Why You Shouldn't Sell Text Links On Your Blog

As your blog grows and becomes more popular, along with the benefits of increased traffic and depending on the nature of you blog increased AdSense earnings or sales comes some dilemmas.People will want to try take advantage of your success in a number of ways.One way unscrupulous marketers may try to take advantage of an Unwary blogger is an approach with an interest in buying a text link within a post.

A text link or hyper link is the name given to links you probably add to all your posts.If you write a post about Spice Up Your Blog you might add a link to Spice Up Your Blog within the post.These links help the site you link to in a number of ways, as we have previously covered Google follow links so if you add a link to this blog Google will follow that link and crawl this blog.Google also use links to determine the importance of a site, the more links Google find to Spice Up Your Blog the more importance they credit to it, basic SEO.
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6 Tips To Heart-Stopping Post Titles

Don’t judge a book by its cover is such a trite adage.  While there’s merit to it, most people—especially in the blogosphere—don’t heed it.  An ugly blog with scrunched up images and missing links aren’t going to get awards.  Similarly, readers who come across boring blog post titles will say, “Meh,” and go back to Facebook.  Like it or not, your post title is your book cover, and unless it’s made of gold, your post will go unread, unappreciated, unloved.Make sure your posts get the love they deserve by giving it an appropriate title.

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Is Tynt The Answer To Stop Your Blog Content Being Copied ?

Blog content is constantly being copied by unscrupulous amateurs looking for an easy fix to their stupidity.While almost all blogs built on copied content never get off the ground it is frustrating seeing your hard work blatantly copied.In this post we will look at a website with a unique answer to plagiarism.Tynt offer a script you can add to your blogs template that will add a link to your content when copied and pasted elsewhere.

As well as a link back to the original content you can add a Creative Commons link.Creative Commons is a licence service that you can use to indicate what parts of your blog if any can be copied and in what circumstances it can be copied and used elsewhere.You can add a CC licence as well as the link and i would recommend doing so.While someone can remove the link Tynt add to the content the CC link may stop them from using the content in the first place.
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Google Page Rank Finally Updated After 8 Months

Just this week i wrote a post asking Why Google Page Rank Had Not Been Updated For 8 Months.In fact it was a question a lot of people were asking.While Google are constantly updating Page Rank internally the External Page rank the public can view Via the Google Toolbar and Page Rank services had not updated since April 2010.Today i noticed a Page Rank change on some of my Blogs including this one (I bet they read my post and took my advice :D).This has come in the middle of rumors of Google completely scrapping Page Rank and Google losing the exclusive rights to page rank.

If your unsure of Page Rank and how it works take a look at the short video below.

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New - Use Over 70 Cool Fonts On Blogger Template Designer

Back in November last year i broke the news of Google Web Fonts being added to the Blogger template designer.At the time this feature was added to Blogger In Draft a kind of test version of blogger used to try out new additions to the service.Today after a successful test period the fonts have been added to the main Blogger site.Not only this an extra 35 excellent fonts have been added for you bringing the total to 77.Lets look at some of the fonts and how you can use them on your blog.

This great new feature gives you the option to use stylish fonts on your blog with just a click of your mouse.Over the years using a custom font on your blog was a hard process, the launch of Google web fonts made it somewhat easier but you still needed to add sections of code to your template.

Blogger Template Designer Fonts

I added some of the fonts to a test blog for you to see how they look - Blogger Template Fonts.Among the fonts available are some of the most popular Simple Stylish Fonts, Handwriting Fonts, Impact Fonts, Gothic Fonts and a few quiet odd fonts.You can add different fonts to every section of your blog such as the Blog Title and Post title as well as the main font throughout.

One of the fonts i use on Spice Up Your Blog called Lobster is now available.You can see the Lobster font in the Blog Title and Sidebar titles at the time of writing and it's defiantly one of my favorite fonts.

