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April 16, 2011March 7, 2017

Extract Blogger Posts, Labels, and Comments from BlogSpot to WordPress

How can You Extract Blogger Posts, Labels, and Comments from BlogSpot to WordPress?

If you have your own blog on BlogSpot and wish to extract all your blogger comments, posts and labels from BlogSpot to WordPress, here you will get answer of your all questions.

This tutorial will really help you to extract and import all posts and comments in WordPress easily. It seems to be very complex process however after reading this article you will find that it is a very easy one. However, there is an important point to remember before following these steps. It means all imported posts and comments will be converted into categories. Later you can convert it into labels with the help of WordPress converter.

WordPress allows user many features such as export, import, blogware, text pattern, typepad, moveable type, and WordPress blogs. The steps of importing posts and comments from BlogSpot to WordPress are following:

First of all login to WordPress and move to Tools>Import.

Here you will get some options, you just click on blogger to start importing procedure

Now you will be able to see your own blogs. In case you do not see then open new tab and login in blogger with your own account.
Choose the specific blog which you want to import. Click on the import option

Now you will see the authorization request tab. Now grant or accept the authorization to import your own blogger contents such as comments and posts.
Now you are done your entire blogger contents will be delivered to WordPress.

Final you can easily import your entire contents easily by following these steps.

March 28, 2011March 25, 2011

Use Collapsing Ad Unit In Google Adsense To Hide The Public Service Ads (PSA)

Use Collapsing Ad Unit In Google Adsense To Hide The Public Service Ads (PSA)

Google AdSense is a massive online advertising network. For each ad space inventory, it has highest fill rate. The fill rate is based on visitors from North America, US or Europe and global traffic.

Sometimes it is also possible that when AdSense crawler checks the webpage, it may fail to find any related ad to display. In such situations Google AdSense Public Service Ad, which is usually called as PSA, is displayed until an alternate URL for ad is specified.

There is one more choice for the bloggers, webmasters or publishers when there is no alternative ad that is available for display. When an alternative advertisement is not present to display, the ad space is filled by a solid color (by using google_alternate_color JavaScript variable). In some cases a public service ads will be displayed, but it is not be paid for the clicks anyway. In such conditions a choice for collapsing ad unit is offered by Google AdSense.

Collapsing the ad unit is an advanced feature which is optional for the alternative ads. This feature has a code for collapsing ad unit which will ‘collapse’ the ad unit. The feature allows you to minimize an unused, blank or un-monetizing space which would be replaced by using alternate colors.

The activities of collapsing ad unit works only on the websites that are hosted on their own servers by own domains or subdomains. It works on those websites which are able to allow remote or console access (remote access is possible via SFTP or FTP, SSH or Telnet).

The main reason for this is because some a script file must be uploaded and then hosted on each domain and sub-domain locations. After this to implement the collapsing ad the location is referenced by the alternate ad URL. So this feature cannot be utilized by users of blogspot.com, Blogsome.com, WordPress.com and etc.

Follow the steps given below to collapse the add unit.

Download the collapsing ad units file and right click on link Here ‘Save Target as…’: google_adsense_script.html.
Upload the file google_adsense_script.html on a domain to any location for applying the collapsing ad unit. The location of the file exists on the similar domain with the webpages so that it is not so important. The HTML file is necessary for multiple domains or subdomains.
Then login to your AdSense account.
Go to AdSense Setup and click on Manage Ads. Then go to Edit Ad Settings of the ad unit so as to apply the collapsing on no ad instances.
Go to “More options” section and select on the tab named as “Show non-Google ads from another URL”. Enter the unchanged and full path to the collapsing ad units HTML file which is present on your domain.

When you add an alternate URL pointing to the collapsing script on the ad unit code, the ad unit will disappear when there is no targeted ad available. All he unused add units are appeared as empty, transparent boxes in Internet Explorer 5.0 or lower version.

Below is another code which is provided for the users who can not transfer or upload the HTML file to the web server. You can use the code if you have console access and able to Telnet or SSH into host.

First of all, create a new google_adsense_script.html with the help of VI (which is present on the web root directory of server). Then copy and paste the content given below:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd “>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”en” lang=”en”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1? />
<title></title>
<script src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/google_adsense_script.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
</head>
<body style=”background-color: transparent;”>
</body>
</html>

March 19, 2011March 18, 2011

Twitter Widget Now Makes Twitter Updates Available On Blogger- Blogspot

Twitter Widget Now Makes Twitter Updates Available On Blogger- Blogspot

For those of you who frequently blog and want others to follow your blogs on other social websites, twitter has come up with their unique Twitter Widget. This helps you to get twitter updates on your BlogSpot/ blogger and let others get to see them.

