how to create email id

create free email id

In this blog tutorial I am gonna be teaching you how to create free email id. This blog post is for beginners and intermediates. Well beginners- you will learn how to create free email id in most popular and often free emailing platforms like you will know how to create new email id in gmail, how to create email id in yahoo, how to e mail id in Hotmail, how to create email id in rediff mail etc while The intermediates will be learning how to create email id in domain, how to create email id group in outlook 2007, how to create email id in exchange server 2010, How to create a pro email address using your website domain with Google apps. 

1. How to create an email id in Google

        You can create new email address in Google using gmail. For this follow the below steps i show :

  Open >>   Google.com

  Now click gmail 

     Now click on Create an account >>  

   

    

Now fill up your particulars and details correctly. choose your user name and password and say next and you are done. Remember if you have gmail id then it means you have acces to all the products of google like youtube, picasa web, google sites, Blogger etc 

           

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2.  How to create email id in yahoo

Yahoo provide many free services like yahoo mail, yahoo answering facilities, Flicker, Yahoo local etc. For you to access all these facilities offered by yahoo you have to create email account in yahoo. follow the below steps:

 Go to yahoo.com

Now click on create yahoo email id.

Now as you click on create email account. you will see a new window will open up and will ask you for your particulars. fill all your details in the form. choose your user name, set your password and click Create my account and you are done.

3. How to set up emails-  your own email domain

In this section you will be learning how to set up your own emails ids. Unlike free email providers like gmail, yahoo mail etc you sometime find that the name you are looking to register is either already register or is simply not available. e.g. My name is shiv and if try to look for a free email like shiv@gmail.com i find that the email is already registered. So if  i own a domain name like lets say wallpaperdownload.biz and i want an email id on the name shiv@wallpaperdownload.biz then how do i create that type of email id.

 create email id in domain name with Plesk panel: 

Log in to your Plesk control panel of your website : You can Login to your Plesk control panel in two ways -

     1. Go to your hosting provider website and say Login. Now as you click the login button and fill your username and password and press Login then your hosting provider will link your account with the Plesk  panel. 

      2. The second most powerful and time saving Login option is to type https://www.yourwebsite.com:8443/ in the address bar of your browser and directly  land to the login page provider by parallel. No need to go to your web host.

After you have success fully logged in to your Plesk panel now is time to create your email id. Now open the Mail box placed at the top of the screen.

Now type in the name of your email address you want to create. Choose your password and press OK and congratulations your mail box is created. Now you can check your email box by typing http://webmail.yourdomainname.com/ and put in your Login credential and Login to your web mail. Now you can use it as your business email address.

4. Set up email id in C panel

Once you have set up a website you might be looking forward to create your own email id with your web address like shiv@yourwebsite.com. Lets see in this tutorial how you can create your email id by setting up the mail box in your c panel. 

First lets log in to the c panel. Just open your web host website and type in your Login credentials and Login.

Now after you Login you need to scroll down until you find the section called mail.

As you find the mail section, Open Email Accounts section.

Now as you click Email Account you will see a new window will pop up asking you to choose your email address name and password. Now choose your email name, choose your password and click on create account. As you click on "Create account" your email  account will be created and you will be able to see it down on the list. Now click on the more button on the left side of the arrow and select access web mail and you will need to type your password for your account and click Login.
When you login for the first time you need to choose round cube among the three option and you you will be directed in to your email box.

5. how to create email id in Google apps

Yes you heard me right now Google has come up with it's app center. Now you can use many Google apps and products for your Business growth. Google app center brings you Gmail more than email. Which means now you can connect your gmail account with your business email address. If you are a web master or blogger now you can have your own professional email address like shiv@yourwebsite.com and make your business more professional. Now forget about low bandwidth,  limited email hosting space, server security issues, connect your email id to your personal gmail id and solve your bandwidth and storage problem. If you are a blogger and currently using blogger.com for blogging and have a custom domain registered with Google then in the past it was hard to get a custom email address for your blogger.com but now with Google apps for business, you can get a customized email address linking to your Gmail account and look professional in your business. 

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Check domains hosted on a web server

Find other domains hosted on a web server

This is another amazing trick i am about to share with you which will really help you a lot if want to succeed online. If you already have an online presence then you must be aware of web server and web hosting impact on your website ranking in major search engines like Google, yahoo, msn and bing.

