Sunday, January 31, 2010

How To Multiply Blogger's Blog Authors To 100X

Blogger permits 100 Authors per blog for group blogs. If you want to increase this count to 100x here is the trick to do it.
Through Email Posting
The first method is to activate the post by email. Go to Settings > Email and Mobile > Email Posting Address. Fill the name as desired. Pass this email address to you blog authors. If you want to keep a check, and review the posts before letting them get published, then check the radio button for Save emails as draft posts.

Through Posterous Autopost Feature
The second method is to try autopost from posterous. This requires some extra effort. Login to posterous and create a group blog. In the autopost feature select your blogger blog for which you want to increase the authors. Invite the extra authors to post on posterous. You have increased the authors from 100 to 100x now.

Monday, January 18, 2010

How To Backup Your Blogger Blog And Its Template On Your Hard Disk

Blogs without backup are like Airplanes without parachute. Make sure you have a back up of your blogger blog.
To keep a backup copy of you Blogger blog on your hard disk go to Settings > Basic > Import Blog. See the yellow circles in the screen-shot below. Click on import and give a meaningful name and date to the saved file. When ever you want to restore your crashed blog select the downloaded xml file and upload it.


To backup your template go to Layout > Edit HTML > Download Full Template. Save this file in similar manner. Kindly note that both the files (the blog backup file and the template backup file) are in xml format and do not have a comprehensible name. It is easy to get confused between the two so make sure you do have some marker as blog and template either in the file-name or in the folder name to identify them later.

Monday, January 4, 2010

How To Add Adsense Ads To Your Blogger Blog ?


The adsense ads can be added to blogger in two different ways. One is through  Blogger interface and the other is through Adsense interface.

Blogger Interface
Enter your blogger dashboard and choose the blog you wish to add the Adsense ads to. Select Monetize and you will automatically get three options, for sidebar and posts, only sidebar and only post. Try the option that most suits your blog. It will take some time for the ads to appear.

Adsense Interface
Login to Adsense by using a Google username /password. Got to Adsense Setup Tab > Adsense For Content. In this tab you find Ad Unit and Link Unit. For now Choose ad unit and click Continue.
This page provides you the options of choosing a size and colour. Depending on the place of the blog choose an appropriate size. Colours can be changed anytime. Just proceed. Later you will have choose an appropriate name for your ad channel and the code to be inserted will come up.
Insert this code in the HTML/ Text page element. It will take some time for the ads to appear.

Friday, January 1, 2010

How To Create A Blog In 5 Seconds Flat ?


Posterous is the quickest and easiest blogging platform. To create a blog open your email and go to compose new mail. In the subject line put the heading of your post and in the body of the message write down your content. You can also add pictures and videos if you want. Send it to post@posterous.com. Done.
You will receive back an email with the ling of your blog. Click to see your blog fully functional.

Customizing

The automatically generated URL may not be tasty enough, so if you wish to change it, go to the site posterous and change the URL according to your own taste.
You can visit my posterous blog to have an idea how it appears at drhamidraihan's posterous.