Twitter bans GIF avatars

Twitter has been a busy little bird making many decisions that disables the choices of its users. Not only have they limited us to using their image service and denied developers, now they are banning GIFS being used as your profile picture.

Therefore if you see your Avatar not showing (could happen) or if you tried uploading an avatar that is a GIF (movable image) you now know exactly why. Here is a screenshot via Mashable.

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The Basics of Blogging and How to Get Them

Most of the Bloggers Know What are the Basics of the Blogging. So What According to You the Basics Of Blogging ? so What are the Things that You Should Get Right To Become a Creative and Successful Blogger.Well if I Ask These type of Questions then i'll Get Different Type of responses.Some Will Say that Monetizing Blog and Some Will Say SEO.

The Thing is We Are habituated to Different Things That we are Forgetting the Real and Useful Basics of Blogging. So According to Me the Basics of Blogging :.

#What are Basics of Blogging:.

According to Me these are Some Basics of Blogging

Reading

Writing

Promoting 

If You Get these Common Things or "the Basics" Then You'll Get Everything Else.Automatically Your Traffic Will Increase and You Can Thereby Monetize Your Blog.

#How to Get these Basics

As i Said Above if You Get those Basics then You'll Get Everything Else.So Follow the Below Steps to Get to Know the Basics...

 #1 Reading

As We Do a Bit of Reading Daily.Before Writing the Content. Read Many Articles Related to It. Do a Bit of Research before Writing An Article.Why because it gives an idea about writing and you'll get Some Experience and you can learn a lot.

By Reading Other Blogs Under Your Niche Can Get you a Lot of ideas because they contain a lot of Innovative Ideas.

Reading Books Will Help You in Writing the Articles Because Most of the Bloggers Doesn't Post Their Articles in a Systematic Manner. They Don't Have a Specific Structure. By this Reader  Won't get a Reading Atmosphere Under Your Blog. So By Reading Books You'll Get an Idea On How to Write Articles.

Research: This is the Most Important Thing One Blogger Must Do, Whatever he May be The Pro Blogger or The Newbie. But Research is Important Task.So go And Surf About the Topics Under Niche Before Writing An Article.

#2 Writing

If You Follow the Steps Mentioned Above Then Writing is not a Hard Thing to do. Just Follow the Below Steps And You Can Write Easily.

Write Well in Your Articles if You Don't Know How to Write Then First Go and Surf Online Blogs Where Many Quality Articles Were Written. Carefully Observe How They Are Framing their Posts and Apply them On Your Articles. Write write and Write Until You Succeed. because it Gives you Experience And Good Writing Skills.

Dont Miss it - 5 Killer Tips to Improve Your Writing Skills

First Before Writing An Article If You Don't Get Any ideas on Article Then Take a Break and Open a Blank Document.. Then Think About it for 5-10 Minutes And Whatever You Think About it. Just Present them in the Blank Document. Attract Your visitors With Good Writing Techiques

Make Your Blog Unique By Writing Uniquely 

Don't Stop in Between After Completing the Document Just Go through it and You'll Find many ideas in it. Just keep in Mind the Ideas. So That It May BE helpful for Your Next Post.

Set a Schedule For Writing : Try to Write On Anything On Your Pc TO Practice Writing Well. Train Yourself In Such a Way that You Keep Writing As Well as You Can. Make a Correct Schedule For it And Balance Everything.

Proof Read Your Blog Posts Before Publishing Them. Check Your Posts Well Like a Reader But Not Like a Writer. It Makes You perfect. f You'gone Wrong Somewhere Then You can Fix it Easily.

Do whatever You Want: Do Whatever You Want. Doesn't Care About What Others Say. Just Write And Write On Your Own.

#3 Promoting

Well Promoting is One of the Biggest Things And Sometimes it is the Hardest One too. But it is Not Too Hard. Nothing is Impossible. Most of the Bloggers Fail When Comes to The Publishing and Promotion.If You Proper Promotion then Obviously Traffic Increases.

Always Promote Your Blog in Such a Way that Your Blog Will Get More People Reading Your Blog Through Social Signals.

Guest Post: Guest Posting is One of the Best Tactic For Gaining Huge Traffic. Guest Posts Can Help You in Getting Constant Traffic and Search Engine Optimization As Well.Also Know About the Guest Posting Do's And Don'ts 

Optimize Your Blog Posts For Search Engines Well. Because Search Engines Are the Source For the Largest Sources For Traffic.You Can Get a Good Amount of traffic if You Optimize Your Posts and Images For Them.

