Google Blogger Tips and Tricks 2013

Interested in blogs? Blogger is a blogging tool from Google. Here are tips and tricks for using and creating blogs with Blogger.

Blogger is Google’s free tool for creating blogs. Blogs, short for web-logs, are a form of online journal. You can use them for everything from updating your friends and family about your life, giving your own advice column, discussing your political views, or relating your experience in a topic of interest.
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How Can I Move My Blog From One Platform to Another?
Did you start with a Blogger account and now want to move it to WordPress? Do you have a LiveJournal account and want to move it Movable Type? Don't worry, there is a solution.
How to Add Blogrolls and Other Gadgets to Blogger
Blogger lets you easily add all sorts of widgets and gadgets to your blog. You don't have to know any programming to add really nice features, like photo slide albums, games, "blogrolls," and more.
How to Add AdSense for Feeds to Your Blog 
AdSense for Feeds is a Google service that will automatically put ads into blog feeds, so you can make money from your blog even when people read it through a feed reader, such as Google Reader.
How to Embed a YouTube Video on Your Blog
YouTube has all sorts of interesting, funny, silly, and provocative content. One of the most appealing things about YouTube is how easy it is to share this content with others. You can easily embed any video on YouTube into your own blog. Here's how you do it.
How to Add AdSense to Blogger Beta and Make Money from Your Blog
You can start making money from your blog by adding unobtrusive Google AdSense ads. Adding Ads to Blogger is very easy, and you can apply for your AdSense account at the same time.
How to Make a Podcast Feed from Blogger
Skill level: Intermediate. Use your Blogger account to make a Podcast feed that can be downloaded into iTunes and other “podcatchers.” You must know how to make your own mp3 or video file, first.
Add Google Friend Connect to Your Website or blog
Do you want an easy way to connect with members who like your blog or website? Google Friend Connect is a great alternative to Facebook Connect that lets you create community on any blog or website that allows you to add embed tags.
Google Blogger for Dummies Review
Google Blogger for Dummies is a good introduction to blogging using Blogger. In addition to using the tools in Blogger, Susan Gunelius gives excellent advice about blogging in general.
How Can I Move My Blog From One Platform to Another?
Did you start with a Blogger account and now want to move it to WordPress? Do you have a LiveJournal account and want to move it Movable Type? Don't worry, there is a solution.
How to Add Blogrolls and Other Gadgets to Blogger
Blogger lets you easily add all sorts of widgets and gadgets to your blog. You don't have to know any programming to add really nice features, like photo slide albums, games, "blogrolls," and more.
How to Add AdSense for Feeds to Your Blog 
AdSense for Feeds is a Google service that will automatically put ads into blog feeds, so you can make money from your blog even when people read it through a feed reader, such as Google Reader.
How to Add AdSense to Blogger Beta and Make Money from Your Blog
You can start making money from your blog by adding unobtrusive Google AdSense ads. Adding Ads to Blogger is ver easy, and you can apply for your AdSense account at the same time.
What is Google Blogger?
Blogger is Google’s free tool for creating blogs. Blogs, short for web-logs, are a form of online journal. You can use them for everything from updating your friends and family about your life, giving your own advice column, discussing your political views, or relating your experience in a topic of interest.
How to Make a Podcast Feed from Blogger
Skill level: Intermediate. Use your Blogger account to make a Podcast feed that can be downloaded into iTunes and other “podcatchers.” You must know how to make your own mp3 or video file, first.
Best Blog on Blogger or Blogspot
This was the most highly contested award category this year.
How to Move Your Blog from WordPress to Blogger
Here's how you move your blog to Blogger.
You Should Start Your Blog on Blogger
Here's why you should use Blogger.
Register a Cheap Blog Domain with Google
You can make custom URLs on Blogger.
How Do I Delete a Blogger/Blogspot Blog?
Here's how to delete a Blogger (Blogspot) account.

5 Actions to Take When Your Blog Has Suffered A Security Breach

A security breach of your blog is no  small thing; if
you’ve been running your blog for a  long time and
it’s loaded with content,  videos  and  other informa-
tion while  also  being part  of  your  overall  online
business presence, a hack  attack can be downright
catastrophic.

