Google Adsense is undoubtedly ruling the advertising section on internet for websites and blogs. But then it comes on the costs of its strict policies of approval. You can try out these Tips for getting Google Adsense account. However, if you still don't succeed in getting approval from Adsense, don't get demoralized. There are alternatives to Google Adsense which you can give a try and select the best one for you. The best alternative for Google Adsense may vary from people to people depending on their sites category and implementation. However, you can try some of them for a week, simultaneously or one at a time, and choose the best one for you.
Best alternatives ad company to Google Adsense 2013
Google Adsense alternatives ad company name of 2013 :
These five publishing programs do not have any minimum criteria in terms of traffic or contents. However, the more traffic and the more contents on your blog, chances are more of your earnings.
Which one for you. Although these are no match to Adsense publishing program, you can give it a try. They all are legitimate and I personally have seen earnings from them. It depends on your site category and traffics that which one suits you more. Try them. One by one. Understand them. And you will surely find a way to earn from them.
If you have any other alternatives to Google Adsense, which have paid you, do mention it in comments and your experience with it.
Today I am sharing a useful post that all of Blogger Bloggers searching in Blogger New HTML Editor. In old HTML Editor, there is an option "Expand Widget Templates". By default while editing HTML code, Blogger shows only core of template and not shows the Blogger Widget codes. To see the full template code you have to select the option "Expand Widget Templates" This option is very useful to add new features or additional features inside specific widgets in Blogger template. Here I am going to show you how to do in new Blogger HTML Editor.
This is the option in old Blogger Template. The new Blogger Template looks like the following.
You can't expand all widgets simultaneously. You have to expand each Widgets by clicking the right arrows as shown below.
Also you can expand the code of specific widget, take "Jump to widget" from the drop down box take the appropriate widget to see the code. I think this article will help you not a lot but a little, if so please take a few seconds to share this article..
Here i'm saying about an important topic that i had posted early " How to Backup/Restore Blogger Template? ". But i'm going to show you How to Backup/Restore Blogger Template in New Blogger Template . Now a days Blogger default interface is Upgraded New Blogger Interface. Backup/Restore Template is so important,So don't take this as a silly matter. Read Following see How to backup template in New Blogger Interface..
Today I will show you How to Enable Custom Robot.txt File in Blogger for better SEO and search engine results?.
Blogger now lets you edit your blog's robots.txt file. What are Robots.txt files, robots files are plain text files which instruct the search engines what to not index. Robot.txt is a way to tell search engines whether they are allow to index a page in the search result or not. The bots are automatic, and before they could access your site, they check the Robot.txt file to make sure whether they are allowed to crawl this page or not.
4. and finally click on Save Changes button to save code.
I hope this tip would help you. If you are having any issue regarding crawling then, feel free to leave your questions in the comments below and I would try to help you in solving them.
Hi ! In this tutorial I am going to show you how to edit your Blogger blog robots.txt file. Webmasters use custom robots.txt file to control search engine web robots (also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders) to crawl some directories and web pages or links of website or blog. when we take settings robots.txt file in blogger then search engine automatically index or remove pages from search engine according to the settings.
By default each website allows the Search engines robots however if you would like to restricts the robots either to not crawl any bound directory, file or the complete website then you may want the robots.txt file in which you've got to write instructions for search engine bots.
Steps to edit robots.txt on blogger
Your Site Settings › Search preferences › Crawlers and indexing
Here you will able to see two options Custom robots.txt and Custom robots header tags.These two options would offer you the flexibility to customise your robot.txt file.In the last post i told you about Custom robotsheader tags.
Now press edit button which is present after 'Custom robots.txt' option. After pressing on edit button you can see a message " Enable custom robots.txt content? " so press "Yes" and proceed to next step.
Now you can see text area, type the content which you want to exclude a content from crawling. Click on Save Changes button.
You are done! How to block Link from search engines? No, you have to write the URL. For example, if your want to stop robots from crawling this URL (www.www.matrixar.com/p/about.html) then, in the robot.txt file you will enter this command.
