Blogger Templates And Hacks: 03/30/10

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

How important is The Meta Description Tag

How important is the meta description tag ? Today I'm Gonna Tell How important is the meta description tag Your About ?

-this is a very frequently asked question by blogger all around the world.

These days the importance of the meta description is less and less important. The meta description was originally and important factor for a higher position in search engines ranking. On that time search engines weren`t so "wise", and the meta descriptions where full of spammy keywords.

Now search engines are more wiser and spamming your meta description might can bring to get penalized or even banned. It`s not easy to recover your blog from a ban. Be aware, if you decide to use meta descriptions don`t make them look spammy and don`t stuff the them whit lots of keywords.

If you have a relevant meta description google may use it as a snippet for search results description , else it will use a piece of text from your content or instead google may use your ODP (DMOZ) directory description.

A well written meta description can attract more visitors through search engines search results , but be careful , don`t use the same description for all your pages ,google and some other search engines may threat this as duplicated content.
Try to keep your description tag bellow 150 characters (including spaces), don`t repeat any word more than twice ,a high keyword density may can bring to get penalized. Write accurate ,relevant and unique descriptions for each particular page, write them for humans instead of search engines.

In conclusion, the meta description tag is useless for your ranking. It has no weight in google algorithm.

Create A Blog List With Blogger Video Clip

Ever wanted to add a blog list or blogroll to your blogger blog? Check out this video tutorial!

Today we’re releasing a new page element for Layouts blogs: Blog List. The Blog List improves on our Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets.

Use a Blog List to put a blogroll in your sidebar, or make a few to categorize the blogs you read. The Blog List works well for any page that has an RSS or Atom feed, so you can get creative: link to news sites, podcasts, Twitter streams, search results, or anything else with a feed.

Here’s a quick summary of the features that a Blog List gives you:

- Link to blogs, web pages, and feeds from your blog’s sidebar, with an optional favicon
- For pages with RSS and Atom feeds, Blog List can show last updated time, post title, and a snippet of the latest post
- Sort links alphabetically or by last update time
- Show all links, or hide some behind a “show all” link
- Import subscriptions from Google Reader
- Blog List links are visible to search engine crawlers, so your blog’s PageRank and reputation flow to those you link to

Google Adsense Filter more categories Coming Soon

Now you can choose from the listed categories, which include religion, politics, and dating, and your selections will be applied to ads only in English....

A few months ago, we launched category filtering in a number of English-speaking countries to help you control the ads that appear on your pages. To provide you with more ad filtering options, you'll soon be able to filter 3 more categories from your pages, for a total of up to 8 categories. You should notice this change within the next few weeks.

To get started with category filtering, sign in to AdSense and visit the Ad Review Center, located under the AdSense Setup tab. You can choose from the listed categories, which include religion, politics, and dating, and your selections will be applied to ads in English no matter how they're targeted. Please keep in mind that filtering ad categories may affect your AdSense revenue -- we recommend first reviewing the percentages displayed in your account to understand the amount of revenue you may be blocking.
We're continuing to work on additional filtering capabilities, and we appreciate all the feedback you've provided so far. Feel free to leave us a comment, and visit our Help Center to learn more about category filtering.

Are You Disclosing Affiliate Links?

Today I'm Gonna Share A Talk With You That is About Are You Disclosing Your Affiliate Links?

As an Australian I’m not directly impacted by the FTC and its regulations so I’ve not really had to change my own approach to disclosure – but I’d be interested to hear a bit of discussion on the topic – particularly around these questions:

1.Do you disclose affiliate links on your blog in some way?
2.If so – how do you do it (every time you use one, in the bottom of posts, site wide disclosures…. something else)?
3.if so – has the FTC regulations impacted what you do?
My personal approach for the last couple of years has been to have a sitewide disclosure rather than a per post one (although here on ProBlogger I have been noting affiliate links in posts more often lately).

What about you – do you disclose affiliate links?

Amazing New Blogger Tools

A couple of months ago I asked readers to share which blog tools they use the most in some of the following areas. The suggestions were a nice start but I’d like to see the list expand as I’m certain there are more blog tools and services out there.

Here’s the list of suggestions so far – what would you add to it?

