It can take hours to pore through reviews, ratings and deal sites in an effort to dog down the best bargain. But savvy Internet shoppers know how to put the Web to work for them. Here are 3 simple tools to help you navigate the tumultuous waters of online shopping and come out on top.

1. Browser Add-ons -- Not many of us have time to spend all day hunting for the best prices on the stuff we need, but research shows that we do occasionally pop over to a site to gaze at the object(s) of our desire. If you’re gonna google the goods anyway, make your browser do the work by installing one of several helpful tools that let you know when there’s a discount or deal for the store you’re scoping. Downloadable plug-ins like the Offers.com Firefox Add-on run behind-the-scenes to help you save by hunting down bargains for the store you’re browsing and adding an unobtrusive bar at the top of your screen with information (and a link) that keeps you from spending more than you have to.

2. Search Alerts — You probably already know how to set up Google and Yahoo news alerts, but you can also use them to get information on the products you’ve had your eye on. Setting up shopping alerts to let you know about price drops and other bargains is one of the fastest ways to find out about deals that might only be good for a certain day or discounts on hot items. Sign up for news alerts and enter the brand or item name you want to get an information blast sent straight to your inbox (or to your phone via text message) as soon as a new deal pops up. You can also sign up for one of many shopping alerts that scour all kinds of websites to find the lowest price on what you need.

3. Social Media – With more and more companies setting up Twitter accounts, social media is quickly becoming the place to find “exclusive” deals. Retailers like Dell, Amazon and Starbucks have spurred sales and been extremely successful using social media to promote themselves. But it isn’t all about the big stores — consumers get something out of this, too. The best stores reward customers for their fandom with sneak-peeks at new merchandise, early announcements about upcoming sales, and (best of all) coupon codes and promo codes redeemable for extra savings. Before you buy, it never hurts to scan the store’s Facebook and Twitter pages to see if any secret savings can be found among the updates.

Don’t waste time doing your own research. Let these handy e-tools do it for you, and make sure you never pay more than you have to with easy tech solutions that keep you up-to-date on the latest deals.

I have been a huge fan of PSDtuts and all the Tuts+ blogs because they contain so many good tutorials and articles. And I am Happy to inform you today that the man behind the Tuts+ Network,  Collis Ta’eed has released with a new book called “How to Build a Successful Blog Business” just today.

This is a must have book for any blogger who wants to take his blog to the next level and wants to delve into the professional side of blogging and take blogging up as a business and not just a hobby.

About Collis Ta’eed

Collis has authored three books, written dozens of the most popular tutorials on the web and is an accomplished entrepreneur, designer and blogger.

Collis a web veteran with a wealth of experience  and has founded sites like the TutsPlus Network, Rockable Press, the Envato Marketplaces (ThemeForest, CodeCanyon, ActiveDen etc), FreeLance Switch and AppStorm which combined serves up around 50 million pageviews a month.

About the Book – How to Build a Successful Blog Business

How to Build a Successful Blog Business is a straight forward guide to building a publishing business online that covers everything from choosing a niche to hiring staff, registering a business to selling it, finding traffic to monetizing it.

Whether you are interested in creating an additional income stream or building a fully-fledged business, this is an essential read for web entrepreneurs and online publishers.

In How to Build a Successful Blog Business Collis shares tips from his years of operating kick ass blogs, and reveals stats, graphs, revenue figures and inside details from three real world case studies.

Nowhere else will you be able to find information like this. Step behind the scenes of Envato‘s wildly successful sites and find out how you build blogs that are both profitable and popular.

Rockable Press “How to Build a Successful Blog Business” Book Includes Three Real Life Case Studies of three blogs that Collis raised from ashes to the top most blogs in the Internet. Those three case studies include the case studies of Tutsplus.com,  FreelanceSwitch, AppStorm.

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Read what top Internet Marketers and Bloggers have to say about the Book:

Written by someone who has walked the walk several times.

