How To Restore iPad Mini To Factory Settings [Quicktip]

By Hongkiat.com. Filed in How-To Guides

The newly launched Apple iPad Mini is out to have a beat down with other tablets in the market. If you have jailbroken your iPad Mini and have run into problems, there is probably a need for you to restore your iPad Mini to its original factory settings.

Restoring the iPad Mini to its default settings is also essential if you are thinking of selling or giving away your iPad Mini to someone else as you can fully erase your personal info from the device before it leaves your hands.

Here are 2 simple ways to restore factory settings and erase all the content on your iPad Mini, with the help of iTunes, and without.

1. Restore to Factory Settings Without iTunes

It is just as simple to restore your iPad Mini without iTunes. Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap on Erase All Content and Settings.

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Add Wordpress Style Author Bio Box For Blogger

In   this  post, im  gonna  explain  how  to  add wordpress
style author  bio  box for blogger. You  can  add  this  box
every end of y our  blog  post. You  can  change  the c ode
according to your details.i mentioned it with  highlighting
the code.So, it will easy  for  you. Other  thing is,  for  this
bio box.  you  can  use 80 x 80 pixel  image.

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Social Sharing Buttons With Colorful Hover Effect

Im gonna explain, how to add  social  sharing widget
with colorful  hover effect.Actually this widget looks
great. you can  keep in on side bar. For this  post   im
using   CSS  and  HTML  languages. You   can   link 
your  Rss,Facebook,Twitter and Google plus.You can
add it  with easy  steps.  get  my  other  social  media


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Search For Adsense Ads by Image using Ad Review Center Tool

LimitationsCurrently, you can only upload an image of maximum size 2 MB, and a max dimension of 1024 pixels. Also, this feature for now only returns image ads. More functionality will be added later on, and we'll keep you posted about it :)
We'd recommend you use this tool rarely, and with care. Only block content that you absolutely don't want to appear, because blocking ads is generally not a very good idea. It isn't a good revenue generating practice, and can reduce your revenue. So be careful! Good luck :)

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Show each Author Picture In Post Titles Dynamically

Its a pleasure for me to share one of a Blogger tweak that we managed to implement on BloggingeHow.com recently that makes sure that every author's image is shown up beside their post titles, both on home and post pages. The dynamic tweak enables every individual authors in Blogger based blogs to get them selves showcased. Also as for readers, its a much satisfying thing to know the actual person behind the article. Its much easier to get your self related with the post. It will display author pics dynamically unlike the static way that Mohammad shared months ago which can be find here: Show Profile Avatars next to post titles.  
Live Demo   PS: At MBT a different approach is utilized and that alternative tweak will be shared by Mohammad himself so stay tuned to that. What the trick? The most tricky part in implementing the dynamic feature was to align the image and the post titles in a single line and not laying down the actual code for displaying individual authors images. As every other Blogger template is different as of its coding structure, so the below tutorial might not exactly match with your template, though you would be given the idea of what sort of code to search for in order to get to that point in the code where you have to implement the Dynamic author's profile images in Blogger. Step #1 Open Edit HTML section Navigate towards your Blogger Dashboard >> Template >> Edit HTML backup your template.  Hit 'Expand Widget Templates' and find the following code

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Free Mobile Recharge using Amulyam,Embeepay,Way2sms,ULtoo

Here i am going to say about free recharging sites in internet.Are you wasting money by making recharges,Then here is the time for changing that. There are many sites provides Free Recharge and many of that are fake and some them are good and we can trust.
One of the site is


