Buttons are one of those visual elements, which will create an amazing look to ones website. We have hand-picked some of the most beautiful and attractive Buttons, one can use to bring amazing atmosphere for the website.

Let’s take a look at some great button designs below.,

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So What is Social Bookmarking ?

Social Bookmarks is a service focuses on user generated content and the user base. Its something like a Super market where you ill get everything in one place.

The idea of social bookmarking is very much simple and it is totally free of charge and will help your sites conquer the search engines with ease!

Is social Bookmarking similar to Link Directories ?

Not Exactly !! But some thing similar to that kind. Social Bookmarking sites literally allow anyone to create a free account and allows the users to submit their favorite links. But the social bookmarking site will have the full control over what links were most popular and visible to everyone. The concept is Simple “share your favorite sites online”.

Now comes the big question, How to Make Traffic with these social Bookmarking websites ? or rather we can ask like, Which social bookmarking site will get you more traffic ? Find answers for all your questions below [One by One ].,

1] Twitter.Com :

Twitter may be a newbie, but it’s a Biggie..! Twitter is very simple. All we need to do is to create a new and attractive profile and find searching people from similar area of interest.

Twitter asks “what’s happening” and makes the answer spread across the globe to millions, immediately.

Here are some 5 ways to gain Popularity in Twitter,

• Create a attractive Profile : Everyone comes to your profile page by searching similar categories . So your Profile page must be attractive enough to kindle them to click your blog links.

• Be Active : When someone sends you a comment or a tweet, respond to them asap. The more you are active the more visitors you get.

• Gain more Followers : The following sites will help you in getting the same Twollow, Hummingbird or Tweet Adder.

• Find People who have same area of interest : It’s Simple, Form a Network at Twitter and grow your business.

• Dont Forget to display your RSS feed in Twitter page. Use Twitterfeed.com site for this purpose.

2] Digg.Com :

Digg is a yet another social bookmarking site made for people to discover and share contents online. Digg is similar to that of twitter where you can share your links and stories.

First we need to get cleared that the visitors from Digg wont come for the next time, they wont click your ads, they wont subscribe your site. All they will do is bring you traffic, they will read what they actually needed from your blog, and nothing else. Many of them won’t even stay there for 10  seconds.

All we have to do to bring traffic from Digg is to be active and give popular tags in Digg Topics. If these two things are good, you can expect some huge crowd to visit your site daily.

So how to get more traffic in diggs?

• Digg has cool feature called as ‘hot list’ on its homepage,and it’s all about how many people click or “Digg” the site. So the first thing you should remember is to get as many Diggs as possible.

• Put attractive captions.  Your caption should be in such a way that it should make Digg users to click on it.

• Search similar kind of blog and start forming a network. You Digg their site and vice versa. This will help your blog to gain more user visibility.

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You can find 8 links below my site Url. This is what we call it as Sitelinks ! You can see Sitelinks only for Google recognized blogs. We are happy that our blog has been added in that list.

How can we get Site links from Google ?

This could be based on Google’s Algorithm, Some of them are below,

• How many times your site has been accessed.
• How many purchases made in that page.
• How long your visitors stays in your page.
• Information retrieval scores for your page.
• How many bookmarks that page and many more.,

However this is not the actual algorithm. If your blog fulfills the above points , your blog may get Site Links.

Google Says .,

At the moment, Sitelinks are completely automated. We’re always working to improve our Sitelinks algorithms, and we may incorporate webmaster input in the future.

If your content or products is  good, then you may get Site links from Google. Once Again thanks for the support without which we cant achieve these kind of goals.

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]]> http://rockstartemplate.com/blog-resources/icons/yet-another-twitter-logo-from-rockstartemplate/feed/ 2 http://rockstartemplate.com/blog-resources/icons/twitter-tweet-me/ http://rockstartemplate.com/blog-resources/icons/twitter-tweet-me/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:42:43 +0000 Rockstar http://rockstartemplate.com/?p=739 Today we’re featuring the brand new Twitter Icon, designed by Rockstar template designers.  This twitter logo delivers very stylish look and invites your reader to follow you on Twitter. Have a look at this icon below,

Feel Free to use this design in your blog to invite your readers to tweet you. We would like to showcase the best designs in near future, subscribe to our feed to get the updates.

1] Oral Communication :-
Oral communication is the best way to bring traffic to your site, because only through verbal communication your can explain how well your website is. You can express what you are writing in your blog, how well it is organized and more only through direct communication. You can tell your friends, family, business partners, advertisers, colleagues about your website.

2] Social Bookmarking Media :-
You can get unimaginable traffic with social bookmarking sites , especially Digg , Stumbleupon, Twitter, Delicious, Reddit and more.

3] Content is Life :-
If your content is good, you will automatically get traffic. Content bring life to your blog. Try writing couple of humor posts in a week to bring readership to your blog. Keep in mind that you have to Blog daily. Post your contents daily, doesn’t mean your post should be good. Write at-least two killer articles per week.

