Optimize Blog Title For Search Results

Your traffic from search depends on your content and post titles. I guess now it's time to give a bit attention to your blog/post title for a better SEO. Sorry for bad editing, i recently formatted my pc, and right now i don't have Photoshop. Let's focus on topic....

It would be better if Title Starts with your Post Title and ends with your Blog Title.I do believe that it will definitely improve your Click Through Rate.

• Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML

• Find following code in your template:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

• and replace it with:

<!-- Start www.BWidgets.com: Changing the Blogger Title Tag -->
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/><b:if cond='data:blog.pageName'> ~ </b:if><data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>
<!-- End www.BWidgets.com: Changing the Blogger Title Tag –>

• Save Your Template......That' IT!!

After saving the template take a look at your blog post pages and your will notice the change in titles in your browser's title bar.

Soon Google bot will re-index your pages with new improved page titles.

Manually Adding Disqus Comment Box On Blogger

Previously we discussed about adding Disqus comment system to Blogger. Now i'll tell you how to add Disqus comment system manually on your blog.

If the Disqus gadget installer isn't working, you have the option of manually installing the gadget on your Blogger site. This will require editing your Blogger template HTML, so it won't work with Dynamic Views templates.

• Go To Blogger > Layout > Add A Gadget > HTML/JavaScript

• Enter Disqus as the title and the following code for the content:

<!-- Disqus comments gadget -->

• Click save and the window will close....

Now all done in Layout section of your blog, now it's time to move to the Template section.

• Go to your blog's Template section and then click the "Edit HTML" button > Proceed

• Click 'Expand Widget Templates' box

• Search for the widget you just created in your HTML template by pressing Ctrl-F (Command-F on OSX) then typing Disqus. You should find the following line: 

<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='Disqus' type='HTML'>

• Below that locate and DELETE the following code right before the closing tag. The section you're deleting should look like this:

<b:includable id='main'>
  <!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
  <b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
    <h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
  </b:if>
  <div class='widget-content'>
    <data:content/>
  </div>
  <b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:includable>

• Now before the closing </b:widget> tag, add the following Disqus code

<b:includable id='main'>
            <script type='text/javascript'>
                var disqus_shortname = &#39;EXAMPLE&#39;;
                var disqus_blogger_current_url = &quot;<data:blog.canonicalUrl/>&quot;;

                if (!disqus_blogger_current_url.length) {
                    disqus_blogger_current_url = &quot;<data:blog.url/>&quot;;
                }

                var disqus_blogger_homepage_url = &quot;<data:blog.homepageUrl/>&quot;;
                var disqus_blogger_canonical_homepage_url = &quot;<data:blog.canonicalHomepageUrl/>&quot;;
            </script>

            <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
                <style type='text/css'>
                    #comments {display:none;}
                </style>

                <script type='text/javascript'>
                    (function() {
                        var bloggerjs = document.createElement(&#39;script&#39;);
                        bloggerjs.type = &#39;text/javascript&#39;;
                        bloggerjs.async = true;
                        bloggerjs.src = &#39;http://&#39;+disqus_shortname+&#39;.disqus.com/blogger_item.js&#39;;
                        (document.getElementsByTagName(&#39;head&#39;)[0] || document.getElementsByTagName(&#39;body&#39;)[0]).appendChild(bloggerjs);
                    })();

                </script>
            </b:if>
                <style type='text/css'>
                    .post-comment-link { visibility: hidden; }
                </style>

                <script type='text/javascript'>
                (function() {
                    var bloggerjs = document.createElement(&#39;script&#39;);
                    bloggerjs.type = &#39;text/javascript&#39;;
                    bloggerjs.async = true;
                    bloggerjs.src = &#39;http://&#39;+disqus_shortname+&#39;.disqus.com/blogger_index.js&#39;;
                    (document.getElementsByTagName(&#39;head&#39;)[0] || document.getElementsByTagName(&#39;body&#39;)[0]).appendChild(bloggerjs);
                })();

            </script>
</b:includable>

• Now change EXAMPLE to your site's shortname.