Amulyam.in

 There are many other sites for online recharge, some of them that i used are listed follows
AmulyamEmbeepayULtooWay2sms Amulyam gains popularity in India in recent two years and very popular service among Indian mobile users. Amulyam has many ways to get talktime in our wallet. They provides emails of advertisers that sends to us and each opening of the mail will get .25ps in the wallet. They provide 2-3 advertisement mails every day. When the wallet reaches Rs.10 you can make recharge. Another way for increase the earnings in the wallet is to play and create contest or quiz. Playing contest will give .25ps and creating contests make you to earn high. Create a quiz with 10 questions will get you Rs.5. For Approved questions will get 50ps per question.
Another way is to purchase air tickets and buying things it will offer you Rs. 500 instantly. Also you can refer friends and make money. Each referral will get you Rs. 1.
Embeepay is a Facebook Application it provides points  and when we sign up it gives 100 points. 30 points will give you 10Rs top up and 150 points will give you 50Rs Recharge.300 points will give you 100Rs
ULtoo provides free sms and get talktime to your account by sending sms.

Click here to get Rs.2 on your wallet instantly in amulyam

Click here to get 100points on Embeepay instantly

Click here to get Rs.2 on your wallet of ULtoo

Click here to get Rs.1 on your wallet of Way2sms

I hope this article will help you better.

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Customize Windows 8 Metro Tile Icons With OblyTile

By Hongkiat.com. Filed in Tools

If you’ve recently installed or upgraded to Windows 8 and have started customizing programs onto its new Start Menu UI, you’ll notice that the program icons are the same old icons placed in an oversized box.

You’ll see the program name under it and will be in awe at how out of place the newly added icons are with the rest of the Windows 8 theme.

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20+ Coupon Sites for the Best Shopping Deals and Bargains

By Hongkiat.com. Filed in Web 2.0

Online shopping saves you time and gives you a wider variety of items to choose from, all from the comforts of home. But just because you get the convenience, it doesn’t mean you don’t get to get bargains and deals!

With Christmas just around the corner, everyone is bargain-hunting for the best gifts with the best savings, to wrap and place under the Christmas tree.

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Ultimate Guide To Fork CMS: Installation, Themes, And Beginner Tips

By Jake Rocheleau. Filed in Web 2.0

A number of popular open source projects has been released in recent years. Content Management Systems can offer a lot more than other open source solutions. These projects give average webmasters the ability to install and launch their own website with very little technical programming knowledge.

In this post, I want to take you through Fork CMS. This is still a newcomer in the field of PHP/MySQL CMS applications. But I would argue that Fork picks up a lot of slack that WorPpress has left behind. Of course, WordPress has also been through a series of major updates and follows a huge company of web developers. But if you’re looking for an alternate open source PHP solution, then Fork is definitely worth some attention.

Introduction to Fork

Before we get to install anything, I want to share a couple of differences between the current version of Fork CMS and WordPress. The most immediate difference is that Fork cannot be installed within a subdirectory on your website. You’ll need to install on a root domain or some type of subdomain for testing (eg. forkcms.hongkiat.com). This may be updated in future releases but at the time of this article, subdomains are off-limits.

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Attractive Css3 Image Hover Effects

In this post  im  gonna  explain,  how  to  add a
pure CSS3 image galley for blogger. It include
nice hover effect. In this  gallery, there  have 9
images.Each images have  own style. You can
check it by demo link. you can use this gallery
on your sidebar.You can get my earlier images


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HostGator Black Friday 2012 Promotion : 50% OFF on ALL hosting services

Hostgator provides a best web hosting service with UNLIMITED Disk Space and Bandwidth,24/7/365 Award Winning Technical Support. HostGator is one of the world's top 10 largest web hosting companies with more than 5,000,000 hosted domains. They have over 750 employees to provide you superior around the clock support. HostGator is a perfect choice whether you are looking for business or personal, web hosting.

For a very limited time, HostGator offers  50% OFF on ALL hosting services . This includes Shared hosting, Reseller hosting, VPS hosting, Dedicated servers and Windows hosting!. Hostgator is also offering Domain Names for only $1.95 if purchased with Web Hosting! This is THE BEST offer they have ever ran on domain names before!

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Evernote 5 For Mac and iOS: 10 New Features You Should Know

By Kay Tan. Filed in Tools

The Evernote team has updated and redesigned their user interface with 100 new features for better user experience. The new Evernote – Evernote 5 – comes with a new look and new shortcuts, which brings quicker access to everything you can do on Evernote.

