Five Systematic Strategies for Writing Great Blog Posts

Guest Post - Our host is Melonie McLaurin, who has some fresh blog tips to help with writing posts.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Writing high quality blog posts demands a subtle blending of intuition and style. With a finger on the pulse of all that is trending, the greatest blog writers are also great blog readers. They research each site they want to write for and develop a sense of the audience’s expectations. They also have a strategy in place for fulfilling all the blog posts in the most appealing way possible – styling the text and maintaining clean code that is simultaneously easy for search engines to crawl and index, and pleasant for readers to enjoy.

Here are five systematic strategies you can use to make your blog posts more engaging and easy to read. They can also save you time once you form a habit of practicing them in order.
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5 Tips for Success With Pinterest

Guest Post - Our host is John Reynolds, John has some tips for Bloggers using Pinterest.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Pinterest is quickly growing as a social network. The site is designed line an online pin board for the user. While it may have some perception as a craft, recipe, fashion, and vacation site, it is rapidly becoming much more. The site can make for a useful marketing tool for those who understand how to use it.

Below are just five tips for success with Pinterest:
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Neat Triangle Design Social And Rss Icon Gadget For Blogger And Wordpress

I know we all like to have a unique look to our blogs and some unique icons to display our social profiles and feeds.So here I have a Subscribe and Follow section for your blog using a neat set of triangle social icons.You can add the icons with links to your feed and profiles to your sidebar on Blogger and Wordpress.

The icons are from Design Cauldron and look fantastic,Included in the gadget we have the code for are icons for your Rss Feed, Email Feed, Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Pinterest And YouTube.You can easily remove any of the icons if your not on one or more of the sites.

Below you can see the icons (All connected to our profiles so you can use them to connect with Spice Up Your Blog if your not already), further below that you can follow the link to see them live on a demo blog.

Add Trinagnle Social Icons Gadget To Your Blog

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4 Things You Need To Do (if you don't want your blog to suck)

Guest Post - Our host is Alyse Ainsworth, Alyse shows us how to Jumpstart Your New Blog in 4 Steps.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Starting a new blog is exciting and scary. On the one hand, you could be embarking on a new journey that will lead to increased exposure for your brand, on the other, you're about to crash and burn--unnoticed, no less--in some dark corner of the Internet. Realistically, you will probably do a fair amount of both. Blogging, like anything, is a process of experimentation. You are you going to try many new things, and some of them will give you runaway success. Others will not, but here are 4 things that you can do right out of the gate to ensure you have more successes than failures.
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Google Release New Must See SEO Videos To Help Your Blog On Google Search

You know when I started Blogging like all new Bloggers I immediately wondered how will I get my blog on Google.How can I get my Blog and posts to be displayed in search results and have visitors sent by Google.Once I started to learn about how Google works and the steps I could take to help my blogs rank on Google I somehow felt like I was in a way 'Fooling Google'.By optimizing my site I was for the want of a better word 'Tricking' Google into displaying my content in their results.

But the truth is Google want to crawl your content, Google want your content to be easy to crawl, They want your site optimized and if your content is unique and useful they want to rank it on the first page of their results for related searches.

It seems a lot of posts I have published recently especially guest posts have been on the topic of Search Engine Optimization; and many new Bloggers think SEO is somehow a shady thing.But Google through sources like webmaster tools openly promote the use of SEO and Google employees like Matt Cutts Posts on his blog through Q&A videos helps webmasters and bloggers improve their sites for search.

So in this post I have added 10 videos the Google search quality team created this week to help beginners get their sites and blogs on Google.These videos are listed in a 'Step By Step' format and I highly recommend everyone from beginners to experienced bloggers take a look.

In the final video Google Search quality team member Maile Ohye becomes your personal SEO adviser.

