How to Translate Your Website with Google Translate

How many people are on your blog or website right now? All the readers visit your site may have similar interests and with the intention of making use of your blog or website. Absolutely, you may try to write in your native language or if you think beyond, you will come up with an international language as your site language. But do you know how many of them comfortable with your language used in your blog or website? Some may just leave your site just because of the language. You can track your visitors by region and offer same content in different languages if you wish to. But it may need more effort and that may consume lot of time for you. However don't do it. I don't think anyone will try it too. Due to language differentiation, some people may not able to make use of your site though you have got very useful information. Wouldn't you mind offering your content in their preferred language?

How to Install Disqus Comment Platform on Blogger

Comment section is a place where bloggers and their readers gather around and interact with each other to strengthen their relationships. Obviously, it's the popular way of getting feedback for your content directly from your audience which then converts into further conversations. Sometimes this conversations go viral and end up leaving lengthy comment section and goes beyond the author-reader relationship. That's where your readers becomes more loyal and engage with your blog actively.

How to Set Up Who Can Comment on Your Blog in Blogger

How much do you care about comments made on your blog? Really you should appreciate reader comments and I know you always do. Whether someone comment on your blog or you gonna comment on someone else's blog, it helps to build relationships directly or indirectly. If you wanna know how comments help build relationships, read Adrienne Smith's commenting tips. Why do you blog? There could be many number of reasons I can think of. But the most relevant question here would be - Who is your audience? 'Cause its answer will help you to select best commenting option you need. You may have a public blog where you share your thoughts and ideas publicly. Or you may have restricted it for few people as you wanna create more private space with few contributors. So by looking at your audience, you might wanna select who can comment or cannot on your blog with available options. Did you find best comment option for your blog?

How to Add Contributors or Authors to Your Blog in Blogger

Tired of managing your blogs or seems you can't find enough time to publish fresh content on your blog? Sometimes you may find it difficult to publish posts as you were used to due to increase of workload or if you have to be away from your blog for some time. But if there are some more users willing to post on your blog, you might wanna give them a chance to publish content and keep your readers updated with brand new content. However else you may just seeking a way to add more authors and set up a blog as a team blog to contributed by set of contributors where only they can interact with the blog without exposing to public. Can you think of more reasons where you need to add more contributors on a blog?

Translate Your Blog into Different Languages with Google Translate in Blogger

What is your native language? It could be English, French, Sinhala (which is mine) or any other language you speak. When it comes to blogging, you can write your posts using a preferable language after deciding your audience. But if you are not good with languages, you have to write using a language you speak. Else as you address people around the world, mostly you may try to be fair and come up with an international language to be convenient with most of your readers. But with or without your knowledge, some people still doesn't go easy with it. Not every person good at every language. In such a scenario, would you mind make use of a translation service for your blog?

How to Add a Notification Bar to Your Website with Hello Bar

Did you ever wanted to send out a special message or notify about something special for your blog or website visitors? Ohw... I see... What kind of? Let me think... Imagine you are an blogger and you have published a new book about social media marketing. So you wanna let your blog visitors know about it. Let's think of another example. Imagine you have added a new feature for your website, product or service you offer and wanna tell about it to your audience. See, eventhough you manage a blog or website, you can have something special for your audience. Let's face it. So how you gonna tell them about it? Send them a newsletter? Spread news about it on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or other engaging social networks? But what about those who land on your site that has no contact with you?

How to Configure Your Blog with Dynamic Views in Blogger

What kind of template are you using on your blog? It may be a official Blogger template or custom template. However most probably you are using a traditional template. Actually I call it traditional 'cause your blog structure goes with a header, body including sidebars and a footer with predefined template. Have you ever think about giving a fresh new look for your blog with a new template. Sort of techy process for you but changes are what we call motivation pills for your readers. You need a change sometimes so your template. Time to time you may try different widgets, styles and kind of design stuff on your blog. That's really good, I appreciate you. But did you ever try out Dynamic Views for your blog?

How to Enable Mobile Version of Your Blog in Blogger

How does a visitor read your content or view your blog? Mostly they will visit your blog through internet browser on their computer. Or some may have already subscribed to your blog updates via email or through your blog feed. And next one which would be most considerate is mobile. Do users view you blog via mobile devices? You can find it out via Statistics tab on Blogger Dashboard. Else you can make use of user tracking tools to find out how many of mobile users reading your blog frequently. Unlike desktop web browser, mobile devices got small screen to view your content. So you have to think about optimizing your blog for mobile users. Don't you think so?

Analyze Your Website Performance with Google PageSpeed Online

If you are managing a blog or website, one of your goal would be providing a better user experience for visitors land on your pages. It may cope with many different activities on the aspect of webmasters, such as generating quality content or offering useful products, designing and styling pages with HTML and CSS, adding relevant gadgets or widgets useful for readers, displaying relevant advertisements or so on. Further you will add more scripts such as to track users to forecast strategies and identify user preferences. However as you add more and more styles, scripts, widgets on your pages, soon they will get heavy and happen to load slowly than ever before. Now you know what I'm talking about. Your page performance will be decreased and it will occur bad user experience for visitors. Would you like to get rid of unnecessary stuff on your pages and improve site performance?

