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                 Wordpress is growing like a rage due to more professionalism , more features , more plugins and  the main reason is Avatars ! It sounds pretty cool that readers can see the real pic or cool looking avatar of you -the commenter !  Having good avatar can interest the reader to just catch a glimpse of your blog /site . Once they like it , they can be loyal reader or maybe regular commentators  !
This is one of the sufficient step to switch to wordpress etc platforms where universal gravatar look is prevailed which is not so in case of blogger .

             Blogger has once again introduced a new cool interesting feature called Template Designer . Just like  Creating Pages , this one is touted to be one of the best demanding wish fulfilled by Blogger . Finally there are now more free blogger template instead of regular boring 8 that were by default , similarly huge enhancements like credits , widgets , huge background colours and images are provided  . According to Blogger official blog ;

We’re thrilled to announce that the Blogger Template Designer has launched to Blogger in Draft, our experimental playground where users can try out Blogger’s latest features. The Template Designer brings a new level of customization to your blog.

Here are Main features that have been refreshed and upgraded - Template ,  Background ,  Layout and Advance.

                  Many blogs or open source websites can be seen with a Donate Us  or Buy Me A Beer so that people who have been impressed or want to support a cause can donate and you can easily make a few bucks from all the hard work blogging or after creating free software better than default one or best alternative to any commercial products . Then you should definitely be considering adding a Paypal donate button to your Blogger Blogspot blog or any wordpress or any blogging platforms.

           Permalinks in easy words help in creating permanent links on your blog/websites like wordpress , blogger and many more blogging platforms that are indexed by search engines like google , bing , yahoo etc to categorize posts . Similarly browsers like firefox , IE , safari , opera etc use permalinks to help navigate to your posts. When you hover over a permalink in your browser tab near to the favicon you can read the post name in the status bar . Permalinks is one of the delicate tool which when used in proper guidelines can help improve in traffic to blog  by improving SEO .

            Most of beginners know how to create a blog and write a post and make it running but it may be surely become an occasion in the future if you want to delete a blog in frustration or just for time pass LOL . So read this post in case the day comes and you need to know what you do and how to do !

             The first thing that should be done right after starting blog is to submit its Sitemap to search engines like google , yahoo and bing .Often beginners dont know about adding a sitemap of their blog to Google and inspite of having unique good content still they are unable to get "organic" traffic .
       As Google owns the Blogger.com ( Blogspot ) platform most sites are indexed by Google automatically and by default right after creating free blog , there is option in settings option whether the blog should be or not be indexed by google , but that requires a lot of time for indexing and therefore its far lot better to manually submit sitemap as this process runs smoothly and quickly .

       If you have huge trafficked blogger blog where people are daily addicts and love your niche , then you can make a book out of it .Its  possible with Blog2Print .With this you can easily convert your whole Blogger blog into a printed book and sell it to make extra money online ! Even Google have partnered with Blog2Print and now offers this service at very reasonable prices.With a couple of clicks, you choose a cover, the posts you'd like to include, and you're on your way to creating your own Blog Book !

               Now it is possible to create  pages in Google's  Blogger , one of the most trafficked blogging platform . Recently Blogger have introduced the ability to create pages in Blogger and now all bloggers can easily create pages. This post will tell you how to :

                 Many forums have breadcrumb which lets you navigate from one label to another , similarly even wordpress has plugins for that one , its even possible in blogger [ blogspot blogs ] by tweaking blogger template which is one of the best blogger hacks and recommended for all . However , on the main page of my Blog there is no breadcrumb, because that is Home but as soon as you click on a particular blog post or on a label or an archive entry, you will see how the breadcrumb will be automatically visible on top of the page :
Browse » Home » Tutorials » Adding Breadcrumb Navigation to Blogger
Below is a step by step walk through which I have aimed at beginners so that anyone reading my blog will be able to follow the instructions , so here is an easy piece of code to add breadcrumbs !

