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Google recently introduced Auto Ads to allow Google to automatically publish ads on websites. The advantage for website owner is the ease of Google Adsense implementation, ad optimization as Auto ads will identify any available ad space and place new ads there, potentially increasing your revenue. But, Google Adsense Auto Ads does not work with Blogger Blogs, another Google Product. (as on 2 June 2018). Read more »

European Union (EU) laws require websites to give EU visitors information about cookies used on website. In many cases, these laws also require websites to obtain consent from the visitor. Blogger is a blogging platform from Google and as such the platform is managed by Google. As a blogger, we are only using the system to post content. The management of the Blogger system is not in our control. Thankfully, Google have we have added a notice on Blogger to help meet these regulations. The notice lets visitors know about Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies on the Blogger blog, including Google Analytics and AdSense cookies. To check the default cookie consent notification implemented by Blogger, refer to our previous blog post here - How To check Cookies notification in Blogger for European Union countries outside EU ?  In case, if you are not satisfied with the default notification and you want to apply your own cookie notification, you can do so following the bel...

European Union (EU) laws require websites to give EU visitors information about cookies used on website. In many cases, these laws also require websites to obtain consent from the visitor. Blogger is a bloggin platform from Google and as such the platform is managed by Google. As a blogger, we are only using the system to post content. The management of the Blogger system is not in our control. Thankfully, Google have we have added a notice on Blogger to help meet these regulations. The notice lets visitors know about Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies on the Blogger blog, including Google Analytics and AdSense cookies. In this post, we will check "How To check Cookies notification in Blogger for European Union countries outside EU?" Read more »

What is Ads.txt ? Authorized Digital Sellers, or ads.txt is an IAB initiative that helps ensure that the digital ad inventory is only sold through sellers you identify as authorized. Creating your own ads.txt file gives you more control over who is allowed to sell ads on your website and helps prevent counterfeit inventory from being presented to advertisers. An ads.txt file can help buyers identify genuine inventory and help publisher receive more advertiser spend that otherwise might have gone toward counterfeit inventory. In this post we shall see "How to add ads.txt to Blogger / WordPress / Other websites?".. Read more »

B logger allows various gadgets or widgets to be included in Blogger blog. Also, apart from the default Blogger widgets, we can also include HTML or JAVASCRIPT codes in Blogger blogs. At times, we may not like to display the widget on all pages. Instead, we may want to hide widgets on certain pages. In this post, we shall see how to 'Hide / Show Blogger Widgets/Gadgets In Home Page, Post, Static Pages, Archive Page etc.' Read more »

I f you are using Blogger Blogspot, you might have noticed that Google redirects Blogger Blogspot sites to country specific URLs. For example, if I open this blog whose URL is techubber.blogspot.com, it gets redirected to techubber.blogspot.in, since I am from India. Similarly, a visitor from UK would see techubber.blogspot.co.uk and so on. You can find the reason from this update here why Google chose to implement country specific domain. In a nutshell, Google implemented country specific domains so that is a site need to be blocked in a certain country but made available on others.  But for bloggers, it creates issues especially with social stats like Tweet counts, Google+, Facebook Likes and even Facebook comments. Therefore, many users prefer to disable the domain redirection. In this post we will see how to implement Blogger from redirecting to country specific domains. Read more »

G oogle released new themes for Blogger in 2017 and they are great! If you haven't seen them, check them out here - Check out new responsive Blogger themes released by Google! They are modern and elegant design.  I have already blogged on some posts related to the new Blogger themes which you can find from this link - Blogger Themes 2017 . Now, one thing I wanted to change in the new Blogger theme I have applied on this site was to display labels expanded. Yes, the new Blogger theme show all the labels collapsed. So, a user has to click on the title or drop down to see first few labels and then click on "Show More" to see all the labels selected during the widget setup. I wanted to display at least the first few labels at least. Read more »

I f you have applied Facebook comments on Blogger blog and you are not able to see some of the Facebook comments, this post is for you. In this post, we will discuss  how to resolve - missing Facebook comments on Blogger sites due to country specific redirection by Blogger. Read more »

T his is a post w.r.t a question I got via Facebook comment on a blog post on " How to add Facebook comments on Blogger site? " in another post (link here ). The questions are given below. I won't be able to reply to him with screenshots in a Facebook reply. Hence, this post. And may be it will also be useful as a reference for others too. So, in this post, we will discuss what happens when a Facebook user comments on a website with Facebook comments integrated and where the comment appears when "Also post on Facebook" is selected by the commenter. Read more »

G oogle introduced new themes for Blogger in 2017 and if you have applied those to your blog, great! Congratulations! In this post, we shall see how to display Google Adsense after the featured post or first post on Blogger new theme 2017. Not just Adsense, we can add and display anything else if desired. Read more »