Thus, given the potential damage that having your crucial blog pages get hacked wide open can bring, you need to know how to take action as quickly as possible after the fact and save both your data and forensic information about the hack itself while minimizing the downtime your blog suffers before it’s back up and running robustly again

Let’s go over the five crucial steps you should take right after you realize that you’ve been breached.

1. Check With Your Hosting Provider

This is the most basic step you should take after discovering that your site is either not working or is acting very strangely.

For one thing, you may not even be the victim of an actual hack; sometimes accidents do happen and either something your hosting provider did wrong (ie: a server crash) or something you did  wrong (ie: outdated software or badly written code) could be the cause of your problem. This applies especially in situations where a page simply doesn’t load or shows an error message.

Thus, take a deep breath, calm down and contact your hosting provider to see if they can inform you of any mistakes on their part or at least help you go through your own work with your server data to see if you may have done something wrong with your site. Also, if you’ve recently been editing code, go through your latest changes line by line and remove them to see if something there is the cause of odd blog behavior.

Finally, even if you’re sure you’ve been hacked, you should talk to your webhost so that they can explain what they know about the hack to you, or tell you if your blog is alone or one amongst many others that have been attacked.

2. Start Making a Record of Everything

As soon as you start to notice the effects of what you suspect to be a breach, start recording everything that happens after that. Record the names of any suspicious exe files, all odd blog behavior, any lines of strange code you found and pretty much everything you see and do that has to do with your blogs problem.

By doing this, you’ll be creating a chain of digital forensic evidence that will not only help you keep track of how you’re resolving the hack, but will also let you learn from your progress for when it comes to dealing with future incidents.

3. Make Copies of All Suspect Data

In conjunction with making a record of everything you do and see, also make copies of all suspect files, code and EXEs that you encounter. Even though you’re in the process of eliminating them as part of your cleaning efforts, you should first copy each piece of data as part of your attempt to record and understand the hack you’ve suffered. You might even want to go as far as creating a forensic mirror copy of your entire hard drive if you think that the source of your hack was your own computer.

Again, these files represent evidence that will give you a chance to use digital forensics and figure out what had happened to you so that you can better understand it and root out its source.

Save all copies of corrupted files on a remote storage unit such as a flash drive or an external hard drive.

4. Close Down all Server Access Accounts and Change Every Password

This means that, if you’ve given access to your blog’s servers to anyone else via FTP, you should shut down all of these accounts right away and change their passwords just to be sure about security. Additionally, change all of your other server passwords such as those for MySQL accounts, CMS dashboards and even your blog’s hosting control panel password.

This may seem a bit extreme but until you know how someone breached your blog, it’s better to eliminate all possible sources for the hack systematically.

5. Backup All Your Data and Reinstall

We’re sort of covering two steps here, but they go in tandem with each other: First, start backing up all of your blog data from your servers and MySQL databases as fast as you can. The quicker you do this the less likely you are to suffer even worse losses. You should have already been practicing a general policy of regular blog backups anyhow, but, well, some people just don’t. Thus, now that you’ve finally been hacked, get busy with this.

It doesn’t matter if you’re also backing up infected files or malicious code; you can clean both out later in a localhost environment; for now the key is to do a full backup.

Once you’ve backed up your data, erase everything from your active server and reinstall fresh software for all of your blogs components. These will include your CMS software if you’re using a CMS (such as WordPress), your addons, plugins and your third party site addons such as Adobe, Flash or any other blog extras.

Afterwards, make sure that all your passwords have been changed, your site secured with any needed patches and start adding your backed up content back in piece by piece.

Attract Readers to Your Blog

You spent days (or weeks! Months!) setting up your blog, perfecting your design, and writing quality content…but you have no readers! Before you can even begin to worry about developing a following, you first need to let the world know your blog exists. But how do you get your name out there?
I've been asked by a number of people how I network my blog to attract readers. To answer that question, I’ve written a series of Blogging Tips and Tricks posts. In each post in the series I will outline a few methods for attracting new readers to your blog. I am NOT an expert and these tips are based on my own observations and experiences.