Yaro Starak – entrepreneurs-journey.com

Turning a blog into a sustainable business is hard. Collis has done it and his book will help you do the same.

Darren Rowse – problogger.net

The case studies alone are worth the cover price.

Daniel Scocco – dailyblogtips.com

Collis simply brilliant at starting powerful, sustainable online businesses

Leo Babauta – zenhabits.net

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I thought bearing in mind that we have covered many of the basics including:

• Link Building
• On Site Optimisation
• Cleaning up your Website
• Competitor Checks

That we could move on to look at a organising your SEO campaign, and how to stay on track!  Keeping on course is an important aspect with SEO, and I am going to divulge a few important slices of information, that you should always keep in mind!

• Do Not Panic The fastest way that you can ruin your own SEO campaign is if you panic when you lose a ranking, or if a page drops out of the top 10.  The worst practice would be to start changing things immediately.  If you don’t know what the problem is, then don’t do anything until you figure it out.  When I first started I had a site drop out of the SERPS and then thought it was because I didn’t build enough links to it.  Turns out I built too many links in a short time and could have made things worse.

• Set yourself a plan Try to create a plan of action, list some techniques that you want to try and then plan them all out over the months.  Don’t do everything in one go!  If you are trying some new link building techniques, spread them out, and give your site a chance to experiment with them!  Then you can put some emphasis on separate things and the success that they provide.

• Don’t overload your page or over optimise! Over Optimisation is one of the easiest things for Google to spot and penalise you for.  If you cram too many keywords into one page and over optimise it, Google can spot this.  You will more than likely receive a penalty and drop out of your normal position.  This is where you can go back in and change the text changes you have made back to what they were!  Add pieces of the text back in slowly, and monitor the changes after you have returned to your normal position

• Don’t buy too many links! It is fine to pay for a few directory links every now and then, but try not to purchase links from blogs.  If you start to create a trail of links that you have paid for, you are probably going to get spotted!  I have seen this happen before, and recovery isn’t quick, it also isn’t all that easy to spot either!

• Monitor a mass list of rankings. If you control your own website, do keyword research that encompasses a mass of links!  In cooperation with Google Analytics, make sure that you monitor the rankings of about 100 – 200 different terms.  This allows you to see where traffic is coming from and at what positions.  You can also find new terms that you begin to rank for!  Link building on one term can have a positive effect on others.  You will probably need a program to help you out.  Something like WEB CEO is quite effective!

• Don’t stress! Similar to panicking, but seriously don’t stress yourself out.  Sometimes it can take a while for link building or site changes to have an effect.  To be honest if something takes some time to have an effect, it is probably going to work quite well!  So take your time, and try not to get annoyed!  The SERPS fluctuate, it is a fact, and it will happen, things will also get more regular as they go on!

Hopefully these have helped, and I will begin the next level of SEO soon!

Mark C works for a Florida holidays tour operator, heading up the SEO Team!

Relationship Marketing involves the following:

1. Keep in Touch

Don’t leave your readers, always respond to their comments and make him realize that you care about him/her.  I personally don’t like those website / blogs who don’t respond to my comment or message.

2. Show Expertise

Relationship Marketing will only work, if have the skills to show your expertise and make people realize about the importance of your product or service. If you are blogger then share unique and quality information so to make loyalty. Learn more about blogging at the blogging tips blog!

3. Show Your Appreciation

Always appreciate your readers or customers so that they can feel that you are reviewing every one and give importance to your readers/customers. In return these readers/customers will always come to your blog/website.

4. Serve Them

Serve them in a very decent and cool way so that he can recommend your service to everyone.  That is what relationship marketing is all about, that you must provide outstanding service to your customers or readers.

5. After Sale Service

Your job is not only to sale your product or service on your customers. You should also make sure to provide quality after sale service to your customers or readers so that he/she can come back to your website or blog.