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40 Impeccable Shots of Cute Nendoroid Figures [PICS]

By Alvaris Falcon. Filed in Inspiration

Beware, the insanely cute Nendoroids are here! In short, Nendoroid is a brand of mini plastic figures created by the Good Smile Company in Japan, and they are commonly designed based on famous Japanese animes, games, and Vocaloid series. They might sound unfamiliar at first, but trust me, you will love them as soon as you lay your eyes on them!

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[Giveaway] 5x Ikonic UI Icon Sets (150 Icons)

By Hongkiat.com. Filed in Freebies

Looking for some simple icons for your next UI design? Then, you have come to the right place. In today’s giveaway, we are giving away 5 copies of Ikonic Icon Set, courtesy of Rakesh of radesign.in.

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Pinterest Pin It button on image hover

Due to numerous requests from our readers, here we present yet another Pinterest pin it button widget for Blogger, a button that appears when you mouseover or hover an image inside your post.

Pinning an image just got easier and more intuitive with this button. First you decide which photo to pin, then hover it to invoke the pin it button, and finally click on the button that appears on the image.

Use the photo below as a live demo. Click on the button and see how the pinning works.

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Multi Color Advanced Css3 Menu Bar For Blogger

In this post, im gonna explain, how to add multi color advanced css3 menu for blogger.Im include 2 styles light color and dark color.Im using CSS3 and HTML for creating this menu bar.Its include nice hover style too.you can check it form demo page. you can get my earlier menu bar post collection  by clicking here

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Do you think 'Search Engine Optimization' should be renamed?

We often hear and use the term Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with regards to blogging / website designing, and getting content on Google. But what is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear this word? A lot of people picture link building and other such practices, which kind of limits their imagination and their field. But comparing its actual meaning to the way it is used today, do you think there's any difference between the two? And do you think the name is descriptive of the way it is used these days? Or should it be renamed appropriately? Here's Google's viewpoint on the matter.

You can think of it as Search Experience optimization rather than Search Engine Optimization, with focus on the user experience, i.e. whether a user likes a content on your page, does he convert well once landing on your page, does he bookmark your page and tell his friends about it, all those kinds of things. So unlike the viewpoint some people have, SEO is much more than link-building now, and has more focus on quality.

Unfortunately, Search Engine Optimizers these days have a pretty bad name. This is mostly because of some of the SEOs who practice black-hat techniques to give themselves an unfair advantage. And even though a lot of people do create good content, and create a good user-experience, they still get a bad name because of some rotten apples.

So even if the field is given a new name, it doesn't really matter. Those who practice shady techniques will still be in the same field as those who don't. So isn't it unfair to paint both of them with the same brush? The only solution is to broaden one's perspective of how this field works. Again, there's a lot more to it than just building links.

So tell us, do you think the term Search Engine Optimization should be changed to something else? What do you think it should be called? Leave your interesting responses in the comments below :)

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How To Hide Stock Apple Icons On Your iOS Device [Quicktip]

Your iOS device comes with a lot of apps that, frankly, you do not need or use at all. These apps, such as Compass, Voice Memos, Stocks, Videos, Newsstand or Game Center are also known as ‘Stock Apple Apps’ – they came with the device. And everything that came with the device, stays with the device.

Yup, you cannot delete these apps, so you can either leave them where they are or chuck them into a folder and place that unsightly folder in a far corner of your home screen…

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40 Geeky Decorations For The Christmas Holiday

Christmas may still be a month away but it’s never too early to start thinking about Christmas decorations, and food. Year in, year out we’ve been stuck with old-fashioned snowman, angel, ribbon, bell and shiny ball ornaments. Maybe it’s time we inject some geekiness into this year’s Christmas. If this is what you are looking for, then have we got a list for you.

