How Blogging Reduces Depression And Anxiety

For the most of our lives, running after money or getting stuck through some unsuccessful business
activities, and regarding teenagers, the feeling of betrayal as well as being alone and solitary has led us to struggle with depression and anxiety. 

Depression has no boundaries. No matter how rich you are, no matter how successful you've been, but if you're thrown in your own dark thoughts, there's no easy escape. This is the reason why, even celebrities have battled depression. Celebrities like Jim Carrey, Ellen Degeneres, Johnny Depp as well as others were successful in fighting over depression but sadly some celebrities couldn't make it through which includes famous music icons like Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington and Kurt Cobain.

Regarding me, I've been totally open about my depressive phase where I dealt with tons of emotional disturbance including sadness, anger, jealousy as well as guilt. There were various times in my life, where I nearly gave up, but still couldn't end it. That was really a dark phase where the unnecessary thoughts were killing me and I felt like no one was totally feeling me.

But now, the old thoughts are long gone. I'm happy and progressive towards my profession, right now. The major thing that helped me battle over my depression was blogging. Yeah, it's true that writing blog posts eventually led me to overcome my depressive phase. 

You might wonder, how can writing blog posts help in curing depression? 

Well, here are the reasons behind it :

• Presenting our views

The major aspect of blogging is that we can totally present our views and thoughts. No matter what the post is about, giving our total views and recommendation helps in boosting our knowledge as well. With our creative expression, we can easily give our views on a particular matter which the post is about, that eventually leads in making us feel good, which reduces sadness and anger.

• Sharing information to others

The posts that we present in our particular blog is meant to be for others to read. Depending on the post quality, the readers might be inspired or motivated by our writings. They'll start giving their own views or asking you some sort of questions which will eventually make us more happy because of the engagement seen on the post and the attention that our readers are providing to you. This becomes an inspiration for us to even write and deliver more posts, which will make us busy rather than being alone and drowned into thoughts.

• Boosts our confidence

Now that we have started writing contents focusing on our views and knowledge, the level of engagement in the posts helps in giving us more confidence about how it has also helped others. This removes negative vibes like sadness and mood swings from our mind and helps in better understanding of our worth in life. This becomes an important aspect of how important we're for everyone, leading us to reduce major thoughts which once pulled us from a happy life and led us into dark phase of depression.

Depression isn't an easy escape. Being a victim of depression once, I just want to tell you that you're not alone. There are many people who're battling through this phase. This can be cured through healthy expressions, emotions and total support but the major thing that helps in curing it is belief upon you.
You guys are awesome and this world is such a beautiful place for us to live. Our life is totally bigger than what we might expect, because of unexpected things to come in future. If you're having any problems regarding depression and how you're dealing or how you dealt, comment down your thoughts below. I'll be responding all of your comments. This isn't just a blog, it's a community and we're like a family.
Regards,
Blogger Smasher

Instant Traffic Boosting Tips

Many blog lacks traffic that there content desires. Creating blog is easy but its hard to get organic traffic and visitors. Lets talk of Blogger Smasher. For first three month my blog hardly got less than 200 visitor daily but see my blog popularity has grown that my blog get more than 500 unique page views. Lets learn some key point to increase traffic !

Publishing High Quality content

Every body likes the exclusive content. Your content must target what your Visitor want. You need to publish only genuine content which can make audience happy that surely increase your page view. It's generally good to publish about 3 articles in a week and a unique post in a month.

By Advertising

Advertising is probably the the best way to increase traffic. For first three month it is better to advertise using Google Adwords. Just it is matter of money. After advertising you will see your blog level and cost goes high that you will never expect. For eg: if you spent $100 for your advertisement and even many of clicks are fake than also you can make profit, than also it is guaranteed that you will have your sales boosted as the same $100 comes in your hand like a boomerang with the net cost of $200 and even more.

Participation in Forum

If you arise question or help other in Forum you will certainly get some Traffic. Thousands of people visit Forum then there is high possibility of Getting more Traffic. For Blogger it is better to participate in Blogger Help forum.

Reducing Page Size

If you reduce your Blog size then people will probably stay longer. A Blog that loads faster touch the heart of Visitor. Generally people recommend your site as valid if your site loads faster and they will be as referrals delivering you large amount of traffic.

Making SEO Friendly 

Blog Blogger Smasher gets 70% of traffic form Search Engines. From this you can know the eseentiality of SEO. To make SEO Friendly you must use alternate tags in image. You must also use nofollow, Titles etc. to your Link. Adding Meta tags helps in contribution of SEO.

