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How To Add Google Custom Search Engine To Blogger?

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blogger navbar provides a search box and there is also a search box widget for blogspot blog . The main drawback of this search engine is that it does not provide the exact matches to some extent. The best solution for this is Google Custom Search Engine. It provides the right content exact to the search, also it has professional looks too. You can easily change it looks according to your needs and your blog design. Moreover, you can monetize your search using Google Adsense too. So lets start the tutorial on how to add custom search engine to your blogger (blogspot) blog . Creating Google Custom Search for Blogger : First of all, click this link to go to Google Custom Search , once you are on the page you will see a blue button with a text on “Create a custom search engine” click on this button. You will be seen a page having a URL and language settings, Fill you site details accurately there. From the language drop down, select the language for your search engine then

How To Schedule Blogger Blog Posts To Publish Automatically?

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Blogger is the most popular blogging platform. It has lot of features like Custom Robots.txt , Custom header tags etc. but most of the features seems to be pretty much hidden from blogger users specially from beginners. They remain unaware of many of the great features which help them in making their blog great. One such feature is Blogger Posts Scheduling feature. Yes, you heard it right. You can schedule blog posts on blogspot platform to publish automatically in future. When and Why to Schedule? Updating blog regularly is a key to rank higher in search results as Search engines loves those websites which are active and which post new contents regularly. This not only beneficial for SERP but also for Alexa rank of our blog. Moreover, publishing your blog at great time let search engine crawlers crawl your blog perfectly and plays a vital role in SEO . We must schedule blog posts while we have some urgent work to do, maybe when spending vacations with family, before exam-ti

How To Stop/Disable Country Specific Redirection In Blogger (Blogspot)?

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If you host your blog on blogspot subdomain then you might be aware of country specific redirection. Since 2012, Blogger redirects blogs to country specific domain extensions. Just for an example, if you visit blogaddress.blogspot.com from India then it will be redirected to blogaddress.blogspot.in and if you are visiting from France then it will redirect you to blogaddress.blogspot.fr. This is country specific redirection. The major disadvantage of this is that your blog traffic will divide according to their locations. It will divide your blog rankings differently for different countries too. So It is recommend to disable country specific redirection so that your blog have common ranking worldwide. That means if you visit blogaddress.blogspot.com from any part of the world it will not get redirected to country-specific domain extensions after applying this script. So let's start the tutorial to stop this redirection. Traffic logs from my blogs suggest that country-speci

How To Remove Quickedit Wrench And Pencil Icons?

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You might have been aware of the quickedit icons in blogger. These icons are to help blog owners to edit the specific post/gadget directly from the blog in just one click. These quickedit icons are really beneficial if you have a blog having so many posts and also if you place widgets on your blog that needs to be updated regularly. But somehow many bloggers don't like these quickedit icons as they are not good-looking or maybe for any other reasons. You must know that these icons are only visible to blog owners and not to the visitors. So it will not leave any bad impact or disturb your visitors anyhow. By removing these icons you can clearly view your blog exactly like your visitors. So lets start learning the tutorial to remove these quickedit wrench and pencil icons from your blogger blog. Below is the image appearance of the quickedit icons in your blogger blog, you can take a view at what we are discussing about : Hiding Quick Editing Pencil Icon: To hide the qu

How To Create, Edit (Rename) And Delete Labels In Blogger?

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Labeling your blog posts is essential not only because it keeps contents organised but it also helps in making your blog user-friendly . This helps your blog visitors to systematically find the contents they are looking for and also to get the similar contents under that particular label. Blogger by default allows users to quickly add labels to posts. You can easily add labels to blog posts under the Post settings but it is really difficult if you want to rename any of your label name and also if you want to delete any label as Blogger does not provide such methods. But following a little trick we can easily edit (rename) and delete the labels if we want to do so. So lets start the tutorial to learn how to create, rename and delete labels in blogger blog . Let's understand creating, renaming and deleting labels separately for better convenience. Creating Blogger Labels : For labeling single post, you can use the Blogger Post Editor > Post Settings > Labels (You

How To Disable Comments From Posts And Pages In Blogger?

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Comments are the best method to interact with your blog's readers and get their feedbacks and suggestions. That's why I always ended up my posts endorsing my visitors to leave their valuable comments. By default, blogger shows comment box on posts and static pages. We can hide comment when we have to create pages like blogger blog. Reason to disable comments on Blogger: If any of your blog posts get older and already received too many comments, then you can stop comments and just show existing comments. Static pages like about us , contact us , privacy policy and sitemap pages don’t need comments and so you need to disable comments. If you receive too many spam comments then you can disable comments. So, now let's start the tutorial on how to disable comments in blogger blog. How to Disable comments on Blogger Posts and Pages: Using this method you can enable or disable comments on specific blog page or post. You just need to follow the below-mentioned

How To Disable Text Selection (Copy Paste) Excluding Blockquote In Blogger?

