Blogger & Feedburner are both great Google products. Did you know Feedburner images, posted on Blogger, will show up in Google Images, as a Feedburner .GIF image?
I actually found this out by searching for one of my blog post Titles, to see what images are showing up on Google Images.
This will only work If you already have a Feedburner account setup, & have the Feedurner image posted on your Blogger site.
So If you already have the Feedburner Feed on your blog, try this:
Below is the result image from my search , it’s not an active URL, just the image.
Something else that is cool, the above image will always be updated with the newest content from my blog, since it’s an animated .GIF, while it still shows on Google Images.
What’s funny is, my search results show more links pointing to bloggertricks, than my own blog (lol).
This might not look like a big deal, having a single image on the net, the way I see it, every little bit helps a future visitor find my blog. :)
I was doing some research on my blog post Blogger Ad Code Converter, & found I didn’t like the way the Google Search results showed only the word “SoSwitcher”. What I really wanted was for each of my blog post Title to not only be on the Google Search, but for it to be first words of the Title, from left to right.
So, I searched Google & found a nice code snippet that would work, I added the code to my template & remembered reading a blog post a while back that someone said your blog page would load a little bit faster (maybe something like 1000th of a second faster, HA!), any way it made sense to me, instead of using the Blogger tag (example: <data:blog.title/>) for your Blogger Template to call up your blogs URL, to just hard code the URL (example: soswitcher.blogspot.com), since I’m already editing the Blogger template.
You don’t have to stop at just your Page Title either, If you notice some of the big names on the web, like Amazon, or Ebay, they both add keywords to their websites Title, & you’ll also notice that both Amazon & Ebay, also have those same keywords in their Google Search results.
Have you ever wanted to add Google Adsense code inside your Blogger Template, & found it’s not a simple copy & paste job?
Well, now your in luck!
I built a Google Widget that will allow you to convert Google Adsense code into Blogger xhtml code, & not only that, you can also add the Blogger Code Converter to your webpage or blog, since it’s a Google Widget.
The code converter is simple to use:
Copy the code you want to convert (Right click – Copy)
Paste that code into the code converter textbox (Right click – Paste)
Press the button at the bottom of the widget “Convert Code”
(Right click – Select All) of the converted code in the Code Converter textbox
(Right click – Copy) the converted code in the Code Converter textbox
Paste the newly converted code into your Blogger template, etc…
I’ve added the New Google Code Converter to my sidebar, on the lower right side. The Code Converter size can be adjusted, when you go to get the code from the Google button below.
Note:
It’s up to anyone that uses this widget to double check the Google Code Converter Widget code, for any mistakes, I’ve been working with this for a while, with no problems. Please let me know of any issues or suggestions you might have, with this widget, by adding comments below.
You can click on the Google button below to add this Widget to your own blog.
If you have ever downloaded a Free Blogger template or Widget, you might find that it includes javascript files that link to the blog designers website, or file sharing site. It’s never a good idea as a long term blogger to leave any external links in your blog template that you don’t have control over. The reason you always need to control your templates links:
Blog Designers site goes down
Blog Designers site bandwidth has reached it’s maximum limit
As a Blog Designer you might be hosting your personal site javascript files on the very same account, that your Free Blogger Templates javascript files are hosted, so If you have 1,000 free downloaded templates floating around cyber space, and none of them change the javascript URL, they are all pulling bandwidth from your personal javascript site host.
Bottom line is, control is everything, nobody likes a broken blog.
Below is an easy & Free way to host javascript files on your very own Free Google website:
3) Get the URL/link of the javascript that is hard coded into your New Blogger template (example: http://www.YourWebsite/YourNewJavascriptFile.js )
4) Download the javascript file to your local PC
5) Open the javascript file in a text editor (Microsoft Notepad, etc…)
6) Save the javascript text file as a regular text file, so our example file in the above URL will look like this: (example: YourNewJavascriptFile.txt )
7) Upload the New Text file to your Google Sites website
8) Right click & Copy Shortcut - on your New uploaded .txt file on your Google webpage, & get the URL/link (example: http://sites.google.com/site/YourGoogleWebsite/Webpage1/YourNewJavascriptFile.txt )
NOTE: I always leave off the very end of the URL, we don't need (?attredirects=0)
9) Right click Paste the new URL/Link into your Blogger template
You now know how to host javascript files on your own Free website, not to mention Google is great about keeping their servers running at 99.99% of the time.
A word of advice, Google once had a Free website hosting a while back, Google has since shut down new members to the first Free website, so grab a free site while you can, you never know If they will stop new members from the second Free websites (Google Sites). Also the old members still have active Google websites, just no new members, get them while you can, you never know when you’ll need it to host files.
The right sidebar includes a working example of how I’m hosting a “Recent Post Thumbnails Widget for Blogger” javascript file on my own Google Site, to prevent any future broken links.
The video below, will show how to get the URL from a Google Sites webpage.
Over on the BloggerTricks Forums, John Cena asked If it was possible, & how to add a Blogger Widget Poll to a Blog Post. The short answer is yes, it is possible to add a Blogger (Widget based) Poll to a Blogger Post, you'll have to work with some basic HTML.
1) Create a "Blogger Widget Poll" inside your sidebar, just like you've done before. Make sure to give it an easy to find/remember Title.
2) After the Blogger Widget Poll, is added to your sidebar, visit your blogs HomePage in your Browser (I'm working with Internet Explorer as my Browser).
3) After you have your HomePage loaded into your Browser window, Go to the top Toolbar & View/Source (of your blogs Homepage) HTML.
4) In a text editor (Windows Notepad) etc... Find/Search for the Title to your new Polls Title.
5) Copy (Right Click/Copy) the HTML Code that looks similar to the code below:
6) Paste your new Polls HTML into your Blogger Post/Article.
7) After you get the Blogger Widget HTML, you can go ahead & delete the Blogger Widget Poll, from your Sidebar, we only needed that to get the HTML source code.
Note: The actual Poll is inside an Iframe, I also added bit of HTML code to prevent the Poll from adding a scrollbar to the Poll, I didn’t like the way it looks witha scrollbar on the Poll inside a Blog Post, so this is just an option, to remove scrollbars, after the (height="275") add this code (scrolling="no").
Once you have the Polls HTML Code, you can change a few things to make it look better in your Blog Post, for example, Blogger sets the default width of a Blogger Poll to 100%, If you want to add a Poll to a Post/Article I think it would look better as a fixed number (example: width:275), the same goes for the Poll Height, Iframe border etc...
This is the first time I've tried this, deleting a Poll & still keep the HTML, so I want to thank John Cena for the idea.
Below is a working example of a Blogger Widget Poll, inserted in a Blogger Blog Post.
