Hi guys, do you know what are blogger labels?, Blogger labels are those links which we add when we create a new post. We can add many labels to a single post. These labels are basically tags, but in Blogger by default they are called labels. When you click on a label link, that opens with all posts in that. In WordPress they are called tags. These labels are used for better user navigation, because if a visitor is visiting your blog for a specific post/page so he/she may be interested in more posts on your blog. Therefore having labels at sidebar is good idea. But the problem is, when search engines' robots crawl your blog, they need only one URL for each page of your blog for crawling and indexing. By default they crawl every page and links including labels. So this makes a little bit confusion for robots. Because your single post get accessible through different addresses i.e Archives, labels and the actual URL of the post. So to avoid confusing search robots and for better SEO we need to change the labels to tags only for search engines. Robots have now become advanced and can determine the tag and the actual URL. Once you will add tag attribute to the label links so you won't face any punishment from search engines like Google.
Now we will start how to do this, this is basically a very simple procedure and you need to just add a single attribute to your blog's HTML section. It doesn't take more than one minute. But I wanted to clear your doubts about this. In my coming posts, I will also teach you how to optimize comments' links in Blogger and archive links in Blogger. Now lets start optimizing blogger label links.
How to Optimize Blogger Labels?
Here is a single step you can do to optimize your blogger links. We will just add an extra attribute to our blogger's labels and that will work for all of our blog, now follow given steps below:
Login to Blogger
Template >> HTML >> Proceed
Check Expand Blogger Widget Template
Now search for below piece of code
<a expr:href='data:label.url'
Replace above code with this one below:
<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'
Save your template and you're done.
Note: If the rel='tag' is already exist then do nothing.
How was it? Is this tutorial help you a little or not? if so then make sure sharing this with friends. Also do comment if you have further questions. Peace be upon you.
Hey, we have a new template! This one's just really simple. Very toned down. You know how I love minimalist designs.
For this one you'll need to create your own header (I used this font for the demo) and add your own social media icons, as well as the search bar (instructions at the bottom of this post).
You will have to manually add your profile photo, too, if you want to do it like the demo. You just need to adjust the width of the profile pic to 255px.
This template is also customizable using the Blogger Template Designer.
You know the drill. Back up your template first, then upload the XML or HTML file of the template above.
Add the search bar
The formatting for the search bar is already embedded in the XML file, but you will have to manually add the search bar in your layout. Go to LAYOUT, select HTML/Javascript, and then copy and paste the code below.
You can change the width or remove the entire code. If you remove the entire code, it will just revert back to the usual options for images (original size, small, medium, large, x-large).
I've been using a custom search bar in some of the free templates I have on here and I realized I haven't included instructions on how to adjust the width.
If you're using any of this blog's free templates with the custom search bar, here's how to adjust the width of the search bar so it won't look annoying when you adjust the sidebar width.
1. Go to Template, then Edit HTML. Make sure you've backed up your template first! 2. Search for this code:
3. You can adjust the width by adjusting the padding, specifically the second number (68 in the example above). 4. Edit the padding and preview your template first to make sure it all lines up before saving all changes to your template!
How to add the custom search bar
I can't remember where I found the tutorial for the custom search bar because it's been so long. I'm so sorry I can't link up to that tutorial! Anyway, here's how to add this type of search bar to a Blogger blog.
1. First, back up your template. 2. Then go to Template, then Edit HTML. 3. Insert this code above ]]></b:skin>
The first step in making a blog is to form a reputation. though Blogger permits you to vary your blog’s address once it's setup, it's vital to require time to deem a reputation before obtaining started. The name of your blog ought to be associated with the aim of your blog, whether or not it’s a private blog concerning yourself generally, goals you've got accomplished, a journey you're on, or knowledgeable blog a couple of service or product you offer. If you were blogging concerning yourself, you'll use your name because the blog name (and thus a part of your blog address). as an example, if your name was “ABC” and you used that because the name of your blog, then Blogger would assign your blog address as ABC.blogspot.com.
