Archive for February, 2009

Adding Social Bookmarking Buttons To Blogger Posts : COMPLETE GUIDE

Adding social bookmarking buttons to blogger posts is very important and every blogger on blogger platform should do this. Making lovely posts, keeping SEO factors in mind is not the whole thing to make you or your blog popular. Adding social bookmarking buttons will allow your readers to submit your site to popular social bookmarking sites and get noticed by a number of people. This will increase your blog’s visibility, popularity and SEO factor. Now lets discuss about this in details. Read the rest of this entry

How To Make A Sticky Post In Blogger

Sticky posts in blogger blogs are like featured posts in wordpress. By default your blog homepage shows recently published posts but you can keep a certain post as your sticky post and which will stay above all other blog posts. This is great to highlight your best or an important post. This sticky post will be there above all posts no matter how many new posts you publish. All your new posts will get arranged below that sticky post automatically. Read the rest of this entry

How To Add ‘Read More’ Expandable Post Hack in Blogger

‘Read More’ expandable post hack is one of the most popular blogger hacks. By default Blogger shows all the contents from your post on your blog homepage. Having everything on your homepage will make your blog homepage load slower. This might result in getting lower page views as your readers can read all your posts on a single page. So, it’s better to give a summary of your posts on your blog’s homepage and then add a ‘Read More’ link below that post summary. Now, if a someone likes that post, he will click on that ‘Read More’ link and will get redirected to the original full post. Read the rest of this entry

Fast Listing Of Your Blog in Blog Directories [How To]

Adding your blog in blog directories will not only give your blog maximum exposure but it will affect your blog in a positive manner. You can relate this with a yellow pages book. If you are looking for a technical person to repair your television set, you navigate to electronics section and look for similar service houses. Like wise people will surf blog directories and when they find your listed blog there, they will navigate to your blog. Read the rest of this entry

What is Trackback and How To Send Trackbacks

Trackbacks are nothing but informing other blogs that you liked one of their posts and made a similar post on your blog to move the discussion forward. This blog to blog notifying service is called trackback. You need not to write a email to that blog author or make a comment on that author’s blog to tell him. A simple trackback feature will take care of all that. This trackback feature comes in built with platforms like wordpress but with blog service providers like Blogger you have to do this manually. Read the rest of this entry

What is Pinging? UPDATED List of 65 Ping Services!

Ping is a XML-RPC based push mechanism. It notifies search engines and other servers that your blog is ready with updates. Once servers get notified by ping services, they visit your blog, crawl your contents and update their database. In order to get a good stand, you need to use ping service every time you update your blog. Blogs like Wordpress and Nucleus use an inbuilt pinging service and can notify severs automatically once you update your blog. But with blogger blogs, you have to do it manually. Read the rest of this entry

Create Custom Header in Blogger Templates

All blogger templates come with a specific default header. But it’s not necessary to stick with that default header, we can go ahead, create our own header and use that in our blogger blogs. For this, you have to use your favourite image editing tools like MS paint, Adobe Photoshop etc. Measure the width of your blog and create any attractive header according to that. You can play with the height of the header as you want. Once you are done with your header, it’s time to implement that on our blogger blog. Read the rest of this entry

How To Set Up A Custom Domain With Blogger

Blogger is the perfect place to start blogging. But after getting a decent experience in blogging and blogspot, you should consider having a custom domain for your blogger blog. Setting up a custom domain name with your blog will provide your blog a whole new identity and will look professional. You don’t need to use those longer blogspot sub domains, get a simple and attractive custom domain for your blog. Here I will guide you with the steps to find and  set up a custom blogger domain name.

Once you buy a domain, you can use that with your existing blogger blog. Blogger will charge you nothing for this which means you won’t have to pay a single penny for hosting. At the mean time blogger will redirect all your traffic to your new custom domain. This means you are not going to loose your valuable traffic. You can configure any domain to point to your blogger blog and it will start working within few hours. Lets discuss about this step by step. Read the rest of this entry