A good news for all bloggers using ‘Blogger’ platform. Google’s “Blogger in Draft” now enables OpenID-based commenting in blogs. This feature allows anyone with an OpenID account to comment on a Blogger in Draft service blog. This feature is in testing stage and Google is collecting user feedback for providing it on the main Blogger site.

The Official blog for Blogger in Draft says:

This feature is in Draft because we’d like to hear feedback about the implementation, and to test it further before moving it to Blogger’s main site. We’re also working on functionality to let Blogger’s URLs (both Blog*Spot and custom domains) be used for commenting elsewhere on the web.

Many top bloggers and SEO experts believes that commenting on others blog is an important strategy for a blogger. I am also agree with this. Without comments, a blog is not a blog. Comments helps bloggers to interact with the blog readers. Comments encourages the bloggers to improve their blogs. So, most of the bloggers welcomes comments. And, as a blogger, you must take part in commenting on other blogs.

Personally, I love to read blogs and leave comments. And most of the bloggers gives a reply to my comments. It makes me happy and encourages to visit that blog again. Strangely, some bloggers don’t allow commenting on their blogs. Can you believe this? I used to avoid such blogs.

As a blogger, we must allow comments on our blogs. It helps in retaining our blog readers. And their comments encourages us to blog. Similarly, commenting on others blog is also important. So, try to visit and read some selected blogs, regularly. Treat them as a part of your community and contribute to them through your comments. You boost others morale, other boosts yours. Or vice versa! Am I right?

Why comments on others blog is important?

1. Comments draws attention of the blogger. Most of the bloggers regularly read the comments on their blogs. Your comment may earn you a visit from that blogger. Who knows, it may be the start of a new relationship?

2. Commenting may help you in attracting some blog readers. If your comment is good, some readers may give you a visit. It may send you some blog traffic. Also, you may expect some new blog subscribers, if your blog content is really good and appealing.

3. Comments may help you in creating some backlinks to your blog. In future, some bloggers may link to your good posts. This is also important for blog traffic.

Points to remember during commenting on Blogs:

1. Read the blog post properly before commenting. Never leave an irrelevant comment.
2. Give comments with a couple of words! One or two word comment is not a comment.
3. Take care about adding value to your comment. Try to relate your comment to the blog post.
4. Use your blog url in the comment form and give a vaild e-mail id. Sometimes, the bloggers may want to contact you!
5. Avoind using your blog url at the end of each and every comment. Because blog url on the comment form is sufficient.
6. Avoid repeated commenting on the same blog post. You can take part in a comment thread. But twice/thrice is enough!
7. Commenting on related blogs is always fruitful! Try to comment on blogs or blog posts, that are realted to your niche.

Feel free to give your feedback on my posts. EarnBlogger needs your comments for improvement.

Need some good quality images to decorate your blog posts? Wait for some days, and you will be able to use a great service! Stock photography company Corbis and its digital rights partner, PicScout, will allow bloggers to access photos via a Web link from the site PicApp.com. Bloggers can use their images for free in exchange for showing some advertising embedded into the photos.

Reuters reports that photos will either include an ad overlay on part of the image, or embedded advertising that pops up when a Web user runs a cursor over the picture. PicApp will also offers bloggers the opportunity to earn ad revenue based on how many times Web users click on the images posted to their blogs. PicApp is still in Beta

“We work with a partner so that those pictures are tracked, and if they’re being used illegally, we can figure that out. But as long as they are downloaded through this application, you’re legit and you’re ready to go,” Corbis Chief Executive Gary Shenk told the Reuters.

Corbis is a privately held company, founded by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in 1989. Corbis also has an online market for user-generated photos at SnapVillage.com. So a big opportunity is coming for bloggers. Use good quality images for free, on your blogs and earn some extra ad revenue!

The Flash Video Player Plugin for WordPress allows a blogger to easily add video to a WordPress blog. This plugin is great for posting your own video. Make your own video, upload it and use this plugin. That’s it! Your blog is ready to show-off your video post.

This Flash Video Player Plugin uses standards-compliant markup and the leading open source software (Jeroen Wijering’s FLV Player and Geoff Stearns’ SWFObject Javascript Library). A full options menu is available with post-level overrides for endless customization. Installation is quick and no additional setup/coding/php knowledge is required. This plugin creates no tables, and uninstalling easy.

Features of Flash Video Player Plugin:

• Easier Installation! Activate and start posting your videos.
• Full Options Menu for Player Customization.
• Compatible with WordPress 2.3.
• XHTML Compliant!
• No Remorse! No Database Tables and Uninstalls Clean.
• Backward Compatible with Previous Versions of the Plugin.
• Playlists, RSS, ATOM, XSPF etc.
• No More “Click to Activate” Messages.

Searching for a good Magazine Style WordPress theme? Take a look at the Visionary Theme. This cool magazine style theme has built-in video features. It enables you to add videos from YouTube, Google Video, and Metacafe. You can also add your own video by using a plugin.

Some Features of Visionary theme:

• Cool front page, that looks like a news or magazine site. EarnBlogger is an example!
• Tabbed navigation in sidebar, through the use of a custom jQuery script.
• Embed YouTube, Google Video, and Metacafe videos easily with Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. Or, use the Flash Video Player plugin to input your own videos.
• Supports the cool Flickr RSS plugin to show your Flickr images.
• Visionary supports Related Posts plugin.
• WordPress 2.3 tag-ready. Also compatible with previous versions of WordPress.
• Custom post information can easily be input through the use of a Visionary theme-specific plugin modified from the custom field GUI plugin.
• Customized templates for every type of WordPress file, such as category.php and and archive.php.
• Customized sidebars for different pages of the site.
• Placeholders for ads. Cool sidebar sizes for 125×125px ads.

Want to add a rating system to your WordPress blog? Use WP-PostRatings 1.20 plugin for WordPress. This cool WordPress plugin will add an AJAX rating system on your blog. It enables users to rate your blog posts or individual pages. The latest version of this plugin has some cool features.

How to use WP-PostRatings 1.20?

1. Download WP-PostRatings 1.20.
2. Extract it and upload the ‘postratings’ folder to ‘wp-content/plugins’ folder.
3. Activate the plugin from your WordPress Admin Panel.
4. Find <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> in the index.php, single.php, post.php or page.php (where you want to appear your ratings).
5. Below the above code, add <?php if(function_exists(’the_ratings’)) { the_ratings(); } ?> (or where you want the ratings to appear).
6. Configure it from your WordPress Admin Panel.

New features of WP-PostRatings Version 1.20 (01-10-2007):

• Works For WordPress 2.3 Only
• Ability To Embed (ratings=1) Into Post/Excerpt, Where 1 Is The ID Of The Post/Page Ratings You Want To Display
• Ability To Embed (ratings_results=1) Into Post/Excerpt, Where 1 Is The ID Of The Post/Page Ratings Results You Want To Display
• Ability To Support Mutiple Categories For get_highest_rated_category(). By: Dirceu P. Junior
• Ability To Embed (ratings) Into Excerpt
• Added Template For No Permission To Rate
• Ability To Filter Logs By Post ID, User and Rating
• Added heart, heart_crystal, plusminus, plusminus_crystal, stars_crystal, thumbs, tickcross, tickcross_crystal and updown_crystal Rating Styles
• Supports Up/Down Or Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down Rating
• Supports Custom Image For Individual Rating Scale
• WP-Cache Compatible By Nir Aides
• Highest Rated Widge And Most Rated Widget Added
• Ability To Uninstall WP-PostRatings
• Uses WP-Stats Filter To Add Stats Into WP-Stats Page

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