One of the fastest ways to get people to look at your blog is to offer them a chance to get something for free. Giveaways are great for exposure.
You have a couple of choices when you do this. You can:
Make following a requirement
Not make following a requirement
Require/give extra entries for spreading the word
Obviously having following as a requirement will make your follower numbers skyrocket. All I have to do is follow you with no intention of ever reading your blog and I could win something? Score! Lots of people will follow you (though probably not me. I feel like I'm lying if I do that).
The downside? Many of these people are not "true" followers in the sense that they'll keep coming back.
Personally, I'm a statistics junky, so I don't like muddying my follower stats with these types of followers (they're also the most likely to un-follow you, which always makes me sad).
Also, not everyone who reads your blog is going to be a blogger, so making following a requirement may alienate your most devoted readers! I started reading blogs long before I had an account with Blogger and I'm not the type of person to subscribe through email, but that didn't make me any less of a follower.
Because of all of this, I will never ask you to follow my blog in order to enter a giveaway. BUT, my follower numbers are also a lot lower as a result.
So there are pros and cons. This is a personal choice and only you can determine what is right for you and your blog.
Giving extra entries is a great way to help spread the word about your blog. Basically, you're getting the people who enter your giveaway to do a little leg work for you and, as a result, your blog will be exposed to lots of untapped readers.
The only reason I don't normally do this is because I'm too lazy to add up extra entries (it was CRAZY the one time I did this, though I did have "unconventional" extra entries). But, there again, my blog's exposure is probably taking a hit.
I hear Rafflecopter is great if you want to use extra entries (I will probably never use Rafflecopter because I don't like it. But that's a whole 'nother conversation).
Making extra entries a requirement may turn some people off, too (not everyone uses Twitter and Facebook! Like, um, me...).

Hosting an event is a great way to expose yourself to new readers. Just look at Busting the Newbie Blues for an example! I also recently co-hosted the Historical Fantasy Jubilee.
I saw an increase in followers as a result of both events, but even more importantly those events have been great networking opportunities. Almost every blog that signed up for Busting the Newbie Blues last year are blogs I still read now, and I've found many more to add to my feed reader this year.
What did I do to spread the word about Busting the Newbie Blues?
I emailed bloggers who I thought might be interested and asked if they would join
I made a button for people to add to their blogs
My event includes interaction where bloggers make a post on their own blogs
What did we do to spread the word about the Historical Fantasy Jubilee?
Ruby and I sent out email invitations to select bloggers and encouraged them to invite their friends
Ruby and I made event and game buttons for people to add to their blogs
Ruby tweeted links to our event
Some of our giveaways offered extra entries for tweeting
We added our giveaways to linkups like Candace's Saturday Situation (and others)
The authors who participated in the event spread the word through their own social networks
What you should keep in mind:
Hosting an event takes A LOT of time and effort, so plan your time accordingly
The more involved you are, the more involved others will be
Method 3: Host a Challenge
Hosting a challenge is not something I have done yet, but I imagine it would be a good way to attract readers to your blog. Not only that, but it is a great way to get readers to keep coming back to your blog.

Optimize Blog For Google and Other Search Engines

Being a blogger you must be aware with the fact that Google changes its policies after a short period of time. It is done to punish the spammers who apply black hat SEO techniques on their blog to rank high in search results. After each update, you can notice a change in website's page ranking in search results. Blogs that have applied white hat SEO techniques rank higher in search engines. Even these policies changes very frequently but if you go through the policies then you will come to know that some of the policies are always same. They have never changed. So, in today post we'll discuss about Universal SEO Tips for Google that every blogger must know. This will be a beginner's guide so that you can learn every aspect of white hat SEO from starting.

Optimizing Blog for Search Engines
Below I am going to mention those tips which are always same and work to improve blog rankings. There are lot of things that you need to learn but first start with these basic tips because even they are basic but most effective too. You can't ignore them if you really want better results of your hard work.