You can also learn on creating websites for free at >> How to create a website for free

If your server company is hosting your website on a shared hosting server then your website ip address is also shared. So if like you have a good site while the other web sites hosted on the server are on some illegal topics like on adult content or on gambling, then even if your site is just fine and is an a good topic and on a good niche but Google is still gonna penalize you because it will red flag the whole server and banned the ip address and all the sites will not perform good in search engine and will not receive organic traffic. So I am going to share with you a solution to this problem and it will help you find all those sites which are sharing the same server and same ip. So if you find any such illegal site then simply ask your hosting provider to put your site on a good different server. so here is the trick

  First check the ip address of your site: visit to learn how to check your website ip address

Now you know how to check your ip address so the trick is here go to bing.com and type on the search bar

ip:<ip address> e.g.            ip:10.50.132.150   




You will see a list of websites all sharing the same ip address and are all hosted on one the server. so just check all the results and if you find any suspicious websites just ask your hosting company to remove that website from the server or ask the server company to move your website on a good server e.g.



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How to check ip address

IP address lookup: Watch this video to see a live example on how to check ip address

If you want to know "how to check ip address" then you are on the right web address because here i am gonna be teaching you how to check ip address of any website. You will also learn how to check ip address of your computer. The best part about this tutorial on how to find ip address is that you do not need any kind of ip address look up software because i will teach you how to know ip address of your system through your  computer. So you will be looking the ip address of  your website without any ip checker software.

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Check IP address of website

You can check ip address of any website right from your computer. Check if your have access to  Internet connection.

                                  

Click start button on your computer and then go to search option given just below all programs option and type "Run" and then press enter.

 As you type Run and press enter you see a new Run window will open up and will ask you "Type the name of program, folder, document, or internet resources, and windows will open it for you"

Ya, Go there and type "cmd" and again press enter.

       As you type cmd and press enter you see the command window will open up. It  will say something default like c:\users\anuj>_       just type "ping www.thenameofwebsite.com" and press enter you will get the ip address of your website.

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Domain server

What is Domain Server?

A domain server is also known as Domain authenticator or Domain controller. The function of Domain Server in to give authorization to access the network. The word Domain Server and Domain Name server (DNS) are often confused by the people. Domain server and Domain name server( DNS) are two different things. A Domain name server (DNS) contains the IP address of the website and their work is to map the Domain name with the IP address. The standard and correct way to pronounce Domain name Server (DNS)   is "Name server". Domain name servers (DNS) is a kind of protocol or lets say a pre written mathematical rule  which governs how two computers share information with each other on the internet. DNS is responsible for sharing of information either on world wide platform or even on small platform like ARPAnet.

Let it be TCP or IP protocol, Domain name server function the same. when ever a user type any Domain name like www.webhostingasia.blogspot.com  domain name convert this user query into a machine recogniziable address like 18.42.154.42 which is recognized as IP address. So now the other computer on the network say on internet can locate your location. It's like you are tracking a car trough GPS technology.

Check the IP adress of a website it will be some thing like 18.42.154.42, now open internet explorer and copy paste 18.42.154.42 and you see a website. Now you can open a website in two way either through Domain name of the website like www.yourwebsite.com or by directly knowing the IP address of this website. Domain name servers are made to handle this problem of domain mapping. Lets say if  Domain name servers (DNS) where not present then every time we have to open a website then we have to remember the big mathematical digit called ip address of the website. Web would not have existed without DNS name resolution also called as Domain mapping.

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How to find Out IP address of my Domain name?

Though there are many tools available online to find out what ip adress your website is using but i am gonna be sharing with you the best trick to find out the IP address of your website without any tool.

Find which other Domain Name your web server company is hosting?



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web hosting control panel

what is web hosting control panel?

Web hosting Control panel is one stop graphical interface for users to control  all  aspects of site wright from their hosting panel. All specific needs of website can be monitored and resources can be fulfilled directly from the hosting control panel. you can perform things like upload files, Create and manage e-mail accounts, set up scripts you need for your website like the most popular CMS  Drupal, Joomla, WordPress etc. You can set up many sub domains for your website like if you need a blog you can make a sub domain like blog.yourwebsite.com . With web hosting control panel you can easily optimize resources for your website e.g. you can set up disk partition, bandwidth partition if you are hosting many websites. You can also limit the use of MySQL databases etc. If you want scripts installation for shopping cart then you can install Paypal directly from your web hosting control panel. You don't have to pay any thing extra for all these things because all these services comes free in your control panel.