Hope these tips will help you in making your Relationship Marketing effective to improve your business growth.

This post is written by Mark, who manages the online marketing for Fortepromo Promotional products, a Minnesota-based promotional stress balls company, for over three years.

Link Building means getting relevant and a lot of quality backlinks to your website so that Google and other search engines rank your website higher in their search results.

You may be spending a lot of hours in a day to build link for your website but have you ever wondered how many links should I build for my site, what kind of link building method should I use? and from Where should I get these links? I am sure you have asked yourself these questions many times.

Recently, I came across an Infographic at VerticalMeasures from a comment left by Kristi of Kikolani.com which quite perfectly answers all your questions on link building. It tries to show you what is the value of each type of link building methods and also shows you how many average links you need to get to different Pageranks. For example you need about 28,080,881 average links to get to Pagerank 10.

The Infographic compares link building to drinking beer that is why you can see the Infographic has a theme of drinking and is aptly title “Linktoberfest!“.

It tries to tell that link building is much like drinking. One can compare low quality links to low quality cheap bear and the high quality links like e.g. from a PR10 page or a “.edu” link could be compared to the finest of the finest and most costliest beer.

In order to quench your link thirst this infographic provides you a lot of Information about the quality of different types of Links.

click thumbnail above to view full screen with rollovers

Just scroll on the beer mug too find different link types, a brief description of each of them, tips to obtain that kind of link, it’s quality score and the difficulty score.  Just move around the Accordion (the piano/harmonium like thing), you will come to know the amount of average links needed to achieve different level of PR (Pagerank).

Types of Links

Content Distribution

Description: Links from press releases, article marketing, guest blog posts, aggregated links such as RSS feeds
How to Obtain: Write unique SEO optimized content, publish, promote via social networks
Difficulty Score: 1
Quality Score: 3

Blog/Forum Comments

Description: Links from forum signatures, posts, profiles, and blog “signing”
How to Obtain: Search relevant blogs & forum topics, register, create profiles, create anchor text signatures for forums
Difficulty Score: 1
Quality Score: 2

Purchased Links

Description: Links obtained through direct exchange of money, includes directories
How to Obtain: Search for keywords + sponsor, advertise, sponsored by, banner ads, submit URL, add URL
Difficulty Score: 1
Quality Score: 2
WARNING: Use caution, understand the risks, and don’t get caught buying links or Google might take your keys away!

Reciprocal Links

Description: Links from partnerships, exchanges, and trades (use sparingly, stay topically relevant)
How to Obtain: Use only highest authority relevant sites to exchange with, try to do a 3 way instead of reciprocal
Difficulty Score: 2
Quality Score: 1

Social Media/Bookmarking

Description: Links from various social media profile pages and bookmarking tools
How to Obtain: Find top bookmarking sites based on PageRank, Alexa, dofollow and submit website using good keyword anchored phrases
Difficulty Score: 3
Quality Score: 3

Embedded Content

Description: Links via widgets, infographics, badges, and other embeddedable content
How to Obtain: Create visually appealing and useful content, promote via social networks
Difficulty Score: 3
Quality Score: 4

Link Reclamation

Description: Links to no longer available resources to re-point at your pages
How to Obtain: Check Google Webmaster Tools for pages not found, contact websites linking to those to change link or redirect on your site
Difficulty Score: 3
Quality Score: 5

Natural Links

Description: Links gained naturally due to link worthy (viral) content, link baiting, etc.
How to Obtain: Create good, informative content and promote through your networks
Difficulty Score: 4
Quality Score: 5

Link Requests

Description: Links acquired through manual requests from webmasters, site owners, etc.
How to Obtain: Conduct competitive link analysis, use search operators, keyword searches, manual email requests
Difficulty Score: 5
Quality Score: 5

Amount of Average Links Required For Different Pagerank Levels

PR1  = 11 Average Links

PR2  = 58 Average Links

PR3  = 296 Average Links

PR4  = 1,520 Average Links

PR5  = 7,816 Average Links

PR6  = 40,185 Average Links

PR7  = 206,611 Average Links

PR8   = 1,062,280 Average Links

PR9   = 5,461,663 Average Links

PR10 = 28,080,881 Average Links

The *PageRank calculations based upon ”What is a Link Worth?”

