Magic with Meta Tags and Search Engine Optimization

First of all, don't let me mislead you, meta tags are not the "magic bullet" that will skyrocket your site to the top of all search page listings. They are a tool that will help improve your standings in search engines that use them. Use them with other marketing strategies to garner more page views.

Another thing to remember: most search engines look at the body of text on your pages, as well as the page title. They take this information as higher relevance than any meta tags. So, be sure to always have a relevant (TITLE) on your pages, and relevant content in the body of the page. This will improve your rankings more than just meta tags alone.

What is a Meta Tag?
A meta tag is a hidden tag that lives in the (HEAD) of an HTML document. It is used to supply additional information about the HTML document. The meta tag has three possible attributescontent,http-equiv, andname. Meta tags always provide information in a name/value pair. Thenameandhttp-equivattributes provide the name information and thecontentprovides the value information. Meta tags do not have a closing tag.

content
This attribute will always be found in a well formed meta tag. It provides the value information in the name/value pair. It can be any valid string, which you should enclose in quotes.

name
This is the name portion in the name value pair. You can use any name that you would like or that might be useful to you. Some common names are:

• keywords - words that identify what the page is about, usually used in search engines
  (meta name="keywords" content="HTML, HTML help, meta tags, promotion, web sites")
  
  
• description - a short description of the page
  (meta name="description" content="Boost your marketing strategy with meta tags")
  
  
• author - the author's name and possibly email address
  (meta name="author" content="Jennifer Kyrnin")
  
  
• robots - to allow or disallow indexing by robots
  (meta name="robots" content="noindex")
  
  
• copyright - the copyright date of the page
  (meta name="copyright" content="August 1999")

http-equiv
This attribute is also a name for the name/value pair, but it is used by the server to include that name/value pair in the MIME document header passed to the Web browser before sending the actual HTML document. Some common http-equiv types are:

• charset - defines the character set used in the page
  (meta http-equiv="charset" content="iso-8859-1")
  
  
• expires - when the document will be out of date
  (meta http-equiv="expires" content="31 Dec 99")
  
  
• refresh - sets the number of seconds to reload the page or reload to a new page
  Reload the page every 10 seconds:
  (meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10")
  Reload to a new page after 10 seconds:
  (meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://webdesign.about.com/")

How to Use a Meta Tag
Meta tags are included in the (HEAD) of an HTML document. If you are using meta tags to improve your standing in search engines, then you should focus on your description and keywords.

The description tag
Use the description tag to describe what your page is about. Engines that use it will supply the content of this tag when displaying a list of links. For example, if you do a search on About.com, you will see the description listed on the search results page.

The keywords tag
Keywords help search engines to categorize your site, and to allow people to find your pages more quickly. However, most search engines have limits as to how many meta keywords are viewed. It is a good idea to review your keywords and make sure that they are as concise and specific as possible.

Note: Replace "(" to "<" and ")" to ">"

How to place adsense in blog posts

I has been trying since the morning on finding out how to place a adsense ad in the blog posts as I did in my posts .In all searches I found the various tricks for editing the blog template to have a adsense ad on the top of each page instead of displaying the ads only in permalink pages and not on the home page.Im sharing the code which I found on the net and which I thought might be useful to you also.

STEPS

* Login to blogger and go to your template

* Find the tag <$BlogItemBody$> in your blogger template

* Now copy the whole code from the text area below and replace <$BlogItemBody$> with the code

* Inside the code find <--- your adsense code here ---> and replace it with your adsense code

* After that save the template changes and you will be able to see the adsense link in your permalink pages

start">

body"><$BlogItemBody$>

I hope this thing will increase your CTR and bring you more revenues.But remember that adsense allows just 3 ads per page.Thanks to Adsensical author.

Drive traffic to your blog or website

If you started a blog and you want to make some future,you need to concentrate on your traffic in the start,rather than getting your friends to click on the ads.But how to make people come to your website,read it and come again.Analysing and detailing it will take almost a year.Here by im posting some quick tips for the new bloggers.