If your blog is concerning your landscaping company and services it provides, you may use your company name or slogan. the instance we'll be using throughout this book could be a fictitious company referred to as ''The Perfect Landscape” with the blog address theperfectlandcape.blogspot.com. Once you've got selected
a name, it’s time to form your Google Blogger blog.
Create A Blog 1. along with your web browser open, visit blogger.com. 2. you may return to Blogger’s home page (see Figure 2-1).
Figure 1-1
3. Click the Create a Blog button. 4. On the next screen create a new Google account (see Figure 2-2).
Figure 2-2
5. begin with coming into an e-mail address and re-type it to verify there aren't any typos. 6. Enter a password of a minimum of eight characters (you can got to conjointly do that twice). It is smart follow to enter a password that contains higher and lowercase letters, punctuation marks, also as numbers, or produce an acronym. this is able to create it more difficult for an unauthorized user to access your blog. as an example, it would not be a decent plan to use your name as your password unless garbled. After you are finished typing your potential password, Google can show your password strength, like weak, fair, good, or strong. Keep experimenting till you enter a strong password. 7. Enter a show name and birthday. 8. Enter the characters within the Word Verification box. Don’t worry if you get it wrong on the primary try: The letters and words are meant to be tough to scan. Google Blogger is using CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing check to inform Computers and Humans Apart), a program used to come up with distorted and twisted characters for you to sort in. an individual's will pass this type of check, a laptop might not. CAPTCHA is primarily used to assist forestall spam on your blog (or internet site). 9. Check the Acceptance of Terms and click on Continue. 10. On ensuing screen, enter a Blog Name and therefore the URL as (see Figure 2-3). Click Check Availability and if the name you selected is already taken, keep attempting till you find an on the market one and still suits your interests.
Figure 2-3
11. Continue with selecting a Template. we are going to be reviewing the Template Designer in Chapter three, but for currently select image Window. 12. Click Continue. 13. you've got currently created your 1st blog. 14. you'll receive an e-mail from Google to verify your account creation. Make sure you verify your Google Blogger account by clicking the link provided within the email.You will have restricted functionality till your account is verified.
Now that you just have completed fitting your new blog account, click the beginning Blogging button, which will bring you right into posting and therefore the New Post space. However, we are going to not produce a post simply nonetheless. Instead, we’ll review the weather of your screen (the Dashboard) that is what you'll usually see when you log into Blogger. Afterward, we are going to review the way to produce, edit, delete, and schedule posts.
Reviewing the Dashboard From the New Post space, click Dashboard within the higher right corner of your screen. The Dashboard serves as a menu, or the simplest way for you to navigate to totally different areas of your blog betting on the task at hand (see Figure 2-4). we are going to briefly review every possibility (listed below), whereas different areas are going to be mentioned in additional detail later within the book.
1. Profile 2. View Blog 3. New Post 4. Edit Posts 5. Settings 6. Design 7. Monetize 8. Reading list 9. different stuff
Dear Lifehacker, As a side project/experiment, I’ve started my own blog. The problem is, now that I have one, how can get people to actually visit it? My traffic is dismal so far, but I’m hoping to some day make money off the blog or at least become a more prominent blogger.
Signed, Beginner Blogger
Dear BB, Congrats on your new blog baby. Starting and maintaining a blog can definitely be rewarding, and not just in the financial sense. As you know, though, it’s not just enough to choose a platform and set up a blog or spend hours carefully crafting posts. To be successful, you need to build—and continue to grow–an audience. So here are seven tried-and-true methods for increasing your blog’s traffic, whether this is just a hobby or something you want to do for income.
1. Find Your Niche
The broader and more general your blog’s topic (e.g., technology), the harder it’ll be to gain an audience, because of all the bigger, already established websites competing for the same readers. At the same time, you want to make sure your blog isn’t so specific that there aren’t enough people looking for that particular information or you run out of things to write about. Focus your blog on a unique angle (e.g., technology for young kids), and make sure your subject is one that you’re both passionate about and feel you could write tons of posts on.
