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Monday, December 22, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
Will my use of Blogger be associated with my use of other Google services?
We may use information from your Blogger account for other Google services in order to improve the quality of those services, for research and analysis, and to provide you with a seamless experience between our services. We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies or individuals, unless we have your consent. Additionally, we do not associate any user behavior with any unique or personally identifiable information. To learn more about how we protect your privac...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Why is my blog disabled?
If your blog is disabled, it will be listed on your Dashboard, but you will not be able to click on it to access it. If this is the case, there will be a grace period during which you can request that it be reviewed and recovered. The disabling is a result of our automated classification system marking it as spam. Because this system is automated there will necessarily be some false positives, though we're continually working on improving our algorithms to avoid these. If your blog is not a spam blog, then it was one of the...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Regarding Images from the Web
Blogger's image upload feature allows you to upload and display images in your posts. This is great when you want to add a photograph you shot or an image you created. However, there are a few details to note when it comes to images that are legally protected or hosted at someone else's expense.Adding Images 'from The Web' If you choose to 'Add an Image from the Web' using the image upload feature in Blogger, you shouldn't use an image location that is hosted at someone else's expense without their permission. Sometimes this...
I've deleted my blog but its still online
Try clearing your Web browser's cache and then refreshing the page. If you have recently deleted your blog, you may have to wait a day before it completely disappears. Additionally, some search engines keep cached copies of pages in their search results for up to a week so you may have to wait a a few days before your blog is removed from all search engine...
Monday, November 24, 2008
How can I make my blog load faster?
The speed at which your blog loads is critical to attracting more readers to your blog. If your blog takes a long time to load, many readers may leave your blog before they have the chance to read it. Here are a few tips and tricks that will help your blog load faster and attract more users:PostsYour blog's load time can be affected by the number of posts you display on your main page. You can easily edit the number of posts displayed of the main page from the Settings | Formatting tab. You can then select the number of posts...
Friday, November 14, 2008
Build traffic tip - set Send Pings to "Yes"
One of the ways to help build traffic to your blog is to ping blog update notification services to inform them that your blog has been updated so that they will crawl and update you blog. With the old classic Blogger, you can set weblogs.com, and only weblogs.com to be automatically pinged whenever you publish a new post.What I normally do is to set "Send Ping" to "No", and whenever I publish a new post, I will go to pingoat.com to ping all the ping blog update notification services (including weblogs.com). That is easy to...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Increase traffic: Add Interests, Favorite movies, music, books to Profile
In the old classic Blogger, your Interests, Favorite Movies, Music and Books that you added to your profile was clickable. This means that other surfers/bloggers can use that to find blogs sharing the same interests. However, when Blogger Beta (now New Blogger) was introduced, these became unclickable words, thus useless.Now according to Blogger Buzz Browse Profiles! Find new blogs to read!, as of 7 August 2007, these interests that you list in your profile are now active links, that means if you have put "blogging" as one...
Monday, November 10, 2008
Social bookmark buttons bottom post
If you are desirous of getting more traffic to your blog, one way is to add social bookmarking buttons at the bottom of your posts so visitors can easily bookmark the pages they are interested in and easily return to them as demonstrated at Good Health Information. There are many ways to do that. One of the easiest is to use go to Add This and register an account. After signing in, click GET YOUR BUTTON. In the next page, from drop-down menus, select the type of button (Sharing/Bookmarking button), tick the radio button from...
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Adding a MP3 Player to your Blog
With Google Gadget, you can easily add a MP3 Player to your blog. I have added one at the bottom of the right sidebar in this blog Recreation and Sport. All I have to do is to go to Google Gadget, choose "MP3 Player", click "Add to your webpage" and will be taken to the page Add this gadget to your webpage. You can set, title, the height and width of the MP3 Player. A default URL of a song is already added for you. If you have your own song hosted somewhere, all you have to do is to replace the URL of the default song with...
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Adding music to your blog
There are many ways to add music to your blog. The most common way is to embed it into your post, or in New Blogger (formerly Blogger beta), add it as a HTML/Javascript widget via the "Add a Page Element" in the Layout.You will first have to find a music file that is already hosted on the web, or if you have your own music file stored in your computer, upload it into a file host and then get the URL of the file. If you don't have any music file saved in your computer to upload, you can find files already hosted at freemp3mail.com,...
Friday, November 7, 2008
Backing up your blog Part II
I have written about backing up your blog and have mentioned about using BlogCollector, unfortunately, I have tested BlogCollector on a blog using the New Blogger template, and it didn't work. So what is left now is:1. to set your blog to send an email to a specially created email address to collect posts (unfortunately, this will not include the HTML that would display images, etc and also if it is an old blog, and you want the old post to be backed up, you will have to do it manually one by one)2. Manual method. Open each...
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Backing up your blog Part
I have previously published a post How to backup your blog in which BlogCollector and HTTrack was mentioned as one of many methods to backup your blog. Recently, someone asked a question about BlogCollector, saying he couldn't get BlogCollector to work. Since I haven't used BlogCollector after New Blogger templates was introduced, I decided to make some tests.I used BlogCollector to try to backup Testing Blogger Beta which is a blog using a New Blogger template in a New Blogger account. BlogCollector failed to backup this blog.I...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
How to change the color of the blog background, text in the content, etc.
Someone asked in a comment how to change the color of fonts, etc. With the New Blogger, this is really very easy. Just get into the Dashboard of the blog, click, "Template" tab, then the "Fonts and Colors" sub-tab and you will get this page.First, choose what your want to change in the left side of the page, then preferably select a color from the blocks of color to the left. You should preferably select colors that matches your blog or colors from your blog. Be careful if you are choosing color for the font, not to choose...
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
How to Add Shopping Cart to Your Blog
The easiest way to add a shopping cart is to use Paypal Merchant Tools. Of course in order to make use of this service, you will need a Paypal account if you don't already have one. Signing up is free and easy. Plus by making use of Paypal Merchant Tools, you can accept credit card payments.Perhaps the easiest way to describe how to add a shopping cart to your blog is to describe how I set up this demonstration "online shop" at Demonstration shopping cart.First, you will have to prepare your post. Add photographs, description,...
Monday, November 3, 2008
Promoting Your Blog
This is in no way a science or guarantee; it's simply a few suggestions with which many bloggers have found success. Set your blog to Send Pings. When this setting is activated, your blog will be included in various "recently updated" lists on the web as well as other blog-related services. Activate Your Navbar. Do this and you might start to see the effects right away! One of the features on the Blogger Navbar is a button called NextBlog - click it to visit the next Navbar-enabled blog. Install Email This Post. If you use...
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Layouts Guide
Blogger's Layout feature is an easy-to-use template editing feature that allows you to edit and customize your Blogger template without any knowledge of HTML or CSS. You can easily edit and customize the colors, fonts, header and sidebar of your blog with a few clicks of the mouse. To customize your blog's layout, go to the Layout | Page Elements tab in Blogger.If you're using a classic template and would like to use the Layout feature, you can read instructions on how to switch.Moving elements in your template How to arrange...
Saturday, November 1, 2008
What is the dashboard ?
Originally a board used to stop mud from being dashed inside a vehicle, the word dashboard has evolved to mean a user interface that organizes and presents information in a way that is easy to read. Your Blogger Dashboard is your control panel, your main editing interface to Blogger. Once you have signed in to Blogger you will arrive at the Dashboard page from which you will have editorial access to all your blogs and your profile as...
