How to Invite All Facebook Friends in New Page Layout

Hi there, after some amazing posts on blogging and Social media I'm back with a tutorial post. This post will allow you to invite all of your friends to any facebook page. You might be thinking that I posted the same thing before too?? Yes its posted before and the code is still the same but there's a change, A change in Facebook Page Layout. Facebook changed its page layout recently and thus due to this reason many people are not able to use the old technique. So in this post I will share the step by step guide on how to invite your friends to new facebook layout pages.

We all make facebook pages no matter on what topic it is. We make pages for our blog, website, brand, public figure or we even make pages for fun. So is making pages enough???

Obviously no!! You will have to get likes on your page so that your target audience can get your posts and updates. But wait!!! It is not that easy to get likes, so what I and most of us do is just invite all of our friends to LIKE our FACEBOOK Page. In this way our friends get a notification and there is a 50% chance that they will open up your page and like it.

Also Read: Post to All Facebook Groups By a Single Click 

But wait again!! Will you invite all your friends manually ?? I mean won't it take time ?? In hours ?? So to overcome this time problem we have come up with a simple code that will automatically invite all your friends to like your page with a singe click. 

Lets get started!!

Code to Invite All Facebook Friends in New Page Layout 2015

Just Follow the given steps: 

• Firstly as usual, open the page for which you want to send invites to your friends. 

• If you are the admin of the page you will see an option "BUILD  AUDIENCE", Click on it. 

• Click on Invite Friends, a pop will open containing a list of all your facebook friends. Scroll the List as much as you can so that all of your friends get listed in it.

• Now follow the same old method. Press F12 on your keyboard. Console window opens in case of Mozilla and Chrome. 

• Copy the code given Below and hit the enter button. All of your friends will be invited automatically. 

var inputs = document.getElementsByClassName('uiButton _1sm'); for(var i=0; i<inputs.length;i++) { inputs[i].click(); } 

 

• This process can take upto 2 minutes depending upon the number of friends you have. Also note that our blog link gets copied along with the code, so before hitting the enter button make sure you remove our link.

Also Read: Code to Add All Friends to Facebook Group

Also Read: Best Facebook Tricks

Isn't it Simple!! Well I still posted as I got many comments on my previous post about how to make it work with the new layout and instead of updating the old one, I thought of just writing once again. I hope this will help you. Do share this tutorial with everyone who is still facing problems inviting their friends on their fb pages. 

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10 Mistakes You're Probably Making On Social Media

Social media can be one of the most effective tools you use to market your website, or it can be a complete waste of your time. I am surprised at how many people I work with that tell me they tried SEO, and it did not work for them. They think that just because it did not work when they tried it, that it is the problem of social media.

There are so many mistakes I see made that stop them from becoming successful on social media. I am going to focus on the top 10 that I feel I help people with the most, so you also can see more success on social media.

Mistake 1 - Not interacting with your followers/friends

This is probably one of the most common mistakes that I see. I will visit a profile and see a number of customers, or potential customers, that have left a comment or question that was never responded to.

Or even worse, someone leaving negative feedback that is not resolved. One of the easiest ways to kill your reputation is to have negative feedback. While all of the best brands in the world will have some kind of negative feedback, it is VERY important to respond to those comments. If you can turn an upset visitor into a happy one, there is no better testimonial.

Many times, people forget that social media is just what it says, SOCIAL! You need to socialize and interact with your friends and followers. They want to connect with you personally, and it is your job to make them feel that connection.

Mistake 2 - Too much selling, not enough helping

Just as I previously mentioned, your friends and followers want to personally connect with you. One of the quickest ways to make you feel not personal is to be selling too much.

I am not saying you can never sell something to your friends and followers, but that is not why they followed you.

Your job is to connect with them on a personal level. You need to be posting things that help them. All too often, I see a social media profile filled with posts saying �Click here to get the best deal in the world!�

The truth is, no one is going to pay attention to those if they do not trust you and feel connected. Most your posts should be posts that help your friends and followers, that do not benefit you in any way. I know your product will probably benefit them, but they will not see it that way if there is a price tag tied to it.

