Shoutmeloud.com uses a theme which is probably the best looking theme in the blogosphere. Harsh agarwal designed the theme by his own hand through thesis theme customization. Many well known bloggers are now using this great looking theme on their blog which proved that shoutmeloud theme is popular indeed. Previously only self-hosted wordpress user had the opportunity to use this popular theme on their blog but that is no more ! Blogger who are using blogspot as blogging platform for their websites can now use this beautiful … [Read more...]

Blogspot is not SEO friendly by default since it does not have meta description and meta keywords on pages and posts. Can't understand why Google is not including this on blogspot. Well, you no longer have to worry about it. By adding a piece of code you can set dynamic meta description on every posts and pages. The dynamic meta description will retrieve excerpt from you blog post. Here's the piece of code you need to add on your blog: <meta expr:content='data:blog.pageTitle + &quot; - keywords&quot;' … [Read more...]

Blogspot have no option to display list of recent comments on your blog's homepage. There is however a simple hack by which you can add a list of latest comments on your sidebar. After logging into blogger's blog dashboard, click on design of the blog you want to edit. On Page elements section, select "Add a gadget" and past the code given below: <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102);font-family:verdana;" > <b>RECENT COMMENTS</b></span> <script style="" … [Read more...]

For self hosted wordpress blog it’s easy to convert them to mobile version using plugins. But, how about bloggers who are using blogspot instead of wordpress ? Well, there is a solution for this. If you are using built-in template provided by blogger then you don’t have to go through coding process to make your blog friendly with cell phone or smartphone because the code is added to it by default. However, if your blog is using template downloaded from third party site then you have to manually add the code. … [Read more...]

Update: I didn't realize it before until some fellow readers notified me about it. If you change the post title from H3 to H1 tag then every post title on homepage will have h1 tag. It is not recommended to have more than one H1 tag per page according to Google. Inside the post or pages it is OK. What you can do is to limit the post on homepage to one so that only one post will appear on homepage and hence there will be one H1 post title on homepage. I am trying to figure it out on how to display title with h3 tag on homepage but h1 tag … [Read more...]

Blogspot has built-in recent posts widget which shows a list of recent post along with thumbnails. Alternatively you can avoid the built-in widget by adding a code on your own. <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102);font-family:verdana;" > <b>LATEST POSTS</b> </span> <script style="" src="http://home.kpn.nl/oosti468/downloads/showrecentposts2.js"></script><script style="">var numposts = 5;var showpostdate = false;var showpostsummary = true;var numchars = 100;var standardstyling = … [Read more...]

I googled a lot on how to add a rel="nofollow" tag to label link for blogger. After being unsuccessful on google search, I tried myself to add no=follow tag by trial and error method and I managed to add the nofollow tag to label link successfully. This is how I did it. 1. Log onto blogger and on the dashboard select blog you wish to edit 2. Go to "Design" and then click "Edit HTML" 3. Tick the box "Expand Widget Templates" 4. Now search for the following code: expr:href='data:label.url' The best way is to press "ctrl + F" … [Read more...]