How To Edit a Blogger Template

I was recently asked "How do I edit a template in Blogger? Well, this is a very easy thing to do.First, you would need to sign in to the Blogger dashboard. After you select your blog, select "templates"Then you will need to scroll down until you find code that refers to your sidebar. This will normally be towards the very end (This depends on your template). Once you find your links area, simply copy and past your code snippet, pretty much anywhere.You can preview to make sure you get it right. After you're happy with the way it looks, you will need to save the changes.Once your changes are saved, Press the "Republish" Button, and you're all set! This article is free to distribute as long as all hyperlinks are attached and this text area is includ...

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Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search En

It's been all over the SEO-student rumor mill for weeks now, and has finally made it into my Inbox � in droves.The new get-traffic-quick scheme for search engine results has arrived � flooding ping notification sites with update announcements, even though your blog hasn't been updated.The question is does this- or some variation of it work? If not, where did this idea come from?Okay, bad news first.Pinging sites like Yahoo and Syndic8 every half-hour for several days or weeks, to notify of updates when they haven't been made, does nothing but clog up the system. It's called spam-pinging and it has been around since 2002.If you haven't updated your blog, or you're pinging updates of a site that isn't even a blog (or RSS feed, where applicable), in the long run it's just going to make it harder to get listed at these sites. google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad)In the short run, you could get yourself banned from sites like Yahoo, though it isn't officially their policy to drop sites for spam-pinging.Yet.True, not all sites that have recently updated lists you can ping to be on are set up to block pings of sites that aren't updated. But they've found ways to block certain sites and users before � it's only a matter of time.So even in the unlikely event that you could find some way to make this work temporarily, you'd just be setting yourself up to be dropped, in as little as a day in some cases.So if this method doesn't work, why are there tools available to help you flood these directories?Well, let's look at the situation logically.Until the middle of 2004, certain adult web properties were able to create several bogus blog sites � in particular, blogspot.com. They'd found that the links leading back to them from those sites helped their page rank in Google, as well as their search results placement. google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_adAlthough...

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How to promote your blog for free online

11 Ways to Promote Your Blog1. Ping weblogs.com and other search engines. When you ping a blog, you are telling the search engine that you have updated your blog content and that your listing should be refreshed. Weblogs.com is a blog update notification service that many individuals and services use to track blog changes. Pinging your blogs to the search engines is the fastest way to get the search engine robots to visit your blog. Also, many people browse these sites to find something new.2. Submit your blog address to blog search sites and directories. You can submit your blog's url to websites such as Technorati, Daypop, Blogdex and Popdex. For a complete list of websites where you can submit your url, go to http://www.guidetorss.com3. If you have some cash you can promote your blog using pay per click search engines such as Yahoo Search and Google Adwords.4. Set your blog to display RSS feeds and submit your blog's RSS feed to the major RSS feed directories online. A good place to start is http://www.guidetorss.com which provides a list of the top RSS directories.5. Put your blog URL in your email signature. If you're a regular at any online discussion forum, you can also add your url to your signature line at the bottom of each message you post.6. Install a blogroll. A blogroll is a collection of links to other weblogs. Services such as Technorati spider your links to tell who's linking to you and who you're linking to. If you show up on someone's Technorati link list for their site they're likely to visit your site to see what you said, increasing your exposure. Blog owners can also visit your site to check it out if you show up on their referral logs.7. Be an active commenter. Try to leave comments on the blogs that you regularly visit. Most comment systems also provide a way for you to leave a link back to your blog which begs a visit at the very least.8. If you plan to have anything printed up, put your blog's web address on it. You...

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Nobody reading your blog?

So you got a your own weblog. Everything looks great, you have nice layout, some nice pictures and last but not least excellent articles.You also update your blog on a regular basis but nobody seems to read it ! You start to think where did I go wrong. Well if your blog is really good you just need to be patient. Also make sure you submit your blog to directories specialized in blogs and search engines.But even if you did all this you might get not the amount of readers you wished for.Get unlimited readers for you blog !Smart people started to notice blogs are very popular so they came up with a great ideas. Blogexplosion.com is such great idea. The concept is simple, if you read other blogs then other people read your blog. So the more blogs you read the more people will be reading yours. Sounds good you might think. Well it actually is a very good concept. Just register your blog for free and login, then pick a category blogs you would like to read and start reading. You must read each blog for at least half a minute, after that you can select another blog. For each blog you have red you recieve a credit. This credit means one other member is going to read your blog. Again great concept. But there is a downside, first you have to spend of lot of time reading blogs in order to get other people to read yours. You can choose to read only blogs in a specific category (of your interest) but it is still really time consuming. Other people who are reading your blog might do this because they only want other people to read their blog. You can imagine these are not the most interested readers you wish for. But google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ablogexplosion.com also offers non members to search their directory for blogs. These visitors are potenial quality readers for your blog! Other downside is that you can not only earn credits by reading other blogs, you can also buy them ! If everybody is going...

