How to make your blog category list

1st go your blog dashboard and click here posting to new post you see labels opstion type category list name

 you type your category list name and desigm tab+Page Elements+add a gadget+add labels gadget

and save and view your blog.

   

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To add Facebook connect into your blogs

Hello friends Create an application
we start with the creation of a new application :

Go to http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php to create a new application.
Set up a new application
Enter a name for your application in the Application Name field (The same name of your Blog). And agree Facebook terms then “save changes”.
Application Name
Take note of the API Key, you'll need this shortly.
Click the Connect tab. Set Connect URL to “Your_Blog.blogspot.com”. now “save changes”
  Connect URLAdding a few snippets of code to your template

Blogger-HTML-Edit1

Now go to your Blog Dashboard> Layout > Edit HTML :

Look for this tag in the top of your template code source :

<html expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr' >

and add the code : “ xmlns:fb='http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml' ”

<html expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr' xmlns:fb='http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml'>

Put the following code just before </head> tag :

<script src='http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php' type='text/javascript'/>

PIC for step 1 & step 2
Put the following code just before </body> tag : (Updated)

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
FB.init("YOUR_API_KEY_HERE", " ");
//]]>
</script>

PIC for step 3
Save changes. now you are ready to add Facebook connect to your blog.
PIC for step 4


Add Facebook connect
Login-Button :
Login
<fb:login-button autologoutlink="True" length="short" background="white" size="large"></fb:login-button>
Profile Picture :
<fb:profile-pic uid="loggedinuser" facebook-logo="true" linked="false"></fb:profile-pic>
User Name :
<fb:name uid="loggedinuser" useyou="false"/></fb:name>
Live Stream Box :
<fb:live-stream event_app_id="YOUR_APPLICATION_ID" width="400" height="500">
Comments Box :
<fb:comments width='480'/>
Fan Box :
<fb:fan profile_id="YOUR_PAGE_ID" stream="1" connections="10" width="300"></fb:fan>
For more help please visit http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/. as you can see it work correctly in my blog. try it out in your blogs on Blogger and don’t forget please to leave a link to your blog to share your experience with Facebook Connect with other readers.

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How To Improve Your Blog’s Ad-Click Through Rate

hello friends A link unit below your blog categories navigation bar.
In-content ads mostly in the beginning and mid post ads.
Let Your Ads Match Your Style:

Several templates and different styles are available based on many blogging platforms and advertising networks. How you match the ad-title and links to your blog content and links is very important factors affecting the ad click-through rate. See to it that the colour and style of your ad-space are the same as that of your blog content, so that the possibility of getting your ad clicked is high.

The next point is the proper placement of your ads. Now that you know the spots where most visitors sweep your site, you can place your advertisements at those particular areas. Make sure that your ad is attractive and related to your blog niche so as to increase chances of getting clicked. And also have image rich ads as they will certainly be attractive.

Have a look at the above image. See the advertisement links match the blog links. This increases the clicks you receive!

There are few other ways to blend your ads. One such is the Adsense ad 715×15; it’s basically a link unit and just looks like your blog navigation bar. This can be placed just below your navigation menu. Some visitors click it as they feel this is also the menu content, make sure that your blend it properly and not just add the code in your blog.


Have a look at the above link unit at DevilsWorkshop.Org. This is called a smart way to add a link unit! The link unit matches the blog style (colors, links, etc.) and this increases the chances of getting more clicks on your ads.
How To Customize Your Ads?

Now most bloggers worry on customizing their ads depending on usability of user, so as to extract and attract the user to the ad you are displaying. Some of the factors where you can focus on:

Placement of your ads:

Most bloggers place their ads depending on “F” pattern which is the most popular way to attract visitors to the ads. Now we know the pattern, place a nice attractive ad at the top and towards right, and we go down the blog have a interesting image ad.


The above heatmap tells you exactly which spots get clicked. To get a better view created especially for your blog, you must try Clicktale.

Colour blending:

Blend the colour and links of the ads depending on the style of your blog. Others have noticed that they get better results with mimicking ads, as they are often mistaken for content links.
Getting Ad Clicks (Summary):
Place Ads in the top right position, near your blog logo.
Ads at top possibly below menu, and image rich ad towards right get more ad clicks for many users.
Place picture-ads at low-eye-traffic, so that you can capture attention of visitors.
Mix advertisements with images in your blog.

Share your ideas and views on how you improved your ad-click through rate with us.

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How You Can Do Effective On-Page SEO

hello friends In a world of link experts and backlink generation the art of on-page SEO is frequently lost on blogs.  While this is often due to the fact that bloggers are focusing on quality content as opposed to SEO initiatives (as they should be) this problem can also arise from the fact that many blog templates and themes auto-populate certain aspects of each page such as title and several of the meta tags.  Couple this with the fact that blog templates set up a site structure that links to absolutely everything from the homepage and you start to develop a problem from a Search Engine perspective.

The Title is Huge


As far as on-page factors the Title of a given page is incredibly important as search engines give it heavy weight when considering how to rank a page.  Add to this the fact that the title is also used as the link to your page in SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages) and that it will appear on the reverse bar of the visitor’s browser (the very top left of the browser window) then is it easy to see that the title is a key component.  Unfortunately many blog templates set up a title that may not be the best for a given page.  WordPress, the most used self-hosted blog software, is guilty of this.  First let’s take a look at the problem.

