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How To Add Multiple Authors To Blogger Blog

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A team is always better than a one man army and achieving our goals becomes easier with a team. Teamwork is better than being alone. Same is the case with blogging. Competition in the field of blogging has increased and survival has become very tough, so people are starting their blog with multiple niches. So it's always recommended to have a multiple author blog. If you have multiple author blog, you can have a schedule for posting and it will be easier for you to have a very good number of posts within a small period. If you want to boost up your blogging career then its important to start working as a team. But guys, one account, 4-5 or more people using one account, doesn't make a sense. So what to do now??? Not an issue, if your blog is hosted on blogger then you don't have to worry about it. Blogger all of its features also provides you an option for adding multiple authors to your blog. By adding multiple authors, all the people that you've added can access to your blog dashboard from their accounts. You can also manage their roles as Admin or Author. So, today in this tutorial we'll show you that How To Add Multiple Authors To Blogger Blog.

How to Add Multiple Authors to your Blogger Blog

First and foremost go to your Blogger Dashboard >> Select your Blog >> Setting. Now in the Basic section of setting hit the + Add Authors button under the Permissions heading

It'll ask you to enter the Email id's of the new authors, enter the Email id's of your authors and hit the Invite Authors button.

An email invitation will be sent to the specified persons. When he verifies the invitation, his name will be listed and you can decide his account type as Admin or Author.
All done :)

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How to Add Images to Blogger Sidebar

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We add pictures to our blog posts, static pages, header etc. But have you every thought about adding pictures to your blogger sidebar. Adding images to our sidebar is really easy and simple, but still most of us don't know. Recently one of our readers asked us about How to Add Images to Blogger Sidebar. So, today in this tutorials we'll show you that How to Add Images to Blogger Sidebar. Adding images to blogger sidebar is really easy and fortunately blogger provides a tool for adding images to your sidebar easily. So just the steps below to add images to your blogger sidebar.

How to Add Images to Blogger Sidebar

First of all log in to your Blogger Account >> Select a Blog >> Layout and click Add a Gadget. A popup will open with the list of widgets, scroll down and select the Image gadget from the list.

Now you'll notice a couple of options. Enter your Image Title in the Title field, enter its caption, link and upload your image.

Once everything is done press the Save button and you're done.

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Tags: Beginner's Guide / Google

How to Create Short URLs Using Google URL Shortener

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URL shortening is a technique which is used by many bloggers, in this technique a URL is made shorter but it still redirect the people to the required URL. You can shorten URLs to make them easier to share. While sharing links on social networks many top companies always prefer short URLs instead of long URLs. For example, this short URL http://goo.gl/L4lf1G will redirect you to http://www.blogolect.com/2014/09/google-introduces-structured-snippets-in-web-search.html. So, instead of using this long tail URL I can simply use http://goo.gl/L4lf1G while sharing my link. Many web developers use descriptive URLs, this can result in long URLs. These URLs are difficult to memorize, thus short URLs are used instead of that long URLs. If your blog is hosted on blogger, and you want to shorten your URLs then you don't have to worry about it because Google itself provides you a free-to-use tool for URL shortening. Therefore today in this tutorial we'll show you that How to Create Short URLs Using Google URL Shortener.

Why to Use Google Shortener?

There are many other websites that provide URL shortening services, but the most preferred one is Google URL shortener. Feature of Google URL shoetener are:

• Tracking: It gives you all the information about your short URL such as number of clicks on that URL etc.

• Security:  It sends you security warning if URL points to spam website.

• Speed: With its super fast speed, it loads quicker than any other services.

How to Create Short URLs Using Google URL Shortener

First of all go to http://goo.gl/ and log in to your Gmail Account. You'll redirected to its main page.
Now just enter the URL in the box and hit the Shorten URL button.

On pressing the button, your short URL for that link will appear including the link preview. Copy that URL and use it anywhere you want.

You can see all the URLs that you've shortened under that URL shortener field. It also displays the number of clicks for each URL, link with its short URL and the time of creation. You can also get more details of any URL by clicking the Details button next to that URL.

