The Blog Doctor.

Now you can add the Google Talk gadget to your blog. With Google Talk you will get Instant messaging, all of your Gmail contacts, video previews in chat and photo previews in chat........

Google Talk is the instant messenger for Google. With Google Talk you can see who is online and send instant messages to them fro your blog. There is no need to install any software. You just have to copy and paste a snippet of code. To add Google Talk Gadget to your webpage go here.
Adjust the width, height and border to suit your blog's decor and click on Get Code. Remeber to put the width smaller than the width of your sidebar.

Copy the code. Login to dashboard of Blogger and click on Layouts. Click on add Page Element link at top of the sidebar. Choose Html/Javascript option and paste the code in contents window. Save. View blog. See picture below

To add Friends, simply click on the +Add button in the lower left hand corner of the gadget, and type in the email address or Google Talk username of your friend in the search bar. If your friends already use Google Talk, they will receive an invitation to chat in Talk. If they are new to Google Talk, they will receive an email that will help them sign up. If you cut and paste a video URL from YouTube or Google Video into your chat, and send to your friend you'll be able to watch the video right in the Gadget, and if your friends are using the Talk Gadget, they will too. You can share photos the same way by pasting a URL from Picasa Web Albums.

To send an Instant Message or email click on a name to open a chat window. You may have as many chat windows open as you like at one time. Type directly into the box to send an IM. If you're signing into Google Talk with a Gmail account, you can send an email using your Gmail account by clicking on the Email button, or by clicking on the mail icon next to a name directly from your Friends list. To call a friend, click on the Call button from an open chat window. You can also make a call by clicking on the green phone icon next to a name directly from your Friends list. You can have multiple calls underway at once–but only one can be active at a time. The other calls must be on hold.

If you have a team blog you can instantly talk with other authors.

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Google Gmail Open For All.

Google Calendar for Bloggers.

Google Groups Tips and Tricks for Bloggers.

Google Gadgets for Blogs.

Google Gadgets are mini-applications that work with the Google homepage, Google Desktop, or any page on the web. In the real world a gadget or gizmo is a device that has a useful specific purpose and function. Gadgets tend to be more unusual or cleverly designed than normal technology.

Google Gadgets range from simple HTML to complex applications, and can be a calendar, a weather globe, a media player, or anything else you can dream up.

A Widget on the other hand can be defined as the code representing a Page Element in the New Blogger.

You can add a Google Gadget to your blog to entertain your visitors or provide extra tools or functionality. Currently there are many Google Gadgets available in categories like News, Tools Communication, Fun & Games, Finance, Sports, Lifestyle and Technology. Do you want to provide a music player on your blog?

To do this go to : http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open and type Music in the search box and hit Enter. You will get a list of Google Gadgets that provide a Jukebox, a Playlist Player, a MP3 Player etc. Click on Add to Webpage button at the bottom of the gadget you wish to add to your blog. Modify the dimensions of the gadget and customize it so it will fit in your webpage preview and click on Get Code. Code is generated which you copy and paste into a Html/Javascript Page Element in the sidebar. For example this is a MP3 Player (Click on image for bigger view)

Similarly you can provide other functions like a free file upload directly from your blog. Just add a Free file upload gadget in your sidebar. In my blog's right column at the bottom I have a picture uploading gadget. This will keep visitors on your blog for a longer time.

You can add Google Gadgets to your personalized search page as well as to your site at Googlepages and to your Desktop. If you wish to experiment you can make your own gadgets at http://www.google.com/apis/gadgets/index.html. After making your Gadget you can submit it to Google who will include it in their gadgets directory at http://www.google.com/ig/directory so that it reaches millions of viewers.

Other examples of Gadgets you can add to your sidebar include weather reports, horoscopes, quote of the day, current temperature etc. Get them all at http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&source=gghp.

Technorati Tags:google, google gadgets, mp3 player

Mumbai Marathon Map Pedometer.

Pinging Simplified.

Pinging is a process of attracting the search engines for indexing your blogs....

A Blog is a special type of website which has dynamic content constantly being updated as opposed to a static website. A static website's content does not renew itself constantly. Hence it is difficult to attract the search engines repeatedly to index the site. It may take upto two months for a static website to get indexed while blogs are indexed almost immediately. Blogs, because their content constantly renews itself attract the attention of search engines like Google and Yahoo.

Ping is the process by which a blog notifies a search engine that new content has been added and the search engine responds by sending its spiders which are automated bots or programs which crawl the site and index its contents. You can automate the ping proces s by going to Settings----->Publishing------->Notify Weblogs.com------->Yes------>Save Settings. You can also ping multiple search engines with one click at Autopinger.com or Pingoat.com or Pingomatic.com.

