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 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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