Connecting the Blog with Social Media

Social Media helps to diversify your content. If you want to increase traffic social media has got high role. Blogging Sentral Gets 15% Traffic from Social media like Facebook, Google plus. To promote social media you need to make Facebook, Google + fanpages and upgrade and share your articles in them.

Using Google Analytic, Stat Counter

At first we need to identify the Traffic Source of Blog. Blogger Stat is not effective so use Google Analytic and Stat Counter. You can get detailed information of your current traffic and use those traffic bases as a technique to boost your traffic.

Image,Video Blogging

Adding Image and video helps to increase SEO in Google image and Google video and YouTube. Thus You can create may traffic source from it. Needless to say, youtube and google videos can instantly send you thousands of traffic.

Posting content regularly

If you Post your Content Regularly 2-3 times in a day your visitor will stay longer with your Blog. This surely increase your Blog Traffic. It may not be possible for some bloggers, but I request them to post a content in a day.

Pinging Blog

Ping the Blog using ping-o-matic. Don’t use it beyond limit other wise you will get banned from search engine. You can use window live writer for pinging too.

I am sure that these tips would help you.
If you know other tips also then you can comment below? We are waiting for your comments!!

Excluding Un-necessary Things From Blog Pages

Blogger allows its users to create only twenty pages. These pages are the unique blogger pages for custom customization. We would surely need to load those faster as they supply more advanced information.

If you see in one of our pages from the navigation tab you can see only the header and post. As for other layouts like sidebar and footer is excluded. Thus automatically our page loading will be faster.
See a preview of how a static page would really look like;

I received many e-mails regarding this topic from several other people as well. It's very easy as we will be using CSS codes to hide other unnecessary stuffs. If so follow below;

1. Identifying The Excluding Things;

Before you can remove un-necessary things from your blog pages you will need to identify the parts of your blog layout. If you want to exclude widgets than you should find out their id and classes which can be learnt here. After you have identified your parts then proceed to next step.

2. Adding The Code;

After you have find the parts of your blog to be excluded you can proceed ahead;

• Go to blogger dashboard>Template>Edit Html.
• Find <body> tag in your template.
• Then insert the below code just below <body>.

1. For Designer Template;

<!-- Static Page Styling Stats-->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'>
<style type="text/css">
.sidebar,.lowerbar,.footer { 
display:none !important;
}

.main-inner .columns {
width: 98%;
padding-left:0 !important;
padding-right:0 !important;
}

</style>
</b:if>
<!-- http://bloggersmasher.blogspot.com  -->
<!-- Static Page Styling Ends -->

2. For Layout Template

<!-- Static Page Styling Stats-->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'>
<style type="text/css">
.sidebar,.lowerbar,.footer { 
display:none !important;
}

#main-wrapper {
width: 98%;
 float:none; margin: 0 auto !important;
}

</style>
</b:if>
<!-- http://bloggersmasher.blogspot.com -->
<!-- Static Page Styling Ends -->

• In the above code,

1. Add the ID or sections which are to be excluded separated by comma in line 4.
2. Change the width of your static page according to pixels or percentage in line 9.

• Finally click on save and you are done.

Now, view your page and you will find your static page.

ENJOY!

Using Post Title Instead Of Old And New Post

You might have see older post and newer post link at the below part of each blog post. They are the links to the post publish a step earlier and later. Actually most of the people don't pay much attention to it as they don't attract much visitors.
But by replacing the old post and new post text with their post titles, remaining the link same, we can attract much more visitors, as we've seen in Harry Potter where we're busy seeing the exploration of wonders of wizarding world!  

This trick surely looks cool, isn't it. After all it's meant to be cool, hehe, just kidding. Now we shall move forward to accomplish this trick. Follow below;

1. Adding Jquery Code;

Before you implement this trick you will need to add a Jquery code. If you have already added this Jquery code while doing other blogger tricks then you don't need to add it again. Just skip it and go for next step. See below for how to add Jquery code;

• Go to dashboard>Template>Edit Html.
• Then in your template search for </head> tag and insert the below code just above </head>;

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js">
</script>

• Now, save your template and go for next step.

2. Adding The JavaScript Code;

This trick is only possible because of Javascript. We will need to add it. Follow below;

• Go to you template code;dashboard>Template>Edit Html.
• Then find for </body> tag and paste the below code  just above </body>.