>>  Learn everything on control panel and how to create a website

Types of web hosting control panel?

Though there are many types of control panels in the web hosting market but we are gonna be focusing only on those panels which are good and mostly used and recommended by experts.

   1. C panel :    Website - http://cpanel.net/ 

C panel with it's user GUI interface is a robust technology which enables web designers and web developers to feel ease and comfort when ever it comes to running and managing websites for both their clients and themselves. It is much user to work on C panel when it comes to Managing databases and with MySQL.
It is most recommended for newbies which are not much familiar with creating and managing e-mail ids, creating sub domains, creating data bases since C panel brings with it Perl script which does not require any special access to databases.
When ever it comes to user friendly then C panel is always the top priority because as compared to other hosting control panels C panel will give you instant back up support. Single click CMS installation, Single click installation scripts for Blog engine like platforms . When it comes to functionality a Standard version of  C panel is equipped with two control panels. WHM together with C panel make it a standard C panel.

2. Plesk control panel :        website: www.parallels.com



Plesk control panel is not that user friendly but when the chapter of web security comes Plesk plays a very important role. With Plesk control panel  in hand you never have to worry about spammers. The most powerful feature of Plesk is Spam Assassin which helps you handle spam on your website and on  your e-mail. One other very great feature of Plesk is HSP integration with Plesk control panel which let you automate the heavy administrative work on your site. It also has inbuilt functions which automates your email notification and processing task.

Plesk is suitable with both windows and Linux version of operating platform.
If you compare it's features with c-panel control panel, they both similar except for little exceptions. How ever if you see the GUI of Plesk control panel you will find it much similar to windows Control panel.

3. H-Sphere:                      website: www.parallels.com/products/hsphere/


H-Sphere hosting control panel is known for its versatile nature. It's control panel is designed in such a way to give versatile compatibility to both windows and Linux version. It's hosting control panel is itself a very robust and powerful platform to maintain several servers from one machine. The most important part which makes H-sphere a versatile and robust hosting panel  is its miscellaneous behavior like a server. It itself acts like a server and let you configure the server, register the domain name, request for payment and send the billing request, forward the email notification  etc.

There are many other web control panels which are not very famous but some web hosting companies use them, so you can just check them :

 4. Ensim      website: www.ensim.com

5. DirectAdmin   website: www.directadmin.com
6. Interworx       website:  www.interworx.com
7. Helm        website: www.webhostautomation.com/products/helm
8. Hosting Accelerator    website: www.hostingrod.com
9. CWI Panel      website: www.cwipanel.com