• Click Save template. Assuming there are no errors, Disqus should properly show up on your site now.

Blogger Add Widget Not Working

Want to add a new widget but Add Widget button is not working? Yea, you're are not the only one who is facing this problem. Blogger has a new bug, in which Add Widget button is not working. Thus, you can't add Disqus and other type of widgets on your blog.

If you're new to Blogger, then you should know that you can still add widget to your blog. Browse some widgets from our site or other sites. Click on Add to Blogger button and a pop-up will appear. In that window, Add Widget button will not work so Copy all the code from 'Edit Content' box and manually add that code to your blog:

How To Add Disqus Comment Box

Now, you can't add Disqus widget from this way....To add Disqus comment box on your blog read this article.

Floating Social Sharing Bar Widget For Blogger

This amazing sharing bar is created by W2B. It's a horizontal sharing bar with several social sharing options. Lot's of big websites are using this type of widget on their sites. It'll surely approach your readers to share your posts on their social profiles. Time to add it..

• Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML > Proceed > Check the 'Expand Template Widgets' checkbox.

This widget contains jquery so if your blog already has jquery script then remove it from our code.

• Now search for </head> and just above it paste the following script.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<style type='text/css'>
/*<![CDATA[*/
    #w2bSocialFloat {clear:both;padding: 6px 0;display:block;background:#FFFFFF;}
    #w2bSocialFloat td{padding:4px;margin:0;border:none;}
    #w2bSocialFloat td iframe{max-width:82px;width:82px !important;}
    #w2bSocialFloat.w2bFloatSocial{position: fixed;top:0;z-index:9999999;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;-webkit-box-shadow:0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.15);-moz-box-shadow:0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.15);box-shadow:0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.15);}
/*]]>*/
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
// Set the Top Offset
$theOffset = 0;

jQuery(document).ready(function(b){var a=b("#w2bSocialFloat");a.wrap('<div id="w2bSocialPlaceholder"></div>').closest("#w2bSocialPlaceholder").height(a.outerHeight());a.width(a.outerWidth());e=a.offset().top-$theOffset;b("#w2bSocialFloat iframe[src*=plusone]").closest("div").css("max-width","82px");b(window).scroll(function(){d=b(this).scrollTop();d>=e?a.addClass("w2bFloatSocial"):a.removeClass("w2bFloatSocial");f=b(".post");if(f.length!=0){c=f.outerHeight()+f.offset().top;d>=c?a.stop().animate({top:"-150px"}):a.stop().animate({top:$theOffset+"px"})}else d>=e?a.css("top",$theOffset+"px"):a.css("top","0")})});
/*]]>*/
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://widcraft.googlecode.com/svn/w2b-blogger-pinit.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://widcraft.googlecode.com/svn/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
    // Twitter
    (function(a,b,c){var d=a.getElementsByTagName(b)[0];if(!a.getElementById(c)){a=a.createElement(b);a.id=c;a.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";d.parentNode.insertBefore(a,d)}})(document,"script","twitter-wjs");
    // Google + (plus)
    (function(){var a=document.createElement("script");a.type="text/javascript";a.async=true;a.src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js";var b=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];b.parentNode.insertBefore(a,b)})();
    // Stumbleupon
    (function(){var a=document.createElement("script");a.type="text/javascript";a.async=true;a.src="https://platform.stumbleupon.com/1/widgets.js";var b=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];b.parentNode.insertBefore(a,b)})();
    // Digg
    (function(){var a=document.createElement("SCRIPT"),b=document.getElementsByTagName("SCRIPT")[0];a.type="text/javascript";a.async=true;a.src="http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js";b.parentNode.insertBefore(a,b)})();
/*]]>*/
</script>
</b:if>