One of my favorite things to do is to follow those people I work with and every once in a while I will help them if they have a questions or just check in to see how things are doing. I have people that are constantly sending me messages with their latest accomplishments. Not only does this make me feel good because they are succeeding from my help, but it also shows that they are connected with me. I guarantee that if I were to send a sales message to those people, they will be much more inclined to look at what I am selling.

Mistake Three - You follow people to get a follow back

Your social media profile is not about the number of friends or followers you have, it is about the amount of quality active followers you have.

You can have 10,000 followers on Facebook, but if no one sees your posts or cares about you, they are irrelevant. You need high-quality active followers, and following hundreds of people is the easiest way to get a few people that really do not care about you.

There are two problems I see with this method that so many people use. The first is just what we talked about, that most those followers are not going to be quality followers. The second problem is that it is not hard to see who does this. If someone randomly adds me on Twitter, and I see that they follow five times as many people that follow them, I know exactly how they got these followers.

You need to be focusing on quality connections. This is just going to be a waste of time and could get you banned on many social media platforms.

Mistake Four - Not scheduling your posts

If you are not careful, social media can take up all your time. No one has the time to spend all day on social media to be posting to their followers. The problem is, you need to be able to send updates throughout the day.

That's where post scheduling tools come in. You can sit down and create all your post for a few days and schedule them to go out at different times through the week. Then you sit back, and let your social media work.

Not only will this free up your time as you are not sending updates all day, but it will help you do all your social media posts in a single sitting and be much more effective with your time.

As you are building your business, time is the most valuable asset. The more time you have, the more successful you can be.

The two tools that I suggest for scheduling your posts are Buffer or Hootsuite. Each of them have different advantages. Buffer is better at scheduling posts, while Hootsuite makes monitoring all your social media profiles in one place, simple. I use both but spend most my time on Hootsuite to interact with people.

Mistake Five - Posting at the wrong times

One of the biggest mistakes you can make is to post at the wrong times. You could have the most amazing posts, but if no one sees them, it will not matter how great they are.

You need to be selective about the times you are posting. Each social media platform has different types of people and different peak times.

Mistake Six - Paying for followers

This one is similar to following to get followers, but please do not pay for followers. There are places out there that you can follow someone for points, and then you can give those points to someone else to follow you.

The downside to this is obvious. Not only are those going to be very low quality followers, but most of those are not even real accounts by real people. You are just wasting all your time and money by doing this.

Also read: How to get more Tweets and Google+ Shares to your Posts

When I am trying to find influencers in my industry (People I want to work with to help grow my business), I search their social media authority. If you have thousands of bad accounts following you, your social media authority is going to be VERY small and those that use it will not consider you an influencer or want to work with you.

Now, not to sound like a hypocrite but I believe there is one time when this would be OK. When you are starting off on social media you are not going to have any follower or friends. I do suggest using a tool like this to grow your first 100 followers so you do not look like you are insignificant.

Yes it is true those followers are not going to turn into anything, but I know when someone wants to work with me and only has 3 followers, I am much more likely to decline. They are not able to help you if they do not have an audience for you to work with.

100 seems to be a good number as it will look much better, and 100 bad followers is not going to hurt you. As you grow your authority, you are going to start to get spam followers regardless. The number is small enough that it will help you with visual authority, much more then it will hurt you in page authority.

Mistake Seven - You're boring

Have you ever gone to a movie and left halfway through just because the movie was so bad? It did most of the right things. It made the movie, marketed it, sold you a ticket� but it was not even worth the $8 you spent to finish the movie.

This is what many people do. They will do the marketing and get a good quality following, and then they do not post anything that keeps the readers attention.

Just like you in the movie, your readers are sure to leave early and unfollow you.

You need to have some personality in your posts. Give them information that will help them and applies to them. If you have people following you that like motorcycles, don't ask them for parenting tips when your baby is crying. There might be one person out there that can help you, but most will hate the post.

One great way to not be boring is to motivate people or make them laugh. If you look at viral videos, most of them are videos that educate masses, newsbreaks, or something that makes you laugh.

Now, I can�t tell you how to be funny, but I can tell you how not to be boring.

Mistake Eight - Not completing your profile page

We are pre-programmed to see spam accounts. One of the easiest ways to detect a spam account is they do not take the time to complete the profile. Having an incomplete profile is one of the easiest ways to show that you are not important.

