Should You Copy Content From Other Blogs Without Giving Credit ?

copying content without creditBlogging is not that easy as it looks from outside. Once you explore it yourself you will come to know that it is one of the most difficult jobs in the world. But if you blog with a proper approach then you won’t face much problems. But if you start a blog just by reading some fancy story of “How I made $10k from blogging”, your blog and even you will reach nowhere. This has become like a trend today. Thousands of blogs are being created on a daily basis of which only 2-3 blogs are worth reading. And in this madness of ‘earning $10k per month’ they are left short of ideas. This is the point where all this copy content from other blogs take place. Today I will tell you about some unseen aspects of this very topic.

Why a Blogger Copies ?  What Happens After That ??

Some dumb people, just for the sake of posting on their blogs, copy full articles from others blogs. They don’t think that the owner of the host blog might have done some serious work to just create that post. Such people think that copying the most popular article from the successful blogs will give them high traffic and some search engine ranking. But they don’t know that search engines are much more smarter than such copy-cats. Search engines are able to differentiate between what’s original and what’s duplicate. Even if a blog gets some high amount of traffic, then also he won’t be able to earn a good amount of money. All the biggest monetizing programs demand quality content and don’t accept blogs not fitting in this criteria. Thus the dream of making “$10k per month” is shattered.

A different Perspective of Plagiarism (Copying From other Blogs)

Now let’s see upon it in a different way. A blogger, no matter how successful he is, at last he is a human. And we all know humans are not perfect. Our brains cannot produce new ideas everytime. And if you are the only author of your blog, this will be the greatest hurdle between you and your success. At this time, impatient people are bound to make mistakes like copying from other blogs. If a blogger wants to embrace the success than he should not produce content that is already posted somewhere else. So what he should do at such crucial time?? Simple, give the due credits. If you have liked some post on other blogs and want to share it then you should give the credits to its original author. Any author would never object to this thing. Make this as a habit. It will never harm you, it has never harmed anyone.

I will tell you something. A few days back, I was reading an article on Problogger and I saw that Darren Rowse has used a quote from a post on other blog. He even gave credits of a simple quote to its original author. And I am telling you to give the credits of a post. See around the biggest blogs, you will always find the credit links in the posts, maybe in the beginning or at the end. Some great bloggers are also providing credit links to even the images used. This is not possible if you are using Google images as you won’t know which one is original. Even I use Google for images as it is easy. But I emphasize on using Flickr or anything similar for images.

Final Words

Always give the  credits to the original author. You will take a few minutes to copy the article which might have been produced after some serious researching and hard work. So never copy. If you like the idea of the post, write it on your blog in your own words and don’t forget to provide the credit link. I hope that this might have proved helpful to you guys. Happy Blogging :D

Arbaz Khan is a passionate blogger who loves to write about technology updates, social media, blogging and computers on his own blog TechBreach.net

Awesome Mac Style Drop Down Menu With Search Box

drop down menu thumb applySince the Apple-flavored Leopard-text-indent style is currently one of my favorite menu styles. So Today We just came across Stylish Apple Mac Style Drop Down Menu With Search Box. Its a simple yet stylish mac style drop down menu for blogger and wordpress and for any other use. It consists of only CSS + HTML . No jQuery No Images. Loads much faster than any menu :)

This works on almost all top web browsers. So without wasting anytime lets move on to create Stylish Apple Mac Style Drop Down Menu With Search Box for Blogger or WordPress..

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The CSS

Below is the css of Awesome Mac Style Drop Down Menu With Search Box. You can add it to your main site css file. Like If you are using WordPress than paste CSS below in your style.css file and If you are using Blogger/Blogspot than go to Design>Edit HTML and place CSS give below just before  ]]></b:skin>

#imenu {
    background: #5e5e5e; /* Old browsers */
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #8a8a8a 0%, #707070 49%, #5e5e5e 51%, #777777 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#8a8a8a), color-stop(49%,#707070), color-stop(51%,#5e5e5e), color-stop(100%,#777777)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #8a8a8a 0%,#707070 49%,#5e5e5e 51%,#777777 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
    background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #8a8a8a 0%,#707070 49%,#5e5e5e 51%,#777777 100%); /* Opera11.10+ */
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #8a8a8a 0%,#707070 49%,#5e5e5e 51%,#777777 100%); /* IE10+ */
    background: linear-gradient(top, #8a8a8a 0%,#707070 49%,#5e5e5e 51%,#777777 100%); /* W3C */    
    -moz-border-radius: 4px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 4px;
    border-radius: 4px;
    color: #fff;
    border: none;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-shadow: -1px -1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
    overflow: visible;
    -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2), 1px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) inset;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2), 1px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) inset;
    box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2), 1px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) inset;
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    margin-bottom: 15px;
    margin-left:0px;
}

