Blogger Articles

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  Drive New Traffic to Your Blog Using Spotplex

  Posted in: Blogger Articles, WordPress Articles | By: David | 10 Comments

  Are you someone who always submits your blog posts to Digg hoping it gets enough “Diggs” to make their front page? Well, here’s a new site that takes all the work out of having to submit your post each time. Spotplex is a free service that dynamically provides an instant, impartial ranking of popular web […]

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  Increase Your Recent Posts and Comments to 10 – Blogger Hack

  Posted in: Blogger Articles | By: David | 29 Comments

  Before you get too excited and try the tricks in this post, I just wanted to let you know beforehand that it might not work anymore. Several visitors have tried and told me it didn’t work so the result might be the same for you. Blogger continues to make changes without announcing them so hacks […]

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  Make Your Own Cool Web 2.0 Blog Buttons

  Posted in: Blogger Articles, WordPress Articles | By: David | 7 Comments

  Many of us have blogs and templates we’d like to customize but we just don’t have the skills or software to do it. It also takes time to make design elements in photo editing software so why even bother right? Well, thanks to a cool new website I found called My Cool Button, you can […]

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  “What Blogger Template Should I Make Next?” Contest

  Posted in: Blogger Articles | By: David | 43 Comments

  I get tons of emails and comments from people asking me to convert all sorts of different templates but unfortunately I can’t fulfill everyone’s request. There are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of really cool WordPress and open source .css templates available on the web but it’s sometimes difficult to decide which Blogger templates will […]

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  How to Create a “What’s Next” Post Footer Section

  Posted in: Blogger Articles, WordPress Articles | By: David | 62 Comments

  Ever come across a blog with a really cool individual post footer section called “What’s Next” and wonder how it was created? It’s not a WordPress plugin or a Blogger widget (at least not yet) and you’ll find it on blogs such as this one, Blogger Buster, and ProBlogger, just to name a few. I’m […]

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  “How Much Is Your Blog Worth” Calculator

  Posted in: Blogger Articles, WordPress Articles | By: David | 23 Comments

  Ever wonder how much your blog is actually worth? Well, unlike cars there’s no blog blue book so the value of one’s blog can depend on many different factors. I came across this cool blog calculator which is a quick and easy way to get a ballpark figure of what your blog may be worth […]

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  How To Add The Blogger “Read More” Expandable Posts Link

  Posted in: Blogger Articles | By: David | 578 Comments

  This is a pretty popular Blogger hack that lots of people have asked me about. Instead of answering to each email individually, I thought it would make more sense to write an article about it. With this hack, you can choose to display a select amount of text from the beginning of each post as […]

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  Super Charge Your Blogger Comments With Intense Debate

  Posted in: Blogger Articles | By: David | 41 Comments

  One of the shortcomings of Google’s Blogger is the lack of a quality commenting system. Out of the box, it comes with a very generic non-interactive inline comment reply system that works fine but is to basic for most people. Luckily there’s a new website called Intense Debate that provides an amazing free commenting package […]

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  Blogger Update Breaks Page Element Layout Editor

  Posted in: Blogger Articles | By: David | 23 Comments

  Last night (Feb 12th, 2008) the Blogger/Blogspot engineering team at Google released a patch with a few updates and bugs fixes which apparently did more harm than good. There are numerous reports in the Blogger Help Group of people having problems with their page element layout editor not working properly. Update (2/15/08): Blogger has acknowledged […]

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  Free Live Blog Traffic Widget

  Posted in: Blogger Articles | By: David | 35 Comments

  Ever want to know things like who’s visited your web site, where they came from, and what they’re reading? Well, now you can with this cool free blog widget by FEEDJIT. They provide a simple page where you select one of four widgets which are: live traffic feed, live traffic map,  live recommended reading,  or […]

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  How To Easily Make Your Own Web 2.0 Blog Logo

  Posted in: Blogger Articles, WordPress Articles | By: David | 21 Comments

  It’s a question I get asked quite often and I figured it’s easier just to write a post about it. Many people who download Blogger templates or WordPress themes from our site would like to replace the default header image with one more personal and professional-looking. Some templates come with header logo or some with […]

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  Did Someone Copy Your Blog Content?

  Posted in: Blogger Articles | By: David | 4 Comments

  Content theft is becoming a huge issue especially with the ease of accessing data via the web. There are several reasons why someone would steal your Blog’s content instead of linking to it and giving you credit and with RSS feeds providing a full extract of your content, it’s easy to do. If you’re a […]