You can ping feedburner at http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/ping.

You can ping Technorati at http://www.technorati.com/ping. To get Yahoo to index you faster create a My Yahoo Account.

After publishing a post ping the search engines with the URL of your post and not the URL of your blog.

At the bottom of your My Yahoo click the Add Content link. In Find Content box clickon Add RSS by url link next to Find Button. In the next window paste your Beta blog Feed url into the text box and click Add.
The URL of your beta blog's feed is

http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Substitute your actual blog name instead of 'yourblogname' in above links. This will add the content of your blog to the My Yahoo page and Yahoo will send its spiders across faster. To ping Yahoo faster go to http://www.technobloggie.com/ping-yahoo.cfm. Type in your blog url and click on Create Yahoo ping code. A URL link is generated. The link will be of this type :

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/

Bookmark this link in your browser and at the end of publishing any post just click on this bookmark to ping Yahoo.

Pingback is a process by which Web authors request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. Blogger does not currently support pingbacks or trackbacks.

Blogger instead has the Backlinks feature which enables you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. For example if someone else posts on a topic similar to yours and links back to your post then your post will automatically show a link to the other post. To enable Backlinks go to Settings------>Comments----->Backlinks------->Show--------->Save Settings. These links are shown under the posts with the title "Links to this Post" next to the Comments link. Clicking that link takes you to the post page where all the backlinks are shown under the post and the comments.

Technorati Tags:backlinks, google, ping, search engines, technorati, yahoo

Google Docs & Spreadsheets in your Blog.

Google Docs and Spreadsheets can be embedded in your Blog. To do this.........

go to http://docs.google.com/ and login with your GMail Account. You will see the Welcome Screen where click on New Spreadsheet. In the next page Click on Continue button in Get Started with Google Docs and Spreadsheets. This will lead you to the spreadsheet page where you create your spreadsheet.

After creating the spreadsheet save it. Then click on Publish in the upper right corner to open the Publish sidebar on the right side. Click "Publish now." (If the spreadsheet has already been published, and the publishing options are set to "manual," click "Re-publish" at this point). Click "More publishing options." A window will appear titled "More published formats." From the "File formats" dropdown select "HTML to embed in a webpage." Specify the parameters of the spreadsheet you'd like to embed (i.e. the whole spreadsheet, just one sheet, or a specific range of cells from one sheet). Click "Generate URL." A bit of code will be generated. Copy that code.

Login to your Beta Blogger dashboard. Click on Create Post under the blog in which you want to embed the spreadsheet. In the Post Editor click the Edit Html tab and paste the code in the window and Publish. If you wish change the width and height in the code to resize the spreadsheet. I have embedded a sample spreadsheet below :

Google Docs - Create a Google Doc by going to http://docs.google.com/ and login with your GMail Account. You will see the Welcome Screen where click on New Document. Create a new Document and save it. Then click on Publish in upper right corner. In the new window click on Publish to Blog. Choose your Blog Service Provider and type in your Blog Username and Password then click on OK..

In both the above cases you can publish the documents as standalone and you will be provided with their URLs which you can send to anyone for them to view the documents and even collaborate on them.

If you do not wish to embed these documents/spreadsheets in your blog you can provide the link to them in your blog.

YOU CAN UPLOAD ONLY IMAGE FILES TO BLOGGER.

If you have created these files offline on your PC you can upload them to a freeserver like Googlepages and then provide their links on your blog. At present Googlepages offers 100MB free space for hosting any type of file.

Technorati Tags:docs, google, spreadsheet

Technorati in Blogger Beta.

Search Engines Compared
GOOGLE	TECHNORATI
Generalized Search	Specialized Search
Searches static, inactive Web	Searches Dynamic Web
No Focus	Focuses on Blogs
Infrequent visits to site	Immediate indexing of content
More sites to cover	Less sites to cover increasing efficiency
Covers World Wide Web	Covers World Live Web

Google Video Search in Blogs.

By putting Google Video Search in your blog you can enable your reader to search for videos without leaving your blog. He/She can view the videos in your blog and even upload their videos from your blog. Click below picture to enlarge it.

Above is a video of an octopus playing on my blog at Google Search Map site.

In your blog you will need a space for the Video Search Control. I have chosen the Minima template and given a float:left; property to the outer-wrapper so that I can locate the Google Video on the right hand side.