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How to Enable Captcha/Word Verification in Blogger

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Blogger provides an option to enable or disable Captcha/Word verification. You can reduce spam on your blog by enabling this word/captcha verification method. Captcha means "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". People make irrelevant comments on your blog posts and these comments give a bad impression to your users. Comments contaning ads, links and also gambling sites makes your blog worse. You can't focus on your blog because if your blog receives hundreds of comments daily then its really hard to delete the spam comments and it also requires a great deal of time. So, by enabling word verfication method you can reduce spam on your blog because only humans can pass this word verification method, mostly these spam comments are made by automated systems and luckily these system can't pass the word verification method. Thus, enabling word verification is a nifty path to prevent unwanted comments. Today in this tutorial, we'll show you that How to Enable Captcha/Word Verification in Blogger.

How to Enable Captcha/Word Verification in Blogger

First and foremost Log in to your Blogger Account >> Select a Blog >> Setting >> Posts and Comments

Now you'll see an option for Word Verification, just enable it and hit the Save Setting button on the top. That's it!
Congratulations: You've successfully enabled Captcha/Word Verification on your Blogger blog.

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How to Enable or Disable Mobile Template of your Blogger Blog

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Blogger provides you fully optimized mobile templates for your blog. On enabling the mobile template, your blog will redirect your visitors to a fully optimized mobile template version. This feature is not only for templates provided by Blogger, even if you are using a full customized custom template, you can still enable this feature on your blog. The best thing is that no coding is required for enabling mobile template version. You just need to enable the mobile template version. Blogger offers its own mobile templates and you can make use of them. After enabling mobile version you content/posts will be optimized for mobile version. However your custom styles and widgets will not work on mobile template except some typical gadgets like header, adsense and comments section. Blogger will automatically redirect your visitors to mobile template if they access your blog via mobile devices. So, today in this tutorial we'll show you that How to Enable or Disable Mobile Template of your Blogger Blog.

How to Enable or Disable Mobile Template of your Blogger Blog

Log in to your Blogger Account >> Select a Blog >> Template and click on the Gear icon under the Mobile Template Preview.

A popup will open with several options, if you want to enable Mobile Template view then check the Yes. Show mobile template on mobile devices option and choose your template.

If you want to disable Mobile Template then check No. Show desktop template on mobile devices option and hit the Save button.

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Tags: Beginner's Guide / Blogger Tricks / Tutorials

How to Block AdBlocker on your Blogger Blog

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AdBlocker is a browser extension, available on all major browsers and it is used to block advertisements and pop ups shown on websites. Advertisements annoys each and every visitor of our blog, especially pop ups. AdBlocker is useful to stay away from those annoying and disgusting ads, but this extension is a roadblock in the path of a blogger. Due to this extension visitors don't reach ads and it effects the earning of bloggers. AdBlockers totally affect life of bloggers who want to make money from there blogs. It also reduces CPM, CPC and other rates which you use to generate your revenue. There are two ways that you can use to block AdBlockers, the first one is to ask your readers to remove AdBlocker extension and the other one is that, force them to remove AdBlocker. If thousands of people visits your blog daily then it is impossible to ask each of them to remove AdBlocker extension which means that we have to force them to remove AdBlocker. So, today in this tutorial we'll show you that How to Block AdBlocker on your Blogger Blog.

How to Block AdBlocker on your Blogger Blog

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Account
Step 2. Select a Blog >> Template >> Edit HTML >> Search for the ]]></b:skin> tag and above/before it paste the following code

#bgt_noadblocker {
display:none;
}

Step 3. Again Search for </head> and paste the below code just above/before it

     <script type="text/javascript">
    if (document.getElementById("bgt_noadblocker") != undefined)
    {
    }
    else
    {
        alert("We've detected that you're using AdBlock Plus or some other adblocking software. In order to keep this website free, this site is sponsored in part by advertisements.\r\nPlease consider disabling your ad blocker on this website\r\nif you enjoyed the content, and would like to support future \r\ninformative posts.Thank you!\r\n\r\nClick OK to continue\r\n\r\nPowered by www.blogolect.com...");
            setTimeout("nag()",12000);
    }
    </script>

Step 4. Now Search for <body> and just below/after it paste the following code

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ftp.bauer-power.net/misc/tc/advertisement.js"></script>

Step 5. Hit the Save Template button and you're done!
Now if any visitor with AdBlocker enabled visit your site will face an annoying message, he will get this message until he disables AdBlocker.