10 SEO Videos From Google

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The 5 C's of Successful Blogging

Guest Post - Our host is Samantha Peters, Samantha gives up some blog success tips you need to C.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

You may be familiar with the some of the success stories of online bloggers. What is it that makes one blog successful enough to generate substantial revenue, while another sits in a dark corner unread? Most likely, the author demonstrates these five characteristics:
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What Readers Want From Your Next Blog Post

Guest Post - Our host is Shanna Mallon, Who writes about what readers are looking for from your blog posts.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

There’s nothing worse than having your expectations crushed—when you come to expect a certain quality of service or product or blog and then find something else instead, it’s such a let-down. And as a blogger, you can use this fact to your advantage: meeting readers’ expectations is one of the surest ways to win them.

Do you know what your readers want in your next post? Here are a few keys:
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Subscribe And Follow Icons Gadget Using Sprite Effect For Blogger

A friend had asked me for help implementing some social icons using a sprite technique she had seen a tutorial for on Rob Cubbon's blog.I came to her aid and the result was great and using sprites has some advantages.By using a sprite image we can easily display the icons in black and white they then change to color on hover.Also we only use one image instead of 14 which helps with the load speed of your blog.It worked so well I decided to provide the tutorial for all our readers.Once added to your Blogger sidebar it will display icons for Google +, Your Rss Feed, Email Feed, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.

You can check out a live demo below, the icons are at the top of the sidebar and credit goes to Rob Cubbon, make sure to check out his site.As we are using a sprite unless you create a new sprite image you cant add extra icons.

Add Css Sprite Social Icons To Your Blog

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Are You a Poor Blogger? Here’s How Your Blog Can Make You Richer !

Guest Post - Our host is Efoghor Joseph Ezie, In this post he looks at how many Bloggers are struggling to monetize their blogs and provides some tips to help.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

You can be considered a poor blogger if you’ve been in blogging business for over six months and you cannot make at least a hundred dollars per month. If you have been investing your time, money and intellect into your business and your AdSense account is still in the reds, then you don’t have a success story.

How about having been on the Net for over two years and your Google AdSense account is no where near $50? Your guest is as good as mine. Blogging is supposed to be a full time business to a lot of people who are doing it; and when for months and years no tangible income comes into your pocket you are a poor blogger.

I know some would like to criticize me by saying that blogging success is not only measured by the amount of money one gets. They may want to excuse themselves by saying that success could be measured in terms of the number of people who have benefited directly or indirectly from your content.

But providing quality content and making others happy but you end up a debtor, with no money to renew your Internet subscription, pay your domain and hosting renewals and even feed yourself still does not translate to a success story.

If you are still in the categories mentioned above, here are a few things you could do to change you story:
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How to find the perfect blog for your guest post

Guest Post - Our host is Pete Kontakos, In this post he points you in the right direction when looking to submit guest posts.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Bloggers and web site owners often struggle to drive targeted traffic to their sites, part of the problem comes from having low search engine rankings and the other part of the problem is not posting on sites with value. The difference between success and failure is likely going to be the properties you choose to put your work on. The following tips will help you on your way to finding the perfect blog for your guest article.
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Wordpress App For Android Review

Guest Post - Our host is Alexis Thompson, In this post she gives us an in-dept review of the new Wordpress Android App.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

So what is it like to publish a post using your mobile device? Months ago, WordPress had released their mobile application on the Android market. This greatly helped busy and on-the-go webmasters manage their blog sites and interact with their online communities. In this article, we will take you through the usability and features of the “WordPress for Android” mobile application.
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Fix The Blogger Comment Form Message Below Threaded Comments Error On Blogger

There have been a number of knock on effects to the recent addition of Threaded comment replies on Blogger.Basically some of the features that were available to the now old comment from no longer work or don't work in the same way.One of the things that changed since the addition of threaded comment reply option on Blogger is the 'Comment Form Message'.The comment form message for those not familiar with it is a message you can add above the comment from.Many bloggers used this to display some comment rules or a thanks for commenting message.

