You can see 'Add a Gadget' tags in you blog layout. If you need more of these add a gadget tags
In your blog control panel go to Layout->edithtml and then search (ctrl+f ) for
showaddelement='no'
change no to yes .
and you will see additional Add a gadget tags in your layout as shown in figure.
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There are many social bookmarking button providers. These buttons are used to bookmark sites or web pages in many popular social bookmarking websites. Addthis, sharethis and AddtoAny are most popular among them.
Addthis provides simple social bookmarking widgets
Addthis provides two type of widgets one is plain HTML button which popups a window with list of social bookmarking websites like this
All popular social bookmarking websites are listed in the window. They also provide a JavaScript button which un-clutters on hovering showing all major and more frequently used sites.
Click here on how to add addthis button to your blog.
Addthis buttons are simple and loads faster. They also provide statistics of pages that are bookmarked. Blogs on blogger.com usually use addthis buttons.
ShareThis
They provide a variety of services. Their buttons usually load slow ( i have seen many bloggers complaining about that).
Two types of buttons are provided by them. One is standard and other is rotating icon button. This button has options to bookmark, send through mail and post your webpage to various services.
First Register at sharethis.com then goto http://www.sharethis.com/getbutton and you will goto this page...
Select your platform to add the button. You can use code for other websites n you will be redirected to other page. Share this is highly customizable. You change the color of tabs, length and width of button along with the sites that appear for bookmarking. After customizing your widget click on get sharethis code button and you will get a javascript code to add to your blog.
Share this button is highly customizable and gives a lot of options to your visitors but it is reported that it slow downs you website speed. Try it first and if does slow down then switch to addthis button.
Add to Any
There is one more provider that provides social bookmarking buttons. Add to any has one feature like search for service you have to bookmark. It is same as addthis button also has options for bookmarking and email the page link.
They also provide button to allow visitors to subscribe to your rss feeds in client of their choice like google reader or netvibes or bloglines etc..
Any way these social bookmarking /subscription buttons make easy for visitors to bookmark of subscribe to the blog they like
Bloggers do make tutorials and text documents for viral marketing or promotion of blogs. Some of them make blogger templates or wordpress templates. They find problem in storing files. Blogger do not provide a way to store files.
To share files like tutorials of books on your blog you need to upload your files to a server which provides bandwidth and disk space. There very large no of free file hosting websites that provide your free space and bandwidth to store and share files. But most of them are ad financed.
Mediafire is on of them and provides best service in the industry.
Here are some of the features they provide on their free account.
How to you create additional posts which are not indexed or not shown to your regular readers. These are useful in using for making a contact me page.
1)Click on create, enter the name of you blog post and click post options as shown in figure.
2)Change the year (last two numbers highlighted) in date a shown in the figure.
and publish it now. You can also use this pages to create about us,disclaimer or privacy policy pages.
Watch about what you read & confirm before you admit it. Here is a good joke that shows how people mis-communicate if you don't confirm what you have heard. It is also important that you write blog posts properly if you are making them after researching on web. Be careful of what you say on your blog post or your might end up as below
I have search for one my blog in Google to test whether it is indexed or not. But, unfortunately I saw only the main page indexed and rest of the pages are omitted as supplementary results which you have to click show omitted results to be displayed. I have researched about and found out that my blog's name is too long and all of my post's title starts with my blog name and continued by the post's title. This can be devastating results in bringing Google's traffic. I have modified the blog to display the post's title first and then the blog's title which has increased the search results from Google. So always remember to choose a short title for your blog. But if you want to choose a long title for your blog i suggest you first apply the hack Swapping blog's title with post title. After applying this hack fill your post title with good keyword that bring Google traffic for that post.
The no follow tags in the comments section are not that efficient in preventing comment spam. You prevent comment spam by enabling word verification for comments. This verifies whether the visitors are humans or spam bots. To enable word verification for comments go to settings-> comments and scroll down until you see a field like show "word verification for comments" and enable.
When visitors comments they will see a word verification like this before their comments are submitted.
Enabling this option is a good way to prevent many unwanted comments.
I have been moving one of my blogs from other platform to blogger and i was posting very fast after 50 post i was asked for word verification.
This is one of the feature that prevents spam blogs. So you can only post 50 post in 24 hours and it will be reset only after 24 hours. You have to enter the word verification if you need to post more.. You have to enter this word verification if your blog is marked as spam. To remove the blog flag as spam you have to contact blogger's team. Click on learn more part shown in the figure and you can send a message to blogger to whitelist your blog (if it is flagged as spam).
If you have very high posting rate then you have to enter the word verification regardless whether your blog is white listed or not.
If you found a good article or a reference and want to refer in your post you can link to it using < a href > tag like this
< a href="http://www.google.com" > Google </ a>
< a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank"> Google </ a>
The popular widget will display the killer posts on your blog. How is this determined? There are some who just display their popular post just based on no of comments but the posts with large no of comments might not be the popular posts.
This widget is just a link list widget based on your traffic results. If you are using statcounter as your site analyzer goto stats and click on popular pages and pick up the first five or ten popular posts and make a link list widget. Visit this page to learn how to make a link list widget . You have to do it manually. Update the widget once in a month. By the way getclicky provides you with various widgets you can display popular posts and visitor map. Ofcourse you have to install its site counter.
