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- How to Add Recent Posts Widget to BloggerIt’s the fact that Feedburner always helped the bloggers or webmasters with their variety of useful services like Free Email Subscription service, RSS reader, PingShot services, FeedFlare, SmartFeed and so on. This post explains how to add Recent(latest) Posts Widget to Blogger(blogspot) blogs using Feedburner’s BuzzBoost service.Do the following steps:Sign-in to your feedburner account and select your blog from My Feeds:Click Publicize tab from the top menu:Then select BuzzBoost from the left sidebar:Next you have to chose the number of recent posts you want to show, the...
- Make Money Add an Amazon Widget to BloggerBy Tony Tran on August 16th, 2009 | 5 Comments
In today’s tutorial you will learn how to place an Amazon widget on your Blogger blog (Blogspot blog) to enable you to add a further income stream to your existing Blogger earnings. Adding an Amazon widget to Blogger is not difficult. No change or very little change to your Blogger template is required. There is some time involved in setting up the widget itself and choosing the products to link to and customizing the look to match your blog however. This tutorial will walk you through the steps involved but first a few need to know facts about Amazon’s affiliate program.Importan... - Automatic Tweet Your Post to TwitterBy Tony Tran on August 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Tweeting your new blog posts is a great way to engage your readers, and something that many on the team have taken advantage of for our own blogs. An easy way to do this is through Twitterfeed, which automatically updates Twitter with each new blog post. Here’s how to set it up : Head on over to the Twitterfeed site, click Sign In with OpenID and type in your Blogger blog’s URL. Once you’ve registered you’ll then be taken to the New Feed page where you can start linking blog feeds to your Twitter account. First click the Connect your feed to Twitter Account button, whic... - Add Google Analytics to a Blogger BlogBy Tony Tran on August 15th, 2009 | No Comments
If you are new to blogging at Blogger.com you might not be aware that tracking and statistics software can be linked to your site to give you details about your visitors. The process of adding a free tracking program such as Google Analytics is relatively straightforward. By following the simple steps below you will gain access to very useful data about the kind of traffic accessing your site. This will help you grow your site and target your content to meet the needs of your visitors. Steps to Add Google Analytics to Your Blogger Blog 1. Login to Google Analytics Login to Google Analytics at ... - Add Chitika Ads to Blogger BlogspotBy Tony Tran on August 15th, 2009 | No Comments
In this tutorial you will learn how to add a Chitika ad unit to a Blogger Blogspot blog. To put a Chitika ad unit on a Blogger blog you will need to add the Chitika ad code directly into your Blogger template. Full instructions are set out below so that even beginner bloggers and Blogger newbies can follow these to install Chitika advertising program on their blog. If you are not already signed up for Chitika read about some of the advantages of advertising with Chitika at Blogspot Blogger Guide. Chitika and Google Adsense – A Winning Combination One of the main questions that bloggers a... - Better Placement of Google Adsense in BloggerBy Tony Tran on August 15th, 2009 | 16 Comments
To increase the performance of Google Adsense on your Blogger Blogspot blog you can extend the choice of placement options of your Google ads with some simple tweaks. This involves making a few minor adjustments to your Blogger template to increase where widgets can be created and how many widgets can be placed in your template. In this second tutorial of the series on placement of Google Adsense in a Blogger Blog you will learn how to place Google Adsense between the header and the first post. This will allow for a variety of Google Adsense ads to be added of which the 728×90 leaderboar... - Google Adsense Tips for a Blogger BlogBy Tony Tran on August 15th, 2009 | No Comments
As the Blogger platform is owned by Google it is not surprising that Blogger makes it very easy to add Google Adsense to your Blogger Blogspot blog. In this tutorial you will learn about different ways to add Google Adsense to your blog. Along the way I will be offerring a few tips about best placement of Google Adsense units. I have aimed this Blogger tutorial at new bloggers and beginners and assumes no prior knowledge of Google Adsense. Bear in mind that before you can start to add Google Adsense to your Blogger blog you will need to have created an Adsense account. 3 Ways to Add Google Ads... - Add Paypal Donate Button to BloggerBy Tony Tran on August 15th, 2009 | No Comments
If you want to make a few bucks from all the hard work you are putting into your blog then consider adding a Paypal donate button to your Blogger Blogspot blog. Adding a donation button will encourage all those happy readers to say a big thank you for helping them out. Not everyone will donate but you will get the odd generous soul who will willingly donate some chump change to shout you a coffee. In this tutorial we will be adding a gadget to the Blogger sidebar but we won’t be changing the template. Skill level is rated easy. 1. Get yourself a Paypal account if you don’t already... - Add Breadcrumb Navigation Blogger BlogspotBy Tony Tran on August 13th, 2009 | 4 Comments
One way you can improve navigation of a Blogger Blogspot blog is to add breadcrumb navigation to your blog. There is also a SEO benefit as major search engines like Google treat anchor text links as important. What Will a Breadcrumb Do on My Blog? Adding a breadcrumb to your blog provides a form of text-based navigation. A breadcrumb displays the visitor’s location within a blog. The advantage of a breadcrumb is that it provides shortcuts to enable visitors to quickly get around your blog by jumping from one part of your blog to another. To illustrate how adding a breadcrumb would work i... - Add Google Adsense to Blogger HeaderBy Tony Tran on August 13th, 2009 | No Comments
This is the third article in a series on adding Google Adsense to a Blogger Blogspot blog. In this tutorial you will learn how to add Google Adsense to the header of your blog. This tutorial assumes no knowledge of Blogger and provides a walkthrough of the steps involved to add Google Adsense to the header of your blog. How To Add Google Adsense to the Header (Above the Title) If you want to add Google Adsense to your header for instance above the title you can by adjusting your template to give you the option of adding more than one widget to the header area. 1. Login to Blogger and navigate ...
