Showing posts with label Blogger Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogger Tips. Show all posts

The Problem With Comments On Your Blog

Comments On Your Blog
Most blogs allow customers to configure the blog comments on any of the jobs. These observations relate to the blog or may be completely independent. Comments may also be positive or negative in nature. Whatever kind of note left by a visitor to the blogger can choose to deal with these reactions in many different ways. The blogger can respond to these comments, the block of individual customers to leave comments or use in the future management options to remove comments or to set the blog to require approval of the information as soon as they are posted on the blog. This article will focus on each of these decisions in response to comments on a blog with more detail.

Reply to comments on your blog

The bloggers who commented on the blog can respond to these comments. Applications blog through the blogger to post comments on his personal blog, which allows a blogger to respond directly to comments. This feature bloggers can survive for several completely different conditions, with a destructive feedback, constructive comments and questions. Bloggers, who will receive a devastating comment on the blog can choose to respond to these observations, direct and counter-claims is harmful comments. This makes it possible to identify a critical blogger and defend his original place. The bloggers, who are optimistic about the comments could also respond to these comments praise to thank guests. However, several bloggers can get feedback, which put a question on a blog or a blogger yourself. Bloggers can choose to answer these studies to develop better relationships with visitors to the blog.

Blocking individual customer feedback

Another option is to deal with blog comments that are negative for nature is the dam of feedback from visitors to the blog. In general, bloggers can be a great blog you selected to leave comments on the blog. Bloggers can use this option in situations where the visitor blog comments is a very vibrant media. Bloggers may also want to deny the visitors from making comments on individual blogs, if you tried to clarify in advance the visitors to the visitor, however, continues to provide comments destructive. Bloggers may also want to prohibit people to take a feedback from visitors to the blog, if he believes that the comments are spam.

Use of administrative

However, the alternative choice to survive blog includes comments by using the administrative functions to remove comments or edit the settings to allow the feedback is displayed until the blogger approves them. Weblog homeowners sometimes have the ability to delete a comment left by visitors weblog. Removing this feedback process is often quite easy. However, it is not entirely the result of such a powerful technology blog visitors would be able to learn from these comments before they are deleted. Then remove the comment could prevent some of the guests read the note, but does not guarantee the comment is not to see all blog visitors. However, there is a way for bloggers to make the visitors who do not read the negative comments. Most of the species on the blog software has options that require the blogger to approve all comments before they prove to be accessible to the public.

This gives the blogger the flexibility to remove an earlier comment, either to learn from one of the visitors weblog. The blogger can simply delete all the comments they do not want others to read it before feedback is posted.

Link List open in new windows


To have the Link List open in new windows when clicked, we first go to
Template -> Edit HTML.
Check the “Expand Widget Templates” box.
Backup your template by click the “Download Full Template” link that appears right after the words “Before editing your template, you may want to save a copy of it.”

<b:widget id='LinkList1' locked='false' title='Links' type='LinkList'>
<b:includable id='main'>

<b:if cond='data:title'>
<h2><data:title/></h2></b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<ul>
<b:loop values='data:links' var='link'>
<li><a expr:href='data:link.target' target='_blank'><data:link.name/></a></li>
</b:loop>

Related Posts Widget for Blogger

The related posts widget will show a new related posts section below your post page.The related posts are fetched from the those posts having the same label as the current post.
1. Sign in to your blogger account.Go to the dash board.
2.From there goto Template &gt; Edit HTML and expand your widget templates(option on the right)
3.Now Search for this Code
</head>
4.Reaplace it with


<!--Related Posts Scripts and Styles Start-->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<style>
#related-posts {
float:center;
text-transform:none;
height:100%;
min-height:100%;
padding-top:5px;
padding-left:5px;
}
#related-posts .widget{
padding-left:6px;
margin-bottom:10px;


}
#related-posts .widget h2, #related-posts h2{
font-size: 1.6em;
font-weight: bold;
color: black;
font-family: Georgia, &#8220;Times New Roman&#8221;, Times, serif;
margin-bottom: 0.75em;
margin-top: 0em;
padding-top: 0em;
}
#related-posts a{
color:blue;
}
#related-posts a:hover{
color:blue;
}
#related-posts ul{
list-style-type:none;
margin:0 0 0px 0;
padding:0px;
text-decoration:bold;
font-size:15px;
text-color:#000000
}
#related-posts ul li{
background:transparent url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeghGKKUgbwEW8ejVrbsgtj8vG8t5vn3DTkCPYhAcGjDcjQ9SLi1JB0bpk_T6J5d4MH8-sNo0cUJC9nuU4Xz5Hp2zPg2POVaNybj8UG9MSVrrL-3o2i9DvYZWM_J-gS-1n7g0ZGmcP2Vo/s200/greentickbullet.png) no-repeat ;
display:block;
list-style-type:none;
margin-bottom: 13px;
padding-left: 30px;
padding-top:0px;}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";
</script>
<script src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/related/related.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</b:if>
<!--Related Posts Scripts and Styles End-->
</head>