Important Control Panel Basics 

1. The theory behind the invention of control panel was to give website owners a one stop platform to manage their domain and hosting. with Control panels website can be easily managed by the owner itself like if a owner want to create an email id or a sub domain, then there is no necessity for him to contact the web hosts and ask for it's creation, since these thing can be easily done by the webmaster without any technical knowledge and it saves time and money of both the web hosts and the web master.
2. Just with the click of a button and you have full access to all the statics of your website. You do not need any analytic tool to see who came to your website when you already have control panel. With control panel you can see resources used by your website like how much bandwidth your website is consuming every day and how much people/visitors are downloading from your website. How much resources your email is utilizing etc.
3. A Web hosting control panel plays a much important role when selecting a web host for your website. There are many kinds of control panels out in the market and there are probably many web hosting companies in the market each with their own standard and resources. So clients ought to understand their specific needs for their website hosting like which control panel they actually require and then only they can take maturely decide to go after a particular web hosting company.
4. C panel has a special feature known as the "preference menu", With this preference menu you can modify and play with different setting to find the most optimum setting for you. e.g. you can play with the language column and set the default language for your control panel. You can use the Introduction area of c panel to help you guide through the process of  creating directories, Using FTP programs correctly in order to upload their contents. Creating FTP account and using application like web Disk to mange ones web files correctly and optimally. 
5. when in any business there is always a need of multiple email account. With different email address there is always a problem of  managing them but c panel brings with it a revolutionary solution called web mail which allows the user to access all email under one roof on the very same window.
6. Control panels are indeed the great source of managing the website. One can only guarantee 99.9% up time if he uses a brilliant piece of control panel. Without the help of control panels like c panel it is not possible to give 99% of up time even if are a great programmer. No web based industry could even think of up time without these panels. 
7. There are many panels in the market but be caution because most of these panels are actually the shinned copy of some great web hosting panels like c panel and Plesk.
8. If web hosting control panels are similar to your operating or windows panel, then it becomes much easier to install new software and scripts directly on your web server through your system, then these scripts prove very time effective and it becomes far much easier to  update and maintene ones website.
9. It is a well known and established fact that different people have different perspective about different things and this perspective is governed by their different level of knowledge and experience but if you are new to web hosting control panel interface then it is my advice to try c panel web hosting.
10. Every webmaster must master a web hosting control panel. They should be familiar with each and every feature and option available in their control panel in order to present their best website on the internet. If you don't know any web hosting control panel till yet or because you are just starting your online career then i would advice everybody to start with c panel web hosting since c panel has build in video tutorials which is very powerful for new webmasters.
11. The fame of c panel web hosting has grown like bush fire. It's glory has reached new highs that every webmaster is talking about it. The main reason of it's glory is because of the simplicity to use the panel and the video tutorial in build in the c panel which makes it absolutely amazing and every where over the internet like on Facebook, YouTube etc people are not missing any chance to share it's video tutorial  which even brings more credibility to panel.
12. After C panel the one which comes in the race of simplicity and compatibility is off course the Plesk. The part which makes Plesk panel special is its compatibility with both windows and Linux version of operating system. Microsoft is a leader in the software industry and probable the best in the market. And Plesk panel is best suited with MS based applications like My MySQL, ASP etc So this increases the popularity of Plesk Panel.
13. Parallel Plesk is another panel which is also a good option to go for but it is actually for pro users since Parallel Plesk allows its user to do basic maintenance task directly from their browser. Like user can restart server from their browser. They can also analyze the data like amount of bandwidth optimization, resources sharing etc.
14. It's is not quite easy to stand in front of competitors like the Plesk hosting control panel and c panel but i would definitely appreciate the work of  H-sphere. Web hosting control panel provided by H-sphere are not in glory but the features offered by H-sphere is noticeable. 
15. The thing which makes the web hosting panel of h-sphere unbeatable is it's amazing compatibility feature. H-sphere is known for it's ow-some compatibility with windows, UNIX and linux version of operating servers plus it is absolutely compatible to use with popular web languages like MySQL, MySQL etc.  
16. One other important feature which these popular panels like Plesk and c panel are missing is support. Yes h-sphere offers a special support ticketing system to contact to your hosting providers without you leaving your desk space.
17. With H-sphere you can wright your own own software and tailor made scripts to let help you efficiently manage your website and can give maximum optimization to your web presence.
18. H-sphere is well known for it's strong security protection. You can install multiple server on h-sphere panel in just a minute of time without tweaking any security issue. Servers on H-sphere never have to complain about security issues. The panel of H-sphere has in build security which cannot be breached.
19. The are many companies each with their own web hosting control panel and each caring some unique features, but if talk of one panel which is overall hit in web hosting control panel is Plesk. Plesk combines the features of another version of parallels Plesk which together make Plesk most versatile and overall best control panel in web hosting  industry.
20. The most stable and most secure web hosting control panel on the planet is Plesk. It's very tough for both crackers and hackers to perform any miscellaneous task on the server. Plesk also minimizes the problem of hardware crashes problem and it's pretty smart in detecting web spam.

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Introduction to Web Hosting

What is web hosting?

Web hosting in simple terms means web space. Web hosting is a service provided by Hosting Service Providers (HSP) also known as Web hosts. When you have web hosting service it means you have a space on the internet which you can utilize for hosting your documents, your files or even you can host your own website.

What is web Site hosting?

Web site hosting means to publish your own website over the internet. When you have any content which you want to publish on the internet then you require a web hosting service. When you have a web hosting service then you probably have a web space, say about GB or more which you can utilize and upload your contents. Web sites can be created in the language called html. So when ever you have any content which you want to upload on the internet then you are required to convert those content into web browser readable  contents using the language html.