I set up a page of my blog to do the wrong thing to illustrate what I’m talking about.  I’ll leave this page up for the purposes of example, but understand this is WHAT NOT TOO DO.  Look at the page source for this page http://www.jontnorwood.com/tv/ .  I created the page, called it TV since it is a convenient URL and about TV shows I like,  and populated it with unique content then published it “as is”.  Notice the following elements:
<title>  TV | Jon T. Norwood</title>
%MINIFYHTML0cfb86bfd65d50bc8922d160d1908ee417%
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 3.1.1" />

I didn’t create the tags seen above myself, and none of this helps my page in any way.  In fact the “generator” tag actually hurts.  From a search engine perspective it would appear that this page is about TV and Jon T. Norwood, and that’s it.  The chances of my internal page about the shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel ranking in Google for “TV” is simply impossible and therefore the title is useless.  I have effectively nullified one of the strongest ranking tools of this page by accepting the default WordPress title.  This is easy to fix.

If you are using a template or theme then there should be an option to edit the individual pages under the “Appearance” tab on the left menu of your WordPress dashboard.  Look under Theme options and find the section that allows you to provide custom titles.  Enable this and you should be able to create completely unique and relevant titles for every page you create without having an absurd URL.  If your theme doesn’t have this option you may want to look into one that does if you have any desire to SEO the blog.  A more appropriate title for the above page would be:
<title> Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode Guide and Angel Episode Guide</title>

A little wordy but accurate and my ability to rank for the given subject matter, episode guides, is actually within the realms of believability while at the same time telling the visitor exactly what they are looking at.  This is a win for my visitors and a win for the search engines.

You can read the following posts for choosing the best titles,

5 Tips For Choosing The Best Blog Post Titles

How To Write An Amazing Title For Your Blog Post?
Meta Tags Mean Something

Meta tags are not as important as they used to be, but they are easy to set up and they do count for something.Don’t use these areas to “stuff” keywords into a page, but use them to give a clear picture of what the page is about.  The more the keywords and description match what is on the page the better off you are.  You want your meta content to match what the visitor sees so they actually strengthen each other in the eyes of the search engines.

Special notice should be taken concerning the meta tags that contain the descriptor “generator” like:
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 3.1.1" />

Or:
%MINIFYHTML0cfb86bfd65d50bc8922d160d1908ee418%

These are irrelevant from an SEO perspective but I mention them because they are an easy way for a hacker to target your blog.  Hackers use bots to scour the Internet looking for sites that have security holes, and one way they do that is too look for out of date versions of WordPress or themes (the above theme is called Polishedv1.6).  Unfortunately my WordPress install and theme are both out of date, and since all of my pages contain the “generator” tag by default I’m waving my hands around trying to get the attention of a botnet looking to infect more sites.
Links on the Page


Most blogs get the majority of their incoming links to the homepage.  This means the internal linking structure, the way your blog links to its various pages, is very important.  If 90% of the links a blog gets are too the homepage, then it is the homepage that directs 90% of the link value throughout the site.  Think of it a circulatory system where the blog is the body and link power is the blood.  If some parts of the site are not getting link power then they will die, at least from a search engine perspective.  On the other hand if a tremendous amount of link power is directed at a page of little interest then it is wasted.

It is important to prioritize the pages that are linked to from the homepage.  Important pages that generate revenue or interest or both are what you want your link power flowing too.  Pages such as “About Us” or “Contact Us” are of value but you don’t want high quality link power flooding these areas.  The best way to approach this is to decide how few links from the home you can live with.  Don’t sacrifice pages of value, but be certain that everything you link too is key to what your page exists to do.  Other pages can that are necessary but not primary functions like “About Us” can be linked to using the rel=”nofollow” tag associated with the link.

You can read more about on page optimization at, 6 Basic Steps Of On-Page Optimization.

One way to make sure that link power is circulated well throughout a site without linking to everything from the home is to use a sitemap that links to every page.  Link to the site map from the homepage once and more likely than not all pages will get at least some link power.

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Blogger "Edit posts" options

Many of what used to be possible only possible via editing the template (example, 2007: Change comments to anything else desired now can be done via the DESIGN (previously called LAYOUT) and in the Blog posts section, clicking EDIT will take you to "Configure blog posts" options:



Now when you click Edit, you will be presented with a popup with options to change many of Blogger's default settings (see screen shot below):



The following are what you can change (options you can change plus Blogger defaults in brackets):

Main Page Options:
Number of posts on main page" [ 7 ] [ Posts ]
Post page link text (expandable post summary): [ Read more ]

Post Page Options (tick v to display and remove tick v to hide, text you can change in red):
[ v ] [ Tuesday, March 29, 2011 ]
[ v ] [ Posted by ] Peter @ Enviroman
[ v ] [ at ] [ 8.58am ]
[ v ] 5 [ comments ]
[    ] [ Links to this posts ]
[ v ] [ Labels: ] photos, vacation
[ v ] Show Quick Editing
[    ] [ Reactions: ] funny interesting cool {Edit}
[    ] Show Email Post Links
[ v ] Show Share Buttons
[    ] Show Ads Between Posts

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