How Know Blogger - Learn The Blogspot !: June 2009

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Light World Blogger Template

Light world is a Widgetified Adsense Ready Blogger Template..
This theme was actually made for Wordpress and was converted to Blogger
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New Exclusive Directory for Blogger Powered Blogs

I have made a exclusive directory for blogger powered blogs.There are millions of blogger powered blogs on the internet.Some of them are very interesting.You might have seen some interesting blogs in bloggers "Blogs of Note"

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Keep an eye on your blogs Adsense Income

How many of you use the adsense widgets from blogger?? Most of the bloggers create therir own custom ad units and paste the html code in the blogger template or add it as an HTML template.All of you guys know that you can also add adsense from blogger.

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Blog Statistics Widget for Blogger / Blogspot

By blog statistics, i meant the number of blog posts and number of reader comments on your blog.The blog statistics widget displays the total number of posts and the total number of comments made on your blog as a beautiful sidebar widget.

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Selective Display of Blogger Widgets on homepage, archive,post page, or particular pages

Before getting into the details of selective display,let us discuss about the different types of pages on blogger.
1) home page- yea its your blogs home page as the name suggests(actually this is not a type. but i will still include it here..)
2) Archive Page- Refers to archive pages..
3) Item Page - Refers to Post Pages
4) Index Page - Includes home page + label page + search results page

5) Static Page – The newly introduced Blogger Pages

Selective Display..

Creating a Separate Archive Page or Labels Page for blogger

Many bloggers dont prefer to display the blog archive and the labels on each and every page of their site. They may wish to create a separate page for the Blog Archives. I have made one such implementation of a blog archive here . You can also check out my label cloud page .

So i think you guys understood what i am trying to explain.

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Automatic Post Summaries for Blogger with Thumbnails

Wordpress users might have seen the Wordpress excerpt thing, which displays a summary of your post. Now we have something similar for blogger.Actually i should say it is really amazing..This hack will automatically create post summaries with thumbnails.. you needn't need to add any extra code in every BlogSpot that you make..These summaries will be displayed on all pages other than the post page..Here in my blog i am using a modified version of the same which displays summaries on pages other than the post page and homepage.Check out some of my labels to see the hack in action..

Back To Top / Scroll To Top Widget For Blogger / Blogspot

You might have seen a Scroll to Top or Back To Top button on many sites and blogs.You can see a similar button here on my blog.

Ok what is the advantage of using a scroll to top or back to top widget?
When you add the scroll to top widget you will get a button on the right corner and when a user clicks on it he can get back to the top of the blog.

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Adsense Below the post title in Blogger

Your blog earnings depend mainly on your blog's traffic and on your ad placement. One important place to place the ads is below the Post title. It will give more importance to the ads and there is more possibility to get clicks. This is in accordance with the Google Adsense TOS

I am personally using the same hack on this blog. You can see adsense ads below the post title on all my pages.Ok now let us get into the details of how to set it up.Continue Reading

How to setup custom domain for your blogger blog?

When you register your blogspot blog, you will get a new blog with some URL like http://yourblogname.blogspot.com . This blog will be hosted on Google’s servers and you can make posts on your blog by logging in at Blogger.Com. Now Custom domain means that we will be using our own domain name instead of having the .blogspot.com extension. That is our blog URL will look something like http://www.yourblogname.com When you use a custom domain, your blog will still be hosted on Google’s servers and you can continue making posts from Blogger.com as you usually do.So the only thing that changes is the blog’s URL

Breadcrumb for Blogger

Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail is a navigation aid used in user interfaces. It gives users a way to keep track of their location within programs or documents. The term comes from the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the popular fairytale.

The trails like Home » Label » Post Name are the breadcrumbs.

Here is a screenshot of a Breadcrumb Trail

Now that you know what a breadcrumb is , let us get into the details of adding the same to your Blogger Blog.

Shutting Down Do Follow

I am shutting down the Do Follow movement due to excessive spammy comments on blogs.. Nowadays new webmasters are becoming so spammy that they hire guys to comment on DO FOLLOW blogs. I have been receiving a lot of these now a days.. and so it was almost impossible to reply to genuine comments.
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