Category — Blogging Tips

I know you’re already familiar with the table structure in HTML and here I used it to place my 125*125 ad slots properly. You can also try it for your blog if you have several ad slots unorganized.

You don’t have to write down the HTML codes, I have made it and published below. Just copy and paste in your widget section or anywhere you want and then paste the ad codes within the <td>, </td> tags.  It’s really easier than CSS. [Read more →]

No matter whether you own or just setup a blog in Wordpress. You can take a look below to the long list of 11 essential tools for smoothly manage your blog. Some of them are free web services and the rest are wordpress plugins. [Read more →]

When you have decent traffic in your blog, you might want to publicize it. In that case Feed Burner is a trusted and most used service from Google to show your blog readers in an accurate figure. You know this service very well because your email subscription service is already supported by it.

Another Recommended Reading: How to Permanently Block a Spammer in Wordpress Blog.

By default Feed Burner doesn’t show your reader count, you need to activate this service from there.

Logon to the www.feedburner.com and login with your Google account. It will show you the subscriber count of your blog. Now click on “Publicize” tab and then on “FeedCount” at left sidebar.

You can now get the feed count chicklet preview. Customize the chicklet by changing body and text color if needed. Finally click on “Activate” button at below to enable the service.

This is the HTML code of the chicklet with reader count of your blog. Copy the code and paste anywhere in your blog. If you’re in Wordpress, simply add it at widget section.

If you are in Blogger or Typepad, you can directly add the reader count by selecting and clicking on the “Go!” button.

If your site is in growing phase, you might get lots of spam daily. Akismet is one of the best spam protection plugin for the Wordpress users but you should know that it stores the spams temporarily in your database. And ofcourse you will never want to allocate a database space for some unwanted, unuseful things.

So read the steps below to permanently block the spammer IP address by a simple .htaccess trick. Once you have blocked the IP, it can’t access your site in future anymore.

First login to your Wordpress dashboard and open the list of spams. Now you can see the sender’s IP address at left side.

Download the .htaccess file from Root directory of your site. You can use Filezilla FTP client to get it instantly. Thus once downloaded, open it in Notepad and add the following code in it.

<Limit GET POST PUT>
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 92.241.165.236
</Limit>

Look here 92.241.165.236 is the spammer’s IP address and if you want to block multiple IP addresses, add the IPs with  “deny from XX.XXX.XXX.XXX” syntax, just below of the existing one.

<Limit GET POST PUT>
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 92.241.165.236
deny from 57.654.67.789
deny from
</Limit>

Now upload the modified .htaccess to root directory. Thus you have all done and wait for a new spam to start a new case.

You know Filezilla is trusted and most probably the highest using FTP client in the web. If you are using Filezilla, no need to give another a try but still always should collect some alternatives so that in critical situation you can carry on your job without tension.

Here in this article I am providing you a list of 5 such alternatives of Filezilla. You can try anyone to test whether it is faster than Filezilla or not.

FireFTP:

FlashFXP:

FTPCommander:

FreeFTP:

CoreFTP:

You know Windows Live Writer is the most powerful tool by Microsoft for writing blog posts offline. You can write, directly publish posts from Live Writer. If you are a blogger, you know more than me but still there are some useful features that you might overlooked. [Read more →]

Theme editing is such a job seems never be completely done. I am also editing my 6 months old blog theme from the earlier days but still I think I have a lot left to edit. It’s not always time wasting, because if you have sufficient knowledge in HTML, php, you can make a large amount of money by editing client’s theme. [Read more →]

Do you get lots of spam from a particular country or city? Do you really want to block an IP to visit your site? Then read this article where you can get the methods to block an IP, ISP, city, country and continent also.

Another Recommended Reading: How to Track Your Stolen Laptop or Desktop.

In that case you should know .htaccess, generally located under root directory is the file that allows or denies an IP to visit your site. So in this article we are going to build some restrictions on that file so that you can easily ban cities, continents from visiting your site.

How to Block a Particular IP to Visit your Site:

Well, do you want to block an IP address to visit your site.  It’s simple, replace the IP given below with your desired IP. You can enter multiple IPs to block. Finally paste the code in your .htaccess file and save the modified.

order allow,deny
deny from 127.0.0.1
deny from 127.0.0.2
deny from 127.0.0.3
allow from all

In that case if you didn’t get the particular IP address yet, enter the IP range such as 127.0.0 to block.

How to Block an ISP (Internet Service Provider) to Visit your Site:

Just IP blocking is not sufficient? then why not you block an entire ISP to visit your site. Replace the ISP_name with your desired ISP (that you want to block) and paste the code in your .htaccess file.

deny from isp_name.com

How to Block a City to Visit your Site:

Do you get lots of Google Addsense invalid clicks from a particular city? It’s really disgusting and harmful also. So quickly build a restriction for the city in your .htaccess file. First find out the IP range of the corresponding city and then put it in .htaccess file.

How to Block a Country to Visit your Site:

First visit to this site and choose the country names you want to restrict. Here I chosen India, you can select multiple countries by holding the “Shift” key. Once selected, click on the “Go” button at bottom. It will provide you the restriction text that you have to add to your .htaccess file. The text is nothing but a list of IPs from your chosen countries with “Deny” action.

How to Block a Continent to Visit your Site:

Visit to the site and you can see here a list of all continents. Click on the “.htaccess deny” option of the corresponding continent that you want to block. It will show you the htaccess restriction file. Paste it in your .htaccess file and save the modified.

So that’s all and don’t further proceed to block the world to visit your site.

You must know Hotlinking!! It’s nothing but one kind of stealing. To find out the person who is stealing and accessing your files is really a tough job. It creates extra load on your server and might slow down your site.

Another Recommended Reading: 7 Sites to Schedule your Tweet to be Published in Future.

Now check out the trick below to easily protect your hosted files like images, Javascripts, CSS from the unauthorized users. A web site Tools.dynamicdrive.com offers you this facility. It will add a restriction to your .htaccess file except for your own site.

First visit to the website link and put your site URL without “http://www” in the specified box. If you have any other domains or sub-domains, put these in the box. Enter the file extensions in the specified box at below that you want to protect from hot-linking.

Finally click on “Generate Code” button to get the final code. Copy/Paste it in your .htaccess file (may be blank or existing) under root directory. From now whenever someone will try to use your image, it will show broken.

Thus your files are now fully hot-linking protected and only your own site can access the files.

It’s worth to say Google Analytics is able to track your blog visitors with deep in keywords that they typed. I am using Google Analytics for a long while for Softtricks. Really its analysis power is very impressive.

Another Recommended Reading: Create a Free Mobile Version of your Blog/Site

At the very earlier of SoftTricks I was searching for such a method that can ignore my own visits to count. But after trying several methods ultimately I became failure. I have tried the methods of Cookies, Filters, Dynamic IPs but don’t know why not a single one was working for me but I didn’t give up the topic.

And ultimately I have solved it by a simple php script. I just restricted Analytics to count my visits when I am logged-in at Wordpress. So to use this method, you must have to run on Wordpress.

Procedure is so simple. First take a look at the php script below. Replace the red color code with your own analytics tracking code and paste in footer.php.

Now save the modified and visit your own site without tension, it will not be counted.
If u r using any other technique, drop a comment at below.