Know more on webhosting and how to create a website

Web sites are stored on a special computer known as server. Computers can either be known as Client or a Server. Internet was created with a network of computers connected together. Internet is always changing, when you connect your computer to internet then you are a part of internet world. Now you access internet using web browsers like internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox etc and you open Google to surf on internet. Now when you are surfing internet then your computer is requesting for information through Google, so here your computer will be called  a Client while the computer which gives information to Google which Google then returns back to you is known as a Server.

Note: Web Servers are those computers which never go offline. They  have a big storage space, high computation power and better networking speed. All these combined together make it a web server and is then used to host our websites and documents.

Introduction to types of web site hosting

Web site hosting falls under 4 types :

1. Shared web hosting
2. Virtual web hosting
3. Cloud web hosting
4. Dedicated web hosting

Introduction to Shared web hosting : means your server runs your websites on the the same computer/workstation where it runs many other websites.

Introduction to advantage of Shared web hosting:   The only advantage with shared web hosting is that it is cheap to start.

Introduction to disadvantages of shared web hosting:  shared hosting has many disadvantages like

• You are sharing  resources like bandwidth, virtual memory, RAM, Hard disk etc with others.
• The sites hosted on this type of server usually suffer bandwidth problem.
• Since many websites are hosted on the same hard disk, if any one website contains virus then all other websites gets affected. 
• You are not allowed for certain type of access and can't install your own software.

Introduction to Virtual web hosting:  means your server runs in a virtual environment. Virtual environment is like telling a single computer to behave like different machines. Each virtual server behaves as a different entity and has a guaranteed amount of processing power, memory and hard drive space that would only be used by that server. Here definitely you can get root access and can start your own server but you still be going to share memory hard disks and other resources.

Introduction to the advantage of Virtual web hosting: If compared to Shared hosting is that unlike shared web hosting, even if any hard drive crashes due to virus or what ever reason it simply do not affect your web site.

Introduction to Cloud web hosting:   Cloud hosting means your website is not hosted on a machine. It is actually hosted on cloud, which means on a network of computers. So one computer can be from Asia, one from Africa, one from USA. In a cloud server if a computer fails then other servers in the network start to full fill your website needs. cloud server is best because you only pay for what you use. Like shared and virtual hosting you have to pay even for what your website don't use.

Introduction to Dedicated Hosting:  Dedicated hosting means the hosting company is going to provide you a group of machine or computer whose only purpose is to run your website.

Introduction to Advantages of Dedicated hosting: With dedicated web hosting you have your own free will. Install any software you like, you never have to share any resources with anyone. The best part is you can group computer together to make your own hosting.

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Add Google Drive's one-click-new icons to your blog or website

This Quick-Tip is about Google Docs / Drive's new short-cut buttons for making a new document, spreadsheet or presentation - and how you can install them into your blog.

Google have announced that one-click icons to create a Document, Spreadsheet or Presentation (now called Docs, Sheets, and Slides respectivly) are available as apps in the Chrome Web Store (a place where you can get various useful tools to install to your Chrome desktop or toolbar.

This is great for people who use Chrome - but some people don't,  for whatever reason.

Another option is to simply put links to the new commands into a place that you visit often - like your blog.  I've done this with a gadget called "Make a file in Google Drive" which you can see in my sidebar now.

To add this to your blog, simply add a HTML/Javascript gadget in the usual way, and put this code into the contents field.

<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 1em;">
<a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/document/create"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUZIL93f00eHpAXvn1X1tgZIhEp0rKmKkSfWowgBa3iw35Bqgrx4b7UCDdQnlV3Gxa2dUy6IMIfRQqat4ZlPJIl_xkvTqz68XQY-E8iOAixrbxwoOrgE0ygtEsKjd-ZrsNWW3gQe6Ngyps/s80/made-new-word-processing-document-google-drive.png" /><br />
Document</a></div>
<div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 1em;">
<a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEhE2MnCC38YFy2DDD6ETWrfPlLsZjiRguCJ42S83mZ-TVS4o-xJKLMMH8hUdeR-lMIeyXlH9hOuBv8vGxbpecxgEqodDTMan4mnms1zJIAhkPz6i41CKChlIOdwYgLP3P2pCWCR2ZEOY/s80/made-new-spreadsheet-google-drive.png" /><br />
Spreadsheet</a></div>
<div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0;">
<a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/create"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-y2qHPvjJUOkvDzbtFi1gZfMLv5VV0r_1Aqxap5sjDrcLr-vlD_I162cci1uXJrHTTGmUjToxkZJRu5bGW5gjeEiRIKUvmwwWXx9NZcZ71HoQNHYlf8sgw5fwONxK7g8lhgum5y_-g382/s80/made-new-slideshow-google-drive.png" /><br />
Presentation</a></div>
</div>
<!-- Google drive new file icons gadget, via www.Blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com.   Share and enjoy!  -->