OK so what has happened - The comment form message is displayed above the comment form, however since the change to threaded comments once a comment is added the message moves to below the form.This in many ways defeats the purpose, people will be less likely to see the message below the comment form.Personally I add a message to subscribe to comments and this is Important as commenter's will be notified by Email when someone replies.

So whats the fix - There does not seem to be a direct fix for it but the guys at DuyPham have come up with a work around which I will show you below.

Move Comment Form Message Above Comments

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Content And Blog Marketing In The Post-Penguin Era

Guest Post - Our host is Jenny Rasmussen, who looks at Blogging and SEO in the wake of the Google Penguin algorithm change.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

With the “Penguin” update that launched on April 22, Google changed the search engine optimization (or “SEO”) game more significantly than ever before. Originally announced as a means to penalize webmasters who had over-optimized their webpages and link building efforts, the Penguin filter is now here to stay and ignoring its effects could cause your blog and website to plummet in Google’s search results.

So – what is the answer? How can a blogger continue to rank highly on Google and Bing without resorting to the SEO tactics of yesteryear? Let’s take a look at content – in the form of images, videos or written pieces – and how it can greatly improve your inbound traffic and where you show up in the search results.
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Using Twitter To Find Guest Post Opportunities

Guest Post - Today's host is Caeden M MacGregor, who looks at Three ways Twitter can help you find high ranking, relevant sites for gust posts.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has been the way to communicate what you’re doing, what you’re thinking, and what you’re eating to the world. It’s true; with more than 100 million people logging on every month to tweet their pet pictures, share upcoming local events, and the latest and greatest events in their day, Twitter users share every thought and whim in real-time with their followers.

However, for SEOs and link builders specifically (we use Twitter to identify link building opportunities at the SEO company I work for all the time) Twitter offers more than a simple opportunity to share what pub you’re at or what movie you just caught. Twitter offers much in the way of link building targeting—meaning high ranking, highly followed sites that you can approach for guest post opportunities in exchange for a back link.

As far as making your online presence known to high ranking, relevant sites, Twitter is the place to be…or rather Tweet. This social media platform offers the perfect foundation for you to follow, retweet, and connect with the sites and readers you are targeting just by re-tweeting and replying to their tweets to making your presence obvious. This way, when you approach them with a guest post, they will be more likely to respond and accept it.

Here are three ways you can use Twitter to find guest post opportunities…
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Organic Link Building vs. Paid Link Building

Guest Post - Today's host is Kate Croston, who explains and compares link building techniques.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Link building is a pretty well-known tactic around the world of blogs and websites for being a good way to help escalate your search engine rankings and direct traffic to your blog or website. However the term “link building” is also a little vague, and there is a vast difference between two of the more common link building techniques: organic link building and paid link building. If you’re wondering what the difference between the two is then read on:

Organic Link Building

What It Is:

In layman’s terms, organic link building is the act of getting your links placed on other people’s sites because you have provided good, quality content and people want to share your content and website with others.

How It Happens

You can get links placed organically through different tactics such as:

1. Writing high quality posts on your own blog or website that resonates with readers, causing them to share them on their own sites or through social media.

2. Social media is a great tool for sharing your links, and sharing them quickly. It’s easy for others to read your post on a social media site and then share it with their followers, making your link spread like wildfire throughout the social media world.

3. By providing well-written guest posts for other people’s blogs and websites that have a higher Page Rank than you do. When you provide an exceptional post for them they in turn include a link to your blog at the end of the post, which will likely cause their audience to visit your site.

4. Through leaving comments on other people’s blog. This will usually result in other commenter’s visiting your site, finding the content you have to offer, and then sharing it based on its validity and value.

The Results

Organic link building is the best way to build links throughout the web because it’s based on providing something valuable to the consumer. The major search engines look favorably on links obtained organically, and this will help increase your page rank, search engine visibility, and your reputation in your specific niche.

Paid Link Building

What It Is

Paid link building, on the other hand, is exactly what it sounds like. You pay someone else to place a link on their site. The link placement is based on the payout and not necessarily the actual quality of the content of what you’ve written.

