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

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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...

if Not Then Tell Me.

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Blogger, Robots.txt, Canonical URLs, Feeds - Let's Gain some Synergy

A little rant where I ask Blogger to make a slight change. The story begins...

Several months back, Blogger changed the way they did comments somewhat. Short version is they broke up post pages that receive many comments (200+). This is fine. In doing so, they also had to add some query parameters to comment permalinks so they could work with the new pagination. Again, nothing wrong with that.

But sometimes googlebot gets confused with a page having multiple urls. These are canonical issues. ( Admission - I have trouble both spelling and saying canonical, but I digress). This hit our favorite blog Hacks when I noticed suddenly last December hits from Google had dropped off, to almost nothing. What I found when I started looking into it was it seemed Google was now suddenly grabbing tons of these comment permalink urls and giving them prominence over what should be the real url. Example.

Instead of having this url in the Google index

............./2006/09/code-for-beta-blogger-label-cloud.html
Which is the proper url, which has hundreds of links pointing at it, Google was indexing urls like this instead
......./2006/09/code-for-beta-blogger-label-
cloud.html?showComment=1221076440000
Which is just a link to a particular comment. But since that url doesn't having any links to it (as it shouldn't) it doesn't rise to the top of any searches like the real url would.

In a perfect world, Google usually knows which is the better url, and probably most of the time it does things correctly. But for whatever reason Google was mucking it up the same way on many of my posts that used to get search hits.

I should say here that ultimately I don't give a shit. Hell it took me a month to even notice as I'm not doing a lot of posting. I don't really care too much whether I get hits or not and I figure it will eventually work itself out. But it's a problem with such an easy solution.

Now my good pal, Notorious I.M.P, pointed out to me this recent post from Google Webmaster Central talking about a new feature that allows you to fix (supposedly) canonical issues like this by adding a "hint" to google with a tag. Well that's fine. If'n it works.

If you wanted to try it for Blogger you would add something like this to the head of your template.






I've just tried that so I don't know if it actually works or not, but it outputs things the way the Webmasters Tools blog says to.

But for Blogger, we are really fighting a battle that could have a better solution. Only we users can't do it. It would have to be done at Blogger. A better solutions would be to add a few lines to the robots.txt file to take into account these canonical urls that the comment pagination changed caused. Blogger already blocks urls with "search" in the path which correctly blocks redundant label/search pages. But a few tweaks would help out also. Something along the lines of adding these two lines to the robots.txt

Disallow: /feeds/comments
Disallow: /*?showComment*


Now if I have that right (which I may not) that would 1) Block comments feeds from being indexed. That's where I believe the comment pagination links are being picked up from mainly, and besides comments feeds really don't need to be indexed do they? 2). Would block any urls with ?showComment in them which would block any of the comment permalinks if they got picked up somewhere else.

Or maybe there is a better way of doing it. Or they could do nothing. I'm just ranting.

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Hello Friends Now I Will teach you How to Show A Comment Buble At The Top of Each Posts of You Blog Just Follow The Simple Steps :

Now To make comment bubble, JustLogin to blogger >

Then go to Layout >

Edit/Html >

Expand Widgets >

Press Ctrl+FAnd Search For

]]> tag and place the below codes before it.

.comment-bubble {float : right;width : 48px;height : 48px;background : url(http://i43.tinypic.com/dljpzo.jpg) no-repeat;font-size : 18px;margin-top : -15px;margin-right : 2px;text-align : center;position:absolute;padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;}

In red above is the image link of bubble,you can use yours and don't forget to change its width and height also of the image you use.To adjust the bubble position you can edit the distance from margin-right and margin-top properties of css.

Now after adding above css just find the below codes and add the red codes in between them as i have shown below.

Afer adding red codes in between them just preview your template,if comment bubble is ok,just save your template and you are done.Now you have added an comment bubble to bog in an very easy way you wouldn't have thought of.Enjoy this hack and let me know you liked it or not.And Friends i will try to schedule one or two posts for you,but that for sure will be small blogger tutorials which also will be very useful for you to learn a lot.

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How To Show Post Date For Blogger Posts Complete on Same Day

How To Show The Post Date For All Your Blogger Posts you do on your blog including posts you have done On same day.But there is only one tiny problem in this feature,as when we do more than one post on same day the date shows up only for one post,that is last one not for both.So if you have problem with this and interested in displaying the date of post in all posts,you can solve this problem following this tutorial

You will see as date is being shown for only one post.To solve this follow these Steps:-

1. Login to blogger
2. Click Layout
3. Click Edit HTML tab
4. Check the small box next to the text “Expand Widget Template"
5. Find this code :

6.Remove the code and replace with this one:

7. Click "SAVE TEMPLATE".8. DoneNow it will show date for both posts as below.

I Think i Have Helped You if Not Then Do The Following Steps Carefully Thanks

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