While the whole profile is important, the worse thing you can do is not even have a profile picture. A profile picture shows who you are and makes the visitor feel like they know who they are talking to. Having the default gravatar is sure to stop people from following you in the first place.

Mistake Nine - Using too many hashtags

Hashtags are a tool that let you set a category for your posts. You can type a # and then a word and if you click that hashtag it will show you anyone that has used that hashtag.

Hashtags are a great tool, but there are two main problems that I see when people are using them. First, they use too many of them, or second, they use them incorrectly.

When using hashtags, you want to make sure you do not post so many of them that your post looks like it is all hashtags. I generally recommend using one or two hashtags per post.

You want to make sure your hashtags are not too long. You do not want a hashtag that is really long. For two reason, it makes your post look more like spam, but most importantly, you want to use hashtags that everyone else is using.

If no one else in the world has used that hashtag then no one is going to be clicking on it to see your post. Make sure you keep it short, and use hashtags that you believe to be common.

Mistake Ten - Talking negatively about others

This is one of the quickest ways to lose credibility. When you talk bad about others, you put out a negative vibe to your followers. Many of those followers are people that you might work with in the future. If you post a lot of negativity, it will be hard to connect with people. Post positive, happy, uplifting posts.

We all have negative things happen to us, but we need to keep those off social media.

Just recently, I wrote a post about why I did not like a service. I had good reason why and thought that people should know about the service before they get into it. My intention was not to write bad about it, but to show a site that might not be the best for everyone.

Not too long after I posted it, I was talking to some people in my industry that I was going to guest post for. One of them wrote back and told me that the post was a bad post and it was the main reason he did not want to work with me.

Apparently, he loved the service and was offended when I mentioned something I did not like about it. Even though I was not intending to talk negatively, that is how it was taken, and I lost out on that opportunity to gain new fans.

I went back and wrote it again, and instead of talking about what I do not like about that service, I talked about what I liked of the service that I would recommend and removed the negative parts. Not only have I not had issues, but the amount of shares from it was much higher as well.

Also Read: 8 Insane ways to BOOST SOCIAL MEDIA TRAFFIC

Now I want to hear from you. Is there anything that you have found to be bad on social media? Have you fallen into some of these traps? Comment below with your experiences.

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Complete Guide on Sponsored Reviews and Paid Posts

Hello Friends, Firstly it's good to be back writing posts on iftiSEO after a small break. So today I have come up with a very effective way which will help you get sponsored posts for your blog. It has been seen that most of the blogging/seo niche or even tech niche blogs are failing to make money through adsense or other ad networks, so the next thing that comes is Sponsored Reviews. 

But wait!!!

Most of us even after having good traffic stats, Alexa rank and even DA are unable to get advertisers for sponsored post. There are many more questions which will be answered in this post as I bring you the   Complete Guide on Paid Reviews and Sponsored Posts 

Note: By advertisers I mean the persons or the companies who pays us to write about thier product/service

And by the way this post is again based on what my readers wanted. I just did a small survey of what post they would like to have first at iftiSEO and this was their pick. Hurray for them!!!

What are Sponsored Posts/Reviews? 

Well, a Sponsored post is just an article or blog post published on your blog on a request of an advertiser for some fee. 

So it's basically like an advertiser comes to us asking for promoting his/her product by a blog post on our blog and pays us some amount. The amount may vary from 10$-500$ depending upon your website stats (Analytics, PR, DA, Alexa, etc.).

Many blogs make half of their monthly income by just posting sponsored content, so don't overlook this earning source.

When can we start getting advertisers for Sponsored Posts?

Hmm!! A very Common question. Well, yeah there are some criterias that the advertisers look for before approving any blog for a sponsored post.

Since the advertisers REALLY want to promote their products or services among thier audience they only look for blogs that:

• Can satisfy their needs, 
• Blogs that can help them build trust among the users
• Blogs that can meet upto thier expectations, 
• Blogs that can help them make sales, 
• Blogs that can gain them subscribers, 
• Blogs that can even bring them "TRAFFIC", 
• Blogs that can expose them to different audiences and a lot more...

So, the advertisers look for many things before coming up with a proposal and if your blog satisfies any of their needs you will get approved by them. 

Wait a sec!! There's one more question that may come in your mind!!! Is it ??