How It Happens

It’s a fairly straightforward process; you find someone that is willing to accept money for link placement, something that is usually done on a recurring monthly basis, and then you pay them for placing your link. There’s a lot of controversy surrounding paid link building, however, and it’s a practice that’s frowned upon by the major search engines.

The Results

You will get some of the same benefits from paid link building as you do organic link building such as increased visibility and higher page rank, making it advantageous at first. But it’s important to note that you can also end up getting punished by the search engines if you’re caught engaging in paid link building because it’s seen as an unfair advantage. You didn’t achieve that link through providing useful content, but instead because you paid someone, and that can be seen in an unfavorable light because it’s unfair to the people who actually worked hard and provided well-written, quality content to achieve a link.

So do you choose one or the other?

If you’re looking for a way to build links then the safer, albeit slower, way to go is by honestly obtaining links through organic link building. Paid link building may give you an initial boost in traffic and page rank, but the consequences could result in an ultimately lower page rank, something that could be detrimental to your website. Organic link building, on the other hand, may take longer to establish but will end up holding its value over time.

By Guest Author -Kate Croston is a freelance writer, holds a bachelors degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. She writes guest posts for different sites and loves contributing home internet service related topics. Questions or comments can be sent to: katecroston.croston09 @ gmail.com.

How Google Penguin Update Will Affect Your Blog ?

Guest Post - Today's host is Roger Collings, who looks at the recent Google algorithm change.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

In April, Google launched the Penguin algorithm aimed to detecting and filtering out websites and blogs classified as ‘spam’ from its search results. A month later, Google released an update to the Penguin algorithm to identify and blacklist websites which violate its quality guidelines.

While implementing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a standard practice for websites and blogs, the Penguin update is aimed at scrutinizing over optimization and spamming. As a blog owner, if you’ve adopted over-optimization techniques, there’s a good chance that the Penguin update has already hit your blog.

Let’s try and understand what is the Google Penguin update and how does it affect you and your blog?

What is Penguin Update

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Facebook Release New Official Facebook For Wordpress Plugin

Yesterday Facebook released a very cool and multi purpose Facebook For Wordpress Plugin.Rather than simply auto posting your latest Wordpress posts to Facebook you can fully integrate your Facebook and Wordpress activity.With just a few clicks you can auto share Wordpress posts and pages to your Timeline and with Mentions you can also share them to friends timeline's.Facebook buttons and widgets can also be quickly added to your blog such as Like buttons and boxes, activity feeds, a recommend bar, Facebook comments below your Wordpress posts and more.



Mentions
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The Negative SEO Bogeyman

Guest Post - Today's host is Brian Nixon, who looks at the darker side of SEO.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Kill your competition with negative SEO, Destroy Your Competitor, adverts selling negative SEO seems to have sprung up all over the web. So far the webmasters largely believed that while spammy backlinks wouldn’t pass on any benefit to a website, they couldn’t hurt the site either. Google Penguin, however, has changed things and it’s time to look out or talk with your SEO company about this.

But recently on the Webmaster forum itself, Google acknowledges that a third party could affect your site’s ranking.

Source: Webmaster Support Forum

What Is Negative SEO ?

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10 Fresh New WordPress Plug-ins for 2012

Guest Post - Today's host is Jennifer Mathews, who provides a great list of the best new Wordpress plugins for your blog.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

A great thing about WordPress is its seemingly endless list of plug-ins, all providing some sort of enhanced functionality over the other to improve the overall web experience when it comes to blogging. Dozens of new WordPress Plug-ins are released every few days, which means that blog owners should constantly be on the lookout for these to ensure that their blog is completely optimized and up-to-date.

