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Blog disaster management some tips and tricks

Dear Friends,

Good News is that I had finally fixed the ongoing issue with my blog ,post were getting unusual link.
It just happened on weekend that I happened to experimented with my blog comment section , and end-up deleting the posts and comments after taking the backup and then the real issue arise of putting blogs as well comments section in place.
I asked many blog masters in this regard and also google about it , but all went in vein as all suggested to create a new blog and import the blogger XML , but what about the followers , yes followers can't be exported to another blog if you delete the existing one create new one with the same name.
So I didn't pick this option and again looked for the some breakthrough , lastly I got some smile as I got a reply from fellow blogger Peter and gave me the Link of one of his post on recovering the deleted post. So I keep touch with him to resolve it.

But this only resolved the Post and followers , now comments were the issue as after recovery there is zero comments.
After running the brain horses, I tested the third party comment widget feature DISQUS today over the test blog and it worked i.e  I had the comment synchronised over DISQUS and it worked like wonders, though old post will show Zero comments but actually this Widget will show all previous comment if any visitor click to comment.
It was a great learning curve with this experimentation of me , I downloaded the XML editor and other log tools I normally uses which came handy.
So before everything goes over your head I will let you know , what to do when something went wrong or you deletes your blog accidentally ( not like mine doing intentionally ;) lol).
Few things always keep in mind

1) Always keep a backup of the posts as well template on a regular basis before making any changes to it.
2) Use third party comments integration tool like DISQUS and Intensedebate for better reply to individual comments in a threaded manner.
3)Never change the post title once published (1st decide then write), why ? because once you post over your blog a PostID is generated against it with the time-stamp over it so if we modify it we get another URL and PostID as well , which also makes it lagging behind in Google search or sometime will never come-up too.
4)Never give-up keep on trying , that's what I always do and most of the time its sweet.
5)use some search engine pinging service like PINGOMATIC to put our post in the search engines top searches to get our blog some visitors apart from sweet blog followers :).

So when we publishes a post over our blog with some keywords, 1st we get visitor secondly we also get in web cache of search engine and thereafter can browse the content even we don't have live link available how just, take any of the post URL paste it over Google and search it you will see something like below. click images to enlarge !.

if its deleted and inactive post , you can browse else you have it in cache after clicking it will show the date and time it was last updated.

Do following steps to recover the accidentally deleted blogs.

1) Get your blogID Number , to get it open any of your post in edit mode and look at its url ,you will find BlogID as well PostId of the post.

2) One new tab and open google to search for the post , you must know the Post keyword or title.

3) When you get post after Googling Click on cache

 
4) Press CTL+U to get source code


5) Search CTL + F  for postID and copy it and replace the PostID value on the edit tab and press enter, you will find the post you were so eagerly searching for and also find that when it was created by expanding "post option" . simply press publish and its done , it will not even show over Friends feeds too as it will get posted on the same date and time as before.
You go also use the above mentioned third party comments tools if you want to have comments backup (DISQUS and Intensedebate) if you have accidentally deleted the comments too like me (mine was a deliberate attempt though)

Hope this post helps.Do leave your experiences so we can share so others too get benefited at the same time.

P.S : Thanks to Peter and Fellow bloggers for making it I M POSSIBLE and making me believe if we wish to do something , there might come some hindrance in the way but , if we keep trying we will definitely get there where we want to :) Thanks all.
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COLORBOX : A perfect Lightbox for Sites

Colorbox


It has been a while since I posted something over Blogspot , actaully I was working over my blog template design and tweaking over its loading time as well as some other codes and widgets which were making it load slower.
I was looking for a tool which can give vistor a  great browsing user experience over the site.


After searching over google I shortlisted three tools ,Colorbox
Lightview and Lightbox out of these 3 after working and testing it over my template I found success in 2 Jquery enabled Lightwight Lightboxes  i.e lightbox2 and Colorbox. Out of both I like colorbox , as its easy and very much flexible.


Now if you are wondering what I'm talking about , then click over my profile picture or Header picture , you will get a image in a BOX not in the other page. So the main point is to do work on the same page.
The good thing is it doesn't reloads your page again , which is quite annoying at times when we have slow internet access.