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Most of the times  newbies do not know how to choose a good webhost and may get easily swayed away by extremely great sounding offers by webhosts who promise you all the features you need as well as many features that you may even not have expected. But as time passes by, you will come to know the real  face of your so called “Extra Super Good” Host. You will learn that the host you so blindly relied on, has started to become hostile with you. They start giving you frequent downtimes, script errors, server errors or if it turns out worse then they may just suspend or ban your account for unspecified reasons or even more worse – vanish into thin air.

Think of yourself in that kind of situation where your host has suddenly disappeared from the Internet realm and you even do not have a backup of your blog. DISASTER!! DOOM!! Well, you may think that this kind of things never happen but mind you it does and I am the one who has experienced this. That is why you can see that under my archives you will see posts listed from November and then straightaway to February.  It happened because I went along with a web host which promised a lot at a cheap price and I being the fool I am, straight away signed up for that host without even caring about reading it’s reviews in the Internet. That was the biggest mistake I ever did in my life and because of it I could not blog for atleast 2 months, I lost all  my previous written posts and I can say in short that I had failed for once. All because my webhost went down without even notifying me and they could not even recover my data.

How to Find a Good Web Host?

To avoid failures like I faced, you must choose the best web host. The best way of finding a good web host is by reading webhosting reviews. Although I would like to tell you to be cautious while searching for website hosting reviews since most of these review sites are owned by the web site hosting companies who manipulate the reviews and only post postive reviews about their host and negative reviews about their competitors.

To save you from all the chaos, I am going to share with you one unbaised web hosting review site called WebHostingRating.com. This site contains unbiased reviews by customers as well as professional review of the web hosting company by the Site Team. WebHostingRating.com has been in the Website hosting review business from long back as 2002,  so you can certainly understand how much expertise they have in their niche

WebHostingRating.com provides you with a top 10 list of the best web hosting companies of the current year, the best linux hosting, best reseller hosting, best windows hosting, best VPS hosting, best dedicated server hosting and best colocation hosting. You can also search for web hosts according to features like Platform, Price, Location etc.

WebHostingRating.com also organizes an annual “Best Hosting Awards” where it gives Web Hosting Awards and Certification to the best web hosts in the industry according to their niches. You can also read the Exclusive Hosting Guide that will teach you how to choose the best web host if you are a newbie.

It is essential that a blogger gets his blog hosted at the best web host, thus, I am pretty much sure you will be able to discover the host of your liking after reading the unbiased reviews at WebHostingRating.com

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The important thing to remember is that you should regularly check your website works properly.

I am going to talk you through 3 tools in particular that will help you with maintaining a fully functioning and more importantly, clean website!

• XENU: This is one of my personal favourite tools for checking the status of URLS on any of my sites!  Basically you download it onto your computer and enter your website domain name.  This tool will then send several bots crawling though your site and determining any 301 errors, 404 errors and many more.  For those of you that are not sure, a 301 is a redirect from one page to another.  I have created another post on what the site errors mean, you can read it Here!  With this information you can determine exactly where you site has issues, and on which page these need to be corrected.  Any missing pages can be redirected and any unnecessary redirects on your site can be changed to their proper URLS.  The report this program generates allows you to comb through your website and correct any issues.

• Sam Spade: Not quite as useful as XENU, but is very effective at telling you the exact path of a link.  If you want to find out if it is redirected, and what kind of redirect is applied, Sam Spade will record all the relevant information for you.  This is a way of testing any 301’s on your website and with this you can ascertain whether or not the redirect needs to be changed, and how many pages it travels through!