Other Blog Tools

• Pingoat – pinging service
• Pingomatic – another pinging service
• AudioBlogger – audio post to your blog via phone
• BlogRolling – a service to manage your blog roll
• Creative Commons – copyright protections service
• Feedburner – RSS tool that adds a variety of features to your blog’s RSS feed
• Picasa – find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC
• Flickr – Store and share your images – good way of hosting images if you don’t have a stand alone blog on your own domain.
• Flock – A browser that enables sharing and blogging from within it
• Copyscape – allows you to track down other sites that are stealing your content
• TalkDigger – ‘find, follow and join conversations evolving on the Internet.’
• Blog Flux – Stats, Pinging and Directory

• Backpack It – A place to organise your to do lists, notes, files, reminders and more – all online
• Basecamp – Like Backpack it (same people behind it) but great for collaboration on projects.
• Ice Rocket – Blog Search
• coComment – Keep track of the comments you leave on different blogs in a central place
• co.mments – Similar name to coComment but not to be confused with it – a way of bookmarking and following comment threads via RSS
• Gabbly – Add live chat to our blog posts (like real time comments combined with IRC)
• Del.icio.us – Social Bookmarking site – good for sourcing stories but also great if you get linked to on it to get traffic
• Digg – Another major Social Bookmarking site
• Only Wire – a bookmarklet that submits posts to multiple social bookmarking sites at once
• Odeo – a to

redirect Your Blog Old url to New url

For example when we got www.Google.com its automaticly redirect to www.Yahoo.com
How to do that? Follow the Instruction

Login to your blogger account

Select Layout

Click Edit HTML

Rename The Url With Yours

Only show "Post Title" at the Label and Archive page

You too may hate it like me but you have no idea how to remove it. I am talking about the full articles that comes in your label page. How would it be when your "Post title" is only shown except of full post in your label and archive page? Well, it will be great as your page will take less time to load and you will get another page view from your reader if they find your Post title attractive. So in today's blogger hack we are learning to show only post title at the Label and archive page.
Step 1:
Same old line, go to 'Layout' then to 'Edit HTML' and click on 'expand widget templates' checkbox. Now backup your template by clicking 'Download full template' so you can get your template back if anything goes wrong.
Step 2:
Search for the code below:

Step 3:
Replace the above code in step 2 with this code:

Now save the template and you did it. This was real easy wasn't it? Tell Me About it

Add A Signature in Blogger Posts

This post is for blogspot users who want to attach a signature in their Blogger Blogs. After Receiving an e-mail from one of my blog reader i have posted this article which will guide you through and let you know that How you can add Signature in Blogger like the image given here.

Before Adding the signature you must have an image of your signature of any size, but i suggest you to use small signature image. you can use Microsoft Excel or Word to Create a signature image and save it as .jpg or .png, after having an image you need to upload it to your server. I will suggest you to upload it into one of your blog post and once you have uploaded the image you can go into your post's EDIT HTML section and copy the ='url_of_your_signature_image' style='border:0px;'/> Code. Once you have copied that code you can delete that code but copy the code in some notepad for further use.
Read ahead now for how to add that signature image in blogger.

How To Add Signature in Blogger:

Login to Your Blogger Account

On Your Dashboard, Click on Layout (see below shown picture for further assistance)

Now Click on HTML

Now Check the box of Expand Widget Templates

lt;div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
OR
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Take A Snapshot of Your Windows

Today I Am Gonna Share A Tricks For Newbie Blogger Who Want Their Windows Xp Or Vista Pictures in There Blogs And Share It With Their Friends And Family Round The World By Simple, Easy And Quick Steps :

1.Come In The Position of The Windows Which You Want To Take The Snapshot.

2.Press ( Print Screen Sys Rq ) Button Which Is In Your Keyboard Upper of Insert Key Press That Key To Copy Your Picture of The Windows.

3.Go To Start > Programs > Accessories > Paint And Then Page The Pic There By Ctrl + V Or Simply Right Click Your Mouse And Paste.

4.Save Your Picture.

5.Upload It On Pict.com Or Any Free Image Hosting You Have But I Use Pict.com It Is Easy.

6.Then Copy The Link of The Image And paste It To Your Blogs And Forums And Share It With Whole The World

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3 Easiest Ways to Make Money Online

These Are The Easyiest And Simplest Way For Making Money Online While Sleeping At Home So Lets Get Started :

Here I'm sharing the 5 EASIEST ways to earn online which ask for minimum effort from your side.

1. Link Bucks - Get paid for linking people to other websites.

LinkBucks advertising program is the perfect way to monetize your website, blog, or community without resorting to distracting in-page ads. Every funny video, file, or web page that you've ever linked to is making money for someone. Linkbucks rewards the people that make the web possible by giving them a share of the advertising dollars that their links generate.

You get paid every 30 days.

2. Ziddu - Upload files, Share their links and Earn.

Ziddu.com provides you World's Leading Image,Video,Audio and Document Sharing Portal. Its fast and easy.Only people knowing the exact download URL are able to download your file. Regiter, upload files, get a unique link to each separate file and share the link to anyone to download.

You will get $0.001 for each Unique download. Redeemed cash will be transfered via PayPal or Moneybookers once it reaches $10.

10000 Unique Downloads: $10
50000 Unique Downloads: $50
100000 Unique Downloads: $100 USD
500000 Unique Downloads: $500 USD
1000000 Unique Downloads: $1000 USD

You will get $0.05 Referral Bonus, when someone joins with Ziddu through your referral link and uploads his first file!