User-agent: *Disallow: p/about.html
Your robots.txt file located under your main blogspot directory as for Blogger Known its located on the following url:
http://www.www.matrixar.com/robots.txt
By default blogger robots.txt contains the following content:
Blogging platforms are a great way to share your knowledge with the rest of the world. Early in 2002, when we only had print media to share our knowledge, sharing was only limited for commercial purposes. Giving ads in newspaper or advertising on television or on radio station really costs big bucks. But as the internet industry grown more and more content sharing platforms came, of which blogging platforms proved revolutionary and it just boomed the internet industry. A person can sit at his comfort from his PC and throw up content on the internet and big giants like Google will really make it possible for your contents to get delivered to the right audience. Blogging Platforms are the only reason for the growth of Internet. People would never spend their time online if there were no contents to be found. Blogging platforms have made people to blog on what ever topic they love and this had made internet industry a living place. I don't find a topic on internet where people have not blogged on.
As more and more people get interested in using blogging platforms, this had made internet a constantly refreshing and expanding place. One very often and most desirable reason for people getting interested in Blogging platforms, is the ability to earn money out of blogging. So people lets review every thing about blogging platforms in details.
Since Internet is vast, not even Google can exactly say how many Blogging platforms are out there on the internet, but in this post I will be talking about the best top 10 blogging platforms.
1. Blogspot :
Blogspot also known as the blogger, is the most popular and trusted blogging platform. It is easy to use and maintain and It is one of the products of "Google". Like you own and use free gmail for emailing similarly Blogger.com is free to use and supports 100 authors. If you use Gmail then your blog will automatically created if you are logged in to your Gmail and then type "blogger.com"on a new tab.
You can see that this post which you are reading now is powered by "blogger.com" and it is a sub domain of "blogspot.com".
Why I prefer using Blogspot as my Blogging Platform?
Blogspot is owned by manged by Industries most expert and experienced engineers. Yes Google engineers.
If you can trust gmail for keeping your private files then you can definitely trust Blogger.com as well.
When it comes to creating the blog, it's just as easy as abc.
Blogger is the Blogging platform which cares for both new and advanced users.
The best of all is that Google has a separate "Google for blog" search engine which definitely helps new blogs to gain traffic much easily. Great huh!
2. WordPress:
WordPress is a great Blogging Platform. Though it's not an easy blogging platform if you are a newbie but if spend a little bit of your time you will definitely find WordPress great. WordPress brings two blogging platform for a blogger. Either you go to "WordPress.com" or "WordPress.org".
WordPress.com : Here you can start your own blog or website for free or paid.
If you choose to go for a free blog, then you gonna get your desired WordPress sub domain and you can start blogging without paying anything.
If you choose to go for paid, then you gonna get features like no ad serving, domain mapping facility, 10 GB of disk space, custom designing option for editing css and video hosting services and much more.
Note: When you decide to go for free version WordPress is gonna server advertisement on your blog so it's always a good option to start with free and then switch over to paid if your blog starts getting traffic which you can monetize.
Wordpress.org : This is the place for WordPress organization. WordPress team brings frequent updates on their Blogging platform and you can download it from here for completely free. The most important thing which I didn't tell you is that you can download their blogging platform script and upload it on your server and you are ready to start building your blog and your audience.
WordPress.org is like a showcase of their blogging platform. Here you learn about different plugins, their use, themes and much more. 3. HubPages:
Hubpages is not a designing platform but it is definitely a great blogging platform. At Hubpages you can blog almost about any topic. The blogging topic could be from any niche but it must be your own copyright. You can either share an article, video or create a recipe. The best part about Hubpages that if you are a passionate blogger then you can also earn money from your posts. Ya, you are allowed to sign for different advertising and monetizing programs on your hub. One of the most important thing to note here is that unlike blogger and WordPress, Hubpages has many active user and every time you post a page it gets viewed by most of the hubbers and it's easily found and indexed by Google and other popular search engines.
Copy and paste this in your browser to visit the Blogging platform: www.hubpages.com
4. Squidoo :
Squidoo is another blogging platform just similar to hubpages, but the only difference between hubpage and Squidoo platform is that at hubpages you can sign up for monetizing programs like adsense and eBay but at Squidoo you do earn a part of earning which Squidoo ads earn on your pages. Squidoo is again a very great free Blogging platform and your content gets seen by search engines very easily.
Both squidoo and hubpages are a great blogging platform indeed and you can earn money on both. I would recommend you to try both of them and see which one out of the two blogging platform works best for you.
