Free Premium Blogger Templates - Company Style

Hi friends!!! This post deals with yet another premium blogger template namely, "Company Style" blogger template. I found this template at PBT. It was basically designed by "newwpthemes.com" for Wordpress blogs. The conversion to blogger was made by Lasantha Bandara. This template is one among the very few professionally designed blogger template that I would recommend every one to give it a try. It appears so professional and the combination of colors are excellent. Before I start reviewing and highlighting its features, have a look the screen shot below or click on the demo link to have a live demo of the template.

Live Demo | Download Company Style Blogger Template For Free

The "Company Style" blogger template is basically a two column blogger template with rounded corners and a fixed featured content. Unlike the other templates wherein, you find the sliding featured content, this template provides a static featured content/widget which is specifically meant to display a welcome note to the visitor about your blog. The template carries a right sided second column with white background and dark red color for the title of the widgets.

The template comes with the "Read More" hack automatically installed for each blog post. More over, the template provides two navigation bars which means you get a lot of space to share some links. The template includes a ready to use RSS subscriber feed and twitter icon right next to the left of the search box. How ever, the template misses one feature namely, a three column or four column footer(to add one to your blog now, just click here - Add a three column footer to your blogger template).

Overall, I would recommend this template to every one. I would say, this template would be a dream space for people who love to have fun with HTML. For all those who are poor at HTML, this template will work fine, but you might face difficulties in future when you try to make some changes say adding features like a sliding featured content, footer and so on... I hope you enjoy this template. Give it a try and leave your response here via comments!!!

Click4more... 28 Comments

Add Meta Tags To Each Blogger Post

It's pretty obvious that every one who blogs would love to receive more visitors. So, this post basically provides a simple customization by which you can increase your traffic. It improves the SEO of your blog. Although many bloggers would have added the meta tags to their blog, at least one fourth of them would have missed a piece of code which makes a lot of difference when compared to the other blogs. This line is simply a meta tag representing each blogger post rather than the blog as a whole.

I assume that you have already added meta tags for your blogger blog. If that is not the case, then you need to view this post namely, "Add Title Tags To Your Blogger Blog" before you proceed with this post. If you had completed the previous step, then follow the following steps.

1. Navigate to Design->Edit HTML. As usual, create a back up of your template before you make any changes to the template. Once the back up is done, proceed to step 2.
2. Search for the following piece of code in your template.

<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>

3. Paste the following piece of code just below the line mentioned in step 2.

<meta expr:content='data:blog.pageName' name='description'/>

4. That's all folks!!! Your blog is ready to get a little more hits than before.

So, what does this code do with my blog? To keep it very simple, assume that a person searches your blog on any search engine, say Google, then he/she would see a description written by you beneath the name of your blog as shown in the picture below. When it comes to a post page, that is, if he/she searches for some content, say "Add meta tags to each blogger post", then the post title would be the meta description that appears on the post page.
Do you wonder what benefit your blog would get by making this small customization? The answer is very simple, better search engine ranking which in turn means more traffic. Another advantage would be like this, if your blog and another blog has got the same traffic and if you had installed this tag it means you have a better edge over him and I'm pretty sure you will receive more hits than the other blog.

I hope the above customization will help your blog rank better than before in the search engines. I tried this on my blog and I felt it was pretty effective. So, I hope even you feel the same. Please, feel free to share your views via comments!!!

Click4more... 78 Comments

How To Add A Delicious Button To Blogger Posts?

This post basically features with the addition of a delicious button to every blogger post. It is very similar to addition of digg button(How To Add A Digg Button To Blogger Posts), which you encountered in the last post under the "Design Tips" category. I would stress on adding delicious bookmarks on top of the every blog post apart from the ones installed below the blogger posts because many advertisers favor them. For example, you may check out BuySellAds site and you will find that, they take into account the number of delicious bookmarks for evaluating a site.

So, what is a Delicious? Delicious, formerly known as del.icio.us, is basically yet another social bookmarking site for storing, sharing, and discovering bookmarks. It was found in the year 2003 and later acquired by Yahoo in the year 2005. It includes more 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs. So, the stats will tell the complete story about the strength of this site. Have a look at the final output of this post.How do I get my posts/links bookmarked? Just add the button in your blog and wait for your readers to bookmark it. Hope, some one will bookmark this post:) Now, let's straight away move to the steps for installing this button on our blogger posts.
1. Navigate to Design->Edit HTML from your blogger dashboard. Now, click on the Expand Widget Templates, that is ensure that there is a tick mark.
2. Search for the following code.

]]></b:skin>

3. Download this text file: CSS For The Delicious Button.
4. Copy the code in the text file and paste it just above the line mentioned in step 2.
5. Now, expand your template and search for the following piece of code.

<div class='post-header-line-1'>

6. Download this text: Code For The Delicious Button.
7. Copy the code in the text file and paste it just below the line mentioned in step 5.
8. Save your template.
(Note:The button will be visible only on the post pages and not on your home page. So, please check your post page rather than the home page to preview your button.)

If you find the button on the top right corner of your blogger post, it means you have successfully installed the button on your blog. For further customizations like displaying the button to the top left corner or bottom of the posts or if you face any problem in installing the scripts, leave a comment below and I will help you solve the problem!!

Click4more... 16 Comments

AdvertiseSpace Review | Make Money with AdvertiseSpace

It has been a long time since, I posted some stuff related to money making. May be it is because, I don't make any money out of this blog right now. But, I know my blog's potential and its reach. Many bloggers have faced the same problem which I face now. I would say this is the testing time for my blog and I believe I can overcome the existing scenario. At present, I have set a goal of 100$ per month and I strive hard to make it. I feel, this site "AdvertiseSpace" will make some contribution to that short term goal.