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How to Promote Your Blog or Website with a Charitable Fundraiser

Recently, I hosted a "blogathon" on my weblog to celebrate its second anniversary and to raise funds for a local environmental organization. I agreed to spend 24 hours online blogging, and readers could make a "per-post" pledge to the organization, which they multiplied by the number of posts I made to determine their donation. While my readers and I raised a sizeable sum, I quickly realized that combining an online event with a charitable fundraiser created a powerful means of promoting my blog and increasing its readership. Hosting the event created a "win-win" situation that allowed me to both contribute to a cause I believe in and gain wide exposure in 24 hours that I couldn't have obtained otherwise without spending large sums of money.In this age of ridiculous get-rich-quick schemes and too-good-to-be-true promotional opportunities, the internet marketer can make his/her site stand out from the crowd and attract new customers/readers/clients by doing something many consider unthinkable: raising money for someone else. I've seen the rewards of such an effort, and will share them with you. First, though, I'll show you how I created, managed and promoted my event, and how I received help from much more established blogs and websites in making it happen.Creating and Organizing the Event I choose to celebrate my blog's second anniversary because I saw it as a milestone: blogs and web sites come and go quickly, so having succeeded for two years deserved a celebration. Keep in mind that many occasions might hold potential for an event: an anniversary or another milestone (say, a blog's thousandth post), a holiday, a release of a product, a famous person's birthday� the possibilities are endless.I choose a local environmental organization because my blog focuses on issues of environmental sustainability. A quick scan of a local non-profit directory should provide plenty of ideas if you don't already have one in mind. I suggest staying...

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Promote Your Blog

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Promote Your Blog

Promote Your BlogWell, you've joined the others and have created a blog. It is time to tell the world about your online journal. Most blog services generate an RSS feed. If your blogging software does not create an RSS feed, consider using software like FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com to create an RSS feed. Like blogs, RSS is growing in popularity and is a great way to spread the word about a new blog.Syndication is conceptually simple. It allows publishers to distribute content that can be displayed in another location or context. Using RSS, publishers are able to easily create and disseminate content feeds that include news headlines, blog summaries and related links. RSS is the defined syndication standard that has become mainstream. All types of information are now available in a syndicated format. google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);1. Blog Submissions / RSS Submissions There are a number of blog directories and blog search engines where you can submit your blog. A large list of sites allowing blog submission and RSS feed submissions can be found in the left column at: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htmSimilarly, there are RSS feed directories and search engines like http://www.rss-network.com . Be sure to submit the URL of your RSS feeds to the RSS search engines listed on the RSS specifications website.If you wish to automate your blog and RSS submissions consider using Dummy Software's Blog and RSS Submit Software http://www.dummysoftware.com .Like a website, its important to select the appropriate category for your blog. Use a clear title that contains descriptive details but is not excessively long. The Blog description should further expand on the purpose and general theme of the blog. Incorporate important keywords related to the blog's theme in both the title and description. This will help bring targeted traffic that is genuinely interested in the contents...

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How to Submit Your Blog to the Top Search Engines

Although submitting your blog to the search engines is very similar to submitting your website, there are several differences that you should be aware of. Knowing these differences can help you get your blog indexed more quickly because you have submitted your blog correctly.Regardless of whether you are submitting a blog or a website, if you are submitting to Google, you should create a sitemap. Although you should check your sitemap periodically to make sure Google isn't encountering any errors with your sitemap, once you submit it, you don't have to submit to Google again. All you have to do is keep your sitemap up to date.If you use a blog like Wordpress, you can install the sitemap plugin. This plugin updates your sitemap automatically and notifies Google that your site has changed. google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);If you don't use a blogging software that generates sitemaps, you can create your own. Google offers plenty of free tools for creating sitemaps.Even if you don't have a sitemap, you can still add your site to Google. You just won't get detailed statistics.You can submit to Google here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/loginSince Google doesn't allow direct submission to its blog search, you will need to make sure that you submit your site to blog directories Google pulls results from for its blog search, and then make sure you ping these sites when you update your blog.You can use sites like Feed Shot, http://www.feedshot.com, to submit your site to some of the major blog directories. Then you only need to ping your blog to update it at these directories. google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);When submitting to Yahoo, you need to submit your site feed instead of a sitemap. You can submit your blog to Yahoo here: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request. Instead of submitting your site, you will use the first block...