#halfnav{float:right;}
#halfnav ul, #halfnav ul li{display:inline;list-style:none;padding:0;margin:0}
#halfnav ul li a{
    display:inline-block;
    margin: 5px;
    font-family:'Lucida Grande',Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;
    font-size:16px;
    padding: 5px;
    color:#fff;
    line-height:20px;
    text-decoration:none;
    background: #5e5e5e; /* Old browsers */
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #8a8a8a 0%, #707070 49%, #5e5e5e 51%, #777777 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#8a8a8a), color-stop(49%,#707070), color-stop(51%,#5e5e5e), color-stop(100%,#777777)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #8a8a8a 0%,#707070 49%,#5e5e5e 51%,#777777 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
    background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #8a8a8a 0%,#707070 49%,#5e5e5e 51%,#777777 100%); /* Opera11.10+ */
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #8a8a8a 0%,#707070 49%,#5e5e5e 51%,#777777 100%); /* IE10+ */
    background: linear-gradient(top, #8a8a8a 0%,#707070 49%,#5e5e5e 51%,#777777 100%); /* W3C */
    -moz-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5);
    -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5);
    text-shadow: 0 -1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.28);
    border: 1px solid #666;    
    -moz-border-radius: 4px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 4px;
    border-radius: 4px;
}
#halfnav ul li a:hover{border: 1px solid #222;box-shadow:inner 0 0 5px #000;-moz-box-shadow:inset 0 0 5px #000;-webkit-box-shadow:inset 0 0 5px#000;background:#444}
#halfnav .current-menu-item a{border: 1px solid #000;}

#nav{position:relative;z-index:2000}
#nav .parent > a, #nav .parent > a:hover{background-image:url(../images/arrow.png);background-position:right;background-repeat:no-repeat}
#nav ul ul .parent > a, #nav ul ul .parent:hover > a:hover, #nav ul ul li:hover ul .parent > a, #nav ul ul li:hover ul .parent > a:hover{background-image:url(../images/arrow-right.png);background-position:right;background-repeat:no-repeat}
#nav ul, #nav ul li{display:inline;list-style:none;padding:0;margin:0}
#nav ul li a{display:inline-block;font-family:'Lucida Grande',Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#fff;line-height:36px;text-decoration:none;text-shadow:1px 1px 1px #333;padding:0 15px;margin-left:-4px;border-right:#777 1px solid}
#nav ul li a:hover{box-shadow:inner 0 0 5px #000;-moz-box-shadow:inset 0 0 5px #000;-webkit-box-shadow:inset 0 0 5px#000;background:#444}
#nav .current-menu-item a{color:#ccc;}
#nav .current-menu-item .sub-menu a{color:#fff;text-shadow:1px 1px 1px #333}
#nav .menu > li:first-child a:hover{border-radius:0}
#nav .menu .sub-menu li a:hover{border-radius:0}
#nav ul li{position:relative}
#nav li ul{display:none;position:absolute;top:27px;left:7px}
#nav li ul a{background:#555}
#nav ul ul li:hover ul, #nav ul ul ul li:hover ul{left:0;margin:-37px 0 11px 180px}
#nav ul li:hover ul{display:inline-block}
#nav ul ul, #nav ul li:hover ul ul, #nav ul ul li:hover ul ul{display:none}
#nav ul li:hover ul, #nav ul ul li:hover ul, #nav ul ul ul li:hover ul{display:block}
#nav ul li:hover ul li a, #nav ul ul li:hover ul li a, #nav ul ul ul li:hover ul li a{border:#777 1px solid;margin:-1px 0 0 -11px}
#nav ul li:hover ul li a{width:150px;padding:0 14px}
#nav ul ul li:hover ul li a{width:150px;padding:0 14px;background-color:#888}
#nav ul ul ul li:hover ul li a{width:150px;padding:0 14px;background-color:#aaa}
#nav .children {z-index: 4000;}

#home {float: left;border-right:#777 1px solid;margin-right:4px;margin-left:15px; height: 36px;}
#home a:hover{opacity: .5}
#nohome {float: left; margin-right:4px;margin-left:5px; height: 35px;}

.searchform {
    -moz-border-radius: 15px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 15px;
    border-radius: 15px;
    width: 160px;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 7px 5px 5px 10px;
    height: 20px;
    box-shadow:inset 0 0 1px #222;
    background: #fff;
    float: right;
    margin-right: 20px;
}

.center .searchform {float:none;}

#morefoot .searchform {float:left;}

.searchform .s{
    margin:0;
    border: none;
    margin: 3px 2px 2px 20px;
    font-size: 12px;
    height: 14px;
    width:    130px;
    color: #333;
    overflow: hidden;
}
#magnify {float:left;position:absolute;margin: 2px 0 0 5px;}