This way people can also follow your twitter updates on your blogger and get an insight to your blogs on Twitter. The twitter updates in your blog’s sidebar is going to benefit you with increased viewings of your Blogs.

To show the latest twitter updates on your BlogSpot or blogger first you need to login there. Then click to layouts and choose Page elements. After this click add a gadget icon and choose html/ javascript.

You need to add this code given below and save it –

div id=”twitter_div”>
<ul id=”twitter_update_list”></ul>
<a id=”twitter-link” style=”display:block;text-align:right;” href=”http://twitter.com/bapun“>follow me on Twitter</a>
</div>
<script src=”http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/<username>.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=5” type=”text/javascript”>
</script>

Replace ‘username’ with your twitter username.

For getting more than last five updates, you’ll need to increase the count accordingly to your preference. By following this procedure you shall now activate updates from twitter onto your blog’s sidebar. By Collaborating your blog accounts with social media can definitely help you to get more traffic, and it will also help you with sales conversions on your blog.

March 8, 2011March 8, 2011

Adding A Widget For Your Recent Comments To Your Blog

Adding A Widget For Your Recent Comments To Your Blog

More comments on a user’s blog showcases the blogger’s activity. A widget specifically catering to the comments section would be great for a blog, as anyone can easily add comments using this widget. This widget is situated in the sidebar of your blog, and is provided for your readers to leave their comments.

By looking at a user’s blog, one can conclude that the blog is very active and persuades him to leave his comments on the blog. This allows a user to collect more info to let others view posts and leave comments. Get the “Recent Comments Widget for Blogger” and append it to your existing blog from BlogSpot.

A user can easily customize it suit to their needs. This widget displays more than 100 comments posted recently. Displaying just 5 to 10 recently posted comments on their blog is a very good idea. One can also select the total number of chars to display for every single comment. It’s recommended to maintain the total number of character anywhere between 50 and 100. This can be done by editing the code for the widget.

A Recent Comments Widget will have options like selecting fill up all options, choosing apply, selecting adding widget to your blog option to create. One can also add a widget for recent posts similar to the widget for recent comments.

January 5, 2011March 7, 2017

How To Make Blogger Post Titles Attractive With Animated Icons

Make Your Post Title Much More Attractive With Animated Icons

The first thing you have to is to get an image icon so as to place it in your blogger blog. The pixels should be of 50*50. Choosing image can be quite simple if you search it in Google. Once your image is selected, you have to upload it in image hosting sites, like photobucket, googlepages, tinypic, imageshack, etc. Remember to copy the link of your image and then go to next step.

The next step is to create a HTML code for the image icon. You have to create a HTML code with the copied image link. In order to create a HTML code with the image link, follow the code mentioned below:

<img src=”LINK TO YOUR IMAGE HERE” style=”border-width:0px” />

Paste the copied link where your link is requested. Once this step is done, move on to next step.

Now we have to edit HTML to insert the code of the image. Follow the steps mentioned below:

Sign in to your blogger account.
Then click on Layout and then click on Edit HTML
Click on the box named Expand Widget so as to expand the Widget Template.
Then search for this code: <b:if cond=’data:post.url’> in your template. To do so you can press CTRL+F, it is the shortcut key for find.
Just above this code you have to add the HTML code.
To finish the process you have to Save the template.
Your work is over.

January 5, 2011March 7, 2017

How Can I Create Recent Posts Widget For Blogspot / Blogger Blog?

You Can Create a Widget for Your Recent Posts In Blogge:

With the help of widget for recent posts, you will make it easier for the visitors to visit to your latest posts.

There are two ways you can create a widget for your recent posts in Blogger. One is by using FeedBurner and the other one is by Blogger Gadgets. In this article only the feedburner is discussed so let’s see the steps for it.

FeedBurner:

Click on Feed after you have signed in to FeedBurner account.
Click on Publicize, you will get it from Blog’s feed menu.
You have to enable the BuzzBoost service.
Copy the HTML code.
You can either choose the post titles with or without summary.
Go to Layout then Page Elements then add a gadget and then you have to paste the code in HTML/ JavaScript.
Click on Save option to Finish the process and your work is done.

January 2, 2011March 7, 2017

How To Enable / Disable Captcha Word Verification For Blogspot Comments

For Blogspot Comments You Can Disable or Enable Word Verification

To keep the blogger blog free of spam, you should enable word verification. The captcha process or word verification is kind of a test which you have to pass in order to post any comment. This makes sure that your blog is free from spam. You should enable word verification as it is highly recommended to all the bloggers.

