Facebook has already overtaken Yahoo according to the stats from Alexa. So along with search engine optimization, you should also try to bring some traffic from social networking sites like Feacebook. Add these buttons to your blog and help your visitors to share your articles easily on FB. Instructions to follow: Log in to Blogger -> Layout -> Edit HTML, and select the tickbox "Edit Widget Templates" Now find this code in your template: <div class='post-header-line-1'/> Now immediately below it, paste the code for the facebook button (select the appropriate one for your blog). As a link: Code to paste: <!--FB-BUTTON-STARTS--><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <span style="text-align: right;"> <a name="fb_share" type="icon_link" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer...">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect..." type="text/javascript"></script> </span></b:if><!--FB-BUTTON-STOPS--> Button #1 Code to paste: <!--FB-BUTTON-STARTS--><b:if...
- Divya Sai
Now Blogger has given you another reason to show their navbar. Previously only four colors were available, viz. Blue, Black, Tan, and Silver, which of coure do not fit with all templates. Most of the bloggers usually prefer to hide the navbar completely, but a few weeks back a better method was published on BloggerStop to toggle the navbar with mouse-hover effect. Today Blogger has introduced two new "transparent" navbars - "Transparent Light" and "Transparent Dark." To quote a few lines from the post: These new color schemes take advantage of the ability of modern browsers to render transparency (a technique known to web designers as "alpha blending"). This allows the navbar background to blend together with your blog's background color and pattern. The "Transparent Light" color scheme has a semi-transparent white background, producing subtle pastel colors, while the background of "Transparent Dark" is a semi-transparent black that produces a shaded look. And also, as it was already...
- Divya Sai
A simple Google search will show you how many people using Blogger have lost their blog posts, comments, templates and/or widgets. Usually blogs are blocked by Blogger if any inappropriate/illegal content is found in the blogs, but again you can see that many Bloggers aren't aware of this and they read the Blogger TOS only when their blogs get banned and they completely lose the access/control over their blogs, and so they cannot even correct or remove the inappropriate content from their blogs. While it is important to read and follow Blogger TOS and not to spam their service, but at the same time you must take precautions and regular backups to avoid any accidental deletion of your blog. So from now onwards, on every last Friday of the month a post will be published on BloggerStop to remind all the readers to take backup and store files safely on your PC. Quick Links: 1. Tutorial for blog posts and comments backup. 2. Tutorial for template and widgets backup (read the first 6 steps...
- Divya Sai