I mentioned some of the key points that the advertisers look for in your blog, but how ?? What do they check?? What stats do they prefer to analyse??? 

What stats does the advertisers look for in your blog

The advertisers don't have your blog's analytics stats or traffic stats, so they always go for checking up some external sources and analyse it. Let me list some: 

• Alexa Rank- This is probably the first and the most important thing an advertiser look before accepting your blog.

• DA and PA- Domain authority and Page Authority by Moz also explains a lot about your website/blog and due to this very reason most of the advertisers check these stats. 

• Social Stats- Big advertisers do focus on a blog's social following as they want their product review to get exposed everywhere on a blog network.

• Competition- Advertisers also look for blogs that already have posted sponsored reviews/posts before as this thing gives them a sense of relief that the blog is already trusted by other advertisers. 

• Ranking- I don't know whether advertisers check for this or not, but if I would be an advertiser I would definately check up a blogs ranking. By ranking I mean that I would just check up the blog's post and see where it got ranked (First page, second page or so on). 

I know that after reading till this point your mind still have some questions!! Ahh!! Let me try guessing them and answer them as well. So you might be thinking that what are the preferable stats a blog must have so that it can easily get approved by advertisers?

Aslo Read: 8 Insane Ways to Boost Social Media Traffic

Recommended Stats to get Sponsored reviews

Well the answer to this cannot be straight and simple but I will answer it according to my experience and I guess it will help you a lot, since I do get a lot of requests by advertisers. 

• Alexa Rank- Under 100k and you will start receiving requests or you can try sending requests. My first sponsored post on this blog came when my site was ranked 73000 in the world as per Alexa. Under 50k Alexa rank will never turn away the advertisers from your blog and such rank can even get you 100$ per post. My blog ranked at 23k brings me an average of 30-100$ per post depending upon many other things.

• DA and PA- Get a DA above 15 and 50% of advertisers will be ready to accept your blog. PA in this case matters less. 

• Social Stats- As mentioned above, this thing is just looked up by top advertisers who are willing to pay a good amount, so the social stats must be good enough to impress them. 

• Competition- Try to get some low rate reviews initially (like 1-2 posts) since it will show your blog's trust to future advertisers. 

• Ranking- Well if your blog follows the above 4 points, then it is obvious that your posts are getting indexed and ranked well on search engines. 

And now here comes again!! What??? I mean some more questions that might have come in your mind. So How to get advertisers once we fulfill all the above points ??

Once your blog gets some good stats, I mean once it fulfills the above points then it is obvious that your blog is creating a buzz in your niche and thus it will not be a difficult task for advertisers to reach your blog. So, once you get good stats you will automatically start getting advertisers mails in your inbox and thus you will be easily making like 20-100$+ per post.

But WHAT IF YOU DON'T GET ADVERTISERS FOR SPONSORED REVIEWS ??? Well yeah this thing is very common these days due to the increase in the number of blogs in your niche. Tech and Blogging/SEO niche bloggers face this thing a lot and believe me I have along got 40+ messages and mails asking on how to get sponsored reviews or posts for our blog.

No problem!! I have written this guide specially for you all who face this problem and thus I've got a solution to this thing. Excited?? Well I guess you are now liking the post as by now you have read 1000 words. So why not LIKE and SHARE this post on your network and help me spread the word. 

Hmm! Coming back to point now, I will be explaining you all 3 different & effective techniques of getting Advertisers for Sponsored Reviews or you can say PAID POSTS as others say. 

If something can't reach you, then try to reach to that thing yourself.

True isn't it!! Well this is what you will be doing now inorder to get advertisers. We will reach to theam by ourself using some techniques. 

3 Most Effective Methods of Getting Sponsored Reviews on your Blog?

I've already given you the idea above on what we will be doing, So lets get started!!

• Sponsored Posts Marketplace- 

One of the best ways to get Paid posts or Sponsored Review is by signing up on different Marketplaces and get your blog listed in it. Many advertisers still prefer to give Paid reviews through such sites as these marketplaces becomes a source of trust between the publisher and the advertiser. Moreover no cheating or scams can take place through it. 