Google Adsense is the preferred advertisement platform for most Bloggers. It is very easy to implement. It can be added to the Blogger site in so many ways. But basically, in three ways - 1) By choose to auto display ads by Blogger 2) by adding the Adsense code in HTML/JavaScript widgets or 3) directly adding in the Blogger template. Read more »

I f you are here, you might already have checked out the new Blogger themes released by Blogger in 2017. The new Blogger themes are neat and responsive, and are big improvements from the previous old Blogger themes. In case you have not yet checked out the new Blogger themes, check out my previous blog post about them here-  Check out new responsive Blogger themes released by Google! In this post, we shall talk about how to integrate Facebook comments on the new Blogger theme, for both mobile and desktop view. Read more »

Have you checked out the new Official Blogger themes from Google? If you have not, then I recommend you to check out the previous post - Check out new responsive Blogger themes released by Google! And, if you have, then I am wondering if you are thinking how and where to place Google Adsense in the new official Blogger themes. You can also check out different regions where you can place and display Google Adsense ads on new Blogger Themes here . Besides automatically displaying Google Adsense ads from Blogger or manually adding Google Adsense ads via HTML/JavaScript widgets / gadgets, if you intend to place Google Adsense ads in the middle of post content, then you can do so in the following steps. Read more »

Have you checked out the new Official Blogger themes from Google? If you have not, then I recommend you to check out the previous post - Check out new responsive Blogger themes released by Google! And, if you have, then I am wondering if you are thinking how and where to place Google Adsense in the new official Blogger themes. Read more »

If you are a blogger using the Google's Blogger platform and you have a Google+ Page, then you can automatically let Blogger share published blog posts to your Google+ Page as soon as new content is posted. This minimizes your efforts to share your blog posts to your Google+ page if you have one. In this post we will discuss the steps on "How to auto share Blogger blog posts to Google+ Page?" Read more »

I n Blogger, the view on desktop computers and mobile devices are shown differently. By default, the template on mobile devices are stripped down and responsive. Not all sections or widgets displayed on desktop computers are visible on mobile devices. Most widgets manually added to Blogger will not be view-able on mobile devices. Adsense added from Blogger's Adsense widgets are visible however their display regions are only on the top and bottom of the page. Google Adsense code if added manually to the blog using Blogger HTML/JavaScript widget won't display on mobile devices. In order to show widgets visible on desktop to also show on mobile devices, including Google Adsense widgets, do the following changes. How to enable widgets to display on mobile devices? Read more »

Google Docs is a good online tool to create and share documents online and also access our documents from anywhere. From Google Docs, we can manage documents, spreadsheets, presentations, surveys, and more all in one place. Not only is Google Docs good for editing documents online, we can also easily share, collaborate and also publish documents to our websites and blogs at ease. In this post, we will check out " How to publish - link or embed Google Docs to websites and blogs? ". Read more »

T rying to share a link from your blog or website to Twitter but images are not showing up on Twitter? This post would probably help you to resolve the issue. Follow the steps in detail given below to show images on Twitter. Is it important to show images in tweets? Well, yes. People are generally more interested in checking out tweets if there are appropriate images along with the text. "Picture speaks a thousand words" still is common around here. Usually, when we share links from our blogs or websites to Twitter, we don't want just a bunch of texts, hash tags and the URL but we expect some image to show up on our posts. But I found out the images does not show up on Twitter. Since, you are here, I am sure you have found out and looking for ways to let image appear on Twitter. So, let's get on with it. Images on Twitter tweets are what Twitter calls "cards". There are four types of Twitter cards : Read more »

WordPress Plugin for responsive menu With the increasing use of mobile phones, there is a lot of importance now on responsive web design. In the recent years, there is a lot of emphasis on responsive web design, so that the experience on mobile devices is smooth and user friendly. Keeping that in mind, it is better to have a responsive menu for mobile users instead of the default menu layout even for our WordPress sites. Luckily, there are responsive menu plugins out there for WordPress! There may be a lot out there, but in this post, we'll see one particular WordPress plugin that will enable responsive menu for mobile devices for a WordPress website. While some WordPress themes takes care of responsive menu in their template design itself, most themes may not. For this example, I am using one of the default WordPress themes - Twenty Eleven. We will see how the WordPress menu looks like on mobile and how the menu is neatly displayed responsively after installing the plugin. Read mo...

Showing "Related Posts" on blogs is a good way to keep viewers engaged with your blog. Once they are finished going through a particular blog post, your visitors may want to browse related posts on your blog. If you have a "related posts" or "you may also like" section, they can easily check out other articles on your blog. This is also good for reducing bounce rates. In my previous post, I discussed about how to add a "you may also like" or "related posts" section on Blogger blog using a free service from "LinkWithin". If you have not yet added a "related posts" or "you may also like" section on your blog, you can check out my previous blog post here - How to add "you may also like" or related posts widget for blogger? Though the article is about adding "You may also like" or "related posts" on Blogger blog, you can also use the "LinkWithin" service for other bloggin...