Not sure what your blog’s main subject should be? Think about: Your hobbies, topics you like to talk about and debate with others, and subjects you love reading and researching. Boost Blog Traffic offers straightforward guidelines for how to tell if you’ve chosen the right blog topic or not. Among the recommendations, measure your interest and the topic’s viability by checking: how many books you own on the topic, if there’s already an audience for your topic, and whether you can come up with at least 52 different post ideas (one for every week of the year).
Once you’ve decided on your blog’s theme, stick to it. (That means no middle-of-the-night, out-of-the-blue rants!) Consistency is the key to getting the audience you’ve already attracted to keep coming back for your great content.
2. Keep Writing Great Content
Speaking of great content, what makes posts popular and more likely to be shared? Generally speaking, great posts: answer a question, solve a problem, make readers laugh, or make them cry (in a good way).
Also, no matter how long or short a post is, format it so readers can quickly scan the content by using:
subheads
bulleted or numbered lists
blockquotes or captions
line breaks
bold fonts
images
and other formatting to break up large blocks of text
If you can build a habit of writing every day, awesome. Quite simply, the more useful content you have out there, the better your chances of readers finding your blog. Even if you can’t write every day, aim to post often and regularly so readers will keep coming back for more and you can build a loyal audience base.
On the other hand, as blogger Cherly Harrison advises, don’t blog just for the sake of it or just because you’ve set a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule. Publish when you have quality content:
I have never heard anyone say “I unsubscribed from Blog X because he didn’t post this week.” I have heard dozens of people say “I unsubscribed from Blog X because it was obvious he was stretching for content.”
There’s no perfect blogging schedule for everyone, but to get to the point where you’re posting regularly without pushing it, focus on what you enjoy writing about and carve out time to work on it.
Know also that it can take quite a bit of time to grow your blog, and you'll need to keep at it, especially if you plan to make money by blogging. (See this post from The Financial Blogger for a reality check.) So don't get disheartened if you don't see quick results. Persist.
3. Write Catchy, Head-Turning Headlines
Headline writing is an art unto itself, and it’s one of the biggest drivers of a post’s popularity and success. Attention-grabbing headlines can make or break your post. One huge example is howForbes repackaged a New York Times article titled “How Companies Learn Your Secrets” to “How Target Figured Out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did” and got all the traffic: 680,000 page views versus the original article’s 12,902.
Taking a cue from some of the best copywriters of all time, Copyblogger suggests you spend halfthe time it takes to write a blog post on the headline, because it’s that important. The writing blog offers this approach from the American Writers & Artists association about the Four U’s of writing headlines:
Headlines, subheads and bullets should:
Be USEFUL to the reader,
Provide him with a sense of URGENCY,
Convey the idea that the main benefit is somehow UNIQUE; and
Do all of the above in an ULTRA-SPECIFIC way.
Just make sure if your headline promises a lot, the post itself fulfills that promise.
Here at Lifehacker, I’ve benefited a lot from bouncing headline ideas off of my fellow editors. You can do the same for your important blog posts by asking friends for their opinions or just taking a look at similar, highly popular blogs to see what kinds of titles tend to be more intriguing to readers.
4. Join in on the Blogging Community
No blog is an island. Now that you have a blog, you’re part of the blogging community, and reciprocation plays a large part of that. A few things you can do to connect with other bloggers (and probably get reciprocal traffic):
Link generously. It’s not only good form to cite your sources, but links in your posts make your posts more search engine friendly.
Leave comments and trackbacks on fellow blogs.Leaving a trackback posts a comment on the other blog noting that you’ve linked to that post. It has a dual effect of virtually tapping the fellow blogger on the shoulder and also putting your blog link in front of more readers.
Update your blogroll. The list of “blogs you like” in the blogroll help other bloggers notice you. (And if you get listed on other blogs, more readers noticing yours.)
Try to turn random readers into loyal ones as well. Engage with commenters on your blog, set up an email newsletter, and encourage feedback.