5.If you want to change the title of your widget you can edit this line of the above code

var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";
6.If you want you can edit the blue and black colors present in this code
7.Now find this line of code

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
Or

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

8.Now immediately after any of these lines(whichever you could find) place this code snippet


<!-- Related Posts Code Start-->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div id='related-posts'>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<b:if cond='data:label.isLast != &quot;true&quot;'>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<script expr:src='&quot;/feeds/posts/default/-/&quot; + data:label.name + &quot;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=related_results_labels&amp;max-results=6&quot;' type='text/javascript'/></b:if></b:loop><a href='http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/08/related-posts-for-blogger-widget.html' style='display:none'>Related Posts Widget</a>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var currentposturl=&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;;

var maxresults=5;
removeRelatedDuplicates(); printRelatedLabels();
</script>
</div>
</b:if>
<!-- Related Posts Code End-->


this line determines the number of related posts that are displayed..and by default 6 posts are fetched from each label.

Add digg button to all posts of your blogspot blog autometically


f you want to add digg button to all your blogspot posts automatically than u need to add this code to html of your template


Look for this line of code


<data:post.body/>
Now paste this code above the line u searched
<div style='float:right; margin-top:4px;'>
<script type='text/javascript'>
digg_url = "<data:post.url/>";
digg_skin = "compact";
digg_window = "new";
</script>
<script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js'
type='text/javascript'></script>
</div>
Now digg button will be added to all your posts

6 Ways to be Rich by Blogging

Some bloggers might be blogging for years and yet they are not rich.Yes I agree that some bloggers blogged just to express their feelings but as bloggers who is aimed at making money from blogging,there are some who just could not make money,let alone be rich.So what is the secret to being rich by blogging?
Here are a few tips and pointers which I would like to share that maybe could help you make money by blogging.
Join :
  1. Payperpost - Pays you for blogging on topics you like ranging from $5 to as much $250
  2. Smorty - Pays you for blogging on topics that you like ranging from $6 to as much $60
  3. Sponsoredreviews - Pays you for blogging on topics that you like ranging from $3 to as much as $500
Do :
  1. Blog consistently but do NOT blog everyday.Blog alternate days.
  2. Do not force other bloggers to visit your blog.No one likes to be forced.
  3. Lastly,do link exchanges with fellow bloggers of the same niche.This will increase your blog's pagerank and also indirectly,your traffic too
Remember,blogging is NEVER a ''make money online fast'' thing.but then,it will make you money online and ultimately make you an online mogul someday!

Adding Meta Tags to Blogger


In your blogger.com dashboard, navigate to your Template / Edit HTML tab and add the following code directly below this tag:
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/> 


The Code is
<meta content='ADD YOUR SITE DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='ADD YOUR KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='ADD YOUR NAME HERE' name='author'/>



That's It you have added mata tags to your blogger blog....

Now for sure its easy for GOOGLE YAHOO and MSN and other Search Engines to find your Blog.....

Submitting Url and Link Exchange

When your blog is ready, you want to have somebody who read your blog? Means you want readers?
Firstly when i made my site and it was ready with some good kind of post i submitted Urls to search engines like GOOGLE, YAHOO and All the Major Search engines  ( for Submitting Blog to Search Engines).... But on the other hand when i did and still doing Blog Walking i sometimes offer the another blogger to link Exchange... This is very important.....
Submitting Url to the Search Engines mean you are introducing yourself to the search engines and on the other hand link exchange is also a method of introducing yourself to the search engines... And in this way the blog Link Builds and Search Engine Ranking Increases.....

Hope Useful......

Submit your Blog to Major Search Engines

Greetings
After creating your blog what should you do?
Ans: To Tell the World About your Blog....

But

How to ?
By submitting your blog to major search Engines
like Google
Yahoo
MSN

On Google you can submit your url by typing http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
On Yahoo you can submit your url by typinghttp://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

On MSN you can submit your url by typing http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

By adding your url to those search engine, you almost told the world about your blog.

