Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts

How To Customize Blogger Blog's Default Width

Blogger's default Template Designer does not allow you to customize the width of your entire blog. It offers a maximum width of 1500px for the entire blog and 500px for sidebar. Although you won't require more than this, the trick is just to teach you how things work in blogger.

How To Underline Blogger Blog Gadgets

Its difficult to differentiate blogger gadgets from their title if they are not organized properly. Underlining the gadgets is one way to do that. It gives a tidy look to your blog's entire design and at the same time helps readers to easily locate different elements of your blog.

Blogger does not have this option by default, which leaves you with only one choice - CSS tweak. So how do you underline gadgets on your blog using CSS?

How to Remove Preview Mode in Blogger

Blogger has a preview mode for blog editor, HTML editor and Template designer that allows users to see changes made before saving. This may not be helpful if you want to check dynamic changes. 

The preview mode only allows you to see a screenshot, making everything dead for a while. Blogger calls it "Click Trap". So how would you see changes in real-time without saving? Don't worry there's a solution for this.

How To Add Gadgets Above Blogger Header

In this post, I'll show you how to add widgets above your blogger blog's header. These gadgets are useful in placing ads, social networking widgets, extra navigation links above the header.

You'll find that the region above header is locked and there's no way to add extra gadgets above it. So how do you unlock it? To achieve this, you don't have to make any major modifications here, one minor XML tweak and you're done.

How to Remove "Subscribe to" from Blogger Blog

In this post, I'll show you how to remove  the "Subscribe to: Posts(Atom)" link from your blogger blog. Removing this link could improve the overall look of your blog.

You'll find this on every page of your blog. The homepage and post pages have this "Subscribe to: Posts(Atom)" link placed just above the footer, while there is another link "Subscribe to: Post Comments(Atom)" for comments just under the comments widget.

Why You are Lucky that You Started in 2012

You're lucky if you started a Blogger blog in 2012, ask why? Well, after the latest Penguin update by Google, blogspot blogs have been flooding the search results. This proves that blogger blogs are superior in terms of content quality and search engine optimization.

But why should you start a blog? That is a million dollar question and the answer should well be worth million dollars.

How to Change or Remove Blogger Favicon

When you open a website or a blog, you will see a small icon on top of the browser's tab. This icon is called as a Favicon. By default, Blogger blogs display an orange colored blogger logo, which may not be liked by many.

Optimize Your Blog With Custom Permalinks

Blogger has recently introduced Custom Permalinks feature, which allows users to create their own blog post URL's. A much needed feature introduced by Google, and appreciated by many.

Before this feature was introduced, users could not create their own search engine friendly and keyword rich permalinks which are effective in terms of SEO. Blogger would automatically grab the first few characters from your post title and use it as your post URL. But with Custom Permalinks, you create your own post URL. It helps rank your blog higher in search results as the keywords appear in the blog URL itself.

Blogger Blog Not Appearing in Search Results?

blogger searchStarted a blog, posted quality articles but still don't find it in the search results? Well, there might be enough reasons why its not showing up in Serps. One of the most common reasons is that none of your post titles appear completely in search results. Blogger blogs are configured in such a way that your blog title appears before the post title. That means, your post title is being truncated in Serps which results in either your posts being less ranked or not ranked at all.

Remove Empty Space Above Blogger Header

There's a huge empty space left on top of the blog's header after you remove the Blogger Navbar. This space often interferes with the blog's design by pushing down the header. It can be utilized to display - ads, navigation menu, social networking buttons and much more. So why waste it?
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Remove Border and Shadow from Images in Blogger

Blogger has recently customized the templates in such a way that images are displayed with a default border and shadow. But what if you want to blend images with the posts background?

How To Remove The Attribution Gadget From Blogger

You will find the "Powered By Blogger" attribution gadget in almost all the blogs you host on blogpsot. By default its locked and can be removed with some minor tweaks in the template's HTML code.

How To Add Related Posts Widget In Blogger

In this post, I'll show you the steps to add related posts widget to your blog without any coding. There are loads of tutorials online on this but most of them require you to copy some code and dump it in your Blogger template. That's easy for programmers, but what about the non techies? Well, this post will just do good for you...

How Good Is Blogger Without These Myths

A new blogger has numerous doubts while choosing any blogging platform, may it be Blogger, WordPress or a custom domain. I wont compare Blogger with any other platforms but only emphasize on how good this platform is,  and try to clear the myths associated with it.
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How To Prevent Blogger-Blogpot Blogs from Redirecting

Google, has recently started redirecting Blogger/ Blogspot blogs to country specific domains. For example, if you open abc.blogspot.com in your browser, you might be redirected to abc.blogspot.co.uk if you are located in UK or to abc.blogspot.in if you are located in India.

Google mainly implemented this feature to have selective censorship - i.e, Google can now block a Blogger blog in one country but still make it available in other countries.

How To Make Money On Blogger/Blogspot Blogs

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Thousands of blogs are registered on the Internet everyday, and Blogger reaps in almost half of them. If you do a small research on this yourself, I'm sure you will be shocked. Yes, blogspot is the top destination for wannabe bloggers to start their blogs. In fact, there are thousands of Blogger/blogspot blogs that are run by professional bloggers.

In this post I'll be discussing on why to choose blogspot domain to start your blog, the average money you can make as a blogger, and most importantly how to make money on blogspot blogs.