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Unofficial Tech Support ~ Adding My Blog Log to your Active Rain Profile

Personalization of your Active Rain profile is easy to do with all the handy widgets available to bloggers these days. One of the most popular (free) widgets is the My Blog Log. Signing up for this bit of technology will allow you to see who is visiting your blog. You will also be able to see which of your links are getting clicks and what blogs are sending you the most visitors.

If this is appealing to you keep reading!

First you must be a member of My Blog Log. Join here. (If you are a member already, follow these instructions skip to the Widget section.) Become a member, fill out your profile and upload your photo. Once complete go to >My Home > Get Widgets > (see illustration below)

My Blog Log Widget

Use the widget page to configure your widget to match your color scheme. Several style and sizes are offered by combining screen names (or not), full or half-size and number of rows. You may also personalize the title to suit your theme.

NOTE: the graphic on the right shows your choices. Once satisfied click "Preview & Get Code".

Get Code

My Blog Log offers several formats for your Log Widget. Here are some samples:

Sample widgets

Open the next window, check your work. If you don't like what you built, just go back to the previous window and start over again. Once satisfied cut and paste the code. (Highlight code "HOLD CTRL C" to paste it to the clipboard. (Next illustration shows Code)

code

NOTE: the code trails off the window, be sure you scroll over to get the COMPLETE code. It will begin with an opening bracket "<" sign and end with a closing bracket ">"

Logon to Active Rain

With your code still pasted to your clipboard, open your Active Rain Home Page.

In the upper left you will see "My Settings" click on it.

code

If you have filled out your profile, there will be words in the Description blog. Place your cursor at the end of your text and "PASTE" the code. Click "UPDATE."

Check your work

Your Blog Log will take a few seconds to populate. Done right it should look something like mine on the right column of this page.

Good luck with making your Active Rain Blog pretty!

If you would like more Unofficial Tech Support Tips visit my profile page. At the bottom there are links to various tech topics for building your AR Blog.

If you want to be the first to know about future tips, subscribe to my blog.

Colorado Licensed Broker ABR - Accredited Buyer Representative CIPS - Certified International Property Specialist CRS - Certified Residential Specialist The Berkshire Group Realtors 3801 E. Florida Ave. Suite 400 Denver, Colorado, 80210 USA	Mobile: 303-589-2022 Fax: 303-953-5362 kristal@tbgdenver.com Denver Real Estate and Relocation Denver Home Search
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Posted by Kristal Kraft ~Denver Real Estate~303-589-2022 on 05/09/2007 07:32 AM

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Adding MyBlogLog Widget in the Technology and Tools Channel

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Originally posted at: The Official ActiveRain Guide: Unofficial Tech Support ~ Adding My Blog Log to your Active Rain Profile

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117 Comments on Unofficial Tech Support ~ Adding My Blog Log to your Active Rain Profile

MAY

2007

Thanks once again for the unofficial tech support. I really think you deserve more than the shoes and the car they have given you.

LOL Thanks Linda. :)

Shoes . . . Cars . . .?

Want to share some of them? One of them?

Kristal,

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

Once again, a valued member of the AR community takes the time to help the rest of us out... This is very timely help for me, and I'm guessing, for others as well!

Thank You!

Pat

Hi Kristal - many thanks for the time you take to do posts like this. I had seen these bloglog things on others sites, and I wondered how to do that. Thank you for sharing this info!

Ann

Well I'm giving it a try..........thanks. I've seen your posts on ePRO Talk as well, haven't I?

Aw shucks. I'm a "stealth" viewer. This totally takes the fun out of surfing blogs when the owner knows you've been there.

Where's my Stealth Cape????

I've used My Blog Log for a few months now. I really like it. (I use it on my "pretty" blog.) Thanks for sharing with everyone.

Awesome. Thanks for the tips Kristal. I'm still finding my way around here and you just answered one of my big questions. Instead of a MBL widget, I added a Twitter one instead.

Sometimes I feel the same as Lenn when i know that I'll be visiting a site with a MyBlogLog widget. It would be cool to surf invisible if you chose to. It would be cool to do that w/o logging out of MBL.

Kristal,

How do you know so much? I have seen these around on peoples blogs. Thanks for putting this up.

Dang, Kristal, your screen shots with SnagIt look so good. But, I've said that before. :-)

I was thinking of doing this at some point...now I can be lazy and just follow your tutorial. YIPEE!

Kristal

I just installed the HTML for it last night.

I recently signed up for mybloglog and I love how it tracks the stats for your blog. Great work Kristal!