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Pixel-Based Websites: Resources, Tutorials, And Examples

By Jake Rocheleau. Filed in Web Design

Designing a web interface using pixel-style artwork is relatively obscure compared to modern trends. You really need to dig through a handful of websites on the Internet to find some good examples; it’s hard but not impossible.

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How long does a Reconsideration request take to process?.

Google rolls out its algorithmic updates on a regular basis now. And it impacts a lot of websites positively, as well as negatively. Although the negative effect might be because of shady practices or spam action, it could also be a mistake, for which Google offers webmasters an option to file a reconsideration report. So if you think your website has been unduly penalized, or maybe if there's a misconception from Google's side, you can use this option. But some people have been submitting and submitting reconsideration requests, but don't hear anything about it for weeks, or even months. So how long does Google take to actually process a reconsideration request?

First of all, if your requests has not been considered for a long time, say like a month or so, then it's not normal. You should submit a reconsideration request again if you don't hear in two weeks or so. Sometimes, usually when Google is sending out a new kind of message, a lot of requests might get piled up, so you might want to wait a bit more. But if a month or two pass by without a reply, then its time to file another request.

You can tell something is wrong when you don't get a confirmation email right after you file your request. This means that maybe the request didn't go through properly, or there was an error on server-side.

Typically, there are three types of responses you can get from Google out of a reconsideration request. First, you might get a positive response about your domain, saying that your domain seems fine, and hence the penalty has been lifted, and you are now good to go. You can also get a negative answer, which means that your request has been disregarded, because there are still issues with your site.

And if Google is still working on your site, you will get a message simply saying your request has been considered. It won't say yes or no. This means, that Google has looked at your website, but hasn't found any reason to disregard your request. But while some part of your website was fine, the other part might have some other issue, such as a technical issue. So Google will take a closer look, and then let you know.

But if it is past two months or so, then that's bad, and you should do something about it, and notify Google. Usually, you can wait for up to two weeks before filing a reconsideration request again. Good luck with your reconsideration :)

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Collaborate Ideas And Notes Online With Pinsi.De

By Hongkiat.com. Filed in Tools

You can do everything online these days, including having an online brainstorming sessions with colleagues or friends who you can’t meet up with in the flesh. But the problem with communicating online is how to keep track of what everyone’s saying.

If you want to take notes and catch up with the flow of the discussion, you’re going to need the right tool for it, or else it’s going to turn out like a badly managed meeting.

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A Look into: HTML5 Placeholder Attribute

By Thoriq Firdaus.

One of my favorite new pieces in HTML5 is the ability to add Placeholder Text easily. The placeholder text is the grey text that you find in an input field that is used to give a hint to the users on what input is expected in that field. Once users start typing in the input field, this text will disappear.

In the old days, we commonly do this with JavaScript, as follows;

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40 Mind-Boggling Shadow Art Illusions [PICS]

By Kay Tan. Filed in Inspiration

Shadows are such straightforward things: cast a light on an opaque object, and a shadow of it is thus born. Yet shadows can be manipulated to resemble entirely different shapes from its model, using clever and strategic manipulation of space and light. These amazing and cool artwork will make you look twice and ask yourself: how in the world did they do that?

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CSS Chocolate Style Menubar For Blogger

This post will  explain  about how  to add chocolate color  style menu bar for  your blog. This menu  bar include nice hover style  with sub menu.you can  try this menu  bar  for  your  blog. Im  using  CSS  and HTML for this tutorial.

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Beautiful Rss Feed Subscription Box For Blogger

Today I'm gonna explain how to add beautiful Rss Feed subscription box for blogger.using this widget users can add their emails and subscribe your Rss feed.This is a simple widget,So you can add it to your blog easily.This is compatible with all browsers.

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How will Google interpret links to URLs ending with a campaign tag?

Campaign tags, also known as URL parameters, are a way of telling apart different variables, such as a visitor's source, or affiliate id, or something similar. Hence, they are used for tracking purposes. These tags or parameters change the URL, even if they might point to the same content. For example www.example.com and www.example.com?