• Let’s add the final Social horizontal bar widget code. Add this code before <data:post.body/> tag.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div id="w2bSocialFloat" class="w2bSocialFloat">
<table  width="100%" class="w2bSocialFloat">
    <tr>
        <td>
            <a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" expr:data-url="data:post.url" expr:data-text="data:post.title">Tweet</a>
        </td>
        <td>
            <iframe expr:src="&quot;//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;send=false&amp;layout=button_count&amp;width=80&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font&amp;height=21&quot;" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:80px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
        </td>
        <td>
            <div expr:id="&quot;w2bPinit-&quot; + data:post.id" style="display: none;visibility: hidden;height: 0;width:0;overflow: hidden;" class="w2bPinitButton">
                <data:post.body/>
                <script type="text/javascript">
                    w2bPinItButton({
                        url:"<data:post.url/>",
                        thumb: "<data:post.thumbnailUrl/>",
                        id: "<data:post.id/>",
                        defaultThumb: "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRFeTajLrpW3Ob3OROSkVTJHcqjYWgEQYiB7xij6-xhs-MlLu4luvA8RGzk2ZUHD_jhY0AaCJ5oPUTCHy4fj7rUwE2Y3yIyczyOFnNJwfdOEDTloXopSafrvBATwoIgLl6cLhTOi0iMN8/s1600/bigthumbnail.png",
                        pincount: "horizontal"
                    });
                </script>
            </div>
        </td>
        <td>
            <div class="g-plusone" data-size="medium" expr:data-href="data:post.url"></div>
        </td>
        <td>
            <su:badge layout="1" expr:location="data:post.url"></su:badge>
        </td>
        <td>
            <a class="DiggThisButton DiggCompact"></a>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</div>
</b:if>

Save Template....That's It....

If you found the <data:post.body/> three times, then search for two lines below:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<data:post.body/>

Place the Widget code in between the two tags.

Adding Disqus Popular Threads Widget To Blogger

Previously i shared two Disqus widgets. Now it's time to share third widget, which is a way to show some recent popular posts/threads of your blog. I don't have much to say about it right now so let's just get started.You can also use below code on your html document or wordpress.

• Go To Blogger > Layout > Add A Gadget > HTML/JavaScript > Paste below code:

<div id="popularthreads" class="dsq-widget"><h2 class="dsq-widget-title">Popular Threads</h2><script type="text/javascript" src="http://wwefansnation.disqus.com/popular_threads_widget.js?num_items=5"></script></div>

• Replace wwefansnation.disqus.com with your site's Disqus ID.
• Replace 5 with the number of threads your want to display.

Now save and you're done.!!!

Disqus Popular Threads Widget For WordPress:

You can download add Disqus Popular Threads Widget to WordPress with this plugin.

Optimizing Your Blog's Load Time

Your site's loading time is a vital factor in its ability to engage its readers. Our users don't like a site, which takes way to much time to load. Even we like Google Search because it takes very little time to load. Optimizing your blog/site's loading time is a must, and today we'll learn about it. Here comes the Service called PageSpeed Insights.

What is PageSpeed Insights?

PageSpeed Insights analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster. Reducing page load times can reduce bounce rates and increase conversion rates.

Test Your Blog's Score

Go to PageSpeed Insights and Enter the URL and Press Analyze.After a bit of loading you will get a detailed deport discussing your site's loading time. You'll get a lot of reports on where your site's loading time is good or bad. You'll get your report in five parts:

• High priority. These suggestions represent the largest potential performance wins for the least development effort.

• Medium priority. These suggestions may represent smaller wins or much more work to implement.

• Low priority. These suggestions represent the smallest wins. You should only be concerned with these items after you've handled the higher-priority ones.

• Experimental rules. These suggestions are experimental, but do not affect the overall PageSpeed score.

• Already done!. There are no suggestions for these rules, since this page already follows these best practices. Good job!