Invite others to guest post or even ask readers to contribute to your blog. You can double your promotion power this way.
See if you can guest post or contribute to other, larger blogs. This is another great way to get noticed. In fact, a lot of bloggers have done just that here at Lifehacker. You can get started contributing to Lifehacker in a number of ways: from starting your own Kinja blog, to becoming an author on Hackerspace, or emailingsubmissions@lifehacker.com with your original posts for consideration.
Even if you just give a larger site permission to republish your content, it can be a huge boon for you. For example, we republished a post from Jonnie Hallman of Destroy Today, which generated a whole lot of traffic to the source blog:
Even getting a mention or link back to your post from a popular site can drive a lot of trafficand get your blog noticed, your content read, and more readers.
5. Learn From Your Existing Audience
Perhaps the most important thing to do is know your audience and make sure your content continues to interest them. Tips & Tricks HQ advises:
Audiences are far more prone to read something that continues to appeal to them and gets updated regularly, and thus a happy medium between consistency and diversity without compromising quality or credibility is what’s going to give you results.
If you install Google Analytics on your blog (or use another analytics program), you can see which topics your audience particularly likes, where your readers are coming from, and lots more. Once you know that, you can create more content to attract similar people and also keep your audience coming back.
Also, social media can be a really powerful tool for getting more readers. In addition to adding the share buttons on your site, share your links on Facebook, Google+, and Twitter—in as non-sleazy, non-spammy way possible.
6. Make Your Blog Google-Friendly
You may have heard the term SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, before. It basically means writing your blog in a way that makes it more likely to show up in search results, and while it seems like an annoying buzzword, it can be a big help. But you don't need to go crazy. Frankly, the rules are changing all the time, and it’s probably not worth your time chasing them or changing your content every time Google does an algorithm change that affects search engine rankings.
That said, we do know a few things search engines like, and following those best practices could help your blog get listed higher in search results. Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (PDF) recommends you:
Use unique, accurate, and brief page titles
Use the “description” meta tag
Make sure your site is easy to navigate
Use words for your URLs and avoid very long URLs
Write good anchor (link) text. (E.g., “Read my SEO report” instead of “Click here”)
Use headings to mark important sections
Add an “alt” description to images
Search Engine Watch also has a list of 6 basic steps to step up your blog’s SEO mojo. Among them: add related posts to the end of all your blog posts, add social sharing buttons, and make content easier to find by classifying posts into categories.
There are millions of blogs on the web today, so it isn’t easy to stand out. However, if you notice, the top or most popular bloggers have large readerships because of their unique voices and perspectives and the interesting things they share. While you’re crafting your posts, don’t be afraid to let your personality show through so you can really connect to your readers. After all, in the end it’s all about the reader.
There’s much more to learn about making your blog more successful, but hopefully the basics above will get you started. For further reading, consider these sources of excellent blogging and content marketing information:
ProBlogger: Lots of advice for making a living as a blogger
About.com Blogging: Comprehensive information for starting, growing, and monetizing a blog
CopyBlogger: Advice for creating killer online content
DailyBlog Tips: Quick, practical tips for becoming a better blogger
Hi guys, do you know what are blogger labels?, Blogger labels are those links which we add when we create a new post. We can add many labels to a single post. These labels are basically tags, but in Blogger by default they are called labels. When you click on a label link, that opens with all posts in that. In WordPress they are called tags. These labels are used for better user navigation, because if a visitor is visiting your blog for a specific post/page so he/she may be interested in more posts on your blog. Therefore having labels at sidebar is good idea. But the problem is, when search engines' robots crawl your blog, they need only one URL for each page of your blog for crawling and indexing. By default they crawl every page and links including labels. So this makes a little bit confusion for robots. Because your single post get accessible through different addresses i.e Archives, labels and the actual URL of the post. So to avoid confusing search robots and for better SEO we need to change the labels to tags only for search engines. Robots have now become advanced and can determine the tag and the actual URL. Once you will add tag attribute to the label links so you won't face any punishment from search engines like Google.
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