Copy and paste this in your browser to visit the Blogging platform: www.Squidoo.com
5. Weebly
Weebly is just an amazing and very simple to use blogging as well as designer platforms on Internet. For designers weebly offers a highly professional looking templates which are all drag and drop and it supports html5 and Css3. For bloggers, weebly can help you share your contents with the world in just minutes. Even if you do not know the ABC of programming but still you can develop your own professional looking blog with contact us and form filling features. Weebly also offers you to earn money online just by applying for adsense program from your blog. Weebly like other Blogging platforms display advertisement on your free blog and if you upgrade to their premium, then their ad displaying on your blog.
Copy and paste this in your browser to visit the Blogging platform: www.weebly.com
Here i am going to review the blogging platforms and give you a good comparison between different blogging platforms so that it can help you decide the right blogging platform which suits your needs.
www.Blogger.com
www.wordpress.com
www.Squidoo.com
www.weebly.com
1. Best blogging platform for both simple and advanced bloggers
1. Best blogging platform for experienced bloggers and best for designers
1.Best blogging platform only
1. Best blogging and designer platform for both fresh and experienced users
2. Custom domain can be added
1. Custom domain can only be added for premium users
2.No Custom domain can be added
2. Custom domain can be added only when you go premium
3.Look and feel of the blog can be fully optimized
3. There are some limitations and need upgrades.
3. Though it Can be optimized but it does not look very professional
3. Look and feel can be optimized to sum degree but for full optimization requires to be premkum
4.Absolutely free
4. Free but in some cases the services are chargible.
4. No body knows when their privacy policy changes
4. Chargible in most of the cases.
Blogging platforms market share
Lets review, how much the market share a blogging platform occupies? and what is the most important reason for holding that market share. This market share reviews of blogging platforms is only for blogging not for designing
1. Blogger: holds 30% of blogging share in the internet industry.
Reasons:
Better SEO standing
Absolutely free
Can be monetized
2. Wordpress: holds 10% of blogging share
Reasons:
Better SEO standing
Free
3. Weebly: holds 1% of blogging share
Reasons:
Free
Designing and look aspect
4. Others including Squidoo and many more not known and unspecified : holds the rest of the blogging market share
Best blogging platforms to make money:
No doubt blogger is the best blogging platform to make money. If you wanna make money by blogging then Google Adsense ad inventory is best for you and since Blogger is the property of Google, it becomes much easier to get approved for Adsense program.
Best blogging platforms for photographers:
For photographers I wold recommend to give WordPress a try. Though blogger and weebly can also be your best option but since for weebly you need to go premium for photographing website and blogger look and feel is not that great. So ya, WordPress should be your best blogging platform as a photographer.
Blogging as we all know is one of the best things you can do in free time. Also you can learn a lot from it rather that doing useless things on social networking sites. But many people who are new to blogging are not at all connected with blogging thinks that it is the simplest thing to be done. But they are so wrong. Blogging if done correctly can be very simple and effective but is tough to get along.
Your blog runs on the fuel that your readers provide by visiting your blog; and if you are not nice enough to your readers then be prepared for the complete destruction. Apart from providing quality content and doing hardcore promotions, there is another thing that keeps your blog running. That thing is the humbleness in you. You have to respond to your readers’ comments and queries in a way that does not hurt them. You should be totally frank in your opinion but it should be presented in a way that is acceptable and your reader comes again to your blog. So here are some 5 tips that can help you in becoming a humble blogger and making your way to success.
1. Be simple with your Writing
You have a very nice and impressive vocabulary with some great but complex words. Good for you, but don’t use them in your blog posts. What’s the point in providing articles in a language that your readers don’t understand quickly? Keep your audience in mind and provide articles in a simple but effective language. Polish your writing skills, experiment with new sentence formation, but keep the words simple and clean. By using complex words, you would only create a bad impression with your readers.
2. Reply comments kindly
Your readers are the most valuable asset for your blog. So don’t make the mistake to ignore them. If they have taken some time to read your blog and comment on the post, then it’s your duty to respond to their comments. Also if you are receiving emails from your readers then always reply to each of them. Be simple and show your love for your readers and you will get love in return.
3. Deal with Negative feedback professionally
Sometimes you will even get adverse reviews on your website by means of feedback. So do not just response to it in a way that can induce a finish war. Be as courteous as you can. See in to the issue, see whether his accusations are real or not. If real, say sorry to him and fix the problems and if incorrect, then be super-polite and try to create him comprehend. Be courteous and you will see the other visitors assisting you.
