AOL Instant Messenger Shuts down Permanently

Social medias are the base of virtual world. It is estimated that more than 30% of people use internet for the sake of utilizing social media. Hence, we can analyze the critical importance of social media on the internet. If we look back in time, we can see the variation of social media now and then ! With the passage of time, social medias became much powerful, secured, advanced as well as reliable. The path and the agents involved in social media development seems to be much vast and the principles used sounds amazing ! One of such pioneer factors is AOL Instant Messenger.

AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) was an instant messaging computer program which enabled users to communicate in real time. It was popular back then, in 1990s to Mid 2000s, and is considered to be the pioneer stuff of social media development. With the evolution of time and development of social media, and popularity of Facebook and Twitter made AIM to fade away, which made it's owner Oath Inc. to permanently shut down AIM service from Dec 15, 2017, stated on October 5, 2017!

All good things come to an end. On Dec 15, we'll bid farewell to AIM. Thank you to all our users! #AIMemories https://t.co/b6cjR2tSuU pic.twitter.com/V09Fl7EPMx

— AIM (@aim) October 6, 2017

It's such an unhappy moment for adults, who grew up using AIM to say goodbye to something which enlightened their past. AIM was the one of the best instant messaging program to communicate with others. It was the pivotal part of introduction to life on the internet for most of the people. It helped people understand the internet communication carefully and emotionally in a way that people could understand the vast pace of internet growth and it's importance in the future. AIM wasn’t the first instant messaging tool to exist, but it was the most widely used and influential in broad strokes, making it possible for us to feel at home in lots of different online settings.
Messaging apps are still so similar to the pattern which AIM used and popularized. Considering Zuckerberg, he created Facebook’s original chat feature as the same format AIM was designed. Zuckerberg’s  Facebook Messenger, has a few improvements, but the basics are all there:

• A buddy list 
• Online activity statuses 
• And the ability to chat one on one, or in a group.

AIM never stood a chance at keeping up with the pace of innovation on the web, which is why it has left, but that doesn’t change what it meant to us. AIM truly set the parameters for most of our virtual interactions, so when it goes dark on Friday, it will be gone but certainly not forgotten !

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!!

Adding Social Content Locker in Blogger

Hi guys, today I am bringing you the most fantastic Widget which helps to increase our Blogs traffic By Sharing. It Is Called Social Content Locker which helps to share our blog to unlock the content. You may have seen related to this content locker in different surveying sites where we must share the page to view hidden text, downloads and much more.

So, lets add this special widget in our blog.

Follow My Steps to add it in your blog;

• Open your blog account
• Go To Blogger Dashboard
• Select Your Blog and click On Layout
• Click On Template and select Edit HTML 
• Search For This Code </head>
• paste the below code just below the code

<link href='https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6h45U6VDP-abXFiYWZPZlVoeTA' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>

• Now, save your template

Now, let's add this in our desired post. Follow my steps to show it in our specified posts;

• Click On The Blog post where you want to add this
• Click On Edit post
• Select HTML in place Of Compose button
• Paste The Code There

<article id="default-usage">



<div class="to-lock" style="display: none;">
<!--Hidden Content Starts (You can Use HTML BELOW)-->
<div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px;">
<img src="Add_Hidden_Image_Here" alt="" style="margin: auto;" />
</div>



Add Your Hidden Text Here
<div style="text-align: justify">
</div>
<!--Hidden Content Ends (You can Use HTML ABOVE)-->

</article>



</div><div id="nbtunlocker"> </div>

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6h45U6VDP-acDRPeDFFeXRCRE0"></script>
<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
$("#default-usage .to-lock").socialLock({
text: {
message: "Yes, this is Social Locker. Just try it, click on one of buttons."
header: "Share it To Unlock This Content",
},
style: "ui-social-locker-secrets",
buttons: {
order: ["twitter", "facebook", "google"]
},



url: "http://www.twitter.com/bloggersmasher",
// twitter options
twitter: {
text: "Upgrade your social buttons to get more social traffic!"
url: "http://www.facebook.com/bloggersmasher",
},
// facebook options
facebook: {
appId: "408184442589211"
url: "bloggersmasher.blogspot.com"
},
google: {
}
});



});;;;


</script>

• Now, Change The Following Highlighted Lines:

Change Add_Hidden_Image_Here with Your Hidden Image

Change Add Your Hidden Text Here with your hidden Text

Change bloggersmasher with your Twitter Username

Change bloggersmasher with your Facebook page Link

Change bloggersmasher.blogspot.com with Your Google plus Username

• At Last, publish The post

Now, we've successfully added social content locker in our blog. If You Have any kind of problems, you can comment and I shall Help You. 

Happy Blogging!!!

Regards,

Nischal Khanal

Submitting Your Site To Bing/Yahoo

Before I had written Quick Indexing In Google. That post was appreciated by my fellow pupils. But google is not only the search engine site. Apart from google there are famous search engines such as Yahoo & Bing.

These sites also fall in the top 5 in rank. SO they have plenty of visitors. Submitting blog to these sites is also a good idea. But as blogger is hosted by google and blog posts are automatically indexed to it, it is not the case with yahoo and bing. For them we need to submit manually.

Before some years we should submit our site to both the search engines separately, but after the completion of algorithmic transition to Bing, Yahoo! Search has merged Site Explorer into Bing Webmaster Tools. Webmasters should now be using the Bing Webmaster Tools to ensure that their websites continue to get high quality organic search traffic from Bing and Yahoo!.

Submitting Site To Yahoo/Bing;

Now, only submitting site to Bing will make our posts & pages appear in both of the giants search engines. Follow some steps below;

• Go to the Bing submitting Site.(opens in a new tab/window)
• Then you will be seeing a form

• There, type in your blog URL.
• Then properly type the captcha given and click on submit.

Now, your site has been submitted to Bing. The spiders will soon come and crawl through your blogs. Once submitted you should not bother submitting it again and again.

Troubleshoot; Not getting Indexed;

If your posts are not getting indexed after much time also then we should submit the site map like in google. Follow below steps;

• Sign in to your bing account.
• Click on your site and be forwarded to your dashboard.
• Then, click on sitemap in the sitemaps option.
• There, enter your default sitemap link. It looks like this; http://bloggersmasher.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml
• Just remove my URL and replace with your own and paste in the box.
• Finally, click on submit and you are done.

Now, your website has been properly submitted to bing webmaster tool, and soon your site will get indexed in both bing & yahoo. Enjoy!
See Also;

• Some Best Blogger Templates Sites
• Submitting Your Blog Feed to Google News