It’s almost the start of a new month which means hundreds of Blogger users are out looking for a new blog template. How do I know this? This phenomenon is what I call the “End of the Month Blogger Blues” where Bloggers are shocked to discover their template images are no longer showing up. First […]
In my mind there are three main types of bloggers in the world. The first being a person who wants a simple web page to keep an online diary or personal journal. The second being a business person needing an online presence whose not technical nor wanting to spend a lot of money to design […]
Several years ago, building MFA (Made For AdSense) niche websites was a popular way for online Marketeers to quickly make a buck. The sole purpose of building dozens of MFA niche websites (usually only a few pages deep) was to cash in by driving people from search engines to their site and hoping they click […]
Your blog is a representation of who you are so it should be unique, right? The only problem is most free Blogger templates (if not all) are available to anyone so chances of you stumbling across another site that looks very similar to yours is going to be high. It’s like going to a party […]
If you’re tired of trying to browse Blogger’s Help Center in hopes of finding an answer to your question then this recent announcement from Blogger might be just what you’re looking for. Google Blogger has setup a YouTube channel specifically to show users step by step how to use Blogger features. This is a great […]
Have you ever tried to insert javascript ad code directly into your Blogger Template and it just wouldn’t work? Ok, everyone in the room can put their hands down now. This has always been a huge problem for blog authors using Google Blogger looking to monetize their site since almost all ad code contains javascript. […]
The Google Blogger team is always looking for ways to improve methods to battle sploggers but their systems don’t always work as planned. One of my blogs was recently flagged as a splog by the Google Blogger team and I was sent this automated email from them. Dear Blogger user, This is a message from […]
In the past, your typical blogger would be content enough just having their own blog. But now, bloggers in general are becoming more knowledgeable with ways to monetize their blog and with the availability of free information on the web, they do a decent job. For example, how many blogs do you read these days […]
You have to admit, most free 3rd party Blogger templates that you download are a mess. You open up the xml file and it’s a long and ugly-looking beast of code spaghetti. If you’re like me, you prefer a nice and neat template (even though you’ll be the only one seeing it) and you’ll want […]
Blogger has done it again. They’ve released another round of “fixes” that ended up causing us more trouble than good. Within the last week or so, Blogger released at least one noticeable change to their xml parser. How do I know this? Because several readers started complaining about our templates not working so I decided […]
Widgets are a great way to add some flare and uniqueness to your blog. Whether you’d like to show your live blog traffic stats or show your visitors which sites have recently linked to your web site, you can do it with widgets. I recently came across a list of 50 great blog add-ons that […]
On February 29th, 2008, eBlog Templates hit an amazing milestone of having served over 10,000 WordPress and Blogger template downloads. Not only is that an huge number of downloads for a website in general, but the impressive part is eBlog Templates is only 2 1/2 months old. We launched December 15th 2007 and have had […]