Pathik Shah

Universal Ping Service – Just-Ping.com

Often, when you set up a new website or when you change the host nameservers, the DNS records take about 24-48 hours to propagate across the world. This simple service can tell you if your website address is accessible worldwide or not. It pings your website from many different countries and reports back with the ping results.

Check it out at http://just-ping.com

Just enter your site URL and click Ping! . You can also ping IP addresses if you want.

Today, Facebook officially released its social plugins as part of its world domination plans. Now you can like every page on the internet and share it on Facebook. For website owners, it can be a great source of traffic.

This tutorial will show you how to add the Facebook Like Button to your WordPress Blog.

Go to http://developers.facebook.com/plugins

Select the Like Button Plugin – http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like

Customize the button as you want -

Select the layout, width, font etc and click on Get Code. Keep the dummy URL as it is – http://developers.facebook.com/

For static pages, you can directly enter the URL and get the code.

If you have a WordPress blog, you can get dynamically generate Like buttons for every page without having to generate new code every time.

The sample code for my blog is
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<iframe src=”http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pathikshah.com%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp; show_faces=false&amp; width=450&amp; action=like&amp; font=trebuchet+ms&amp; colorscheme=light” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ allowTransparency=”true” style=”border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:px”></iframe>
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Replace the blog URL with

<?php_the_permalink();?>

Just copy this code if you want -
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<iframe src=”http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php_the_permalink();?>&amp; layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp; width=450&amp; action=like&amp; font=trebuchet+ms&amp; colorscheme=light” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ allowTransparency=”true” style=”border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:px”></iframe>
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This will automatically create Facebook Like buttons for every page of your blog. Just place this code in your sidebar or on single.php of your WordPress theme.

This is the code I added on single.php just below the page title.
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<iframe src=”http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php the_permalink();?>;&amp ;layout=button_count&amp; show_faces=false&amp; width=80&amp;action=like&amp; font=trebuchet+ms &amp; colorscheme=light” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ allowTransparency=”true” style=”border:none; overflow:hidden; width:80px; height:20px”></iframe>
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Just tinker with the code and add it to your blog. If you have any doubts, leave a comment.

This tutorial will show you How to add the Google Buzz Share button on your WordPress or Blogspot/Blogger blog.

Get the Google Buzz Button code

Visit http://www.google.com/buzz/stuff and get the code for the Post to Buzz button. Keep all the options set to their default values. Copy the Buzz button code.

Add the Google Buzz Button to WordPress Blog

Just browse to your <blog directory>/wp-content/<theme directory>/single.php

Add the code depending on where you want your button.

Try inserting the code just after <div class=entry>. Align / Float the button to the left if you want to.

Save the file and open any post in your WordPress blog. You should see a Post to Buzz button with the Buzz count.

Google Buzz WordPress Plugin

If you don’t want to mess with the code,  just download this Google Buzz Plugin for WordPress and install it.

Add the Google Buzz Button to Blogspot/Blogger Blog

Sign in to your Blogger Dashboard and goto Layout > Edit HTML.

Add the Buzz Button code in the theme code where you want to place the button. The exact location will vary with the theme.

WordPress automatically saves post revisions of every post you create, everytime you edit it. This feature may be useful if you are trying to collaborate with other authors on the same post or if you want to automatically take backups of any changes you make. But most of us don’t need it; it just adds redundant rows in the wp_posts table and adds unnecessary bulk to your database.

To disable post revisions-

Edit the wp-config.php file in your blog directory and add the following line at the end

define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);

To delete existing post revisions-

Download the WP-Optimize plugin and install/enable it on your blog.

Go to Dashboard > WP-Optimize and tick Remove all Post revisions. Click on the Process button and all the post revisions will automatically be deleted.

There are many methods which you can use to improve your Alexa rank, and most of them do work. You can find plenty of tutorials on the internet which can help you boost your Alexa Rank, I’m just listing the two easiest ways to do so.

1. Install the Alexa Toolbar

The Alexa Rank is decided by the number of visits you get from users having the Alexa toolbar installed in their browsers. So the best way to improve your rank is to find as many PCs as you can, install the Alexa toolbar and set your website as the homepage.

To Download the Alexa Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox, visit Alexa Toolbar Download

2. Add the Alexa Rank Button to your Website

Each visit to a blog with the Alexa Rank button installed is accounted for by Alexa and helps in improving your Alexa Rank. It’s not as effective as the first method, but does work.

To Create a Alexa Rank Button for your website, go to Alexa Widgets, enter your site details and paste the code in your website.

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