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Bloggers dedicate hours of hard work in writing a good blog post but some copycats simply copy and paste that post in few seconds on their blog, stealing their hard work without giving any credit to the original author. This is a very bad practice to do but most newbies do so. Remember, this could only be a short time happiness as search engines will soon identify the original copyrighted owner and unranked the copied one. So we must try to write a genuine and non-copied blog post. If someone copied your blog posts then you can complain it to DMCA but sometimes we got frustrated doing it again and again so here is a simple way to disable text selection by which you can reduce stealing your blog contents by copycats. So let's start the tutorial to disable text selection in blogspot blogs. Using the below steps you can easily disable text selection in your blog posts. But this code will enable text selection in blockquote as almost all bloggers use blockquote to share some copy-

How To Disable Right Click On Blogger Blog?

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You might have been noticed that some bloggers don't allow copying contents from their blogs and to do so they disable the right click on their blog. It means when you select any text from their blogs and do a right click to copy that content, nothing will happen. Recently, we have shared a great tutorial on how you can disable text selection in blogger  and this post is indirectly linked to that one as both of these tutorials help to get rid of copycats and content stealers. So let's check you how to disable right click on blogspot blogs. Simply follow the below steps to disable right click on blogger. How to Disable Right Click on Blogger Blog: You just need to follow the step by step tutorial as guided below: Login to Blogger Dashboard and navigate to Layout. Click on ‘Add a Gadget‘ on the sidebar or anywhere you like. Select ‘HTML/Javascript‘ and Paste the below-given code. <script language=javascript> <!-- //Disable right click script - By

Stylish Popular Posts Widget With Round Thumbnails For Blogger

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Popular Posts  blog's template easily. So let's start the tutorial on how you can easily add a stylish popular posts widget to your blogspot blog. Add Stylish Popular Posts Widget to Blogger Blog: First of all, you need to add Blogger's default Popular Posts widget to your blog and using some CSS coding, modify it accordingly to your needs. So, follow the below-given steps. Simply, Go to Blogger > Layout. Click on Add a gadget link and Choose Popular Posts gadget from the gadgets list. Now make following settings:  Set most viewed to Last 7 days (preferred) or you can set it according to your needs. Check image thumbnail and snippet to show thumbnail along with post summary. It will make our gadget spicier. Select no. of posts you want to show. In this example, I am selecting 6. You can show at most 10 posts. (Take a look at the picture below.) Save the widget and head on to the steps mentioned below. Now Go to Blogger > Template.

How To Add Cute Flying Twitter Bird To Blogger Blog?

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To be a successful blogger, you must know how to use social media properly to drive traffic to your blog. Twitter is the second most popular social media, having 328 million active users monthly. So every blogger must have twitter profile for his/her blog and keep it updated with latest posts in the form on tweets. Today, we are going to share a great blogger blogs . This widget will surely increase your blog's presence on Twitter as this widget is cutest blogger blog which allows visitors to follow your blog and tweet the blog posts. This will fly across the webpage as the mouse cursor move. You can check the live demo of this beautiful widget on this blog post. Simply scroll up and down this page and you will see a cute twitter bird flying . So, lets start the tutorial on how you can add this beautiful twitter flying bird to your blogger blog. How To Add Animated Flying Twitter Bird To Blogger: Simply follow the below steps to add this animated twitter flying bird widget

All In One Seo Pack For Blogger (Blogspot)

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custom robots.txt , custom robots header tags , showing post title before blog title and so on. There are lot of Off-page and On-page tactics for better SEO but today I will discuss All in One SEO Pack for Blogger (Blogspot) blogs by which you don't need to spend your precious time in adding all basic SEO tactics separately as this amazing widget is a combination of almost all of the basic SEO steps for a blogspot blog. So let's start the tutorial on how you can easily add All in One SEO Pack to your blog. All in One SEO Plugin Features: Add Meta Tags to Your Blogger Blog . Show Post Title First In Search Results SEO Optimize Blogger Comments Search Engine Optimized Blogger Labels Search Engine Optimized Blogger Archives Add SEO Friendly Robots Header Tags Convert Title Tags into Dynamic Title Tags Facebook and Twitter Profile Compatible Allow Bots to crawl your site on daily basis. Allows Search Engine Crawlers to crawl your Blog on a Daily basis. Optimize