Google AdSense is the easiest and quickest way to make your website, blog of any kind and any size profitable. Sign-up with Adsense, generate your ad code and copy and paste the code in to your web page, and.. well, that’s it . you are earning cash. It works by reading keywords from your page content, and then displays content related text and image ads, thus enabling ads specifically targeted to your site and readers. This post is about a collection of Adsense apps and tools for windows to make your Adsense experience richer and easier.
AdSense Earnings Tool
Its a free & fast tool to monitor adsense earnings in realtime. This tool posts all the correct post fields to Googles universal Account Services login & collects information about your earnings. You’ll able to see today, yesterday, this month & since last payment earnings. You don’t need to log in to Google anymore.
SysSense
Via this free app you can monitor your recent earnings with an unlimited number of AdSense accounts with SysSense, with this little Windows process tray utility.
Adsense-Alert
Use this app to set your daily Adsense earning goals, get up to-the-minute daily earning & you can also measure your earnings against the Top 10 Adsense earners from the Adsense Premier League.
PerlGtk Adsense Checker
This app checks your adsense account every 30 minutes, & show a small popup in the centre of your screen for 5 seconds and updates the tip for the system tray icon.
PhpMyAdsense
This is a free and useful PHP Web application designed specially to provide you detailed statistics of your Google AdSense advertiser's account in real-time, using your own customized templates and colors.
GoogleSyndication Hits Analyzer
GoogleSyndication Hits Analyzer is a free app that will help you to analyze efficiency of your Adwords Content Network ads, now that Google lets you create negative sites for a campaign. This tool helps you to decide which AdSense publisher domains to block.
Google Adsense Preview Tool
With a few clicks, you can see what ads may display on your new web page, or make an educated decision on whether to add AdSense to your existing site pages.
If you know more Adsense apps for windows like above we discussed today, share with us by leaving a comment.
HappY SurfinG!!! (:
Random posts widget displays random links of your blog. This help show content that is neither recent nor popular (because it is random :)). The widget displays links in form of link lists. I am so damn sure that this widget will definitely bring some excitement to your blogger powered blog. Letting your readers surf your blog to the fullest extent by creating a link to a random post in your blog's sidebar.
Installation and Customization:
1. Change the title of the widget if you want.
2. Change the number of posts links you want to display.
3. Change the number of words you want to include in the summary to display.
4. Click the "Customize" button to make the changes take effect, then click on the "Add to Blog" button.
Those are all the steps necessary to implement the Random Post Widget to blogger. If you need more help installing the widget, leave a comment below. (:
Displaying a related posts is a smart way for keeping your site visitors around. And you may have seen other Related Posts Widgets out there. but this one will be Easier and Smarter. This wonderful blogger hack will display links to related posts beneath each of your blog posts. The related articles are chosen from other posts in that same category / label. With this hack many of your readers will remain on your site for longer periods of time when they see related posts of interest.
Before applying this blogger hack, I recommend you to download your full template first.
Now
How to install
1. Go to Layout >> Edit HTML in your Blogger Dashboard.
2. Make sure to check the "Expand Widget Templates" box.
3. Search for the </head> tag.
4. Add the following code just before the </head> tag.
#related-posts {
float : left;
width : 540px;
margin-top:20px;
margin-left : 5px;
margin-bottom:20px;
font : 11px Verdana;
margin-bottom:10px;
}
#related-posts .widget {
list-style-type : none;
margin : 5px 0 5px 0;
padding : 0;
}
#related-posts .widget h2, #related-posts h2 {
color : #940f04;
font-size : 20px;
font-weight : normal;
margin : 5px 7px 0;
padding : 0 0 5px;
}
#related-posts a {
color : #054474;
font-size : 11px;
text-decoration : none;
}
#related-posts a:hover {
color : #054474;
text-decoration : none;
}
#related-posts ul {
border : medium none;
margin : 10px;
padding : 0;
}
#related-posts ul li {
display : block;
background : url("http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm297/zozuglogger/weed-bullet.gif") no-repeat 0 0;
margin : 0;
padding-top : 0;
padding-right : 0;
padding-bottom : 1px;
padding-left : 16px;
margin-bottom : 5px;
line-height : 2em;
border-bottom:1px dotted #cccccc;
}
</style>
<script src='http://torrentmoon.com/javascripts/Related_posts_hack.js' type='text/javascript'/>
