Honey, Blogger Shrunk my Header!

Recently many bloggers have found their Blogger Header image shrunk down or in some cases disappeared altogether. While the Blogger Team is on the case and working out a fix here is a working solution.Previously the methods used to put images in the header varied from putting a picture page element in the header to adding a picture URL in the CSS code for the header. Since Blogger introduced the

New Widgets from Blogger in Draft.

Blogger in Draft has some new widgets which you may like to try out in your blog. Blogger In Draft (http://draft.blogger.com/) is a special version of Blogger where new features are tried out before releasing them to evryone.You can add the widgets to your blog - they are fully functional - and experiment with them and give your feedback on them.........LOGIN TO BLOGGER IN DRAFTTo add the widgets

Keep Widgets AND Change Layout Template.

How can I change the Layout template of my blog and keep my widgets? This is one question which occurs frequently to any blogger. As Blogger does not offer any three column templates at present or a template with large amount of customization, many are forced to load layouts from third parties.Layout templates are different from Classic Templates which can be easily loaded without losing your

Setup OpenID Comments To Follow In Blogger.

Ever since Blogger changed it's comments system to prevent other bloggers from leaving their URL, discouraging the DOFOLLOW brigade, it was found impossible to share or pass on the Google Juice to encourage your commentators. Now that Blogger has rolled out the OpenID system it has become possible once more.........Here are the steps to follow :1. Register at https://www.myopenid.com/signup and

Put a Widget on a Specific Page or URL.

Widgets in the new Blogger are the code behind the new Page Elements. You can add Page Elements to your blog from the Page Elements subtab of the Template tab. To add widget or page elements to your blog login at Blogger.com and click on Layout link on Dashboard. Then click the Add Page Element link in the sidebar.After adding a Page Element to your blog it can be seen on all your blog pages

Moving from Sub-domain to your own Domain | Views and Reviews.

Blogger and Wordpress.com both offer free blogging platforms with one caveat : your blog is on a subdomain like http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com and http://MYBLOG.wordpress.com. This becomes a disadvantage for the serious professional blogger who would like his blog to be on http://www.MYBLOG.com.Blogger offers Custom Domains facility where you can host your blog on Google for free and only have to

Put Powerpoint and Pdf Files in Blog.

One method of putting Powerpoint presentations and Pdf files in your blog is by uploading them to a free host and putting the file links in your blog. This method does not allow you to actually display the files in your blog. Viewers can download the files and then view them on their PC.Another method uses Google Presentations where you can create your presentations and show them on your blog in

Create Second Profile for Blogs.

When you have many blogs in one account you may need to display a separate profile for some of the blogs. For professional blogs a profile showing only business information would look better. One way of doing this is to create another account and transfer your professional blogs to it.All blogs under one account share the same default Blogger Profile. To have blogs in the same account showing a

A List of NO CAN DOs in Blogger.

Blogger is a very flexible platform for blogs. You can modify the template and your blog in many different ways. Encouraged by this many Bloggers routinely ask for the extreme. They want more and more hacks to easily do many things which are not offered in the standard templates.For the idiomatically challenged :-) No can do (NCD) means that the speaker can't do whatever it is that has been asked

Make Show/hide Links for Blog Posts.

Expandable Post Summaries is a method by which you can display only a summary or a 'teaser' of your blog posts on the Main Page. Then if viewers want to read further they click a 'Read More' link to open the full post in another window. This hack enables you to display more posts on the Main Page without making it very long and slow to load. Viewers get a bird's eye view of all the posts on the

Style a Feed from Another Blog.

You can add content from another blog to your sidebar using RSS feeds. This is better than adding a Feed Widget to the blog. Using this method enables you to add a customized amount of your post also. A Feed Widget adds only post titles.A reader wants to know how to add bullet points to his feed element. This can be done by styling the Feed element.............The various areas in the Feed

Contact Me.

(If you want such a contact form for your blog get the code at Kontactr.com and paste it in Edit Html tab of Post Editor and publish post.)Your Name : Your Email : Subject : Message : Image (case-sensitive):

Add Post Title to Read More Expandable Post Summaries.

A reader has asked "Instead of using READ MORE! after the summary, how to change it to Read More On "Post Title"? ". He wants to incorporate the Post Title in the Expandable Post Summaries Blogger Hack..............The expandable post summaries hack is one of the most popular Blogger hacks as it reduces the length of the Main Page. It also provides a 'teaser' summary of your posts which the

Backlinks With Bob and Alice!

When you open a single post in any blog on Blogger you will find at the bottom two sentences which may mystify you. See picture below :Click on picture to enlarge it. The first sentence is : "Links to this Post". The second is a link which may follow it closely : "Create a Link".So you say to yourself "OK! Let's create a link!" and you click on the "Create a Link" link. Instantly a popup window

How to Hide Blog Title, Description.

Your blog title and description is very important for search optimization. Search engines when indexing your blog use the title and description tags. Hence these are indispensable fields.However sometimes you may require to hide your Blog Title and description. The new option to upload images to Blogger Header gives you one option to do this while uploading an image to your header. If you are

Increase search rank in Country specific Google Search.

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Better geographic choices for webmasters now gives your blog the chance to appear in country-specific Google search results. For instance if you have a blog in Russian you would want it to appear in the search results when viewers search Google.ru. If you have a blog in Hindi you would like it to appear in Google.in searches.To do this go to Google

Transparent Background for Blogs.

