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Direct Upload Video to Blogs.
2007-08-25 07:40:00
Blogger has now enabled Dire ct Video Upload ing 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
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Easily Make Google Gadgets without Coding!
2007-08-19 07:06:00
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.
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Free Publicity for Blogs via Google Gadgets.
2007-08-16 15:30:00
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
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Increase Traffic | Create a Google Gadget.
2007-08-07 11:17:00
A Google Gadget is a small application which runs on any website as well as your Google Desktop and provides a specific practical purpose and function. This purpose could be anything from advertising your home site to providing information or running small programs. Because these Gadgets can run on any site or Google Desktop they have a much wider reach than Blogger Widgets which are similar
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Interchanging Templates and Layouts in Blogger.
2007-08-03 07:23:00
The advent of the new version of Blogger introduced the term Layout instead of Temp late 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
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Put a Digg Widget in your Blog.
2007-08-02 06:26:00
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? Widget s are portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without
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Count Number of Yahoo Backlinks to Any Site.
2007-08-01 01:09:00
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
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Blogger Introduces New Features.
2007-07-31 14:38:00
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
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Template or Layout Which is Better?
2007-07-16 11:27:00
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.
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Recent Comments Widget for Blogger.
2007-07-13 15:22:00
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
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Podcast in Blogger.
2007-07-11 15:13:00
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

Rounded Corner Headers for Blogger.
2007-07-01 02:26:00
Here is the new header made from Corner shop 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
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Launch a Minisite | Estore in Blogger.
2007-06-23 13:01:00
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
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Increase Page Rank | Viral Icons.
2007-06-16 16:17:00
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
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10 Quick Tips for Smarter Blogging.
2007-06-15 06:23:00
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
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Email Subscription Box and Buttons.
2007-06-09 11:14:00
Many bloggers want to know how to have the 'Subs cribe 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
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Everything About Labels in Blogger.
2007-06-04 13:55:00
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 LABELS Labels are
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Timestamp under the Date and Other Hacks.
2007-06-02 12:47:00
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 DATE Login to Dashboard and click on Layout. This will bring up the Page Elements subtab under
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Google's Supplemental Index - Reduce Labels or Sink!
2007-05-30 15:51:00
When you add your blog to Googl e 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
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Blog and Ping to Attract the Search Spiders.
2007-05-28 13:52:00
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
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Blog Backlinks Chart in Technorati.
2007-05-23 11:54:00
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....
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