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Blogger Dynamic View Templates Pros and Cons

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Blogger finally rolled out templates with Dynamic views. It is built with all the latest technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and AJAX. Blogger adds that “ Dynamic Views is a unique browsing experience that will inspire your readers to explore your blog in new ways ”. To find out, you can setup a test blog (it’s better to test things out before applying it for your main blog) and apply the new dynamic templates from Blogger’s Dashboard > Template tab. You will find that there are 7 templates to choose from, namely, Classic, Flipcard, Magazine, Mosaic, Sidebar, Snapshot and Timeslide.

Official Twitter Follow Button for Blogger

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Twitter has officially launched their Follow Button, which can be also added to Blogger. The best feature of this Follow button is that your readers don't need to visit Twitter to find and follow you. Instead, with just one click, they can instantly follow you without leaving your blog. It can also show the number of followers you have and can also be customized according to your needs. You can always visit Twitter official page to get the Follow Button but having it for Blogger posts requires a series of simple steps which I will guide you through.

Content Thieves Beware! Google Panda is Watching You

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Google.com, as we all know, is the search engine giant and to stay in this position it makes some rules and changes its search algorithms overtime so that it can give users more relevant search to its users. One of such change that was introduced on February, 2011 was the “Panda” algorithm. Panda ready to fight for Google

Blogger’s Dashboard, New UI!

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Most of you must have heard or is using Blogger’s new updated user interface on draft.blogger.com. Well, for those who love the new UI can now enable it from Blogger.com. You will find the option on top right corner as “Try the updated Blogger interface” on your Blogger’s dashboard. Here are some images of new UI, extracted from Blogger Buzz, for those who are new or didn’t use it previously.