Features

• There is no gadget title in the code, so that you can put whatever title you want into the title field of the gadget. 
• People can click either the picture of the text to create a new document - and when they do, the new document will be opened in a new tab or window.  Your blog (etc) will stay open in its current tab or window.
• There is one "em" of space between the icons - this is enough to look good on most blogs.   However if your sidebar (or wherever you put the gadget) is particularly wide you might like to increase it - do this by finding "1em" in the code above, and replacing it with a larger value.

Code for just one type of document

You don't have to put the code into a gadget - it can go equally well into  a post - for example if you want to tell people to make a document of their own, and do it "right now".

In this case,you might like to show just one type of document icon, rather than all three.   The blockks of code for that are shown below - note that I would usually recommend pasting them into the HTML view of the post editor, to be 100% certain that they work correctly.

To make a new word-processing document:

<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 1em;"><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/document/create"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUZIL93f00eHpAXvn1X1tgZIhEp0rKmKkSfWowgBa3iw35Bqgrx4b7UCDdQnlV3Gxa2dUy6IMIfRQqat4ZlPJIl_xkvTqz68XQY-E8iOAixrbxwoOrgE0ygtEsKjd-ZrsNWW3gQe6Ngyps/s80/made-new-word-processing-document-google-drive.png" /><br />Document</a></div></div><!-- Google drive new file icons gadget, via www.Blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com.   Share and enjoy!  -->

To make a new spreadsheet file:

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Stop spammy links from hurting your blog

This article describes the Disavow tool, which you can use to ask Google to stop taking notice of links to your website that you consider to be bad.

Google's Webmaster tools now include a way of telling Google to ignore certain links when it is deciding what reputation your website or blog should have.

This can be important if SEO is important to you, ie if your blog relies on Search to get visitors, because your "reputation" helps Google to decide where to list your site in the search results. And there is plenty of evidence that the higher your listing, the more "clicks" you will get.

Sometimes you can get links to your blog removed by simply by asking the person who made the link in the first place. Maybe they made a mistake, maybe they've reconsidered their own linking strategy, etc.   To ask them, you need to find them.  Options for this include:

• Looking at their website to find contact details
• Finding them on Google+ or via their Blogger profile
• Tracing them on other tools like Facebook or LinkedIn. 

Worst case, your only option may be to leave a comment on their blog, and hope they're still looking at new comments.

But often enough, you won't be able to get "bad" links removed: the person who made them can't be contacted, or won't co-operate. Worst case, they may be a competitor who is trying to make Google think that your site is "bad" by doing "negative SEO", ie creating lots of spam-links to it.

Telling Google about bad links

The Disavow tool is WebMasterTools new approach to dealing with problems like this.

It lets you tell Google that you think they should ignore certain links. To do this, make a text file (using NotePad, etc).    The file should have

• One line for each link that you want to fix.
• The phrase "domain:" at the start of lines listing websites that you don't want any links from
• A hash (# - AKA a pound-sign in the USA) at the start of any lines containing comments (eg your own notes about what's happened) that you want the Disavow tool to ignore.

An example file might look like:

# Left comment on SammySpammy's blog on 4/5/2012. Asked him to
# remove links, but he said "No"
# Fred from BuildYourBlogNetwork.com removed most links, but missed these
http://www.BuildYourBlogNetwork.com/firstPageTheyMissed.html
http://www.BuildYourBlogNetwork.com/another-page-they-missed.html
http://www.BuildYourBlogNetwork.com/and_Another.html

Once you have made your file, go to the Webmaster Tools Disavow page, choose the correct blog from the list (if you have several), and then upload the file.

Note: you need to be verified in WebMaster tools as the owner of your bog to access it on that page.   Blogger-administrators are "supposed" to be automatically verified, but sometimes this has not happened - if this has happened to you, then your blog won't be in the drop-down list. If necessary, you may need to manually verify your ownership by adding a meta-tag to your blog. LINK (Webmaster tools will give you the tag to add.)