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
$(document).ready(function(){ 
var newerLink = $("a.blog-pager-newer-link").attr("href"); 
$("a.blog-pager-newer-link").load(newerLink+" .post-title:first", function() { 
var newerLinkTitle = $("a.blog-pager-newer-link").text(); 
$("a.blog-pager-newer-link").text("<< " + newerLinkTitle); 
}); 
var olderLink = $("a.blog-pager-older-link").attr("href"); 
$("a.blog-pager-older-link").load(olderLink+" .post-title:first", function() { 
var olderLinkTitle = $("a.blog-pager-older-link").text(); 
$("a.blog-pager-older-link").text(olderLinkTitle + " >>");//rgt 
}); 
}); 
//]]>
</script>

• Now click on template and you are done.

3. Styling The Posts Links;

Sometimes it happens that your post name may be a bit more longer than usual, or you may like to change it's colour to suit your taste. If this is the case then;

• Add the below CSS code to your blog;

#blog-pager-newer-link  {
font-size:85%;
width:220px;
background:#fafafa;
} 

#blog-pager-older-link {
font-size:85%;
width:220px;
background:#fafafa;
} 

• You can directly edit the CSS above. Adjust according to your need and save it.

I hope you guys have succeed in this.

Read Our Other Useful Posts;

• Remove Footer Credit Links From Any Blogger Template
• Change Blogger Posts Permalink
• Submit Your Blog Feed To Google News

Adding Auto Read More Link With Thumbnail

Before some days I had published a post regarding blogger jump break feature. But many people had problems so I thought to provide my visitors with a more flexible auto read more link.

But first of all I would like to distinguish it from blogger page break. As we know that blogger jump break requires to be included in each post but auto read more link doesn't requires to place any code while editing your post.

And the most important feature which it has is that it also displays thumbnail which the default jump break doesn't. You just have to add a one time code in your template and you are done.

Just follow the steps below;

• Go to dashboard>Template>Edit Html.
• Click on Expand Widget's Template.
• Then search for </head> tag in your template.
• After finding this tag, you should copy the below code and paste it just after </head>;

<!-- Auto read more script Start -->
<script type='text/javascript'>
var thumbnail_mode = "yes"; //yes -with thumbnail, no -no thumbnail
summary_noimg = 430; //summary length when no image
summary_img = 340; //summary length when with image
img_thumb_height = 200;
img_thumb_width = 200;
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
function removeHtmlTag(strx,chop){ 
 if(strx.indexOf("<")!=-1)
 {
  var s = strx.split("<"); 
  for(var i=0;i<s.length;i++){ 
   if(s[i].indexOf(">")!=-1){ 
    s[i] = s[i].substring(s[i].indexOf(">")+1,s[i].length); 
   } 
  } 
  strx =  s.join(""); 
 }
 chop = (chop < strx.length-1) ? chop : strx.length-2; 
 while(strx.charAt(chop-1)!=' ' && strx.indexOf(' ',chop)!=-1) chop++; 
 strx = strx.substring(0,chop-1); 
 return strx+'...'; 
}

function createSummaryAndThumb(pID){
 var div = document.getElementById(pID);
 var imgtag = "";
 var img = div.getElementsByTagName("img");
 var summ = summary_noimg;
        if(thumbnail_mode == "yes") {
 if(img.length>=1) { 
  imgtag = '<span style="float:left; padding:0px 10px 5px 0px;"><img src="'+img[0].src+'" width="'+img_thumb_width+'px" height="'+img_thumb_height+'px"/></span>';
  summ = summary_img;
 }
 }
 var summary = imgtag + '<div>' + removeHtmlTag(div.innerHTML,summ) + '</div>';
 div.innerHTML = summary;
}
//]]>
</script>
<!-- Auto read more script End -->

• Now search for this piece of code; <data:post.body/>
• After finding <data:post.body/> replace it with the below code;

<!-- Auto read more code Start -->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<data:post.body/>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'>
<data:post.body/>
<b:else/>
<div expr:id='&quot;summary&quot; + data:post.id'><data:post.body/></div>
<script type='text/javascript'> createSummaryAndThumb(&quot;summary<data:post.id/>&quot;);
</script>
<a class='more' expr:href='data:post.url'>Read more ...</a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
<!-- Auto read more code End -->

• Finally save your template and you are done.

Some Tweaks;

Here are some tweaks that you can perform in the code;

1. You may find <data:post.body/> twice or thrice. If it is the case than i strongly recommend you to choose the first one.
2. You can change the value of "img_thumb_height" and "img_thumb_width" to change the height and width of the thumbnail in pixels respectively.
3. You can edit the value of "summary_noimg" and "summary_img" to change the number of characters to appear when there is no image and when there is image respectively.
4. Change "Read more ..." with the text to appear as read more link. For eg:see more>>,get more>>,show more..,etc.

Now, you can see your auto read more link working perfectly in your site. I expect that you will get more improvements. BYE!