5. Now search for <p><data:post.body/></p>
6. Add the following code just beneath the code you just searched for.
<div id="related-posts">
<font face='Arial' size='3'><b>Related Posts : </b></font><font color='#FFFFFF'><b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'><data:label.name/><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>,</b:if><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<script expr:src='"/feeds/posts/default/-/" + data:label.name + "?alt=json-in-script&callback=related_results_labels&max-results=5"' type='text/javascript'/></b:if></b:loop> </font>
<script type='text/javascript'> removeRelatedDuplicates(); printRelatedLabels();
</script>
</div></b:if>
7. Now Save your Template, and you're Done!
If you need help installing the widget, just leave a comment. (:
Also Check: 3 Best Eye Catching Blogger Templates and Blogger Tools and Tweaks.
Do you want to add music to your blog, but don’t want to annoy your readers with (auto-playing, how-do-I-stop-this?) inline music? If that is the case, adding a music player is the best option for you. This article will explain how to add music, mp3, audio to your Blogger (Blogspot) Blog, So follow this step by step guide.
Step 1: First, upload the music file to any free file hosting servers on the net if you don't have your own. Once you upload, they will provide you with a direct link to that music file.
Step 2: Here is the code you need to add music to your blog
Step 3: You can add the music player anywhere you want in your Blogger blog..
Blog Post: If you want to embed music file to any specific blog post, Paste the code in 'Edit html' mode and save it.
That's it, Enjoy! (:
clarification code above:
height: height of the music player
autostart: values : false or true(If you use the autostart value: true, the music file will automatically play. but keep in mind, it annoys many visitors/readers)
MUSIC FILE URL: the direct link to your music file
In this example, MUSIC FILE URL is http://your-host.com/uploads/from-the-moon.mp3
If you want your own favicon, these are the steps to put your own favicon into a Blogger or any blog.
1. Create a favicon, from a image/logo that you like then with Favicon from Pics convert it in .ico or gif file.
2. Upload it in your host root, if you don't have a host, I recommend you to use imageboo to host your favicon.
3. Now that you have your URL/link of Your Favicon, you need to add it in your template. For this login to your blogger account, then click on Dashboard >> layout >> HTML.
4. Press CTRL+F and make a click inside of template HTML code and search for this tag </head> and just above it paste this code
<link href='http://your.link.com/yourfav.ico' rel='shortcut icon'/>
You will see something like this
<link href='http://your.link.com/yourfav.ico' rel='icon' type='image/x-icon'/>
<link href='http://your.link.com/yourfav.ico' rel='shortcut icon'/>
</head>
Note: if the icon is in .gif format, change type='image/x-icon'/> to type='image/gif'/>
5. Save your template.
If you need more help, don't be shy about leaving a comment below. (:
How to display HTML code in blogger post? How to show HTML and Java Script codes in blogger post? Do you want to show some piece of code in your post to your readers? This blogger tweak has answer to your questions which you and many other blogspot bloggers are looking for.
Well, normally when you insert some code with HTML tags in your blogger post composer, it will be executed and the result will be shown instead of code. so follow this simple guide and make BLOGGER show your code as original.
Step 1:
Login to your Blogger account and navigate to Layout section. Then go to Edit HTML sub-tab.
Step 2
Find this code ]]></b:skin> in your template code, and above this line add CSS code below and Save your Template now.
.codeview {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #CC0000;
margin : 15px 35px 15px 15px;
padding : 10px;
clear : both;
list-style-type : none;
border-top : 2px solid #cccccc;
border-right : 2px solid #cccccc;
border-bottom : 2px solid #cccccc;
border-left : 2px solid #cccccc;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
.codeview li {
font-size : 13px;
line-height : 24px;
font-family : "Courier New", "MS Sans Serif", sans-serif, serif;
color : #333333;
font-weight : normal;
margin : 0;
padding : 0;
}
Step 3
Now whenever you create a new post just include the special Script ( CSS code , Scripts , etc. ) within this div section.