Content :You post even just one post a day,it should have content which has quality.Its better to have single good post than 10 bad ones.viewers always appreciate the pages with good content.You should make your best effort in getting them back to your site again.Make your posts conversational, pithy and topical. Keep them short and stick to one topic per post.Write often and regularly so that both readers and search engines visit your blog more often.

Search Engines : one of the best sources of traffic if you make your site well organised.Come up with nice keywording and you will get good page ranking .The more is your page rank the more the ad provide want to pay to you.Make sure your blog URL has got very good keyword in its title.Use submission sites to submit your URL in all the search engines like google,yahoo..Dont forget to submit your feed in RSS directories.There are sites which has submission directory links in bulk.Go there and submit your feed URL.use feedstats to attract users like the feedburner chicklet i have in my subscribe box.

Signature : post your blog address in the signature in your email making the users know your presence in the web.Go to each and every place where you find a lot of surfers like forums,social networks,community discussion and write your link over there.Write your link in the comments of the most famous blogs.But remember that Google dont count this as a linkback to your site.

Email subscription : Dont forget to give a link of subscribe to updates through email on your blog.

Social bookmarking: Add a link of submit my site to digg,redditt,blinklist,buzz it and ....at the end of each article your write like i have on my blog.Submit your articles to these sites to get best traffic.

Backlinking : Try to contact authors of good blogs and request them for backlinks.It should nt look to them that you are begging,Write a letter like this"I have something interesting for you on my webpage.If you find my site or blog interesting,give me a link o my site on your webpage"

How to add different Meta Tags to your blogger posts ?

For those who don't know about Meta Tags , let me introduce you What is a Meta tag ?

A meta tag is an element of HTML that often describes the contents of a Web page, and is placed near the beginning of the page's source code.Meta Tags are not displayed in the page . Search engines use information provided in meta tags to index pages by subject . Most common keywords are Description and Keywords .

Normally we add meta tags to the entire blog in Blogger so that search engines understand what we are writing about . But it will be better if you can add meta tags at the post level . So How to add different Meta Tags in your Blogger posts ?First I will tell you How to add meta Tags to your Blogger blog ?

• Login to your Blogger account , and Navigate to Layout --> Edit HTML . Find the line below.

• Now add the following piece of code below the above line and replace YOUR-BLOG-URL with your blog main page URL .
  

YOUR-BLOG-URL/"'>

• With this you are done adding meta tags to your blog . Now we will add different tags to your Blogger posts . Add the following piece of code below the code which you added above and replace YOUR-BLOGPOST-URL with the specific URL of the post for which you want meta tags to be added .

YOUR-BLOGPOST-URL"'>

• Repeat the above step for all posts to whom you want unique meta tags to be added and save your template .

email contact form for Blogger

I have created a special gmail address for reader of this blog to contact me using mailto link:

Click here to email Me

and I am fine with it even though the email address do get harvested by email harvester and I do get spam. But gmail spam filter is so good all of them ends up in the spam folder, so it don't trouble me.

However, if you are picky, you may want to create an email contact form for your visitors to contact you without revealing your email address. You can get it by going to Create a Contact Form for Blogger. I had originally intended to use it to demonstrate, but what I didn't like about that site was when I landed on the site, I got a message that IE7 blocked a pop-up which may cause security risk, and also the fact that one need to download a Webform Designer software which I didn't want to do.

If you don't mind that, and you want a contact form badly enough, you can go to the above site which will give you a link to the page to download WebForm Designer, and if you don't want to set up your own script to email you the form's data, you may also be interested in our free form-to-email service.

How to make a sitemap for your blogger blog ?

There may be other ways for creating a sitemap for your blogger blog.But here Ill tell you the simplest way by which you can create a site map for your blog.Just follow the instructions below and you will have your site map in minutes.

1. Visit Google Webmaster Tools sitemaps page and sign up to a free account.Blogspot accounts are now integrated with google accounts.So use your google login for making a Google webmaster account.

2. Once you sign in to the webmaster,Go to Webmaster tools [Including sitemaps].In that page,You will find "Add site".Enter the URL of your site and press Ok.

