Setting up a new Administrator for your blog

This article shows you how to set up someone else (ie another Google account) as an administrator for your blog.

What is a blog administrator 

mail2Post: Using email to update your blog

Blogger's mail2Post tool lets authors make blog-posts, without using the Blogger software.   All you need to do is set it up, and write posts using your regular email tools.

Mail2Post and Blogger. 

Turning the RSS feed off or on again

By default, public Blogger sites offer an RSS feed.  But there may be times when you need to turn it off, either for good or temporarily.

RSS and Blogger

It's annual performance review time - how did Blogger-HAT do in 2011?

This article is an review of Blogger Hint and Tips's performance in 2011, and includes a some statistics, and plans for 2012.

2011, the year in review 

Google CSE API documentation upgrade

Google's custom search engine API is promptly fully familiar  (announced here).

It won't mean something if you truly consume a regular Google Custom Search on your blog,

How to put a gadget above your blog's header

This article is around how to plunk an thing (any type of gadget) exceeding the Title section in a blog made with Google Blogger.

Letting other people write in your blog

This article describes the ways that you can allow other people to write and publish on your blog.  It looks at and the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

Comments vs blog-posts, the case for team-blogs

There are two foremost ways to facilitate content can be plunk into your blog: Explanation and posts.

Blogger is designed, around the goal to facilitate preliminary discussions around modern topics are happening by you, and plunk into posts.  

Analytics "old" interface to live a little longer?

Back in Nov 2011, Google Analytics held to facilitate the "old" version would interrupt working in January.

However this week's publication makes it sound like they're still workign on a quantity of recipe skin tone, and so the deadline has been extended.

Google Search has a penalty if you don't have "enough" content above the fold

Google search own tainted their search-formula:   Sites with "not enough" content exceeding the fold won't rank as high spot in search results as they did or - in effect from the then stage the blog is crawled.

Picnik is ending on 19 April 2012

The chief roll of Google relevance retirements representing 2012 includs Picnik, a photo cutting tool to facilitate was clear via Picasa-web-albums (and perhaps from other sitting room too) - it was an in effect, though long-winded, way of tallying a watermark to pictures.

I'm convinced to facilitate PWA has a replacement tool representing responsibility this ... Don't own stage to delve into come again? It is justification promptly.

The Page gadget: a menu bar for your blog, with links to just about anywhere

This article shows how you can use the Pages gadget as a general purpose menu bar for your blog.

Evolution of the pages gadget 

Based on a work by latvian (evolution)

When Blogger chief introduced so-called "static" pages, I notion they had a lot in life of latent.

Blogger-HAT Lite: quick updates about Blogger and related tools

Introducing Blogger-HAT Lite - quick notes about changes in other products that are important for Blogger users to know about.

Sources for official news about Google products.

Today, I found a record  of Google's blogs around their products, and furthermore around operations and policies et cetera in discrete countries and regions.

An opportunity for blogger photographers

Bloggers who are furthermore photographers may well would like to check improbable Google's Trusted Photographers programme.  The message announcing this to businesses says:

Editing published posts in Blogger

This article describes how to edit a post that has already been published in Blogger, using the new interface.

Where has the Edit Posts link gone?

Why you can't ignore Google +

Just in case you're still hoping you can ignore G+ and it will go away.

It's kinda like that "If Facebook was a country" vid that did the rounds a while ago, but with less numbers and cuter cartoons.

How to edit your Blogger template

This article is around how to edit Blogger templates, using either the old or modern interfaces.

It chains many other articles on this locate, which conjure up individual guide changes to solve detail problems.

Country-specific Blogspot URL may affect your earnings - and other things too

This week, Blogger announced they are redirecting blogspot.Com blogs to nation state individual URLs.

This way to facilitate what time someone in India looks next to http://blogger-hints-and-tips.Blogspot.Com/, they will in reality be directed to http://blogger-hints-and-tips.Blogspot.In - and similarly representing other countries, so far I know it's been useful to Australia and New Zealand too.

Customizable styles in Google Docs

Google Docs promptly own Customizable styles in ID.

This is a trait to facilitate MS Word has had representing a long stage, which makes a gigantic productivity difference to everybody who is script long ID.

Google Knoweledge Graph will change how Google searches for our blogs

You may well own seen references to Google Knoweledge Graph, and how it has the latent to modernize search.

The chief a small number of posts I maxim were large on excitement, but with very little substance. However this article from Mashable explains things a lot in life more.

AdSense has a new ad-size

AdSense has introduced a quantity of modern ad-unit sizes.

The mobile banner is 320px spacious by 50px high spot, and designed representing mobile applications.    However if you comprehend your ad-code from AdSense (rather than using Blogger's AdSense gadget), it's offered to plunk on several type of locate. 

Getting blog videos indexed, with schema.org

You can plunk videos into blog pole using an icon on the post-editor toolbar - they are solitary type of organizer to facilitate you don't need to host elsewhere.