You can put a picture as a background for your blog. After doing that you can make your blog transparent so that the picture shows through it.........PICTURE BACKGROUND FOR BLOGSThe first step is to find or create the picture you wish to put up as the background. You can create a small picture in any graphics program. It should be small ( around 96x96 pixels would do) and 'tileable'. This means

Header Picture to Left, Title Description to Right in Header.

Ever since Blogger introduced uploading of pictures to the header through the Header Page element bloggers have been struggling with the arrangement of the picture in the header. In the upload dialog box Blogger gives the option of arranging the picture behind the Title and Description or in front of it.However after the picture has uploaded there is a problem in centering it. One solution is

Prevent Google Analytics Tracking Your Visits.

Blogger does not have an inbuilt visitor tracking software. Hence bloggers are forced to install some other like Statcounter or Google Analytics.You can prevent your visits being tracked by Statcounter by checking that option during the configuring code process before pasting it in your template. For Google Analytics the process is slightly more complicated..........DYNAMIC IP ADDRESSAn IP

The Rounders Three Column Template Mod.

Many bloggers have been hampered by the absence of three column templates in the Official Blogger stables. They feel that the two column templates fail to exploit the wide screen resolutions on today's monitors. One solution is to increase the width of the blog. However, merely increasing the width does not provide space for additional widgets or advertisements which can be done by using a

Read Multiple Blogs in One Go with OPML.

Many new bloggers are puzzled about blog feeds and how to subscribe to them. In the new layout templates Blogger has provided a default "Subscribe to Posts Atom" link at the bottom of the Main Page. This is not ideal as a better place would be to place a prominent Feed Icon at the top of your sidebar as in this blog.To subscribe to the feed of this blog click the big orange icon at the top of the

Add Blogger Play, in Gadget Form to Blog.

Many bloggers have enjoyed Blogger Play which shows recently uploaded photographs to public Blogger blogs. It was introduced last month and viewers could enjoy seeing pictures that were being uploaded in real time.Now you can add this as a Google Gadget to your blog :You can also add it to your iGoogle Home Page by clicking on the button below :To add it to your blog click on the link below :You

Is China Blocking your Blog grrr?

Is China blocking your blog? Many governments block websites and particularly blogs as they frequently contain material that they do no wish their people to see.How to find out if your blog is blocked? What are the methods to read a blocked blog........To find out if your blog is blocked just install this Google Gadget :Click the + Google button at the bottom left corner to add it to your blog.

4 Strategies for Successful Blogs.

Having read the blogs of many successful bloggers I have tried to analyze what are the strategies they follow to take their blog to the top of the blogosphere. What makes the A-list bloggers tick? What are the characteristics which make the successful blog stand out?I have classified the strategies followed by highly effective bloggers under four main types..............CREATE A BLOGThe first

Cool Blue Web 2.0 Fluid Template for Blogger.

Here is the Cool Blue Web 2.0 Template for Blogger. The main features of this are :1. Widget Ready.2. Layout Template.3. Rounded Corners for columns Header and Footer.4. Fluid Width for any resolution.5. Graphics provided in WinZip file. Create an account at Googlepages or Photobucket. Upload images there and copy their link and paste it instead of these links in the template :div.rounded

Fluid Width Three Column Blog Template.

Many bloggers have been asking for a three column template. So I brushed up on my XML and XHTML and made a fluid width three column template.A fluid width template is one which fits all screen resolutions without breaking. The columns expand and contract as the window is resized. You can test it out by going to The Fluid Width Three Column Blog and then type this in address bar of the browser

Google Docs Presentations In Blog.

Google has introduced presentations feature in it's Google Docs and Spreadsheets package. Now you need not use other methods of putting presentation in your blog. You can organize, share, present, and collaborate on presentations, using your web browser. You can publish them and send the URL to friends. I was able to create a presentation in a jiffy and................though at the moment there

Put Streaming Audio In Blog.

Streaming Audio or Streaming Video, both also called as Streaming Media is multimedia that is continuously received by, and normally displayed to, the end-user while it is being delivered by the provider.It is a method of transmitting files so that a part of the file starts playing in your Media Player while the rest of the file is being received. The file is not saved to your disk or PC. Part

Checklist for Blogger Login Problems.

Many readers have commented that this blog is getting more difficult to understand so I am experimenting with a new type of post which tackles problems one step at a time to simplify matters.For this I have chosen the Blogger login problems which seem to be mired in confusion, in an effort to simplify it. Do let me know in your comments if I have succeeded.......This is a checklist for anyone

Count Your Blog Feed Subscribers.

Google Webmaster Tools has now introduced a count of your feed subscribers : Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Subscriber stats and more.Previously if you needed to count how many subscribers you had you needed to channel your feed through Feedburner. At present only a count is available and only of those subscribers using Google services like Google Reader, iGoogle and Orkut.The interface

Adsense, Amazon Within Blog Posts.

Ever since the debut of the New version of Blogger with the Layout Template, bloggers have been struggling to find ways of inserting Google Adsense and or Amazon Advertisements within blog posts.The difficulty arose from the fact that most of the advertisements use Javascript code which needs to be pasted within the Blog Posts. In the New Blogger Layouts template Html/Javascript Page Elements

Monetize Your Google Gadget.

Inspired by the response to Increase Traffic | Create a Google Gadget ( Topping the popularity chart on this blog for the last month ) I researched methods to add advertisements to Google Gadgets.Here is the method by which you can add any type of advertisement to your Google Gadget. Since you can put a Google Gadget within a post ( in contrast to Blogger Widgets ) this method also allows you to

Link To My Blog Google Gadget.

