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