Archive for March, 2009

How to add Adsense or any other Ad code in various places in Blogger blog

Mar 31st

Posted by Gautam in blogger

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Adsense as well as any other ad codes can be added in various positions in the blog and some positions may bring more revenue than others and it totally depends on your content and its layout.These ad codes are usually javascript codes.

The various positions where Adsense and ad codes can be added are:

Sidebar: 1. Go to Layout->Page Elements

Layout

2. Then in the sidebar you see an Add Gadget link, click on this link.

Add Gadget

3a. For Adsense add the Adsense Gadget and then configure the adsense ad.

Configuring Adsense

3b. For any other Ad code add the Html/Javascript Gadget and add your More >

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Star Rating in Blogger

Mar 28th

Posted by Gautam in blogger

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As I mentioned in 5 Blogger Widgets star ratings widgets are a good way to get feedback. Blogger has made available its own star ratings.

Here’s how you can add star ratings widget: 1. Sign in at Blogger in Draft 2. Go to Layout and then click edit on the Blog Posts

3. check the textbox before star ratings

and then you will see this below your posts

But this widget may not show if you have used a custom template. To add the star ratings widget you will have to do the following:

1. Go to Layout->Edit Html 2. Download Full Template 3. Check the Expand More >

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Ad Code Converter For Blogger

Mar 26th

Posted by Gautam in blogger

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Ad codes from sites like google adsense, adbrite and other ad companies are in javascript format and when you try to embed these codes in your layout through Edit Html in Blogger. This code doesn’t work and usually get an error or if no appears you do not see the ads on the site.

This error occurs due to the xml format of the layout so you have to convert the code in the xml format. This task can be accomplished easily by putting your ad code in the following link:

Blog Ad Code Converter

Ad Code converter

This is a good tool More >

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Blogger Tag Cloud / Label Cloud

Mar 22nd

Posted by Gautam in blogger

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It looks great if instead of keywords you have a tag cloud, it is more graphical and looks quite better. Tag clouds are available in other Blog sites but it was not available for Blogger blogs, but now there is a pretty decent tag cloud for Blogger. This blogger hack is available at this Link

Here’s a little preview of the tag cloud:

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