More over it give you a better way to  browse images and you can also do a slideshow with this Colorbox and even can add external blogger link or video embedding etc and its very easy nothing to much.
So the main advantage of this is on site loading  which is faster, content access gets easier, bandwidth is consumed less.


I have hosted the scripts over my google site page so no issue of slow google performance.To do all the Above I will show you step by step implementation.


Step 1 : Goto Blogger  Dashboard ---> click " Design".
Step 2 : Click over " Edit HTML".
Step 3 : Click on "Download Full template" To be on the safer side if  any error comes,so it can reversed.
Step 4 : Check "Expand Widget Templates".
Step 5 : Search for </head> tag in your blog template
Step 6 : Copy the  Below code above </head> tag.

<link href='http://sites.google.com/site/vivekchamoli/home/test-for-scripts/colorbox.css' media='screen' rel='stylesheet'/> 

<script src='http://sites.google.com/site/vivekchamoli/home/test-for-scripts/jquery.min.js.txt' type='text/javascript'></script> 


<script src='http://sites.google.com/site/vivekchamoli/home/test-for-scripts/jquery.colorbox.txt' type='text/javascript'></script> 


<script> 


$(document).ready(function(){


//Examples of how to assign the ColorBox event to elements


$("a[rel='example1']").colorbox();


$("a[rel='example2']").colorbox({transition:"fade"});


$("a[rel='example3']").colorbox({transition:"none", width:"75%", height:"75%"});


$("a[rel='example4']").colorbox({slideshow:true});


$(".example5").colorbox();


$(".example6").colorbox({iframe:true, innerWidth:425, innerHeight:344});


$(".example7").colorbox({width:"80%", height:"80%", iframe:true});


$(".example8").colorbox({width:"50%", inline:true, href:"#inline_example1"});


$(".example9").colorbox({


onOpen:function(){ alert('onOpen: colorbox is about to open'); },


onLoad:function(){ alert('onLoad: colorbox has started to load the targeted content'); },


onComplete:function(){ alert('onComplete: colorbox has displayed the loaded content'); },


onCleanup:function(){ alert('onCleanup: colorbox has begun the close process'); },


onClosed:function(){ alert('onClosed: colorbox has completely closed'); }


});




//Example of preserving a JavaScript event for inline calls.


$("#click").click(function(){ 


$('#click').css({"background-color":"#f00", "color":"#fff", "cursor":"inherit"}).text("Open this window again and this message will still be here.");


return false;


});


});


</script>


Now I will demonstrate how you can add Image , Video , External website access within your blog post , have a look at the below examples.


Image :
Google Chrome


Code :
<a href="http://www.chromeplugins.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Chrome-Browser.jpg" rel="example1" title="Google Chrome"><img style="width: 150px; height: 150px;" alt="Google Chrome" src="http://www.chromeplugins.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Chrome-Browser.jpg" />
External Website :
Outside Webpage (Iframe)


Code:
<a class="example7" href="http://google.com/">Outside Webpage (Iframe)</a>


Video


Flash / Video (Iframe/Direct Link To YouTube)


Code:
<a class="example6" href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IVenCN5-9Z8" title="Jordan Spark: Freeze">Flash / Video (Iframe/Direct Link To YouTube)</a>


These were some examples , hope you like it , do let me know if you have any queries.






P.S : All Credit goes to  Jack Moore the creator of Colorbox.

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Clash of the Titans : Google vs Bing

Earlier today search engine war certainly just took an interesting turn when search engine giant Google sparked an Internet out burst accusing Bing of stealing their search results. From the Google point, Microsoft was caught red handed in stealing both titles and descriptions of their various search results.

According to Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow in charge of ranking algorithms, Bing is simply cheating.
“I’ve spent my career in pursuit of a good search engine. I’ve got no problem with a competitor developing an innovative algorithm. But copying is not innovation, in my book.”


