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Creating a website way back before I am high school is for professional computer guys only. But as of today, even your kid could surprise you with his page having some creative flash images. Creating a website today is even a necessity for almost anyone. With that trend, website creation software and hosting sites are spreading and evolving every day. There are lots of choices, but of course, not all are so user-friendly and reliable. Today, I decided to create a website for our CrossFire clan (online gaming clan) and I choose Blogger.com as my platform and my hosting site. Though, Blogger is generally used for blogging, a website and a blog are almost identical today. The fusion is I believe caused by the demands of interactivity and dynamism in the internet. So, what I am talking about here is that you can make your blog at Blogger look like and function like a modern website. My choice is also affected by the following exceptional Blogger features: First, it is so easy to ...

I have been using Tumblr for many years. Though I am really a Blogger fan, I need to put one of my blogs at Tumblr because of the Blogger Domain Verification system. Though I like the idea that domains hosted by a free hosting should be verified, I hate the way Blogger do it because many hosting sites do not actually support it. Godaddy supports this verification process but 1and1 does not. The verification code is just too long for 1and1’s system. Therefore, I resorted to put my domain to Tumblr, which is much easier. I will not discuss how will you do this in this article, but may discuss more about domain verification and domain hosting later. Yes, it was clear that Tumblr is not really my first choice when it comes to blogging. However, I still believe it is a good place to host your images and mini-posts. Because one of my blog is at Tumblr, I still enjoyed writing articles on it. However, of course, I wish Tumblr should do changes on their platform. Fortunately, this January...

The Layout is the blueprint of your blog’s appearance. Blogger layouts appear according to the template you are using by default. You can edit your blog layout and change the contents and appearance of your blog header, body, footer, and sidebar as they appear on the internet browser. Editing your blog layout is adding, editing, removing, or positioning a Gadget. A Gadget is a layout building block where you can choose from lots of different useful options such as: blog stats, search box, feed and many more. Normally, if you are using one of Blogger’s templates, you can see the following pre-installed gadgets: favicon, naval, header, blog posts, blog archive, and attribution. How to add a gadget: Go to Layout menu in the left side of the New Blogger Interface. You need to choose where you want to add a gadget. It might be in the header, body, sidebars, or footer part. Click the “Add a Gadget” link and start choosing what widget you want to add. If you want to put an AdSens...

After people are getting bored with static pages, which are only updated one or twice a month, they easily jumped to the blogging bandwagon. Blogging is dynamic, updated, social, and became search engine favorites. As businesses and personal users started to create a blog, many blogging platforms sprouted up. Some are free and some are just so expensive that only corporate people could afford. Free blogs are of course the best choice. WordPress, Typepad, LiveJournal, and Blogger are the names on the top list. Tumblr, MySpace, Facebook, and Weebly also started their versions of blogging for their users. Until now, new blogging platforms are rising and the old names are still on the race with their upgrades. Of all this blogging platforms and for almost five years of blogging, I always choose the best for me, and it is Blogger. Why? 1. It is FREE as in NO HASSLES WordPress has a free version but they put ads on your free blog. Some free offers are also so tight that you cannot r...

How you display and design posts in your blog will affect your blog’s readability and marketability. While blogs display posts in chronological order from the newest to the oldest, it is always important to show off your posts like the way readers want to. Blogger also offer few setting options for your blog to outshine the competition. How to show preferred number of posts in your homepage: 1. Go to Settings menu and then click Posts and Comments. 2. At the “Show at most” line, type the number of post you want to display in the homepage of your blog. You can also choose days instead of posts. If you choose seven days, this means blog posts in the seven-day span appear in the homepage no matter how many are those. However, if you choose days and you have a huge number of posts in that time span, Blogger will only display up to 500 posts. 3. If you were targeting a single-keyword per blog posts, it would be better to display only one post in the homepage. If you were ...

Comments play a vital part in your blog’s readability, interactivity, and reliability. However, there are bad people who just want to spam links on comments in order to take your visitors away from your site. This opens the need of moderating comments in your blog. While Blogger has an automatic comment spam detection system, it would be better to set-up your own prevention measures. You can also enhance the comment feature of your blog for your avid readers. How to edit comment location: Go to Settings menu in the left side of the new Blogger Interface. Click the Post and Comments option. You have four options for this. First, if you want the comment box embedded below every blog post, you choose this one. Second, if you want a separate full page for the comment box on every blog post, you choose the second option. Third, if you want the comment box to pop-up if someone wants to comment, you can choose the third option. Lastly, if you do not want comments, you choose Hide...

