Blogger Static Pages are same as post pages though they have certainly difference compared to post pages. The difference is Blogger static pages don't have a label, they don't appear in the blog's archive. Blogger static pages are pages that primarily used to write Contact Pages, privacy Pages, About Me pages etc.
But still, we can use this pages to provide external link to other parts of the blog or even totally to other blog/website. The main advantages of using Static pages is they do act like a part of skeleton of your blog. Therefore, the content of Static Pages can be accessed from any post or any part of blog. How you will be going to make use of it is only limited to one imagination.
So, let's check out - How To Create Static Pages In Blogger :
Step 1: Log in to your account and Click on Dashboard of your blog
Step 2: Click on Pages as shown below
Step 3: Click on New Page - > Blank Page as shown below
Step 4: Write the "Title of the page" and enter the page content
Step 5: See the Preview of the page on your blog before publishing
Step 6: After completing the editing, Publish the Page
Step 7: You do have 3 options:
Place the page Link in Top menu bar- Top tabs
Place the page link in Side menu bar- Side tabs
To enter page link manually on your blog- Don't show
Step 8: Now, save the arrangement
Your Static Page looks like as shown below
That's it. Now you have created your static page.
If you have any doubts or suggestions, please do leave your comment below.
Social networking sites has changed the way we communicate with our family, friends and relatives.
The same kind of affect is on blogs too. The blogging platform now has become too much social network oriented. To achieve the high traffic for your blogs and to have grasp the larger audience , the bloggers must have social media presence on the web for their blogs.
The Social Media Widget increases traffic and engagement with the world’s most popular sharing buttons for blogs. Normally, the Social sharing widget is at the end of the posts. The advantage of floating vertical social media share buttons is, they flow with content when the visitor scrolls the page. So, let's see - How to Add a Social Media Widget To Your Blog: Step 1: Go to your Dashboard of your blog Step 2: Click Layout -> Add Widget Step 3: From the list - Select "HTML/JavaScript" Step 4: Copy and Paste the below code in the "Content" section [NOTE : Leave "Title" section empty] <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_floating_style addthis_32x32_style" style="left:50px;top:50px;"> <a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a> <a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a> <a class="addthis_button_pinterest_share"></a> <a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a> <a class="addthis_button_google_plusone_share"></a> <a class="addthis_button_stumbleupon"></a> <a class="addthis_button_compact"></a> </div> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-51f184b5319b19ad"></script> <!-- AddThis Button END -->
Step 5: Click "Save" button. And, "Save the arrangement" of your blog. Visit the blog to see the changes. If you want social media buttons with count on them, please do check the below link. Click Here : How To Add Floating Social Media Share Widget With "Numbers" Count To Blogger If you have any doubts or suggestions, please do leave your comments below.
The first time when we signup and start our blog, the blogger provides us with basic default layouts and settings for our blog. For the person, who started blogging the layout may looks cool with all the handy features in it. But, as your blogging skills increases you start to get annoyed by the "Navbar" provided by blogger(as default).
The Navbar diminishes the professional look of your blog, yet being handy when it comes to provide you with Logging into your blog, publishing your posts, customizing your site.
To keep it or remove depends on one's own perspective.
In the following steps we will be going to see "How To Remove or Hide Blogger Navbar From Your Blog"- And, it is too easy to do.
Step 1: Go to Blogger Dashboard Step 2: Go to Layout-> Click Navbar -> Edit
Step 3: From the shown list of options select "off" option.
Step 4: Click Save. And you're done.
Now visit the blog and the Navbar has been removed from your blog.
So, do you think Navbar is useful or it is just a useless gadget. Please, share your valuable views and comment below.
Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ are providing the custom like and follow boxes which can help bloggers to gain dedicated followers to your blog. Now a days, social networking sites became an integral part of blogging. Facebook like box can help you to extend your reach and connect to the audience by proving them a mean to join you on Facebook.Which in turn, will help you to grow traffic on your blog too.
{Note: You have to edit your Blog's template.It is recommended to take a backup of your Blog. First Click on your Blogger Dashboard - click on template- click on Backup/Restore and download the template from the pop-up window}
So, let's check- How to Add Facebook like Box in Blogger Blog:
Now that you have taken the backup, you are ready for the process. Visit the Facebook Developers.