Insert the Special code here
</div>
That's it. Should you need more help? feel free to post a comment, I'm here to help you. (:
Few people contacted me last week and requested to search some nice blogger templates for them. So In this post I will share three free, cute, eye catching blogger templates and i hope you guys will like them. All three designs are taken from wordpress blog themes and converted to blogspot templates.
LightWord
LightWord is a simple, cute and clever Blogger Template. LightWord is a feature theme in wordpress, deluxetemplates converted it, in Blogger for you.
Features: 2 columns, right sidebar, minimal, white and black, top menu, search box and feed button. Try it, i am sure you gonna love it.
To download "Light Word" template click here, to check live demo click here.
Bcute
Bcute is cool Blogger template that has been converted from a wordpress theme. This particular template comes with cool Twitter Logo and search box on top.
Features: 2 columns, right sidebar, dark background, grass, twitter, search box, top menu links.
To download "Bcute" template click here, to check live demo click here.
Dark Flower
An eye catching blogger template, do you want to give your site a highly personalized interface? This is it - Dark Flower! Designed by Ezwpthemes and converted in Blogger by Deluxe Templates.
Features: 2 columns, right sidebar, vectors, dark, flower, red, left float, custom comments.
To download "Dark Flower" template click here, to check live demo click here.
If you like this post, you may also like to check "3 Beautiful High Quality Free Wordpress Themes".
Should you need help in installing templates? post in comments. (:
One of the Major Problem every Blogspot Blogger users have is whenever they try to change their templates, They loss their widgets even if they take backup of their template. After Changing their template, they need to add widgets again manually. If only one or two widgets in the sidebar or you just build your blog, it would not be a big issue, but if you have so many widgets in the sidebar and your blog is enough old then of course it will be more complicated. So what's solution?
I've created this tutorial/guide to help you to change your current template without losing any widgets.
2. Upload your new template to test blog.
3. Go to Dashboard. Click to Layout of current blog (not new test blog) --> Edit HTML --> search for: <div id='sidebar'> copy all widget code between <div id='sidebar'> to </div>
4. Now Go again to Dashboard. Click Layout (at new test blog) --> edit HTML --> search for <div id='sidebar'> --> paste all widget code that you have copied. Put it between <div id='sidebar'> too
5. Save your template
6. Download and save full template of test blog
7. Upload to your current blog layout, and you get new layout without deleting widget
Should you need more help? post in comments section. (:
What is BloGTK?
BloGTK is a software/application that allows you to easily blog from the comfort of your own desktop. “But wait!”, you say, “I can blog already from my desktop, with the help of my browser.” Yes you can. But with BloGTK you can blog offline, save drafts, have multiple accounts, and you don't need to open a browser and and and much more. So, let’s take a look at how you can start using BloGTK as your desktop blogging system.
Installing BloGTK
Before we get into connecting to your blog we have to install the application first. This is very simple. You can install BloGTK from the command line with a command such as:
sudo apt-get install blogtk
or
yum install blogtk
Or you can open up your Add/Remove Software utility, search for “blogtk” (without quotes), select the resulting entry, and click Apply to install.
Once BloGTK is installed you will find the menu entry in the Internet submenu of your Applications or Main menu.
Making the connection
BloGTK doesn’t offer as many connection types as some of the other tools. But it does connect to:
- Blogger
- MoveableType
- MetaWeblog API
The very first thing you have to do is go to the Edit menu and select the Accounts and Settings entry. When this new window opens.
Notice the Server URL. For Blogger this is the exact URL you need to use to connect. Other than that you will enter the username and password for your Blogger account and make sure Blogger is selected from the list of Blogging Systems.Once you have this done click Save and then click OK.
You should notice, at the bottom of the main BloGTK window (See Picture Below) the instructions telling you to use File/Connect to connect (or re-connect) to your server.
You do not have to connect to the server right away. You can create your blog entry first and then connect to the server and post your entry. Or you can create an entry and save as draft for later posting.To save an entry you go about creating and, when you are ready to save, click the File menu and select “Save Post As…”, give the draft a name, and save the draft. You can then open the saved post for editing later.
If you want to post immediately you only have to create your post, connect to your account, and click the “Post Entry” button.
In order to connect to your account you go to the File menu and click “Connect”.