3.Shareapic - Upload Pics, Invite people to view and Earn.

Shareapic is a free service that allows users to upload and host their images. It's has a unique revenue sharing model that compensates users for directing their friends and family to see their hosted images. When a member hosts a gallery, they can then show this gallery to others. Each time this is done, the member is paid.

Features:
- Upload unlimited pictures
- No file size restrictions
- Create unlimited galleries
- $0.22 per 1000 pic views
- Add your Bidvertiser © code to your image and gallery pages.
- Pay out (via Paypal) within 30 days (when account reaches $20.00)
- One click posting to Facebook, Myspace, Blogger, Orkut, and more!

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Welcoming Message For Blogs

Today The Trick Which I'm Going To Share With You Is How to Add A Welcoming Message For Your BLog Users....

Alert Scripting For Your Blog, Whenever Some One Will Open Your Blog Page or Webpage The Message You want to Appear Before Your Users Will Appear In A Amazing Way And You can Also Add A Welcoming Message Like Welcome! To My Blog Hope Your Will Enjoy And Many More....

Just Just login to blogger > Layout > Edit Html

Find tag and add the below script just after it.

Just change text in red with your welcoming message.

Save Your Template And See The Message You Want...

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Add Adsense In Middle of The Posts

How To Show Adsense Adds In Between Of Blogger Posts, you can now show adsense adds between the blogger posts.Just what you have to do is to select at which position of the middle of the post you want adsense adds to be shown up and adsense add will be shown up itself.No need to add the adsense codes manually in between the posts.
Now how to add adsense adds in between the blogger posts.

Got To Blogger Layout > Edit Html > Expand Widgets > Press Ctrl + F and seach For Below code

After getting this code replace it with below codes.

Please add your adsense add code in place of red line in above code.

And save your template.

Now whenever you write a new blogger post and when you reach in middle of the post where you want to show up adsense adds just add below code there

and continue writing the rest post.

Now when you will publish your post you will see adsense adds in between posts at the place where you placed the above line.

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Make Your Blog Spam Protected

If you want to protect your Blogger blog from spam comments. Enable comment moderation so you can accept or reject each comment individually.

Follow this steps.

1.Sign in to your Blogger account.

2.Go to the settings tab. Click the link for comment settings.

3.Under "Who Can Comment?" select anyone. You'll protect yourself from spam with steps further down the page.

4.Scroll down the page and select "Enable Comment Moderation." You must give the email address you want the comments to come to for moderation.

5.You can further prevent spam by selecting "Show Word Verification for Comments." This uses CAPTCHA to make the user type random letters from an image into a form before the comment is sent to you for moderation.

6.The final setting is "Comment Notification Address." If you select this, you will receive an email when a comment is published. This isn't necessary to select, since you receive each comment in an email to moderate before it's published.

7.In the comment moderation email you receive, you have a link to either publish, reject, or go to the comment moderation page for your blog. If you only have one or two comments, you can click the publish or reject link right in the email. If you have many comments, you may choose to click the link to the comment moderation page on your blog. There, you can accept or reject several comments at a time.

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Share Your Adsense Revenue With Different Authors

You would be knowing as now all the big bloggers with many writers use adsense revenue sharing hack for blogs, What actually it is about?.As many still would be not knowing about it...So Lets Get Started Without Wasting Time :

1. Login to Blogger dashboard
2. Navigate to Layout >> Edit HTML and Expand Widget templates
3. Search for the following code inside your template

4. Insert the following piece of code just above or below the red code you find.As adding above will show adds at beginning of post and below will result in at end of post.Or add at top and bottom both,to show at both places.

Insert Ad Code for admin here (first author)

Insert Ad Code for Jokhio here (second author)

Insert Ad Code for Shahrukh here (third author)

5. Replace the author name and ad code with the actual ones.As names are in bold and replace whole line 'Insert Ad Code for admin here (first author)' with the add codes of that author.

Its not necessary to use only adsense codes there.The author can have any banner add also like of his affiliate program he wants.Its upon the author with what add he wants to display.

Like above i have made 3 authors- admin,anshul and sunil.You can make any number you like,just keep on adding codes as i have done.Just change them with the name of yours,you are using in blogger as display name i.e post author name.Remember all the author names should be different.

6. Save the changes you have made.
7. You are done.
8.Verify that correct ads are shown by viewing HTML source code of the web pages when visiting posts created by various authors or bloggers.

I hope it will be very helpful for some bloggers who have many authors to there blog and even give you now opportunity to invite other authors to your blog.

Enjoy This Hack !!