A reader requested me to convert the "Link to My Blog" Blogger Widget into a Google Gadget. You can create a similar Google Gadget for your blog and release it into the Google Gadget directory.Also you can create one for your blog and install it in the sidebar. If readers want to link to your blog they do not have to copy and paste any code. It is a two mouse click operation to link to your blog

Add Your Blog To Facebook.

Facebook is a social networking website. Previously it was used by students of Universities to network. The name of the site derives from paper facebooks showing members of the campus community that US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff.This year they launched the Facebook platform allowing developers to create little applications which you can add to

How To Change Blog Owner?

Blogger has enabled you to change the owner or Administrator for your blog. You can also use this method to transfer a blog to another Gmail Account.This is useful when you want to separate your public and private blogs. Then your private profile will not show on your public blog and vice-versa. The profile problem can also be solved by deleting the profile widget and putting in a HTML

Tips on Using Google Reader with Site Feeds.

As the World Wide Web exploded with millions of sites it became tedious to surf to each site especially in the age of Dial-Up. Hence Site Feeds were invented to push content to your desktop. Instead of using a browser to fetch each site content individually viewers subscribed to Posts Atom as in Blogger Blogs and read all the content in a Feed reader.Google Reader is an online feed reader or

Make Money with Inline Adsense for Bloggers!

Blogger has now made it possible for you to make even more money! You can now add Inline Adsense advertisements between your blog posts.As we have seen before you can add Adsense Ads. by selecting the Adsense Widget when adding widgets to your blog. If you want to include channel information also copy and paste the Adsense code into a Html Page Element.Now with this method (Inside AdSense: Get

Hot Tips on Blogger Profiles.

Blogger has recently enabled links on your Profile Page to enable you to find other bloggers who share the same interest as you :Blogger Buzz: Browse Profiles! Find new blogs to read!.Here are some hot tips and tricks on making your Blogger Profile work for you........EDITING THE BLOGGER PROFILETo edit the Blogger profile logon at Blogger and click 'Edit Profile' link on the Blogger Dashboard.

50 Types of Links for Bloggers and How to Make Them.

Links, Links and More Links! Successful Blogging is all about creating links and getting linked to.A link is a connection from one Web resource to another. It consists of a "source" anchor and points to the "destination" anchor, which may be any Web resource (e.g., an image, a videoclip, a sound bite, a program, an HTML document, an element within an HTML document, etc.).Here are the 50 types of

Direct Upload Video to Blogs.

Blogger has now enabled Direct Video Uploading to your blogs. There is now no need to first upload video to Youtube and all the hassles of pasting the Embed code in your blog post.You can directly upload videos without leaving your Post Editor in Blogger and the videos are uploaded to Google Video and the code placed in your blog post automatically............This is a birthday present from

Easily Make Google Gadgets without Coding!

For those of you who wish to create Google Gadgets for Blog Publicity without having to resort to any coding at all Google has provided a simple point and click interface. You can create several types of Google Gadgets here :1. Framed Photo. : Share your photos.2. GoogleGram : Daily Message of Love.3. Daily Me : Share your day's quotes, links, and ideas with everyone in your life.4. Free

Free Publicity for Blogs via Google Gadgets.

Google Gadgets can be used to create Free Publicity for your blogs. To do this create Google Gadgets and submit them to the Google Directory and publicize them on your blog.You can create four types of Google Gadgets to publicize your blog :1. Put an application in a Gadget which provides functionality to the viewer.2. Put your blog feed in a Gadget.3. Put your blog link and screenshot with

Here is a Google Gadget which provides a fresh tip on Blogging every time your web page is refreshed. You can install this on your page at Googlepages, on any blog or website, on your personalized iGoogle page and on your Google Desktop sidebar. The code for the gadget is in the left column and the gadget in the right column.

Interchanging Templates and Layouts in Blogger.

The advent of the new version of Blogger introduced the term Layout instead of Template for the new blogs. If you had started a blog in the old Blogger then you had a template. The new version of Blogger migrated your blog while retaining the old template. You then had the option to upgrade to the new layouts or keep to the old template.The new Layouts are responsible for the new features in

Put a Digg Widget in your Blog.

You can now put the latest Digg news in your blog. Digg has launched a widget which you can add in your blog. You can customize it to fit the look of your blog and configure it to display whatever you want to show from Digg............So what are widgets you ask? Widgets are portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without

Count Number of Yahoo Backlinks to Any Site.

The number of backlinks to your site or blog is an important measure of the importance of your site. Google uses the number and quality of backlinks to give a Page Rank to your site. However the number of backlinks counted by Google are not updated frequently. To have a more frequent measure of your site's performance you can count the number of Yahoo backlinks to your blog or any site. First it

Blogger Introduces New Features.

Ever since Beta Blogger debuted last year and then gradually shed off the beta tag, new features have quietly been intruding into the Blogger interface and making their presence felt.After Google took over Feedburner it was only a matter of time before it connected to Blogger and now you can redirect your Blogger feeds there. Then there is the new Autosave feature below the post editor, the

Template or Layout Which is Better?

There are many HTML templates for Classic Blogger on the Internet which the newbie blogger comes across while searching for new templates. Unfortunately these are incompatible with the new Blogger layout templates and will give error when pasted in the template box.This causes much confusion even for experienced bloggers who are used to switching their blog templates in the blink of an eye. Hence

Recent Comments Widget for Blogger.

There are many benefits to having the latest comments on your blog displayed on your main page. In Blogger comments are only seen on post pages so visitors coming to your home page cannot see them unless they click on the small "COMMENTS" link after every post. If you include a Recent Comments section in your sidebar or your posts column then visitors can immediately read them and hopefully

Podcast in Blogger.