Ooh....More good stuff. Thanks for this share!

Thanks for the info as always, KK. I like the look of these, adn some of the other things we see, like the PollDady widgets. Not sure which I like best and don't want to overcrowd. Hmmm.

What kind of shoes did you get? :)

Jeff

This is so sad, according to My Blog Log, I started to do this last Dec - is it really May?

Thank you, Kristal, we need tutorals on this so everyone will know. I do read your posts and you are saved on my blogs.

Thanks for the how to. Just need some people to visit since there's a few scantily clad gals showing up.

Lenn - you can hide yourself. Hover over your image and click on the red X. Ooh, I just found out I can hide visitors I don't like. hmmm....

KK - Thanks for this great tutorial. I've wondered where people get those widgets. I jointed my blog log a while ago and have done nothing with it.

Do you have all of the tutorials you have written in one place. I'd love a Best of the Best KK Tutorial Blog. <just a thought> <please>

Your one on how to add links to AR was a lifesaver, and the one on how to add photos in columns - way cool. Thanks!

Thank you Kristal, I just set this up and noticed that you had visited my, Myblog, thank you. Now i just have to wait for some one to visit my blog to see if I did everything right.

Thanks for the tech support info and intro to this handy tool. I am going to implement it right now.

Kristal,

I think it's great you would share this with the community. I just recently added it to my Voxury Populi blog, but have not as of yet done so on Active Rain. Although it was a coincidence, I also appreciate that my icon was one of the "recent visitors" ;-)

Thank you so much. I wasn't sure how you all added those. I got mine added. Thanks again.

Your tech support tips are great. They also are easy to understand. I will have to try this out. I have bookmarked this blog so I can come back when I have a few moments. Thanks

Ed DeChristopher ~ You can borrow my shoes anytime! ;)

Patrick ~ Hopefully you will find it helpful, did you install your Blog Log yet?

Ann ~ As you know there are no secrets here!

Lenn ~ I know you are always watching. I will never take your maps! :)

Chris ~ you must be a friend of Craig's if you have a "pretty" blog!

Andy ~ Twitter is something I just noticed, but I really do know what it is...can you explain?

Karen ~ Know so much? Oh it's all in a day's work. Can we call this work? You are welcome!

Cheryl ~ Yes, we are both fans of SnagIt. I bet we sell a lot of them!

Rich ~ Yup considering all you must wade through, be lazy.

Neal ~ Cool, you are way ahead of me. Why didn't you write the toot?

Ravi ~ Not bad for "free!" :)

Lisa ~ You are welcome Jersey girl!

Jeff ~ OVercrowding looks cheesy I know what you mean. Shoes? I don't know yet, Caleb said they are in the mail. Flat Jonathan lost all his money in the tumbleweed chase or so he said.

Dena ~ Yup, it is May, 2008. Been blogging have you?

Missy ~ Glad you agree the tutorials help. Sometimes I wonder...

Ben ~ Let's face it, you are HOT, that's why the girls come to visit you! :)

Ben ~ Are you saying we can delete people we don't like? More cool yet!!!

Maureen ~ I have saved some tutorials at the very bottom of my profile page. Otherwise it would get old digging through my nearly 400 blogs...unless you need to break your insomnia one night... Go for it!

Mana ~ Blog and they will come! Visit other blogs and they will follow you back home to see where you live, kinda.

Robert ~ Implementation is good. Let me know how it goes!

Eric ~ I just recently added mine to AR. I like the bigger format. Glad to see you are showing up. Thanks for the comment.

Mott ~ Now I guess I need to blog about "Why things don't work." With HTML code you must be sure you have copied the whole code. Place it AFTER the tags that are there. I found at one point I had too many words and the code would not "fit" into the AR word limit. This is not counted as a word, so chances are you have a partial tag or something. Try it again. Go all the way back to MyBlogLog and capture the code. Make sure you having the ending and closing tags < > Good luck!

Christy ~ Cool! Glad it works for you. I remember when you had trouble with the photos...:) You've come a long way...

Joan ~ This is one of those processes you want to be wide awake and without interruptions! Good luck and let me know how it goes.

Kristal,

How cool. I love stuff like this. I'm going to work on it tomorrow when I'm bright eyed and busy tailed.

Fran

MAY

2007

Thank your for showing us how to do this. I will one day start catching up and doing all of this schtuff.

Kristal, Thanks for posting this information, I have seen it around and wondered about it. I will add it to my long list of things to do. :)

Kristal...WOW! Great tip. this will be fun to install and watch. Thanks for your help.