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Envato Holiday Bundle 2012 – $500 worth of items for $20

This Holiday Bundle is provided by Envato. its value is only $20, but it’s packed with more than $500 worth of seasonal design items from ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, PhotoDune, VideoHive, AudioJungle, CodeCanyon and ActiveDen. This is a shopping trip that you won’t want to leave until the last minute!

These items will add the perfect dash of seasonal flair to your latest project and make it easy to send holiday greetings to your friends, family, clients, and colleagues.

Due to the discount nature of this bundle, Envato Marketplace files bought in the Web Designer Pro Bundle will not be eligible for updates or support from their authors. This is an 

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20+ Websites to Download Creative Commons Music For Free

By Kay Tan. Filed in Web 2.0

If you’ve wondered where many of those YouTube videos get their background music from, you’ve come to the right place. Music with Creative Commons licenses are music compositions written, produced and shared by people who do not charge anything when you use their music for your own use, commercially or non-commercially.

Basically, they make the music and keep ownership and copyright of it and you get the permission to use it for your videos, film or small multimedia productions, as long as you credit the creator properly.

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9 Interactive Social Networks for Your Entertainment Needs

By Hongkiat.com. Filed in Web 2.0

Editor’s note: This is a contributed post by Corina Mackay, an inbound marketer for Attendly, a white label ticketing and event registration startup. You can follow Attendly on Twitter.

Whether you prefer a weekly movie night or to snuggle up with a good book, there are plenty of entertainment-based social networks out there that you can definitely belong to. Keep track of your favorite shows or music, your collection of books or trivia, and even get recommendations of new and upcoming entertainment choices.

In this post, we’ll feature entertainment and social apps to help you keep track of the latest:

movies and TV series, books, music, and a bit of everything. Recommended Reading: 55 Interesting Social Media InfographicsMovies and TV

How often do you get recommendations for movies or TV shows from your friends, only to forget them by the time you visit the DVD store? These apps will help you keep track of what you’ve seen and offer recommendations right when you need them.

Foundd

Working as a movie recommendation engine that learns about your tastes, Foundd requires some time to set up. After rating a bunch of films, you’ll be able to see a tailored "Watch List" of movies that you might like.

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Add Mega Floating Social Network Sharing Buttons Bar

In this  tutorial im gonna  explain   how  to  add largest floating social  network  icons.  you  can add this social icon bar on top, bottom, left and right.Im using CSS and HTML for this.Css code is too long.Copy paste it well.You can  link this all icons to your profile. Its easy. If you want to get my earlier post about social buttons and icons, just click here to get it.

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Make Your Blog Optimized for Traffic and Search Visibility

You can advertise your blog on an affiliate program.You can create a guest post on a few  popular  blogs and draw  traffic  that way.  You can  add your blogs address to the bottom of every  email you send,  and you can start a social media campaign to drive traffic to your blog. Another way  you can  get  traffic  is to make it more visible on search  engines.  The truth is that Google is not the first port of call for most

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Sliding Social Sharing Widget For Blogger

In this post, im  gonna explain  how to add  nice

social sharing widget for your blog.It has a nice

hover effect. For this  post  im  using pure  CSS

and  HTML  languages.You  can  link  your  Rss,

Facebook,Twitter nad Google plus.You can add

it with easy  steps. get  my other  social  media

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Add Attractive Animated CSS Buttons For Blogger

Today im  gonna  explain how to add css3 stylish

animated  buttons  for your blogger. you can  use

this buttons as  download   buttons, demo buttons,

redirect to other page and etc.Im  using  CSS  and

HTML for this. you can use this button code in to

your blogger post too.Check my  earlier post about

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Attractive CSS Cloud Label Style For Blogger

In this post im gonna explain how to add nice label

/category widget  for blogger  few weeks ago i was

posted   about  Attractive  Css3  Labels /  Category

Widget For  Blogger. So,  this  is  also  same  trick.