Some top Sponsored Posts Marketplaces are: 

• SponsoredReviews.com - One of the best and the most trusted site where you can easily get advertisers who can pay upto 200$ per post. I got 50$ once through this site by just adding a link of advertiser in any one of my post.  Join this site now. The only con of this site is that they keep 50% of what the advertisers pays. 

• PostJoint - This is a small marketplace but still effective if your blog stands on top with the stats. Join PostJoint.

• PayPerPost- One more site, which I just found out googling last week. Do give it a try, join now

• BuySell.reviews- This is just a new site started by my friend and me, its still in the intial stages but once we get completed with everything you can earn upto 100$ per post using this site. Join it now

There are many more marketplaces that can be found up by googling. I've just listed out the one's which I used. Here is a list of 10 more such sites that pay you for writing posts on your blog.

• Google Search 

Well you must be confused?? Hmm!! But wait, its true that we can use Google Search to get Paid posts on our blog. Let me explain you the whole process.

First of all you have to find new advertisers under your niche, this can be done very easily by just performing a Google Search. Let's for example search for a keyword "Email Marketing". 

You can see that some ads of different companies/sites will be coming in google search results. Now all you need to do is target these companies. So just select some 3-5 NEW companies from the ads and open up their links, find their contact page/id and shoot them with a mail asking for a paid review of their service. 

My Friend Abid Omar have already explained the process completely on his blog with all the steps including "how to write the mail and send them". Check out his post: How to get sponsored reviews

There are 80% chances that these sites will pay you for a sponsored review on your blog since they are already investing in Google Adwords. 

• Competitor Blog

Again a new thing!! You might be confused again?? Are you ?? Well its natural since these things are quite new. So what do I mean by this Competitor Blog? 

Note: By Competitor Blog, I just mean a better blog of someone else (maybe your friend) under your same niche.

Lets come to the point directly!! No matter what niche your blog is on, you will always be having some competitor blogs. So in this technique we will take advantage of their blog.

How to do this: 

• First off, make a list of all top blogs under your niche in a notepad file.
• Now open each blog one by one and check if that blog have posted any sponsored post  recently or not, if YES just note down the advertiser/company/product name that your competitor blog have reviewed. 
• Repeat this for all of your competitor blogs and within just 10 minutes you will be having a list of around 15 different products. 
• Now what you have to do is just open up these product sites, get their contact id and mail them asking for writing a paid review of their service. 
• There are 80% chances that you will be approved. 

This method works like a charm as in this way we are directly going to contact only those advertisers who firstly have their product/service that fall under your niche and then secondly they have already paid other blogs for writing a review for their service. So it is obvious that they will pay you as well for writing one review. 

How much you Can Earn From A Single Review?

This heading ain't that much important in this post but I still prefer to make things look cool and I want you all to know the power of Paid reviews. 

Basically a good ranked website (as per ALEXA)  like iftiSEO.com can get upto 200$ per post, but to be frank I get an average of 60$ per post which is a good amount for a single review.

If you just write 4 sponsored reviews per month which is really an easy task then you can easily make 50*4=200$ minimum per month only through sponsored posts. Isn't it good ?? Many top blogs with such ranks even get 200$ per post and they are easily making 500+$ per month only through sponsored reviews and paid posts. So with this, you might have understood the power of it. 

Also Read:  Is your Blog on Right Track ?

One of my paid post payment proof

Some Important Points to Remember before Getting Started

So, I have explained you everything in the guide and I guess you understood and liked it so far, but wait!! Before you get started I want you to keep some points in mind. 

• Only accept Paid posts and reviews that comes under your blog category/niche to maintain your readership and subscribers.
• Don't compromise with regular posts, continue with regular posting of fresh quailty articles.
• Don't write fake reviews. 
• Don't give excess do-follow links. 
• Don't promote illegal stuffs/ sites/ products even though you get huge offers for it.

Final Verdict

Hmm!! So at this point I don't have questions in my mind regarding anything and I guess you are clear with everything as well. Are you ??? 

By the way you have reached like 2000 words and I guess I've explained a lot in these words. Why not share it or like it or tweet it or even stumble it. That's how a blog's social network works. If you still have any query regarding any method or anything just comment below and I will answer your questions. 