How to Display Labels of Your Posts in Blogger

Did you categorize or label your posts? You should find a reason to categorize or label your posts. Else it won't help you and could be just a time consuming activity. Isn't it? Yeah, it could be the attitude hidden inside in your mind towards categorizing or labeling your posts. Absolutely, you don't need to categorize your posts for your visitors land on your posts via organic web search. It's a matter of Search Engine Optimization. But after landing on your posts, if readers interested in your content or topic you have written about, they will more prefer to seek out more similar content on your blog. Then, how would you offer a way to find similar content on your blog without letting them going through series of pages or using site search?

How to Customize Comment Label in Blogger

Sometimes you wanna customize your blog to be par with your expectations and requirements to improve productivity. Or just to enhance the design of your blog. Did you ever find that Blogger comment label is buggy or irritating? Oh... I must have told you before. Comment label is the text displays number of comments published in related to a particular post. Usually it appears on comment section just above comments made on a post. It's just show off the comment count. When it comes to designing or customizing your blog, you may find that there's no setting to customize comment label as you need. However you can customize this label at your template. But do you know how to customize it?

How to Add Google+ Share Button for Your Posts in Blogger

I do assume now you are much familiar with Google +1 button and it's functionality. But if you are not much into it, I'd like to elaborate. Using Google +1 button, you can recommend content on the web. We call them +1s or recommendations. The +1s made via Google +1 button acts as recommendations for your content and pages. Also those recommendations will be visible for users in Google search results too. Did you install Google +1 button for your posts in Blogger? If not you can implement +1 button by reading Add Google +1 Button for Blogger Posts. When someone clicks on a +1 button appears on your blog post, in addition to increment of recommendations, it prompts to share your post on Google+ too. But what if someone just need to share your post on Google+ without recommending it?

How to Label or Categorize Your Posts in Blogger

Are you new to blogging? May be you may have never heard of labeling or categorizing posts, but I know you already have the idea of categorization. Simply, if you get a movie as an example, you can see that it has been categorized under Action, Drama, Sci-Fi or such categories. The use of categories is productive when an user needs to find related movies. For example, if he interested in Horror movies, he would like to go through Horror category and find interesting movies that matches to his tastes. As like that, when you are writing posts or publish media on your blog, visitors would like to go through related and interested categories instead of going through each and every posts. Obviously, everyone doesn't like each of your posts. But they might prefer posts written about specific subject. That's why categorization plays a major role on your blog and need to think about. So would you like to categorize or label your posts too?

How to Report Copyright Violations on Blogger

Do you have any idea about how worthy the content you publish on your blog? When it comes to blogging, you might find an interesting topic on your choice and share the information matters to your readers while being aligned to the objectives of your blog. Simply, with the relevance. It could be a niche topic or a broad topic. Whatever it is, when it comes to writing you may have to research, read online / offline content and thoroughly study the subject with your experiences before you publish them for public.

How to Add Share Buttons for Your Blogger Posts with ShareThis

You may do a lot of researches and explore extra resources, integrate your experiences and perform different activities to result an informative and interesting posts on your blog. Blogging can be your passion, but on the other hand your expectation is to share knowledge with the audience who really interested in your content as they can make use of yours. Have you ever thought about a convenient solution for your readers to share your posts or articles with interested parties?

How to Add Google+ Badge in Blogger

Google+ is a popular social platform offered by Google and started to evolve on the web from 2011. It has introduced some new unique features to social world but yet they didn't catch up Facebook, the top rival in the social media with over 800 million of population. However it's in the process of dominating social media. As the search giant, Google started to associate Google+ with search by promoting authors and showing off user recommendations with search results.

How to Add Google +1 Button in Blogger

Do you have Google +1 button on your blog? If you just look into your post footer and enabled Blogger share buttons, you will see Google +1 button there with other sharing options. So you don't need to implement it again. I get it. But it belongs to post footer and you don't have a choice to move it to another place where you would like to display. Sometimes your visitors may never notice your +1 button on post footer. But you can show them where you wanna display, if you dig into your template code with the post Add Google +1 Button for Blogger Posts. Alright, so you don't need to touch your template code either. Then what you gonna do?

How to Add Pinterest Pin It Button for Your Website

Are you a victim of Pinterest craze? Pinterest has been evolving on the web from 2010. But it has got most of user attention lately in the 2012 and lead to some critical copyright situations too. Therefore they had to offer a solution to block sites from pinning to prevent businesses getting sued on Pinterest and another portion of users deleted Pinterest accounts to be safe from spreading sensitive content. However still Pinterest is a traffic generator. People love being there and pin interesting content they find on the web. So you might wanna give it a try too. Or else your visitors wanna pin your content. But I don't think that you want them to do it in hard way. Do you?

How to Add Search Description for Your Blog in Blogger

What is your blog about? It could a personal diary where you write your personal stuff or could be following a specific niche or broad topic. However did you ever think about telling people what is your blog about? Generally, blog description is a concise description about your blog and it defines the purpose of your blog. Why it is so important?

How to Set Custom Page Not Found Message in Blogger

Do you regularly write or publish posts on your blog? As you maintain your posts to be in high quality and to improve productivity, sometimes you may have to edit, update your posts or delete certain depreciated posts from your blog. When you edit, revert back a published post to draft or in the middle of something, the users navigating to same posts may see that particular page is not available on your blog. The same scenario applies for your published but deleted posts too. In such a situation a friendly, creative and customized message will definitely help your visitors to see what's wrong and get back to your blog to explore other posts. Would you mind adding friendly and customized message for your visitors?