August 2008

Yahoo Buzz Launches

by Sushant Risodkar · 3 comments

Yahoo! Buzz Launched on February 26, 2008 which could be only visited by some people is now open to all in beta stage.It’s a community-based news article website, much like Digg, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. Users can be allowed to publish their own news stories, and link to their own or another person’s site that links to a full story of the information, therefore driving traffic to that person’s website and creating a larger market for sites that research and publish their own news articles and stories.


The big benefit for publishers is that top Buzz stories are linked from the Yahoo home page, which turns a firehose of traffic onto a story. When those stories hit the home page there’s a good chance that the linked site will have a record day in traffic. Yahoo says they’ve sent 16 million visitors to outside sites in those first two weeks, and they’ve gathered data from some of the linked partners.

  • The buzz can be about anything – a great story on a major news site, an extraordinary bit from an obscure site, an intriguing video, or a fantastic blog that shouldn’t be missed.
  • Instead of editors, people like you determine the top-rated stories.


How it works.

  • First, we determine the most popular topics that people are searching for on Yahoo!.
  • Then, we showcase the most popular stories within those topics, based on activities like voting and emailing stories to friends.
  • Stories with most Buzz may be published on the Yahoo! home page – you can impact what millions will see on Yahoo!.


Yahoo isn’t the first large company to try out the Digg model. In mid 2006 AOL relaunched the Netscape portal as a Digg-like site. AOL eventually moved the service to a different domain name and renamed it Propeller. The service has about 3.8 million monthly unique visitors (Comscore), compared to about 12.5 million for Digg.

Buzz Has the Following Categories:

  1. Entertainment
  2. Sci/Tech
  3. Politics
  4. Business
  5. Health
  6. Images
  7. Lifestyle
  8. Sports
  9. Travel
  10. U.S News
  11. Video
  12. World

They Also Have A Widget which we can put on our blog or website like this:


Buzz was created as a direct competitor to Digg. Yahoo! created the service in hopes that it would drive larger traffic to their site and would give them an advantage over larger online media companies such as Google or MSN, which are Yahoo!’s largest competitors in terms of search engines that provide services and web features to its customers.

So What do you think about it?

Blogger Template: Surfer

by Sushant Risodkar · 2 comments

Are you a surfing fan?Are you really passionate about surfing?Then this template will best suite your personality.

If you don’t know how to install the template then do read: How To Install Blogger Templates
before doing anything.

Do It Your Self:
There is only one thing which you have to do is that change your Feed URL.For This Search Using CTRL + F in the template for :
http://CHANGE-TO-YOUR-FEEDURL-ADDRESS.COM

Then add the adsense(If you know about it) by your own creativity anywhere n Enjoy this template.

Vibrant Blogger XML Template

by Sushant Risodkar · 7 comments

Vibrant is a WordPress template created by CustomThemeDesign and converted to Blogger XML Template by GosuBlogger. He made everything easier in this template for newbies to use it easily. Because there are people who dont know even “a” tags in HTML and mail me everyday , that’s why he decided to do something like this.

Vibrant Blogger XML Template is 3 column with 3 ajax tabs , you can change your blogroll clicking it from your blogger dashboard , you cannot edit recent posts and recent comments widgets in template. Since IE makes trouble while showing buttons i deleted buttons and added Enter feature instead of them. So anybody who wants search must type words and hit enter.

Vibrant Blogger XML Template

  • 3 columns
  • 3 tabbed ajax menu
  • Stylish navigation menu
  • Supports widgets on Blogger
  • XML template
  • Adsense Ready
  • XHTML & CSS compliance
  • Re-edited for newbies

Do It YourSelf:
To Enable People To Subscribe To You Feeds Search For This Code In The Template.Hit CTRL + F To search fot it:

d=1753544

And Change the number to your feedburner Id .Simple?
Any Problem Then Do Ask Me!


Top 10 Search Terms:

• vibrant blogger template

Google Adsense Introduces Adsense For Feeds

by Sushant Risodkar

Today when i checked my adsense account i found the new Google adsense for feeds.

But putting AdSense ads in feed will take time for everyone. Although Google brought FeedBurner, there is no automatic way to integrate AdSense and Feedburner. This has to be done manually by AdSense support team. I mailed them as per official help instruction page.

Like AdSense for Content, ads in feed are also contextual in nature. So I am expecting nice revenue from this AdSense for Feeds program. I guess this will offset my 10-20% AdSense revenue loss due to retirement of Adsense referral for products program.

I think bloggers with full text feeds will get more benefit as their posts will have more text to target.

If you use FeedBurner with MyBrand option, then you may face some problem. Amit Agarwal already posted workaround for this.


You Might See Feed Ads In Action Here

Blogger’s New "Reactions" Feature – How to add to customized blog templates

by Sushant Risodkar · 6 comments

As You Must Have Read The Recent Updates n Fixes By Blogger In The Previous Post .Now I will tell you the hack to Add The Blogger’s New “Reaction” Feature as i said in earlier post for those people who are using A Customized Blogger Template.This Hack has been given to me by Bloggerbuster.com

If You are using a Classic template i.e provided from blogger then read this post.

For Customised Template It Goes Like This:

Depending on the type of template you are using, you will need to use one of two methods to add the required code to your template.


If you are using a default Blogger template with no modifications to widgets or the post layout…

Go to the Layout>Edit HTML page in your Blogger dashboard, and look for the “Revert Widget Templates to Default” link near the bottom of the page.

Clicking on this link will replace all of the widget templates with the updated code. All of your existing widgets will remain, so don’t worry about losing any data! Instead, this will simply replace outdated code with new code, and ensure you can add all of Blogger’s new features with ease.

If you use a customized/third party template…

You will need to add the required code to your template manually.

In this case, go to Layout>Edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard and check the “Expand widget templates” box.

Next, search for the following line of code (or similar):

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

Immediately after this line, add the following section of code:

<span class='reaction-buttons'>

<b:if cond='data:top.showReactions'>

<table border='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><tr>

<td valign='center'><span class='reactions-label'>

<data:top.reactionsLabel/></span>

</td>

<td><iframe allowtransparency='true' class='reactions-iframe' expr:src='data:post.reactionsUrl' frameborder='0' name='reactions' scrolling='no'/></td>

</tr></table>

</b:if>

</span>

Preview your template to see the “Reactions” add-on appear beneath each of your blog posts, and finally, save this new addition to your template.

If you cannot find the “post-footer-line” in your blog template, search for <p><data:post.body/></p> instead, and paste the code immediately after this line.

As You can see i m using a customized blogger template n this feature is working properly.
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