3. Now after adding your blog, you need to get it verified.For that ,click on "Manage:URL of your site" on the webmaster tools page.In the new page that opens now,click on Manage Site Verification in the left side menu.

4. On the verification page,you will find your verification Meta tag which will look something like this

5. Now go to your blogger dashboard,click on template and paste this code in the section of the code.Now save the changes of your template.

6. Now go to sitemaps tab on the top menu in Google webmasters central.

7. In that click on Add a sitemap and then choose general web sitemap in the dropdown menu.Now it will ask you for the URL of your sitemap location.Your blogs Atom feed is your sitemap now.

8. So paste the link of your atom feed now.If you have your blog feed,the your atom feed will be http://Blog URL/atom.xml?orderby=updated .Now click ok and you are done.Now it will show your sitemap in the sitemaps page as atom.xml.After few hours,it will review your site map and will set your status to pending.After some hours you will find the status set to Ok.

Now Google will index your pages much faster than earlier.So update your pages and get more visitors from search now .

How to add sitemaps auto discovery to robot.txt ?

A sitemap is essential for your blog to have your posts indexed as soon as you write them.From now you can add sitemap link URL to your robot.txt file instead of going to Google webmaster central and submitting your sitemap there.Ask.com, Google, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo! have announced the support of “autodiscovery” of Sitemaps. The new open-format auto discovery allows webmasters to specify the location of their Sitemaps within their robots.txt file, eliminating the need to submit sitemaps to each search engine separately.This will be a lot helpful to the webmasters who can now easily submit their content to the search engines and benefit from reduced unnecessary traffic by the crawlers and bots. The search engines get information with regards to pages to index as well as metadata with clues about which pages are newly updated and which pages are identified as the most important and search users get more fresh content.Just by adding one single line to the robot.txt file in your root directory ,you can add auto sitemap discovery.

Simply add the sitemap url following the word sitemap like this

Sitemap:URL of sitemap

Display CSS codes and Scripts in unique Style - Blogger Post Styling hack

All of you might have noticed that in my blogger posts I use a custom CSS style to show CSS codes , Scripts and other important notes. After looking at this cool features one of my reader asked me how to do this. So I am Posting this " Post Styling Hack for blogger to display scripts and CSS codes in unique style " .

Just Follow This steps to add this " Post Styling Hack " to your Blog .

Step 1 :

Login to your Blogger account and navigate to Layout section . Then go to Edit Html subtab .

No Need to Check Expand Widgets Box

Step 2 : Add This CSS code above this line ]]> .

.codeview {

margin : 15px 35px 15px 15px;

padding : 10px;

clear : both;

list-style-type : none;

background : #f9f9f9 url(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii150/mohamedrias/cv-1.gif) no-repeat right bottom;

border-top : 1px solid #eeeeee;

border-right : 2px solid #cccccc;

border-bottom : 2px solid #cccccc;

border-left : 1px solid #eeeeee;

}

.codeview li {

font-size : 13px;

line-height : 24px;

font-family : "Courier New", "MS Sans Serif", sans-serif, serif;

color : #333333;

font-weight : normal;

margin : 0;

padding : 0;

}

you can change the text in red to your wish to suit your Template.

Step 3 :

Whenever you create new posts just include the speical Script ( CSS code , Scripts , etc ) within this div section .

...Insert the Special code here...

Don't use id instead of class

that's it you have add this post Styling hack to your blogger template .

See you soon with a new hack . please tell your suggestions to this post. It will help me to improve the standard of this hack.

Numbered Page Navigation for Blogger

The ability to 'paginate' Blogger blogs has been a long requested feature. Pagination allows us to number blog pages like those of a book, offering readers the ability to navigate deeper into the archives with ease when compared to the 'newer' and 'older' post links.

After many failed attempts, I was almost ready to admit defeat with this function until I discovered this excellent script by Mohamed of Blogger Accessories. This script replaces the default blog pager (links to newer, older and home pages) with numbered page navigation. Furthermore, it offers the ability to customize the number of page links and the number of posts displayed on each page.