You will see a window like the one shown below.
Customize the look and feel, height, width of your Like box from the left window and you can see the changes in real-time on right window.
Uncheck the show stream, if you don't want the latest posts with this widget.
Uncheck the header checkbox, if you don't want to display "Find us on Facebook"(as you can see on our blog).
Once you are done with the customization, click on Get code. It would pop-up a window like the one shown below.
Click on Edit template from the Blogger dashboard. Copy the "Code A" from the above window and paste it just after the <body> tag.
Now save the template and click the Layout button.
Click on add a gadget from your sidebar. Add HTML/JavaScript gadget and Paste the "Code B" in it.
Now you are done. Save the arrangement and click on View Blog.
Congrats,you just added a Facebook Like Box on your blog.
If you have any doubts or suggestions. Please comment below.
In this post, we summarized few tricks/ways that can help you achieve the traffic which you are expecting from your blog. Above all, we write blogs for people's to read.
So, let's check out the 10 ways to get your blog high traffic-
1. Writing Good Content: Writing good content is the most important thing. A little bit of good writing skills is important. If your content isn't unique or compelling, no one will want to visit your blog again.
2. The Blog Title: The title of your blog is one of the first things that readers will see and one of the factors that search engines use to determine what your blog is about. The title of your blog should let readers know right away what your blog is about. It should be easy to remember, not too long, and not too similar to another website's name.
3. Ease For Site Navigation: Good design won't save bad content, but bad design can keep readers from looking at your site. Make sure your blog is easy to read and that your most important features are easy to find. Depending on what platform you're using, you may have limited control over the design of your blog, but take the time to learn how to customize what you can and make your site as user friendly as possible.
4. Market Your Site: Tell all your friends that you have a new blog. Ask them to check it out and recommend it to their friends. You can do this by talking directly to your friends, sending instant messages or by putting a link to your blog in your web forum signature.
5. Write Guest Posts On Other Blogs: Guest posts can help to publicize their blogs and give them a little time off from their own writing. Make sure to include a link back to your blog in the post so that readers can find the rest of your work. You'll also want to make a post on your blog directing readers to your guest post.
6. Do Link Exchanges: Seek out blogs and websites that cover the same material you do in your blog and ask if they would like to exchange links. If they accept, they will put links to your blog on their sites and you will put links to their sites on yours.
7. Optimize Blog Ranking In Search Engine Queries: Try to get your blog listed on the first page or two for search terms relevant to your content. If your site has a high rank, people can more easily find your blog.
8. Socialize The Blog: Today's internet world is all about socializing. Make use of familiar sites like Facebook, Google+, twitter, Pinterest etc to get more visitors.
9. Blogwalk: Blogwalking is visiting other blogs. Write comments on the articles you read, you will create more links to your site.
10. Write posts on Hot topics: Follow the current hot events or news that people are talking about, try to write about that in your blog. Choose hot/controversial topics to attract attention. It may become helpful for both to the popularity of your blog and your SEO techniques.
I hope this may help you to understand the big picture which affects your blogs/website traffic.
Are you satisfied with your blog/website traffic? What do you think is most effective way to increase blog traffic? Do leave your comments below.
Blogger has added a new Contact Form Widget which will fit into your Blog’s sidebar.
-Why should I add the new Blogger Contact form?
You don’t have to reveal your email address to the web to provide users with an option to contact you.If you like getting suggestions, queries or any other feedback from the users, make sure that you add the contact form to your blog.
-How to add the contact form to Blogger?
Follow the below steps-
1.Login to your Blogger Dashboard and Navigate to the Layout Page 2.Click on the Add a Gadget Link and select More from the left Menu. You can add the add the brand new contact form the right side list
Add any title which you would like. But would be great, if it tells what it is really about?
Now, click on save button. That's it.
The Contact Form added to your Blog’s sidebar.
The contact form has the below input fields
Name – Name of the reader who is sending you a message
Email – Email address of the reader who is sending you a message
Message – The message which the reader wants to send to you.
Above is the snapshot of the "Contact Form".