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Undefined Date Problem in Blogger Templates

How To Fix This Error This Undefined Date Problem in Blogger So Get Started :

To fix the time stamp error in blogger post you’ll need to do the following steps.
Go to your blogger account. And navigate to Settings >> Formating >> and Change the values to the following values.

Date Header Format

Timestamp Format

Then click Save Template And you are ready to go...

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4 Foundations Of A Successful Blog

Today The Post I'm Sharing With You Is The 4 Foundations Of A Successful Blogs So Lets Started With it :

Foundation 1 – Content

My #1 task in years 1-2 of dPS was building content.
The focus was content for beginners (this was expanded later).
My aim was for every post to solve a problem that a new camera owner had.
The content was all ‘how to’ related – practical stuff that helped readers do or achieve something
Quality of content was paramount – but so too was the idea of increasing the ‘quantity’ of content –

I started with 3-4 posts a week but aimed to get it daily after 1 year.

Foundation 2 – Promotion

‘Build it and they Will Come’ is an idea with some truth to it – but in the early days of your blog you also need to actively promote your blog – readers won’t just find it.
Define your potential reader – who are they? What are their needs?
Identify where that type of reader is already gathering online (and offline).
Participate in those sites where your potential reader is gathering – guest posts, building a forum presence, leaving useful comments, networking etc.

Foundation 3 – Community

People don’t just come online for information – they increasingly are coming online to find ‘belonging’
Readers want to participate, interact, join and relate – give them opportunity to do so
On dPS starting a forum was one way I did this however community was something I went out of my way to build on the blog itself.
Use polls, start discussions, run debates, ask questions, highlight readers work, invite people to promote themselves on your blog, link to your readers
When you build community you build an army of evangelists for your blog, create social proof and open many doors for growth and strengthening of your site

Foundation 4 – Capture Contacts

Most people who visit your site will never return naturally – even if they like your site
On dPS I prominently invite people to subscribe in numerous places
RSS is not always King – on dPS email subscription makes up over 75% of all subscribers
Email newsletters drive as much traffic as Google does on dPS
Email newsletters drive significant earnings (advertising, affiliate promotions and product sales)
Email newsletters build community and make the site more sticky and personal

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Images Good Or Bad For Seo?

Today The Post I'm Gonna Tell You About Are Images good or bad for SEO? And Without Wasting Any Time Lets Get Started...:

It depends on how it is Achieved And Goaled. If the Achieved website is one big angel again this will aching your website badly. Yes images attending nice but seek engines don’t affliction about how a website looks, it cares about how the antecedent cipher looks. For archetype if you attending at www.passporttowealth.com and abounding added multi akin business sites they attending absolutely nice but there are mainly images. Having about no images and a lot of agreeable is abundant for SEO purposes but aback for the customer because they don’t wish to alone see words. A antithesis accept to be fabricated amid the two.
luckily there is a baby way to fix this problem. All that is bare is to add appellation and alt tags to the images. The seek engines will see this and it will advice out your rankings and the customer won’t see it. However this is not a fix-all for this problem. A website that is just images, titles, and alt tags still will not accept abundant results. Content, and I can’t accent it enough, agreeable is one of the a lot of important things bare for SEO.

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Make Your Post Title Come First Then Your Blog Title For SEO

Tody I'm Gonna Show You A Seo Trick That Make Your Post Title Come First Then Your Blog Title So Lets Get Started With It :

First go to layout and then edit HTML.

Then find for <data:blog.pagetitle/>

It will be at the top of your template just below the opening tag.

A good way to search anything is to put the cursor in the place where you wan to search and press ctrl+f.

A find box appears at the top right side foR IE or bottom left for firefox.Then type the word which you are looking for.

The line says that your blog title appears first and then your post title.

Now we should replace that with the tags below to make the post title appear before blog title.

<data:blog.pagename/> <data:blog.title/>

<data:blog.pagetitle/>

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

How important is The Meta Description Tag

Create A Blog List With Blogger Video Clip

Google Adsense Filter more categories Coming Soon

Are You Disclosing Affiliate Links?

Amazing New Blogger Tools

Statistics Packages and Metrics Tools

Blog Editor Tools

News Aggregators and News Sourcing Tools

Email Subscription Tools and Newsletter Services

Blog Poll Tools

Other Blog Tools

redirect Your Blog Old url to New url

Only show "Post Title" at the Label and Archive page

Add A Signature in Blogger Posts

Take A Snapshot of Your Windows

3 Easiest Ways to Make Money Online

Welcoming Message For Blogs

Add Adsense In Middle of The Posts

Make Your Blog Spam Protected

Big List of Social BookMarking Sites

Share Your Adsense Revenue With Different Authors

Undefined Date Problem in Blogger Templates

4 Foundations Of A Successful Blog

Images Good Or Bad For Seo?

Make Your Post Title Come First Then Your Blog Title For SEO

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