Mohamed's Blogger pagination script may be installed using two different methods:

• Customizing the template code
• Adding as an HTML/JavaScript widget (gadget) below the main posts section

Both of these installation methods will achieve a similar effect. I personally find adding the code directly to the template makes it easier to customize the style of the pagination links, but if you feel uncomfortable editing your template, the widget installation may be much easier for you.

Here is how the finished installation will appear in your blog:

Once installed, these "page numbers" will appear on your home, archive and labels pages, allowing your readers to easily access pages in your archives. However, the page numbers will not appear on individual post pages. I've noticed many blogs which use pagination like this, and among them none displayed these page links beneath individual posts.

To learn more about using the numbered pagination script for Blogger, pop over to Blogger Accessories to read the useful tutorials Mohamed has posted.

My Slightly Modified Version
As you may have noticed, I'm using a slightly modified version of this script here on Blogger Buster. When customizing the style of Mohamed's original version, I noticed a few elements which I preferred to change for my own preferences, and also modified the CSS for how the numbered links are displayed.
Add the CSS code to your style section

If you would prefer to use this slightly different version instead, here is what you should do.

Firstly, copy all of the code below and paste this just before the closing tag in your template:

.showpageArea a {
text-decoration:underline;
}
.showpageNum a {
text-decoration:none;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
margin:0 3px;
padding:3px;
}
.showpageNum a:hover {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
background-color:#ccc;
}
.showpagePoint {
color:#333;
text-decoration:none;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
background: #ccc;
margin:0 3px;
padding:3px;
}
.showpageOf {
text-decoration:none;
padding:3px;
margin: 0 3px 0 0;
}
.showpage a {
text-decoration:none;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
padding:3px;
}
.showpage a:hover {
text-decoration:none;
}
.showpageNum a:link,.showpage a:link {
text-decoration:none;
color:#333;
}

This should change the colors of text and links in the pagination to match the styles already present in your blog template. So if your default text is white against a dark background, the "Pages (#)" section of the script should appear the same way. The color for the background and hover effects of the numbers can be altered according to your preferences by editing the hex values to match the style of your own template.

Add the JavaScript code beneath your posts

The second part of the installation is to add the JavaScript code beneath your posts which will locate and replace the existing "Newer/Older Posts" link. To add this script, go to Layout>Edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard, and do not tick the "expand widget templates" box (it's much easier to add the code while the widgets are contracted). Then find this section of code (or similar) in your template:

Immediately after the closing tag, add the following section of code:
Once you have added this code, attempt to preview your template to ensure there are no code errors. You will not be able to see the script in action on the preview, but this step ensures no adverse effects to your layout.

In the code above, you will notice that I have highlighted three sections of code in bold red. You may need to customize these sections to better suit your preferences:

On line 5, you may need to change the ".com" to reflect your domain extention if you use a custom domain.

var isFirstPage = thisUrl.substring(thisUrl.length-5,thisUrl.length)==".com/";

This default installation should work fine for anyone hosted on Blog*Spot or a dot.com domain, but you will need to alter this section if your custom domain ends in .co.uk or .info for example.

In lines 19 and 20, you can change these values to alter how many posts are displayed on each page, and how many links will be visible at the same time.

The var pageCount = 5; section defiines the number of posts displayed on each page, while var displayPageNum = 5; defines the number of links which are displayed (eg: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5) beneath the posts section.

Once you have added this JavaScript code and made any changes nescessary for your needs, save your template and open up your blog in your browser. Now you should see the pagination links appear beneath your main posts section, and also on Labels and Archive pages.

20 Essential Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog

Gaining exposure for your blog is critical to building a following, readership, and revenue. Besides the basic SEO steps of adding compelling and keyword friendly titles, URL structure and descriptions (along with the basic Wordpress SEO plugins) basic link building for blogs begins with listing them in blog directories.

Personally, I love launching a new blog, or adding one to an existing site, and watching the high valued links roll in. And as we know, BLOG = Better Listings On Google.

There are many paths to consider when building links to your site or blog such as link baiting or blogroll link swapping, but few are as easy to implement and cost effective as submitting to blog directories - and good link juice is essential to a healthy growing blog.