Join AdvertiseSpace now!!!

As I said earlier, I had been struggling for the past few weeks to bring back the reputation and traffic which my blog had earlier, when it was on the blogspot domain. But, believe me or not, I got a mail from the Marketing Manager of Advertise Space. It stated as follows,

"We came across your site and we think you have a fantastic Blogging tips blog there, and would like to personally invite you to test out AdvertiseSpace.com as an additional revenue source for your blog. Some blogs who have been trying our new advertising system have sold out their ad space within 24 hours. We think that some of our advertisers would love your site as well. Your site has been pre-approved by our team, so please feel free to register here, and we will make sure to accept the site right away."

The above statements inspired me and still inspires me to improve my blog. It gives me a sense that the approach towards improving my blog is correct. It has triggered the fire in me and I am constantly trying to increase the visitors and readership for my blog. Although I have not yet made any amount with Advertise Space, I recommend everyone to give it a try.

Above all, do not weigh them on the lower side just because they took the first step to sign up publishers like me. If that's running in your mind, then please chuck it off!! They wish to serve quality ads to their advertisers. So, they are fishy and want to be more specific in approving blogs to their database.

They pay through PayPal on weekly basis and the minimum amount to cash out is $25. More over, the site includes a featured listing (VIP blogs) where in, only the best blogs under each category are displayed to the advertiser. Once, you get into that list, it is clear that some day or the other, an advertiser would approach your blog. Before you sign up, ensure that your blog has enough content and reasonable traffic so that, your blog has a higher probability for approval.

I would say, this site is very similar to BuySellAds excepting that the procedure to approve our blogs is little different. The site clearly states that, "Acceptance will be based on: original content, number of readers and user engagement, rather than Google PR, Alexa, ComScore and other marketing analytics." Therefore, no harm in trying. Just give it a shot and share your views via comments!!! Don't forget to let me know, which website generates more penny for your blog now:)

Click4more... 13 Comments

Free Premium Blogger Templates - Pure Magazine

This post deals with yet another premium blogger template namely, "Pure Magazine". This template is basically a three column blogger template designed by "Lasantha Bandara". The template appears to be a two column one with a right sidebar which later splits into two making the template a three column one and provides ample space to equip all the possible widgets. Check out the screen shot of the template below or click on the link below it to have a live demo of the template.

Live Demo | Download Pure Magazine Blogger Template For Free

The template carries a complete professional look from the header to the footer. It includes two navigation bars, ready to use 468x60 banner ads space on the header, comes with the read more hack installed by default, featured content with numbered navigation below it, a ready to use subscribe widget with twitter and facebook links in it and so on. More over, the template is very SEO friendly which includes ready to use META tags for description and keywords. It ensures that your blog ranks better in Google search with the title hacks installed.

The template comes with a customized comments section to enable avatars for blogger comments. More over, the template includes a four column footer rather than a three column one giving you enough space for displaying almost all the widgets possible over the blogosphere. If I had to continue my review about this template, then I am pretty sure I will be boring you with the advantages only. So, I stop my blabbering here!! Just give it a shot!! Please leave your valuable feedback about the template via comments!!

Click4more... 1 Comment

How To Add Digg Button To Blogger Posts?

I have recently added a tweet me button(Add Tweet/Retweet Button To Your Blog) with counter on the top right corner of my blog posts. Although, the social bookmarks are already available at the end of each post, I have installed the same on top of each blog post just to increase the visibility of them. The buttons must be readily available for the visitor to bookmark rather than scrolling to the end of post, searching them and then bookmarking it. More feasible the buttons are, more the probability of getting your posts spread over the net. Simply, means more visitors to your blog!!!

This post deals with adding a digg button to blogger posts. Before we install the digg button on our blogs, we must know, what is digg??? Wiki defines it as, "Digg is social news website". Perfectly right!! But, I would say it is a user driven social news website. So, what does digg do to my blog? Very Simple!! Nothing but, drives more traffic to your blog!! That is what all bloggers want!! So, lets straight away get to our work by adding this button on our blogger/blogspot blogs. Before we start off, just have a look at the screen shot below for a preview of the final output.
Follow the steps carefully!! Before trying this widget, please make sure that you have a back up of your template so that, if anything goes wrong, you can always upload the earlier version of your template!! To make a back up of your template, just navigate to Design->Edit HTML and click on the download full template. Once you make a back up, you can start off with following steps.

1. Navigate to Design->Edit HTML from your blogger dashboard. Now, click on the Expand Widget Templates, that is ensure that there is a tick mark.
2. Search for the following code.

<data:post.body/>

3. Now, copy the following piece of code and paste it just below the line mention in step 2.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div style='float:right; margin-left:14px;'>
<script type='text/javascript'>
digg_url="<data:post.url/>";
</script>
<script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</div>
</b:if>

4. Once, you paste the above code. Save your template. That is it!! Very Simple!! Isn't' it??

(Note: If you want the digg button to appear at the top left corner, then just interchange the words right and left in the code mentioned in step 3. Moreover, if you have enabled the post pages on your blog, you will not be able to see the buttons on the homepage. So, visit the post pages to have a look at the final output!!!)

You may place the code mentioned in step 3 in different places in your template area. Below the post section, next to the post titles and so on. If you need help regarding the installation at any specific part of your template apart from the usual place explained in this post, then you may contact me via mail or just leave your comments below and I would be happy to help you!!! Always, feel free to share your thoughts via comments:)

Click4more... 10 Comments