How To Check Blog Ranking

How to check page rank?
How to increase page rank?
How to check traffic rank?
How to increase traffic rank?

To check Page Rank, use Google's Page Rank.



To increase page rank, get more backlinks from other sites. The more backlinks your site have, the higher the rank. One way is to exchange links.

To check Traffic Rank, use Alexa's Traffic Rank.


To increase the traffic rank, get more traffic.

The result may vary from time to time depending on the blog's performance.

How do I use a custom domain name on my blog?

Publishing on Blog*Spot is the fastest and easiest way to use all of Blogger's great features. (And for free, no less!) If you don't care to have blogspot.com in your blog's address, though, you can get a domain of your own. We'll continue to host all your content as before, but it will be displayed at your new address. (Unlike FTP publishing, which requires you to buy both a domain name and a hosting service.)

Choose and Register Your Domain

The first thing you'll need to do is to choose a domain name, like example.com and register it. You can register domain names from any of a number of different registrars, and you can use .com, .org, .net or any other valid addresses. Remember: you only need to get the domain name; you don't have to pay extra for hosting service. The easiest way to register a domain is to buy your domain directly through Blogger. If you go this route, we'll automatically configure all of your relevant DNS settings and attach your new domain to your existing blog immediately.

Update the DNS Settings

DNS stands for Domain Name System, and a DNS server determines what site a given address takes you to. So far, you have a domain name but none of the servers on the internet know what to do with it yet. To take care of this, you need to do two things:

• Create a CNAME record for your blog's address, which should be a subdomain of the form www.example.com.

To create a CNAME record for your domain with the DNS, associating your domain with: ghs.google.com.The exact procedure for doing this varies depending on your domain registrar, but you can find instructions for many common registrars here. If yours isn't listed, or if you run into other difficulties, you can contact your registrar directly and they'll be able to help you out.

• Create 'A' NAME records for your naked domain (blog.com)
  
  Note: The following information applies to naked domains only!! If you're setting up a subdomain then this does NOT apply to you! :-)

Creating A records for your naked domain is important as it allows Google to redirect people who use in your naked domain name (blog.com) to your blog page (www.example.com). If you do not do this, visitors who leave off the www will see an error page.

There are four separate A records you will create, and can be done from the same control panel you accessed your CNAME records. Simply point your naked domain (example.com, without the 'www') to each of the following IP addresses:

216.239.32.21 216.239.34.21 216.239.36.21 216.239.38.21 Your DNS setup is now complete!

Update Your Blogger Settings

Almost done! At this point, you have a domain name, and the DNS servers know to direct people to Google when they want to see your blog. But Google hosts lots of blogs, so we have to make sure the right one is associated with this domain. You'll do this on the Settings | Publishing tab for your blog in Blogger.
If you're publishing on Blog*Spot, you'll see a link near the top offering to switch you to a custom domain. Go ahead and click that link.
The Blog*Spot Address setting now changes to Your Domain. Fill in the domain you registered, and then save your settings.
Now the only thing left to do is to tell everybody about your new address!
Notes:

• If your new domain isn't taking you to your blog, wait another day or two to make sure all the DNS servers have been updated. If it still isn't working, contact your registrar to make sure you entered the DNS settings correctly.
• Your original Blog*Spot address will automatically forward to your new domain. That way, any existing links or bookmarks to your site will still work.
• You can use this feature with domains (e.g. example.com) or subdomains (e.g. ). However, you cannot specify subdirectories (e.g. example.com/blog/) or wildcards (e.g. *.example.com).
• Your posted images will continue to display on your blog as described here.

Google Buzz Won’t Weaken Facebook

For all its success in search, Google’s efforts in social networking have fallen flat. Orkut, a community site Google started in 2004, has gained popularity in a limited number of countries, including Brazil. Dodgeball, a location-based game Google acquired in 2005, was shuttered last year.

Undaunted, Google is taking another shot at becoming a force on the social Web. On Feb. 9, Mountain View (Calif.)-based Google announced Google Buzz, a service for sharing short messages, images, videos, and links to articles on the Web.
Buzz mimics the look and many features of popular social media sites Facebook and Twitter. Because Google is adept at showing ads based on what a person does online, it may do a better job than other social networking sites at making money from advertising. And by making Buzz work with popular Google services such as Gmail e-mail, it may quickly gain large numbers of adherents. The verdict is out, though, on whether Buzz can do much to usurp the roles of Facebook and Twitter on the social Web.
Gmail’s Social Network Potential
In coming weeks, Google will start making Buzz available to its Gmail users, who will discover the social service as a feature in their in-box. Gmail users will be able to write a message about what they’re doing, or upload multimedia, and share it with everyone in their contact list. Then, certain friends and colleagues—those with Gmail and whom the user has allowed to view messages—can jump in with commentary. “There’s always been this giant social network under Gmail,” says Todd Jackson, project manager for Gmail. “For many users, a lot of the people they interact with are on Gmail already.”
Indeed, Gmail has gained ground on rivals in Web e-mail. It had 176 million users in December, according to ComScore (SCOR). That left it behind Microsoft’s Hotmail, which had 369 million, and Yahoo! Mail, with 304 million. Still, Google grew 44% over the same month in 2008—more than triple the average rate of growth for the category, according to ComScore. “There’s a lot of momentum behind Gmail,” says Matt Cain, e-mail analyst at researcher Gartner (IT).
Then again, the same can be said of Facebook. In February, the company said it more than doubled its number of users from the previous year, to 400 million. With such a mass of interconnected users, the company is extending its social influence across the Web—helping users find information, on many sites, through their friendships rather than more traditional means like search.The Palo Alto (Calif.) company may also be planning to move squarely onto Gmail’s turf: On Feb.5, the blog TechCrunch reported that Facebook is developing a more full-featured Web e-mail product. Facebook spokeswoman Meredith Chin declined to discuss the company’s plans regarding messaging.
Advertising Advantage
Analysts say Google could improve on at least one area of social media where Facebook and Twitter have lagged: advertising. While Facebook was expected to make more than $500 million in revenue from advertising in 2009, marketers have complained that ads on the site have lower performance than on other types of sites, like e-commerce stores or search engines. Twitter has only introduced very minimal advertising to its site.
With Buzz, Google plans to sell ads that are more relevant to individual users. It will serve text ads, alongside posts, that are automatically targeted to what users are talking about. The system is based on the same formula the company uses to place ads alongside e-mail messages. “You can think of this as more messages in your in-box that we’ll show ads against if we have more ads to show,” says Google’s Jackson.

iPhone 4 Launch Hours Away but AT&T's Inventory Remains Doubtful

So with only a few hours to go before the much-anticipated release of the Apple iPhone 4, it appears having the cash handy and the willingness to commit to a wireless service contract may not be enough.

According to AT&T, due to inventory issues, it won't have any devices available for purchase at its stores until five days after the official release on Thursday.

The company also said that customers who preordered the iPhone 4 should receive home and business deliveries beginning at the end of the week. But new buyers will have to wait until at least July 14 for backorders to clear up.

While it is still unclear what kind of inventory shortage is resulting only AT&T being unable to stock new iPhones in stores, Apple said its retailers would still sell the device on Thursday, as would Wal-Mart, Best Buy and RadioShack. But they also added that units are likely to be in short supply/ first come, first serve basis.

The issue highlights how hard it has become for phone makers to predict demand for new products. They depend on a number of parts from separate suppliers and often have difficulties beefing up production when a shortage does happen.