Adding a Comment Form to Your Blog Posts

Do you noticed that all my blog posts are having a Comment Form like the picture on the left? Normally, if we want to write comments on blogs created in Blogger.com, we will click on the "Comments" or "Post a Comments" link after the blog post and a popup window will appear for us to type in our comments. I feel that the popup comments window is quite annoying and I do not like it. So, I login to my Blogger.com account and make some tweak to the comment feature of my blog. By doing some simple tweaks, I can place an "Inline Comments Form" or "Embedded Comments Form" beneath all my blog posts.

After adding the comments form beneath all my blog posts, I found that it is much easier for my blog readers to write comments. Adding the comments form beneath my blog posts make my blog more user-friendly and looks more professional too.

I have written down some steps you need to do to make the comments form appear after every posts of your blog in the later section of this post.

The steps below are required to embed comments form after your blog posts:
1. Login to yhour Blogger.com account.

Go to "Setting">>"Comments".

2. Now, you are at the comments setting of your blog. You can see a lot of options for you to tweak such as the "Comments: Show/Hide", "Backlinks: Show/Hide", "Comments Timestamp Format" and so on.

In the comments setting, we are going to changed the "Comment Form Placement" setting.

3. I am sure you will be able to find "Comment Form Placement" on the page, then select "Embedded below post". By choosing this option, you are making the comments form to appear below your blog posts after people click on "Comments" or Post a Comment" link of your posts.

4. This step is optional, you can skip this step if you do not want to change anything f "Who Can Comment?". After you choose the setting, you can proceed to change the setting of "Who Can Comment?". Here, you can choose who can write comments on your blog posts. If you allow anyone to write comments, then you can choose "Anyone". There are 3 more options left which are "Registered User (include OpenID), "Users with Google Accounts" and "Only members of this blog". So, it is up to you which option you prefer.

5. Now, "Save Settings".

Everything is done. You can now visit your blog and then click "Comments" or "Post a Comment" link after your blog posts. You will be directed to a page where you will see the Comments Form below you post. There you can write your comments.

I hope you will enjoy using this simple tweak.

Add a ChatBox to Your Blog

Adding a chatbox to blog is a great way to interact with your blog reader. You can see that I am using a chatbox on my blog at the right sidebar. I am adding the chatbox to increase interaction with my blog readers.

You can add a chatbox to your blog too. It is quite simple and it is a great way to add more activity on your blog. In this post, I will share some sites that gives us free service to place a chatbox on our blog.

I manage to find 3 sites that are giving free chatbox service for bloggers. You can read about the features of chatbox below:

1. Cbox:

Cbox is the chatbox that I am using on my blog now. It is a free chatbox service. I like thisservice because it has some nice designs to choose from. If you want to use Cbox on your blog, you can choose the colors according to the color of your blog. It is a neat chatbox too. The bad thing about Cbox is that it does not have spam protection.

2. Shoutbox:

ShoutBox is a very popular free chatbox service. It is a great chatbox service. It has spam protection and the colors can be changed too. On the chatbox, it will shows the number of users are currently on your blog. I think that it is a good chatbox service. I might want to change my chatbox to this service soon.

3. Flooble chatter box:

Flooble chatter box is another free chatbox service. Personally, I do not like the design of the chatbox and it is not very user-friendly. So, I do not use it.

There are a lot of other chatbox services available. The 3 services I mentioned above are the more popular services. You might want to try other services if you do not like the 3 chatbox services I mentioned above.

Prevent Plagiarism, Disabling Text Selection on Your Blog

I found that a lot of bloggers are facing plagiarism problem. Some people like to copy the posts on blogs and paste it on their blog to use it as their own contents. Actually, if those "copy and paste" people would like to share, they can spend sometime reading the posts on other blogs and write a new post using their understanding about the topic but they are too lazy to read, too lazy to understand and too lazy to type.

So, this post is about how we can avoid "copy and paste" people from copying our blog contents. I found a script that can disable "text selection" on our blog on Dynamic Drive. So, by using the script, text selection on our blog will be disabled and so "copy and paste" cannot be done.

Prevent text selection on your blog is quite simple.

Step By Step Guide:
1. Login to your Blogger.com Account then go to "Layout">>"Edit HTML".
2. Then, all you need to do is to copy all the code below:

The code above is obtained from Dynamic Drive

3. Then, paste the code after the section of our blog.
4. Save your template.

Now, you can visit your blog and then try to select text on your blog. I am sure that it is no longer enabled. So, people cannot copy your post anymore.

6 Sites that Pays You to Write Reviews

Writing articles is a task that most people do online. People are writing articles for their blog, writing articles as freelance writers, writing short posts in forums, writing a lot of other stuff online. By far, writing articles online is the straight forward ways to express ourselves and of course, most people are making money from their articles online.