The spell correction that Google uses in its engine was used to first spot the possible monitoring by Bing. Results given by Google after correcting a misspelling were being given by Bing without correcting the spelling. After analyzing data and realizing that something fishy may be afoot, Google devised a plan to uncover what was really going on. This operation would mark the first time Google has tampered with its own search results, and it shows how important this was to them.  Google made a honeypot search result that would pop up if a user typed in a totally illogical word. For example, if you typed in a string like “abcdxsios”, Google would return a page discussing the historical relevance of unicorns. After a while, Bing search results would show the unicorn page as a result for the illogical string.

Microsoft was defensive about the whole case, claiming that the Bing toolbar tracks users click data, providing the information back to Bing, providing the identical search results. Angered by the claims against Bing, Microsoft formally responded to Google by saying they "do not copy Google's results."

After the buzz spread, Harry Shum, VP of search development for Bing, came out and basically accused Google of profiting from search spam results, according to businessinsider.com. The pretty bold claim accuses Google of playing both sides of the spam game; by allowing spam sites to make their money by running Google Ads, in which Google does take a share of the profits.

Shum claims that 70% of spam sites use Google Ads to help fund themselves:

"I'd say you are really sidestepping the big problems, the origin of the spam, why they appeared in the first place. There must be an economic incentive to create his kind of content. Why? 70% of those pages show Google Ads....You can't just say because you don't report to VP of ad sales you have no problem".


Google then replied saying it does scan websites, regardless if they use Google Ads or not, periodically, removing any websites that contain spam from their search results and advertising program.

P.S : Looks like a war finally has begun , lets hope it give rise to competitive and innovative search algorithm.

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Google Chrome : Safe And Secure Browsing

GOOGLE  CHROME





Last night I was trying to find some browsers which can give me fast browsing, at the same time are more secure.
The common thoughts that comes to mind is of few 
popular web browsers like Internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox , safari , google chrome and opera,
My Favoutite browser is Mozilla ,but there are few things which were not satisfying me is that which is the crash rate , hanging high CPU usage.





I tried google chrome way back , chrome is devoped by google from the open source project Chromium .But due to lots of security flaws I didn't used it there after.


But 
today I'm more confident to use google chrome then any other Web browser coz its now more secure than the present browser and moreover its security can be enhanced by 
using some extensions(plugins), these enhances the security and narrow down security risk to a greater extent. And being the fasted browser the browsing experience is amazing.


A Video on the evolution of Google chrome.. have a look





So here in this article about those cool extension which will reduce your online threats.


Following are the extension which I found very good afte testing.


1) AdBlock


 a very handy extension as it blocks the bugging adds,for security its very good as now a days malware writers are using these adds as target to successfully
intrude into your machine W/o you knowing it.
"Malware Ad Injections" is the technique used by malware writers to infiltrate into the accredited Web sites like the New York times, so it helps in blocking adds.

2) Bug Me Not

 is a very unique extenstion , helps in thwart advertising spam from Web sites that require registering. If a Web site requests information, it will check Bug Me 
Not.com’s database. If registration information is available, Bug Me Not will populate the form, allowing you to continue, yet remain anonymous.

3) FlashBlock
Vulnerabilities in Flash are becoming popular targets for hackers. FlashBlock helps by initially blocking all Flash content on a Web page. You can later-on whitelist(allow)
the website from where you want to have flash , like www.youtube.com.


4) Secbrowsing - plugin version checker

 extention Periodically checks if your browser is running any out-of-date, vulnerable plugins etc and keep you utodate.


5) SiteAdvisor
SiteAdvisor is a service that reports on the safety of Web sites. It shows the Web site’s rating. You also have the option of not allowing suspicious Web sites to load.

6) Unencrypted Password Warning
Unencrypted Password Warning does exactly what its name says. And Most importantly it also displays a warning if credit card numbers are sent in the clear. This extension is helpful for users who aren’t familiar with HTTPS and what it means. If there is a problem, it opens a window and explains what’s wrong.

7) WOT
Web of Trust (WOT) is another extension that rates the trustworthiness of Web sites. WOT is similar to SiteAdvisor but with a diffrent approach. Unlike SiteAdvisor, WOT rates search results, which is a nice feature. You have an idea before you proceed to the Web site.



P.S :  Dear Readers , hope you like the post , put your comments suggestion or any information I'm missing over here. You are most welcome , Have a nice Read :)




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