Blogger Widgets

How to add Twitter Cards to Blogger

2013-05-17T00:56:54-07:00

When you share a post to Facebook or Google+, they display a summary of the post and also a thumbnail if available. Twitter has also come up with a similar solution called Twitter Cards.Twitter has come up with different types of Cards and this tutorial will help you in adding a summary card to your Blogger posts.
Blog Posts which have the summary card added will show a View Summary Option
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Create Separate Contact Page in Blogger

2013-05-16T14:47:15-07:00

Blogger launched it’s official version of the Contact Form Widget but, it works only on the Blogger Sidebar. If you don’t want to add the contact form to your Blog’s sidebar but want it to appear on a specific page, then this tutorial will help you out. I didn’t want the contact form to appear every where on my blog. So I have moved it to a separate Contact Me Page

How to add Contact Form Widget to Blogger - Official

2013-05-16T23:54:03-07:00

The long wait is finally over and blogger has come up with it’s own contact form. Now you no longer have to rely on 3rd party Contact Form solutions. Blogger has added a new Contact Form Widget which will fit into your Blog’s sidebar. You can also add the same contact form on a separate page and customize it if you want to.
Adding a contact form to Blogger is now really easy. Below steps will guide you in adding the contact form as a sidebar widget.
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How to Enable Google+ Comments in Blogger

2013-04-23T23:38:45-07:00

Google has released it’s Social Commenting System and has made it available for Blogger Blogs.The new commenting System is more social and looks better than the original Blogger Commenting system. The Google Plus commenting System will also display social interactions made on Google Plus. This tutorial will help you to enable Google Plus Commenting system on your Blogger Blog

Blogger rolling out XML Sitemaps

2013-04-14T01:42:45-07:00

Blogger is silently rolling out XML sitemaps to all of the BlogSpot Blogs. This is another long awaited feature and as of now, I can see these only on BlogSpot blogs and not on ones mapped to Custom Domains. Blogger has been adding more and more features and this is another really awesome roll out from Blogger.Sitemaps provide information about all the URLs in your Blog. This structured information will give loads of information about your Blog to the Search Engine Crawlers.

Blogger launches a new Template Editor

2013-04-10T17:06:54-07:00

Blogger has simplified the process of editing blogger templates by coming up with a new colorful inline code editor. The new editor also has an inline preview option which can display a preview of the changes that you have made.Blog’s HTML template is the code which gives life to the Blog’s look and feel. An upgrade to the editor is really good move from the Blogger team which will help us in editing and maintaining the Template code in an easier way

Optimize H1,H2 & H3 heading tags in Blogger

2013-05-02T19:54:42-07:00

Heading tags are a way of organizing and prioritizing content in a HTML document. There are 6 heading tags - H1(the most important one) to H6(the lease important one). Among these six tags,H1 tag is the most important tag followed by H2, H3 and so on. By default Blogger uses H1 tags for the blog title, H3 for post titles and H2 for sidebar titles. Having proper weighted headings is really important from an SEO perspective and this tutorial will help you to assign heading tags based on importance.

Recipe Markup For Blogger

2013-05-02T20:05:32-07:00

I have been doing some cooking experiments and came across lots of awesome BlogSpot blogs with recipes of mouth watering dishes. This post is for all of those BlogSpot Food Bloggers who would like to spice up their recipe posts in Google Search results. Google Search results uses your webpage markup to identify better ways of displaying meaningful information

If your Recipe blog has these markup information added , then Google will try to display your recipe pages in a better way.

Custom Permalinks for Blogger Posts

2013-04-14T02:52:28-07:00

A permalink (or permanent link) is a URL that points to a specific blog entry after it has passed from the front page to the archives.Blogger generates this permanent link based on your post title(If the title is in English). For example if your post title is “Hello World”, the blog post’s permalink would be something like http://yourblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/hello-world.html Till date Blogger never allowed the user to control what the permalink should be but it rather assigned a permalink on it’s own.

Redirect one page to another in Blogger

2013-03-28T13:28:51-07:00

Blogger has launched an Array of Search Engine related features and one of them is the ability to create Custom Redirects. Technically Blogger allows you to create 302 Redirects which are used to specify that the Web Page has temporarily moved to a new location.

Add Meta Description Tags to Blogger

2013-05-02T20:19:20-07:00

Meta Tags are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such tags are placed in the head section of an HTML document and Search Engines might use this data to display the search snippet when they display a page from your blog. Most of the Social Sharing Tools like the Facebook Share or the Google Plus buttons will pick up this meta description to create the snippet which gets shared to the Social Networks.

Custom 404 Error Pages for Blogger

2013-05-02T20:31:42-07:00

"The 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find what was requested." In simple words the page that will be displayed when the actual page is not found is called a 404 Error Page. Till now Blogger’s error page was a plain old design with more of orange in it and was not customizable. Now Blogger Error pages use the same template . This would help template designers in making up custom 404 Pages.This tutorial will help you in setting up a Custom 404 page for your Blog.

Gadgets for Blogger Dynamic Views

2012-02-29T22:05:38-08:00

Blogger has introduced 6 awesome Gadgets for the Dynamic Views/Dynamic View Templates. The Widgets appear as a Floating Dock and expands when the user hovers over it. These Gadgets matches up with the look and feel of the CSS3 powered Dynamic Views.

Country Specific BlogSpot URLs

2012-02-07T09:56:30-08:00

Blogger has started using Country Specific URLs and some of you might have already noticed it. The change has been rolled out in India.If you are from India try visiting any BlogSpot URL and you will be redirected to the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD). For example if you visit any page on http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com from India , you will be redirected to the country specific page on http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.in . Similarly if you visit any other ccTLDs from India, you will be redirected to the Indian TLD.

Add descriptions to Label Gadget

2012-01-29T20:25:34-08:00

This was a query that I got over email and I when I saw her implement it on her blog, it looked cool and I thought this might be useful for others as well. This won’t look that great with Blogger’s Label Cloud. So this trick is only for those who use the list view in the Label Gadget. To do this, you will have to modify your Label Gadget with some custom code. You will have to add a small code snippet for each label of yours.