April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
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260 GOOGLE APPS HACKS
Google Blog Search tracks the links back to your blog
Blogger also offers you a way to show backlinks to your posts right below each post. To enable this
feature, click on Settings→Comments at Blogger.com. In the section labeled Backlinks, select Show.
Approve the dialog by clicking Save Settings at the bottom.
Other blog systems, like Wordpress.com, also have a feature called “trackback” to allow bloggers to notify
your blog system when they discuss a post of yours. This will then result in the link to them being shown below
your blog post, as with Blogger’s Backlinks function. The downside to trackbacks is that some people might
ping your blog’s trackback system even when they don’t discuss your post, just so that they generate a link
to their site in return to increase trafc. (The Blogger Backlinks feature too sometimes falls prey to these
“spammers.”) At the time of this writing, Google’s Blogger does not support trackbacks.
HaCK 107:
Be as lazy as possible when embedding YouTube videos.
If you have a Blogger.com blog and you embed a video from YouTube.com every now and then, you
can click the “add video” icon during publishing, as shown in Figure 10-34. However, if you are a
more regular video blogger—posting many of your own videos to YouTube, or frequently embedding ...
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I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.