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How to Add Multiple Author Bio Box in your Blogger Blog

Are you struggling to add an Author box on your blogger blog? Well, I have got many requests from blogger platform bloggers about the problems they are facing in adding a working and a good looking author box. So instead of answering them through mails, I have come up with this tutorial which will help you add an author bio box below your blog posts.

This isn�t a simple code, this thing works for multiple author blogs as well. It means that if you have multiple authors writing content on your blog, then this widget/code will display their author box automatically in their posts. It means the author will not have to add his/her code manually into their html section of the blog post. 

Also Read: How to Add Social Content Locker in Blogger

So in this post I have posted 2 different tutorials for you. 

1. How to Enable Author Box in Default Blogger Templates
2. How to add Author Box in Custom Blogger Template

How to Enable Author Box in Default Blogger Template

If you use the default blogger templates then you can simply show your author box by following the given steps: 

• Open up your blogger dashboard and Go to Layout Section 

• Click on "Blog Posts" and a new window will open. 
• Tick the option "Show Author Profile Below the post" and save the changes

• Voila!! Your author profile will get displayed.

Steps to Add Multiple Author Bio Box in your Blogger Blog

Most of us use customized blogger templates and in that case the above tutorial or method does not work. So if you are using a customized template follow this tutorial and get your work done. If you want a more customised box google for different boxes and use this tutorial to add it on your blog. 

• Open up your blogger dashboard, go to Template Section and Click Edit HTML.
• Search for ]]></b:skin>  and paste the given code above ]]></b:skin> . 

/***** www.iftiseo.com author box starts *****/
.tbs-author-box {
background: #F7F7F7;
margin: 20px 0 40px 0;
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid #E6E6E6;
overflow: auto;
}
.tbs-author-box p {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.tbs-author-box img {
background: #FFFFFF;
float: left;
margin: 0 10px 0 0;
padding: 4px;
border: 1px solid #E6E6E6;
}
/***** www.iftiseo.com author box ends *****/

• Now Press CTRL+F and search for <data:post.body/> 
• Paste the following code below it as shown in the picture.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<b:if cond='data:post.author == &quot;Iftekhar Ahmed&quot;'>
<div class='tbs-author-box'>
<p>
<img alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 photo' height='100' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqredmomKG5MFX3rT1FaMhbjVii3n8lARKwMqtm0aPglFX8jRl4BYMBwiAhoyY8prAZM4FmKo6FkkquzsgesS4vKeZ6pcgLqqMEPxJ5KA0Gm3FbZGXPazLWTEigpYF3nu2eOOE7Nyiqyr/w509-h512/988354_213183655529152_1643599311_n.jpg' width='110'/><b>About Author</b><br/>
Iftekhar Ahmed is an 19 year old enterprenuer who writes on various topics like Online Earning, SEO, Blogging and a lot more. He has worked on many blogs and also works as an SEO Analyst. Apart from blogging he is also pursuing a degree in Computer Science Engineering <br/></p>
</div></b:if>
</b:if>

• Replace Iftekhar Ahmed by your Name. Replace the Text in Blue with your Author Bio and replace the Text in Green by Author image.

How to Show Author Bio Box for different Authors

If we have a multiple author blogger blog or if we allow other bloggers to do guest post on our blog, So in such cases the guest blogger/author would like to get his Bio box displayed in place of your's. So this code will allow you to do so. To add author boxes for different authors just add the same code given above. All you need to edit will be his name, Bio and his image link. 

You can see the above image, I have added the same code again for my guest blogger Yashraj Kakkad.

Also Read: 10 Tips for Guest Poster!! What content will be 100% accepted ?? 

Common Problems You May Face

1. Author Box doesn't show after adding the code below <data:post.body/>.

When you search for <data:post.body/>  you will find it many times depending upon your template. So you have to check adding the author box code below every instance of <data:post.body/>. 

For example in iftiSEO ELICE Template it works with the first instance itself. 

2. Author Box not displayed even after adding the code below every <data:post.body/>

This thing happens if you misspell your name with the name by which you are registered as an author. Open your blogger dashboard and click on settings and go to basic settings. Make sure the Author name matches with the name that you add in the author box. See the snap below for more.

iftiSEO authors

Final Words

I hope this complete tutorial will solve your problem of adding author box in your blogs. If you still face any issue, leave a comment below and I will solve your problem. 

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