June 2013

Sunday 30 June 2013

Why One Should Backup His Blogger (Blogspot) Blog at Regular Intervals ?

As everyone knows that ‘creating backup’ means keeping your data safe at some other place, so that in case you lost your data, you can regain it anytime. In this article we are going to discuss different reasons that, why one should backup his/her blogger blog at regular intervals?


There are two main reasons for backing up your blogger blog:
           
           (1)   Preventing data loss if Google deletes your blog.
           (2)   For moving your blog from one blogging platform to another.


Thursday 27 June 2013

Easiest Tutorial to Create 4 Column Footer in Blogger (Blogspot) Blog

When we talk about blogging, besides content and SEO, Blog looks and customization of our blog plays an important role in building and holding visitors in your blog. If we would give more professional and customized look to our blog, definitely we are able to direct more traffic to our blog. We have already discussed that blogger is a free platform which allows us full customizations which we would not get in free hosted Wordpress.com. You have surely visited many professional blogs which posses customized 4 column footer. 4 column footer is nothing but breaking of a single gadget layout in 4 equal halves. In this tutorial you don’t have to play with long HTML codes instead this is the simplest tutorial you ever had.


Tuesday 25 June 2013

How to Use Google's Disavow Tool ?

Google’s Disavow Tool is a tool which is used as a last resort in cleaning of your link profile or we can say removing spammy links or bad links from your site. When you go through different articles related to recovery of websites from different Google’s algorithm updates such as Penguin, which hit websites with bad or spammy links, you surely get this tool mentioned in them. As I earlier said this tool should only be used as a last resort, From last resort I mean to say that you should only use this tool if you have considerable amount of spammy or bad links and you have tried all other ways of removing them but unable to remove all. I have written a detailed article on 
Only using Google's Disavow Tool isn’t enough, firstly try Email outreach method for contacting and requesting different webmasters to remove links to your site. Use this tool with caution as this tool may harm your site’s performance. When using this tool try to be detailed as possible and confess everything.

In this article we are going to discuss How to use Google's Disavow Tool effectively?

Tuesday 18 June 2013

How to Recover From Penguin 2.0 ?

Google’s first or we can say initial Penguin update was rolled out in April 2012, after Panda. Since then Google released many versions of Penguin. Penguin is totally different from Google Panda update as it penalizes webmasters for only thin and duplicate content, Whereas Penguin penalizes webmasters for linkspam or we can say duplicate or irrelevant link to their websites. The latest version of Penguin rolled out on 22nd May, 2013 which impacted the minds of many webmasters about how their websites are going to be affected this time by Penguin 2.0. Penguin 2.0 is much advanced and comprehensive which goes far beyond than initial Penguin or Penguin 1.0 update as Penguin 1.0 looks only for your homepage links but Penguin 2.0 will monitor your internal links as well. 

Friday 14 June 2013

How to Add 'CNAME' And 'A' Records in Bigrock's DNS ?

Adding custom domain to our blog gives it a professional look, besides it there are many other benefits of adding custom domain early, which can be discussed later. For adding custom domain to our blog, we have to add some information which is professionally called ‘Records’ in our Domain Registrar’s DNS Management. I have already written a step by guide on 
Today’s article is for all those bloggers who have purchased their domains from ‘Bigrock’ as it is India’s biggest service provider. I have used some other registrar’s also but they charged extra amount for their DNS Management which is provided free of cost in Bigrock.

Friday 7 June 2013

How to Import Blogger (Blogspot) Posts to Wordpress Using "Blogger Export File" ?

There are many reasons for quitting Blogger and moving to Wordpress which I have stated in my previous article.
The most important reason for quitting blogger is that it’s completely free and doesn’t have any rental options, by this I just want to make you understand that it can delete your blog anytime if you don’t follow their guidelines even if unknowingly as you are not paying a single penny for that whereas Wordpress has different paid options and many more reasons to move. I am not saying you to quit blogger but giving you the most common reason for quitting. We are here to discuss on “How to import your Blogger posts and comments to Wordpress using blogger export file?” and we all know that importing doesn’t deletes your previous blog posts but only copies them to your new Wordpress blog. You can run one or both blogs with same posts, which depends on your discretion. 


Tuesday 4 June 2013

How to Move Your Blog From Blogger (Blogspot) to Wordpress ?

If you are using Blogger as your blogging platform but not get satisfied or finds Wordpress more interesting and user friendly or for any reason you want to leave blogger, and want to switch your blog from Blogger platform to Wordpress but hesitates in doing that thinking of its complexity or feared of loosing your posts. That’s why it takes a lot of time for bloggers like us to move from one platform to other. There are lot of reasons for moving from Blogger to Wordpress, Some basic and important reasons I have already posted in my previous article, kindly go through that once.
In this easy tutorial we will find the easiest way or we can say a step by step guide in importing your blogposts from Blogger to Wordpress with the help of importing tool which is already available with Wordpress.

Sunday 2 June 2013

How to Add Author's Image Before Post Title in Blogger (Blogspot) Blog?

As the title itself suggests, this article is about how you can add your pic / authors image just before post title in blogger (blogspot) blog. It’s the easiest tutorial you ever had. If you are not a techie guy and don’t want to mess up with the HTML coding of your blog template then this tutorial is definitely for you. We are going to do this by just adding one line CSS code in your template. You can browse many professional bloggers blog, which contains authors pic or we can say image just before their post titles, you can take an example or demo of my blog which also contains the same thing. Adding author’s pic just before post titles not only stylify your blog but also gives it a professional look.


Let’s see how we can do this? A step by step guide.

First and the foremost, Before adding that CSS code to your blog we have to add our image to Picasa Web Albums, so that we can use our image URL in that CSS code. Another most important thing which you have to consider is the size of that image.