Let us take a look at 20 popular directories worthy of your consideration.

1. Best of the Web Blog Search La Crem de la Crem, Best of the Web’s Blog Directory is very selective and only lists aged and valuable blogs. A link from here is majestic and well deserved.

2. EatonWeb Blog Directory is a real jewel with many aged inbound links and a blog rating system. You may have to pay a fee for your blog to be reviewed, but like Yahoo, the review fee is well worth the few dollars.

3. Blog Hub offers a drop down category and member blog list. With its “new blogger” list and hot topics, Blog Hub is a great directory to list your site.

4. Upon visiting Bloggernity, you find a crisp, clean, and easy to navigate site. Scrolling down, you find the new blogs. As there is little advertising on the home page, it is pleasant to the eye of the reader as well.

5. Blogarama has an impressive listing of over 65,000 blogs. The site is well designed and follows the same content categories as many other sites.

6. One of the most selective Blog Directories on the web (and Wordpress powered), Blog Search Engine is owned by Performancing’s parent company and serves search results powered by IceRocket.

7. Blog Catalog features a vast directory of categories, from academic to writing, while offering the ability to search by country, language, or user. It has a no frills design, but offers convenient member access through simple blog registration.

8. Globe of Blogs has too many features to list. In order to be listed on the site, the blog must not be commercial. The site may appear to be busy, but I like the features of being able to search by title, author, or subject. Narrowing the search becomes easier on this blog.

9. The ultimate directory of British blogs connotes all things British. It is not directed by location, but by the culture! It is asked that bloggers be genuinely “britished.” Being listed in this blog reaches readers all the way across the pond!

10. Blog Universe is the perfect place to promote your video or podcast themed blog. Its layout is easy to navigate. Although the content is limited, it is an all around good directory site worthy of submission.

11. Bigger Blogs is a relatively new blog directory with only a few blogs registered. The blog is intertwined with a business directory. The blog section is difficult to find, and it is located through a link on the right side of the business directory page. However, the benefit is that the earlier you are accepted on a blog directory, the more exposure your blog will obtain. In addition, a back link is indeed a back link, so this can help with your search engine placement.

12. Bloggeries has the best categories and subcategories home page on the internet. The layout is clear and concise, and readers are able to find what they are looking for in a snap!

13. Bloggapedia has an interesting and eye catching homepage. Readers are easily connected to the top blogs and newest posts. Innovative categories and a colorful design make this blog directory a hit.

14. Spillbean is a well-designed blog directory site with categories such as health, society, internet, and personal. The site is aesthetically pleasing, but there are not many listings yet.

15. Blogging Fusion is a blog with over sixty categories. These categories include photo blogs and family focused blogs. Blogging Fusion has an good amount of blog listings within the directory, and it also has visitor stats available.

16. Blogflux is not only a tool for bloggers, but a directory that has the listings in alphabetic order. The blog listings are organized and clear. It is definitely an effective blog directory in which to be listed.

17. The blogs on the top listings of Bloglisting are fun, colourful, and catch the attention of the reader. Bloglisting displays the page ranking blogs, which is a helpful tool when determining with whom you want to exchange links.

18. Blogio may be a small blog directory with few listings, but it worthy of a submission. Despite its small size, there are quality blogs and a solid ability to search on this site.

19. Blog Explosion claims to be the largest blog promoter on the internet. They have a vast directory but do not seem to have direct links. However, the listing in the directory can still show up in SERP’s, so keep this in mind.

20. Super Blog Directory is a great site that offers tools to posters that others do not. You can see the latest submitted links and blogs on the site, which is a perk that draws traffic into the directory.

The above listings are a glimpse inside the large and vast world of blog directories and the valuable inbound links that your can build for your blog and your business.

There are countless more directories at your disposal, which are always just a Google, Yahoo, Live or Ask.com search away.