In this post, I will share with you the 6 Sites that are Paying Us to Write Reviews online. As a consumer, we always have a lot of experience to share about certain products that we use. So, why not share our experience with others and make some money by writing reviews for those products we use everyday.

The list below is the best of the best sites that people are making money from the reviews they write. I hope that the sites below will be a great help for you to make extra money online.

1. Ciao

Ciao is a great site to write reviews. The site is now in beta version. The payment is made via PayPal and it normally pays $0.25 per review. The payment is quite good per review. So, it is a good site to join to make some extra money.

2. Review Stream

ReviewStream allows writers to write almost about anything they like. Writers can write reviews of digital cameras, cars, cell phones, movies, food, music, computers and so on. The payment per reviews is $2.00 per review but it is not easy to earn that amount of payment for every review you write. So, there is another way to get paid for review which is bulk rate. The bulk rate is $0.40 per review. So, if your review is not accpeted for $2.00 per review, you will get the bulk rate of $0.40 per review.

3. Shared Reviews

SharedReviews pays you for your reviews. This another great site to make money from reviews. I visited the site and some writers on the site is making around $979.85 from their reviews. So, why not give it a try?

4. Shvoong

Shvoong pays 10% of its advetising revenues to writers. So, there is no exact payment per review. Writers will received their payment when they reach the minimum payout of $10.00. The payment is made through PayPal.

5. Epinions

Epinions allows users to write reviews and make money. In Epinions, the money you earned will be shown in your Eroyalties account. I think that it is a good place to make money. Make sure your reviews are following their rules.

6. Review Centre

Review Centre is a simple site to write reviews and make some money. the reviews on this site is created by users.

Free Template: 3 Columns Gradient Blue

Today, I re-edited my Gradient Blue Template. I found that the previous version of Gradient Blue Template are having a lot of bugs and problems. So, this version is an upgraded version of the previous Gradient Blue template. If you would like to know more about this template, please read on.


Gradient Blue Specifications:

• 3 Columns
• 1 navigation bar
• Black, Blue and Grey
• XML template
• Free for All.

Download Gradient Blue Template Here...

**Please open the "Installing Navigation Bar" text file in the zip file to learn how to implement the navigation bar on Gradient Blue template.

I have decided to create a series of templates for free and you can download it for free from this blog. All the templates will be placed under the new section called "Blogger's Templates Series". I hope you will like it.

Setting up Your AdSense for Feeds

AdSense has added a new feature in our AdSense Account. The new feature is called AdSense for Feeds. So, as an AdSense Publisher, we can add AdSense Ads in our Feeds to make even more money.

I am now monetizing my feed of my other blogs and I am seeing some improvement in my AdSense earnings. I think that it is a great new feature from Google AdSense.

How to Implement AdSense for Feeds in our Blog Feed:
Implementing AdSense for Feed is quite simple, it only consists of a few steps.

1. Login to your AdSense Account.
2. Go to "AdSense Setup".


3. Choose "AdSense for Feeds"
4. Then, scroll down to the lowest part of the page where you will see a link "Move FeedBurner feeds to your Google Account", click the link.
5. You will be redirected to FeedBurner and you are required to login to your FeedBurner Account.


6. Then, you will reach a page with a list of your feeds in FeedBurner. The lower part of that page has a button called "Move". Click on it.
7. After that, you will come to a page showing that you have successfully move the feeds to Google AdSense.
8. Click on a button "Return to Google AdSense".


9. Now, all your feeds are in your Google AdSense Account. You can choose the feeds you want to show AdSense Ads by clicking the "Add" link.


10. You can make changes to the AdSense Ads design by clicking the "Let me choose my colors".
11. After everything is done, click the "Save" button.

Everything is properly setup. After 10 minutes, your feeds will have AdSense Ads. So, if your readers click on it, you can make money from it.

Project Wonderful: Sell Ads Space on Your Blog

I come across Project Wonderful today. It is a site that give all website or blog Publishers a way to sell ads space on their site or blog. I learn that a lot of people are successfully making money from Project Wonderful. For me, I am not sure about it. So, I do not join Project wonderful. After thinking about Project Wonderful for a few days, I decided to join it and try it out. It is free to join, so why not.

For the time being, I am still waiting for their approval for my blog. I hope to get approval soon and show you some of the features of the site. You can continue reading to read more about Project Wonderful.

By using Project Wonderful, you can manage ads space on your site easily. then, you can sell space on your blog to make money. The Project Wonderful site gives you the codes and the you can track it within your Project Wonderful account.

So, if you like to sell space on your site, then you can try Project Wonderful.