Leave Comments: Leave The Comments on Other Blogs. Wherever You Got Don't Just Come Back. Learn Something From them And Leave Comments on their Blogs. By Doing so You'll Get Some More Visits and Also Some Backlinks too. Always Comment on Dofollow and CommentLuv Blogs to Get Some Backlinks. Dofollow, Commentluv Backlinks Matter a Lot.

Online Circle : Make a Proper Online Circle. Connect With Your Readers,Friends and Other Blogs Online. It will Increase Your Online Reputation and Makes a Correct Image For You and Your Blog. Share Your Blog Posts On Social media And Networking Sites As Much as Possible.Start Asking Users For Feedback.

So That's it For Now. If You Follow these Steps Carefully Then Soon You Will Become a Pro Blogger.

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Why To Use Long Tail Keywords For SEO

These Long Tail Keywords Are Not the New Term But Most of the Bloggers And Newbies Don't Know About Long Tail Keywords And How to Use Them.If You're Among Such Blogger s then This Post is Dedicated For You.So Before Talking About the Benefits of the Long tail Keywords i'd Like to Tell you What Exactly They Mean.

#What Are Long Tail Keywords

As You Know About the Normal Keywords. These Long Tail Keywords Are Not So Much Differentiated to Them. The Keywords Are of Two Types the Short Tailed and the Long Tailed. So Let Me Explain You in Detail.

The Best Words Compared to Them are the Short Phrases and the Long Phrases.The Short Phrases are General and Cover a Vast Area.Whereas The Long Tail Keywords Cover a Short Area.

For Instance Let us Take the Short tail Keyword "Sports Car" Well if you Search For Sports Car in Google Or Anyother Search Engine Then You Will Come Accross Many Search Results. This is the Best Example for Short Tailed Keywords.

Now Coming to the Long Tailed Keywords : Let us Take the Same Example But We Can go More Specific with it "BMW Sports Car" And if we go More Specific ie "Latest BMW Sports Car" Which Will Cover Only the Latest BMW Sports cars.

Well Did You Notice the Difference Between the Both ? The Both Keywords "Sports car" and "Latest BMW Sports Car" Both Are Relevant to Each Other. The Only Thing is We Go More Specific in the Long tail Keywords.

# Benefits of Using Long Tail Keywords

Well it is Very Useful For the Bloggers To gain More SEO. Well Most of them Still Don't Know What it Meant? Even I Was Unaware of that till i Read Many Articles Over Web. So here i list out Some Benefits of Using it.

The Best Example to Show You is Searching For Both Short&Long Keywords Over Google : Just Have a Look :

• Sports Car: 1,420,000,000 results
• BMW Sports Car : 61,900,000 results
• Latest BMW Sports Car : 61,400,000 results
• latest BMW 135i sports car : 1,320,000 results

#So What Did You Notice ?

The Thing One Must Notice From the Above Numbers is "The Longer the Keyword the Fewer the Blogs Matching To it" That Means There Are More Chances To Occupy the More Room Under Search Engines.

So By Seeing the Above Details You Must Not Think that Long Tail Keywords Will Bring You Huge Amount of Traffic. If You Think So,Then You're Wrong.

Long Tail Keywords Bring You a Targeted Traffic.Only People Searching For that Long Keyword Will Be Landed on That Page But To Land on Your Blog/site You Have to use Numerous Amount of Long tail Keywords.

One Will Get the Most Suitable Long tail Keywords By Using Google Analytics. From you Google Analytics page you can see that which long tail keywords brought visitors to your blog and how many of them were converted.

You can do one thing. Try using one shot tail keyword as main keyword and use many relevant long tail keywords as the secondary keywords for the post.

#Better Conversion Rates

As i Wrote Above,Only the User Searching for the Particular Keyword Would Land on Your Blog. Thus You Will Get Better Conversion Rates.

#Easy Optimization

On Page SEO WIll be Useful for You if You're Using the Long tail Keywords.Long tail keywords make the On Page Optimization easier and the first reason is that you can fit 1-2 long tail keywords  in your post content. Whereas more usage of short tail keywords is considered as keyword stuffing and Google don’t like it.

#Long Tail Keyword= Many Short Tail Keywords

One Will Get  if You Are Using the keyword ‘Latest BMW 135i Sports Car’ in your post, that post will be in search engine for short keywords like BMW 135i, 135i Sports Car, sports car and latest BMW sports car, isn't it Beneficial ?

I Know These Are the Few Tips.But I'm Not Much Aware of these Long Tail Keywords.I am Sure There might be Many More To Add on this Topic. But I am Trying to Gain As Much as i Can.