What blog directories do you suggest? Leave a comment below :)

Rank High in Search Engines with SEO Blog

Today, with the very tight competition in the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) industry, more and more new and effective marketing schemes are emerging. All these schemes are designed to promote website popularity, high page rankings, enormous traffic, and visibility to search engines. Among the current rage today in the SEO field is the SEO Blog. Majority of webmasters have blogs, but unfortunately, most of them fail to maximize the full potential of their SEO Blog. Maybe the reason behind this is lack of knowledge and understanding about how to use SEO Blog as a tool to skyrocket your website.

It is important to note that an SEO Blog is an effective tool for providing a steady surge of fresh and quality content. Once it has maintained top notch and updated content, the SEO Blog will definitely boost a website's ranking in the search engine result pages. So, this only means that once an SEO Blog is created and maintained wisely, it can give your website massive traffic and popularity.

SEO Blog Tips

Below are few SEO Blog tips to jumpstart your own blog and maximize its full potential:

1. If you want to succeed in your SEO Blog, host it in your own domain and not on free hosting services. Hosting your own blog will maximize the links pointing to your website. Search engines usually use a blog's link popularity to rank it. Thus, the more links pointing to your site, the higher your page rank will be.

2. Give your blog an RSS feed. An RSS feed allows your SEO Blog to be easily syndicated. The syndication will allow your blog to get link backs from RSS directories or others that display the feed. With this, it is important that each of your blog post has an RSS feed to keep your readers updated about your blog's latest activity.

3. Make sure that your SEO Blog has quality content. Grammar matters! Thus, it is necessary that you keep good quality content with proper punctuation and mastery on the English language. Search engines are meticulous on blog entries that lack proper punctuations, grammar, or capitalization. Once your post doesn't follow this rule, it is possible that search engines will presume that your SEO Blog is created by bots, leading to a possible ban.

4. Use catchy SEO Blog titles. This will grab the attention of the readers browsing your blog. There is no better way to lure blog visitors than magnetizing them with attention-grabber blog titles.

5. Employ SEO techniques like integrating powerful keywords or phrases. When writing a blog entry in your SEO Blog, make sure to write them like you are making a web copy. Blog entries should be convincing, nice to read, and keywords should flow naturally.

Trust Only the Industry's SEO Blog Specialist

There are other effective tips to make your SEO Blog a success. Though you can easily grasp and apply effective SEO techniques to easily boost your own website, you always have the wise option to hire excellent webmasters who can do the SEO Blog and website promotions for you. One of the most trusted SEO specialists is http://www.sitefling.com. SiteFling guarantees your website instant high page ranking, huge traffic, and search engine popularity. Visit Site Fling now and see your website dominate the web.

Place Adsense at top or bottom of Blogger posts

Here are some secret tips for blogger that wish to place your Google Adsense Ads inside the Blogspot post (for Blogger.com users).


Download your blogger's XML code for backup before you start, in case anything goes wrong.
First, copy your Adsense code from your Google Adsense account to a notepad.


Then press Ctrl+H to do three replacements for your adsense code to make it works in Blogger XML.

After that go to your Blogger's Layout > Edit Html

Then, click on Expand Widget Templates.


Use your keyboard's Ctrl+F to find for the destination code:



1. To place your Adsense at the top part inside your Blogger post,
This is the line we want to find.
Place your modified Adsense Code after the red line.




2. To place your Adsense at the bottom part inside your Blogger post,
This is the line we want to find.
Place your modified Adsense Code after the red line.


After finish, click on SAVE TEMPLATE and get done!

13 POPULAR Wordpress and Blogger Hacking Tips Resource Websites

There are some great sites from the Internet that provide WordPress and Blogger- theme plugin reviews, hacks, tips, and guides for custom templates.
If you have a wordpress blog or blogger blogspot, you can enhance it so that it look professional and eye-catching for your visitors. In this post, I will share with you the most popular Wordpress and Blogger Hacking Tips Websites where you apply those hacks into your blog template to make your blog look different from the rest.

Daily Blog Tips

Blogger Buster

Blogger Tips And Tricks


Tips For New Bloggers


The Blog Doctor


Agusramadhani


Wpdesigner


vandelay Design


WeblogToolsCollection


noupe


Web Designer Wall


ithemes


WordPress Hacks
Make sure you've backup your current template before you do any hacking so that you can restore it back in case anything went wrong.