4. Respect Copyrights
Sometimes blog writers duplicate content from other weblog and publish it on their weblog introducing it like they are the writer of it. Do not ever try to make such errors. If you are satisfied with a publish and want to discuss it with your visitors with your contact in the publish, you must reword it in your exclusive way and consist of a blueprint with a weblink to the exclusive writer. This is the most essential factor. Regard other bloggers’ hardwork and your perform will be well known.
5. Be Soft-spoken
Avoid blogging in a severe terminology. You must keep from using severe terms which can damage other individuals' emotions. People like blog writers who present the fact in a courteous way. Rather than using severe terminology, you can use sarcasm; that can help.
Some people who are new to article marketing are under the impression that to build links to their sites, all they need to do is write an article, submit it and the article will automatically be published.
Did you know that after you submit your article, it will most likely be reviewed by an editor before it is published on a website? This editor will have a list of editorial guidelines that he or she is using to evaluate your article.
If your article passes the test, then it will be published. If it does not, it will be declined. One of the first things publishers/editors look at is the title. There are several reasons why an article might be declined right out of the gate due to issues with the title.
What’s so important about the title?
The title is the very first thing a reader will see and it’s often the primary means by which a reader will decide if he wants to read your article. If your title is great, more people will read the article than if it’s just so-so. The title can have such a big influence on the success of an article, that publishers will often decline articles solely because of problems in the title. The rest of the article may be perfect but, if there are problems with the title, then the article can be declined.
If you knew what publishers were looking for, you could craft your articles around their requirements. In this article we’ll cover some article marketing tips and common title issues that result in publisher declines:
1 — Improper grammar or spelling. It’s absolutely paramount your title be grammatically correct and have proper spelling. One error could result in an immediate decline from publishers.
The title is also an indication of the article’s quality — if the title contains errors, it will be assumed the rest of the article will too.
2 — The title does not accurately portray what the article is about. The title serves the purpose of informing the reader what the article is about. If it drops the ball on that count, the article will be declined.
Here are some ways that a title may not reflect the content of the article.
• If you say that an article has 25 tips on a certain topic, it has to contain 25 tips. Someone once asked me if she could have a title that mentioned 25 tips and then only include 24 in the article with the promise of providing the 25th on her website. She was thinking of this as a way to lure readers to her site. In the article marketing world, that would be a no-no. If you say the article has 25 (or however many) tips, then you must list 25 tips in the article.
• If the title mentions a location, the content must apply specifically to that location. Sometimes when a person is marketing a local business, he will want to include the city in the title of the article. That would be fine if the article contained information about that city, but oftentimes the information is just generic. If your article is: “10 Tips For Hiring A Babysitter In Miami,” then the article needs to contain tips on that specific topic, rather than tips that would apply to any location.
In most cases, it’s better to leave the city name out of the title and write an article appropriate for all locations. Then refer to the city in your resource box. 3 — Title is too short to be descriptive. I’ve seen some super minimalist titles, as if the author thought the title didn’t matter. At many quality publishers, the title must be at least two words long, but I encourage you to elaborate even further.
Some people who are very keyword focused will simply use their keyword phrase as the title, which results in a very bland, non-descriptive headline. It’s great to use your keyword phrase in the title, but ideally you’ll work it into a more descriptive title that includes the keyword phrase in a natural way.
4 — Overuse of keywords in the title, to the point where the title does not read well. The title is a great place to include your keywords, but it defeats the purpose if you use so many keywords that the title ceases to make sense. Publishers are very sensitive to overly keyword-optimized titles and articles (and readers can easily pick up on it too). It’s essential the title and article serve the reader first and foremost. Just one keyword phrase worked naturally into the title in a grammatically correct way is sufficient. 5 — There are other less obvious things that publishers look for. These can still be serious enough to merit a decline of the article, such as not putting the title in title case (where the first letter of every major word is capitalized), putting the title in quotation marks (which is unnecessary), or ending the title with a period (also unnecessary).
These are the major things that publishers look for with titles. If you keep these guidelines in mind when creating your article submissions, then your titles should be acceptable.
In every blog there is a blogger default navigation bar (nav bar) of the above style. This nav bar make your blog look less professional. These navigation bars can be removed using a simple CSS one line code.
