Google had been testing blogger template designer for past few months. Today they have officially announced blogger template designer to all. Blogger template designer lets you choose the already available design, you can tweak that design according to your need.

Features of blogger template designer

Blogger template editor is especially useful for people who has less or no knowledge of CSS or HTML (or XML). It has some pre-defined templates to chose from. When you log in to Blogger dashboard you will get the notification about the availability of  “New template designer”.

One can easily use this tool and play around with the CSS and color of the website to match their need. Since launch Google has fixed many bugs and have added many new themes to the database (19 totally). You can play with colors of each available component, you can also change background images from the gallery. You can design your blogger template instantly with these nifty feature.

Video of blogger template designer

I do not know how many of you have noticed yet or not but the Google PR work is going on. I suddenly noticed that my PR has jumped from PR 0 to PR 3. This is a big jump as this my first PR update. Few days back only I noticed that my PR changed from PR NA to PR 0 and I was sure that Google PR work is under progress because I did notice the same scenario for my previous blog update (techgenuine.com).

Geniusgeeks PR 3 Blog- Google PR Update April 2010

This is big for me as I was not expecting a big PR jump especially after migrating from old blog to new blog. Generally you will notice a drop in PR and later your PR will be come back to normal but in my case it did not drop at all.  Pr 3 will also help me to get back my advertisements as I saw the sudden drop in advertisements.

You can also check our monthly traffic report to see how geniusgeeks is performing. Geniusgeeks has suddenly noticed a big jump in traffic in last month where my traffic increased to whopping 6000%. Now geniusgeeks is getting almost 38k pageviews per month. If you are looking for cheap advertisement slots then head over to our advertisement page to see what we have to offer.

I also offer cheap hosting service as well as massive discount on hosting products if you buy from my affiliate link which ultimately benefit both of us. You can check our service page in case if you are looking for cheap SEO wordpress theme design and free migration wordpress service for limited period of time.

Back to the readers:

I would love to hear your PR. Did you get a good PR? Are you happy with this PR update. Feel free to share with us.

After the successful migration from techgenuine, geniusgeeks is doing really good in terms of traffic. This is the first time that I am sharing my traffic and income report to the users. Before sharing traffic and monthly income report with my readers let me define the goal of April 2010.

On April 25th I will be completing 1 year of blogging so you can expect some contest soon. I will be announcing a contest soon.The main plan is to provide free .com domain name and free hosting to budding bloggers. I am also looking for some sponsor to increase the prize of the contest. I will be lot busy with my project work (both academic and blogging). If you do not know about the service I provide then you should head over to my service page. If you are interested in advertising at genius geeks then head over to our advertise page for more details. You can always contact me for better price.

April goals for geniusgeeks:

#1 Hope to increase the traffic to 30,000 unique visits per month. I have already crossed 30,000 pageviews mark.

#2 I will start Affiliate marketing aiming to provide hefty commission to the users.

#3 Still need to improve the bounce rate. But bounce rate tends to be high for technology blog.

#4 I will be more active on twitter and other social networking websites like digg,su.

I provide cheap domain name and and hosting service. Apart from that I also provide hefty commission (flat 50% commission) if you purchase the hosting from me. You will get the double benefit of coupon code as well as money back guarantee from my commission which generally many people don’t provide. Head over to our “contact us”  page for more details.

Traffic report of geniusgeeks

No of visits: 24,218                                                                              Bounce rate: 55.05%

Pageviews: 37,982                                                                               New visits: 90.23%

Pages/visit: 1.57

Income report of geniusgeeks:

Adsense earning : 81$

Buysellads earning : 86$

Other earning : 13$+2$

Service charges : 100$

Total                                   :  282$

Instead of adding $70 for adsense I have included $81 for it as  negligible earning from previous month. Shockingly the traffic has jumped to 6,046.70% within a month. This is due to my SEO tactics and simplegant wordpress theme. Simplegant wordpress theme was an experiment from my side and I have already received some good testimonial for it. Simplegant users have experienced sudden jump in traffic and decrease in page speed after using it. I am glad to see that my theme design worked well for many people and my service charges indicates that.

I also provide SEO optimization of the wordpress theme. So if you are not interested in complete customization of the theme then you can hire me for SEO optimization of your wordpress theme. Currently I do not provide customization of thesis theme as I am new to thesis theme and other projects are keeping me busy from learning thesis theme.