Your first step is to sign up for a Google API at : http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/signup.html With your key in hand, add the following three lines of code to your page or blog template. This key identifies your web site to Google and helps them track usage of Google Video. A new and distinct key is needed for each directory on your website that includes Google Videos.
Put a check in the box where it says I have read and agree with the terms and conditions and paste your blog url in the text box below and click on Generate API Key button.(Step 1)

Copy paste this code (ONLY THE BLUE LINES) just below the title tag in your template :

<script src="http://www.google.com/uds/api?file=uds.js&v=1.0&key=YOUR-KEY"
type="text/javascript">

IN THE ABOVE LINE ADD amp; AFTER BOTH THE & CHARACTERS OR YOU WILL GET ERROR MESSAGE.
Add your key number instead of YOUR-KEY.

<script src="http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/videosearch/gsvideosearch.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/videosearch/gsvideosearch.css"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

In the second step define a place on your page for the search control (note: you can have more than one). This is typically done by defining a named <div> element as shown below:

<div id="videosc">Loading...</div>

Set some styling attributes on this element to constrain the width of the control, set a border or margin, etc. For example in your css put the following code :

#videosc {
width : 300px;
margin-left: 10px;
padding-top : 4px;
padding-right : 4px;
padding-left : 4px;
padding-bottom : 0px;
border : 1px solid #f9f9f9;
}

To override standard player dimensions add the following code just beneath :

.playerBox_gsvsc .player_gsvsc {
width : 320px;
height : 260px;
}

Next find the <body> element on your page and add an onload handler.

<body onload="OnLoad()">

Add the following scripts just before the </head> tags

<script type="text/javascript">
function OnLoad() {

var options = {
largeResultSet : true,
startupDelay : 100
}

new GSvideoSearchControl(
document.getElementById("videosc"), // container
defaultTags, // default tag array
loadTags, // optional load function
saveTags, // optional save function
options // optional options
);
}

function loadTags() {
var tagStrings = GSvideoSearchControl_JSON.stringify(defaultTags);
return tagStrings;
}

function saveTags(tags) {
//alert(tags);
}

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
var defaultTags = [
{
query : "feed:top100",
label : "whatshot"
},

{
query : "big wave surfing",
label : "surfing"
},

{
query : "genre:comedy",
label : "comedy"
},

{
query : "mtv"
},
{
query : "christina aguilera type:music_video",
label : "christina"
},

{
query : "jessica simpson",
label : "jessica"
},

{
query : "vw gti"
},

{
query : "type:music_video",
label : "music videos"
},

{
query : "feed:top100new",
label : "whatsnew"
},

{
query : "ferrari f1",
label : "f1"
},

{
query : "toyota tacoma",
label : "mytruck"
},

{
query : "type:gpick",
label : "google picks"
},

{
query : "nascar"
},

{
query : "ads"
}
];

</script>

Save Template. View Blog.
Click on individual videos to play them in the player.
Conduct your own searches through Google text box.
Check it out in the right sidebar at the bottom here at Google Search Map site.

This is what itlooks like :

Technorati Tags:google, google video, google video search

Add a Google MAP to your Blog.

Add a Google AJAX Search to your Blog.

To add a Google AJAX Search to your Blog go to.............

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/ and get a Google AJAX Search API key. Click on
Sign up for a Google AJAX Search API key button and you will be taken to this page:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/signup.html. Put a check in the box where it says I have read and agree with the terms and conditions and paste your blog url in the textbox below and click on Generate API Key button.

Your API Key and code is generated. Paste this code (blue lines only) :

<link href="http://www.google.com/uds/css/gsearch.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<script src="http://www.google.com/uds/api?file=uds.js&v=1.0&key=YOUR API KEY CODE HERE" type="text/javascript">
IN THE ABOVE LINE ADD amp; AFTER BOTH THE & CHARACTERS OR YOU WILL GET ERROR MESSAGE.
</script>
<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[

function OnLoad() {
// Create a search control
var searchControl = new GSearchControl();

// Add in a full set of searchers
var localSearch = new GlocalSearch();
searchControl.addSearcher(localSearch);
searchControl.addSearcher(new GwebSearch());
searchControl.addSearcher(new GvideoSearch());
searchControl.addSearcher(new GblogSearch());

// Set the Local Search center point
localSearch.setCenterPoint("New York, NY");

// Tell the searcher to draw itself and tell it where to attach
searchControl.draw(document.getElementById("searchcontrol"));

// Execute an inital search
searchControl.execute("Google");
}

//]]>
</script>

in your template just after the title tags and save. Type in your Google API key code where it says 'YOUR API KEY CODE HERE' above.

Then paste this code inyour template just after <body> tag :

<body onload="OnLoad()">
<div id="searchcontrol"/>
</body>

and Save.

Paste this code in the css part of your template :

#searchcontrol {
float:right;
margin-right: 95px;
}

See how I have added it to my test site :http://testbetatemplate.blogspot.com/
Click on image below for larger view.

IMPORTANT : It is necessary to have an empty space in the right hand part of the body of your template to add this in the way I have done.