How To Make Your Blog Name Scrolling


1.Log in to your dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML
2.Scroll down to where you see this:
</head>
3.Now copy below code and paste it before above code.
<script type='text/javascript'>
var txt="Enter Your blog name and little description about your site ";
var espera=200;
var refresco=null;
function rotulo_title()
{
document.title=txt;
txt=txt.substring(1,txt.length)+txt.charAt(0); refresco=setTimeout("rotulo_title()",espera);
}
rotulo_title();
</script>
Note : You must replace 'Enter Your blog name and little description about your site' with your site details.
4.Now save your template and you are done.

How To Remove Blogger Navigation Bar in Blogger Template

How to delete navigation bar on Blogger Draft template?
How to remove default bar on Draft Template Designer?

The 
previous method to remove default Blogger navigation bar cannot be used anymore with templates designed from Blogger Draft Template Designer.

blogger draft navigation bar

Here's how to remove the navigation bar on Template Designer's templates:
Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML

Add this code:
#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}

just 
above this line:
]]></b:skin>

(instead of below <b:skin><!--[CDATA[/* in the 
previous method).

Then save it, view your blog and it's done!

How To Remove Blogger Navigation Bar in Blogger Template

How to delete navigation bar on Blogger Draft template?
How to remove default bar on Draft Template Designer?

blogger draft navigation bar

It can also be done via this method. Navigate yourself through:

Dashboard > Design > Template Designer > Advanced > Add CSS

And then add this:

#navbar-iframe {display: none !important;}

Click "Apply to Blog" and you're done.

Popular Posts and Blog's Stats

How to add Popular Posts widget on Blogger blog?
How to display popular posts on Blogger blog?
How to show popular posts on Blogspot blog?

How to add Blog Stats widget on Blogger blog?
How to display blog's visitors and page views stats on Blogger blog?
How to show blog traffic statistics on Blogspot blog?

Blogger in Draft is out with 2 new widgets - the Popular Posts widget and Blog's Statswidget.

blogger popular posts and stats new widgets

On the Popular Posts widget, these are the available settings.

blogger popular posts widget

You can set the most view posts duration period and whether to include an image thumbnail (which is normally the first picture of the blog post) and also the snippet.

Unfortunately you can set the number of displayed blog posts right now. The fixed number is 10. Hopefully Blogger will add in the blog count feature as well later on.

On the Blog's Stats widget, these are the available settings.

blogger stats widget

Here, you can edit the stats style and the options.

That's all for now. Hopefully these additional Blogger widgets are useful for some of you!


New Blogger Template Designer!

A new template designer has been released on Blogger Draft offering new templates and features enhancement to allow easier modification of blog templates.

To check out the Template Designer, go to:



Dashboard > Layout > Template Designer

You'll then be brought to a new screen to design your blog template where you can change almost everything conveniently.

At the top left, there are different categories of the blog where you can modify.
blogger template designer

Then at the Templates section, a selection of ready-made templates will be available.
blogger template designer

Navigate along the templates and pick the one you like.

Also, choose the colour of the background if applicable.
blogger template designer

Change the layout of the blog - 2 columns or 3 columns - your choice!
blogger template designer

And width of blog and sidebar as well.
blogger template designer

Lastly, change font style, size and colour on the advance section.
blogger template designer




Just like what was mentioned, it's time to pick a professional design for you blog!

Time to express yourself! Have fun!

How To Hide Blogs on Blogger Profile

How to hide blogs you don't want to show on your Blogger profile?
How to hide but not delete blogs on Blogger profile?
How to remove blogs on Blogger profile?

If you just want to show certain blogs on your Blogger profile, you can hide the rest. For example, your test blogs - not necessary to show it on your Blogger profile.

blogger hide blogs

Dashboard > Edit Profile

Then click on Select blogs to display under Privacy Section.

After that, select and tick which blogs to display on your Blogger profile.

Save settings and that's it! Enjoy!