Regards...Jay

So, now you can put a face on the LURKERs!!! Thanks Kristal.

Kristal,

I found your post very helpful although I have to admit I'm going to bookmark and come back to review. Thanks a million.

Kristal,

Thanks so much for all the time you took to compose this valuable post. The tracker is very exciting!

Have a fantastic day!

Thanks for sharing once again!

I'm with Lenn ... after I installed this a few months back, I can't do stealth viewing anymore. ;-)

Thanks, as always, for your "Tech Support".

PS: I'm not logged in.

Fran ~ I think MBL makes an attractive and colorful addition to the blog. Hope you get to bright eyed and busy tailed tomorrow!

Doreen ~ Catching up is a goal... good luck!

Suzanne ~ Well now you know. It's just a fun little widget. Hope you find the time to add it to your arsenal!

Jay ~ Watch? I hope you have more to do! :) Just kidding I know you do, it just gets hard to respond differently to each comment, if you know what I mean!

Bob ~ Lovely lurkers they are too!

Diane ~ Bookmarking works. If you are like me you will bookmark it and someday in the future you will notice how cool this looks on someone else's blog and return to do it. Good luck!

Antoinette ~ We have no shortage of trackers...thanks for stopping by!

Jon ~ you are very welcome.

Elaine ~ funny you should mention you aren't logged in! You lovely face has been captured, so I guess logging in is not necessary! If you want to remain stealth someone mentioned you click on the red 'X' that appears if you "hover" over your face. That will hide you from view. I am afraid to do it for fear I won't be able to "undo" it. Anyway I love seeing your face...even love comments more! So many stroll by and say nothing.

Ok Kristal...I've taken the plunge. Thanks again!

Wow! it's 2008 - where the heck have I been. But thanks again for the reminder.

Eric ~ Plunging is good, don't forget to wear a swimsuit!

Dena ~ time does fly when you are having fun.

Kristal,

I was thinking of it but I'm glad you wrote it because I'm not sure I would have the time to figure out how to add all the great graphics..you said it better anyway..I just started to use it and might have missed a good feature you included.

This is great advice. I just bookmarked it. Thanks

Kristal

Interesting idea What are now doing more of or differently as a result of the info?

Kristal: Question for the techy lady ... I added the widget to my AR blog, but the photos are all of people who have visited my outside blog. Do you happen to know if the photos will eventually include both blogs?

I also noticed the Twitter when I went in to change the colors and eliminate the names. Will be lurky to see if anyone knows what it is or does.

Here's another question ... I tried entering the code to my other blog for the Top Links. The copy under it says it's not linking. Do you have to pay for the upgrade to have that widget work?

Elaine ~ each blog should have it's OWN CODE. What you did was use the same code for both blogs. :) You need to create a second site. Go to "Add site/blog I author" and put in the AR blog!

Neal ~ anytime you want my Unofficial Tech Support job you can have it. You just can't have my pretty Italian very fast car, expense account and all the shoes they (AR) sends me! ;)

Dave ~ you ask a very important question. You must be an engineer type who is not satisfied with just looking at the pretty colored widget! :)

On my real blog (which is sadly neglected at the moment) I always pay attention to the traffic and search words. Knowing what folks are searching for when they find me tells me if I am 1) being found 2) being relevant 3) and gives me additional food for thought.

Folks who are on MYBlogLog are mostly industry folks. The consumer is researching us stealthly.

The statistics are important in many ways. How do you use yours?

That is great info. I hope i can pull it off

KK, great info as usual. I love cool tools so I'll be adding this little gem. Thanks for sharing!

Teri ~ My eyes must have bounced off your post! Yes, you know me from RT from a long time ago. We are also reciprocal link partners...forever and a day!

Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks for being so Krafty!!!

Ryan ~ I be checking your homework soon, get it done! :)

Peter ~ if you can inspect homes, I'm sure you can "pull it off." Good luck!

Denise ~ 100%! Thanks!

MAY

2007

Krystal,

I have seen this blog log on several profiles and I didn't know where it came from thanks for the tip.

Great Post

Hello:

You have posted several handy-dandy blogs regarding how to insert photos, these widgets, etc. I am unable to print them out to have on hand to utilize (I love to have the instructions when I am trying to do it). Is there a way to print this info out, or is there some way to tag this page to my blog so that I can always find it when I need it?

I feel like I am the Techno-Geek(ess) and you are the Techno-Goddess! Thanks for any help.

MAY

2007

Thank you for taking the time to go into detail to share this with everyone.

Rob ~ Thanks!