• Google Webmaster Tools: Google Webmaster tools offers any site owner the ability to track all kinds of information, from impressions to click through rates and the top keywords your site has!  It is also a great source for crawling your site, similar to XENU and find any errors that have been reported.  Any 404 errors can be identified and any issues that bots have crawling your site including the time it takes to load up pages on your site can be monitored!

• Link Patch: This is my favourite for reporting 404 errors.  Once you have signed up for this service, you will receive an email whenever someone encounters a 404 page.  So if someone locates a missing link, you receive an email with details on where the page was accessed from and which page was broken.  This means immediately you can go and fix the problem, because you are updated straight away!

Keeping a clean website is important.  This is another factor in Google’s algorithm, if your site has multiple errors and broken pages, you could find yourself receiving a Google Penalty!

This is a part of Beginner SEO Series – The Ultimate SEO Guide for Beginners. Read the other part of the Series here -

Part 1: Checking Your Competitor Backlinks

Part 2: Optimizing On Page SEO

Part 3: Link Building – Where Do I Start?

Mark C works for a Web Design company heading up the SEO team for a Holidays tour operator!

So it is very important to have a killer blog title to catch the person’s attention and make him read the full post. We really do not want our visitor to just look at our post’s title find it uninteresting and just ignore our post. Do we?

How will a good title for our Blog Posts Help?

Many of you may ask the above question, how will having a good title help? After all they are only few words aren’t they?

Actually yes, they are a few words which may appear insignificant to you since you maybe writing a 1000 word post but rather these words are very very significant.

I would in fact say that the few words that you write in your post’s title’s are the most important words of  your whole Post.  Why? Simply because for most of your readers the decision to read or not to the read the rest of the blog post resides on these few words.

You may note the fact that a blog post’s title is the first thing that appears in search engines, social bookmarking sites, Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds so this are the first thing that a reader reads. As we all know that “First Impression  is the Last Impression” and if your Post’s title is not Magnetic enough then the reader will not bother to read the rest of the post.

Thus the main reason behind having a killer/kickass blog title is “To Capture the readers attention and compel him to read the post“.

Also having a good blog post  title enriched with keywords can help you get a better search result ranking for your long tail keywords in search engines since nowadays the search engines give more priority to the title tag then any other tags.

How to Make Killer Post Titles?

Ok! I think now you have understood why to  have a kickass post title. Now lets discuss the main part : “How to Write a Killer Post Title?”

1) Be Descriptive and Direct:

This is the simplest trick of them all. Be Descriptive and direct about what you have written. Nobody will come to read your post if you have not properly described What topic you have written about in the title. For example, If you have written about a trick to earn 10$ from a site and you give a title “Learn How to Earn a Lot of Money from ZZZZ site”. The reader will feel deceived and will never come back to your site. Just write it Direct “Learn How to Earn 10$ from ZZZZ site”. If the reader is interested he/she will read it. If not, you will still save yourself from making a negative impact on someone.

2) Keep it Short

Yes, Keep your title short. Why?

• Search Engines Like Google only display 64 character (including spaces) in their search results so If you have a long title like “How to make a lot of Extra Money from Freelancing Sites by Writing Articles | Netchunks” then only half of it will be displayed. Some what like “How to make a lot Extra Money From Freelancing Site By….”. By! By What? People will not understand your title and thus will not read the rest of the article .
• People tend to get attracted to a shorter title rather than a lengthy boring title (Actually they may think, If the title is so long and boring, How lengthy and boring the article maybe!!)
• Keep it short so that it can be easily shared in Social media sites like Twitter and Identi.ca. Since this sites have only a 140 characters limit, you should actually keep it as short as possible so that it can be retweeed or re-shared

3) Use Powerful and Bold Words

Not every word can evoke the same feeling from a reader. Sometimes some words can evoke more powerful or intense emotions in your readers. Inclusion of these kind of words in the blog title can urge your reader to read the full post

These words are also called trigger words because these words trigger an emotion in a readers mind. Some examples of trigger words are:

• Killer
• Thrilling
• Amazing
• Stunning
• Secrets
• Free

There are many more and it is hard to list them down. You can find some more of these Trigger Words at CopyBlogger.