How to create POST SUMMARY blogger blogspot with a READ MORE

Creating a post summary only format (selective expandable posts) is very useful for bloggers especially for those who write long posts. Besides, this method provides a teaser of their full post on the main page that would encourage readers to read the whole article on the exact post pages instead.

The circled "Read More......" method above is what we are going to create to prevent from showing long long post.

This method will also makes a tidy blog, prevent long loading time of showing all the exact full post of your blog if you have lots of long long post as below in font page of your blog.

With a combination of JavaScript and Blogger code, you can edit to select which summary post format will be displayed on your main, archive and search pages.
Only on the exact post pages, the full content of your post will be displayed.

This is an improved method adapted from the previous hackosphere's original method.

Guide below showing steps to do it.

The blue color code is your original code in blogger, while the red color is the add on code.

This modification only add on the red color code into the original code, that's it.

Make sure you download your existing blogger template for backup before you start.

Ok, Let's start.

Step 1.
Select the checkbox named "Expand Widget Templates", which is right above the
template code, to expand it into more code. You can use "Ctrl + F" to find the code for replace.
Instruction step 1

Step 2.
Find the div "post-body" and add the portion of code in red color.
Instruction step 2

Step 3.
Create a blank test post in your blog with any title such as TESTING 123, select Edit Html mode, and paste the post code from "Instruction step 3" in your new post:
Instruction step 3


If you create a new post now, it shows you clearly where to type the summary and where to add the rest of the post.

Please notethat you could divide some or all of your old posts into summary and full post by editing them. The "Read more" link will appear only for the posts that have been divided like this.

Adding the circled "post code" from Instruction step 3 to where the summary stop.

Adding the circled "post code" from Instruction step 3 to the bottom of post.

Tips:

If you click "Older posts" link, the "Read more" link will not appear, you can use the same code method in step 3 for the test post you created to adjust the summary content that you want to show in your post.

Related Entries in Blogger with three line of codes Embedded in Blogspot Blogger Platform

For Blogger Platform.

Preview of function.

There are many ways to show 'Related Entries' or 'Related Posts' for blogger platform, like the one I have on my blog. Most of them require lot of changes in the template code.

Here is an excellent solution which only involved 3 lines of code to be embedded within the template. Let's start how to implement this excellent way to show related posts in blogger.

Step 1:

Open your Blogger Layout>>Edit HTML>>Expand Widget Templates

<*div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/>

...

<*/div>

Step 2:

Add this line of red code below the code in step 1

<*div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/>

...

<*/div>

<*div id='related_posts'/>

Step 3:
Find for <*/body> at footer
put the following code before it
<*script src='http://www.google.com/jsapi'/>
<*script src='http://brps.appspot.com/brps.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<*/body>

Remove all the *, as the * use here for is for posting purpose to avoid the code run.

Google Blog converters 1.0 officially released

Now u know that blogger allows users the ability to export all contents of their blog to some new blog. BUT This new Open Source project provides the ability to easily move blog posts and comments from service to service.


This initial release provides Python libraries and runnable scripts that convert between the export formats of Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType, and WordPress. This project contains a number of converters to and from different Blog services. The code is written in Python with scripts to execute the conversions either on the command-line, through a Windows batch script, or hosted on Google App Engine.

In addition, the source code includes templates for hosting these conversions on Google App Engine. Future additions to the project will include support for BlogML and synchronization tools between various services that do not provide a import/export feature but do provide APIs for accessing and modifying blog contents.