Many awesome and beautiful templates have been designed for blogs. If the templates given by Blogger don't satisfy you then you can select any template from any site of your desire. And you'll be able to upload that template on your blog. Its quite easy. You gotta do nothing so difficult.
Now let's see how to install a template in blogger
Follow the steps given below: Step #1: Go to www.Blogger.com
Step #2: Then go to "Template" and on top right corner click on "Backup / Restore" button.
Step #3:
Then you have to save your current template.
Step #4:
Decide that "of the downloaded templates which one you wanna upload".
Step #5:
Now to do this you will have to go to "Template" and again click on "Backup/Restore" button.
Step #6:
You will find "Browse" option there. Then click on Browse button to choose the XML file of your desired template. When you have selected your template then you're supposed to click on "Upload" button.
Step #7:
Now you're done. You have successfully uploaded the template. Now you can see your blog that has been changed according to your choice.
Let's See the Pictures those also help you to find out fast.
Blogger is continuously improving search preference feature, Add Custom Robots Header Tags are very important for every blogger for batter SEO. Today tutorial i tell you how to enable custom robots header tags in blogger. You have to be careful to setup custom robots text because if you do something wrong Google not index your page in search engine. Follow the instructions carefully and it'll positively help you to boost your web site traffic.
Step 1: To enable these tags, go to Blogger > Settings > Search Preferences, click Edit next to "Custom robots header tags," and select Yes.
Step 2: Select Yes Option and customize setting shown in the below image.
You must learn about tags when should you use them. all: There are no restrictions for indexing or serving. This is default for all pages noindex: Do not show this page in search results and do not show a "Cached" link in search results. nofollow: Do not follow the links on this page none: Equivalent to noindex, nofollow noarchive: Do not show a "Cached" link in search results. nosnippet: Do not show a snippet in the search results for this page noodp: Do not use metadata from the Open Directory project (DMOZ) for titles or snippets shown for this page. notranslate: Do not offer translation of this page in other languages in search results. noimageindex: Do not index images on this page. unavailable_after: [RFC-850 date/time]: Do not show this page in search results after the specified date/time. The date/time must be specified in the RFC 850 format. Example: 17 May 2012 15:00:00 PST
Step 3: Now click on ""Save changes" button > Done
That's all! If you have any doubt or need help about it, please leave comment.
Meta tags is a important things for SEO(Search Engine Optimization). The <meta> tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Meta tags will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable. Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata. The metadata can be used by browsers (how to display content or reload page), search engines (keywords), or other web services. Google bots read meta tags of a site or blog and give these tags (title,keywords and description) information to google search engine, according to these tags your blog is showed in google search engine results pages (SERP's).
Meta Tags are most important and most useful for our blog's SEO.
Put SEO Meta Tags in Blogger Template
Learn how to put Meta Tags in blogger template for better ranking in search engine results with easy steps.
Step 1. Login to Blogger >> Go to Dashboard >> Template >> Edit Html Step 2. Find the following code [Tip: Ctrl+F]
<head>
This will be mostly on the main page of the template coding.
Step 4. Change red color bolded text according to your choice.
Note:write keywords in separate commas i.e., write comma after every word. Step 5. Now save your template and you are done, your blog is optimized for SEO and Google will show your site/blog in search results
SEO Meta Tags in Google Search Engine Results Pages
Your Blog's Title and Description Tag will look like this in Google Search.
Seo Master present to you: Unremovable widget is a very common problem of Blogger users. You may encounter this problem when you change your template and some widgets of this new template is unremovable. Some unremovable do not affect your template at all, it will not appear in your blog page, but they are still annoying when you manage your widgets.
Locked Widget and Normal Widget
There is two kinds of unremovable widgets. The first is "error widget", which is not show any option when you edit it. The second is "locked widget", which can not move to anywhere and do not have Remove button when you edit it (such as Navigation and Attribution widget). This post will show you how to remove these kinds of widgets in very easy step.
STEP 1:
You need to know what is widgetID of this unremovable widget. Go to Layout, click Edit corresponding to this widget. At popup window, look for widgetID at the end of URL bar, select and copy it.
You surely have seen on many blogs and websites a Recent Posts Widget in the sidebar that shows the recent or newest or latest posts of the certain blog or website. This widget shows the posts title, date of post and an image of the post and even a snippet of the post. So today we are going to learn how to make this widget for your blog with some very easy steps. So let's start now.