If You Know Some More benefits of Using these Long Tail Keywords in your Blog. Then Please Share us Via Comments Below.

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Smooth Sliding Image Caption With CSS3

Check Out this Pretty Cool Sliding Caption For Images  It’s a caption that slides out at the bottom of the image only when the user moves his mouse cursor over anywhere near a small question mark located at the bottom of the image.

So far, the effect works without a problem with the latest version of Chrome, FireFox, and Opera but not with Internet Explorer.  It hasn’t been tested on Safari yet.

So how do you install it to your blog? 

Following are the simple steps to add the Styling :.

1. Go to Template >> Edit Html << Proceed, then check Expand Widget Templates.
2. Now Search for the ]]></b:skin> Tag in Your Template
3. Now Copy the Below Code and Paste it Above/Before ]]></b:skin> Tag.

.capblock { display: block; position: relative; overflow: hidden; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;}.capblock a { color: #fff; text-decoration: none;}.capblock a:hover { color: #ccc; text-decoration: none;}.tbicap { position: absolute; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; background: #000; background: rgba(0,0,0,0.75); padding: 10px 10px; bottom: 5px; left: -10%; max-width: 400px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0; -webkit-transition: all 0.6s ease; -moz-transition: all 0.6s ease; -ms-transition: all 0.6s ease; -o-transition: all 0.6s ease; -webkit-border-radius: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border-radius: 0px 5px 0px 0px;}.tbicap:hover { left: 0; opacity: 1;}.capblock:before { content: "?"; position: absolute; font-weight: 800; background: #000; background: rgba(255,255,255,0.75); text-shadow: 0 0 5px #fff; color: #000; width: 24px; height: 24px; bottom: 10px; left: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 12px; -moz-border-radius: 12px; border-radius: 12px; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; -moz-transition: all 0.6s ease; opacity: 0.75;}.capblock:hover:before { opacity: 0;} 

Now Save the Template and You're Done.

Note:- If the Caption is not Displaying Correctly then try to Adjust the Max-width :400px

HOW TO Use This For Images :.

If the Caption To Use the New Sliding Caption On an Image in Your Post,Just Make Sure that You're in HTML Mode as You Enclose Your Image Inside Tags With the Proper Attributes. As Shown Below

1. <div>
   <a href="IMAGE LINK HERE" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="IMAGE URL HERE"/></a>
   <div>
   <span><a href="POST LINK HERE">CAPTION HERE</a></span></div>
   </div>

Now Remember to replace all the necessary values with that of your own. Also, you can remove the <a href=”POST LINK HERE“> and </a> if you just want the caption without the link to render it unclickable.

Hope you guys enjoy this featured Blogger trick of the day.

Via AllBlog Tools

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Modern Warfare 3 Collection 4 launch trailer for PC

Check out the launch trailer for collection 4 which is set to release on October 10 for the PC.

Stay alive in Decommission, as you traverse through a graveyard of ocean liners.

Take the fight out on the ocean in Off Shore, maneuvering precariously between three oil rigs. 

Take over an abandoned mining town as you do battle in the red rock terrain of Gulch. Have a little fun at your enemy’s expense in the beach wonderland of Boardwalk. 

Spice things up in Parish, as you fight through a militarized section of the famed French Quarter.

Tell us what you think in the comments section below.

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5 Tips To Help You Become A Creative Blogger

Blogging Is a Methodology of Sharing Our Knowledge With Others. Not Only Sharing Our Knowledge.it Also Helps Us To Gain Online Reputance. Also we Can Make Money And Much More Beneficial With Blogging.

But as a New Blogger Most of the People doesn't Know What to Write and When to Publish Them and How to Write the Articles So that It May Drag the Attention of the Visitors.Here i Listed Out a Few Points. That May Help You Become a Creative Blogger.

#1 Be a Full Time Blogger

I Don't Mean You to Become a Professional Blogger and Leave Everything Personal And Stay Attached Towards Your PC.I Mean That Use Your Mind to Get New Ideas And Tactics that May Help You in Blogging. For Instance Instead of PLaying Games And Such Things... Blah Blah Blah... Dont Let Your Mind to Care Any Useless things. Always think in such a Way that You May Wanna Get Something Out of it.

For Instance If You are Hanging Out With Your Friends. Well it is Not Bad. Sometimes Something Comes Between us and It May Give us an Idea for Our Next Post.

