Simple Blogger Tutorials

You can automatically add links of your blog’s post updates on your Twitter profile whenever you publish a new post. If you didn’t knew about this then let’s see how to do it. First of all you need a Google FeedBurner account to enable this feature. Most bloggers use this service to manage their feeds. If you use Blogger and have not done it yet then set-up FeedBurner first. Next, sign in and go to “Publicize” tab.

Show the popular stories and articles of your blog in your sidebar. Give your visitors a reason to stay on your blog. Add popular posts widget in Blogger. It work on the total number of comments a post gets. So we can also call it as 'Most Commented Widget'. Many of you have expressed an interest in this widget, so I thought to give you the tutorial on it. See an example on Popular Posts page of my blog.

You may like to add a “ Follow me ” button or icon to Blogger to increase the number of followers for your Twitter account. I will give you two types of tutorials. First tutorial is for a normal one and the second is for the fixed and floating button.

I have told you about creating three columns in Blogger template. Many of us try to avoid this as it may sometimes look clumsy but we need widget sections to add some gadgets. Now if you want to add two small sidebar columns below main sidebar in your Blogger template, then I will tell you how to do it. So let's start!

In this tutorial we will discuss how to download and/or upload Blogger templates. It is a very simple process and can be done by a click of a button. Yes, you heard it right, see the video tutorials below. Sometimes you may need to back up your templates for certain reasons, like for example, if you are modifying your template then you may like to back it up if by chance anything goes wrong. Or you want to upload the old or a new custom made, stylish template that gives you what you need. Points to be noted For ease, login to Blogger, go to your blog’s Template tab and find “Backup/Restore” button on top-right corner. The Blogger templates are in XML file format, that is, the extension is .xml . Sometimes, templates which are custom made and that are available to download from other sites, comes packed in Zip (also .zip ) or RAR (also .rar ) formats. You need to extract them using software like WinRAR or 7-Zip (freeware).

To add an image to the header of blogger, first go to Blogger’s Dashboard > Design > Page Elements tab. Under this tab you will find the layout of the template you are using. At top you will find the Header widget, click Edit. A pop up window will open. You will find that here you can change your title, description and image . Now upload your image from computer or put the URL of the image if you already had uploaded it. Check the box “ shrink to fit ” if you think that your image is greater in size than you header . At last save your widget.

Increasing traffic to your blogs and websites in not easy thing to achive. If you are owner then you do need visitors which is really very difficult for new blogs and that is also if the blog is similar to other competitive sites. If your blog contains absolutely something new that a visitor may find interesting then you are on “get, set and go” and traffic will automatically start to flow. But there also something that must be done to promote it and let others know too. Here are two simple ways that you can and must do to increase your blog’s traffic.