By using these power words, you can explain what you mean to show in the post more powerfully to the people.

4) Communicate Benefits

To make people read the post, you will have to show them what they will get back after reading it. This can be aptly done by showing the benefits in the title. For this you have understand what are the needs of the people you are targeting. Example, A title stating “How to Write an Ebook” may sound exciting to people who want to know about writing ebooks and he may read it. But it will not evoke responses from all people, some may ignore it since they may not be interested in it. The magic works only on people you are targeting, i.e. in this case, people wanting to write ebooks.

5) Ask Questions

Ok! This is a great way of sparking great debates and discussions. When you use Questions as the title of the post, most readers already think of the answers in their mind and then read the post to confirm it if they were right. If they were right, then it validates their own knowledge and if they were wrong then they still will comment and will try to explain to you in details why YOU ARE wrong and will try to prove that you are the greatest moron. Thus it will spark of a debate and discussion. By asking question – you will pull the reader to comment on your post.

7) Personalize the Title

It will certainly help if you can personalize the title and create titles which make people feel that they are somehow connected with the post and the post has been written for them to read. For Example, “10 Ways to Make Your Blog Better”, this will certainly appeal to the mind of the people since you are using the word “Your” which people will find is directed towards each of them

Also another way of personalizing a title is by writing about yourself. Share some personal stories within the title. For e.g “Why My Links are not Do Follow?” or “How I became a Successful Blogger Overnight”.

8 ) Create Controversies

If Hollywood and Bollywood celebrities can create controversies for the publicity of their film then why can’t you too. Yes! People are interested a lot in controversies and the controversy Magic may work for popularizing your blog post too. You should sometimes write controversial headlines for your articles but be sure that you have enough to back it up through your Blog Post contents and comments. Also the post must reflect the title and not something else. You must be also be ready to answer the different types of comments and questions that you will be getting from people in your post.

9) Use Creativity

You will need to make all your dead brain cells alive again so that you can come up with a very creative title such that it can make more and more people read the post. You must use your imagination and your creativity to come up with effective headlines for your articles.

10) Make Claims and Promises

Many times a title in which you have made a lot of claims and promises can help you attract a lot of people. This type of claims and promises will make even people without a real interest in your topic to read the post.

But you should be highly cautious while writing these kind of posts.Do not try to make any false claims. Be truthful, otherwise if you cannot back your claims with your post content then you will have a bad image among your readers.

11) Avoid Using Very Tough Words

Do not use very very tough jargon that only you can understand. You should go with the policy K.I.S.S. (Keep it Simple and Sweet). Although it is not that you have to use very simple words, you can use some creative words but do not be extra creative using words that only very highly intellectual people can understand.

For E.g: If your title is “How to Increase your noesis by reading Ebooks” Nobody will understand it.

(Damn! noesis mean knowledge, now which sane person will understand that word means knowledge.)

12) Use Lists:

Lists posts are extremely attractive to lot of readers that is why we can see that in social media sites like Digg, Delicious etc most of the popular posts are list posts. Check out these examples: ’100 Best WordPress Themes’ or ’25 Best Books For WordPress Bloggers’ These also make excellent link bait for others bloggers to link to and tweet about.

13) Use Keywords

The usage of keywords in the post title is very important from a Search Engine Optimization point of view. All of us want our post to rank high for the particular topic or keyword we have targeted. Thus it is essential to add the keyword in the title to get a better rank in Search Engine Results. Also I have mentioned it before too, Google nowadays takes title tag as an important factor when ranking pages. So if your title tag is optimized with keywords you will certainly rank in the top results of Google and gain a good traffic from long tail keywords.