Here is a very easy method to deliver your podcasts through Blogger feeds. There is no coding required. You will have to switch your blog feeds to full to take advantage of this method. Blogger does not allow you to edit your feeds but with Feedburner Smartcast you can overcome this difficulty............A Podcast is a feed containing a audio/video/pdf file which you have published in your blog

Rounded Corner Headers for Blogger.

Here is the new header made from Cornershop utilizing rounded corner graphics CSS and HTML. See picture below:You can make your own corners complete with your choice of colors for the background and size. This will give a distinctive header to your blog which will stay in the visitor's memory and hence increase brand recall.............To design your own header visit the Cornershop site and

Launch a Minisite | Estore in Blogger.

A Minisite is a small/minimum site with one or only a few pages. It maybe a part of a bigger site or a standalone site by itself. It has a narrow subject focus and is used to target a product or a population segment commonly known as a niche.A blog on the other hand is a site whose content is constantly updated. Here I have modified the blogger template so as to provide a static HTML frontpage

Increase Page Rank | Viral Icons.

Here is another viral idea to increase your Page Rank. Viral link building is a technique to increase backlinks to your site at an exponential rate thus increasing your blog Page Rank. This in turn will increase traffic to your blog.........This scheme has been introduced by Ilker Yoldas from The Thinking Blog. He uses the ALT tags inside image links to increase page relevance. The keywords

10 Quick Tips for Smarter Blogging.

Here are some tips and tricks I have amassed during my blogging forays. Many of them are too small to make a single post by themselves so I have put them all together in this post. I will also be adding to them as I discover new ones so make sure to bookmark this page. Also do not be surprised if you get this post repeatedly in your feed as Blogger sends out a new feed every time a post is

Email Subscription Box and Buttons.

Many bloggers want to know how to have the 'Subscribe to Blog Updates' by Email box and the big orange 'Subscribe to Blog Feed' buttons in their blog. Putting out blog feeds and having a prominent Email subscribe box/buttons are two effective ways to increase traffic to your blog.Blogger already has a Subscribe to Posts link at the bottom of each post...........However for best results you should

Everything About Labels in Blogger.

I think everyone knows by now that in the New Blogger Label is the new Category. Labels are used to tag posts so that all posts with one label can be brought up immediately for viewing. Labels can also be used to increase traffic to your blog as they double up as Technorati tags. However, many are still confused how to apply or delete labels from posts................APPLY LABELSLabels are

Timestamp under the Date and Other Hacks.

A reader wanted to put the timestamp of the post under the date. He was disturbed by the separation between date and time. Usually the timestamp is at the end of the post and the date above the post title. Here is the hack along with a list of all my Blogger Hacks................TIMESTAMP UNDER POST DATELogin to Dashboard and click on Layout. This will bring up the Page Elements subtab under

Google's Supplemental Index - Reduce Labels or Sink!

When you add your blog to Google it sends it's spiders to index your blog. The spiders index all the pages in your blog and arrange them into a Main Index and a Supplemental Index. You should take all steps possible to prevent your pages from landing into the Supplemental Index.............When people search using Google it returns the results found in the Main Index. If it does not find any

Blog and Ping to Attract the Search Spiders.

A Blog is a special type of website which has constantly updated content. Thus blogs are marked out by the search engines to be frequently crawled and indexed. Any links within blogs are also followed by the search spiders to their destination sites which are also indexed. Both these properties are made use of in the Blog and Ping technique to get websites indexed fast.............After you

Blog Backlinks Chart in Technorati.

Backlinks are a measure of the importance of your blog. These are links pointing to your blog or to your posts from other sites/blogs. Google considers them so important that they form the backbone of the Page Rank algorithm. Technorati also counts the number of backlinks to your blog in the last six months when calculating the Blog Authority. Here is a method to see a chart of your backlinks....

Where is Site Traffic Coming From?

There are some 70 million blogs according to Technorati and 120,000 are being created everyday. The probability of anyone finding your blog in this number is somewhat like finding the eye of a needle in a haystack! You have to know from where your visitors are coming. Once you know the source of your traffic you can work on increasing it. This is where you can take the help of Google Analytics...

Behold the New Google Analytics V2!

Google Analytics, the free website statistics analyzer from Google, has undergone a sea change and emerged in a new avatar! Google Analytics has everything it takes to show how your site is performing and where your traffic is coming from. Now it has been upgraded to Version 2 with many more features...........NEW INTERFACEGoogle Analytics V2 has a new interface which is more simpler and bolder

The Ultimate Blogger Wordpress Comparison Guide.

Beginners to blogging are attracted to the two platforms : Blogger and Wordpress as both are free. They are however confused as to which one to choose? To help them I have compiled a feature by feature comparison of the two blogging platforms. This is not to decide which is superior but to provide a comparison so that bloggers with different needs may choose between them............BLOGGER V/S

Picture In Blogger Header | Update.

Blogger has now introduced an easier way to put a picture in the Blog Header. Previously you had to either put in an image widget inside the header or put the link to the picture as a background property in the CSS for the header-wrapper. This required more manipulation of the template at the coding level. Instead now you can do this in the graphical interface of the Blogger Layouts............

Add Blog to Social Bookmark Sites and Increase Traffic.

If you wish to increase traffic to your blog you should add your blog and or specific posts within your blog to social bookmark sites. You should put social bookmark site icons below all your posts to enable your visitors to add your posts instantly to them. You can add one social bookmark instead of many to avoid the clutter..........Before adding this you may want to monitor your traffic to see

Put Google Video In Your Blog.

