Easily Display AdSense For Search Results Within Blogger Blogs

In November last year (2010) i was excited to show you a way to display search results from the AdSense for Search, Search bar Within your blogger blog.This is something we see on all the top websites and Blogs but was not really an option on Blogger.Displaying the search results in your own site has many advantages, mainly you are not sending people off your blog which is never good, when users do go to a new page of search results on a page that neither looks anything like your site or Google it can be confusing, it has a more professional look within your site, increases your page views and can increase revenue from the ads on the search page.

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About.Me Create A Unique About Page For Your Blog

Most blogs now have an 'About Me' or 'About Us' page.The days of using pen names and writing your blog anonymously are all but gone.Readers of your blog are interested in who you are and by being open you create a level of trust between you and your readers.I think having an about and contact page are now very important and people expect them.In general your blogs about me page will be a simple page on your blog with some general information and maybe an image but how about trying something different ?

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Add The Brand New Facebook Send Button To Your Blog

Facebook have just created a brand new shiny button you can add to your blog for people to share your content.The button was released just today so it's not even a day old and you can be one of the first to have it on their blog, Yep people will be seeing it for the first time and checking it out on your blog ! So what is the new Facebook button and what does it do ?

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Display A Default Avatar Image For Anonymous Comments On Blogger

In the comments for my Recent Post about the New Blogger Design And Dashboard Going Live Ahmad Nuzul Asked "Can u make a post on how to make a custom avatar for anonymous comments? Thanks.".

No Problem ! In this post i will show you how you can have a default image appear as the Avatar Thumbnail for comments not only by anonymous commenter's but also for comments left using some of the other log in options or people that have no Image Uploaded to their Blogger / Google account.
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Get The Blogger Buddy Gadget And Post Directly From Your Desktop

Many of you will be familiar with desktop gadgets on windows vista and windows 7 and you may have visited the Windows Live gadget gallery.Gadgets such as Games that you can play on your desktop are very popular along with gadgets you may also use on iGoogle such as Weather gadgets, Clocks and Calenders, YouTube Video gadgets and so on.If you ain't seen them as the title suggest they are gadgets that you can have on your computers desktop, they load when you turn on your computer and you don't need to open a browser to use them.One gadget you may be interested in is the Blogger Buddy Gadget.
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Google Now Use Twitter Facebook And Site Speed To Help Rank Your Blog

Google originally made its name by using a Page rank system based on links throughout the web to return relevant search results to users.Although there were many search engines available before Google the page rank system simply returned better results to users.Page Rank (Googles Internal Page Rank Not So Much Toolbar Page Rank, a long story) is still the major factor in how search results are delivered and things like Back links and anchor text are still the major players and always will be.However over the years Google have added lots of other factors in how they return their search results, they claim there is over 200 components used to deliver the results we see.A couple of noticeable more recent additions to this are Social Media and Site Speed.
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The New Blogger Dashboard And Design Is Live

Blogger today announced they have started the release of the New design Blogger Dashboard and User Interface Design.The release at first will be on Blogger In Draft, Quiet common for new releases but it will also be added to only some accounts at first .A random number of users will have the new Blogger dashboard from today when they log in via Blogger In Draft and over the next few days and weeks it will be added to more until all users have the new Dashboard in draft.Usually a new addition to blogger that is tested in draft finds its way on to the main blogger site within a week or two but a change this big could be longer.
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