                             You must have surely noticed , that some most of the blogs/sites do not allow their visitors to select posts or copy using right mouse click while pointer is on content. Right clicking after selecting pops with many option like copy , paste ,cut etc and  on any browser its very useful tool but some people use this in very bad way and simply copy-paste whole article without changing words or even without giving credits or backlinks to the original author , and if you want to too protect your blog from copycats then , you may surely want to make click right disabled on yourblog  to protect you text, images hotlinking etc .
So , this post explains how to disable right click on blogger (blogspot blog) or any other webpage using a html or javascript code :

         Blogger had by default favicon of  B [white color and background orange ] but many blogs can be seen with respected abbreviated forms of their blog url or cool animated pic , similarly in this blog , you can see Q ,thats what called a Favicon , in simple words ,

A favicon is a small 16X16 image located at the top of your browser , any browser Firefox , IE ,Opera etc in the url bar . 

Here's how to add Favicon :

                    Feedjit is a service that provides bloggers and webmaster several live traffic feed widgets that boost interactivity among visitors and the website.
         If you would like to know more about the traffic visiting your blog at any instant Feedjit is the best tracking tool that tracks visitors to a blog in real time and identifies from where the visitors are coming , from which country and from which referring sites or search engines and for how long they have visited , number of pages and which browser they are using ! By clicking on the real time link you can actually view the last 50 or so visitors along with the keyword search phrase used to find your site. Feedjit monitors traffic to your site and ranks it based on popularity and relevance against the traffic received by other Feedjit users in your local area.

            Addings meta tags to your Blogger Blogspot blog is the first thing to do right after creating blog to increase the SEO of your blog . It is only the META tags that plays vital role in search engine rankings although many key factors are there , but this one is one of the top factors, better keywords , what you get is Better SEO and better traffic to blog .
So lets see how to add Meta content in blogger :

       Its better to Optimize page title as title plays a vital role for high search engine rankings . By default there are only few limited boring templates for blogspot users and your Blogger Blogspot blog does not have search engine optimised title tags. So if you are using same template then , this can put your blog to lower rankings even if you have rich content compared to other blogs that have inbuilt SEO blogging platforms like Wordpress , Joomla etc as these are likely to be placed more highly in search engine results.
                  The title tags of your blog are ordered by blog name first followed by the title of the post. Search engines like Google and Yahoo gives more importance to the first words of a title blog post . Heres how to tweak blogger template to optimize blog posts titles in search engines :

          Wordpress has great feature that allows everyone to see commments right below post , but blogspot users doent have these feature . To make it work, you will need to make some changes in template code manually. The process is simple as follows , and takes no time to embed comment box to make blog look more featureful
Here's how :

                            One of the best widget is to show total number of blog posts and number of reader comments on your blog . For showing the number of posts and comments if the number is too huge and on top if your blog is DO-FOLLOW , its very useful . By blog statistics, this statistics widget displays the total number of posts and the total number of comments made on your blog as a widget that can displayed anywhere in blog and is live real time , thats  if anyone comments or blog admin posts , then the stats update at once and therefore one of the best blogger hack !

        Gravatar is  A Globally Recognized Avatar
Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums .
Gravatar.com is an awesome neat website that allows you to host an avatar and use it all over the web. Most blogging applications have support for Gravatar.

                   A Retweet is a type of message posted (or tweeted) on micro blogging service, Twitter, that repeats some information previously tweeted by another user .
With increase in its popularity, twitter is a very good media for social marketing.
Tweetmeme is a free service which makes Tweeting and Re-Tweeting og blog posts very easy.
The Retweet Button along with the option to retweet, also displays the number of tweets made about the post.

          When the internet 1st started and became public  , weblogs were born and started  growing . When Blogger like services became available and comment option was added , huge spams were produced and reproduced that used to abuse blog , and blog became spam bin of comments which was filled with huge affiliate and filthy , dirty and fake links trying to promote all kinds of junks , gambling and hardcore rated sites.
To combat this, Google implemented the "no follow" tag.

Blogger (blogspot.com) and Wordpress.com the two main best of choices for free blog hosting. Features which are better at either BlogSpot or Wordpress have been emphasize. You can sign up blogger and wordpress free . Check about this project for a number of converters to and from different Blog services.