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Should you be worried that Blogger will delete your blog?
Blogger A real concern for Blogger users is whether Blogger could (and would) delete their blog without warning or explanation. Indeed, there are many forums where people have posted their horror stories regarding the deletion of their Blogger blogs. After reading such stories, many Blogger users begin to panic and make arrangements to “defect” to WordPress believing this to be safer place to home the hard work they have put into their ...
Continue readingBlogger Tip: How to Display Only Post Titles on Main, Search and Aensure the serchive Pages
Blogger, Design & Coding Many bloggers choose to clean up the layout of their non-item pages by choosing to display only the post titles. This has the effect of teasing readers with a catchy title, encouraging them to link through and read the main article, while ensuring the main pages feature a clean and organized layout. Blogger blogs do not have the function of displaying excerpts on the home, archive and search pages in the same manner as WordPress blogs. While ...
Continue readingIncrease your blog readership by offering free ebooks
Blogging, Promote your blog, Writing The single most successful technique I have used to increase my blog’s readership is the creation and free distribution of relevant ebooks. By writing and offering ebooks for free distribution, you offer potential visitors a great incentive to visit (or subscribe to) your blog. What’s more, ebooks have the potential to become viral marketing tools, enhancing visibility of your site and your status as an “expert” in your ...
Continue readingTweetbacks and Re-Tweets for Blogger blogs
Blogger Twitter has grown to be one of the most successful social media services, so it’s no wonder bloggers seek to utilize many Twitter based applications to enhance the community aspect of their blogs. Tweetbacks and re-Tweets are particularly good functions to include in our blogs: Tweetbacks demonstrate how posts are discussed and syndicated through Twitter, while re-Tweets offer an easier means for readers to Tweet about our posts. While ...
Continue readingPicasa Widgets and Plugins for your Blog
Design & Coding, WordPress Plugins Second to Flickr, Google owned Picasa is probably the most used photo-sharing service online. Blogger users in particular make great use of Picasa since all image uploads are hosted on their Picasa accounts. When researching the possibilities of developing a Picasa photostream widget, I realized that widgets to display Picasa photos are actually few and far between (especially when compared to the huge variety of widgets and plugins available ...
Continue readingBlogger makes Mobile Blogging a Whole Lot Easier!
Blogger Although we have been able to post to our Blogger blogs using mobile devices for a few years now, the service was never quite perfect. Many bloggers outside the US were unable to post by SMS due to cellular network restrictions, while posting by email had certain issues too (such as the lack of including images in posts). However, this past weekend the Blogger team have made a massive update for mobile bloggers, creating a simple, easy and user ...
Continue readingBuilding a Small Business Website with Blogger – Part 3
Blogging In part one and part two of this mini series, we have explored how Blogger can be used as a means of publishing a business-based website: from choosing and using the best template for your site through to designing important informational pages, contact forms and more. For this third installment, we will look at business branding and how we can apply these principles to a Blogger powered website including: Choosing and linking your domain name ...
Continue readingBuilding a Small Business Website with Blogger – Part 2
Blogging In the first installment of this mini-series, we examined why you may like to use Blogger to build a website for your small business as opposed to creating an HTML based site from scratch. Blogger is a free service, which offers a powerful yet easy to use interface: since there are no costs for hosting a blog with Blogger, expenses are greatly reduced. Furthermore, a blog is much easier to update than a regular website, which ensures you can ...
Continue readingBuilding a Small Business Website with Blogger – Part 1
Blogger, Making Money In the past few years, we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the number of companies who have a presence online. Almost every major retailer now offers the service to purchase their products online, while consumers are more likely to look up local businesses online rather than reach for a bulky telephone directory. For small businesses or companies who previously have little experience with web design and site building, the process of building a ...
Continue readingGoogle Tools to Enhance your Blog
Blogging, Software & Programs Aside from Google’s Blogger platform, there are several tools you can use to enhance your blog and overall writing experience. From interactive maps you can embed in your blog pages to an online notepad to organize your thoughts and ideas, Google offers us many free tools and services which can help us blog better and interact with our readers to a greater extent. In this article, I’ll offer an overview of Google’s most ...
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