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A List of NO CAN DOs in Blogger.
2007-11-22 11:17:00 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 More About: Blogger , List , A list
Make Show/hide Links for Blog Posts.
2007-11-16 11:04:00 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 More About: Show , Links , Blog , Make , Posts
Style a Feed from Another Blog.
2007-11-07 05:44:00 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 More About: Blog , Style
Add Post Title to Read More Expandable Post Summaries.
2007-11-07 01:56:00 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
Backlinks With Bob and Alice!
2007-11-04 11:18:00 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 More About: Backlinks , Alice
How to Hide Blog Title, Description.
2007-11-04 05:39:00 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 More About: Description , Hide
Increase search rank in Country specific Google Search.
2007-11-01 06:18:00 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 More About: Country , Search , Google Search , Rank
Transparent Background for Blogs.
2007-10-30 11:02:00 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 BLOGS The 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 More About: Blogs , Background , Transparent , Tran , Pare
Header Picture to Left, Title Description to Right in Header.
2007-10-25 14:36:00 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 More About: Picture , Left
Prevent Google Analytics Tracking Your Visits.
2007-10-24 06:44:00 Blogger does not have an inbuilt visitor tracking software. Hence bloggers are forced to install some other like Statcounter or Google Anal ytics . 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 ADDRESS An More About: Tracking
The Rounders Three Column Template Mod.
2007-10-22 08:22:00 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 More About: Column , Template , Rounders , Temp
Read Multiple Blogs in One Go with OPML.
2007-10-18 12:26:00 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 More About: Blogs , Read
Add Blogger Play, in Gadget Form to Blog.
2007-10-13 07:08:00 Many bloggers have enjoyed Blog ger 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 More About: Form
Is China Blocking your Blog grrr?
2007-10-09 14:10:00 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 More About: Blog , Locking
4 Strategies for Successful Blogs.
2007-10-03 11:08:00 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 BLOG The More About: Blogs , Strategies
Cool Blue Web 2.0 Fluid Template for Blogger.
2007-10-01 14:00:00 Here is the Cool Blue Web 2.0 Temp late 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
Fluid Width Three Column Blog Template.
2007-09-21 14:32:00 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 More About: Template , Temp
Google Docs Presentations In Blog.
2007-09-19 21:25:00 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 More About: Google , Blog , Presentations , Resent
Put Streaming Audio In Blog.
2007-09-17 23:07:00 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. More About: Blog , Streaming
Checklist for Blogger Login Problems.
2007-09-15 14:10:00 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 More About: Problems , Logi
Count Your Blog Feed Subscribers.
2007-09-15 05:54:00 Google Webmaster Tools has now introduced a count of your feed subscribers : Official Google Webmaster Central Blog : Subs criber stats and more. Previously if you needed to count how many subscribers you had you needed to channel your feed through Feed burner. At present only a count is available and only of those subscribers using Google services like Google Reader, iGoogle and Orkut. The More About: Count , Scribe
Adsense, Amazon Within Blog Posts.
2007-09-13 01:19:00 Ever since the debut of the New version of Blog ger 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.
2007-09-12 07:43:00 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 More About: Monetize
Link To My Blog Google Gadget.
2007-09-07 12:35:00 A reader requested me to convert the "Link to My Blog " Blogger Widget into a Googl e 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
Add Your Blog To Facebook.
2007-09-06 02:49:00 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 More About: Blog , Facebook
How To Change Blog Owner?
2007-09-03 12:33:00 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 widget. More About: Change , Blog , Owner , Chang , Chan
Tips on Using Google Reader with Site Feeds.
2007-09-01 14:25:00 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 More About: Tips , Google Reader
Make Money with Inline Adsense for Bloggers!
2007-08-30 16:06:00 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: More About: Money , Make Money , Bloggers , Make
Hot Tips on Blogger Profiles.
2007-08-28 17:04:00 Blogger has recently enabled links on your Profil e 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 PROFILE To edit the Blogger profile logon at Blogger and click 'Edit Profile' link on the Blogger More About: Blogger , Tips
50 Types of Links for Bloggers and How to Make Them.
More articles from this author:2007-08-26 15:19:00 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 video clip, a sound bite, a program, an HTML document, an element within an HTML document, etc.). Here are the 50 More About: Links , Bloggers , Make , Types 1, 2, 3 |
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