Yes, you are right! You can actually post to your blog using a mobile phone. This feature is very helpful for people who needs to go from one place to another every day and they cannot access a computer along the way. However, it is not that powerful compared to WordPress and other real mobile blogging platforms. Blogging on the go is very simple with Blogger; all you need is a functioning cellphone with text or multimedia capability. Any smartphone or your average mobile phone will do. You only need to connect that device to Blogger and follow the steps below. How to activate mobile blogging: 1. Go to the Settings menu in the left side of the new Blogger interface. 2. Click the mobile and email option. 3. Click the “add a mobile device” link. 4. Blogger will automatically generate a random code for you. (For non-US users) You need to type the code in your mobile phone and then send it go@blogger.com. If you are just using a normal phone with no MMS capability, ...

As I said before, you need to write your first post right after you created your blog for faster search engine indexing (which means getting your blog in Google Search). In the first place, you are here to blog so you should start right away. Blogger’s New Interface this 2012 is a little bit different to the old interface. So, here’s our guide on how to create a blog post: 1. First, in your Blogger dashboard click “Start Posting” in your freshly created blog or click the orange button (Create New Post button) if you already have posts in your blog. 2. Second, you will be forwarded to the “new post” writing interface. Before anything else, you need to familiarize the interface first. 3. Third, on the Title bar, type the desired title of your blog post. 4. Fourth, you can choose Compose to bring the rich text editor or HTML to bring the HTML editor. If you want to style your text without worrying about codes, choose the Compose option. If you want to put additiona...

You already know how to write a post in our previous article, it’s your time now to create a page. A page is important especially if you want to write your Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, and Contact. You need these pages if you want to apply in Google Adsense. A blogger post is different from a blogger page because you cannot see it unless you have a link to it in your homepage. The URL of a blogger page looks like this “myblogname.blogspot.com/p/yourpage,” different to standard post URL. Here is how you will create a page: 1. First, click the corresponding blog in your dashboard. 2. Second, click PAGES button in the left side of the interface. 3. Third, click the drop down “NEW PAGE” button and select BLANK PAGE. 4. Fourth, the Page editor interface looks similar to the post editor but there is only one setting option. You can only set it to allow comments or automatically put line breaks. 5. Fifth, type the title of the page. A shorter page title will be won...

Managing your comments would be affected on how you allow comments on your settings. If you maintain a quality blog and allow commenting, there might be unwanted comments flooding your posts. While comments are important for search engine optimization because they prove your blog is realistic and engaging, spammers sometimes abuse them. How to determine a spam comment? Spam comments are introducing links (live or a shortcut) to a website without any relationship to the post. While Blogger in default put comment links to a “nofollow” state (not counted as a vote), you still need to clean your blog for links that grab your visitor’s attention. How to manage your comments? 1. Click the name of your blog on your dashboard. 2. Click the COMMENTS tab on the left side of the interface. 3. Go to Published if you want to check your published comments. Blogger do well in classifying spam comments. You can go to Spam where Blogger automatically hide detected spam comme...

You have selected a template for your blog during the creation process in Blogger. However, you might decide to change it later on because you might get bored about it or felt that the template is not really the right one for your blog. Templates also play a big in search engine optimization. The best SEO practice is to choose an easy-to-load, no flash, mobile-friendly, HTML and CSS certified, and can be easily modified template. Because of that, we suggest using Blogger sponsored templates or templates from trusted source. Here is our guide on how to change your template anytime you want: 1. Click the name of your blog you want to edit in your Blogger Dashboard. 2. Then, click Template on the left side of the interface. 3. Right below the live display of your active template, scroll down to select a desired template. 4. There are seven template categories. You can choose from Dynamic Views, Simple, Picture Window, Awesome Inc., Watermark, Ethereal, and Travel. 5...

After you selected your template, whether it is from Blogger or from another source, you have the chance to customize it anytime you want. Customizing your template is important for SEO and internet marketing. Here is our guide on how to customize your template: 2 options: 1. Using Blogger’s Template Designer (if you are using one of Blogger’s templates). 2. HTML and CSS editing for advanced users (If you are using a customized template). Using Blogger’s Template Designer: 1. Click the name of your blog in Blogger Dashboard > go to Template > Customize. 2. For Templates, you can choose another template from Blogger if you did not like the previous one. 3. For Background, based on the chosen template, you can choose from Blogger Sponsored background images, or just choose solid colors, or you can upload your own background. It would be better to choose an easy to load background. 4. Adjust Widths, you can adjust the width of the entire blog o...