4] Comment in Blogosphere :-
Read others blog and comment frequently. If your comment is good you will get some traffic for sure. You can also gain some readership with this. I have tried this and go great results.

5] Advertise :-
If you have some bugs , go for paid advertisements like banner placements, text-link placements, sponsored reviews etc . You can also think about PPC Advertising Networks like Google Adsense, Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN), BidVertiser ,Chitika, Clicksor etc..

6] Form a Network :-
Networks can help you to promote your blog. Form a Genuine network and see how your commenting , links to the posts of bloggers and users in social bookmarking increases.

7] Search Engine Optimization :-
This is the most important step you should work on, especially if you are new to blogging. SEO optimization help your blog to become visible to all the internet users. Do proper SEO, else there will be a chance of your blog to be marked as spam.

8] Invite Guest Bloggers :-
There are lot of advantages in inviting a guest bloggers. Give your guest bloggers a free link from your blog and ask them to link you in their blog. So you both can exchange your readership.

9] Traffic Exchange :-
There are lots of traffic exchanges, give it a try. This option is feasible only if you lots of time. But this option is not recommended because you wont get quality readers. So keep this step as your last option.

10] Participate in Forums :-
Join some decent forums and help others in solving the problem with a link to your website. Your website should provide a solution for that problem, that’s important.

We appreciate your valuable comments about this work.

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* Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
* Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
* The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
* A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
* Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.
* Translation of role names fixed.
* wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title.
* Upload error messages are now correctly reported.
* Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed.
* Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed.
* SSH2 filesystem requirements updated.
* Switched back to curl as the default transport.
* Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload.
* Stricter inline style sanitization.
* Stricter menu security.
* Disabled code highlighting due to browser incompatibilities.
* RTL layout fixes.

Update your WordPress version and get rid of bugs specified above.

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1] Create a New PHP file named ” searchform.php “

2] Add the following code :

<form method=”get” id=”searchform” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘home’); ?>/”>
<div><input type=”text” size=”18″ value=” ” name=”s” id=”s” />
<input type=”submit” id=”searchsubmit” value=”Search” class=”btn” />
</div>
</form>

3] Save the above code in searchform.php , and upload it to your Theme Folder .

4] Now include , <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/searchform.php’); ?> ,  where ever you like in your theme .

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10 Tips to increase your Feed Count :

1] Convert your Readers to Subscribers :
Encourage your readers to subscribe to your feeds . Put your subscription code at right place , so that your users can view them clearly . I suggest you to place the code at top of sidebar and below every interesting blog posts .

2] Post Quality Content :
Content is King . If your post is interesting , find your feed count increasing over night . Interesting content in the sense , your readers should read your post fully , and not like brushing the post for content .

3] Do show your count if it is less than 50 :
If your feed count is too low , don’t show it in your blog , because it will not encourage your readers to subscribe your feed . If the count is more than 50 , than it is fine .

4] Give Some incentives :
Give some incentive for your feed subscribers . Incentives like Ebook etc will encourage your readers to subscribe .

5] Notify unconfirmed Email Subscribers :
If you are an word press user try this plug-in to notify your unconfirmed email subscribers . This plug-in will compose a mail to all the pending readers to subscribe your feed .

6] Run a Contest :
Give your Feed readers some incentive to subscribe . Be honest in conducting a contest , and award your feed subscribers with some bucks.

7] Be Creative in your post :
Insert the subscription code in between your posts . Use your creativity in placing the code .

8] Get Quality Readers :
Learn to use the Social bookmarking sites like Stumbleupon , Digg , delicious properly to bring quality readers , who subscribe to good articles .

9] Celebrate Your Feed Count milestone :
celebrate your Feed count milestone , so that your readers know about it . This may encourage new visitors to subscribe .

10] Use multiple methods to promote :
Don’t stick on increasing email subscriptions , also concentrate on Feed reader subscriptions , browser bookmarks , so you can get popularity from all .

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Step 1] Goto your blogger Dashboard -> Layout
Step 2] now say PageElements-> Add New Element – > Html Javascript.
Step 3] Add the Following code :

<div align=’center’>
<form expr:action=’data:blog.homepageUrl + &quot;search&quot;’ id=’searchform’ method=’get’ name=’searchform’>
<div align=’right’>
<input id=’s’ name=’q’ type=’text’ value=”/>
<input id=’searchIcon’ type=’submit’ value=’Search’/>
</div>
</form>
</div>

Step 4] Now goto EditHtml -> and add the Following Code with in the <b:skin> and </b:skin> tag .

#searchform {
padding: 5px 0 0;
padding-right: 15px;
text-align: center;
}
#searchform #s {
width: 150px;
padding: 3px;
padding-right: 15px;
margin: 0 0 5px 0;
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #A2A295;
color: #6A6A6A;
font-size: 11.5px;
font-family: Arial, Sans-Serif;
}
#searchIcon {
height: 24px;
width: 60px;
padding-right: 15px;
background: #941200;
border: 0px solid #941200;
padding: 0px 0px;
vertical-align: top;
color: #fff;
font-weight: bold;
}

Step 5] Save and Enjoy your new Search Box … !!

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