However this is also same trick with different style.

Im using CSS for  this  trick  check blow image for

example.Earlier i posted about same trick Change

Blogger Label Links As Brick / Box Style. Follow

below steps to add it to your blog.Its easy.

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How does Google consider site-wide backlinks?

Are site-wide backlinks good or bad for your website? People are often confused by the question, and most are under the impression that the more the backlinks to a website, the better, no matter whether they are from the same, or a different domain. And judging from a crawler's point of view, it seems logical, since crawlers crawl each link on a page, and then follow the link to the linked page, and a backlink is registered for that page if it's external. But is it worth back-linking to a site more than once? More importantly, does it have any pitfalls?

In a perfect world, there shouldn't be any problem with multiple backlinks. But as you know, spammers take advantage of every small opportunity they can get to get the most out of their own website through shady practices. And in this case, back-linking is the opportunity. People have started spamming, or excessive, low quality guest posting on high ranking websites. As a result, it seems unfair to those who don't spam, but don't have access to high quality websites either. So this makes the question much more important.

Algorithmic detectingThere are two ways Google looks at this problem. Algorithmically, and manually. The algorithm works in much the same way for site-wide backlinks as it does for keywords. For keywords, the relation between the number of keywords and the importance of each new keyword is asymptotic. This means that the first keyword will count a lot, the second not as much, the third, much lesser, and so on. So for those who are using keyword stuffing and inserting a ton of keywords in their posts, all those keywords lose their importance, and hence are rendered useless.

Site-wide backlinks are treated in a similar fashion. When Google finds a backlink on a website, that backlink counts the most. Each subsequent backlink to the same domain loses its value, so much so that even if there are a hundred backlinks to the same domain, only one or so will be actually considered as an 'important' backlink.Manual scenarioIn the case of manual detection, Google has a different behavior. And since it now focuses on the user-experience part, it will look at all those backlinks like any normal user would. For example, if you have a blog A, and a blog B, and blog A has site-wide links to blog B, then visitors on blog A will find it irritating to continually come across multiple links to the same domain. So chances are, this might very well go against you.

If your links are natural, such as a gallery, or an archive of some sort, or maybe a blog roll or RSS where you have site-wide backlinks to another site, then you can be sure of safely passing Google's manual scrutiny. But if you are doing this for spamming purposes, then Google will discard most of your backlinks as spam. And this might even hurt your ranking.

So yes, site-wide back-linking is allowed, but only when you are linking naturally. Spam linkers will get their links discarded, and their rank degraded, which they deserve. Hope this makes the problem clear. Feel free to ask any questions you might have. And always, stay away from spam :)

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Convert a Wordpress blog To Blogger in easy steps

Blogger is a very widely used publishing platform, mostly because its strength lies in its simplicity and ease of use. It is quite easy to use, and is recommended for beginner bloggers who are looking for a quick and easy way to create a presence for themselves online. For bloggers who have created a WordPress blog, but are at a loss to maintain or modify it, they have a great option in Blogger. They can easily migrate their WordPress blog to Blogger without any hitch. In this post, we will talk about how you can shift from WordPress to free Blogger.

Normally, such a transfer isn't easy. Data needs to be imported from WordPress first, and then imported to Blogger. Since Blogger doesn't allow any data format except its own, there needs to be a conversion process that will convert WordPress exported files. Luckily, there's just such a utility available! Here, we will guide you through the simple steps. Following them, you can convert self-hosted WordPress blogs to Blogger, as well as migrate from free WordPress to Blogspot.Step 1: Importing from WordPressLog into your WordPress account (for free WordPress users), and then choose the blog you want to convert into Blogger. Alternatively, you can log into your blog's dashboard directly by adding the /wp-login.php suffix to your blog's home URL (eg yourblog.com/wp-login.php or yourblog.wordpress.com/wp-login.php)Navigate through your WordPress menu, and find the Tools option. When you click on it, you'll see further options, among which you will see the Export option. Click on it.

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