Do you need chat room for your blog?

Most of bloggers do everything possible to bring new readers for the blog and keep their attention on their materials as much as possible. That involves making an interesting, striking, and professionally arranged content. You encourage your visitors to be more active by allowing commenting, arguing, or supporting your point of view. But, can you go further, enhancing even more reader’s participation? Yes, you can.

New web application, Firef.ly, allows all site visitors discuss instantly your content between themselves. A simple code, embedded in your site, allows people who are surfing through it to chat amongst themselves in real time. This will allow you to quickly know what people think of your posts and your blog as a whole, creating a simple and effective chatroom. For site owner, managing the chat client is easy and straightforward. Once you embed the code, a nice bar will appear in the lower right hand portion of your site. With it, you’ll be able to see how many people are on the site at any one time and how many of them are actually chatting.

Definitely, to enjoy the advantages of this interesting and free service, you need to have certain amount of visitors to your blog at place, otherwise, you might be the only one, who will be interesting in content discussion.

In case you were wondering on the unusual domain, .LY is the top level domain extension for Lybia.

To see the new service in action, check the video, showing users communication on TWIT TV site as an example:

Chat Room on your Blog

Additional Reading:

http://www.killerstartups.com/Blogging-Widgets/firef-ly-chat-with-others-online
http://thenextweb.org/2008/08/01/firefly-chat-about-nothing-everywhere/
http://blogbadly.com/blog-content/inspire-reader-interaction-firefly-killer-chat-app/

Mobilizing your Blog with Feed-Mate

FeedM8 (feed-mate) is a whole new way to enjoy mobile web browsing. You can now get your favorite blogs or feed-enabled websites on your mobile device in the good manner. This means you get all the popular sites, top news, social networks, sports, celebrity and weather updates all on your mobile phone anytime and anywhere. The content is designed for your mobile phone and it is optimized for mobile access, so it is fast and uses smart data transfer technique and little device resources.

There are a few ways to get started with FeedM8 as a feed reader.
1) Go to m.feedm8.com on your phone’s browser. Shortcuts are accepted for fast search. Simply choose from the top picks under "CHK IT OUT" or type what you’re looking for in "WRU L%KN 4?" (i.e. What are you looking for?)
2) Go to www.feedm8.com on your desktop PC. Choose one of the featured websites or enter your own. Type in your phone number when prompted and you will receive a FeedM8 link by SMS.
3) Add the button “My Mobile” (presented on the developer’s web site) to your bookmarks as follows, depending on your browser type:

- Internet Explorer: Right-click the button, and choose "Add to favorites."
- Firefox: Drag the button above into your Bookmarks Toolbar
- Opera: Right-click the button above, choose "Bookmark Link"

To send a website you’re browsing to you mobile, click the "Send to My Mobile" shortcut you’ve just added.

Currently the following operators are supported in US and Canada:
US - AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Nextel, Alltel, Metro PCS, Helio
Canada - Rogers, Bell, Fido, Telus, Virgin Mobile, Sasktel, MTS

Developers Web site: http://www.feedm8.com/web/faq_reader

The following detailed video tutorial will instruct you on how to prepare your and configure your blog to use the FeedM8 features, allowing readers to access it with ease on their iPhone, PDA or cell phones.

Mobilizing your Blog

Automatic link swapper and traffic generator

Everybody needs more traffic to the blog. It increases income and improves site rating in the search engines. Experts claim that a very good blog with proper structure and nice format and content has a chance to get maximum Google PageRank as PR3. To increase it more, you need multiple links from other sites to your blog to be in place. But how can you persuade other bloggers in your niche link to you? That might be a challenging and long range process. There are multiple ways to boost the linking, some of them even legitimate.

BlogLinker.com is offering a way of increasing your blog exposure. It is absolutely free tool to increase traffic to your blog by making use of automatic reciprocal linking: others linking to your blog if you link to theirs. Note that the bloggers who misuse the service are removed from this platform on a regular basis.

Here is how it works:
1. Sign-up to blogLinker, then copy a special line of code into your blog template.
2. Find others like you on blogLinker and link to them.
3. They links will now appear on your site and yours will appear on their blogs.

You have an ability to approve all link requests, and you can hide or delete links you do not like. You can also customize their look and feel to match your site interface.

Example to review how the Bloglinker block looks like:

Automatic link swapper

Sign up: http://www.bloglinker.com/

How to include social bookmarking submission after every post?

Every blog owner will benefit from sustaining the readers on the blog content. To reach this goal, it should be offered an easy and convenient way to subscribe to the blog through RSS reader and to allow submitting it to the Social Bookmarking sites. Social Bookmarking is indeed a great way to increase the blog exposure, bringing multiple benefits to the owner. Not just the reader preserves the post for further review and follow-up, but also the bookmark itself starts its own independent way of online existence. It will be indexed by Search Engine spider and will allow one more point of access to the blog content. It is just multiplying your blog exposure legally, with no additional efforts, and with no need to post duplicate your content on multiple sites.

Bloggerplugins offer a nice way to include small buttons after every post, allowing direct submission to the most popular social bookmarking sites with one click, without leaving the blog post.

To enable this option on your blog you should go through several simple steps of blog template code update:

1. Enter Blogger template in Layout section.
2. Choose Edit HTML.
3. Before doing any code modification, backup the entire template to the safe, easy identifiable location on your Hard Drive. If anything goes wrong, you can easily come back to your original template without loosing your blog structure.
4. Expand the widget template.
5. In the template:
a. Locate

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b. Replace with

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c. Locate string

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d. Place the following code below that line:

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6. Save the modified template.
7. If the operation was successful, you should see the line of social bookmarking icons after each post.