Gotchas
Outside of the seriously lacking account types you can use, there is a gotcha you will find when using Blogger. The Blogger system is using a newer API and the current iteration of BloGTK can not make use of all of its features. For instance, you can not add a title to your blogs with this release. You also can not use the Extended Entry or Excerpt features as well. Outside of that, BloGTK works just fine.
When the 2.0 release of BloGTK hits the repositories this application’s usefulness will be extended quite a bit. All of the Blogger features will work and, hopefully, more APIs will be added so more accounts can be used.
Give it a try, Here is the link to download BloGTK.
HappY SurfinG!!! (:
Choosing and using a new template for your Blogger powered blog can be quite a daunting task. What is the best method for installation? How can you choose the design and layout most suitable for your blog?
Well if you are struggling between these question, i've a killer e-book for you. I recently stumbled upon on the ThemeForest blog. Its damn useful eBook and i recommend you if you are a blogger or template maker. So here it is a Free E-book - The Blogger Template Book ~ by Amanda Fazani.
In this free eBook you can learn about:
- Different styles of layout and overall blog design
- How to install different types of Blogger templates
- How to maintain widgets when changing templates
- Where to download the best free templates
- How to speed up the loading time for your blog
- How to optimize your blog template to rank higher in search engines
- Useful resources to help you get the most from your Blogger template
- And much more.
Go and grab your copy of this free eBook!
All credits goes to Amanda Fazani for this useful eBook.
For more free Ebooks, icons, wallpapers, avatars and other cool stuff like this visit our free downloads category!
As always, enjoy, have fun with your design, and thanks for visiting everything31.com!
See you again tomorrow! (:
Orkut is becoming more and more popular as the time pass. So i thought why not to make up a new orkut profile badge widget for blogger and website. This widget can be used anywhere, any blog or website. Feel free to use it.
To add this widget to your blog, just login to your orkut account and get the following details!
1. Your Profile Picture(DP, Avatar) Url, This can be done by right clicking your profile pic and choosing copy image location
2. Your Profile Url
3. Your Scrapbook Url
4. Your "Send message" Url
5. Your Write Testimonial Url
6. Your Send Teaser Url
Use these details in the widget creator(below) and get the widget added to your blog.
Visit our free tools section for other useful blogger tools.
Please Post You reviews, HappY SurfinG!!! (:
In this Post i am going to present 3 fresh free high-quality WordPress themes. All themes can be downloaded, customized and used for free, in personal or/and commercial projects.
1. ZinePress - Free Magazine Theme
ZinePress is really an awesome mag theme that is ad ready, and easily customizable.
From the source:
ZinePress isn’t really an overcomplicated magazine theme, but she’s not exactly a run-of-the-mill blog design either. My goal with this design was to create a theme that could present oodles of information to the visitor in a straight forward and non-threatening way. It’s some of my proudest work and I hope you like it.Click the link below to/for:
2. Imprezz - Beautiful art work
I really like this theme. It looks great, and it has a very unique layout.
From the source:
I am happy to release my third free wordpress theme - ImpreZZ for SmashingMagazine and for my readers. This is a 3 column based design with a third dimension for the second column. This theme supports Wordpress 2.7.1 and works well with the zdcomments widget (which is used to display the top commenters).The .psd source file of the logo has been included with the package for easy customization. This Wordpress theme can be used for any project.
Note: There is no live Demo for this theme, however, you can view a large screen shot of it. If you like it, good news. It’s FREE. Download it!
Click the link below to/for:
3. Fusion - Simple and Cool WordPress Theme
A simple and Beautiful theme from Digital Nature. This theme has Dark header, light body. It looks great, You must try it.
From the source:
A free CSS template with 2 columns (right sidebar), and fixed or fluid width. For the moment only the Wordpress port is complete, but I’m also working on the Drupal and Pligg Fusion themes.Click the link below to/for:
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What do you think about these themes? Leave a comment and share your thoughts with us below.
Are you looking for some cute blogger(Blogspot) templates, check "3 Best Eye Catching Blogger Templates".
Thanks for visiting everything31.com,
See you tomorrow! (:
While there are lots of tools available on the internet that are of use to a Blogspot blogger, you have to hunt for them. Chances are that you may have already discovered some of these blogger tools while others may be quite new to you.