Top 4 Free Blogging Platform

Here are the top 4 free blogging platform by Simple Blogger Tips.

blogger logo

Blogger.com - Majority of the bloggers started of with Blogger. A great starting site to get a taste of blogging, very easy to use. Has almost everything you need from widgets to template designing and modification. The entries are easily indexed by Google search engine because it's owned by Google.
wordpress logo

WordPress.com - The free and easy way to blog with Wordpress without the need of technical blog installation knowledge. It has most of the latest features but with limited access over the modification of the preset template. As a result, advertisements from external parties aren't allowed. Nevertheless, it offers inspiring writers to pen down their words professionally.
tumblr logo

Tumblr.com - Probably the easiest way to blog. A platform with a focus on allowing media-rich posts. Suitable for those who love to share photos, videos and links without the need to lengthy words. Allows others to re-blog a particular post as well, that's the unique feature of Tumblr.
posterous logo

Posterous.com - Labeled themselves as the easiest way to share photos, collaborate with others, share new ideas, create a travel journal, share passions and share videos. The unique feature about Posterous is that you don't need to sign up, know any code or even know how to do anything. Just send an email to set up your own Posterous blog and start sharing your ideas and media.

How to Remove Attribution Widget on Blogger

How to remove attribution on Blogger?
How to remove copyright widget on Blogspot?
How to remove line at the bottom of blog?

If you're using a template by Blogger's 
Template Designer, most of them have an attribution widget at the bottom of the blog.

Take a look and it's something like this...


blogger attribution widget

You're able to modify only the "Copyright" statement from the widget.

If you want to remove this Attribution widget at 
Design > Page Elements, you see that it can be edited...
blogger attribution widget

But unlike the other normal widgets, you won't be able to remove the Attribution widget because it doesn't have a "Remove" button.
blogger attribution widget

If you insist on removing the widget, here are the steps to remove the attribution widget on Blogger. It's pretty easy and understandable.

1) First, go to 
Design > Edit HTML > Tick "Expand Widget Templates". Search for the word "attribution".
blogger attribution widget

2) When you see the Attribution widget code (refer to image above), change the "true" onlocked to "false".

3) Go back to 
Design > Page Elements.
blogger attribution widget

4) Since the lock function is disabled (by changing the code to "false"), it's movable and can be removed as well. Click on "Edit" on the Attribution element.

5) And now with the "Remove" button available, you can finally remove the Attribution widget for good.
blogger attribution widget

How To Change Blogger Blog Width

To adjust the width size of your blog according to your preference, you can do so at the HTML section:

Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML

Then you can change the width size to the size that you prefer.

#header-wrapper {
width: 750px;
}

#outer-wrapper {
width: 750px;
}

#main-wrapper {
width: 490px;
}

#sidebar-wrapper {
width: 230px;
}

Header-wrapper and outer-wrapper determines the maximum width of your blog.

Main-wrapper determines the width of your blog content and sidebar-wrapper determines the width of your sidebar.

Make sure that the total pixel (px) allocation for the main-wrapper and sidebar-wrapper is not more than the outer-wrapper's size.


Add popular posts widget on your blog


A few month later blogger release a new feature that is popular posts widgetit is a very useful widget to add to your blog sidebar or your specific area on your blog because it shows your fresh click posts by visitors. When a visitor comes to your blog through search engines, their clicks on post are added to your popular posts widget. It can save up to ten links that are visible in this widget, there are some optional settings which are not required if you want to decrease the number of posts link to display on it and you want to show the snippet, image thumbnail with post title then you can do this moreover you can set the most viewed post in popular post widget. It is very simple to add popular posts widget.


Here are the steps below!!!


1. Log in to your blogger dashboard.
2. Click "Design" or "Layout" option.
3. Click "Page Elements" ----> "Add a Gadget" similarly a new window will appear then add "Popular post(New!)".


4. Gave him a "Title" and by having change a setting click "Save".





By having a "View blog" there is a Popular posts widget on your blog.

Add linkwithin on blogger post


This widget is totally free for all platforms including Wordpress, blogger, Typepad etc there is no signup required to get this widget it takes a minute and having few easy step to running on your blog.

The steps below

1. Go to LinkWithin website.

2. Fill the form place on the right hand of the site by putting your Email address, Blog link, choose platform and number of stories you want to add. User can check the box according to condition.




3. Click on the "Get Widget!".

If you choose Google blogger blog a page on "install widget on blogger" will pop up. Then follow the instruction to get or install the widget on your blog.

Finally you see linkwithin widget installed on your blog post.

Sharing Buttons on Blogger


Blogger has been rolling out new features to improve the looks and usability of the blogs. Blogger is now testing out a new Social Sharing icon set consisting of Email, Blogger,Twitter,Facebook and Google buzz buttons. The set looks simple and elegant with some cool mouse over effects. These Sharing buttons are now available in your regular dashboard.
You are still reading. So  i guess that you are really interested in implementing these Sharing buttons on your Blogger Blog.
Then don’t wait. Just follow these simple steps


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