What is your monthly traffic and income report? I would love to hear your monthly traffic report. If you need my advice feel free to drop a comment here or contact me via contact us form.

Alexa ranking system is one of the most trusted(?) blog ranking system among the bloggers as well as advertisers. Many blogger still believe that Alexa ranking system is an accurate ranking system and there are many bloggers who posted about how to increase alexa rank or similar posts.

Alexa rank is one of the measure of traffic of the website. Higher the traffic lower is the alexa rank. It is always believed that if you have alexa rank below 1lakh then your blog is getting decent traffic. Advertisers are also considering alexa ranking as a rough measure of the website traffic. But how accurate this alexa ranking system is?

I personally do not trust alexa ranking system or their algorithm. As per my personal experience one can easily get better alexa rank. If you are a blogger who is getting many comments from other bloggers than there are more chances that your alexa rank is better compared to other blog who has similar traffic. The reason is most of the bloggers has installed alexa toolbar on their browser. Usually alexa works on the number of hits on their toolbar or widget.

Alexa widget error-Alexa ranking fails

Check out the screenshot of alexa rank which shows two different ranks for my website. There are many cases that alexa toolbar and alexa widget is not synchronized properly. In my case the ranking is totally different. I had 4lakh rank 1 month or 2 month back  when my website was very new. My previous day alexa rank was 169,000+ (I forgot to take the screenshot of it.I didn’t know that alexa will be so inaccurate in their ranking system.lol). Instead of showing 169,000 or 155,078 alexa rank alexa widget installed on my website shows 404,729 rank.

What is your take on alexa ranking system? I would love to hear your opinion on alexa ranking?

Merry Christmas to all dear friends. I’ve been busy for few weeks. I would like to grab this opportunity to make an announcement about my upcoming venture. I feel so proud about announcing my upcoming blog today. I have been looking for a good domain for a long to expand my wings. The domain name is really impressive and is a surprise to all.

Few of the highlights of my upcoming blog:

My first ever wordpress theme with multiple features like.

1)Fast loading 2 column widgetized theme with 3 column footer.

2) SEO optimized theme to give you the advantage over others (you can generate meta tags and title for each page, categories and all).

3) 3 column widgetized footer with fixed height.

4) Some of the famous hacks like recent posts, related posts, popular posts, random posts are inbuilt so you need not to download all those plugins which means the speed of the theme is better

5) Less HTTP calls which means less loading time

6) 404 page optimization- I’ve integrated the option that enables you to design your 404 from the admin panel.

7) Add adsense code from admin panel itself so you need not to modify the files

Subscribe buttons are integrated without JS using css sprite (for better look and speed).

9) Share button is also integrated so you need not to download any plugin

10) Custom other info on single page after each page.

11) Automatic excerpts on the homepage.

12) Thesis like sidebar with impressive colors.

13) Use of thumbnails in the homepages with blur effect with css hack.

13) It will be available in multiple colors to target more number of people. Especially tech related blogs and for the people who loves simplicity and elegance.

The design is almost done. I’ve to add few more stuff so that I can make the theme better. If you have any suggestions then feel free to drop a comment here or contact me via contact page. If possible I’ll try to include the feature. I have attached a screenshot of new theme to let you think what is in the box.

Features of my new blog:

As I’ve already said that I’ll release my new theme very soon on my new blog. With this I am also planning to offer some services like theme customization, blogger template design, free wordpress setup and  few others.

The new blog will concentrate on latest technical news, social networking, blogging tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress hacks, wordpress plugins, twitter marketing strategy, mobile applications, windows applications and tweaks, tips on how to use social media network better, photoshop tutorials and designs and lot more.

As I promised the new blog will be lot better then compared to this one as I am planning to cover many topics apart from that I will be sharing few amazing interviews with famous bloggers, free ebooks, goodies and contests.

Suggestions from the readers:

I need your support and help with my upcoming blog. Without you the blog will be incomplete. I am looking for the name of my theme. If you have any suggestion then share it here.