Here is my list of some free greate blogger tools that I find invaluable in building this blog.
Free Image Watermarking Service
Add a watermark to your images to deter image theft on your blog with this free image watermarking service from Pictureshark.com
Free Fav Icon Generator
There are a bunch of places on the web that you can go to create your own fav icon. Try these:
favicon.cc
Dynamic Drive
Online Icon Maker
Free Banner Generator
Banner Sketch is an easy to use tool to help you create a title banner and other banners for your blog
Free Icons for RSS Feeds
Find stylish rss feed icons for your blog at Hongkiat Ultimate List of Feed Icons
Free Clipart
There are lots of places to find clip art on the net but WPClipArt is my personal favorite offerring thousands of high quality public domain images all completely free
Free Code Converter
Code Converter
Use this tool to parse Google Adsense, Adbrite code and other third party code before entering it into a Blogger template
Free Page Rank Checker
Google Page Rank Checker
Use this free tool to check your blog/site Page rank in google.
Free Keyword Tools
Wordtracker will help you identify keywords in your subject area
You could also try Google Adwords
Free File Storage
FileAve.com offer up to 50MB of free file storage and hosting which is ideal for storing files and scripts. Particularly useful for storing any files that readers can download from your blog.
Also try Boxnet.com which offer 1GB of storage
Free Browser Testing Tool
Look up how your Blogger Blogspot blog will appear to a variety of internet browsers and detect any problems with your template with this free browser testing tool from Browsershots
Free HTML Tutorial Help
Need help with HTML I have found w3schools.com provides excellent tutorials and information on HTML
Free Web-Based File Extractor
Sometimes you may wish to extract a file online. My Webzip provide a free archive creation and file extraction service that works on the fly supporting zip, rar, tar and tgz file archives.
Free Keyword Density Tool
Check the density of your keywords in your posts with this free keyword density tool from SEOChat
Meta Tag Analyzer
These Meta Tag Analyzers will provide you with detailed information about your blog description, keywords and meta tags
Submit Express
SEO Centro
Free File Size Checker
Web Sniffer will check the size of your burned Feedburner feed to avoid exceeding the 512K maximum file size
This is not a definitive list by any means. I will update it regularly as I discover more and more tools. If you know any other useful tools like these, please let me know by posting in comments.
If you have ever downloaded a Free Blogger template or Widget, you might find that it includes javascript files that link to the blog designers website, or file sharing site. It’s never a good idea as a long term blogger to leave any external links in your blog template that you don’t have control over. The reason you always need to control your templates links:
- Blog Designers site goes down
- Blog Designers site bandwidth has reached it’s maximum limit
- As a Blog Designer you might be hosting your personal site javascript files on the very same account, that your Free Blogger Templates javascript files are hosted, so If you have 1,000 free downloaded templates floating around cyber space, and none of them change the javascript URL, they are all pulling bandwidth from your personal javascript site host.
Bottom line is, control is everything, nobody likes a broken blog.
Below is an easy & Free way to host all your javascript files on your very own Free Google website:
1) Sign up for a Free Google Sites website
2) Create a new Google Sites webpage
3) Get the URL/link of the javascript that is hard coded into your New Blogger template (example: http://www.YourWebsite/YourNewJavascriptFile.js )
4) Download the javascript file to your local PC
5) Open the javascript file in a text editor (Microsoft Notepad, etc…)
6) Save the javascript text file as a regular text file, so our example file in the above URL will look like this: (example: YourNewJavascriptFile.txt )
7) Upload the New Text file to your Google Sites website
8) Right click & Copy on your New uploaded .txt file on your Google webpage, & get the URL/link (example: http://sites.google.com/site/YourGoogleWebsite/Webpage1/YourNewJavascriptFile.txt )
9) Right click Paste the new URL/Link into your Blogger template
You have now hosted your javascript file on your own Free website, not to mention Google is great about keeping their servers running at 99.99% of the time.
A word of advice, Google once had a Free website hosting a while back, Google has since shut down new members to the first Free website, so grab a free site while you can, you never know If they will stop new members from the second Free websites (Google Sites). Also the old members still have active Google websites, just no new members, get them while you can, you never know when you’ll need it to host files.
