Monday, February 23, 2009

Today I am going to show you how to add a large integrated Digg button to a Blogger Blogspot blog. The button will display next to the text of the first paragraph in your Blogger posts. This tweak is not difficult but you will be changing your template code so please make sure you backup your template before making any changes.

<p><data:post.body/></p>

6. Paste the Following code above <p><data:post.body/></p>

<!--Digg.com Button-->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'>
<script type='text/javascript'>
digg_url=&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;;
</script>
<script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</div></b:if>
<!--end Digg.com Button-->

7. Click on the Save Template button

8. Click on View Blog link and navigate to an individual post page. You will see your new digg button is only visible on the post page.

Today I have shown you how to add an integrated Digg button to your Blogger Blogspot blog in under a minute. Adding a Digg button will encourage readers to promote your blog by digging your blog content. As Digg is a ready source of traffic any articles dugg by visitors is likely to lead to increased site traffic.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Here is an easy reference list of every Better Blogger Tips article posted to date

Category: Monetize Blogger
Add a Paypal Donate Button to Blogger
Benefits of Adding Chitika to Blogger

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Sunday, February 1, 2009

In this article I will discuss the advantages of monetizing your Blogger blog with Chitika, a pay-per-click advertising program. If you are unfamiliar with Chitika Premium ads then let me clear up this point right away. Chitika can be either an alternative to Google Adsense or used in conjunction with Google Adsense. Today I will be exploring the reasons why Blogger webmasters might add Chitika to their Blogger blog in addition to their existing Google Adsense ad units to create a multiple revenue stream.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Today's article contains instructions on how to hide, remove, delete, get rid of and prevent the Blogger Navbar from showing up.

Some Reasons to Keep the Blogger Navbar
Before you race off and remove the navbar keep in mind that Blogger provides the navbar at the top of every Blogger blog hosted at Blogspot to allow for easy navigation. If you delete it you will lose this functionality which in many ways is a shame.

Some of the advantages of the navbar apart from ready access to the Dashboard and other Google options such as Google Adsense, Gmail, Google Analytics, Picase Web Albums and Google Webmaster Tools are:

  • Search function for visitors to search your blog
  • Option to visit a random blog (the next blog)
  • Option to flag a blog if it contains objectional material
  • Offers a quick and easy and highly visible button for visitors to start following your blog

Steps to Hide the Blogger Navbar
This method will not delete the navbar it will only prevent it from showing up.

1. Login to Blogger and go to select your blog from the list of blogs if you have more than one

2. Select Layout > Edit HTML

3. Tick the Expand Widgets Template

4. As a precaution you might like to back up your template at this point by clicking download

5. Scroll down about 10-15 lines of code in your template until after the credits and you will see the beginning of the declaration of variables:

/* Variable definitions
====================

6. Immediately before this line and after the end of the credits place the following code:


#navbar { height: 0px; visibility: hidden; display: none;
}

7. Save your template

8. View your blog without the navbar showing up. It is not actually deleted only hidden


Troubleshooting
If this code doesn't work the most likely reason is that you have forgotten to tick the Expand Widgets Template box. If you don't do this step Blogger will accept the code into the template but the navbar will still be present


In this Blogger tips article I have shown you how to quickly and easily remove the Blogger navbar from showing up in your Blogger Blogspot blog. Any questions just let me know.


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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Paypal Donate ButtonIn this tutorial I will show you how to add a Paypal donate button to the sidebar of your Blogger Blogspot blog to encourage readers to reward your hard work. If you have set up your Blogger blog with the object of making a few bucks on the side adding a donate button is one of a number of ways to generate income from your blog. For more tips on how to make money from your Blogger blog please see my article 6 Money Making Tips for Blogspot Bloggers.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

About Better Blogger Tips

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Better Blogger Tips is a blog for all the newbies and non-technically minded who want to customize their Blogger Blogspot blog. Better Blogger Tips provides step by step tutorials to support you to build the kind of blog you want regardless of your level of technical knowledge.

I appreciate that you want to spend your time writing content for your blog rather than searching for hours all over the net to find the solutions to this problem or that. Let me take the hard work out of blogging using the Blogger platform so you can relax and concentrate on developing your dream website. Whether you want tips, tricks or straightforward step by step instructions on how to customize Blogger you will find them here on one site. If you don't find what you are looking for just ask and I will try to help and may even consider writing a post depending on the complexity of the issue raised.

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