Lynda – Learning Blogger

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earning Blogger with Molly E. Holzschlag is a movie-based workshop for audiences new to blogging and to the newly revamped Blogger weblog service, a free service from Google. Begin by learning what blogs are and the various ways they can be used.

You’ll quickly get into setting up your weblog, adding specialty features such as comment systems and news-feeds, working with and customizing templates, and even creating team blogs and audio blogs. The included exercise files, articles, and

resources enhance the title, allowing you to follow along with the movies and learn at your own pace

RS

HF

How to hide your Blog Title and description from blogger

Your blog title and description is very important for search optimization. Search engines when indexing your blog use the title and description tags. Hence these are indispensable fields.

However sometimes you may require to hide your Blog Title and description. The new option to upload images to Blogger Header gives you one option to do this while uploading an image to your header. If you are adding a picture to the background of the header then you do not have this option. Here is another method.........
HIDE BLOG TITLE
To do this login at Blogger.com and click on Layouts link on Dashboard. Then click on Edit Html subtab of Template tab. First backup your template. Then scroll down to this code :

#header h1 {
margin:5px 5px 0;
padding:15px 20px .25em;
line-height:1.2em;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
font: normal normal 200% Georgia, Serif;
display:none; /*<---Insert this line*/
} 

Insert the "display:none;" line in the code for the header as shown above. Click Preview button to see the effect. Save Template. Clear Cache. View Blog.

HIDE BLOG DESCRIPTIONTo hide the blog description scroll down to this code in the blog template :

#header .description {
margin:0 5px 5px;
padding:0 20px 15px;
max-width:700px;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
line-height: 1.4em;
font: normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif;
color: #999999;
display:none; /*<---Insert this line*/
} 

Insert the "display:none;" line in the code for the header as shown above. Click Preview button to see the effect. Save Template. Clear Cache. View Blog.

Enjoy!

Top 5 Ways to Make Money from Blogging

Blogging can  get you handsome revenue and change your life style, if done properly. If you have got a blog, no matter if that’s a self hosted Wordpress or a free hosted Blogger blog, you can earn handsomely out of it. Writing quality posts and getting decent traffic might make your blog popular but at the mean time you can use it to earn your bread and butter out of it. There are bloggers who have left their day job just to manage their blog which means that their blog is paying them more than their day job. Let’s know the top 5 ways to make money from your blog.

1. CPC (Cost-per-Click) Advertising Program : This is probably the best and mostly used advertising program all over. CPC program stands for Cost-per-Click, where you get paid when someone clicks on the ads. All you have to do is sign up with CPC advertisers and place a small JavaScript or HTML code inside your blog. These codes will appear on your blog either as image banners or text links. Now when a visitor clicks on those ads, the advertising company pays you. Here is a list of few high paying CPC networks :

1. Google Adsense
2. Chitika
3. AdBrite
4. Bidvertiser

2. CPA (Cost-per-Action) Advertising program : CPC ad networks pays you when one of your visitors complete a action as required any the advertiser. CPA costs are generally a bit higher than CPC rates as your visitor spends his time in completing some actions like registration, product booking etc and advertisers find higher chances of conversions in this case. You can use both text links and banners links to promote products and cookies last for a longer period to ensure that you get paid for each visitor’s action, even in future. Below is the list of few CPA ad networks :

1.   Never Blue Ads

1. Commission Junction
2. Advertising.com

3. Selling Text Link Ads : This advertising program is not recommended since Google does not like websites selling text links just for some bucks. However, if you are interested in selling text link ads, you can add additional $$$ to your monthly income from blogging. All you have to do is hyperlink a text (as required by the advertiser) and link it to the advertiser’s website. Whenever someone clicks on those text links, you get paid. You may use following websites for selling text links on your blog :

1. In Link Ads
2. Text-Link-Ads

4. Pay per Post Programs : Pay per Post advertising programs pays you for writing a post on your blog. This can also be called review posts as you write something about advertiser’s product on your blog. You may use your own words or advertiser’s pre-made posts to publish on your blog. This is a very simple advertising program where you don’t need any user interaction or clicks and get paid for posting articles only. You can try these following Pay per Post programs :

1. Review Me
2. Pay Per Post

5. Selling Direct Links : Selling direct links is the program where you rarely have to depend on any third party advertising company and sell ads directly from your website. You may place those ads on your side’s blogroll or as an image banner. If you run a popular blog and get decent traffic, advertisers may pay your more for it. Advertisers also look into your blog PR, traffic source, conversation rate, CPC cost factors while making the deal.

Social Bookmarking widget for blogger

On all Blogger’s mind there will be just one question , How to drive traffic to our blog ?
We need to have quality content and backlinks to drive traffic to our blog and occupy first place on google search engines. First one Quality content is in hands of the admin who writes the post. [...]

This Social bookmarking widget contains Post Link submission to major bookmarking sites like Digg , technorati , Blinklist , Del.icio.us , Furl , Stumble Upon , Reddit , yahoo , Simpy and Spurl .
I hope those are the most famous social bookmarking sites with higher pagerank and traffic .

Just Follow this simple steps to add social bookmarking sites widget to blogger :

Step 1 :

Log in to your Blogger Account and navigate to Layout Section. Then go to Edit HTML Page and check the Expand Widgets box.

Step 2 :

Now search this code :

Step 3 :

Copy and paste the below code immediately below red text.

Add Post To: |
Digg|
Technorati|
Tip'd|
del.icio.us|
Stumbleupon|
Reddit|
BlinkList|
Furl|
Spurl|
Yahoo|
Simpy|

Hide-blogger-navigation-bar

As we all know in blogger, above header there is navbar or navigation bar . Most of want to hide the navigation bar in blogger , but we don’t know how to do that. Never wonder here is a simple trick to hide the navigation bar in blogger .

Follow these easy steps to paste the below CSS code :
CSS code to remove Navigation Bar in Blogger :
-------------------------------------------
/* CSS to hid navigation bar */
#navbar
{
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
}
----------------------------------
Log in to your blogger account and select the Layout of the blog which you want to modify.
Select the tab page Template and then click on Edit HTML
Search for the text : body {
now paste the CSS code above the line in red.
This is how your template HTML code should look after pasting the hack code snippet