How to add Recent Posts Widget to Blogger
Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard, then go to Layout and click on Add a Gadget link
Step 2. From the pop-up window, scroll down and choose HTML/JavaScript.
Step 3. Select & Copy the code from one of the options below and paste it into the new HTML/JavaScript:
Option 1: Recent posts widget with snippets
<div id="hlrpsa"> <script src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/recent-posts-with-snippets.js"> </script> <script> var numposts = 5;var showpostdate = false;var showpostsummary = true;var numchars = 100;var standardstyling = true; </script> <script src="http://your-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentposts"> </script></div> <div id="rpdr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px;"> <a href="http://www.matrixar.com/2013/04/recent-latest-posts-widget-for-blogger-blogspot.html" target="_blank" title="Grab this Recent Posts Widget" alt="Recent Posts Widget for blogger">Recent Posts Widget</a> by <a href="http://www.matrixar.com" title="Recent Posts Widget" alt="Blogger and SEO Tips and tricks">Blogger Widgets</a></div><noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript!</noscript> <style type="text/css"> #hlrpsa a {color: #0B3861; font-size: 13px;} #rpdr {background: url(http://www.matrixar.com/-WM-QlPmHc6Y/T5wJV58qj9I/AAAAAAAACAk/1kULxdNyEyg/s1600/blogger.png) 0px 0px no-repeat; padding: 1px 0px 0px 19px; height:14px; margin: 5px 0px 0px 0px;line-height:14px;} #rpdr, #rpdr a {color:#808080;} #hlrpsa { color: #999999; font-size: 11px; border-bottom:1px #cccccc dotted; margin-top:-10px; padding-bottom:10px;} .hlrps a {font-weight:bold; } .hlrpssumm {} </style>
Option 2: Recent Posts Widget Showing Post Titles Only
<div id="hlrpsb"> <script style="text/javascript" src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/recent-posts-with-titles-only.js"></script> <script style="text/javascript">var numposts = 10;var showpostdate = false;var showpostsummary = false;var numchars = 100;var standardstyling = true;</script> <script src="http://your-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentposts"></script></div> <div id="rpdr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px;"> <a href="http://www.matrixar.com/2013/04/recent-latest-posts-widget-for-blogger-blogspot.html" target="_blank" title="Grab this Recent Posts Widget" alt="Recent Posts Widget for blogger">Recent Posts Widget</a> by <a href="http://www.matrixar.com" title="Recent Posts Widget" alt="Blogger and SEO Tips and tricks">Blogger Widgets</a></div><noscript>Oops! Make sure JavaScript is enabled in your browser.</noscript> <style type=text/css> #hlrpsb a {color: #0B3861; font-size: 13px;} #rpdr {background: url( http://www.matrixar.com/-WM-QlPmHc6Y/T5wJV58qj9I/AAAAAAAACAk/1kULxdNyEyg/s1600/blogger.png ) 0px 0px no-repeat; padding: 1px 0px 0px 19px; height:14px; margin: 5px 0px 0px 0px;line-height:14px;} #rpdr, #rpdr a {color:#808080;} .bbrecpost2 { padding-top:6px; padding-bottom:6px; border-bottom: 1px #cccccc dotted; } </style>
Step 4.
Change 5 (option 1) and 10 (option 2) with the number of posts you want to display.
Change falseto true if you want the posts dates to appear
Change 100(option 1) if you want more characters to be displayed.
To change the color and font size of the links, modify the values in blue(links) and violet (font-size)
To change the style of posts summary, modify the values in green (color) and orange (font size)
Replace the your-blog text with the name of your blog or if you have a custom domain change all the bolded line with your address.
Step 5. Save your widget. And that's it! Enjoy!
If you need any help, leave a comment below.
And if you liked this post, please consider sharing it. Thanks.
How to Add Custom Error Page (Page Not Found) to Blogger
Now you can create a Custom Error 404 Page (Page Not Found) for Blogger blog. This error page design i'm giving you is an idea only (which i use in my blogs). This error page gives the users message that page is not found or currently unavailable. It also has a link to Homepage of the blog and a Search box for users to search within your site. You can create a custom error page as per your blog design and creativity.
Follow these steps to apply this error page on your blog or website.