Publish High Quality Content
When you write post for your blog, make sure that you publish high quality content. It should be keyword rich with at most 3% of keyword density. Also assure that you only publish original content to your blog. It should not be copied from anywhere otherwise Google will punish you for that and you lose your rankings in search results.
Target Specific Keyword
In tip #1, I told to write keyword rich article. Except this you must focus on your keywords. Always focus a single keyword in a post. If you target more than one keyword in single post then it will create a fuss in your article that confuses the search engines. You will be penalized your over SEO or Black Hat SEO.
Advanced Tip: How to Improve Keywords Ranking in Google?
Catchy Post Titles
Yourpost titles should be catchy and must contain your main keyword. Don't forget to add unique description to all of your posts. Post titles and description is the only thing appears in search results that force the visitors to click on your link to read the entire story.
Except this you must work on your blog to optimize post titles. You must check below tutorial to optimize your post titles.
Optimize Images
If possible then try to insert an image related to topic of the post. It will not only make your content more presentable and stylish but also help to improve its rankings in search results. But you must care about image optimization techniques for better SEO of your posts. I have published a detailed article on this topic. You must check it out for complete information.
Link to Old Posts
When you write new post for your blog, make sure to add some links of your old posts in it. The links you add must be related to the current topic that can provide depth information about that topic. Those links will attract the readers to check those posts too. By doing so you will be able to increase your blog page views and you will get more traffic to your blog. If you are getting too much bounce rate on your blog then you must use internal linking because it is the best way to reduce blog bounce rate.

Simple Ways To Improve Website Or Blog Traffic

I think you saw a many common ways in different websites to increase a blog or website traffic , but there is different and simple.  It is very common quesion that how to increase blog or website traffic  Now a days blogging and having website is common . So it is very to become proffesional blogger or having more traffic to their websites.
Now i will Tell you some simple steps to do :-
1. Providing interesting and informative information on your website will give visitors a reason to seek you out in the future. Also, fresh content gives new opportunities for Google to find you. Post blog entries, write studies and white papers, show some industry statistics - give them the good stuff! If they have a reason to visit.
2.Use the social media site www.triberr.com and form a tribe of like minded marketing folks. Through cross pollination of your blog and those within the tribe you can target traffic, not to mention increase Twitter Followers, Google +'s, and Facebook Likes. Leverage automation and let dlvr.it do the postings for you through RSS feeds. My traffic has increased 30% just by belonging to one active tribe.
3.You're the expert and face of your company. The #1 best way to drive traffic to your site is to create a series of videos. Build a YouTube Channel, link it to your site and have your SEO people go to town. The videos are short, upbeat, fun, compelling, interesting clips (about 2 minutes long) telling viewers about what you do - offer information, not selling. Don't have your cousin's kid do the videos either
4.Image tagging: We have increased traffic up to 30% on our client websites by doing this one simple tactic. Search engines (and humans) LOVE images. Just look at the meteoric rise of Pinterest. But can search engines find the images on your site? Not if they aren't "tagged". Go through your site and make sure every image is tagged with a proper "title" and "alt-tag" aka "alternate text". This helps search engines identify and properly index the image, bringing targeted traffic to your site.
5.Driving visitors to a website is one of my core skills for the last 16 years. One of my favorite methods is to create a related directory on your website. For example, if you are selling camping tents, create directories of well known camping clubs and national parks. Then, whenever someone is searching for the "Boston Camping Club" or "Yosemite", your directory page will appear just above or just below the clubs or park, giving you an unpaid ad in Google.
6.Grow your connections on LinkedIn by joining and interacting in groups. Each week, post your newsletter article in the discussion area of the groups and be sure to comment on the comments of others.
7.Offer something exclusive that clients/customers, or potential ones, can't get from you anyplace else. Whether it's a product, service, white paper, report, analysis or anything else, make it available only through your website. Then, use other social and traditional marketing channels such as email, social media, networking, snail mail, and advertising (whatever works for you), to tell them it's available only on your website.
8.Use SEO application software.
9.Optimize your videos on YouTube by putting your keywords in the title, description and tags. Put your website URL at the beginning of the video description. Place your keywords as captions in your video. Put your URL on a text page at the end of your video.
10.search drove traffic, slow connections limited the use of images, etc. Today, with Stumble, Pinterest, and other social networks giving you a half second to grab a viewer's attention, great visual imagery is essential for gathering "pins" and "likes" which will drive traffic directly, as well as build a foundation for further SEO improvement. Great text is still important to keep visitors and search engines, but great images attract people.

Blog and Make Money Online

How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online?