Let us find out how can we disable or enable captcha process or better known as word verification for the blogger BlogSpot. Follow the steps mentioned below in order to do so:

Go to your blogger’s dashboard.
Go to setting of the blog, then click on comments and then you will find an option to either disable or enable word verification for blog comments.
Save the setting after setting the value to Yes.
Your work is done.

Make your blog spam free by enabling it.

January 1, 2011December 31, 2010

Can I Disable Right Click Option In My Blogspot Blog To Prevent Copying Text / Images

Disabling right click option in your blogger BlogSpot

There are lots of websites where you cannot right click; those websites have disabled that option so that no one can copy can anything from their post. This is a very important step to do if you are making a blog to earn money let us see what to do in order to disable this feature.

First you have to sign in to your blogger account and you will be in blogger dashboard.
Click on the layout of your blog and navigate to Page Elements page.
The next step is to add a new gadget widget. To do so go to Add Gadget and then click on HTML/ JavaScript.
In the HTML/ JavaScript box add the code mentioned below:

<script language=”JavaScript”>
<!–
//Disable right mouse click Script
//By Maximus ([email protected]) w/ mods by DynamicDrive
//For full source code, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com
var message=”Function Disabled!”;
///////////////////////////////////
function clickIE4(){
if (event.button==2){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
function clickNS4(e){
if (document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){
if (e.which==2||e.which==3){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
}
if (document.layers){
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
document.onmousedown=clickNS4;
}
else if (document.all&&!document.getElementById){
document.onmousedown=clickIE4;
}
document.oncontextmenu=new Function(“alert(message);return false”)
// –>
</script>

Now save it and your work is done.

As soon as you save the widget, you have succeeded to disable the right click feature in your blog. No one can copy any stuff from your blog and it will be a unique blog. This step completely depends on your wish, and it is just an option, not a must-to-do step.

December 20, 2010December 20, 2010

How Can I Link My Blogger Blog To My Custom Purchased Domain Without Losing Traffic?

How to have your Bloger setup with your custom Blog without losing any traffic?

When it comes to Blogging, Blogger obviously is the most popular choice. If you have decent experience in BlogSpot and blogging, then you set your custom blog domain for your Blogger account, and then you can easily access your Blogger sub-domains without having to type those long names.

Setting up your blog with custom domain will give your Blog a professional look and that matters a lot. Getting a custom domain setup on Blogger is absolutely free of cost. It’s would definitely look attractive and most importantly you want the losing out on any traffic. Now let us see how we can get custom blog domain.

Chose domain name which suits you best. Make sure that the domain name is quite relevant with the topic of your blogging. The domain name should justify your blogging topic. Try to use the KISS method, which means Keep it simple and short, and at the same time it should be attractive too. Short domain name has lots of advantages since people can easily remember your domain name.
You should register your domain with a domain registrar after you have selected a nice domain name. Make sure the domain registrar you are resisting with is reputed one. You can find lots of reputed domain registrars online.
When you are done with your registering you have make some changes in domain setting, these are normal changes. In your DNS setting make sure it redirects to your blog. Domain Name System is a server which redirects the sites to its desired addresses.
In the control panel page of DNS check for CNAME records and get into its options. Then check if the WWW value of your Blogger exists or not. If it does, then it is fine, or else you have to create one for your Blogger name or your sub-domain name.
The WWW value is configured, which means your address for you blog is created like this: WWW.<Your blog name>. Com. In order to redirect your traffic to your Blog, you have to write ghs.google.com in the value field of WWW. Now your domain will consider Google server as the DNS
Any change in DNS doesn’t work instantly. Give it some time it will work but the time it takes to activate completely depends on service provider. It may take 48 hours or may take one minute. In case you DNS changes is not working even after 2 days the contact Domain registrar, if they say that they do not see any problem from their end, then contact you internet service provider and tell them to clear DNS cache.
If everything works fine then, gradually all the traffic that was going to your blogspot blog will be directed to your blog, but to make sure that it redirects to your blog only, you have to make another small configuration change.
After you are signed in your blogger account, go to Settings page, then click on Publishing, then click on Custom Domain and at the end go to advanced setting. In the text box put your domain name, and then save it. Then reload your blog again and the name of your new domain will be replaced with the old one.
That’s it, that is all you have to do to set up your Blogger with your custom Blog

Setting your Blogger with your custom Blog is one way to make sure that you do not lose your visitors, because if they are visiting any of your Bloggers sub-domains, it will not affect their surfing.