Making a sticky post in Blogger

A sticky post is the one that stays at the top of all posts/articles on the Blog’s Homepage.
With Wordpress you have many plugins that do the job for you right from installing your blog to maintaining its security and SEO. Unfortunately, if you are using Blogger you do not have any of these facilities and [...]

Posting articles through email in Blogger

Publishing articles on Blogger via email
One of the many exiting features of Blogspot enabled blogs is the ability to post your articles via email. At times where you are unable to access Blogger.com for some reasons or your country has blocked Blogger.com (Which some countries are increasingly doing these day), you always have the option [...]

Lost somewhere in a blog? Use blog search

Few days ago, Mahesh posted a comment to one of the article asking to keep that particular article on the home page as users are finding it difficult to locate it on the blog.

While I can certainly make the post sticky and make it appear on the home page always, I wouldn’t like to do [...]

Make an extra ‘add a widget’ in your blog

You may have changed your blogger theme since your previous theme (template) did not have a ‘add a gadget’ or ‘add a page element’ in a place where you wanted it to be.
Blogspot is designed in such a way that even a novice in blogging will find it easy to make a blog and publish [...]

Adding a background music to your blogspot blog

Ever got irritated by using music gadgets in blogger which get to make your page load ever soo slowly?
If so,you probably need to look at this cool gadget.Its called the ilike.To start off first head here  and create you playlist from choosing from various tracks available from the ilike database.Save it and if everything goes alright [...]

Embedded comment form in blogspot

Blogger recently announced the embedded comment form for blogspot users.Previously if someone wanted to comment on your post they have to click on the comments link which will eventually take them to a new page. There he can enter the comment and choose the subscription format. Now with embedded comment form users will see the [...]

Possible feed URL’s for blogspot blogs

After setting up your blog successfully,one of the following feed URL can be submitted/entered into any Feed reader to let your readers grab your latest content.
You can even submit the following Feed URL’s as your sitemap in Google webmaster tools.
Feed for your entire site:
Atom 1.0: http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
RSS 2.0    : http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Atom        : http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated
Feed [...]

Home page excerpts in blogger

Home page excerpts gives your audience a brief view about a bunch of your posts at once and if they are  interested in any of them, they’ll click on that post link to read the full entry.
Note that excerpts will only show when visitors view the home page or archived page. Now to do this [...]

New import export feature in blogger

It’s been a very long time that I logged into my blogger account since that I’ve shifted to wordpress.
When I did log in, I found a new addition to blogger which is the import/export option.
Login to your blogger account and go to settings and then the basic tab.
The first option you find is the import/export [...]

Enabling Backlinks in blogger

Backlinks are the links coming from other blog’s that link to your post. When someone links to your post you see his post link beside your post comments link under “links to this post”. This is not to be confused with Trackbacks which however are not available in blogger. By default in blogger the backlinks [...]

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