1. Blogger Dashboard >> Select Blog >> Select Settings tab >> Search Preferences 2. Now under Error and redirections you can find Custom Page Not Found. Next to this there is an Edit option. Now click on this. 3. Next a box comes up and paste following given code
<h3>Your requested page was not found</h3> <p>Sorry, we cannot find the page that you are looking for. It might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.<br/> Please check that the Web site address is spelled correctly.</p> <b>Other things to try:</b><br/> <ul> <li>Go to our <a href="/">home page</a>, and use the menus or links to navigate to a specific post.</li> <li> <form method="get" action="/search"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td><input type="text" style="width:95%;padding:2px;" value="Search this blog.." onfocus="if (this.value == "Search this blog..") {this.value = ""}" onblur="if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Search this blog...";}" name="q"></td> <td><input type="button" Value="Search"></td> </tr> </table> </form> </li> </ul><br /><a href="http://www.matrixar.com/2013/04/add-custom-error-page-not-found-in-blogger.html">Error Page from Blogger and SEO Tips</a>
4. and finally click on Save Changes button to save code.
Now visit any page which is not a part of your blog e.g., ( www.yourhomepage.com/ssssss ) and see this beautiful error page working having a link to homepage and a search box. If you have any question regarding this than comment down and ask, I'll try to answer your questions. Thanks.
Seo Master present to you: After new Blogger Template HTML Editor was out, I received a lot of questions about the old "Expand Widget Templates". In this post, we will make it clear about Expand Widget Templates in new HTML Editor.
What Is Expand Widget Template
For who don't know, Expand Widget Template is a option of old HTML Editor. By default, the old editor only show core template code and hide others code like widget. It makes you easier to edit or customize Blogger Template. All widget code will only show if you check Expand Widget Templates option.
Expand Widget Templates Option
Where Is Expand Widget Templates
Well, in current HTML Editor, there will be no option Expand Widget Templates anymore. Why? Because all codes have been shown in new editor, that's mean you don't need to expand it anymore. By default, all widget code have been folded. A concealed widget code section is identified by a fold marker, it's is an arrow symbol ▶, next to the line number. You click into it, and the concealed widget code section is revealed.
Click Right Arrow Icon To Expand Widget Code
How To Expand Widget In New HTML Editor
At the time, almost Blogger tips or tutorials are still within the old editor, so how to follow their instruction about "Expand Widget Templates"?
Search For Specific Section
If the tutorial requires you to find for a section of code, use Find function (Ctrl F) and find for it. If this section of code is in folded widget section, the concealed widget code will automatically expand.
Go To A Widget Code
If the tutorial requires you to find a widget code, use Jump to widget feature to quickly locate it. After that, click ▶ to expand this widget code before editing.
Meta tags, especially description tag and keyword tag, are the most important tag for SEO in Blogger. Meta tags allow search engine spider crawl and index your website more accurately. In other words, meta tags tell the search engine what your website about and how they display your page in search result pages. Beside description and keywords meta tag, you can use some other tags help for SEO like robots tag, author tags, open graph tag:
Description and Keywords: provide information of your page.
Author: tell everybody author of this post.
Robots: tell the search engine spider how to treat your page. You can't prevent the spider from crawling and indexing your page and many other thing.
Open Graph: mark by property attribute with og value like og:title, og:type, og:site_name etc. This tag is used by Facebook to display your blog exactly.
Meta Tag Robots, Author and Open Graph
Using Meta Tag Description and Keywords in Blogger
There are 2 ways to adding meta tag description and keywords to Blogger, by Settings and by HTML Editor. Please read Blogger How 4 - SEO Techniques for Blogger for complete information about using meta tag.
About Dynamic Meta Tag
What is Dynamic Meta Tag
If you ever used Wordpress, you would notice that some wordpress SEO plugins always have a dynamic meta tag function. It will generate a different tag for each post, not just the same keywords or description like default Blogger Meta tag. Where do the different tags come from? The plugins will get description and keywords from post title, labels (tags, categories) and some words from post content. Some Wordpress plugins support this function are SEO Ultimate, All-in-one SEO Pack, Wordpress SEO by Yoast.
Why Dynamic?
Well, with the default meta tag, every page of your blog will have the same tag. That's mean the search engine can not clearly know about your page content, and will treat all page the same way. That's called "duplicate meta tag"and definitely not good for SEO.
Fill in all fields to make the tool work properly. Author and Robots is optional. You can use the same description and keywords at Homepage and Post page.
Using Dynamic Meta Tag Generator
Click Generate Meta Tag to get the code, then select all and copy this.