There are obviously many things that you can do to for search engine optimization (SEO) but which should you focus on? Your time is valuable so I made a list of the top 5 things that you should do to maximize your time. In other words, why spend four hours on something when you can spend an hour on a task that should return 100x more value? Enough chatter, let’s get on the list:

1. Write fresh content consistently! I’ve mentioned this in several previous posts, most recently at Blog about your niche. There is absolutely nothing more important than providing real value on your blog on a regular basis. So write, write, write. Set a goal of every other day or every weekday or every day. Just make sure you post useful information related to the theme of your blog a few times a week at a minimum. If your blog is about puppies, keep writing about puppies and skip the rant on politics.
2. Make your titles relevant. Having good, catchy titles are great. Having good, catchy titles with keywords related to your post is even better. So if your post is about losing weight, instead of “Shedding your unwanted fat” you could go with “Shedding the extra weight: lose 10 pounds in a month safely”.
3. Use keywords in your content. Don’t go crazy with this and scatter keywords unnecessarily (you will actually be penalized for that) but make sure you have some keywords in the body of your post. Imagine if I never actually wrote the words “search engine optimization” in this post, which is exactly what the post is about.
4. Have a logical site structure. This is pretty automatic if you use a good blogging platform (e.g. blogger or wordpress.com). However, if you are using custom themes or running your own blog on a separate host, that may change things a bit. Just make sure that your blog structure is organized so your directories and pages are easy to understand.
5. Use Google Analytics. It’s arguably the most useful analytical tool for your blog and it’s absolutely free! There’s no reason not to use Google Analytics. You can learn about where your visitors are from geographically, how long they are staying, what your traffic is this week compared to last week, how many other posts they are looking at, and much more. One important thing to monitor is which keywords are bringing them to your site. You could simply continue to utilize those keywords in future posts if you want to improve ranking for that niche.

None of this is groundbreaking. In fact, you should probably do these things for your readers anyway, not just for SEO purposes. And even though search engine algorithms change all the time, the aforementioned things to do have pretty much always been part of the core. It doesn’t mean you don’t need to do anything else either but if you only have time for 5 things, do these. Backlinks, keywords in the URL, tags/categories, directories, social networking, microblogging, and a bunch of other tactics will come in due time. Happy blogging!

This guest post was written by Gabe Young from freebloghelp.com.

Do you have a crush on any tweep or twitterer? or Do you hate your boss but never able to say anything as you are worried about your job? You want to express feelings on the twitter but you are shy/afraid of doing it. Don’t worry there are few services to help you out to express your feelings to your loved once.

Why twitter only? Well there are many social networking services but no one can beat the twitter. The growth of twitter is tremendous (recently it has been announced that twitter is the most used English word in year 2009). Many market gurus, bloggers, big companies are already using twitter as their free marketing tool. I am sure that your boss is also using this service…….you know what I mean, right?

Anonymous tweets

My intention behind providing this online services is not to spread hatred but love. Use this service wisely and spread the love or kick some a** if you want.lol. I really want to say few word to my teacher but she is not on the twitter (I don’t have crush on her). My bad luck !!!

Anonymous twitter online service to send anonymous tweets

Tweetfrombelow: Using this free twitter online service you can send 140 characters message to the intended user by using @username symbol. They ask you to enter captcha coded to stop spamming. Read their terms of service before using this service.

Secrettweet: Secret tweet works same as tweet from below service but the character limit is only 110 characters. You can see all the latest anonymous tweets on their homepage. So if you have sent an anonymous tweet to someone then it will be visible on secret tweet website as well.

Twitzee: Twitzee was also know as TweetShh1 which was one of the first service to provide anonymous tweeting feature. The character limit is 140 characters.

Check out the screen shot to see the example of the anonymous tweet. Once again I request you to use this service for fun. Do not harass other people on twitter using this service.

Do you have something to say to your friend/boss? Share your anonymous tweet with us or if you have any other idea then let us know via comment section. I am sure you will come up with better idea to use this twitter service.

Many of my blogger friends asked me to share my traffic report. To be frank I am not doing great as a blogger. The traffic is not something to boast about. Usually I don’t share my traffic as I do not like to do that plus this is not a personal blog.

Anyways here is the monthly traffic report of techgenuine.

monthly traffic report

No of visit: 6446

No of pageviews: 9542

Pages/visit: 1.48

Bounce rate: 63.43%

New visits: 83.65%

Avg Time on Site: 2.30 minutes

Unique visitors: 5478

Search engine traffic: 4453.00(69.08%)

Referring sites: 1119(17.36%)

Direct traffic: 841(13.05%)

Other:33(0.51%)

Hope that I can decrease the bounce rate of my blog as it is too high. I will also try to improve the blog so I can get more traffic. I hope you guys have also shared some great traffic report. Sorry I can not share more detailed traffic report with you. Any advice or suggestion on how to improve the traffic?