Using Fonts On Your Blog

To change the fonts on your blog simply click the Design link in your dashboard then the template designer link.Under the Advanced option you can start browsing through the fonts.



Remember you can play around with different fonts in the preview, as long as you don't save the changes wont take effect.

Fonts For Custom Templates

While this new feature only works on templates from the Blogger Template Designer you can still use all these fonts on custom blogger templates (Templates Downloaded From Blogger Template Sites).Check out our tutorial and video - Use Template Designer Fonts On Custom Templates.

For more of the Best Blogger Tips check out our Design Posts and Latest Blogging News.

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How To Automatically Redirect A Blogger Blog To Another URL

There are a number of reasons you may want to automatically send visitors to your blog to another URL or from one blog to another.For example if you moved your blog, if you had two blogs and wanted to focus one just one and cover both topics.Automatically directing visitors to another URL is actually quiet easy and only requires a snippet of code added to the top of the template.In this post i will show you the code needed to automatically Redirect from a Blogger Blog to any other URL.

Firstly i should mention some people don't like to be redirected and you should only direct to a site with similar content.If you redirect people to sales pages, sites with adult content or anywhere the user is uncomfortable with it will put your Blogger account in jeopardy.For this reason the code i have in this post can be set to Redirect in an amount of time set by you.So you can set the code to redirect after 5 seconds and place a message at the top of the blog telling visitors they will be redirected.
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Get More Feedburner Email Subscribers To Verify Their Subscription

Most Bloggers Have A Subscribe By Email Rss Option On Their Blog Provided By Feedburner.When A Visitor To Your Blog Fills Out The Subscription Form They Must Confirm Or Verify Via An Email.However Often As Many As One In Five People Do Not Verify, Thus They Do Not Become Subscribers And Receive Your Latest Posts.In This Post I Will Share With You Some Methods That Will Help Get More Verified Email Rss Subscribers.

At the time of writing Spice Up Your Blog has just over 500 Rss Subscribers of which just over 300 subscribe by Email.Of that 300 an Amazing 92 have not verified their subscription !This is 92 regular readers lost, almost all of these people just didn't know they needed to verify or did not understand the Verification Email.
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Great New Twitter Count Button With Username And Suggest Follow Features

We all know how popular the Twitter Count Buttons are as we see them on the majority of blogs.They are the small button you can click to share a post on Twitter and they also display the number of times the post has already been shared.The button you see on most blogs and the button i showed you how to add to Blogger in a previous post is from Tweetme.While that button does exactly as you expect in allowing readers to share your posts on Twitter and display the number of shares a newer button from twitter does even more.

The Twitter count button i will show you in this post has a few cool extras.With the Tweetme button when users shared your posts they would have "Via @Tweetme" at the end, with this button you can have your Twitter username at the end.

Instead of this :

6 Ways to Stay Focused While Blogging From Home | Spice Up Your Blog http://t.co/AMkr2O3 via @Tweetme

You Get This :

6 Ways to Stay Focused While Blogging From Home | Spice Up Your Blog http://t.co/AMkr2O3 via @PaulCrowePro

So not only are people sharing your post they are also sharing your Twitter Profile resulting in more Followers.

Secondly after a reader Tweets your post they will be Given the option to Follow you.The pop up window to tweet the post, first displays the Tweet then displays a Follow option as shown below.

A button that gets more people viewing your blog and more people Following you on  Twitter, Great lets add it to your blog.You can try out the button at the top left of this post to see it in action.I will show you the code for the button and how to add it to the top left wrapped in text as you see on this blog.

Add New Twitter Counter Button To Blogger

Step 1. In Your Blogger Dashboard Click > Design > Edit Html > Tick The Expand Widget Templates Box.







Step 2. Find the following piece of code in your blogs Html : (Click Ctrl and F for a search bar to help find the code - More Info)

Step 3. Copy And Paste The Following Code Directly Above / Before

Tweet