Now some very important things to consider while optimizing your Score

• Combine images into CSS sprites: This becomes very important if you're using lots of icons on your site.

• Optimize images: Properly formatting and compressing images can save many bytes of data.

• Minify JavaScript: Compacting JavaScript code can save many bytes of data and speed up downloading, parsing, and execution time.

• Place CSS in Head: Any external CSS file should be placed in the <head> tag as it helps in fast rendering of the Page

• Specify image dimensions: Specifying a width and height for all images allows for faster rendering by eliminating the need for unnecessary reflows and repaints.

• Remove Unused CSS and JavaScript: If you're not using a css or javascript then don't forget to remove it.

Here are several reasons of your blog's low speed

• Leverage browser caching: Blogger doesn't give you access to the .htaccess file where you have to set the expiry date for your resources, making them cacheable.

• Default CSS File: Blogger loads a CSS file namely bundle.css ,over which you have no control. This file contains default styling of Blogger widgets.

• Slow Widgets: Remove Gadgets like Facebook Like Box and Followers Gadget, as the images of members that are loaded ,very badly effect Load Times and Page Size.

Every blog has their own different problems and some of them are their publisher networks like Clicksor. Don't forget to leave a comment with your score...!!!

Adding Threaded Commenting System To Blogger

Most bloggers are already using this system on their blog, but i never used it because i'am using Disqus commenting system, which is better than Blogger commenting system. My brother created a blog call My Droid Arena, and he is using this threaded system in his blog.

After using this trick your Blogger comments will have a reply option. Now let's get started:

• Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML > Proceed.

• Select (Tick) the "Expand the Widget" Box.

• Search for the following code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
  <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
</b:if> 

• Once you find the above code, replace it with the following.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'>
         <b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
           <b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
         <b:else/>
           <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
         </b:if>
       </b:if>
       <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
         <b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
           <b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
         <b:else/>
           <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
         </b:if>
       </b:if>

Now go ahead and save the template. That's it for this time. You can also customize this system with some css.

Adding Disqus Top Commenters Widget To Blogger

Previously i shared Disqus Recent Comments Widget, which was an awesome way to show some recent comments and this time i'am going to share Top Commenters widget with you guys. It's a great way to show your site's most active commenters. You can also use below code on your html document or wordpress.

• Go To Blogger > Layout > Add A Gadget > HTML/JavaScript > Paste below code:

<div id="topcommenters" class="dsq-widget"><h2 class="dsq-widget-title">Top Commenters</h2><script type="text/javascript" src="http://wwefansnation.disqus.com/top_commenters_widget.js?num_items=5&hide_mods=0&hide_avatars=0&avatar_size=32"></script></div>

• Replace wwefansnation.disqus.com with your site's Disqus ID.
• Replace 5 with the number of commenters your want to display.
• Replace hide_mods=0 with hide_mods=1 if you want to hide moderator's name from this widget.

Now save and you're done.!!!

Disqus Top Commenters Widget For WordPress:

You can download add Disqus Top Commenters Widget to WordPress with this plugin.

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Using Google Web Fonts In Blogger

Every blog needs some perfect fonts to match their content. There are lots of websites where you can get some free and paid fonts, but Google Web Fonts are totally free to use and it's hosted in Google's Server. From this tutorial you'll learn how to use these fonts on your blog, website or anywhere.

Here We Go

First go to Google Web Fonts and select your favorite style by clicking 'Quick Use.'

Now scroll down a bit and you will see a link tag code , copy this code and also copy #2 text (Web Font Family Name) as shown in image below:

Now Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML and paste Font Style Sheet just below <head>:

Now search and add the CSS to use this font, just before the ]]></b:skin> tag :

h1 {
font-family: WEB-FONT-NAME ;
}

Replace WEB-FONT-NAME with your web font name which we copied earlier. In this font our web font name is 'Freckle Face', cursive. So make this code like:

h1 {
font-family: 'Freckle Face', cursive;
}