How To Embed Youtube Video in your Blog

This post explains, how to embed(insert) a youtube video in your blogger blog:So,you want to embed a video(movie) onto your blog.The process is very simple,even a dummie can do it.If you want to embed your original video,then first sign up for an account in youtube and upload your video and get the embed code.Otherwise,you can easily embed any public youtube video in your blog.Go to youtube.com and search for the video.For example,if you want to embed a britney spears video,search it and copy the embed code on to a windows notepad or anything else.The following process is explained below with pictures for easy understanding.1.Go to youtube.com and search for your required video2.Copy the embeded code(ctrl+c) and paste(ctrl+v) it in windows...
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Submit blog to blog directories and increase the traffic

This post explains how to increase your blog traffic by submitting your blog to different kinds of blog directories which rates,provide statistics about your blog and provide free traffic and maximum exposure to your blog.Submitting your blog to these directories is a very good thing to do particularly if your blog is very new one with low traffic.These blog directories have high pageranks than your blog(since your blog is a new one with pagerank Zero).So, if someone searches for a particular keyword,there is more possibility for the blog directory to appear in the results than yours.So,by adding your blog to these directories,the visitors enters these directories containing your articles(when they click the article,they enter your site) and...
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how to submit blogger sitemap to google-useful tip for new bloggers

This tip explains how to generate and submit blogger sitemap to google webmaster tools:Before doing this,let me say what are sitemaps and how they will help us.The reason we use them is,they will help google bot to crawl,index pages of your site and tell you if there are any problems when they try to index it.It also helps you to know,how many pages exactly are indexed,and what people searched in the search engine to visit your site.Let me explain the detailed procedure on how to submit your blogger sitemap to google.1.First,go to google webmaster tools and sign in with your gmail account.2.After you logged in, you will see this asking you to add a site.Add your blog url(ex:kranthitips.blogspot.com).Don't add with http or www.3.Next,it asks...
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Top 5 Free IMAGE HOSTS For Your BLOGS

Want to share photos,avatars,signatures,family pictures,animated icons,etc to your friends,family members,message boards,for auctions,forums,for your blogs,etc Here is the list of Top 5 Image hosting services which host your photos for FREE.Some want to sign up before you upload your photos,and some don't.But onething is common.After uploading,they will give direct links to your photos or some html codes if you want to share if forums,etc.Photobucket.com:This is the No1 image hosting service to host your photos,currently hosting billions of images.You can upload your photos,videos directly from your pc and they provide the essential codes for different purposes like,for layouts....direct links,for posting in forums......html code,etc.Limitations:Max...
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Adding meta tags to blogger(blogspot) blogs websites SEO

If you don't know what meta tags are, and what is the importance of adding meta tags, here is the detailed description on how to add them to your blogger(blogspot) blogs or any website.Do you know adding meta tags is so important if you want to get more traffic from search engines like google,yahoo,msn,etc,especially the meta description is the most important one.If you don't know what meta tags are,Meta tags are the tags which describes your site and tells the search engines what your site is all about.Adding meta tags is an important factor in SEO.(Search Engine Optimisation).Meta tags allows search engines to index your web pages more accurately. In other words,Meta tags communicate with the search engines and tells more information about...
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Submit blogger sitemap to yahoo to index your web pages

This post explains how to submit your blogger sitemap to Yahoo.By submitting your sitemap to yahoo, they will index your web pages in yahoo search engine and provide you with detailed information related to your blog like which pages are linking to yours,popular pages in your site and you can submit and track feeds for your sites.Also,you have the choice to delete any urls of your blog if you won't want to index certain pages of your site.Submitting your site to yahoo is easy and give your web pages more exposure.All you need is a YAHOO ACCOUNT(ID).However,you don't need an yahoo ID to know the information like how many pages are indexed,etc.But,if your blog is a new one or no pages in your blog are indexed(type your blog url in yahoo search...
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Ways to increase your blog traffic