Today is a great day for me. This is my 101th post and I feel so proud about my achievement. I had never thought that I can reach this milestone in a very short span (the post count is much higher as I’ve deleted some of my old posts). I will be very busy with my external exams from now on. Hence I am planning to close comments section so I don’t have to worry about the comments from my friends and reader (what is your opinion on that? Commenting takes lots of time and I cant afford to spend so much of time).

I would also like to mention that I have won a premium one-theme license and lifetime account. If you are looking for a premium theme then check out this post. The rules are really simple and the procedure of deciding the winner is straight forward. If you have more points you get the theme(no randomizer bulls**t ). Thank you Tinh for providing me one-theme license. I am waiting for my one theme.It will be active very soon on techgenuine.

Enough said about my life.Sorry I couldn’t include more posts as I was very busy this week. I have to stop the weekly link love party again as I want to provide the best stuff to my readers. Lets begin the party now.

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Google has generously provided me 16 free Google wave invites to share with my readers (Google’s own way to say thanks to its users for thanksgiving day). I am not an active user on Google wave so this offer really surprised me a bit. My eye popped out when I saw the invitation message in my Google wave inbox (hehehe).

Google Wave Invitation

So far Google wave is very popular among the bloggers and marketers. If you are looking for the free Google wave invites then you have come to the right place. I shall be sharing Google wave invites to my readers without no condition as a thanksgiving gift.

You can help me to spread the word around the internet by Retweeting about the giveaway(you can retweet about it by clicking tweetmeme button on the top right hand corner). Check the url below to retweet about the contest. Remember you need to leave the comment in the comment section to express your desire for the Google wave invitation.

15 Google Wave Invitation For Free http://bit.ly/7RbewF

You can follow me on twitter for more updates or subscribe via RSS. There are many more cool stuffs coming up in the near future. So make sure that you don’t miss it!!!

It has always been a dilemma for me to use twitter/tweet in other languages. If you are one of my twitter follower then you must have noticed that I always try different twitter tools and services to improve my tweets and conversation ratio. If you are looking a way to improve your twitter conversation ratio the you can follow me on twitter from here.

Twitter is planning to integrate language option in their API but why do you want to wait when you already have some tools that can help you to tweet in your regional languages. It is always advisable to target users according to the region or language they speak. Here I am listing  five such tools that will help you to tweet in other languages.

Twitter In Other Languages Like Hindi

Twitter in different languages

1.Twitlan: Twitlan is one of the best and the first website that lets you tweet in different languages. Currently  it supports 81 different languages. Indian users will be glad to know that many Indian languages are supported by twitlen.

2.Quillpad: Quillpad is very helpful for Indian users as it supports only Indian languages. All you need to do is to type your tweet in your language (in English. ex aap kaise ho?) and it will convert it into your chosen language, just copy-paste that message to twitter and tweet it.

3.Twitrans: Twitrans converts your tweet into the desired language (only 14 languages are supported). To use this service you need to use short codes of the language to translate into the desired language (ex @twitrans en2hi I want to type this message in hindi). You can check those short codes at their website. In the above example the twitrans converts English language tweet into Hindi language. I personally don’t like this service as it takes lot of time to translate the tweets.

4.Wakooz: Wakooz uses Google translator service to convert your tweets into other language tweets. It doesn’t take much time as it is using a Google translator. I personally recommend this service to our readers.

5.Google Translator: Well I guess I do not need to say more about this service as you must be aware of this service. Convert your twitter tweets into any language using Google translator and then copy it into twitter message bar and push the button.

Let us know if you have come across any other services like above. Have you tried the above services?

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As I promised, the weekly link love party is back on techgenuine. Here is the best posts of the week so far which I really enjoyed reading. This posts covers various fields like blogging tips, twitter strategy, seo techniques, mobile applications, firefox plugin and lot more. I hope you will enjoy those posts.

This week I have also written a guest post at serradinho, so don’t forget to check it out as well. Apart from this I am also planning to feature the best posts from blogengage community to widen my network. If you are a blogengage reader and want your post to be featured here then don’t forget to comment here. I will definitely have a look at your blog and try to include your best post in the next weekly link love party.

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