Are you tired of having thousands of spam messages in your email just because you posted your email address in your blog or any site? Then this tweak is for you but before I give the remedy to that problem let me give you a short background on how these spam messages work.
Spam messages are delivered to you using spambots or spam robots. These spambots are automated computer programs that assist in sending spam. Spambots gather the information from blogs or sites like crawlers in search engines. They crawl and try to find email addresses found in that page. They are using regular expressions and other search methods in finding your email. Email hostings like yahoo and gmail use ways to block these spams but some of these messages can get through and you get annoying emails.
I found two ways of preventing your email to be found by these spambots.

1. One way of doing this is changing your @ symbol to @ . Both are the same and it works well.
   

   <a href="mailto:accountName&#64;domain.com">Email me</a>

   
   
2. The other one is a bit complicated but you don't need to understand all of it. This method uses javascript to obfuscate your email or simply an email obfuscator. You can go to the link below to obfuscate your email. Works great!
   

   http://www.codehouse.com/webmaster_tools/email_obfuscator/

But why am i posting this? Is this relevant to Search Engine Optimization? Yes it is relevant. With your blog coming to the top, these spambots will notice you and will begin to crawl your site. This can be harmful to you and to your readers who are posting their email addresses in their comments. If they found out that these spams originated from your blog then worst case scenario is that you'll reputation will be put at risk. Happy blogging. :D

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If you want to impress your readers that you've posted numerous articles then this widget is for you.

Example:

Total Posts: 2654
Total Comments: 3235

Follow the steps and you'll be amazed to what this widget can do. :D

1. Click Layout > Page Element > Add a Gadget
2. Find the HTML/Javascript and click add.
3. Copy the code below and paste it there.
   

   <script style="text/javascript">
   function numberOfPosts(json) {
   document.write('Total Posts: <b>' + json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t + '</b><br>');
   }
   function numberOfComments(json) {
   document.write('Total Comments: <b>' + json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t + '</b><br>');
   }
   </script>
   <font color="black"><script src="yourblogurl/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=numberOfPosts"></script>
   <script src="yourblogurl/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=numberOfComments"></script></font>

   
   
4. Replace yourblogurl with your link
5. Save

You can tweak it if you like. :p

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Time for the first weekly hack or tips and tricks for blogger. Not all people in this world can speak and understand English well so you need to have a translator for every language in the globe. Google can help you do that with the use of Google Translate. The steps below will help you to add a widget in Blogger.

1. Go to your Dashboard > Layout > Add a Page Element > HTML/Javascript
2. Paste the code below
   

   
   

   <br /><div style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:10px 0px 3px 0px;text-align:center;background-color:#FFFFFF;min-width:180px; margin: 5px 0 5px 0;"><br /><br /><!--GOOGLE TRANSLATE MINI FLAGS--><br /><div align="center" style="width:auto;"><br /><br /><!-- Add English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA --><br /><br /><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Czh-CN&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p1uPoPqXa3UKUUAkAVFfexI7egVPHRwG3pImeqPG7Lje9X3Vaok2Ow5pXvBf-O44vyDmb9PRG78uzI9GNZUQM0Q/_chinese_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-Chinese (Simplified) BETA"/></a><br /><br /><!-- END English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA--><br /><br /><!-- Add English to French --><br /><br /><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cfr&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to French "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to French " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p2khoQY_AJfGOc4sr626ugjACTUnVs-mBTEUz-tb5f8jQ9_BM37-lp3ZxqFjmUvMRSH35UYbHHp0lN6QAXE3-aQ/_french_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to French "/></a><br /><br /><!-- END English to French --><br /><br /><!-- Add English to German --><br /><br /><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cde&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to German"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to German" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1prWarW-yS9UWGkP9t6HIIQjW_Eltl__uJPVASmgDKql99zKOlv1jJilTrGVvRM7VSEIvjGsR4A6pbPo2KrQdrow/_german_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to German"/></a><br /><br /><!-- END English to German --><br /><br /><!-- Add English to Italian --><br /><br /><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cit&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Italian"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Italian" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pihtUnS8uKwJQ8ep-_AtvEefYsSSpe7BuGCRmnoA5G2305nPqYP5ENQnX6i6YHBXveCLNXgitzGpQLCvw8YYBTA/_italian_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Italian"/></a><!--END English to Italian--><BR/><!--Add English to Japanese BETA--><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cja&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pwPr3iynDaRaulak1f2W4f3gWNEOqQ4K9nsIWB6N7aOYBI02QhhX-48OOeROACQAcHleqiCY2wTLKfnffTghs2A/_japanese_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Japanese BETA"/></a><br /><br /><!-- END English to Japanese BETA --><br /><br /><!-- Add English to Korean BETA --><br /><br /><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cko&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA"><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA" src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pXidbN5Z6YZ5j0fb2AXCyjLBr9n_ddaYqz1qFEi3N7NBjegm2VkUQavp9d8hMz2UWBJHF2ajVRjWUnn5PCdj5Cg/_korean_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Korean BETA"/></a><br /><br /><!-- END English to Korean BETA --><br /><br /><!-- Add English to Russian BETA --><br /><br /><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Cru&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1phf9HxXBCzVD3KIGCm2oTlvoTGwR_rWkgTRQ0_w-Nw_Oi9OYdzIMfJjhl1kvbven1Fo61xxKLF_6KM7w_BlDhCg/_russian_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Russian BETA "/></a><br /><br /><!-- END English to Russian BETA --><br /><br /><!-- Add English to Spanish --><br /><br /><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=en%7Ces&hl=en&ie=UTF8'); return false;" title="Google-Translate-English to Spanish "><img border="0" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="24" alt="Google-Translate-English to Spanish " src="http://growpa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pS41oGyQtMRYc6yBTJoaovLHaCZOthp6qXfQxIau493uQ-BefJvBTkz5kliT5BfzKgxIZ8hYMuUXPjKEXio1Gow/_spanish_s.png" height="24" title="Google-Translate-English to Spanish "/></a><br /><br /><!-- END English to Spanish --><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /></div><br />

   
   

3. Add a Title to the Widget.
4. Then SAVE
   

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