Thursday, May 24, 2012

Google's Response To Our Post On Dynamic Views | My Blogger Tricks

Google's Response To Our Post On Dynamic Views | My Blogger Tricks: "Based on strong reader feedback and suggestions we have decided to roll out series of tutorials on monetizing, optimizing and customizing these Dynamically controlled layouts which include FlipCard, Magazine, Sidebar, Snapshot, timeslide, Mosaic and Classic. The tutorials will share tips to solve most needed problems faced by a vast majority of bloggers who switch to these views just because they want to manage their templates in a more easy non-techy way. Lets look on what points we highlighted contradictory to Dynamic views and how Antin clarified several of those points."

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Avery's Bucket List

I was scanning the headlines this morning as I do every morning, and came across one that read "Baby with "bucket list" dies".  Curious, I read more. My heart sank as a read it. Avery died of a rare genetic disease referred to as "SMA". Her blog is here.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Top 10 Tips For Increasing Blog Traffic - 2012 | My Blogger Tricks

Top 10 Tips For Increasing Blog Traffic - 2012 | My Blogger Tricks:

Some helpful tips in this post...

..."Interacting with your audience is the key to retaining and increasing your traffic. Adding stuff like polls, questions, surveys and forums can increase your interactivity. Also, use such a writing style that addresses the readers directly. Be casual and friendly, and don't be (too) formal."


..."You'll be surprised at how useful social media can be. Make public profiles on popular networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ etc. These will help you build a fan base of your blog. Social Media is also great in the sense that it provides you a much greater exposure through your fans than you could get on your own. So share your new blog posts on social media not only to gain extra traffic, but also to retain your existing traffic."


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Monday, March 12, 2012

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Connect your blog to Google+

Ok, so you've created a Google+ account. Great! You may have even created a +Page and started experimenting by posting there. Even better! Either way, you'll want to let your readers know that you're using Google+ so they can make the connection between your blog and your Google+ activity.

The easiest way to do this is to add Google+ badges to your blog, and the Google+ team has made it super easy to do this. They even have an automated code configuration tool that spits out code based on your specifications. These tools are located on the Google+ Developers site.

When you visit the site, you'll see two "plugins", a "+1 Button", and a "Badge". Adding the +1 Button to your site allows visitors to +1 your *blog*. If they're already Google+ users, a sharebox will appear after they +1 your blog allowing them to share it with people in their circles.


The Badge plugin makes it easy for your readers to add your blog to their circles. Adding this badge to your blog makes it easy for other Google+ users to follow you regardless of where you're posting.

As I said, adding either of these plugins to your blog is a snap. Simply configure the plugin to your liking, and then copy and paste the code into an "HTML/Javascript" gadget on your blog. That's it! Give it a try!