
* 25% – Share of email accounts that are corporate.

Websites

* 255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010.
* 21.4 million – Added websites in 2010.

Web Servers

* 39.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2010.
* 15.3% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2010.
* 4.1% – Growth in the number of nginx websites in 2010.
* 5.8% – Growth in the number of Google GWS websites in 2010.
* 55.7% – Growth in the number of Lighttpd websites in 2010.


Domain Names

* 88.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2010.
* 13.2 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2010.
* 8.6 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2010.
* 79.2 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
* 202 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2010).
* 7% – The increase in domain names since the year before.

Internet Users

* 1.97 billion – Internet users worldwide (June 2010).
* 14% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
* 825.1 million – Internet users in Asia.
* 475.1 million – Internet users in Europe.
* 266.2 million – Internet users in North America.
* 204.7 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
* 110.9 million – Internet users in Africa.
* 63.2 million – Internet users in the Middle East.
* 21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.


Social Media

* 152 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
* 25 billion – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010
* 100 million – New accounts added on Twitter in 2010
* 175 million – People on Twitter as of September 2010
* 7.7 million – People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user).
* 600 million – People on Facebook at the end of 2010.
* 250 million – New people on Facebook in 2010.
* 30 billion – Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month.
* 70% – Share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States.
* 20 million – The number of Facebook apps installed each day.

Web Browsers


Videos

* 2 billion – The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.
* 35 – Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
* 186 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
* 84% – Share of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
* 14% – Share of Internet users that have uploaded videos online (USA).
* 2+ billion – The number of videos watched per month on Facebook.
* 20 million – Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.

Images

* 5 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010).
* 3000+ – Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.
* 130 million – At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.
* 3+ billion – Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.
* 36 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.


Data sources and notes: Spam percentage from MessageLabs (PDF). Email user numbers and counts from Radicati Group (the number of sent emails was their prediction for 2010, so it’s very much an estimate). Website numbers from Netcraft. Domain name stats from Verisign and Webhosting.info. Internet user numbers and distribution from Internet World Stats. Facebook stats from Facebook and Business Insider. Twitter stats from Twitter (and here), TwitterCounter and TechCrunch. Web browser stats from StatCounter. YouTube video numbers from Google. Facebook video numbers from GigaOM. US online video stats from Comscore and the Pew Research Center. Flickr image numbers from Flickr.

Another (Great) FREE Website Analysis Tool

I am always on the lookout for new or better webmaster tools and it never hurts if they are also free. My newest find (maybe a bit older for some who have already found it) is woorank. It is probably one of the best and most accurate website analysis tools I have found in quite a while.

What I really like about woorank is that it provides a scoring system that helps frame all the data easier. While you may or may not agree with the scoring variables, I do give kudos to them for trying.



In addition to the website woorank the report also provides insights on:

- Visitors:
--- Traffic Estimation
--- Current Alexa Rank
--- Current Compete Rank
- Content:
--- Google Indexed Pages
--- Popular Pages
- In-Site SEO:
-- Homepage:
--- URL
--- Title Tag
--- Meta Description
--- Meta Keywords
--- Headings (H1, H2, etc.)
--- Image Alt Text
--- Text/HTML Ratio
--- Frames?
--- Flash?
-- Inside Analysis:
--- Inside Page Analysis
-- Website Compliance:
--- WWW Resolve
--- Robots.txt
--- XML Sitemaps
--- Language
--- Doc Type
--- Encoding
--- Google Analytics
--- WC3C Validity
--- Microformats
--- Dublin Core
--- Geo Meta Tags
- Off-Site SEO:
-- Popularity:
--- Google Last Crawl Date
--- Backlinks
--- .edu Backlinks
--- .gov Backlinks
-- Directories:
--- DMOZ Listing?
--- Yahoo Directory Listing?
-- Social Media:
--- Delicious Links
--- Twitter Recent Backlinks
--- Twitter Account Check
--- Wikipedia Backlinks
--- Feeds
- Usability:
--- Readability Level
--- Favicon
- Website Information:
--- Load Time
--- IP Address
--- Location
--- gzip
-- Other Facts
--- Safe Browsing
-- Related Websites:
--- Related Wesbites and WooRank
-- Domain:
--- Whois

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What is Your Website Worth?

I have run across hundreds of websites claiming to help determine the value of your website. The problem with most of them is that either they are broken, outdated, use the wrong data sets (in my opinion) or are just plain so far off that you know it can't be right.

Well, every once in a while you run across a new(er) service that seems to actually have their act together. The one that I recently found is called Real Website Worth and it tends to do generally do a good job and is somewhat accurate. I really like the amount of data sources and information that it all pulls into one nice report within 60 seconds. The great part about all of it is that the service is free and has no strings attached.

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RIP - The End of Business.com and Ask.com

First, on November 9th we hear that Ask.com decided it no longer really wants to be a search engine. You can read more here - Ask.com Update from their blog (I think it is weird that the President of Ask.com decided to write his name in all caps, what is that supposed to mean?).

Then, 1 day later, on November 10th we hear that Business.com is going to 'realigned' into some other Dex One Offering. There press release is here - Dex One Realigns Interactive Operations

This after all the excitement of Yahoo! also deciding to get out of the search business earlier this year, has created a lot of change within the search space in such a short time. The problem is that as we lose things we seldom get anything back and/or if we do get a new web property it is usually never as good as something else we lost.

Hopefully, Blekko, a new search engine proves me wrong and fills in the void of Ask.com. So far it does not appear to be happening, but there is always hope....:-)