Below we will talk about 10 latest WordPress plug-ins that are making waves this year. All are readily available on the official WordPress website and have received positive feedback from viewers, myself included. Given, that these plug-ins are still new and improved versions can come about, as of now they are one of the best options available for WordPress blog owners.
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How To Add Authors To Blogger Blogs Using The New Blogger Design

Many blogs have multiple blog authors and would be classed as community blogs.If you have a community blog or would just like to invite friends and family to your blog and give them access to publish posts on Blogger it couldn't be easier.On Blogger you can add up to 100 authors to a blog and you also have two levels of access you can give to authors.Firstly you can give author access, this will give the invited author access to write and publish posts only.Secondly you can give Admin access, this gives the invited author complete access to your blog.

In the video below I will walk you through the steps involved in Inviting authors to your blog, Granting different levels of access and Removing authors or revoking access.

How To Invite Authors To Blogger Blogs Video Tutorial

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Should You Use A Pseudonym For Your Blog ?

Guest Post - Today's host is Dana Vicktor, who looks at the pros and cons for using a pen name on your blog.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Many famous authors have used pseudonyms to write books. Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Stephen King became Richard Bachman and so on.

Writers have chosen to publish under pen names for a variety of reasons, from protecting their brand (such as when changing genre) to fighting discrimination (such as the many women authors who published under men’s names).

Blogging has become the medium of choice for many modern-day writers, with some blogs eventually becoming books themselves. While blogging, social networking, and other online activity have encouraged many of us to share our personal information more freely, some bloggers are starting to pull back and withhold some of that information – even their own names.

The choice to blog under your own name or a pseudonym is a personal one. However, there are many reasons why using a pseudonym for your blog might be a good idea. Here are a few:
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Add Cool Unique Color Styles To Blogger Comments

The ability to reply to comments on Blogger was probably the most sought after feature from Blogger users from many years.This year when the Blogger team delivered with the new Threaded comments with replies the response was obviously very positive.However the new comment format has brought with it some problems as some previous changes you may have made to your comment section may have been lost and moreover future changes would need to be coded differently.So for those of you that may have lost some of the styles you added or if you just want to add some style to lets face it what is a fairly basic looking comment section in this post i have 3 different color coded styles you can easily add to your blogger comments.Also check out the Speech Bubble Style Threaded Comments For Blogger we published in April.

The three styles add color to the comment number, comment author name, add a comment text and best of all the author comments have a ribbon attached.So when you comment on your own blog a ribbon will be placed in the corner with the text "Author" so reader can easily see your comments.The three styles we have will add all these features including the author ribbon in either Blue, Pink or Green.

These styles have been influenced from the code on Duypham, check out the demo below (Scroll to comments) with the blue style added.



I have a tutorial on how to add the code to your blog and of course the code for all three styles.

Three Styles For Blogger Threaded Comments

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iOS Blogging Apps That Will Make Your Blog Popular !

Guest Post - Today's host is John Page, who talks about the best choices for IOS Blogging Apps.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Do you remember those good old days when blogging was just for fun? I can hardly find a decent blog nowadays because even the best of them turn to be the part of the “industry” where practically every blogger is obsessed with earning more money from his blog instead of publishing some interesting blogs just to stimulate people for talking. Making money by means of blogging is not bad for sure. I just appeal to all bloggers to make update their blogs not just for the higher search engine ranks but for posting really interesting ideas that may be helpful for their readers. For instance, in this particular post I’m going to share my own top 4 of nifty blogging iOS applications that were designed by bloggers for bloggers, so to speak. In the picture you see my favorite WordPress for iOS application.

Personally before I bought my first iPhone I was quite irritated by the fact that I cannot update my blog with few new pics or notes whenever I want even if there is no a laptop or PC at fingertips. Luckily, with the development of iOS apps such problem is easily solved since there are so many good blogging programs are offered via the iTunes service. It is quite a challenge to find the best blogging iOS apps because there are few very good and plenty of decent. Plus all blogging can be divided into subcategories – for analytics, SEO, microblogging, social networking sharing or editing content. That is why I decided to create my own list of the best blogging applications that can be used by every blogger despite his preferences and purposes.

