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You can embed the blinkx it widget on your Blogger template so that every blog post you write will have an automatically generated list of related videos. The widget works by reading the text of each individual post and finding videos that are about the same topic. If, for example, you've blogged about your favourite sports team, it will find videos related to them; if you're blogging about your favorite hobby, then it'll link to videos on that hobby instead. To embed the blinkx it widget in Blogger and get related videos, just follow the instructions below.
To automate the addition of suggested videos to each post in Blogger, you'll need to add the correct code to your template. To do this, follow the simple instructions below:
1. Sign into Blogger and navigate to your blog.
2. Click 'Customize' in the top right corner of the screen.
3. Click 'Edit HTML' underneath the Template tab.
4. Make sure the 'Expand Widget Templates' checkbox is checked.
5. Find the section of code in the template containing <data:post.body/> (there should be one and only one) and replace with the following code:
6. That's it! Save your template and view your blog. You'll notice that following each post will be a blinkx it button that will link you to the latest relevant video results, automatically!
You can embed the blinkx it widget on your Xanga profile so that every blog post you write will have an automatically generated list of related videos. The widget works by reading the text of each individual post and finding videos that are about the same topic. If, for example, you've blogged about your favourite sports team, it will find videos related to them; if you're blogging about your favorite hobby, then it'll link to videos on that hobby instead. To embed the blinkx it widget in Xanga and get related videos, just follow the instructions below:
1. Sign into Xanga and click on the 'Look and Feel' link under 'Edit' on the main page of your blog.
2. Under the 'Header' section, choose the option 'Input your own Header HTML' from the drop-down list.
3. In the large text area labelled 'Module', copy and paste the following code:
4. Now scroll to the bottom of the page and press the 'Save Changes' button.
5. The blinkx it widget is now available. Every time you write a blog post you'd like relevant videos for, you need to tell Xanga by marking the post with the following two tags. You should place the first tag right at the beginning of your post and the second tag right at the end. When you do this, remember to have the 'Edit HTML' option selected so you can paste these tags as HTML code.
6. Now select the Save Changes button and your new post will appear, complete with blinkx it link!
7. Optional If you think the videos blinkx it has found are not that relevant to the topic you've blogged about, you can help the widget by focusing it. To do this, move the start and end tags (above, see step 5) to just before and just after the part of your post that really describes what you'd like the video to be about. This way you can avoid confusing blinkx it if parts of your post are on other topics.
You can embed the blinkx it widget on just about any web site. The widget works by reading the text on the site you embed it in and finding videos that are about the same topic. If, for example, you've posted to your blog about your favourite sports team, it will find videos related to them; if your website is about your favorite hobby, then it'll link to videos on that hobby instead. To embed the blinkx it widget and get related videos, just follow the instructions below:
1. First we need the address of the page in which the widget will be embedded. It's essential that this is the full URL or permalink to the page that you want blinkx it to analyze. So give us, for example, http://www.mysite.com/blogposts/blogpost2.html, rather than just http://www.mysite.com. This is because blinkx it works by analyzing the words on the page you provde -- if you just give us the main site URL, it will only find generic videos related to your homepage.
2. Now copy the code that appears below and paste it into your site, at the point in your page that you want the blinkx it link to appear. This can be anywhere you want, but is usually at the end of an article or blog post.
3.Optional At this stage, blinkx it will work fine on your site. You can try it by viewing the site and clicking the link. If no videos come back or if the videos don't seem that relevant to what else is on the page, you can fine tune exactly what blinkx reads by using the following two tags. Place the first just before the most relevant piece of text starts and the second just after it ends. You can use these tags, for example, to make sure that blinkx it focuses on the true content of the page, ignoring things like your header and footer HTML.
4.Optional The embed code can sometimes change the layout of your site. If that's happening on your site, simply add the following to your stylesheet or add it inside a <style> tag in the HTML of your page.
div#blinkxit-start,div#blinkxit-end{display:none;}
The blinkx it widget lets you embed a link to related videos, directly into your own blog or site. blinkx it will retrieve results based on the text it finds on the URL you give it. Even if the website changes, blinkx it will still retrieve the most relevant results for it.