Your blog title, description, and privacy are very important things to consider if you want to earn online. You need also to consider your blog address, blog authors, and importantly blog readers. As far as SEO is concern, you need to have a search engine friendly title, description, and address. You need also to prioritize the recommendations below: Optimize your blog title, description, and address: Go to the Settings menu in the left side of the new Blogger Interface. Click the Basic Setting option. Click the EDIT button after the title, description, or address. If you want to earn from reviewing different brands and models of black leather shoes, the recommended title will be Black Leather Shoes Review. The description should be like this, “Read our reviews before buying your new black leather shoes.” The address could go like this, “theblackleathershoesreview.blogspot.com.” Click the Save Changes button to apply the changes, and if someone already used it, you can eas...

Social Networking is very effective in SEO and internet marketing. Moreover, Blogger helps us to maximize that by adding the Google plus (+) profile and page connection to the platform. This means after you created your Blogger account, you will automatically have a Google plus profile and a chance to have a Google plus page. Here is how to connect them: 1. In your Blogger Dashboard, click the name of the blog you want to connect. 2. Click the Google + menu at the left side of the interface. 3. You can decide to connect your Google plus profile or not. If you choose to connect it, the Google account you used for Blogger will automatically your Google plus account. You can also edit your Google plus profile here (https://plus.google.com/). If this is your first time to use your Google plus account, you can start by adding people or friends; add your profile photo and some information about you. Be sure to read Google’s Privacy Policy here (http://www.google.com/intl/...

Blogger has exciting options when it comes to email and blogging. While you can post through your mobile phone, you can also post to your blog using a standard web-mail gateway such as Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail. Get notified by email every time someone submitted a comment in your blog posts. In addition, send a new post automatically to your contacts in an email form. Here are the steps on how to enjoy that feature. How to post using email: If you do not like to open Blogger and create a post, you can easily send an email to Blogger and let it publish for you. Here is how to do that: 1. Go to Settings at the left side of the New Blogger Interface. 2. Click the Mobile and Email option. 3. The Email settings are under the Mobile setting. On the first line, you can see an incomplete email address. It contains your username, secret words, and then Blogger’s domain. Every blog has this email address. It is up to you on what would type on the “secret words” part in order...

This is one of the great features of the Blogger’s New Interface. With the stats feature, you can now monitor the number of your page views, traffic sources, and the demography of your audiences. This will be great for SEO and marketing because you can now make the needed adjustments for more traffic and income based on realistic results. Here is our guide on how to monitor your stats in Blogger: 1. Go to your dashboard. 2. Click the name of your blog. Then, click the Stats menu in the left side of the interface. 3. You can now see a graph of the number of the page views your blog is gaining in a span of five days. The image will speak to you if there is an increase or decrease in your traffic. If the graph is falling down, you might want to optimize more and increase your traffic. If it is increasing, this only means your SEO moves are doing great. 4. Next to the graph is the table of page views. You can see the number of page views of the current day, the past da...

Blogger and Google always make things easier for those who want to earn online. There are two options for you provided in the Earnings menu: Google AdSense and Affiliate Ads. AdSense will enable you to display ads relevant to your blog content and earn through clicks and views. Affiliate Ads enables you to advertise products or services from companies in the Google affiliate network and earn through shares of purchases or subscriptions. Both programs pay through your Google AdSense account. This means you only need to sign-up an AdSense account and enjoy both programs. How to start from Blogger: 1. Log-in your Blogger account. 2. Choose the blog that you want to monetize. For easy approval in the AdSense program, you need to have a quality blog. Based on my experience, you need at least a three-month old blog with 30 unique (not copied from anywhere else online) posts having 300 plus word (text) contents per article. You also need to have an “About this blog” page in your ...

Customizing your blog template in Blogger is really fun and easy. Well, I have been doing this for years and with all the blogging platforms that I already used, Blogger is the simplest and fastest to customize. The most important part is it is FREE. Some platforms offer customizations to premium users only but Blogger just want the artist in you. I will not run through the steps on how to customize your blog in this article because I will only show you how I achieved my current blog template (hopefully I would not change it). If you want the full guide, you can go here. You might like my template and want to get inspirations from it for your blog, so here it goes. Remove the Blogger Navbar: This blog used the Simple Blogger Template the time I created it. From that layout, I decided to hide the Blogger Navbar on top of the blog. Find the code below in your template’s HTML: <![CDATA[/* Just below that, you need to insert the codes below in order to remove Blogger’s ...