In the last post we saw how to put a YouTube Video Playlist in your blog. We have already seen how to put a YouTube Video in your blog. Today we will look at how to put a Google Video in your blog post...........First you will have to register and get a Google account. Then go over to Google Videos and if you want upload your videos by clicking on the Upload link at the top. If you want to put in

Put YouTube Video Playlist in Blog.

You can put a YouTube video in your blog posts. You can also use Google Video in your blog posts. Recently Blogger introduced two new Page Elements - the Newsreel and the Video Bar. Today we will see how to put a YouTube Video Playlist in your blog post.........CREATE A VIDEO PLAYLISTFirst you will have to create a video playlist. To do this login to your YouTube account. Then if you have your

Tips to Speedup Blog Loading Time.

Your blog should load fast even on dial up connections or you will lose traffic. Test your blog speed at Speedtester. Just copy and paste your blog URL in the box and type the letters and click the button 'Check'. You will get the time taken for your blog to load in different connections. See picture below : Click image to see bigger viewHere are some tips to increase your blog speed............

How To Create New Pages In Blogger?

Newcomers to Blogger are confused as how to create new pages in Blogger. In a general website every page has a new link/URL. In Blogger however you do not create new pages. Instead you create new posts. A blog is an online diary where every post is dated with the date of it's creation and a timestamp. The date is at the top of the post and the timestamp at the bottom. If you create several posts

Technorati Authority and Top Tags Widgets.

Technorati has introduced a new index for blogs : Authority. Previously Technorati ranking was based on the number of incoming links from other blogs. The interface of the home page at Technorati has also been changed. Probably due to the immensely popular 'You fave me I fave you' meme going round in the blogosphere now the 'Favorited by' link is no longer prominently displayed on the home page.

How To Increase Google SearchRank?

Google Page Rank is the star and everyone talks about how to increase it. However it is updated at long intervals of three to four months or even later. What is more practical is for the site to come first in the results page returned by Google to queries from viewers. When your site/blog comes up in the first few results then there is a rapid rise in traffic to your site..........WHAT IS SEARCH

Google and Technorati PageRanks Compared.

Google Page Rank and Technorati Rank of a web page are the two main indexes used to judge web page quality. Another index is Alexa Rank. We have already seen the methods used to increase Google Page Rank. We have also seen the importance of Technorati Rankings for blogs. It is essential to compare the two ranking systems to understand how they work and what are their advantages and disadvantages

How To Increase Google PageRank?

Google Page Rank is a quantitative measurement by Google of the importance of a website. Google uses a complex equation to arrive at a value for the rank of a page. The higher the rank the better your site is visible among the billions of sites out there and better are chances of people finding your site..............WHAT IS GOOGLE PAGE RANK?Google Page Rank is a number between 1 to 10 given to

Tips to Customize Blogger Template.

Many bloggers are confused how to start customizing the template. Everyone wants their blog to look different from the rest but do not know the different sections of a web page and how they relate to the code. I have already posted on some practical aspects of hacking the template. Here are some tips on how to delineate the various parts of the template.........I have already described the

How To Construct Blog Links?

This is a question which has always plagued the Newbie. They see all these beautiful links all over the Internet and clicking on any of them magically brings up yet another beautiful eye-candy page. However there is no page with instructions on how to construct these links. Here are some tips and tricks on constructing optimized links in your blog.........WHAT IS A LINK?A Link on a web page is

The Importance of Technorati Rank for Blogs.

Technorati is a search engine specialized for Blogs. It has developed a ranking system for blogs and presently the Blogosphere is rocking with Technorati Exchange Schemes, You-Fave-Me-I-Fave-You, The Z-List and the Technorati Train. All these are schemes designed to increase your Technorati Rank.....WHAT IS TECHNORATI RANK?Technorati Rank is a number assigned to your blog based on the number of

Remove Nofollow on Blogger Backlinks.

The No-No Follow Movement has gained quite a momentum. We have already seen how to remove it from the Comments. Today we will go after the second No-Follow tag in the new Blogger Layout Templates and remove it..........This no=follow tag is present in the code for your Backlinks. Blogger does not incorporate Trackbacks per se. Instead Blogger has Backlinks.Blogger has the Backlinks feature

Uploading Pictures To Blogs.

Many new users are confused about how to upload pictures to Blogger. There are three places in your blog where you may need pictures. One is in the template where you put pictures which can be seen from anywhere in the blog. You can put them in the header, in the background or in the blog columns. You can also make them into clickable links. The second place is in your profile. The third place

Find Most Popular Blog Posts.

If you have been blogging for some time now and have installed Google Analytics in your blog you can find out which of your blog posts attracts most visitors. You can also do this with Statcounter but it offers a limited log size. To get the full log you have to upgrade to premium version. With Google Analytics you get all information free.............It is important to know which posts are

How to check your Backlinks?

Backlinks are links on other websites pointing to your blog/site. The number of backlinks are taken into account when calculating the Page Rank for your site/blog. Higher your Page Rank, higher is your site position in the Search Results returned by Google. This is important because if your blog/site is listed in the first few pages of the results returned by search engines then it has a

Add Icon to Post Titles.

Would you like to add a small graphic or icon to your post titles? Some members of Google Groups asked for this feature and here it is......1. CREATE A GRAPHICFirst step is to create a graphic either in an image editor or in an online image generator such as cooltext.com. Save it to your hard disk and upload it to a freehost. Then copy down its link/URL.2. CREATING THE IMAGE CODEThe image code is

Increase Traffic With Technorati Favorites.