Also, notice the warning that they give:

This is an advanced feature and should only be used with caution. If used incorrectly, this feature can potentially harm your site's performance in Google's search results. We recommend that you only disavow backlinks if you believe you have a considerable number of spammy, artificial, or low-quality links pointing to your site, and if you are confident that the links are causing issues for you.

What they are saying is that if you ask them not to take notice of a link which isn't bad, they might well do so - and this could have quite a bad affect on your search results.   In short, if you are going to disclaim all knowledge and validity of a link, be absolutely certain that this is the right thing to do.

What does the Disavow-links action do?  And how fast does it happen?

Effectively, the disavow file lets you suggest that Google should ignore the links you have listed. If Google accepts your suggestions (there are no promises), they will be applied the next time that Google re-indexes the site(s) that you have suggested.

This can take weeks to happen - because if they really are spammy sites, then Google probably isn't that keen on them anyway! So you won't see an immediate effect. But over time, they should improve your standing in Google's eyes if the links really were causing a problem.

The FAQs in Google's announcement of this tool say that it's really aimed at people who know they have done silly things in their own link-building, and who want to fix the problems they have caused - and which Google have told them about. Specifically, they say "If you haven’t gotten [notification of a manual spam action based on “unnatural links” pointing to your site], this tool generally isn’t something you need to worry about".

But my guess is that this approach will be interesting to many blog owners who do worry about inwards links that they aren't happy to be associated with anyway. It won't remove the links from the internet totally (only the other site owner can do that), but it will stop Google from penalizing you because of them when it decides how to show search results.

What your readers see

Visitors to your blog see absolutely nothing different - using this tool has no immediate effect on your layout or content.

But if your suggestions have an impact on how Google ranks your site, they will hopefully see your site at an earlier position in their search-results pages in future.

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Related Articles:

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How to remove or change the Newer Post and Older Posts links

This article explains how to hide or change the format of the "Older Posts" and "Newer Post" and "Home" links that are shown at the bottom of Blogger blogs with Layout or Designer templates.

Why are the older and newer posts links used

Most designer and layout templates have links at the bottom of your page of blog posts which let readers navigate back and forward among the list of posts.

This is basic to how a blog is intended to work:  you post regularly, and give people a way to get back to previous posts.

The pager-links are particularly important on pages that are reached using the Label or Archive gadgets, which may show more posts than you normally have on your home page, or displaying in your blog.

But some people want to remove them - and this is fine provided readers have other ways of navigating around the blog.

How to remove "Newer Posts" and "Older Posts" from your blog:

To totally remove these items, you just add some new CSS rules to your template in the usual way.

To remove "Older Posts" add:

#blog-pager-older-link {
float: right;
}

To remove "Newer Posts" add:

#blog-pager-older-link {
float: right;
}

Or to remove both of them and the "Home" link that appears in between them, add:

#blog-pager {
display: none;
}

How to format the "Newer Posts" and "Older Posts"

Changing the way that these links look is very similar, you just add the same codes, except instead of 

display: none;

use the CSS element for the effect you want.   For example, to make the text bigger and bold, you might use rules like

font-size: 150%;
font-weight: bold;

You need to put these commands inside the curly brackets, where the display: none; is now - make sure that each component has a semi-colon at the end of it.   It makes the code easier to read if each component is on a new line, but this isn't necessary.

Another option is to swap the "float" commands around to put "older posts" on the left and "newer posts" on the right (I've never quite understood why they were the other way around).

You can also use background images and colours, with elements like:

background-image:url('URL OF YOUR IMAGE');

background-color:#cccccc;

How to change the "Newer Posts" and "Older Posts" text

If you want to change the text values - either to different words, or by replacing them totally with pictures, you need to accept the disadvantages of editing your template.   If this is ok, and you you want to proceed then:

1  Edit your template in the usual way

2  Turn the Expand Widgets checkbox to ON (ie ticked)

3  Replace the existing links:

• To replace the "newer posts" link, find <data:newerPageTitle/>  in your template, and replace it with whatever text you want.   
• To replace the "older posts" link, find <data:olderPageTitle/>  in your template, and replace it with whatever text you want.   
• To replace the "home" link, find <data:homeMsg/>  in your template, and replace it with whatever text you want.   

