OneSignal - Add Free Web Push Notifications In Blogger Blog

Web push notifications is now a new strategy to grow your subscriber. Most of the popular website like Facebook, Twitter are also now using web push notification on their websites. As per the case study by YouNow it is revealed that user's retention has increased by 19%.

Recently, I have started using web push notification in my technology blog. And in this tutorial, I will guide you how to add web push notification your Blogger Blogspot. But before jumping to the whole process, let me tell you something about OneSignal.

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5 Best Free Image Hosting Websites for Ebay Item Listing

Images are one of the crucial parts of web designing because it makes your page looks beautiful and also increase the engagement. When you buy a hosting package from GoDaddy or any other, then they provide some storage on where you can upload your files like CSS, JavaScript, and images.

But Ebay does not provide such service because they are an E-commerce company which provides you only a gateway or a platform from where you can buy and sell goods.

While choosing a web server for hosting your pictures, you should consider the five following thing,

1. Enough Disk Space
2. Server Bandwidth
3. Hotlinking, So that you can embed pictures on eBay product description.
4. Uploading procedure is simple.

So I have featured here the best free image hosting providers with unlimited bandwidth and hotlinks,

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How To Add a Live Chat Support Widget on Blogger Free

If you are running a blog on which, you provide tech. Guides then there may be chances that your readers may not be able to apply your guides. And at that time, your visitor wants to chat with you to get the proper solution. There is a large number of the website available across the web which providing chatting plugin for blogs or WordPress either for free or charging some monthly fees.

I have tried almost half dozen of plugins (both free or paid) for my blog and noticed that no one is providing the proper features to satisfy my needs. And then I came across the Getsitecontrol plugin that not entirely but providing almost all the features that I wanted to get on my blogger blog.

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How to Generate Direct links of Dropbox, Google Drive Files

Google Drive and Dropbox, one of the most popular, file sharing portal where you can share your files with your friends, family or with your audience. if you are a blogger or content writer, then you can use google drive that provides 15GB storage  and this is quite enough to share large files. On the other side Dropbox providing 2GB free storage which is not sufficient but useful or can be used to store important data or files.


One of the most common drawbacks of all these file sharing portals is that they do not provide direct download link for the files. So, I have created a simple link generator which supports Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrice, Copy, SugarSync. By which you can easily bypass built-in file viewer and force the browser to download the file instead of opening it.

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Load YouTube & Dailymotion Video Player Faster & On Demand

When you embed a Youtube or Dailymotion video on your blog or website, then the video has to load a bunch of extra resources like CSS, JavaScript or images to rendering the videos. And, the bad thing about it that it always load these resources even if a visitors does not hit the play button. These resources increase not only the weight of your template but also the visitor's browser will also need to make multiple HTTP requests to render the videos.



Have you ever noticed that Google plus shows the embedded videos on their page with a different thumbnail style. Google+ only display a thumbnail image with a custom play button instead of displaying a embedded video player to make it look like a player. And, when a user clicks over the thumbnail, then the preview thumbnail is replaced by the standard video player. That means the browser loads all the resources that are required to play the video only once when necessary. And, this reduces the loading speed of your website.

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How To Host CSS, JavaScript Files on Github with Rawgit

If you are serious about blogging and want to make your blog best in all category, then you no only need to focus on high-quality content but also on blog's loading speed. If your blog loads speed is not good. Then your blog visitors will start to leave your blog on the very first visit and will move to some other blog for the same article.

You might be trying some tactics like optimizing images, compressing CSS and JavaScript to reduce the load speed. But as per my experience over page speed, all these tactics are only wasting of time, if you are not using a content delivery network for caching all the CSS, JavaScript files. As per Google Panda Update, every blog should be well cached and super fast load speed. There are numerous factors which affect Google page rank. And, one of them is loading speed.

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Howto Embed a Part of YouTube Video with Start-End Time

Vlogging is one of the crucial part of blogging, considered one of the best tool for expressing ideas. YouTube, Dailymotion is one of the two most popular video sharing site which contains millions of videos that you can share on your blog or website.

Sometimes, you might embed a long video on your site, and also add a note just below the video to tell the visitors to watch only a certain portion. This behavior not only kills time but also irritates the viewers of your video. So it is not a good sense.





The best idea to embed a YouTube video is to take the advantages of the parameter that lets you specify the start and end time. By which you can skip the unnecessary part or the introduction part of a lengthy video as per your desire.

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