UPDATE 3 OCt 2008Technorati now bars you from adding more than 200 Favorites :Sorry, at the moment we do not support more than 200 favorites per user. This feature is coming soon. If you wish to add this url please delete another favorite and try again or check back later. Those who wish me to add their blog as favorite will have to wait as I do not wish to delete anyone. Hope Technorati is not

5 Tips on Hindi Transliteration.

Blogger has now introduced Hindi transliteration : Blogger Buzz: Now you can blog in Hindi which means you can now blog in Hindi! You can now use Hindi to express your thoughts, experiences etc. Here are some tips for blogging in Hindi........1. Transliteration is NOT translation. Just type the Hindi words as you pronounce them and see them automagically appear in Devanagari. For example

Many Headers In One Blog.

Would you like your blog to show more than one header? Perhaps you want to show off your creativity? Maybe you are bored with having only one header? Here is a solution tried and tested in Firefox browser which can show as many headers as you want simply by hovering the mouse over some buttons..............I found this trick here and adapted it to suit the new layouts template but it can be

Increase Traffic with External Content.

This is the second post in my series on How to Attract Traffic. In the first post we saw how to attract traffic using attractive content. Today we will see how to use online content outside our blog to attract traffic...........CREATING EXTERNAL ONLINE CONTENT TO INCREASE TRAFFIC1. Launch your site/blog with a press release. A Press release generates market awareness by distributing news

Customizing your Blog Posts Widget.

Many bloggers would like to customize their Blog Posts so that they appear differently in their blogs. Some would like to have the "Posted By" message to appear below the post title, others do not want "Showing __ posts" message to appear on clicking one of the labels. To customize the Blog Posts it is essential to understand its code and how we can modify it............Some of the Blog Posts

Feedburner Chicklet and Headline Animator.

You can modify the feedburner chicklet to display the colors you want in your blog. You can also tweak the code to change the text displayed. You can display the Headline Animator as your Blog Header. You will then have your header display the rotating headlines of your posts displayed in the blog header..........MODIFYING THE FEEDBURNER CHICKLETFirst you will have to register at Feedburner

Attract Traffic with Attractive Content.

You have a blog but no traffic! Here are some tips on how to present your content attractively enough so that it acts as a traffic-magnet. This is the first in my How to Attract Traffic series focusing on Blog Content. It has truly been said that Content is King and to attract viewers it has to be presented in a royal fashion........Here are my tips on how best to present or dress up your blog

Trackbacks in New Blogger.

Trackbacks are not implemented by Blogger which uses backlinks instead. See Pinging Simplified. Backlinks appear beneath your blog posts when someone mentions the permalink of your post on their blog. Permalinks are permanent links/URLs of your posts. For more information on permalinks see Linking to Another Article. To implement Trackbacks in Blogger you have to use another tool..........If

Removing Title Not Recommended But Here Is The How To.

Many bloggers wish to remove the title header on their blogs because it is interfering with their customized headers. Removing the title is not recommended because search engines use it to index your blog but there is a workaround you can employ.........REMOVING THE BLOG TITLELogin to dashboard and click on Layouts for the blog you wish to remove the title of. Click on Edit Html subtab of

Enable Search for Blog Pictures.

You have posted pictures in your blog, but they cannot be found via Google Image Search. Perhaps you have a photoblog and would like for people to find your blog by searching for your photos.......Google offers enhanced search for images contained in your site, including advanced labeling techniques for images hosted by Google. If you want the images in your blog to be search enabled Google

Stronger Passwords or Cardspace for Bloggers?

More and more blogs are being taken over by spammers everyday. Hence it will pay to make stronger passwords to protect your account. Here are some tips on how to make stronger passwords as well as a new solution debuting with Windows Vista promising to do away with passwords altogether......No password is unbreakable just like no lock is. The strongest passwords are strong because it takes a

Blog Review Batch A.

I have decided to do the Blog Reviews in batches since there are so many on the waiting list that if I do one per post it will just swell my archives list. So here goes..........The first blog today is that of Atle Grimsby from Utsira, Norway. The title is Utsira as Way of Life. The template is a simple one and the blog is about blogging life on the photogenic island named Utsira in Rogaland

The Table of Contents Template.

A reader asked to have a three column template with a Table of Contents at the top. So I decided to make it and take you, my dear readers, along with me as I do so. Something like "The Making of a template.....". So here we go.........1. CREATE A BLOGAs I have said previously in Practical Approach to Hacking Templates, it is always best to start of with one of the Blogger Templates. So we

Blog Review of beautiful.

[b][e][a][u[t][i][f][u][l] is a shopping blog but you would never guess it from the title or the link..........The blog has a very interesting design. It is clear that the author has spent a long time over this. The blog is existing for nearly four years and has a strong reader base. I like the scrolling effect of the central column and the very individual header. I feel if the title had been

Blog Review NEW YORK MUHTARI.

This is a photo blog and a poetry blog and a tourist blog on NewYork........This is also a bilingual blog in English and Turkish. The design is two column one with a header suggesting the tourist angle. The author is apparently an experienced traveler judging from the number of places visited by her which have been posted in the sidebar.Because of the alternate English and Turkish translations

Blog Review Inspiration Lane.