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Some Google Tricks

Search engine tricks

A few things you might want to try with Google:

Hand type the following prefixes and note their utility:

link:url Shows other pages with links to that url.

related:url same as "what's related" on serps.

site:domain restricts search results to the given domain.

allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url.

inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.

allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.

intitle: similar to allintitle, but only for the next word. "intitle:webmasterworld google" finds only pages with webmasterworld in the title, and google anywhere on the page.

cache:url will show the Google version of the passed url.

info:url will show a page containing links to related searches, backlinks, and pages containing the url. This is the same as typing the url into the search box.

spell: will spell check your query and search for it.

stocks: will lookup the search query in a stock index.

filetype: will restrict searches to that filetype. "-filetype:doc" to remove Microsoft word files.

daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.

maps: If you enter a street address, a link to Yahoo Maps and to MapBlast will be presented.

phone: enter anything that looks like a phone number to have a name and address displayed. Same is true for something that looks like an address (include a name and zip code)

site:www.somesite.net "+www.somesite.+net"

(tells you how many pages of your site are indexed by google)

allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title

allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title

I hope there is something new in here for you and maybe this infos will be helpfull for ya.

How to Hide Blogger Navbar in New Blogger

Do you want get rid of The Blogger Navbar/Toolbar?

The Blogger Navbar is a default navigation and search bar on top of all blogspot blogs and they allow you to change the color, but sometimes it may not blend with your template.

How to hide the Navbar.

It's very easy to hide the Navbar because you can do it by adding a CSS tag to your blogger template. The code below hides the Navbar in new Blogger.

#navbar-iframe {

height:0px;

visibility:hidden;

display:none;

}

If you just transferred form the old Blogger to the new you can see the code to hide the Navbar is not working. That's because Google have change the CSS tags to display the Blogger Navbar. So you have to find the code below and replace it with the code above to hide the Navbar.

#b-navbar {

height:0px;

visibility:hidden;

display:none;

}

The code I have showed you works perfect to hide the Blogger Navbar, but there is alternate ways to hide the navbar.

Bloggers policy page don't anything about removing the blogger navigation toolbar. So you can safe full remove the Blogger Navbar if you like so. But stay updated on Blogger TOS, so you don't violate them. Read blogger TOS.

Optimizing blog

Optimizing new Blogger blog

Optimizing the text in your posts so it targets a maximum of 3 search phrases is a really good thing to do because by optimizing for maximum of 3 search phrases you are likely to get a higher search engine ranking and thereby a better chance to get readers to your blog.

How do you optimise the text

Headlines are importent

By using the H1 ... H6 html tags for important headlines before paragraphs you are automatic optimizing you blog, because these tags have a special relevancy weight in SEO. You can look at it as if a hole paragraphs have a headline then this part must be important, nothing strange about that.

If you use your keywords in the headlines it is a good thing to do, but you don’t have to go extreme and for the most important keyword use a H1 and a H2 for secondary keywords and so on. It's just a good thing to have a keyword or two in the headlines. For the H4, H5 and H6 don't spend time to considering how to use them because they have so little influence it's not worth considering.

Main keyword phrases to be in the first line

Another good idea is to get your main keyword phrases in the first line of your post or as high up in the post you can get them. The logic here is that words in the top of the post must be more important then words longer down in the post.

So try to get your main keyword or keyword phrases in the first or second line of your post or as high as you can get it. I know that it's not always as easy as it sound, but try.

Consider the frequency of your keyword

By considering the frequency of your keyword in your post, you can also optimize by doing that. When there is a good frequency for your keywords 4 - 8 % of the total words in your post, the search engines also gives you a better ranking by doing this, but remember as always don't overdo it. Remember that your text in html anchors also counts when you are looking at the frequency.

How to Add Email Subscription Box for Blog

* Go to http://feedburner.com/ Feedburner.com and Click "Register" .

* Complete the form to create a new FeedBurner account.

* Burn your feed by inserting your blog address, click "Next". If there's more than one feeds, choose either one as the source. I chose "RSS". Click "Next".

* You can choose to change your feed title and the feed address, then click "Activate Feed".

* Click "Next" at the bottom of the page.

* On the stats configuration page, check the box for "Clickthroughs".

* Click "Next".

* Click the "Publicize" tab.

* Click "Email Subscriptions" on the left sidebar.

* Click "Activate".

* Choose either Subscription Form Code or Subscription Link Code to put on your blog.

* You can copy and paste the code on your Blog sidebar or click the drop-down and select "Blogger" to add the widget automatically.

* Blogger will open in a new window. Follow the instructions there and add the new widget.