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Can You Really Make Money From Blogging

One of the questions I see frequently asked on online discussion forums is, "Can You Really Make Money From Blogging?" People want to know if there's some way to profit from the time they spend maintaining their weblogs or personal online journals.My answer is an emphatic "YES," because I do it... everyday!Today I'll share with you how I do it.Let me begin by saying that I don't make thousands permonth from MOST of my blogs. However, I do have many making hundreds. Since I don't put in a lot of time maintaining them, and I enjoy blogging, I consider the money a bonus. I blog while sitting in my yard with my laptop (on a wireless connection)... watching the clouds roll by. google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);Another bonus I get from blogging is that it helps my regular websites that are set up as my "money machines."The search engines visit my blogs more often than theyvisit my regular sites, and they follow the links from myblogs pointing to other sites. Some of these links point tomy sites, and some point to sites of partners. This doeshelp the search engine rankings of these sites MASSIVELY.How Do I Monetize My Blogs?I monetize my blogs by creating blogs on topics people are searching for... and that they are spending money on. I know which niches are hot to an extent based upon what my research proves pay-per-click advertisers are willing to spend their advertising dollars on. I run Google AdSense ads on my blogs. I simply insert google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);these ads in my menu bar and other strategic places on the webpage. I also experiment with other paid advertising on my blogs.I sell affiliate products from my blogs. I simply find affiliate products at places like PayDotCom.com and Commission Junction. I incorporate these into my blogs. I do things like product reviews, how-to articles, etc. You can also locate suitable...

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How To Create A Blog - The Best Way To Create Your Blog

Even if you're worried about doing something "technical" on the internet, it's surprisingly easy to create a blog for your personal use or to promote something for profit.Far and away the best way to create a blog is to get some web space yourself (if you've already got a web hosting account, you've already done this part) and use your host's one click install option to put on a Wordpress blog.Why create a Wordpress blog? Because it's free and it's pretty much the industry standard for blogs. There are lots of add-ons that you can use and there are lots of free blog templates (which Wordpress calls themes) that you can use to differentiate your blog from the thousands of other blogs out there.Which means that the first thing you should do when you've created your brand new blog is personalize it. google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);Start with the blog theme.The standard Wordpress theme works OK but it's a bit boring.You can get "under the hood" and customize the look and feel of your blog from your Wordpress control panel but it is a lot quicker, easier and more reliable to simply choose a new blog template from the huge number available. Then you just upload it to your web space (use the file upload option in your web hosting control panel or, if you're feeling brave, an FTP program). Once it's uploaded, Wordpress will recognize this and will offer you the option to change your theme to the new one you've just installed.Take the time to go through the various menu options on Wordpress. If this is the first time you've created a blog this way it may take you 20 or 30 minutes. Once you start to become a blog veteran, you'll get this process down to a couple of minutes. google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);Unless you have a pressing need to keep them, delete the Blogroll links that come with every installation of Wordpress.Put your own...

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Review of Blog: The Mafia Hosts the Sims Online

This is from a hosted blog through Blogger.com .If I told you this, would you believe me? Try doing so, because it's the truth. And also, in this strange and perverse world, young men and women are busy killing each other at an alarming rate. Do we really need something like a pseudo Mafia causing the same sorts of problems? Gangsterism, in other words, on our children's beloved video games?According to Wikipedia, the Web's foremost online encyclopedia, ever since 9/11 the FBI hasn't had much in time or resources to handle organized crime, and there has been a sudden resurgence in its activities.Right now, the online game "The Sims Online"-- which is labeled a "T for Teens" game -- has been overrun by several obviously Mafia named "families." These people don't seem to have enough imagination to be Mexican Mafia, Chinese Mafia or Japanese Mafia (yet), which also exist in real life. They are very aggressive and very obvious. google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);Whether or not they are the real Mafia is a question which I cannot answer. They may be a bunch of "errant" teenage boys and girls � but ones with some very eclectic adult tastes and also many violent and weird high tech tendencies. You should see the Playboy style icons they paste on top of their houses from certain views of the TSO video game. I can't tell who's to blame for that, adults or kids. And that sort of thing is not something you can ordinarily get as a regular player of that particular video game. Something is up with that, something way too mysterious.And one thing these kids, if they are kids, really do, even though it is to virtual and not real houses: they trash people's paid-for beautiful properties. The kind of properties that people would like to build, taking a lifetime to achieve. Beautiful, sprawling mansions you can't own in real life, the kind that are totally out of reach for the vast majority of people. google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad",...

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