Inspiration Lane is a fairly young blog but with an innovative concept. It is an online, free, teacher-made classroom magazine for ESOL students, like a "Weekly Reader" -- but in an updated, modern, online format......The structure of the blog is simple with one of the standard Blogger templates. I like the way "Quote of the Day", "This Day in History" and "Article of the Day" are all placed at

Blog Review Ja Kel Daily Dot Com.

Today we kick off the reviews with this wonderful blog offering you great advice in how to make money on Ja Kel Daily Dot Com. It is a two column blog...........with tabs on the top to access Home, Archives, Top Posts etc. In the sidebar there are links of Recent Comments and lists of the Top Commentators. It is full of posts the popular ones of which you can access by clicking the Top Posts

List Count Your Bloglines Feed Subscribers.

Do you want to find how many people read your blog feed through Bloglines? Blogger does not have a method of telling you how any people read your blog feeds. For more information on Blog feeds see What is Subscribe to Posts. If you channel your feeds through Feedburner as shown in Feedburner and Blog feeds you can find out by going to your feedburner account but that does not give you the

Remove Nofollow Attribute on Comments.

All Blogger templates have the Nofollow attribute built into their comments. This is done to discourage comment spam. However you can, especially if you are a new blogger, encourage people to comment on your blog by removing this attribute. The Nofollow attribute instructs the search spiders not to follow the link thus preventing the spread of "Google Juice"...........You can encourage people

Alexa Page Rank for Bloggers.

Alexa is a website which calculates the traffic your site receives from the number of people who visit it with the Alexa Toolbar installed. The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users. Advertisers use it to determine your site's worth......Hence if you are looking to

Increase Blog Traffic With Z-List.

You have started a blog and added content. You have submitted blog to the search engines. You have added counters to count your blog traffic. However you are not satisfied with the amount of visitors. Need to increase traffic to your blog and links try the Z-List.........The Z-List is a concept started in December 2006 by Mack Collier from A Viral Garden as a meme. A meme is a "unit of

8 Tips To Prevent Spam Blog Status.

Has your blog been listed as a Spam Blog? Is your access to blog been blocked because your blog was identified as a spam blog? Have the Blogger spam robots tagged your blog as a spammer? Here are some ways to prevent being labeled as a spammer.......1. TIME MATTERSDo not post lots of posts in a short time spam. Also do not post at exact time intervals like say every 2 hours and 4 minutes..

Blog Review John Chow Dot Com Blog.

John Chow Dot Com blog is the famous blog by John Chow who calls his site The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul. You have to be a regular reader of this blog if you aim to make serious money on the Internet...........The design is minimalist with a two column layout. There is absolutely no clutter and with only ten posts on the main page it loads fast. The five important sections can

Blog Review Sylvia Hubbard Stories Blog.

Sylvia Hubbard's Stories Blog completes two years of existence this June 2007. This is the blog of a professional author with many books to her credit. It is a Novelette Blog with free stories posted on it...........This blog serves the prime function of promoting the author's works. Since she is a professional author she has not been able to find time to promote her blog though she has plenty

Blog Review Me Myself and Me Blog.

Me, Myself and Me is the blog of Mainak Mondal, a software engineering professional living in Mumbai the urbs prima of India. As the blog title suggests this is all about the author's life and friends and thus supports the true meaning of the blog as an online diary.........There is no attempt at any fancy heading or decoration. The author gets straight down to the nitty gritty of his life.

Blog Review Paula Mooney Blog.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls today we kick of our Blog Reviews section (Drum-Roll Please) by introducing you to this whopper-of-a-site. Paula Mooney is a prolific writer who has been blogging on this site http://paulamooney.blogspot.com/index.html for the last one and a quarter year. She made 188 posts last year and this year is touching almost a century in the first three months. This

Picasa Web Albums for Bloggers.

Have you uploaded lots of pictures to your Blog and now are worrying about how much space you have left in your quota? Worry no more for Google has provided the solution...........You want to know how many MB of disk space your Blog pictures occupy? You want to see all the pictures in your blog in one space? You want to see a slideshow of all your blog pictures? You want to know how any

Get Your Blog Reviewed.

Do you want a review for your blog? This is an excellent way of promoting your blog. Submit your blog for reviewing right away. Your review will appear depending on the number of blogs awaiting review.......Before submitting blog for review kindly link to us by clicking on the LINK TO THIS SITE button in the right sidebar of this blog above the MEMBER section. UPDATE 15 APRIL 2007I am closing

Help Technorati Index Your Posts.

In Technorati for Bloggers I have described how to claim your blog at Technorati. Technorati is a specialized search engine for blogs. It indexes some 55 million blogs. There are two techniques to help Technorati index your blog......POST TITLESTechnorati breaks up your weblog's home page into smaller sections such as posts and sidebars. You can help Technorati's spiders properly identify a

How Juicy is Your Blog?

You have been blogging for some time now. As shown in Submit Site you have submitted blog to search engines. You have also pinged the after every post as directed in Pinging Simplified. Your blog has become fatter and fatter with all that content, but is it juicy enough? Has it ripened? Where does your blog stand alongside its peers? Well, here is a site which tells how much 'juice' your

Google Talk Gadget for Bloggers.

Now you can add the Google Talk gadget to your blog. With Google Talk you will get Instant messaging, all of your Gmail contacts, video previews in chat and photo previews in chat........Google Talk is the instant messenger for Google. With Google Talk you can see who is online and send instant messages to them fro your blog. There is no need to install any software. You just have to copy and

Multi-Pinging Tools Compared.

Everytime you make a post to your blog or update it you have to ping the search engines to notify them of the changes you have made. I have dealt with this in an earlier post : Pinging Simplified. There are some sites which can ping multiple engines for you in one click. Here I have compared several such tools......There are several sites where you can submit your blog url and click the Ping

Blog Directory Submissions.