In each case, the code you are replacing will be inside some other code, like this:

  <span id='blog-pager-newer-link'>
      <a class='blog-pager-newer-link' expr:href='data:newerPageUrl' expr:id='data:widget.instanceId + &quot;_blog-pager-newer-link&quot;' expr:title='data:newerPageTitle'><data:newerPageTitle/></a>
      </span>

Make sure that you only replace exactly the code listed above, including the < and >'s.   The other code around sets up the links to the actual older or newer posts, and you don't want to change this.

Also, if you want to use a picture instead, replace it with <img alt='...' border='0' src='THE URL OF YOUR PICTURE'/> - of course with the right picture URL put in.

Do make sure that the meaning of your pictures is obvious though - what may look like a cute "newer posts" symbol to you may look just like a pretty picture to someone else.

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Related Articles: 

How to add a CSS rule to your template

How to edit your blogger template

Understand the advantages and disadvantages of template editing

Finding the URL of a picture in Picasa-web-albums

Understanding designer and layout templates

Creative Kit photo editor works in Google+, if not in Picasa

This Quick-Tip is about using the Creative Kit, which has been giving me grief recently when I tried to use it from Picasa-web-albums.

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Sept 2013 update:   Creative Kit has now been totally discontinued.   Use either Picasa-web-albums or the Google+ photo editor instead.

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For ages, I've occasionally used the photo-editor in Picasa-web-albums (the online version of Picasa) to edit photos that I've already uploaded, and want to change without changing the URL.   This editor was originally Picnik - until Google sold that product and replaced it with Creative Kit a while ago.

This has sometimes been slow, which was annoying, but I put up with it because it was just so useful.

But recently it stopped working totally:  it would load, the progress-bar would get about half-way along the screen, and then hang, with a message:

We noticed Picnik is loading slowly. It’s possible waiting
may solve this issue. If you’re still having trouble:
[t1]   Click for Assistance»

Waiting never solved the problem for me (trust me, I tried), so eventually I tried the help-link, which went to this Picnik help page.

After following lots of the instructions, I finally found this helpful line in the Adope Flash Player re-installation instructions:

If you are using the Google Chrome browser, Adobe® Flash® Player is built-in but has been disabled. To enable Flash Player, follow the steps in this TechNote

Which sounded hopeful - it's only recently that I've switched to use Chrome all the time, so maybe this was the problem.   But it didn't help - despite what they said, Flash was enabled in my setup.

Eventually, it occurred to me that since I have a Google Plus profile, my albums are now accessible via the Plus interface too.   So I went there, chose Photos, found the album, opened a photo, chose creative kit ... held my breath for a few seconds ... and the editor opened up and worked nicely.

I'd still like to get this working from Picasa, because it just looks so much nicer from the small screen that I use a lot of the time.   Suggestions are very welcome!


PS   Thanks to Hardeep of Widget Craft who used the picture that I'd made as the thumbnail picture for How to Edit Your Blogger Template in one of his articles, and thus inspired me to start putting my own name onto the image files I make.

Making custom domains work without the www at the start

This Quick-Tip is about an issue that some people have had with their "naked" custom domain not re-directing to the www-at-the-start version, and how to fix it using a feature in your Google Apps account.

Since Blogger released their initial fix to the custom-domain mapping problem of mid-September 2012, some people have found that it's not possible to set up the custom domain so that my-domain.xxx works as well as www.my-domain.xxx does.

There is an option for this in Blogger's Settings > Publishing area.  But last night, when I set up a "subdomain" style entry for news.my-domain.xxx and directed my latest-updates blog from my-domain.blogspot.com to news.my-domain.com, found that this didn't work.
(Obviously I didn't use my-domain.com - but the principle applies.)

However today I found an approach that does seem to fix this:

1   Log in to the Google Apps domain administration account (the same one you used to set up the 2nd CNAME record - if you don't know how to get into it, some of the information here may help)

2   Go to Domain Settings > Domain Names, a

3   Sroll down to where it says:  Redirect the naked domain (http://YOUR-DOMAIN.INFO) to ... (whatever it says now)

4   Click the Change Redirect link under this.

5   Make sure that www (lower case) is entered in the field.

6   Click save.


I cannot guarantee that this will always fix the problem.   But it did for me just now, and I've seen a couple of other posters saying that it helped them too.    So I thought it was worth sharing.