Marilyn ~ It is very hard to print out a web page and have it all be on the paper. But you can try by using the "prtScn" button. The best way to save info on Active Rain is to "Bookmark" it. Or you can save it to outside bookmarking services like Gmark (google) if you use Firefox their is a program called "firemarks" Delic.ious and others. Pick one and use it! Good luck.

Judi ~ you are welcome.

Thanks to all for stopping by.

Widget, gidgets what's next. Looks good. Need to digest it all.

Gene ~ you will find an endless list of things to digest here.

Kristal - I'm just getting in on the action late this week - thanks for another great tip! Do you ever tire of all the hero worship? :-) I'm hoping to get mine to look like yours but looks like I don't have enough visitors to tell yet.

Hope your Dad's doing well. Talk to you soon - off to have a little R & R with friends tonight.

Well I followed all the steps, time will tell if it is working OK or not......thanks Kristal for the link.

Cyndee ~ hope you enjoy your night out...you have earned it! :)

George ~ I will visit, then you will know! Thanks for stopping by.

Kristal, thank you!!!

George ~ you are welcome, anytime! Don't you sleep? It's late on the East Coast!

LOL....I am on and AR and watching the Yankee game, they are playing Seatle so it is a late game over here.

George ~ OK that's a good excuse. Guess you are a Yankee fan. Hope your team wins!

They lost, but we will get them tomorrow. OK time to turn in now.

So sorry, but tomorrow is another day. :) sleep tight!

MAY

2007

Kristal - thank you for taking the time to demonstrate how this can be done.

I love Lenn's cape, first of all lol

KK, you do a great job of explaining. Now I will wait for you to do the same for the vflyers listing widget :-)

Jennifer ~ I hope you decide to do it, when you do let me know!

Carole ~ gimme, gimme gimme...my job is never over! :) OK

MAY

2007

Kristal - I just added the blog log...now I just hope people will read them, otherwise I'll be embarrassed and have to remove it. Or learn how to blog better! Thanks for the tip!

KK: I added the widget to AR a few days ago. My goodness! Can't believe how many of my Localism articles are being read vs my regular blog. Thanks for suggesting it as I hadn't considered it for AR even though I've been using it for the other one for a few months now.

Joddie ~ Getting started takes awhile for everyone! Good grief I didn't have a response for weeks after I started, so don't feel bad. Hang in there. I will visit to check out your work...

Elaine ~ The power of AR is getting stronger. My AR blog is on page 2 & 3 for "denver real estate". That is not so easy to do... You might as well have the log here too. Happy Mom's Day to you. I know you are Mom to a cute dog and some kids too. :)

I set it up but did not customize it. I am going to bookmark this blog and follow your suggestions on how to customize when I get some time.

Thanks

Kristal, I just have some porno person visiting my site. Anything you can do to avoid that ?

Missy, you can block comments to only those that are your contacts and you can also block which faces show up in the log. I've blocked one such person, so their photo doesn't show up in the widget.

MAY

2007

Thanks KK,

The explaination under Description leads one to believe javascript would be deleted if put in there...so I never tried it.

Thanks for the tutorial...

MAY

2007

Kristal-I admit to not being a scholar on technical issues so this might seem like a dumb question but now that I have done all of this where do I go to find out who is looking at my blog and reading my posts? Thanks.

MAY

2007

David and Tonya ~ Your question is important, I probably didn't explain it well enough. You need to sign up for My Blog Log and fill out a profile. Don't forget to add your photo. Once you have done that you can add the My Blog Log script from that site to yours, as I explained here.

Without becoming a member, you cannot get the service! Does that make sense?

To the others who have commented, I will get back here to respond someday. My list gets deeper....please throw out a lifesaver!

MAY

2007

Kristal, I've been looking for the instructions to install My Blog Log. Your helped a lot. Thanks for posting.

MAY

2007

Kristal - you are awesome! You have almost (LOL) as many widgets as I do!!! I have alot of fun with these, but mostly use them to showcase what's available out there for my clients. Great post, I love your stuff! 5 and Bookmarked

MAY

2007

Brad ~ I think I have become over-widgeted...

Ha! I've wondered about the same thing KK! I'm addicted to these toys :)

Ryan ~ I'm with you. Where do we stop? How many are too many?

I was hoping you could tell me KK. I think I may be over the line?

Ryan ~ I just visited your blog, it loaded ok, not super fast but not so slow as to worry. I think your widgets look good. You do have two ways to contact you, is one more efficient than the other? I do like the vFlyer slide show, that is very cool!

