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