Suppose you have a long article divided into parts. Now if the visitor wants to see that part then he have to scroll down all the way to that part. But you can help visitor to navigate to different parts of the webpage using anchor tags.
For example visit this webpage A tutorial on wget.
If you click on Download all pdfs link it will goto the end of the page where there is a heading called Download All PDFs .
How do you do this?
First choose the heading where you want to navigate or goto in the page when the link is clicked.
Suppose the text to which you want to navigate is Dowload All PDFs in that web page then insert the following code instead of that heading.
enter the name of the anchor your want for that heading (in this example the anchor tag is dnlpdf)
<a name="dnlpdf">Dowload All PDFs</a>
Now if you want to link to this text from any where in this page just enter
<a href="#dnlpdf">The text which you want to point to download all pdfs</a>
If you click on above text then you will got to the place in webpage where there is Download all pdfs heading.
Click on below links and you will return to the top of that page.
Return to top
There are many good pic hosting websites like photobucket and imageshack which host your files for free and provide a lot of bandwidth.
Photobucket gives you 1gb of space and 25GB of bandwidth.
Of all services i have used photbucket is reliable.
Imageshack is another good hosting service.
They allow 300Mb of bandwidth per image per hour. Thats a lot.
But some times images might not load properly.
If One of your photo bucket account's bandwidth is full you can create and use another. That's easy anyway.
I recommend using .gif pictures instead of .jpg . GIF images are lot smaller than JPG/JPEG pics and your blog will load faster if use gif images.
Also mention the size of the images in the <img > tag. This will help the browser to arrange the webpage fast and so your blog will load faster.
As you know using mouse to post consume time. You have to use mouse to scroll up & down and click on buttons to format text. Keyboard shortcuts make your life easy and you can edit of format your articles fast.
There are some handy keyboard shortcuts supported by blogger in compose mode.
They definitely work in Internet Explorer 5.5+/Windows and the Mozilla family (1.6+ and Firefox 0.9+), and might work in other browsers. Here they are:
Some of you might have observed in some blogs the authors write a message in the comment form not to spam or just post because of back link value. Most of the bloggers user this to prevent spam and give any instructions to the commentators on their blog (or warn not to spam) or just sya a thank you for commenting on their blog.
Here is how you display a message in the comment form.
go to settings ---> comments and scroll down for Comment Form Message
Now type your message here. When ever a visitor opens the comment form they view the message you have typed as shown in figure.
See the message encircled in red area
Adding Search Engine to your blog not only earns you more revenue but also enhances user experience. You can earn from the search results of google. Google has linked its adsense with google custom search. Google CSE provides many options and gives more flexibility than the default search provided in google adsense search. It has highly customizable look & feel. You can refine and crawl into the links attached in that website partially or fully. You can even embed the search results in you own blog or host them on a page on google. You can search only website you find useful and omit all other websites in web or emphasize on websites you have mentioned. You can even add your own logo to the search engine. It is a fully customizable. See the post below about how to optimize search boxes for earning more revenue and enhancing visitor experience.
Inside AdSense: Optimizing your search box
Google bot is just another spider that crawls on your blog and indexes the pages and stores in its database. You have to see how your blog looks likes when indexed by Google. If your blog doesn't contain any readable information & links are just broken, Google bot ignores your pages. Content generated by JavaScript and embedded objects. So try to fill your blog post with keywords and relevant information. Below service simulates how the Google bot or any search engine spiders view your blog. Search Engine optimization is import to get your blog indexed and to be shown in SERP(Search Engine Result pages).
Blog is just another site (well its true), but a blog is different and much more than a website. Blog is a type of content management system. Blogs are popular as resources for information. Blogger and Wordpress are one of the most popular blog applications. Ofcourse wordpress is the most popular among blog, there are lot and lots of beautiful blog templates for word press. Blog can of many types. Blog is a website that gets updates frequently. A new post always appears in the front page. Here is a video made by common craft about blogs.
You can start a blog at
Blogger
Wordpress
Blogs in Plain English
When is saw this video at you tube i was surprised that such a video to be created? Of course there are people who even don't know how to create a email account. Any way this video is official video from Google. This simply explains how to create a blog. There are people who don't know how to create a blog (my sis). She uses internet but she doesn't know what a blog is and how to create on (because she has no reason to create one). So does this video exists to show people how to create a blog with blogger.
Always remember to backup your blog's template before modifying. I always forget to do that. I messed up today with some scripts today and every thing was in jeopardy. Fortunately somewhere there is a backup of my template which saved my time. Else you will have to do all those customizations like adding widgets, changing backgrounds and adding adsense units in the blog posts etc.. which take a lot of time (may be more than 2 hours..)
How do we backup our template?
click on Download Full Template and save it.
As i have explained the ucomment ifollow movement which give back link value for comments. But is not fruitful. The way bloggers give back link value to comments it attracts a lot of spam. It just that the whole Ifollow movement is for beginners to attract attention or to receive feedback. Once your blog is large enough you have to enable nofollow tag to prevent spam and those who comment only to get back link value adding no value to discussion. Here is one of the popular blog Jackbook's comment form with warning not to comment only for back links....
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