Top 4 IOS Blogging Apps

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Blogging Against The Grain

Guest Post - Today's host is Marge Katherine, Marge has a fantastic fresh take on whats required to be a Blogger and here she shares how she built her blog without following the advice of Experts.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

The 'experts' tell you to find a niche and stay with it as your platform. I don't have a niche but I do have a blog. And now I am part of a community of bloggers who miss me when I don't write, who lift me up when I'm down and who celebrate when I share my successes.

Defy the experts.
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5 Tricks to Sync Up And Maximize Your Social Media Efforts

Guest Post - Today's host is Virginia Cunningham who looks at ways to save time looking after your social media accounts.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Updating every social media site where you have an account can be a tedious task. One way to alleviate this is to sync your social media accounts together. This will allow you to post to one site and then have it forwarded to one or more social network sites that are linked together.
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How to Create Drop Caps (Big First Letters) in Blogger/Blogspot

Here's another way to customize your Blog. In this case, your Posts and Comment's first letter. The effect is a large first letter stretching down three or four lines with the text wrapped around. The drop cap letter can also use a different font and have a different color from the rest of the text. This style can be often seen in newspapers, literature, magazines. So, in this tutorial I will show you how to apply automatically a Magazine text style on Blogger Posts and Comments. Let's start adding it...

-> Add Drop Caps For Blogger Posts

-> Add Drop Caps For Blogger Comments

Big First Letter for your Blogger / Blogspot Posts

Step 1. From your Blogger Dashboard, go to Template and click on the Edit HTML button:

Step 2. Click anywhere inside the code area and press the CTRL + F keys to open the Blogger' search box. Type this piece of code inside the search box then hit Enter to find it:

]]>

Note: you might need to click on the arrow next to it to expand the code within and then you need to search ]]> one more time.

Step 3. Just above ]]>, add the following CSS code:

.capital:first-letter {
float: left;
display: block;
font-family: Times, serif, Georgia;
font-size: 40px;
color: #000000;
margin:0px 5px 0 0;
padding:0 0 0 10px;
}

Color - change the value in blue with the hex of your color
Size - to change the letter size, increase/decrease the value highlighted in pink.

Step 4. Now search for this code:

Step 5. Then immediately before and after add the red fragments you see in the example below:

 

Step 6. Save the changes by clicking on the Save template button.

Important! If the above code is not working, add one of following codes from this example:

Or try this instead:

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger account > go to Template > Edit HTML > click anywhere inside the code area and press CTRL + F keys to open the search box

Step 2. Type the following piece of code inside the search box and hit Enter to find it (if you have already added this code, skip step 2 & 3):

]]>

Step 3. Add the following code just above ]]>:

.capital:first-letter {
float: left;
display: block;
font-family: Times, serif, Georgia;
font-size: 40px;
color: #000000;
margin:0px 5px 0 0;
padding:0 0 0 10px;
}

Color - to change the letter color, replace the value in blue with the value of your color. Here's a tool that might help you to find the hex of the color that you need: Color Code Generator
Size - to change the letter size, change the value in pink.

Step 4. Then Search for this piece of code:

Step 5. Add the red codes before and after as you can see in my example below:

Step 6. Save your Template.

That's it! Now you have a cool drop cap first letter on your blog. If you have any question, leave a comment below!

How to use blogger new Crawlers and indexing feature effectively for improved SEO

Guest Post - Today's host is Chris who provides indept information on using the new search preferences settings on Blogger.Want to get involved ? See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

After blogger updated their interface, they added more useful features such as edit Meta tag modify crawlers and indexing, add authors, etc. This post I'm going to show you how to use blogger new crawlers and indexing feature effectively for improve your blogs SEO.
Before start this guide, I like to briefly explain what robots.txt is. A robots.txt use for provide instructions to different search engine bots to, how to crawl your site contents, etc as well as provide a sitemap. For instance you can remove certain items on search result using this function as well as improve your site SEO.

Important - If you are unsure of any of the steps do not make any edits.