If you look after this, Google will (eventually) file the contents of your blog pole, based on the text in the pole, and the file-names of the file(s)you've used.

Changing the Date for a Post

This article is about how to change the date of a post in Blogger.  It looks at where the date value is found, and what format is used to display and edit it.

Options for adding gadgets to your blog

There are (at least) three different ways of adding a gadget to your blog.  This article explains what a gadget / widget is, and looks at the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

Adding a gadget to a blog with a dynamic-view template

Beer glasses can have widgets, and
now  dynamic-view blogs can have them too

This article is around how to add widgets (also branded as gadgets) to blogs to facilitate own dynamic templates.

Things are looking up:

Adding a gadget to your blog, using Blogger's WYSIWYG interface

This article shows how to use Blogger's add-a-gadget tool.  

It also looks at how you can move a gadget around in your blog, and describes what you can do with some of Blogger's most-popular gadgets.

Gadgets and types of Blogger template

Blogger Help Forum (English) is moving

There's nothing almost the amend in Blogger Buzz, but they've posted a long declaration in the current BHF, and linked to a Getting Started Guide which shows the pedestal skin texture of Google Product Forums, and an instance working GPF-based forum (the single in support of Google Plus).

Sharing Google Analytics reports with other people

Google Analytics has added a Share button to

• Custom Reports: (Actions menu on the table that lists your reports)
• The dashboard: (top-left corner)
• Advanced Segments: (Admin tab > Advanced Segments)

AdSense for Domains

AdSense have decided to stop offering AdSense for Domains - a product that let domain owners show AdSense ads when someone tried to visit a URL that's not currently pointing to any website. (Because, of
course, they cannot use regular AdSense for Content ads on URL like this because the Terms and Conditions say it can only be shown on websites that actually have "real" content.)

Putting a Tweet-this-quote link in blog posts

This article shows you how to apply a "tweet this" label to a specific quote in a blog-post, and how this works for your readers.

What are "tweet this" links 

Male Blackbird - By Malene Thyssen (User:Malene)
[GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or
CC-BY-SA-2.5 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)]
via Wikimedia Commons

Previously I've described how to deposit a "tweet this" button into your blog.

This can be calibrate up to allow readers  share the definite position they're impression, or your full blog (but not both by the side of the same time).

It's an instance of   the "look could you repeat that? He said" line of attack to social networking.

Recently, it's befall general to invite readers to tweet a definite sentence or section of a position, by putting a "tweet this" link by the side of the finish off of the section, like this

Stop Pinterest from sharing your pictures or blogposts

This article shows you how to stop people from "Pinning" your blog-contents on their own Pinterest accounts.

Recently I've been investigating  Pinterest, and why some blog-publishers, especially those of you who use pictures that you aren't authorised to distribute any further, may want to ...

Stop people sharing your posts & images on PInterest [tweet this]

I'll share more about this soon.   But in the meantime:

Removing the navbar from your site

This article explains what Blogger's navBar is, what features it offers, and how to turn it off if your blog-site doesn't benefit from these features

What is the navBar in a Blogger blog?

At the top of most blogger blogs, there is a strip with some handy functions on it.

This stripe is called the navBar (short in support of navigation bar), and it can be incredibly handy in support of your readers - if individuals readers are Blogger users, or by the side of smallest amount Google users, and so value it.   For others, however, it's precisely clutter, and a litter of perhaps 15px of above-the-fold deep space.

Styles on Blogger's post-editor menu bar

This article shows how the styles that can be applied in Blogger's style-bar look.

What do these styles do. 

By Vishraval (Own work) [Public domain],
via Wikimedia Commons

This week, lacking one announcements so as to I've seen, Blogger added a form drop-down to the menu ban.

I noticed it at the outset on Thursday night (UCT) and allow since fixed so as to it's in both the new-fangled and old interfaces.

This small-but-important amend makes it a batch easier to add SEO friendly "tags" to your blogger content.

If you service the "header" form on a little text, the HTML behind the position says

Blogger developer documentation has moved

Blogger have announced that the documentation for people who write tools using the Blogger APIs has moved to https://developers.google.com/blogger/

This iinformation is what you need to know to create and share you own gadgets. It is also very useful for blogger-helpers who want to understand the data / schemas that Blogger uses, in order to work out hacks for the rest of us to use to control the look and feel of our blogs.

The blogger developer forum is another very handy place too.

Comment management policy and moderation principles

This article explains the policies that Blogger-HAT applies in accepting, moderating and responding to comments.

Comments are single of the ways we can allow other frequent send a letter to on our blogs.

Blogger lets us wish whether or not to allow annotations overall, and plus on personality posts. And it provides options in support of Blogger administrators to wish whether annotations are inevitably in print, or if they duty be standard at the outset. This admiration process is called moderation.