#magnify {margin: 0 0 0 5px\0/IE8+9; /* IE8+9  */}

.searchform .s:focus {outline:0; border:none;}

.searchform .searchsubmit {display:none;}

.row { width: 100%; max-width: 980px; min-width: 727px; margin: 0 auto; }
    /* To fix the grid into a certain size, set max-width to width */
    .row .row { min-width: 0; }
    .column, .columns { margin-left: 4.4%; float: left; min-height: 1px; position: relative; }
    .column:first-child, .columns:first-child { margin-left: 0; }
    [class*="column"] + [class*="column"]:last-child { float: right; }
    .row .three     { width: 21.679%; }
    .row .nine         { width: 73.9%; }
    .row .ten         { width: 82.6%; }
    .row .twelve     { width: 100%; }

The HTML

You can add this HTML code in any place of your site/blog. If you are using WordPress than add below HTML code in your header.php file and If you are using Blogspot than add below code in header gadget (widget) ;)

<div class="container">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="twelve columns" id="imenu">
            <div id="nav" class="nine columns">
             <div id="home"><a href="http://marvblues.com"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-btThtilNthE/T6dLHDZq9tI/AAAAAAAAAiw/E6bSVbOCeH4/s320/home.png" alt="home"></a></div>                           
     <ul id="nav_menu">
        <li><a href="#">Tutorials</a>
             <ul>
                 <li><a href="#">HTML / CSS</a></li>
                 <li><a href="#">JS / jQuery</a>
                     <ul>
                         <li><a href="#">jQuery</a></li>
                         <li><a href="#">JS</a></li>
                     </ul>
                 </li>
                 <li><a href="#">PHP</a></li>
                 <li><a href="#">MySQL</a></li>
                 <li><a href="#">XSLT</a></li>
                 <li><a href="#">Ajax</a></li>
             </ul>
         </li>
         <li><a href="#">Resources</a>
             <ul>
                 <li><a href="#">By category</a>
                     <ul>
                         <li><a href="#">PHP</a></li>
                         <li><a href="#">MySQL</a></li>
                         <li><a href="#">XSLT</a></li>
                         <li><a href="#">Ajax</a></li>
                     </ul>
                 </li>
                 <li><a href="#">By tag name</a>
                     <ul>
                         <li><a href="#">captcha</a></li>
                         <li><a href="#">gallery</a></li>
                         <li><a href="#">animation</a></li>
                     </ul>
                 </li>
             </ul>
         </li>
         <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
         <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
         <li><a href="http://www.allbloggingtips.com">Go Back To The Tutorial</a></li>
    </ul>               </div>
                            <div class="three columns">

 <form method="get" class="searchform" action="http://marvblues.com/">
     <div id="magnify"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z-PCrVPeUKk/T6dLVTq-8ZI/AAAAAAAAAi8/n2DMxFGILwE/s320/magnify.png" alt="magnify"></div>
     <div><input name="s" class="s" value="Search" id="searchsubmit" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search') this.value = '';" type="text"></div>
     <div><input class="searchsubmit" value="" type="submit"></div>
 </form>            </div>
                     </div>
     </div>
 </div>

Your turn

I hope you enjoyed this Awesome Mac Style Drop Down Menu With Search Box and the techniques I used. Please share your comments and questions below!

Top 5 Best WordPress Plugins to Beat Google Panda

Bloggers got hit by Panda owing to their mistakes in terms of content, SEO strategies, backlinks etc. If you are keen on getting traffic to your blog and want to regain your blog status, there is no other go than making your blog Panda love blog.

beat google pandaThere are certain WordPress plug-in that come in handy to work and fix your content. These are handy to make your blog innovative, new, virgin and unique information that satisfies the Panda easily. Be aware the fact that it is not easy to fool the Panda. Improving your own standards and making each post fresh to be better than the others is the only way to make it a Google eye candy.

Of course, making a panda recovered blog is not an easy task, it requires time, and you need to work overtime. However, it is not rocket-science as well. By understanding the basic concepts, you can make it and can beat google panda.

Some of the reasons for which your site could be hit by Panda update include:

  • Duplicate content
  • Spelling errors and grammar mistakes
  • Low quality content
  • inappropriate SEO strategies
  • Over optimization.

It is important to fix the reasons to get rid of Google Panda nightmare and beat google panda. I fixed the reasons:

  • weak On-Page optimization
  • weak internal links and broken links
  • having grammatical errors
  • Not employing Social media and bookmarking sites properly

I want to share the way in which I got rid of Panda’s clutches. WordPress Plug-ins helps me to overcome these issues and the excellent part is that these are free plug-ins.  So, now lets  start our list of Top 5 Best WordPress Plugins to Beat Google Panda in No Time  and start using some of them . But before we beat google panda , lets see this scared panda for fun:

Top 5 Best WordPress Plugins to Beat Google Panda

So, now lets start our list of Top 5 Best WordPress Plugins to Beat Google Panda in No Time and start using some of them. Just search for these plugins on wordpress.org plugin directory

1.     Meta Robots WordPress plug-in

Meta Tags plays a vital role in on-page optimization. . This plug-in comes in handy to add significant Meta tags to your page. The great part of this plug-in is that it allows to noidex low quality content that are linked by the search engine on that page. Low quality content is the prime target for Google Panda.