When the reader sends you a message via the contact form, you will receive it straight into your inbox.
If you have any further queries on adding the contact form, do let us know and we will be happy to help.
For every naive blogger or a master blogger it's always good to evolve by reading other blogs. No one can say they are a master blogger. Blogging is a place which evolves everyday. But, the following blogs have become like the silver bullets of hallmark of success. So, let's check who are these top 10 blogs which can help you achieve the zenith in blogging.
1. ProBlogger – Started by Darren Rowse in 2004, this top site offers advice on creating a successful blog, including blog design, writing content and SEO. The site also hosts a forum, workbooks and a jobs board for bloggers.
2. Copyblogger – Everything you need to know about creating content, copywriting, SEO and internet marketing. Check out their e-books, seminars and webinars.
3. Bloggingtips.com – This site aims to be a community for bloggers, writers and readers to connect. The team of writers offers blogging advice, guides and resources.
4. DailyBlogTips – Covers blogging basics, design, SEO and internet marketing. Check out useful sister site, DailyWritingTips for daily tips on grammar, spelling, punctuation and vocabulary. This is one of my favorite sites.
5. Basic Blog Tips – Ileane offers blogging tutorials, including podcasts and scores of YouTube videos.
6. For Bloggers by Bloggers – A roster of top, passionate bloggers offers advice on how to create, sustain and grow a blog.
7. Michelle Shaeffer – Michelle shares her experience – both good and bad – as a successful blogger. Her tag line, Building your visibility, voice and community online, says it all.
8. WPBeginner – If you’re using WordPress as the platform for your blog, this is a great resource. The blog provides tips, tricks, hacks, and other resources for the WordPress community. Check out bobwpand Lorelle on WordPress, also.
9. Moz.com – If you want to go beyond the basic WordPress installation and get advice on how to super-optimize your blog, check out Moz (formerly, SEOMoz).
10. Legal Bloggers – Though they occasionally offer blogging tips, this is less about that and more about lawyers blogging with passion. Three of my favorites are legal blogging veterans Kevin O’Keefe (Real Lawyers Have Blogs), Carolyn Elefant (MyShingle) and Lee Rosen (Divorce Discourse – don’t let the title fool you – this blog is all about practical, insightful advice on running and growing a law practice).
In this post, we will see how you can create adsense account for your Website. There are many Adsense alternatives, but no matter what network you try Adsense is certainly the best. Though, if you are good with marketing, you can look into Affiliate marketing and my post on Affiliate or Adsense will give you my personal insight.
I remember when I started Blogging, Adsense was something an alien word for me. While signing up for Adsense, I had very less idea about it, which I learned by myself online. For beginners, who are not aware of Adsense: It’s an advertisement program for publisher started by Google. They place contextual ads on your blog and you will get paid when someone clicks on ads.
Here I’m compiling a basic guide for beginners who are not sure of, how to apply for Adsense.
There are few requirements which you need to follow before you can apply for Adsense. You need to have a website. You should be above 18+, else apply using your parents name.
Steps to create Adsense account:
Adsense has changed the account approval process lately and here is new adsense account approval process:
Sign up for Adsense
Add Adsense ads into your Blog
Your account will be reviewed and rejected.
Though new adsense account approval process is quite lengthy and now it’s 2 way adsense account approval process, but it will help us to maintain the quality of adsense. Also before applying for adsense make sure your website is following adsense policies.
I believe, by now you have done your research on the above and here is how you can sign up for Adsense.
Add your website details, language and put a tick mark on first two box which says
I will not place ads on sites that include incentives to click on ads.
I will not place ads on sites that include pornographic content.
In Website URL, it should be your blog address and make sure to add it without http://
Adsense contact information:
This is most important part and I remember making couple of mistakes while signing up. Most important is Payee name. Make sure to use the same name under which you have a bank account. As Adsense will be sending you a check under that name. If you make a mistake here, changing payee name of your account would be difficult.
Rest add your contact information and fill other details.
Accept Adsense policies:
Read Adsense policies and put a tick mark in front of all three boxes.
Once done click on Submit and on the next page, you can review your details. Make sure that all the details are accurate and up to date.
