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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This is the continuity of Posting Your Contents. The next menu on posting is 'Edit Posts'. Click it and you will see your posts on it.
As you can see, you can search your post, how many posts you want to show on it and view all available posts. Mouse over post you want to edit and then click 'Edit'. You will be taken to area just like 'Create' one.
Here you can change part or whole post and do it all over again just like creating new one. Here you can change labels and post date too. If you want to insert a post between two post, you can change the post date. You can delete comment from specific post here
You can also delete posts you might regret.
I think that's it. It's an easy topic.
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Go to your account and then choose 'Posting'. There are 3 options on it; Create, Edit Post and Moderate Comments. Related to the topic, I will describe the first two since 'Moderate Comments' will take you to 'Settings' which I have described here.
Click 'Create'. This is area where you can post article to your blog.
- Write your title.
- Write you labels. You can read what labels are here.
- Write your post.
There are two types of writing mode; Compose and Edit HTML. Compose is normal mode like you write on Microsoft Words. Edit HTML is adding HTML code to your post. If you don't know HTML, this is a good place to learn HTML for beginner.
Firs choose 'Compose' and write your post.
From the picture above, let's go left-to-right. Most of them like Microsoft Words but here we go:
- Font choose your desirable font. Better leave it default so it will match your other posts except if you have words you want to highlight then you can use different fonts.
- Font Size, clear enough, same as description on Font.
- Bold Font, this is to bold your words. Use ctrl+b as shortcut key.
- Italic, to make you font italic. Use ctrl+i as shorcut key.
- Font Color, click it and choose desirable color for your text.
- Link, this is to input URL link/link from web site.
- The next four icon is your text alignment.
- The next two icon is to make per-point line.
- Spelling Check, this is to check your language spelling. It also gives you recommended words for wrong spelled words. Same like Microsoft Words.
- Insert Image, this button is to insert image to your posts. Click it, choose image alignment and how big your image you want to show then click 'Browse'. After that click 'Upload'. If you're there for the first time, you have to fill check box for TOS with Blogger that you don't infringe copyright for image uploaded.
- Add Video, this is similar with 'Insert Image'. Just browse and upload. Since it will slower loading time for my blog, I rarely use this button.
- Remove Format, use it to remove any format you've made to your post. Select words or images first then click it.
Now you're familiar with 'Compose'. It's time to click 'Edit HTML'. If you don't know anything about HTML, you can see HTML codes for any change you made before. Voila, you've learned some basic HTML codes.
On the bottom of write area, there 'Post Option'. Click it and choose personalized comment option for the post. For sensitive post, you can choose 'Don't Allow' but it's no use. Readers can comment on your other posts about any post you made so leave it.
The other option is 'Post Date and Time'. Read about it here.
After all set, click 'Public Post'. Don't save your post as draft. It's a bad habit. If you're not finish yet, just add "to be continued" on your post. You can always edit publish post on 'Edit' menu.
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Have you seen celebrities on TV speaking to journalists about what they've done, they're doing and they're gonna do? Or a politician make a press conference stating bombastic words? I bet you have. On internet you can do it too. You are a celebrity on your own.
"How am I gonna do that?" Simple, ping. Ping can be described as narration above. You make a press conference/news about you, in this case, about what you just wrote. By using free ping websites you can send your writing to many news directories. "Will people read it?" That's none your business. Let people decide it. If you wrote superb post, who will miss it anyway?
Head to pingomatic or pingoat, they're top 2 ping sites. Put your blog address, select news directory and send it. Remember, be careful if you want to send it to specialized directory. If it's not suitable, readers will flag your blog and off course, it means negative. Safest way is just send it to general directories. Hopefully, when someone see your post, she/he will be interested and heads to your blog. It means positive, traffics for your blog. Again, if your blog has superb contents, she/he will be back later to check for something new.
Since you need to ping after each time you post, it'll be better if you put ping sites link on your blog widget. Pingoat has beautiful buttons while pingomatic don't so create your own or just use text.
Make a good post and ping except if you just want to spam, like celebs and politicians do, ping every time you make new post. Check your hit counter and sitemeter to know the result.
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After counting your blog visitors, now it's the time for you to track them. Many free web sites will help you to do that. One of top sites that provide good and reliable information on visitors tracking is sitemeter.
Sitemeter will give you a code you need to paste it on your text/html widget. Once it's done, a small icon will appear on your blog. You can check it anytime by clicking it and directly go to your account on simeter site. I also use that on this blog.
You can also customize you sitemeter; make it private for your eyes only, ignore you own visit and set the statistic shown from higher number. Set any number you like.
Unfortunately for wordpress users, this tracker will not work in full capability because wordpress can't execute java script. For blogger/blogspot and other java script enabled blogs, this tool will give big help. You can track from which country you visitors are, which language, and you can even view IPs and referer sites.
You can also check who's on, viewing your blog. Sitemeter provide click prediction for your blog in the next, hour, day, week and month based on previous visits. It's only prediction though, don't get a big head yet since it's too kind in predicting the traffic.
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If you want to know how many time your blog was visited/clicked, you can add a simple widget on your blog page. There are 2 types of click counter; unique visitors counter and page views counter.
Unique visitor is a unique IP address that visit your blog from. Unique visitor only counted once per day so. While page view is anytime your blog and any page of your blog visited, it's counted. Page view counter doesn't care about the visitor. 1 visitor can make thousands page views.
I recommend you 2 sites that give free counter, no email and no registration. You can choose whether you want to count unique counter or you want to count page view or both.
1. e-zeeinternet
2. free easy counters
After you get the code from the site, just copy it to your text/html widget.
If you have a high pride, you can also set from which number that counter start. You can start the counter from 100 or any number so when someone visits your blog, at least it's not so obvious that your blog has a few visitors.
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Although in setting of your blog, there is an option for search engine visibility, your blog will not be visible automatically. In order to get your blog indexed by search engine, you have to register it manually. First, register it to top three search engines; Google, Yahoo and MSN.
To register to Google click here.
To register to Yahoo click here (must have a Yahoo mail).
To register to MSN click here.
And then, you can also submit you blog URL to more than 50 search engines, bigs and smalls, for free.
I know 2 free URL submissions which provide fast respond and result. Both are quite reliable.
1. freewebsubmission
2. submitexpress
Register your blog to both of them and see the results.
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