#2 Think Like a Reader

This is the Most Important Thing to Become a Creative Blogger and a Writer too.If You Just Keep Writing Articles Which Doesn't Make the Interest to Your readers. Then it is Waste of time. Then take a Break and Think About Your New Article Doesn't Matter Even if it Take Some Time. 

Always Get to Know What the Readers are Interested in Your Blog. I mean Which type of Content They Like and Which Type of Posts They Visit the Most. And Keep Posting On Such Type of Content. Because for a Successful Blogger Meeting the Requirements of the User is a Must.

Always Ask YourSelf ? What Kind of Post Do You Want to Get Read From Your Blog ? Proofread Your Blog Posts Reqularly Before Publishing Them.Simply Saying Think like a Reader But Not Like a Writer

#3 Use Imagination

Writing the Content Which Is Already Known To Users Might Be Boring.So Everyone Must Have Some Unique Experience On it. You Must Write Articles in Such a Way that The Boring Posts Also Would Become Interesting Articles. Because Users Will Love the Creativity of the Author.

You May Come Across the Phrase "Imagination is More Important than Knowledge" .Before Writing Any Content.Imagine About it.

#4 Be To The Point

Have You Ever Seen the Articles And Videos From other Blogs And Popular Sites That Claim to Give You Some Valuable Tips to Gain More Traffic to Your Blog or Increase your Earnings?? Then You Might Know that they Are Just Not Valuable and Never to the Point.You Must Try to Have Top Article Writing Topics

So if You Write any Content  And Your Readers Are Not Getting What they Expect From the Post even After Reading the Early Paragraph's of the Post. Then They Too think that the Post Has Nothing Value.  So Your Early Points Or Para's Should Be Exactly to the Point.It Must Give the Idea of what the Post is About.

#5 Balancing Everything

Well Finally It's a time to Balance Everything Especially the Above Points.Because it is the Most Important Part of a Creative Blogger.By Following them You Can Establish Yourself as a Creative Blogger . Reflect Your Ability in your posts.Your Writing Skills, Online reputance, Socializing Power,Blog Marketing...Should Reflect Your Ideas and Skills. So that Everyone Try to Believe in You As a Creative Blogger.

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Will you pay Rs 1.2 lakh to own an iPhone 5

Will You Pay Rs 1.2 Lakh To Own An Iphone 5 Within the Days of its Us Release?

Many Apple aficionados in India are willing to shell out as much as Rs 1.21 lakh to own the iPhone 5 within days of its initial release in the US and seven other countries.

DNA reports that four Ahmedabad citizens paid Rs 1 lakh in advance for the phone and will pay an additional Rs 21,000 at the time of delivery.

Bharat Bhagnani in a Forbes blog says the "the grey market is throbbing with 'pre-orders' for iPhone 5, with prices skyrocketing up to almost Rs 80,000 to Rs 1,00,000 for delivery by September end." Bhagnani spoke to grey market dealers in Delhi and Mumbai, who were also willing to offer up to Rs 26,000 for a used iPhone 4S depending on its condition.

But the early iPhone 5 birds in India may encounter a technical hitch. The iPhone 5 comes with a nano-SIM tray and Indian mobile service providers do not currently offer nano-SIMs.

Also unlike micro-SIMs that are used in the iPhone 4S, they cannot be easily cut from regular SIMs using a SIM cutter.

This could mean that the iPhone 5s that eager Indian buyers with deep pockets lap up at premium prices may be as functional as the iPod Touch, though the DNA report quotes an unnamed official from a telecom operator in Gujarat saying that they have placed orders for nano-SIMs.

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Sound effects come to Google+ Hangouts

Google Has Just Added Another Cool Source of Entertainment : Sound Effects For Google + Hangouts.

As teased by Google’s own Amit Fulay, there’s now a dozen different sound effects built right into Hangouts — expect everything from cheesy applause and laugh tracks to chirping, gongs, snare drums and ticking clocks. Your conversations will never be the same.

Additionally, developers can also include sound effects into their own apps with v1.2 of the Hangouts API. Right now, we can’t tell if Google will eventually allow developers to create their own sound effects, but that could be interesting for live shows and classes.

To use the new effects, start a Hangout in G+ and click on the “Google Effects” tab shown below.

In order to take advantage of this new feature, users will have to make sure they’re updated to the latest version of the Hangouts Plugin: v3.6. It should update automatically, but if you’re having any issues, you can download the plugin here.

These effects are vapid and whimsical, but sure to appeal to a certain set of Google’s userbase. Recently Google + Crossed 400 Million Users and 100 Million Monthly Active Members.Within 12 Months.

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