Archive : blogger

Featured Posts widget on WordPress is very easy to use. You just tag / label the post as ‘Featured’ and they end up in the Featured. Easy huh? Blogger users are not left behind! Here’s a tweak I could find out. I was browsing through Aneesh’s Blog and could find out about a Recent Post Widget which uses feeds. Then I could find in Amanda’s Post that every single label emits its own feed. [...]

Most of you might have seen the archive button in wordpress. You can do this on blogger too. (See my navigation bar) http://www.suhastech.co.cc/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B05%3A30&updated-max=2012-12-21T00%3A00%3A00%2B05%3A30&max-results=50  All you have to do is alter the bold lines to your convenience. Technically, it is searching your blog and showing the blog posts [...]

I have seen many tutorials about setting .com domains for Blogger but yourdomain.com doesn’t redirect to www.yourdomain.com which will leave some of your readers behind. It works when you have www before the domain name but not without it. Here is a tutorial which will never let any reader behind. Preparing CO.CC 1) Goto your domain registrar, register a domain and Click on Set up. Select Zone Record. 2) [...]

A favicon (short for "favorites icon" and also known as a page icon), is an icon that is displayed in the browser address bar next to a site’s URL. This gives an identity to your Website. Surprisingly, this also improves SEO. I have seen many tutorials which will help you to add Favicons to your Blogger / Blogspot Blogs. But I have seen a bug in those tutorials. The favicon doesn’t [...]

I think you have see those neat summary thing on WordPress Blogs and would always want it. Blogger users have been always handicapped in some aspects like design, but now, its here!! 1) Go to the Blogger Dashboard –> Layout –> Edit HTML. Check Expand Widget Template. 2) Search for </head> Paste this above </head> <script type=’text/javascript’> var thumbnail_mode [...]

WordPress and others have better SEO. SEO for Blogger is a real head scratcher. Basically this hack consists of the famous blogger name hack, Meta tags, Description, Favicon. Don’t worry this is the best hack you can find around. Got to the Blogger Dashboard –> Layout –> Edit HTML Search for this: <b:include data=’blog’ name=’all-head-content’/> <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> Replace [...]

Many would like to put ads below the title, but if you try to do that on blogger, you could mess the homepage. If you have the auto-summarizing posts on the homepage, it gets worse. I got this script from Rias’s Blog (He is a Genius, I tell you). Thanks Man! Advantages of this placement is –> people tend to see the ad in this placement –> they click it –> More CTR Rate –> [...]

Recent can get your readers hooked. It is the coolest widget I have seen in a long time. The mouse overs, smooth movements are simply gorgeous. Check out my sidebar! How to Implement?: 1) Go to this link and get yourself a Google API Key. 2) Go to the Blogger Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML. Paste this code just before the </head> tag. <!– recent posts ajax –> <script [...]

I had been searching for a decent ‘Related Post” widget for Blogger for sometime now. I didn’t get a good widget. They would either show some stupid tags or doesn’t work (because Blogger APIs have been changing). But then, I found LinkWithin – The Best Related Post widget for Blogger / WordPress / Typepad. The Features are: Easy to install (Click of a button) Very Attractive Keeps your [...]