Everyone want's traffic.You set up a blog with great content but,no one is visiting your blog,so what's the use of it.So, you need atleast a decent amount of traffic and what's great than getting that traffic for FREE?So,here is the good list of 6 Free ways to get traffic to your blog.1.SEARCH ENGINE:Yea! it brings lots of traffic to your blog.There are millions of people search in the search engines like Google,Yahoo,msn everyday.So,if your blog has so many good posts and is well indexed by google,etc..you will get a good amount of traffic via search engines.There are a few steps to look at if you want a decent amount of traffic from the search engines like "submitting your blog sitemap to google",yahoo to index you blog pages very quickly.And the other important one is adding meta tags to...
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How to Make your Blogger Blog ready for Mobile Phones

As you know, millions of people use their mobile phones to access internet. The mobile internet speed is also very fast these days with 3G's , mobile apps,etc.From this, we can say many of your readers are coming to your blog through mobile phones..But, if you don't make your blog mobile friendly, .you may lose all your mobile readers because in a mobile phone, a normal blog takes lot of time to load and there are other issues that your site not fitting properly in the mobile screen.So, here is how to make your Blogger (blogspot) blog mobile internet friendly..Sign into your Blogger account > Design > Edit htmlFind this line..<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>Paste this code below that line...<meta content='IE=EmulateIE7'...
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Numbered Page Nagivation hack for Blogger

This post explains how to add numbered page navigation widget to blogger (blogspot) blogs:What is Numbered Page Navigation ?In blogger, by default, you see Older posts, Newer Posts links near the bottom of the page which is useful to your blog visitors to navigate to other posts of your blog. But, the problem is.. people hardly notice those newer and older posts links.. which means.. less pageviews to your blog.So, to increase your blog pageviews you can use this cool looking, advanced numbered page navigation to your blog.So, how to add this to your Blogger blog ?(first backup your blog template before editing anything)1. Sign into your Blogger account » Settings » FormattingChoose the number of posts you want to display on homepage2. Go to...
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503 Service Unavailable in Blogger

Are you getting this error message on your blog dashboard, or while you are trying to access your blog?What does 503 mean? 503 “Service Unavailable” is a “response code” like 404 “Page not found”. The 503 response code is a bit more complicated as it is not a page that is missing it is a server problem. Usually this happens when a server cannot cope or deliver its hosted content to web users, in other words blogger servers have been overloaded. Background Back in March Google engineers introduced Auto Pagination which basically reduces and summarizes the amount of posts that a blog displays on the home page, this only affects blogs that show all or most of their full posts on the home page. This approach to the problem by Blogger has proved...
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My Site Bandwidth Blasted!!

Today morning, I got an email from my hosting company that my account was temporarily suspended due to excessive usage of Bandwidth.Daily thousands of people are downloading our template copies.So, it's understandable. I got my account back and I can't afford to get it suspended again.I edited each template again and changed the image links (presently, images hosted in 5 Photobucket accounts).I'm providing the template image files in the download file.So, if you really like a template, please feel free to spend 10 minutes on uploading the image files to your account and change the image links in the template.. so, the problem will never repeat again.How to do that?? (Tutorial)QUICK METHOD:1.Download a Fresh Copy of the template and replace your template code from<head><b:include data='blog'...
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How to Host your Template Images in Blogger (Unlimited Bandwitdh) ?

If you are a regular reader of Blogger Tricks, you probably know that previously I had many problems hosting my template images. A year back, I used photobucket to host my template images.. but, the problem with photobucket and many other free image hosts is their bandwidth limitations. Once, you exceed a specific amount of bandwidth, your images won't show, instead.. an irritating ' bandwidth exceeded' image shows. Next, after that I tried to create.. like a new photobucket account per each template.. but, that also exceeded in a matter a couple of weeks.Not only me, my other blogger template designers are also struggling to find a reliable, free image host with unmetered bandwidth.I tried to upload the images to blogger and copy the image...
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How to track your blog visitors?

As a new blogger(webmaster),it is always interesting to know how many people are visiting your blog/site,pageviews,where they are coming from,which sites are referring,how many are coming via Search Engines(google,yahoo,etc) and what they are typing in the search engines to visit your site.These stastistics are very handy interms of improving your blog and it is for FREEIf you search the google,you will find hundreds of sites which will track the visitors of your blog/site.But,some sites will provide more information about your visitors than the others.So,how to do this?Here are the best tracking sources interms of the feautures they provide.Note:One thing is common for all the tracking sites.First you need to register,and provide the necessary...
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