Promoting Your Blog

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This is in no way a science or guarantee; it's simply a few suggestions with which many bloggers have found success.

Set your blog to Send Pings. When this setting is activated, your blog will be included in various "recently updated" lists on the web as well as other blog-related services.

Activate Your Navbar. Do this and you might start to see the effects right away! One of the features on the Blogger Navbar is a button called NextBlog - click it to visit the next Navbar-enabled blog.

Install Email This Post. If you use Email This Post on your blog, people will be able to forward your posts to friends. This may not have an immediate impact on your site stats but it enables others to publicize your blog for you.

Turn on Post Pages. By publishing every post as its very own web page with Post Pages, you ensure that your entries are way more link-able and more attractive to search engines.

Turn on your site feed. When people subscribe to your site feed in their newsreaders, they're very likely going to read your post.

Add your blog to Blogger's listings. When you add your blog to our listings it shows up in Nextblog, Recently Updated, and other places. It's like opting-in to traffic.

Write quality content and do it well. If your "style" is bad writing, worse grammar, no punctuation, and an ugly design, that might be okay for a niche crowd. But the idea here is to achieve mass appeal, so fix yourself up a bit.

Publish regular updates. Simple: the more you blog, the more traffic you'll get.

Think of your audience. A good way to build an audience is to speak to one in particular. When you keep your audience in mind, your writing gains focus. Focus goes a long way toward repeat visitors.

Keep search engines in mind. There are a few things you can do to make your blog more search engine friendly. Use post titles and post page archiving. This will automatically give each of your post pages an intelligent name based on the title of your post. Also, try to be descriptive when you blog. A well crafted post about something very specific can end up very near the top results of a search.

Keep your posts and paragraphs short. Strive for succinct posts that pump pertinent new information into the blogosphere and move on. Keep it short and sweet so visitors can pop in, read up, and click on.

Put your blog URL in your email signature. Think of how many forwarded emails you've seen in your day, and just imagine the possibilities.

Sumbit your address to blog search sites and directories. People look for blog content at Technorati every day, are you on their list? You should be. Submit your blog's url to Technorati, Daypop, Blogdex, Popdex, and any other site of that ilk you come across.

Link to other blogs. Links are the currency of the blogosphere and it takes money to make money so start linking.

Install a blogroll. It's a very simple yet effective social networking scheme and it has the same result as a simple link if not stronger: traffic! So if you don't have one yet, sign up for a blogroll and get that link-list going.

Be an active commenter. This is in the same vein as linking. Most comment systems also provide a way for you to leave a link back to your blog which begs a visit at the very least. So if you feel inspired, leave a comment or two in your blog travels. It behooves you.

Enable Following on your blog. Following a is a great way to keep your friends updated on the latest activity on your blog. New blogs will have this blog feature enabled by default, but for older blogs you will have to enable it from the Layout | Page Elements tab.


Sumber : Blogger support

Cara buat 'read more' di blog ( terbaru )

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Login blog melalui blogger in draft . Nak kenal dashboard draft atau dashboard biasa, lihat logo Blogger yang berwarna biru. Itu tandanya kita berada di Dashboard in Draft.




Klik New Post > tulis entri mcm biasa sampai siap. Pada perenggan yang mahu kita buat 'read more' - klik tab 'insert jump break' yang berada di kanan entri post tadi.

Pastikan entri post dalam posisi - compose.





Atau pada posisi Edit HTML mode tambah code <!-- more --> dimana-mana perenggan yang kita kehendaki.

Publish Post seperti biasa.



Jika gagal gunakan cara ini
Layout > Edit HTML > tick Expand Widget Templates

<data:post.body/>

Delete code di bawahnya dan ganti dengan code ini

<b:if cond='data:post.hasJumpLink'>
<div class='jump-link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url + "#more"'><data:post.jumpText/></a>
</div>
</b:if >

Cara tukar template tanpa hilangkan widget

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Kalau bercadang menukar template baru, mula-mula kenal pasti widget yang ada di blog sama ada di sidebar, main wrapper, header atau pun footer.

Cari code seperti ini di template blog lama.

<div id='main-wrapper'>
<b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='no'>
<b:widget id='HTML2' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='HTML4' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='Blog2' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>
</b:section>
</div>

Ini adalah widget di main wrapper - hanya contoh. copy dan paste code yang berwarna merah pada notepad.


<div id='sidebar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='Mutiara Kata' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='Feed2' locked='false' title='Post Terkini' type='Feed'/>
<b:widget id='HTML7' locked='false' title='Komen Terkini' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='BlogList1' locked='false' title='My Blog List' type='BlogList'/>
<b:widget id='BlogArchive1' locked='false' title='Blog Archive' type='BlogArchive'/>
<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='Pelawat' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='Followers1' locked='false' title='Followers' type='Followers'/>
</b:section>
</div>


Ini contoh widget di sidebar. Kata kunci yang perlu diberi perhatian adalah <div id='sidebar-wrapper'>

Kalau ada widget di footer blog, cari <div id='footer-wrapper'>

Dah siap copy dan paste di notepad. Boleh save untuk kegunaan di lain kali.

Ok, sekarang setelah kita unzip file template baru yang ingin digunakan.

Pergi ke Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML
Download Full Template dulu, untuk langkah keselamatan.
Klik Browser dan cari file yang kita save tadi. Klik Upload



Selalunya selepas kita upload template baru, akan keluar arahan seperti di atas, Confirm & Save. Klik Confirm & Save macam biasa.

Lepas tu Jangan tick pada Expand Widget Templates

Masih lagi di page EDIT HTML, Scroll di bawah, cari code seperti ini:

<div id='sidebar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>

copy dan paste code widget yang kita save tadi.

Widget main wrapper letak di bawah
<div id='main-wrapper'>
<b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='no'>


Widget footer letak di bawah code

<div id='footer-wrapper'>
<b:section class='footer' id='footer'>

* Kadang-kadang ada masalah ID yang sama , contoh HTML1 ada 2, tukar salah satunya dengan ID lain , contoh HTML6,7,8. Atau ID Feed1 ada 2, tukar salah satunya dengan ID lain, contoh Feed11.



Kemudian klik Save Template .

Cara tukar template blogspot

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1. Guna search engine untuk mendapatkan template yang disukai.

Antaranya :

• bietemplates.com
• ipietoon.com
• smashingmagazine.com
• deluxetemplates.net
• giselejaquenod.com
• falconhive.com

Download dan biasanya file dalam bentuk .zip. unzip dulu file, save dalam folder.

2. Pergi ke Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML



Download Full Template dulu, untuk langkah keselamatan.

Klik Browser dan cari file yang kita save tadi. Klik Upload.

Save.

Update Blog Melalui SMS

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Percubaan saya mengupdate blog melalui SMS telah berjaya. Hanya perlukan handphone asas yang ada fungsi SMS. Percubaan ini berjaya dengan perkhidmatan yang kita daftar dengan dapat.com.

Mula-mula pergi ke Dashboard > Setting > Email & Mobile.




Isikan ruangan email rahsia tersebut, jangan berkongsi dengan sesiapa. Save.

Kemudian hantar SMS BLOG REG [label] [emel blogger] ke 32728. Anda boleh berikan apa sahaja nama bagi ruangan [label]. Contoh SMS: BLOG REG blogtutorial.1234@blogger.com

Anda akan menerima SMS mengesahkan pendaftaran berjaya.

Untuk update blog:

Hantar SMS BLOG [label] [tajuk entri] # [entri blog] ke 32728.

Contoh SMS: BLOG blogtutorial Testing # Ini testing update blog melalui SMS.


rujukan : SembangKomputer