How to create a custom robots.txt on blogger
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Numbered comments on threaded comments for Blogger/Blogspot

In a previous tutorial you've seen how you can add numbered comments to your blogger blog, unfortunately, this trick worked only for those who don't have the reply option and are still using the old blogger commenting system. But we won't have any problem this time because this tutorial will show you how to add numbered comments with comment bubbles on the threaded comments, as well ;)

What the following CSS trick will do for you:

1. When the general block of comments is initiating (.comments-content) a counter called countcomments activates and starts with an initial value of 1. 
2. Then, each time the code flow goes through a review of any level, either the original comment or a reply (.comment-thread li), it will bring us in front (:before) of the comment's body the number that is the counter.
   
3. Finally, this is incremented in the counter (counter-increment).

See the screenshot:

Isn't that great? I'm pretty sure many of you have been waiting for this cool trick. So, let's begin applying it for our threaded commenting system.

Steps to add bubble comments count

Step 1: From your Blogger Dashboard, go to Template and click on the Edit HTML button:

... click anywhere inside the code area and press CTRL + F to open the Blogger' search box.

Step 2: Type the following tag inside the search box and hit Enter to find it:

]]>

Note. you have to click on the arrow next to it, then search the ]]> one more time 

Step 3: Add the following code just above ]]>:

.comment-thread ol {
counter-reset: countcomments;
}
.comment-thread li:before {
content: counter(countcomments,decimal);
counter-increment: countcomments;
float: right;
z-index: 2;
position:relative;
font-size: 22px;
color: #555555;
padding-left:10px; 
padding-top:3px; 
background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOBX2N3v4Jo-eP6H0YpcySadrwOgUs0JvHgQoGZCjVlUrSTusrQU55hdwjZbGSeV7z6FbQLKs6SmpXBOGkIQhNJHvr4FgFKYfVxB44Wz9K7GYi2l1azl1qmVvwOBXOW539M5OaynqwQGI9/s1600/comment+bubble2.png) no-repeat;
margin-top:7px; 
margin-left:10px; 
width: 50px; /*image-width size*/
height: 48px; /*image-height size*/ 
}
.comment-thread ol ol {
counter-reset: contrebasse;
}
.comment-thread li li:before {
content: counter(countcomments,decimal) "." counter(contrebasse,lower-latin);
counter-increment: contrebasse;
float: right;
font-size: 18px;
color: #666666;
}

Note:

• if you want to have no bubble icon, remove the code in red (including the address in blue)
• to change the comment bubble, replace the code in blue with the URL address of your own icon. If you're not sure what icon you should use, you can find some cool icons in my previous posts (see these tutorials here and here)
• to change the position of comments count, increase/decrease the values (3 & 10) from padding-top and padding-left
• to change the position of comments bubble/icon, change the values (10 & 7) from margin-left and margin-top

Step 4: Now Save the Template and you're done!

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How to add “Email Subscription Form” to Blogger Blogspot

When you are providing useful information in your blog, then many times some readers will need to get the latest updates from your blog. For that purpose, you need an Email Subscription Form in your blog, so that the interested visitors can easily get the latest updates.

Related: How to Burn Blogger RSS Feeds at Feedburner

To add email or Feed Subscription Form to your blogger blog (blogspot) is very easy.
Just follow the next steps:

1. Log in to Blogger, then go to Layout > click on "Add a Gadget" link:

 2. From the pop-up window, scroll down and click on the "HTML/JavaScript" gadget:

 3. Paste the following code inside the empty box:

Subscribe via Email

http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=helplogger', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">

helplogger" name="uri"/>

Settings 
- Replace the url address in green to change the email icon
- To change the width or the text area, increase/decrease the 130px value in red
- replace http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=helplogger with your Feedburner Email Feed link. You can get it by visiting your feedburner account then navigate to "Publicize" and then to "Email Subscriptions".
- Replace helplogger with your feed title. It appears at the end of your feed link. In my case it is http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=helplogger

4. Now Save your widget and check your blog. Enjoy!