Showing posts with label Blogger Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogger Tips. Show all posts

How to Enable Read More in Blogger and How to Use Image in place of Text

Without using the read more feature available in blogger your blogger home page might be too lengthy because full post articles will be displayed. Depending on your home page posts settings, it could be lengthy or way too lengthy.

Some third party blogger templates have the read more feature by default. This means that you do not need to bother yourself about the read more feature because these templates will automatically apply breaks to your posts and display only a few number of lines. Your site visitor must now click read more to read the full article; if he finds it from the home page.

How to Add Facebook Like Box and Feedburner Subscription to a Blogger Blog


One of the ways of getting traffic to your blog is through social media such as Facebook. You will however only get a substantial amount of traffic only when you have many followers. To get people to like your Facebook fan page is not that easy unless you do something to catch your viewers attention or offer something in return for a Like.

How to Add TextArea to Hold Codes Inside Blogger posts

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I actually got this idea from a number of blogs and while studying it I was able to come up with my own version of this textarea. It is mostly used in forms (contact forms) but as a blogger you can employ it in holding codes for your tutorial posts. In the past I used to differentiate my codes from the rest of the post by giving the text its own light yellow bg color, font color of green and a consolas font face.

How to Submit Your Blogger Sitemap to Google

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Sitemaps are very important for SEO because it gives the search engines the proper path to find, crawl and index your blog pages. In an earlier post I explained how to submit sitemap to bing. The procedure for giving your sitemap to google is not too different from that of Bing.
For google all you need do is to make a one-time submission based on the number of posts you have. Just like I said in the previous post, sitemaps are one of the factors for getting your blog high up in the SERPs.

Simple But Important SEO Procedures for Bloggers

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In my recent post on how to submit your blogger sitemap to bing/yahoo, I outlined some basic SEO strategies that you should do to improve your Search Engine Rank Position (SERP) and traffic. Below are the points again
  • Getting Quality backlinks
  • Writing quality content
  • Using the right keywords
  • Submitting your Sitemap to Google, Bing/Yahoo
  • Creating Videos and linking them to your blog
  • Submitting your site to Directories


Blogger Template: Download the Super Clean Blogger Template Free




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Super Clean is a free premium blogger template with 2 columns, right sidebar, gallery-styled, web 2.0 design, rounded corners, minimalist, exclusive design for Blogger, slideshow, neutral colors and posts thumbnails.

How to Install Blogger Templates

Blogger itself gives you the option to choose from a wealth of available templates but the available blogger templates are not the best. There are numerous templates available for you to download and use on your blogger blog. Installing your template in blogger is very easy. Just follow the simple steps below.

To install a blogger template, log in to blogger and go to the Design tab
Next click on the Edit HTML tab and first of all download your current template. You should so that you can easily revert back to your previous template just in case you run into problems while installing your new template.

Download White Magic Icon Pack

Presenting an excellent set of icons to use on your blog or website. If you have a blog or website that has a white theme you should get this icon set.
This is a very lovely icon set and looks milky and pretty. It is my current and preferred set of icons.
See screenshot of some of the icons and they available in PNG format.

Ping Feedburner to Update Your RSS Feed Immediately

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Most bloggers know about blog pinging and why it's important to do that regularly.
Why you should ping your blog. You should because pinging your blog notifies Blog Search Engines, Search Engines and blog directories that your blog has been updated. What you are doing is inviting the search engines to crawl and index your most recent update.

Display Google Adsense Ads on Your Blogger Blog With Mobstac

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Mobstac is an online service that provides a mobile viewing platform for your blog. The internet is now being accessed more and more by mobile devices nowadays and it is your responsibility as a blogger to ensure that the people who view your site on mobile devices have a good viewing experience when they visit your site.

Mobstac helps in rendering your site in a very mobile-friendly form and the good part is that you can integrate your Google Adsense Ads into your mobstac powered mobile blog.

Having Trouble Inserting Adsense code in Blogger Post? An alternative to Inserting Adsense in Blogger Posts

I actually ran into problems inserting Adsense code and getting it to work on my posts on Blogger. I was trying to do it the popular and common way but that did not work for me so I decided to think outside the box and I was eventually successful at getting it to work for me. Read on to see how I did it.

How to display Adsense code in your Blogger posts:
  • Log in to your Blogger account
  • Click on Design and then Edit HTML

Disqus Comment Box: How to Replace Blogger's comment box with Disqus

Blogger comes with a good comment box by default and it's okay but you can also get a better performance and functionality from other third party integration such as the one offered by Disqus.

Disqus offers the following features:

Disqus comment box - TechBase

  • Realtime comment system
Comments become more like live discussions with realtime posting and updating. By offering a faster, more intuitive experience.
  • Notification and reply system

Optimize Your Blogger Blog: Improve your title tag for better search results

By default, blogger templates are not optimized for good search engine results on the major search engines. In order to be relevant on the internet you need to be visible on the search engines and one important thing they look out for is your title tag.
Every blog or website needs traffic or else what is your website there for? you may write good content or make your blog look really good but you also need to make the big guns of the internet have a unique title tag to your blog.