Show or Display Yahoo Messenger Status Icon on Blogger Blogs

Posted by Bapun 29 October, 2009 (3) Comment

Blogging is not all about sharing great tips, it’s also about building relationship with fellow bloggers and readers. Giving a way to your blog readers to communicate with you will surely increase your popularity as well as reach. Displaying Yahoo Messenger status icon on Blogger blogs will allow your blog readers to communicate with you whenever you come online. We will be using some pre-configured Yahoo! Messenger code to show your Yahoo Messenger online or offline status on your Blogger blog. Read the rest of this entry

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Tutorial on Adding Alexa Widget to Blogger Blogs

Posted by Bapun 15 October, 2009 (3) Comment

Having an Alexa widget on the blog might influence the Alexa ranking – this has been the belief of many bloggers. I don’t want to argue on this point since this is still a debatable topic and the basic aim of this post is to show how to add Alexa widget to a Blogger blog. Alexa, a website that assigns traffic rank to websites based on the daily traffic, pageviews with other factors has got a handful of widgets that displays the blog rank. Alexa widget sends the accurate traffic data to Alexa on every page load since every time the page is loaded, Alexa script is called and Alexa stores the information to calculate the blog rank. Read the rest of this entry

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How to Create and Display Photo Slideshow on Blogger

Posted by Bapun 15 October, 2009 (2) Comment

Photo Slideshow is the best way to do more with a little space. There are bloggers who love to show a Slideshow using their pictures, technology based photos or niche images and this slideshow speak more louder than any text since it displays a number of images serially and takes a very little space, literally. You can keep the Blogger Slideshow either on the sidebar or just below the post by editing the HTML template. Read the rest of this entry

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Adding “Sharing is Sexy” Social Bookmarking Widget in Blogger

Posted by Bapun 8 September, 2009 (8) Comment

Adding social bookmarking buttons in your blog increases the chances of getting popular since your readers will find it easy to submit your blog posts to various social bookmarking sites. There are several social bookmarking widgets available today for Blogger blogs, however if you want a sexy and attractive bookmarking widget for your blog, you can try Sharing is Sexy widget in your blog. This sexy and attractive widget has been coded by Naeem. Read the rest of this entry

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How to Create a Labels Cloud Widget for Blogger / Blogspot

Posted by Bapun 20 May, 2009 (9) Comment

Labels cloud, also known as Tags cloud is a widget that sums up all your blogger / blogspot blog labels and displays with style. By default blogger blog shows the list of labels in one column and if you have a lots of labels, the list goes really long. But, labels cloud add style to it, highlights the important labels and gives less importance to labels with minimal posts, with the freedom to remove label number counts. This is useful for both, blogs having lots of posts with labels or blogs having less no of posts with few labels. Read the rest of this entry

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Yahoo! Search Widget for Blogger / Blogspot

Posted by Bapun 15 May, 2009 (0) Comment

Most of bloggers use Google search box in their blogspot blogs. But adding a Yahoo search box will give your blog a whole new look with a difference in search algorithms. Yes, Yahoo and Google use different algorithms to show search results and hence you can give your blog readers a whole new searching experience. Yahoo search box will pull out search results using Yahoo! search engine. This search widget is designed to fit in any blogger sidebars, no matter if you are using any wide or fixed width template. Your visitors get the liberty and scope of searching either your blog or the whole web. Read the rest of this entry

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Top Authors Widget For Blogger / Blogspot

Posted by Bapun 15 May, 2009 (1) Comment

Blogger platform allows blog owners to have more than one author. You can add unlimited authors to your blog and all of them can contribute to your blog with their posts. But since there is no default top authors widgets available on Blogger like Wordpress, you can’t show the list of top authors. But here is the plugin to show the list of all authors on your blog with the number of posts they have made. This widget takes last 5000 posts into calculation and shows the list accordingly. Adding top authors widget to your blogger blog’s sidebar will also inspire authors with less post to post more and be the No.1 among all authors ;) Read the rest of this entry

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Add Recent Comments Widget in Blogger / Blogspot

Posted by Bapun 3 May, 2009 (1) Comment

Adding recent comments widget in your blogger blog will show the activeness of your blog. Once a reader finds a recent comments widget in your blog’s sidebar, he comes to know that you blog is pretty active and that encourages him to post comments on your blog. In this way you can gather some active user base to comment on your blog posts. Grab the below recent comments widget for blogger and add on your blogspot blog. Read the rest of this entry

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