Sometimes you have many ideas on your head. Flowing to your fingers as you writing your posts. But sometimes too, you are stuck between walls, don't know what to write. You need a way to balance this condition in order to keep posting-continuity of your blog.
The way to balance this 2 conditions is by scheduling your posts. I have made a post about how to manipulate your post date on blogger. By manipulating your post date, you can't only make post date older but also make your post date newer. Blogger calls it scheduling.
Create new post as usual. After everything done, click 'Post Options' on low left corner of write area. On 2 rigtf fields; post date and time stamp, change them with future date and time. And then publish your post. Blogger will automatically publish your post on date and at time you entered.
Within this way, you can write 5 posts at one night and then publish them for next 5 days one by one. This is good for your blog since search engines like fresh and updated blogs.
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Page icon or Favorite Icon, oftenly only written FaveIcon, is a small picture on address bar or tab bar. See picture below.
All 1, 2 and 3 icon on picture above is FaveIcon. Number 1 is default blogger FaveIcon while number 2 and 3 are custom FaveIcon. If you are bored with default blogger FaveIcon, although I think it's a very good icon, you can make your own FaveIcon. It's needed to make your blog more associated with you (personal).
Follow these steps to make your FaveIcon:
1. Create an image using Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw or any image creation software. The image should be 16x16 pixels. Save it as .gif or .png.
2. Upload your image to an online storage. For online storage, my favorite is google pages. Read here how to create a google pages account.
3. Go to your blogger account - Layout - Edit HTML. Find this code (use ctrl+f):
4. Add this code right below it:
5. Save template. Preview first if you want to make sure.
Now you have your own FaveIcon. Change it anytime it bores you.
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Actually google pages is similar with blogger. Its main function is a blog. You can make your personal blog on google pages. But since it's very limited in visual, design and function, people currently use google pages only for saving files online, mostly image files.
This is a very reliable storage; big capacity (100 MB), good connection and free. Even if you are using someone's template, default template or custom template, for your blog, you still need to upload all its images to your own google pages. Because if you don't, it may happen "limit bandwidth exceeded" when too many blogs using same template access same image.
To make a google pages, go to this address. Sign in using your google account. You can find there menu to upload images. Upload all of your template's images to your account.
Too access your google pages again, simply type "pages.google.com" at your address bar.
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One important thing but not yet provided by blogger to page elements/widgets list is search function. This widget is available on wordpress but not on blogger.
If you use a custom template, this is not a problem since many custom templates has already provided search function button. Like the one this blog is using (see top-right corner). But if you are using default template from blogger, then this is a problem since search function is not available.
Off course you can find this type of widget over the net but if you don't have time, why not make one yourself? If you familiar with coding, you can insert code to HTML layout. I'm not familiar with coding so I'll provide simple code to add to your widget without even touching your HTML layout.
Simply put this code to your 'text' or 'HTML/JavaScript' page element:
This search function will search all posts within 'word' you enter. Try it here:
Keep happy blogging and have a nice day.
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As far as I know, Meta Data did help my blog to get more liked by search engine. Meta Data is like a short narration of a blog. It also contain keywords which a blog uses to declare itself.
To put Meta Data into your blog, go to your Blogger account, go to Layout and then click Edit HTML.
Then look for the code below.
YOUR META DATA HERE (directly under head).
Now you know where to put Meta Data, copy the following 3 codes into your blog.
This code to invite search engines' robots to visit your blog:
This code is a description of your blog:
This code is adding keywords to your blog:
To see the actual implementation of Meta Data, view page source of this blog or any blog you want to know its Meta Data. Just use Ctrl+U if you are using Firefox.
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I'm sure you happened to meet links on same page. Most common text for this is "Back to Top". When you click it, your screen will display top part of page you are viewing. These kind of links also often used on Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. There's menu on top and whole descriptions below it. Another function is when you have footnotes, you can easily make links to your footnotes.
To do this, follow the steps:
1. Make an ANCHORNAME like this:
Put that code on top/same line of text you want to point.
For this example, I will point to words "To do this, follow the steps:"
So I will put ANCHORNAME on top of those words.
2. Publish your post. This step to get the permalink/URL page of your post. View your post and copy its address. You're going to use it later.
3. Edit again your post.
4. Make a link name point at your anchor name. Here the example:
Link to your ANCHORNAME is URL + #anchor name.
Click link below to see how it works.
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Little different code works on wordpress but not on blogger is like this:
See the difference, also URL + #anchor name but written with "/" and no ".something".
Don't try this at your home.
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Some times, you need to embed html codes to your posts. Html codes always begin with "<>" signs. On this post, I used "()" to make examples of html codes so blogger wouldn't read them as html. There's another way to do it; to show the exact codes without read as html by blogger, by using text area.
This is the example of text area:
You see above, all html codes written as they should be without ruining others.
This is what you write to make text area:
Text area often used to show your URL to readers like I used on side bar of this blog. Yes, it often used to exchange links between blog masters.
You can also use text area on any comment of a blog as long as the blog master activate html for comments. Try it on comment here.
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