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How to Remove Locked Widgets in Blogger

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Have you ever used a blogger template consisting of widgets that are irremovable? Blogger is a flexible platform and you can easily do whatever you want. One if its feature is that you can upload your custom templates to make your blog friendly and beautiful. There are thousands of free and paid templates available on the web, which you can use for your blog. Usually all the widgets in blogger are removable, you can easily add or remove widgets. But have you ever noticed that sometimes after uploading a custom template, some widgets are locked in the layout section and you can't remove them, just like header and blog posts widget. You're unable to delete these widgets because these widgets are locked. Recently one of our users asked us that How to Remove Locked Widgets in Blogger. So today in this tutorial we'll show you that How to Remove Locked Widgets in Blogger.

How to Remove Locked Widgets in Blogger

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Account >> Select a Blog
Step 2. Go to Template >> Backup your Template >> Edit HTML >> Jump to Widget and choose the widget which you want to remove (Note: Read the 2nd part of this article to learn how to find a widget in HTML Editor)
Step 3. You'll be jumped to that widget's coding. In your widget's coding you'll see locked=true if that widget is locked

<b:widget id='Navbar1' locked='true' title='Navbar' type='Navbar'>

Step 4. Replace true with false and hit Save Template button

<b:widget id='Navbar1' locked='false' title='Navbar' type='Navbar'>

Step 5. Now go to Layout >> Click Edit on that widget >> Click Remove button at the bottom
And you're done!

How to find Widget Code in Template Editor

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard
Step 2. Go to Layout and locate the widget

Step 3. Hit the Edit button below that widget a popup window will open

Step 4. In the URL of that popup which would somewhat looks like this

https://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=5715141813565760436&action=editWidget&sectionId=sidebar-right-1&widgetType=null&widgetId=HTML10

Step 5. The widget Id of that widget is just after widgetId= which is HTML10.
Now go to Template >> Edit HTML >> Jump to Widget and Select the widget with Exact ID

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How to Stop Blogger Country Specific Redirection

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Blogger uses Country specific domain redirection that changes your blog URL according to your visitor country. For example, if your blog address is yourblog.blogspot.com and someone is visiting your blog from canada, he will be redirected to yourblog.blogspot.ca instead of yourblog.blogspot.com and if someone is visiting your blog from Italy then he will be redirected to yourblog.blogspot.it.

Why you Should Stop Blogger Country Specific Redirection? The answer is simple, it will effect your alexa ranking and your pagerank too, due to different URL's. This redirection is called Country Specific Redirection or "country-code Top Level Domain" (ccTLD). The blogs with custom domains are not affected by this method. About 20 countries are affected by this redirection. Today in this tutorial we'll show you that How to Stop Blogger Country Specific Redirection.

How to Stop Blogger Country Specific Redirection

First for foremost go to Blogger.com and Log in to your account. Select a Blog >> Template >> Edit HTML and search for the <head> tag. Now copy(Ctrl + C) the following piece of code and paste(Ctrl + V) it just below/after <head> tag.

<script type='text/javascript'>
      var blog = document.location.hostname;
      var slug = document.location.pathname;
      var ctld = blog.substr(blog.lastIndexOf("."));
      if (ctld != ".com") {
        var ncr = "http://" + blog.substr(0, blog.indexOf("."));
        ncr += ".blogspot.com/ncr" + slug;
        window.location.replace(ncr);
      }
    </script>

Hit the Save Template button and you're done.

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