You have submitted your blog to the search engines. However, there is a school of thought which holds Blog Directories to be as important as Search Engines. These are collections of Blogs grouped according to subject. They are regularly crawled by the search engines. It pays to submit your blog URL to them...........There are two types of submissions : paid and free. Depending on your budget

Add Header to Dots Template.

The Dots Template is the only one of two in the Blogger Collection which does not have a header at the top. It has a header placed at the top of the sidebar. The other one is the Simple II Template which is the last in the choices list. Here I have added a header at the top and removed the original one at the top of the sidebar.......First login to Dashboard and click on Layouts. This will

Statcounter for New Blogger.

Statcounter is a free web tracker, highly configurable hit counter with real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!This post describes how to modify the statcounter code so that it works in the New Blogger layouts templates.......GET STATCOUNTER CODEGo to the statcounter

Is Your Blog Worth More Than Anna Nicole Smith?

Yes! Is Your Blog Worth More Than Anna Nicole Smith? Wouldn't you like to know? Well there is a way to find out...First you will have to head over to Technorati.com and claim your blog there as shown in Technorati in Beta Blogger. Once you claim your blog click here.The author has created a applet using Technorati's API which computes and displays your blog's worth using the same link to

To WWW or Not To WWW?

To WWW or Not To WWW is the question?When you create a blog in Blogger you are given a URL/link/blog address which looks like : http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.comWouldn't you like a more swankier address like : www.YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.comHere the root domain is blogspot.com. Both these above URLs are the same but technically they are different. Google can read your WWW and

TOP 10 SEO TIPS FOR BLOGS

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the technique of altering your blog so that it gets ranked in the top results of a search engine once a relevant search is undertaken. This being the HUNDREDTH POST of this blog I thought of doing a top-to-bottom SEO of my blog and in the process involve my readers also in optimizing their blogs. So login to your Dashboard and follow me on this comprehensive

Backup Widgets Template Data.

Widgets are the modules which make up the New Blogger Template. For more information see What are Widgets. However the data they carry to and from your blog displayed in browser to the Blogger database is kept separate. When you backup the template this data is not backed up. When you copy widget code to another blog the data is not transferred along with it. If you upload a template with

Remove Adware System Doctor.

I have received some comments from viewers of this blog that on opening this blog in browser there is a pop-up advising them to install System Doctor on their PCs as it has some malware. I was asked whether I was sponsoring it!! System Doctor is adware which gets installed without your knowledge in the Registry of your Windows installation......It infects your computer by trojan horses or by

Blog Redirection.

Lots of blogs are being redirected to other sites to attract traffic. These blogs usually have a title designed to attract attention and when viewers click on the blog link they are redirected to other sites.....For example one blog was named "A Hot Girl's Page..." and was redirected to "Nancy Live on Cam". I was interested in this phenomenon and decided to investigate how it was done. I

Change EMail Post Icon.

At the bottom of each post there are standard EMail Post icon which looks like an envelope. You can make this stand out by adding an animated icon instead of the standard icon. This will attract the viewer's attention and prompt him/her to email your post to any of their friends, thus attracting more viewers to your blog.........Your blog will also stand out more prominently in viewer memory

Clickable Headers for New Blogger.

Ye Olde Blogger had clickable headers which enabled viewers to return to the main page simply by clicking on the headers on any of the post pages. The New Blogger seems to have done away with this function by substituting navigation links at the bottom of each post. However the clickable header can be implemented in......two different ways in the New Blogger. You can have a title which is

Thumbnail Albums for Blogger.

Thumbnail albums can be created in Blogger using software or by hardcoding them in the Edit Html tab of the post Editor. It is preferable to do the latter as it gives you better control besides saving on the cost of third party software.....The first step is to upload your image to a freehost like Googlepages. Do not upload to Blogger as it resizes your image to arbitrary sizes. After

Upload Files To Blogger.

There are many inquiries regarding the types and sizes of files which you can upload to Blogger. There are some limits and I have tried to list all here......TYPES OF FILESYou can only upload image files to your Blogger blog. These can only be uploaded through your blog posts. To do this Login to Dashboard and click on "+New Post". The Post Editor will open. In the top frame of the Post

Expandable Post Summaries

Expandable Post Summaries is the method by which each blog post consists of a short paragraph of introduction followed by a 'Read More' link. This enables the reader to get a small introduction to each post on the main page. He can then click the Read More link if he gets sufficiently interested........Many bloggers have reported confusion when they tried to follow the instructions on the

Feedburner Feed Subscribe Icon Below Each Post.

It is not enough just to have a blog feed and set the settings to short or full. You have to publicize it so that your readers can easily subscribe to it......There are several methods of publicizing your blog feeds which I have outlined in Feedburner and Blog Feeds.. Here is another method which adds a Feed link directly below each of your blog posts. Any viewer of your blog after reading

EMail Link Below Your Posts.

You can put your email link below your posts but it will be picked up by spam bots and then your inbox will soon be full of thousands of spam mails. It will be better to follow this method of putting it.......First you will have to create an image out of your email link. For this go to :Email GeneratorORhttp://services.nexodyne.com/emailFollow the steps to make an image out of your email and

Default Metatag on Blogger.

There is a Metatag scare going around that Google is removing sites from its index because the default metatag in the template is inserting a no-follow robots directive even when the blog setting is set to be included in the listings........A little background may be in order here. In your template between the and the