Choosing of the keyword that you are going to target is also very important since many keyword may not go along with the post title. You have to come up with a keyword that gels inside the title.

Also some times, many people tend to scan posts in their RSS readers for keywords they are interested in For e.g. Google, iPhone etc. Thus if you have added keyword like iPhone in the post title and they come across the post they are most certainly to read it.

A good tip when adding keywords to title is to add it more to the front then to the last as it has better effect on your SERPs.

Epilogue

I hope you got a brief idea of how to write an attractive and magnetic post title. Here are some other small points that are really not that important but  you may still want to consider:

Write your Post’s Title After writing the post: It is a good idea in the sense you have already written the full post and know about what topic you have written. But in many situations this method may not work.

Avoid Using Period In the Post’s Title: It really is impromptu to see periods in post title

I would recommend that you should combine SEO and Creativity 50-50 while coming up with a post title so that it gives you good result in the search engines as well as attracts more readers.

Do you have any other tricks to share for writing a good Post title. If yes then do comment

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The same case happened to me today. I have changed the theme of my Blog Netchunks to a stunning theme called ThrillingTheme. Everything in this theme is good and the theme is fast loading too. But I missed having widgetized sidebar in the footer since this theme does not have one. Well, but it is easy to add a widgetized sidebar to one’s theme. I am going to teach you how add 3 widget ready sidebars in the footer of your blog.

How to add a sidebar to a WordPress footer

Actually adding a sidebar to WordPress is quite easy. You just have to follow the following three steps:

1) Registering the sidebar in functions.php

2) Adding the sidebar to footer.php

3) Adding style for sidebar in style.css

Lets discuss this one by one briefly.

1) Registering the sidebar in functions.php

You will have to go to your theme Editor under Appearance -> Themes -> Editor in your Admin Dashboard. Then you have to go to the file functions.php. In that file find the section which appears similar to the following. You will notice that the number is not 5 yet, it maybe 1 or 2. That number reflects the number of sidebars you currently have. Change the number to reflect how many sidebars you now want (i.e the number of sidebars in the sidebar are plus the number of sidebars you want in the footer)

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  <?php
 
    if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
 
    register_sidebars(5,array(
 
    'before_widget' => '',
 
    'after_widget' => '',
 
    'before_title' => '<h4>',
 
    'after_title' => '</h4>',
 
    ));
 
    ?>

2) Adding the sidebar to footer.php

After you have done the above, now you will need to add your sidebar elements in the footer.

Add the following right after

<div id="footer">

Code to add

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<div id="footer-sidebar" class="secondary">
   <div id="footer-sidebar1">
     <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
      || !dynamic_sidebar(3) ) : ?>
     <?php endif; ?>
   </div>
   <div id="footer-sidebar2">
     <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
      || !dynamic_sidebar(4) ) : ?>
     <?php endif; ?>
   </div>
   <div id="footer-sidebar3">
     <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
      || !dynamic_sidebar(5) ) : ?>
     <?php endif; ?>
   </div>
</div> <!-- Close footer-sidebar -->
<div style="clear-both"></div>

You can any unique name to the id I gave footer-sidebar.

3) Adding style for sidebar in style.css

Now you need to add some styling to the sidebar. You will need to go into your theme’s css file (Most of the time it is style.css) and add a small bit of code. The following code will add a full width div with the sidebars inside it i.e. the whole footer has been given a border. You could also customize it any way you want using CSS.

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#footer-sidebar {
  border: 1px solid #cccccc;
  display:block;
  height: 260px;
}
#footer-sidebar1 {
  float: left;
  width: 300px;
  margin-right:20px;
  }
#footer-sidebar2 {
  float: left;
  width: 300px;
  margin-right:20px;
 }
#footer-sidebar3 {
  float: left;
  width: 300px;
 }

Note that the divisions have the same names as I gave them when adding them to footer.php

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