Tag: blogger tips
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How To Write Blog Posts Using Nokia Phones OviMail App
You have a Nokia phone and wondering if you can be using it to write posts to your Blogger blog? Well, YOU CAN. In one of my recent posts, I published how Mail2Blogger Lets You Post To Your Blog by Sending Emails. In this post, I am sharing with you, how to use the Mail2Blogger…
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How To Add Scrolling Effect to Blogger Link Lists
With some few lines of css, you can make a LinkList on your Blogger blog to become scroll-able. This will be helpful in adjusting the height of a LinkList that looks so long on your blog. Below is an example of a scrolling Link List gadget on my blog which am using to display links…
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How To Use NameCheap FREE DNS To Set Up Blogger Custom Domain With Registrars That Do Not Offer DNS Management
Recently, Blogger changed how we set up custom domain for Blogspot blogs, now making it compulsory to set up 2 CNAMEs before a custom domain can work with a blogspot address. Out of the 2 CNAMEs, one is the same for all blogger blogs (ghs.google.com) while the other is unique to each blog. If your…
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Generate Feed Address for Blogspot Blogs, Labels and Comments
Trying to do something online and you are asked to provide the feed url of your Blogspot blog? Want to use the Blogspot Feed Gadget to create “recent comments“, “recent posts” or a sidebar widget that can display the recent posts of each label(category) of your blog? Whatever the case may be, this post will…
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Blogger Pages Tabs Linking To External web Address Not Working? The Solution
While scanning through my Blogger blog to see if something is broken, I noticed that the Pages tabs linking to external web addresses are not working. If I click the tabs, nothing happens and if I right-click to open their links in new windows, they lead to dead links. When I checked my Pages Editor,…
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Naked Domain of Your Blogger Custom Domain Not Redirecting to “www”? The Solution
Blogger has acknowledged that the option to have a naked domain redirect to ‘www’ is currently not functional for some Blogger users as at the time of publishing this post. Blogger stated in a post on Known Issues for Blogger, that they are are working on a fix and hope to have it resolved shortly. Hence, if…
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New Blogger Custom Domain and CNAME Setup Guide
A client paid me today to set up a custom domain for his Blogger blog. I registered the domain name, created the normal CNAME (ghs.google.com) and created four separate A-records which point to four different Google IPs. (216.239.32.21; 216.239.34.21; 216.239.36.21 and 216.239.38.21). After I confirmed that the DNS servers have been updated, I decided to add…
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FeedBurner Subscriber’s Count Showing 0? The Solution
A friend contacted me this morning, complaining that her blog’s feed is not displaying her blog’s latest post. While trying to find out what might be the cause, I was surprised to see zero been displayed as the number of her blog’s subscribers via her feedburner account. Immediately, I decided to log in to my…
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“Maintenance in progress – Domain switching disabled” Blogger Error and Solution
UPDATE: The problem has been resolved. You can read more here. A friend contacted me yesterday complaining to me that the custom domain he wanted to map to his blogspot domain keeps displaying “404 error” page even after adding the custom domain to his blog via Blogger settings. He forwarded his Blogspot login details to…
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Want To Add Facebook Recommendation Bar To Blogger/Blogspot Blog?
While reading articles on some blogs, you might have noticed a Facebook recommendation bar docked to the lower right (or left) of the screen which expands as you scroll down the page or after you might have finished reading the blog post. This Facebook social plugin was designed to show you a social recommendation of…
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