One method of helping new readers read more content from your blog is to add a “recent posts” widget to the sidebar. Blogger users can do this easily by adding a “feed widget” using the default feed URL (eg: http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default). However, this will only return the 5 most recent posts at most; Blogger doesn’t (yet) support the ability to display a greater number of entries.
Many Blogger users would prefer to display more than 5 recent posts in their sidebar, and indeed there have been requests for an article explaining how…
Those of us using Google’s Blogger platform have previously been unable to change our title tags to optimize them for better rankings in search engine results. Until recently, our blog name appeared in the title before the actual name of our posts, like this:
Luckily, the Blogger team have created a new template tag which generates title tags differently, allowing you to feature only the post name as your page title, like this:
This option is much better for those hoping to optimize their Blogger templates for better rankings in search engines. Google and other…
Blogger is probably the easiest blogging platform for authors to use. Yet by default, Blogger powered blogs are not quite so friendly for blog readers.
Default templates, an awkward commenting system and Atom (rather than RSS) feeds can often make new readers feel a little uncomfortable.
In this post, I’ll offer you seven different methods you could use to make your own Blogger blogs more friendly for your readers, which in turn can help establish a more faithful readership.
1. Ensure your blog is easily recognizable
There are only a handful of default…
Static pages are a useful way of offering your readers information about your blog. Unlike Wordpress, Blogger does not feature the ability to create pages. This presents a problem for those using Blogger to publish their blogs as “about”, “contact” and even “archive” pages have become the norm among blogs and are often sought after by blog readers.
However, there is a way to work around this problem: by using a post as the basis for a page, you can create the sense of static pages in Blogger and link to…
In recent months, Blogger have added quite a few new features to the system: scheduled posts, Google Gadget integration and a dynamic blogroll are among the freshest and best upcoming features for this popular blogging platform.
So if you use Blogger to publish your blog, how can you keep updated with the latest news and discover new features as soon as they become available?
In this post, I’ll tell you about the sites I use and subscribe to in order to receive updates and news about Google blogger.
Official Blogger/Google resources
Blogger in Draft
Blogger…