Hey, thanks for checking it out KK. Yeah, I've wondered if I should eliminate one of the contact ways. I don't know if one is more efficient than the other or not but I noticed yours, which seems to consolidate several methods into one widget. I may have to check that one out! How's it working out for you?

I just added the vFlyer widget last night to see how it looked. I like it too! Guess I need to get the other listings in there.

MAY

2007

Ryan ~ the vFlyer is of great interest to me. I told my office staffer about it last night. Hopefully she will like it too. It appears to me to have the capability to consolidate a variety of tasks.

As per the Meebo, it works fine, trouble is I forget to log in, so I'm thinking about removing it in favor of the other.

To many widgets, to little time!

Kristal, I took meebo off to because of the logging in. It was a waste of space since I didn't log on. Do others like it ?

KK & Missy, I also removed Meebo for the same reason. Instead, I have added Windows Messenger, which I'm usually logged into when I'm in front of the computer.

KK, how do you like the jaxtr thing? I was thinking about maybe adding it. Also, what other tasks do you see the vFlyer widget taking care of for you?

Ryan ~ I've had some contact via Jaxtr, more than Meebo. Of course I seldom remembered to log on, so that assessment might be unfair.

RE: vFlyer, I think I read where it will print a hard copy. Methinks it would save time by doing the online brochure and printing it out. Right now my staff person does multiple tasks to service our listings. I need to check it out further. I do know everyone is chatting about it and loving it!

Great points KK. I created that first vflyer as a trial to see how it came out. I did it on postlets, which also posts my listing to several websites for added exposure, but the cool thing about it is that the flyer was in HTML format, so I could copy the code and use it to print my own hard copy, or modify it as I see fit, then repost it wherever I'd like. Cool tool. I can see where it might be a solution for the issues you mentioned, saving your support staff a considerable amount of time by cutting out on the need for duplication. Please keep me posted on how you use it!

Thanks, your directions were great. Another tweak to my blog has been completed.

Kristal, EXCELLENT post! Thanks so much for this bloglog and addition to my blog!!

Ryan ~ certainly, I think we should compare notes!

LInda ~ Good, I will have to visit your blog next!

David ~ Hope it works well for you, I'll visit you next (after Linda that is!)

MAY

2007

wow. you really provide easy to follow, relevant instructions. thanks again.

JUL

2007

Thanks Kristal - I am looking forward to adding this. I am new to blogging. You must have been a teacher at some point since you explained everything so well.

SEP

2007

Howdy Kristal

Thank you for giving so must of your time to do these very fine and helpful bolgs your doing to help every one on Active Rain.

Have a good one

SEP

2007

Kristal, I added this tonight I really appreciate you sharing this information. Thank you!!!

SEP

2007

Thank you so much for sharing this information. I signed up for mybloglog but could not figure out how to get it to work with ActiveRain. Thanks again.

SEP

2007

I am going to do my very soon as I saved this to my favorites. I have it as real estate has slowed to a crawl here in New Orleans.

NOV

2007

WOW... K... I always wanted to do this on my profile... many thanks for sharing....

NOV

2007

Very clear and nice instructions. Everything I have seen from you has been excellent. You seem to really have a handle on this platform.

Thanks,

Todd

Thanks for taking the time to cover this tool in detail. Your efforts are appreciated.

NOV

2007

Kristal ~ I am so glad I found your blog! I have been trying to figure this out for about 2 hours and with your instructions I had it up in 2 minutes! Off to check out your other blogs. Thanks!

NOV

2007

Thank you!!!

FEB

2008

Kristal, Your instructions worked! I've subscribed to your blog. Thank you! Wendy

FEB

2008

Kristal - I've missed you lately on ActiveRain - glad to see that some of your old blogs are getting attention. Coming to Florida for anything this year? Take a side trip and come stay with us.

Hi Sharon ~ Thanks for stopping by! It is funny how some of the old blogs continue to provide helpful information. Of course nowadays 113 comments can happen in an afternoon! Remember when we got excited to have a course of 4 or 5 comments? It really wasn't that long ago.

I don't have a plan for Florida yet. I do want to take your course someday. Maybe I'll catch up to you this year. Thanks for the invite.

APR

2008

Kristal, this is such a helpful post for AR members. I wish I saw this when I was trying to figure out how to add the widget. If I ever want to change it though, I know where to go!

AUG

2008

Good stuff. Thanks.

SEP

2008

I found your blog entry on blog log very easy to follow. I had started to complete this with instructions on another blog but it was way over my head. I was stuck trying to figure out where to paste the code and they couldn't answer me. Yours was quite clear. Thanks for being so kind to help others.

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