For Blogger: Create a Dropdown Box for Categories and Archives

When your Category (Labels) list gets long in Blogger and takes up most of your sidebar, you may want to convert it to a dropdown box. Believe it or not, this is much to do in Blogger than in Typepad. For Categories * From the Dashboard, go to Layout. * Go to Edit HTML. * Find this line: <b:widget id="Label1" locked="false" title="Labels" type="Label"></b:widget>* Then replace with this code: <b:widget id="Label1" locked="false" title="Categories" type="Label"> <b:includable id="main"> <b:if cond="data:title"> </b:if></b:includable></b:widget> <h2> <data:title></data:title></h2> <div class="widget-content"> <select onchange="location=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;" style="width: 180px;">    ...

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Add Google Translation Widget to your Blog

Adding a translation widget to your blog or website enables the visitors from different parts of the world to read your articles or posts in their respective languages. Further, having a language translator tool makes your site more user-friendly and bring additional readers and fans to your site! How to Add Google Translation Widget to your Blog/Website:No lengthy steps, just add the following widget code to your template layout. <script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/translatemypage.xml&up_source_language=en&w=160&h=60&title=&border=&output=js"></script>Screenshot...

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Adding meta tags to blogger(blogspot) blogs,websites-SEO

If you don't know what meta tags are, and what is the importance of adding meta tags, here is the detailed description on how to add them to your blogger(blogspot) blogs or any website. Do you know adding meta tags is so important if you want to get more traffic from search engines like google,yahoo,msn,etc,especially the meta description is the most important one. If you don't know what meta tags are,Meta tags are the tags which describes your site and tells the search engines what your site is all about.Adding meta tags is an important factor in SEO.(Search Engine Optimisation).Meta tags allows search engines to index your web pages...

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Adding FaceBook Share button for blogger posts.

A lot of my friends and visitors asked my about how to add share on facebook button in blogger (blogspot), And this question repeated many times specially after I posted a tutorial about How To Add Retweet Button To Blogger (Blogspot ). Today we’ll learn how to do it in a very easy way. About The Widget.This is the official facebook sharing button and here are it’s features. 2 Styles. Button Or Link With / without Counter. Step 1. Get Your Code.Go to this page click here, And make your button ( customize it ). there are some easy options and you can check the preview button to see your button. See...

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How to change the blogger icon?

Favicon is abbreviation for website icon. If you have not done anything to your blog template, the address bar of your blog may look like what you see below: The favicon in the screenshot above is the standard Blogger favicon and this will be the favicon for all blogspot.com blogs by default. The favicon below is a photo of myself: The favicon will also be seen in tabs of web browsers with tab browsing. See the screen shot below: If you want your own favicon, these are the steps to put your own favicon into a Blogger or any blog. Backup your template and backup the Page Elements Convert an image file (jpg, png, gif, etc.)...

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Add visitor counter (statcounter) to blog

There are many free counters - Statcounter, site meter, Google Analytics. I prefer Statcounter as there is a choice of visible and invisible counter and it gives me just the statistics I need. I feel Sitemeter is more for giving nice graphs and Google Analytics gives too much statistics, only invisible counter and I think more for those e-Commerce website and those who use AdWord for advertising. I will describe how to add Statcounter to your blog. First to to Statcounter and sign up for an account. Sign in and then click "New project" (see screen shot below): Get the URL of your blog. If you do not know how, refer to what...

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The Top 10 Free Ways to Get Money Online

Finding a free way to make money online isn't easy and might take a lot of time. So, I put together 10 methods of making money online in this post to help you out. I have done research on these money making methods. They were legitimate and didn't cost you money to begin. No. 10 - Paid Survey You might already heard about paid survey if you have searched on the Internet for while. The Internet ads told you that you can make a living doing paid survey. So, is that really true? Well, the answer is of course no. The ad messages were exaggerated. But it's true that paid survey can potentially earn you extra cash in monthly basis. How...

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How to Make Money With Affiliate Programs

An affiliate program, also known as "referral", "associate" or "partner" program, allows website or blog owners to earn commissions from their websites by referring people to products and services. If you don't have a product of your own to sell, you can join affiliate programs to bring in additional revenue to your site. Let's say your site is about home improvement and you offer tips on various household projects, painting, tools, etc. You would join affiliate programs from hardware companies and refer your visitors to their products from your own website. These companies will pay you a commission for every product sold as a result of your website referral. I make a full-time living online as an affiliate. I've been doing it since 1998 and full-time since 2006. How Affiliate Marketing...

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Make Money With Google AdSense

Anyone who owns or is thinking about creating a website would be crazy to ignore this. I am happy to say that making money with your site, no matter the topic, has become easier than it's ever been before - and it's 100% legitimate.If AdSense had been available in 2000, I would have NEVER shut down my soap opera fan site that received 200 hits per day. I would ...

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