Signing up Email:
You can use your current Email address to sign up or you can create a new Gmail id for Adsense. For fast approval, I would suggest you to sign up using your Google apps address. i.e admin@domain.com.
In my case, While I tried signing up using generic @gmail address, I was rejected 4 times, but later on when I applied using domain Email address, it worked and I got Instant adsense approval.
Once you have signed up for Adsense, you need to add adsense codes into your blog. Adsense team will review your application again after adding the ad codes, and it will activate and will send you Adsense Pin. Which takes 1-2 months depending upon geographical position.
So, after every thing is set up, in order to get paid from Adsense, you need to fill two information:
Please submit your Tax information
Please Enter your Pin
You will also need to submit Tax form, depending how you are entitled to do business.
Similarly, once you receive the Pin, add it into your Adsense account and from the next month payment cycle, you will start getting paid. Minimum Payout for Adsense is $100.
I hope this guide will help you to create Adsense account.
The question is still unanswerable because WordPress blogs are increasing and so as the blogspot blogs.
Both are top platforms and are developing and advancing day by day…
WordPress fixes their bugs in every new version and blogger adds new features occasionally. Sometime ago WordPress was updated to version 3.5 and this made their blogs more secure and customizable.
Again, Blogger added features like robots.txt, meta description, no-follow and no-index commands etc.. to optimize blogs for search engines.
Development is going on and growth is on its way. It’s not that a blogger can make good revenue with only WordPress, as many are making good money from blogger too..
What I think is…
Success don’t depend on the platform you choose but on what you do.
Your earning depends only on your works, your writing and hard work. Wherever you’re working, work hard with originality and success is for sure.
Still, to get a clear picture of the two platforms I’ll provide the newbies with some points showing the difference between Blogger & WordPress, so that they can select anyone of them.
Points About Blogger.
1. Easy to understand and work with, especially for newbie bloggers. 2. Provides a gadgets/plugins store but you can’t get all what you want without going for a search in sites like bloggerplugins. They have a good collection of plugins for blogger blogs. 3. Provides cool templates as well as awesome dynamic views, but for more templates explore sites like splashytemplates or bloggerthemes. 4. Fast to work even in slow net speed like GPRS and low bandwidth dial-up. 5. Unless you know the other bloggers personally you can’t allow them to blog on yours as Blogger don’t has a guest blogging feature. 6. Blogger requires less investment and less technical knowledge as it doesn’t require any hosting. You don’t need to spent money for hosting, you just need to buy a domain name from sites like GoDaddy and pay a very less amount yearly. 7. If you need to change your blog template in blogger, then all your previously made customizations and hacks/coding with the template ‘ll get removed. 8. Blogger is a secured platform and thus the blogspot blogs are rarely hacked.
Points about WordPress.
1. A little time is needed to get adjust with WordPress. 2. Has a huge plugins store with every need.You just need to search for what you want. 3. Provide a great range of free templates in the templates store but don’t provide dynamic views. 4. WordPress requires a certain net speed to work with.You can’t operate it nicely in slow speed. 5. You can make your blog a guest blog so that other bloggers can come and write on yours. 6. Self hosted WordPress blogs require more investment & technical efforts as they require hosting facilities. So you need to spent money for hosting on sites like HostGator, every month or every year. 7. Your template customizations and coding can be backed up, so that when you switch to a new template you don’t require to work once again on ‘em. 8. WordPress is also a safe platform but the no. of hacking reports are more here. You need to take some security measures to save your blog from hackers.
I’ve not mentioned the threaded comments point as it is available in both the platforms now. I’ve also not mentioned much about SEO because both the platforms work well in Search Engines. It all depends on your link building and keyword research works. And I’ve not talked about Adsense integration as well, that is also easy in both. Blogger has Adsense options in dashboard and in WP you can install plugins like “Easy Adsense Lite” or” Quick Adsense” to do the work easily… Finally I want to say that, you don’t need to think much about platform because if you’re correct then everything is. Just go on with white-hat techniques, don’t take help from cheap and link-buying programs, work on how to get natural linking (e.g: from guest blogs & article directories) and enjoy your blogging journey..
Hope the post helped you to make a good decision. If you liked my it then do share and comment below about the platform you would select.