2.     Admin Word count Column:

This plug-in check for word counts of every post and show it in admin’s post manager. Less word count is another great reason for Google Panda hit. It is better to make your blog post’s word count around 400.

3.     SEO search terms tagging 2

It is one of the powerful on page SEO. It instantly tags the search phrases that make your page got hits. You can know the keywords that are relevant to your posts. It is extremely helpful.  However, be cautious in using this plug-in. There is a risk of tagging your post as over optimization by Google Panda. I used this plug-in to fix inferior content.

It is a handy tool to check for all broken links causing 404 errors. As I mentioned earlier, 404 errors effect my blog pathetically and this plug in is a boon to fix broken links.

5.     WordPress SEO by Yoast:

Finally yet importantly, this very effective SEO plug-in covers all the major SEO elements such as permalink, titles, Meta description and keywords.

This post is written by Prav. Prav is an article writer and marketer and loves to write for his clients all over the world. 

Search Engine Optimization Through Internal Linking

Search engine optimization is not an exact science, but mostly based on speculation about how search engines index and rank websites in the SERPs. Nonetheless, it is based on observations, trials, Google webmaster news, and other educational information. One of the most important aspects of SEO, which many Internet marketers fail to focus on, is internal linking.

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Why Is Internal Linking Important?

First of all, internal linking allows users to easily navigate from one page of a website to another. What many people do not know is that it also gives search engine robots an easy way to navigate through the site as well. When a web page has internal links, search engine robots can find other pages on the site and index them if they have not been indexed yet.

A lot of search engine optimization specialists say that external links carry more weight because they give your web pages more credibility. However, when you create a link that connects one of your web pages to another one of your web pages, you are giving your own site a vote of credibility as well. It is equally important, especially if the link comes from one of your high ranking pages.

The Process of Internal Linking

There are many ways to create links within your site. In your home page, you can create links within the content by choosing a keyword or phrase related to one of your pages. Use that keyword or phrase as the “anchor text” and link the related web page to it. For example, you can use the key phrase “affordable prices” as an anchor text that will link to something like your “Pricing” page.

You can also use the entire title of an article found on another webpage as your anchor text. For example, if you have an article entitled “The Pros and Cons of Using Premium WordPress Themes”, use that as an anchor text. You can write something like “Related Articles” at the bottom of the page and type the title. Highlight the entire title and link it to the actual webpage where the article content can be found.

Final Word

If you want to optimize your website for the search engines, make sure to put equal emphasis on internal linking and external linking. If you have more external links that internal links, search engines may see this as an act of desperation to rank on the search results. Therefore, keep your internal and external links at par with each other.

 Ryza Royze is an Internet marketer and SEO specialist with over 5 years experience in both fields. She has been contributing search engine optimization articles to the SEO industry since the year 2007.

Add Retweet Button Below Post Titles In Blogger

Twitter is one of the fastest growing social networks in the recent days. Many feel it drives a lot of traffic to their blog, especially when they have a large number of followers. We should some how use this twitter to improve traffic to our blog, So how are we going to do that? Simple, just by adding a “Tweet This link to our blogger posts. There are certain blogs that include Tweet this in the footer of their posts, that is, at the end of the post as a social bookmarking icon.
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But I recommend you to place Tweet This Button at the top, next to the title of your post.
  This post basically explains, how to add tweet this and also a retweet button to blogger posts. Many blogs have links only for “Tweet this” but not for “ReTweet“. This post includes both Tweet and ReTweet option, there by, driving more traffic to your blog and making your posts more effective. Now lets move on Adding Retweet Button Below Post Titles

How To Add Tweet And Retweet Button Below Post Titles

  • Login to your dashboard. Navigate to “Template>Edit HTML” from your dashboard.
  • Make a back up of your template before you do any changes in the template.
  • Make sure that you have a tick mark in that “Expand Widget Template“.
  • Now, do a search using “CTRL+F” for the following line, if you want to show the button below the title of your post:
<div class='post-header-line-1'>

Else, search for the following piece of code to add the button at the right end of your blog posts.

<div class='post-body entry-content'>
  • Paste the following piece of code just after the above line(either below the title or embedded with your blog posts).
<div style='float:right; margin-left:14px;'> <script type="text/javascript"> tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>'; </script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>
</div>
  • Save your template. That is it!! You Are done with the installation. Very simple I think!!