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Add Related Posts Widget to Blogger or Blogspot


It be better to display related or similar articles below your articles or posts on your blog. This way your readers would easily know that there are related articles you written and they can further read.

The steps to adding related posts widget is easy. It would take less than 3 minutes add it on your blog.

Before starting, make sure to download the related post JavaScript file or ccopy and paste its content to your desired file.js. Then make sure to upload it online where it will be available for import on your template. I recommend you to upload it on Weebly.com, SigMirror.com or HotLinkFiles.com to get a DIRECT LINK to that file.

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Best Tool for Monitoring Social Media or Websites

I found a great site or tool for monitoring social media or social networking websites like Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc. If you wanted to know what people are saying about you, an event, any person or anything,  I recommend you do a visit and perhaps, try out Social Mention services. 

They have a Realtime Buzz Widget which is very interesting, very useful and very easy to use or integrate on any blog platform whether it be Wordpress, Blogger or others. It is as easy as adding a JavaScript widget into your blog template. It does not require programming skills. all you need to do is to copy the html, set the search phrase and title, and put it on your site. The code below are the only code you'll need to add into your blog.

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Webmaster Tools Tip for Blogger

During my research about webmaster tools, I found out that there are three major search engine that provides detailed information on how they see and crawl your website. However, they require account confirmation and website verification before you can access most of its features. Below are the steps on how you'll be able to take advantage of those search engine webmaster tools.

Google Webmaster Tools
  1. Log in to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ with your Google account.
  2. Enter your blog URL and click Add Site.
  3. You will be presented with several verification methods. Choose Meta Tag.
  4. Copy the meta tag, which looks something like
    <meta content="dBw5CvburAxi537Rp9qi5uG2174Vb6JwHwIRwPSLIK8" name="google-site-verification"></meta>
  5. Leave the verification page open and go to your blog Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML.
  6. Open the Blogger Dashboard and paste the code after <head> tag.
  7. Click on Save Template.
  8. Go back to the verification page and click Verify.

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Blogger or Blogspot Title Tag Optimization Tip

I know there had been lots and lots of title tag optimization tip written online. However, I thought of sharing what best and works to me among all those I have read and researched online. I made a little bit of improvement to make search engine bot crawlers read my blog title efficiently. 

We do know that blogger is part of Google, however, blogger default templates are poorly optimized. To be able to compete woth other blogs, there are few things to do and that includes optimizing your blogger title tag.

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