Added Label Cloud to My Heart.....

Its just a feature add to the blog. I wanted to add label clouds to my blog to keep a count of what topics I have been blogging for sometime now.

I have been reading so many blogs but somehow it always skipped my mind that my own blog doesnt feature a label cloud.

So Google comes to the rescue allows me a gadget to display  the label cloud on my blog page.A label cloud is nothing but a list which groups all blogs in your domain according to the labels you have provided for a given blog. It helps users to navigate through the blog for subjects close to their heart without wasting much time.

So if you are looking to have people spend more time on your blog then the CLOUD is a must have for you.

Cheers.

Getting your blog to be noticed by Google.

Ok I may not have been an active blogger for long .But hey guys who doesn't want his or her blog to feature on google's search results and that too on the first page.

Though I had read a lot of articles in the past to achieve this...I never really implemented any of those as I had other things to worry about then.Now that I am slightly free I have once again ventured into this journey to achieve more hits to my page.And that my dear friends is not an easy job .

Though I have a few friends who can help me out with this right now.But knowing myself  I don't like things when they come too easily.It has to be hard fought.The victory has to be cherished.So I decided to get it done My WAY...and that as my close friends would know is by consulting Google itself.

Just Imagine Google searching blogs to find out a way to get my blog on go-ogles search .That sounds weird...complex...it may sound to you But not to the next explorer ..who may stumble on to this page to get success for his blog.......

 So today I share trick one :

Change your blog page title to the title of your blog .

By default it is Blog Header:Blog Page Name.

So if an Idiot like me has named his blog My Heart and the Blog has posts on all topics then Google(google search) says that it may not be that useful to me.

But hey does this actually work.I don't know ..Oh Come on its only a day since I have implemented it.Will post back results as and when they come.

Cheers.

[---All efforts are sincerely meant to increase the figure next to $ sign in my ad sense reports for earnings.Dont think I have got hold of what it means but seriously $0.01 looks really bad .. :-)  ---]

Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon

My name is Francis Tolliver, I come from Liverpool.
Two years ago the war was waiting for me after school.
To Belgium and to Flanders, to Germany to here
 I fought for King and country I love dear.

‘Twas Christmas in the trenches, where the frost so bitter hung,
The frozen fields of France were still, no Christmas song was sung
Our families back in England were toasting us that day
 Their brave and glorious lads so far away.

I was lying with my messmate on the cold and rocky ground
When across the lines of battle came a most peculiar sound
Says I, “Now listen up, me boys!” each soldier strained to hear
As one young German voice sang out so clear.

“He’s singing bloody well, you know!” my partner says to me
Soon,one by one, each German voice joined in harmony
The cannons rested silent, the gas clouds rolled no more
As Christmas brought us respite from the war

As soon as they were finished and a reverent pause was spent
“God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” struck up some lads from Kent
The next they sang was “Stille Nacht.” “Tis ‘Silent Night’,” says I
And in two tongues one song filled up that sky

“There’s someone coming toward us!” the front line sentry cried
All sights were fixed on one long figure trudging from their side
His truce flag, like a Christmas star, shown on that plain so bright
As he, bravely, strode unarmed into the night

Soon one by one on either side walked into No Man’s Land
With neither gun nor bayonet we met there hand to hand
We shared some secret brandy and we wished each other well
And in a flare-lit soccer game we gave ‘em hell

We traded chocolates, cigarettes, and photographs from home
These sons and fathers far away from families of their own
Young Sanders played his squeezebox and they had a violin
This curious and unlikely band of men

Soon daylight stole upon us and France was France once more
With sad farewells we each prepared to settle back to war
But the question haunted every heart that lived that wonderous night
“Whose family have I fixed within my sights?”

‘Twas Christmas in the trenches where the frost, so bitter hung
The frozen fields of France were warmed as songs of peace were sung
For the walls they’d kept between us to exact the work of war
Had been crumbled and were gone forevermore

My name is Francis Tolliver, in Liverpool I dwell
Each Christmas come since World War I, I’ve learned its lessons well
That the ones who call the shots won’t be among the dead and lame
And on each end of the rifle we’re the same