Blogging Tips for Blogger

Auto-Spell Checker Not Working In FireFox-Add a Dictionary

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:16:00 +0000

I recently got a new computer which has Windows 7 installed. Since I prefer the FireFox browser instead of the installed IE 8 I added this to the desktop. However I found that when I wrote documents...

Disqus Comments-An Alternative Approach

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:10:00 +0000

If you are passionate about blogging then I guess you also care about the comments that folk leave when they visit your blog. Generic comments systems such as those employed on Blogger are OK but if...

SearchStatus FireFox SEO Toolbar Extension

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:22:00 +0000

For some while now I have used the Alexa add-on to FireFox to show traffic trends on my own and sites that I visit. I have also used the Google tool bar to show page rank. Well the other day I...

Blogger Geo-Tag Posts on Interactive Map Feature.

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:53:00 +0000

I have recently been setting up a new blog The Temples of Thailand. Because the blog includes information and directions to sites of interest I wanted to use Google Earths Geo-tagging feature for...

Rearrange Layout Blogger Bug in Firefox and Chrome

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:19:00 +0000

If you have recently tried to rearrange the layout on your Blogger blog you may well find that this is impossible to do if you are using FireFox 3.6 or Chrome 4.0 browsers. Quite what the problem is...

Adding ALT Text Has Got My Images Indexed

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:29:00 +0000

Just a quick update to the post I wrote back in December on how to add ALT text and title to an image. Since that date I have employed the method I described in the above post and on checking...

Google Added Site performance in Webmaster Tools

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:01:00 +0000

Google recently added site performance to their Web Master Tools(GWMT). You can find it under the Labs tab when you load a site to view performance. I actually wish I hadn't found it(just joking)...

Send Feedburner Feed to Twitter

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:26:00 +0000

Google Feedburner have just introduced a new facility to the Publize tab on your Feedburner dashboard. You can now link directly from your feed to your Twitter account. After a short initial set up,...

Link Within-A Solution to Displaying Related Posts.

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:40:00 +0000

I am always a little cautious about what gadgets/widgets I deploy on my Blogger hosted blogs but I have to say that having tried and tested Link Within over the last three months on my main blog I...

How to Add Nofollow Attribute to an Outbound Link

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:41:00 +0000

Link juice is what makes the web go around, well at least it is as far as Google page rank is concerned. Chances are if you have a high page rank then several high or higher ranked pages link to your...

How to Add ALT text and Title to an Image

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:02:00 +0000

Adding alternative text(ALT) to an image along with a title is a useful addition if you want to get your images indexed by search engines. If you mouse over the image in this post you will find a...

Google Blues-Don't Forget Yahoo and Bing

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:23:00 +0000

Since I started blogging a couple of years ago I have built up what I thought was a pretty good relationship between myself and Google. All my sites featured in search engine results pages(SERP) and...

Casper Live Aircraft Tracking

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:30:00 +0000

If you are interested in aircraft movements then I have found a great web site for you. Casper live aircraft tracking lets you watch in real time aircraft movements at Amsterdam Schiphol...

Blogger Error-/ps/rpc_relay

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:54:00 +0000

If you use Google Webmaster Tools(GWMT) and also the friends connect/followers widget on your blog then it is possible that you might be seeing a 404 (not found)error in the results. In my case the...

Blogger Remove Blog Name from SERPS

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:55:00 +0000

If like me you use a non-standard blog template in Blogger then you may well find that when your pages are indexed by search engines the blog name appears before the title of the post. Current...

Firefox 3.5 Released

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:34:00 +0000

Always a fan of the Firefox browser I have just downloaded the latest offering from the Mozilla organisation, Firefox 3.5. Even smoother and faster I am sure this browser will be a great hit. The...

Blogger Error bX-xovb7t -Solution/Work Around

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:18:00 +0000

bX-xovb7t error code? If you have been trying to post to your Blogger blog recently you may have got this error code when you try to create a page. Here is a solution/workaround. Go to the SETTINGS...

Feedburner Feed Updating Problem Solved

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:38:00 +0000

A couple of days ago I posted about a problem with my Feedburner feed not updating for my main blog My Thai Friend. Well no thanks to Google (who own Feedburner) I have managed to get my feed...

Google,Feeds,Feedburner and Blogger.

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:50:00 +0000

All of a sudden without warning the feed from my main blog, My Thai Friend, stopped working. This happened after 19th June 2009. Now I haven't done anything, by that I mean I haven't implemented...

Nine Ball-Virus Alert

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:10:00 +0000

Recently I posted about the Gumblar virus. Today's alert posted by Zone Alarm is about a new threat called Nine Ball which combines with Gumblar to attack personal information stored on infected...

FireFox Add On-Collections

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:17:00 +0000

I have long been a fan of the Firefox browser and I particularly like the add-ons that are available. My only complaint in the past has been that it takes a bit of searching to find what you want. ...

What is Bing?

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:03:00 +0000

I have just been checking my StatCounter log files and I notice that I am getting more and more traffic from the Bing search engine which is the latest offering from Microsoft. Perhaps Microsoft...

Gumblar Virus

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:42:00 +0000

Recently I have received a couple of email alerts about the Gumblar virus. This is not a new virus but just like the flu it has a habit of mutating. Several browsers including IE and Chrome seem to...

Protecting Your Adsense Account-UniQlicks

thetefldon@gmail.com (Mike Rose) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:01:00 +0000

I run Google AdSense on all my blogs. Now I don't make very much money in a month, but it does at least provide me with enough income to pay for my web hosting. It is very easy to break the terms...