Categories: Blog Setup, Blogging Tips, Featured, Make Money

This is a step by step and easy to follow guide that will help you setup your own blog from the start. This guide is not to motivate someone to start blogging. It is best suited for someone who already made the decision to start a blog and need some step by step direction of the whole process.

Who Should Use This Guide?

This guide is intended for anyone who is looking for an answer to any of the following questions:

• how do I setup a blog?
• how to start a blog and maintain it?

Now, starting a blog is easy but in order to be able to successfully monetize the blog you need to establish the blog. In this guide, I have also covered the topics that help you establish your blog so you can monetize it.

There is a lot of good content to go through, so it is a good idea to bookmark this page so you can come back to it later and go over the content at your own pace.

Reduce Your Blog Bounce Rate

Every blog that exists on the blogosphere has some motive behind it. Some bloggers may want to share their ideas with the world, some just want a medium to write, and few write on a mission to help others with their own experience. However, there's one thing common between the blogs i.e. to attract as many as visitors to the blog.
To increase the number of followers who come and read what you have written. One should keep track of the blog’s visitors which gives you an idea of how many people are visiting your blog per day or in a month. This will also give you an insight on the traffic which is bouncing off i.e. the bounce rate of the blog.
For that, we need to know what exactly this Bounce Rate means? Everyday some new visitors come to the blog, some come through search engines and some come through links or references. However some or most of the visitors leave your blog as they land on it. They leave your blog by simply closing it down or by hitting the back button.
What can be the reasons for it?
The content is not relevant to the search term that brought them to your blog.
The information provided on the site is not that useful.
The site is not appealing enough to grab the attention of the visitor.
The load time of the site is very slow.
How To Track The Bounce Rate
One can track the blog’s bounce rate by signing up for Google Analytics. They will provide you with the tracking code which you need to add to all the blog pages. This will provide you with all the tracking data in your analytics account dashboard.
The formula used for calculating Bounce Rate is
Bounce Rate = Total single page view visits / Total number of visits.
So, what do you do to reduce the bounce rate? i.e. the number of people leaving the blog. Try some tips and tricks to make your blog more practical and useful to the visitors. Improve the blog quality to persuade people to spend time on your blog. Each and every single visitor is important and valuable for your blog and your blogging business. Mentioned below are few tips, which might be useful to make your blog effective and valuable for your visitors.
How To Reduce Your Blog Bounce Rate
#1. Make Your Blog User Friendly
In order to reduce Bounce rate of your blog, the first thing you need to make your blog user friendly. A well user friendly blog gets more reader attention and they want to spend more time over there. Make navigation system of your blog simple. This will make it easier for your blog readers to get easily, what they are searching for.
#2. Write Simple Content
If you want your blog visitors to read your blog post and spent time on it, you must write your blog post simple and use clear titles for theme. Try to write in simple English, Provide information in simplest way, use relevant images in your post.
#3. Interlink Your Blog Post
Interlinking of your blog post is best way to reduce bounce rate of your blog. It will not only improve your blog bounce rate but also helps your blog SEO by passing link juice and anchor text benefits. It helps your blog readers to read another article on your blog. They like to click internal links on blog post to read many other related articles of your blog. It’s good to interlinking your blog post, but don’t put too many links for the sake of interlinking.
#4. Use Relevant Categories For Blog Post
It’s good idea to stop your blog visitor for some more time on your blog. It just gives your visitor a sort menu to your relevant blog posts. It lets your visitor to read more articles under same category by just clicking on a category or tag link. So it’s always a good idea to use relevant categories for your blog post.
#5. Speed Up Your Blog
Make your blog load faster. To speed up your blog, make your blog design simple, use the latest technology in your blog, you can also use CDN plugins for that. Your blog should load in fractions of seconds. Make sure your blog code is clean and clutter free.
So, these are the best tips to improve your blog’s bounce rate. Hope you like it. What other way, you use to reduce your blog bounce rate? If you have something to add to the list, then share if via the comment box below.
About the Author
Chiranjeev kumar is a Tech Blogger from India. He writes mostly about Blogging, How to Guides, SEO, Blogging, Blogger, WordPress, Technology and Social media at TechClause. Visit Techclause.com to know more about me.