HappY SurfinG!!! (:
If you have already got a blog and you have been searching for a cool modern logo to make it unique, I’ve got a great website for you. Logo Instant provides some great free logos in Photoshop format (.psd) which you can easily edit and modify to your liking. Every day they provide a brand new custom Web 2.0 logos.
The motto posted on their website is,"You don’t have to spend big bucks anymore for designer, because this service is 100% free". That’s something most of you can appreciate I’m sure!
For those of you who don’t know how to use Adobe Photoshop (or own it for that matter) then you can either download a free photo editor like Paint.NET or Gimp (my personal favorite) to modify the logos. You’ll have to download, install, and spend a few hours getting ramped up before you’d be able to cusomize the logos. It’s not a quick easy thing to do but if you’ve got the time and are ready to learn a new useful skill, then it’s worth doing.
HaPpY surfiNG!!! (:
If you try to insert any Google AdSense, AdBrite, AdEngage and any other JavaScript based ad code, or client-side components such as counter, tracker, form, snippet, effect, date and time, etc which is JavaScript based, the following error message may be returned when saving ore previewing:
- Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: The processing instruction target matching “[xX][mM][lL]” is not allowed.
Or
- Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The reference to entity “zs” must end with the ‘;’ delimiter.
and many other different XML error message.
The problem is caused by incorrect dynamic interpretation of Blogger XML template when it generates the HTML webpage for the blog page that is requested, probably due to the fact that the AdSense ad code or other code is not a valid XML, coupled with the fact that some ASCII characters have special meaning and reserved functions, confusing Blogger blogging engin.
The resolution to the JavaScript based coding does not work in Blogger HTML template error can be solved by replacing special characters or symbols in the script to HTML code.
How to solve this issue:-
You can use Blogger Adbrite adsense code converter which converts the ad code into Blogger XML compliant
It is really a time saver!
Just paste you ad code and click on convert! And you will get the code ready to be used in blogger.
Benefits of including ad text in blogger html
- More flexibility to place the ads and increase CTR
- You can place ads below title of the post
- Customize ads and other scripts according to your needs.
HappY SurfinG!!! (:
Also Read: Add Adbrite, Adsense Code Below Post Title in Blogger
Okay, this blog post is intended for those with situation as below:-
You are blogspot blogger?
Are you sure your custom domain settings are correct?
Are you using Google Apps with your domain?
And lastly, you get “Another blog is already hosted at this address” when trying to point your blogspot to your new domain?
Solution:
1. Log in to your Google Apps account as administrator.
2. Go to Service Settings -> Sites
3. Go to Web address mapping
4. There will be one entry only namely www. Select it and delete the record. Proceed with all the delete warning and confirmation. It’s safe. No worry here. Trust me!
5. After you have finished with the deletion. Go to your Blogspot dashboard and try to point to your new domain again.
NOTE: In blogspot dashboard there, put your domain name with www prefix. Example: put www.everything31.com instead of just everything31.com and you do not need to check “redirect www.everything31.com to everything31.com”.
That’s all. Very Easy to do! is’nt it?
Happy Blogging!
Advertising revenue is one of the main sources of income for many website publishers. Website publishers display relevant ads on their websites and get income when visitors click on the ads. The working principle is quite straightforward. However, there is always a dilemma for newbies - where is the ideal location to place the ads on the site? Certain locations tend to be more successful than others and help to generate more clicks and indirectly more revenue to publishers.
If you are having the same problem and you are using the WordPress publishing application, you should probably consider adding the Heatmap Plugin. This Heatmap Plugin will assist users to analyze the most frequent locations where visitors like to click on when browsing users’ site. Based on the analysis, users can decide where to place banners, organize navigation, add in advertisements, etc. The right ads on the right locations will inevitably increase the “clicks” to the advertisement and improve the income revenue.
Users can download the plugin via the link here and follow the following installation procedure:
1. Upload plugin to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Set permission to 777 or 666 for /wp-content/plugins/heatmap/cache folder.
Once it is installed, users can go back to the main page of their blog/website and at the top they will see a small arrow. This is the plugin, if you click on it, plugin will show you heatmap.