Paste the code copied in step 3. If there is already have old meta tag, then replace them with the new one. You should replace old meta description, meta keywords, meta og, meta robots and meta author. If you still keep old meta tag, the lower position tag will be used.
Replace old meta tag with the new one
Save your template and you're done.
After these step, please go to your blog and check meta tag at some pages to make sure everything work fine. For error report, please comment at this post, I will reply in 24h.2013, By: Seo Master
Seo Master present to you: Blogger is a very SEO-friendly platform, everything from url, script are optimized for search engine, except the title.
The default Blogger title
The default blogger title is so not friendly with users as well as search engine. Why? Because default blogger title likes to display main title first, and post title after. Since the SERP (search engine result page) only display a certain amount of words of title, displaying main title first may cut off some important keywords from your post title. And with readers, they can not completely understand your post if the title do not display entirely.
Customize Default Blogger Title
For a real-life example, my main title is Howeblog - Tutorials and Tips, and this is how Blogger displays my title:
Homepage: Howeblog - Tutorials and Tips Post Page: Howeblog - Tutorials and Tips: My Post Title Static Page: Howeblog - Tutorials and Tips: My Page Title Search Page and Archive Page: by default, search engine spiders do not index these kinds of page, so we can skip it.
So, if you wanna improve your blog ranking, you must change default title into a better form, and then customize it for your taste.
Blogger Title Tag
There is 3 kind of blogger title tags you need to know.
Data:blog.title: the title of the blog. E.g.: HoweBlog - Tutorials and Tips.
Data:blog.pageTitle: the title of current page, this is default tag using in blogger. At homepage, it's the blog title; at post pages, static pages, it contains post title and page title below blog title. You can see from the example above.
Data:blog.pageName: the title of each page, best title tag so far. It's the post title, page title, label name (if at label page). Note: at homepage, it shows nothing.
Customize Blogger Title
At first, remember back up your template, then you need to find where the default title tag located. Go to your blog Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML (don't tick Expand Widget Templates), then find this tag:
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
Some custom templates have changed the default title already, so obviously you can't find this tag and don't need to change it again. But if you still want to see how it looks, try search for:
<title><data:
Okay, to change your blog title, you need to replace entire of these tags (<title></title> with default Blogger template or <b:if></b:if> with custom template), you can choose one of the following title types below:
At post page it will show title first and then blog title, also apply for static page, archive page and label page. E.g. "Customize Blogger Title | Howeblog - Tutorials and Tips". Tips: you can replace | character with another one like ~, -, /, \. This structure of title is widely used by Google, Yahoo, Youtube and others websites.
3. Customize Title with Custom Keyword
Not just post title, you can customize it with adding some keywords in title. It will show in SERP as a part of post title automatically every post. You can add your keyword before or after data:blog tag, but inside title tag. For example:
How can you get Money from Chitika Referral Programs.
My today's article is about earning money online with Chitika. Chitika is PPC (Paid Per Click) Ad networking system which is alternative of Google AdSense. There are a few things which we will need to earn money with Chitika.
Learn How To Earn Online Money from Chitika PPC
First one is a good blog or website because Chitika gives us ad code which we have to add in our blog or site as I have added ad code below post titles in some of my blogs. Then after adding that code, The ads will start appearing and when any user/reader/visitor will click on that ad, you will get paid. As more clicks you will get from your visitors and more revenue you will earn from Chitika. But you can not click on your ad because it's against the rules of Chitika. All the clicks will be verified from the Chitika engineers.
Second one is traffic because if you have less traffic then you will earn little revenue. You can also boost your earnings by making referrals.
How Can I Make Referrals ?
This process is not too difficult friends because this is very easy. You just have to take referral links from referral program page and share it with friends and when they will join Chitika from your referral link, You will get 10% Commission. You can also add banner in your website in order to invite your visitors to join the Chitika. The 10% Commission is not taken from your referrals earnings, It's a reward from Chititka.
How Can I Receive The Payment ?
There are two payment methods in Chitika. First one is PayPal, You can receive your revenue at the end of the every month. You may connect your Paypal account with Credit Card, Debit Card or Bank account in order to get the cash in you hand. Your minimum payment for the Paypal account will be only $10. The second one is Check. Chitika will send a Check to your address at the end of the every month and the minimum payment for the check is $50.
