Why use Blogger when many moves to Wordpress

I started blogging with blogger so I have a high respect for blogspot.

Why should you use blogger when many geeky bloggers say you should move to Wordpress.

1) Theoratically Unlimited Space and Unlimited Bandwidth.

2) Inbuilt support for Adsense



3) Search engine (Google) friendly. Index very quickly.

4) Drag and drop layout changes.



5) Lot of useful pre-built Gadgets

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Blogger has launched a new search widget

This is good news to all bloggers who were looking for a effective site search with AJAX capabilities. This new widget can be easily added by going to layouts and clicking Add a Gadget link. The search is powered by Google blog search so new blog posts will take time to be listed.

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How to create a custom domain name for blogger blogspot

Yesterday I bought a custom domain for my what is, why? blog.
It's very easy to setup a custom domain for your blogspot blog if you go through the inbuilt blogger process for buying a domain name for just $10 per year.

Goto blog settings



Goto Publishing



Click on Custom Domain



Check for availability of the domain name you need



Continue with the registration/payment (Google Checkout)



It will take upto 3 days to fully redirect all traffic from your old blogspot doamin to new domain name.

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Put Adbrite ads on within blog posts area in blogger

Lets see how you can put two box AdBrite ads on the top and the bottom of a blog post.
Get your adbrite code and replace following,

& with &
" with "
< with &lt;
> with &gt;

You can use any text editor to find and replace the above.

Now goto your blog layouts -> Edit HTML

Important: Download Full Template. If something goes wrong you can restore the old template.

Now look for a line similar to <b:section class='main'....

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How to add related posts in blogger - Blogger Related Posts Service Widget

Adding related posts right under a blog post is a good way to increase your page views and provide visitors with more options. There is no gadget in the blogger (blogspot) gadgets that will help you in related posts. So I looked for a code that matches my needs, finally I came across this awesome service created by Yu-Jie Lin.



These step will add related posts under you blog post.

1) Goto Layout -> Edit HTML -> Edit Template

2) TAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR CURRENT TEMPLATE (DON'T SKIP)

3) Expand Widget Templates

4) Look for,

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/>  ...</div>

OR

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3' />

5) Add this code

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/>  ...</div>
<div id='related_posts'/>

OR

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3' />
<div id='related_posts'/>

6) Look at the end of the template code and Add this code before the </body> tag.

<script src='http://www.google.com/jsapi'/>
<script src='http://brps.appspot.com/brps.js' type='text/javascript'/>

You can find all the steps, customization and one click widget publishing tool in this site http://brps.appspot.com

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Blogger New Feature Browse Profiles!

This new feature is great to get more traffic to your blog,
The best part of this feature is that you get visits from people who have the same interests.

for more info visit http://buzz.blogger.com/

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