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20+ Awesome Blogger Tutorials

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TechForty  is sharing awesome Blogger  Tricks, Tips and Tutorials since 2013. Today we are going to list 20 best blogger tutorials in one post. This post covers 20 featured tutorials for your BlogSpot blog and helps you know how customizable Blogger platform is. Following these tutorials you can change your blogger blog's look and feel more beautifully. List Of Blogger Tutorials Below list is a collection of 20 Cool Blogger Tutorials handpicked by us for our blog readers. Click on the links to view article. All the links will automatically open in a new window. Related Posts with Thumbnail widget for blogger This is one of our most popular tutorials, this post explains how can you add a beautiful related posts widget to your blogger blog.  Add Custom Favicon to Blogger Want to customize your blog fully? let's add a custom favicon to it. Read this post and learn how can you change that small picture on your browser tab. Adding Google Plus comments to Blogger

4+ Question and Answer (Q&A) WordPress Themes

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You have seen Yahoo! Answers, Stack Overflow and many other Question and Answer websites. Ever wondered how you can create a website similar to the sites listed above. For creating a Q&A website you just need a WordPress blog and a WordPress Theme that converts your simple weblog into a fully functional Question and Answer website. Most of the themes listed below are simple and powerful theme. It doesn't really matter whether you are about to run specific niche Q-and-A site or a simple questions and answers site relating to a specific product you sell, I am sure you gonna find these themes extremely useful. List of Question and Answer WordPress Themes 1. Q-and-A, WP Questions and Answers Download Demo Its a lovely wordpress q&a theme. Both Questions and Answers are posted via theme’s front-end which means site users will never reach the dashboard. There are options for voting up and down the answer and the person who posts it.. Answer that gets accepted b

How to Add Disqus Comments to Your Ghost Blog

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Ghost  by default allows many customizations  but unfortunately it doesn't have a default commenting system like WordPress . But the good news is you can use other third party commenting systems to your ghost blog like Disqus, Google+, Facebook and more. In this tutorial you will learn how to add Disqus commenting system to Ghost blog. How to add Disqus Commenting to Ghost About Disqus Disqus is a blog comment hosting service for Web sites and online communities like blogs. Disqus is very popular among most of the bloggers and many blogs use it. First you will need a free Disqus account. Go ahead and register your new Ghost site while you're there. Note down Disqus shortname is; you'll need it later. Follow below steps to add Disqus to your Ghost blog Open your post.hbs file and look for {{/post}} . Place the following code just after that,but before </article> : <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div id="disqus_thread"></di

Display Adsense Ads Below WordPress Post Title or Post Itself

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Many WordPress bloggers use Adsense  to monetize their blog. if you are one of them you must place your Adsense ads on high CTR places to increase your earnings. We will show you how can you display Adsense ads(or any other ads) below post title or at the end of the post. Using this you can increase your CTR and also this is acceptable by Google Adsense TOS.Also we are not using a single plugin . Display Adsense Ads Below WordPress Post Title Using below code you can Adsense or any other ads below wordpress post title. Copy and paste below snippet into your theme's functions.php . Replace "AD CODE HERE" with your adsense or any other ads code. add_filter( 'the_content', 'adsense_below_post', 20 ); function adsense_below_post($content) { if ( is_single() ) echo ' <!-- Adsense ads below post by techforty.com --> <!-- Ad code here --> <!-- End --> '; return $content; }

Automatically Redirect WordPress Users After Logout

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WordPress is the Blogging and Content Management System with lots of  facilities provided. If you have a multi-user WordPress site or using it as Community and allow users to register on your site, you can use this code snippet to redirect users to your website or  specific url. For this we will use wp_redirect() function. Uses of Auto Redirect You can redirect your users after logout to Home Page or a page that contains offers for them or display a "Thank You for being with us" or a "heading out stay connected" message like Facebook and give a url to your Mobile Site or Mobile App. The uses of this method are endless and this depends on your creativity. Below is the code which you will need to paste in the functions.php file of your theme. Redirect User to Home Page add_action('wp_logout','auto_redirect_logout'); function auto_redirect_logout(){ wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit(); } Redirect user to custom URL add_action('wp_logout',

30 Social Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic

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There is no shortcut to success but, promotion is an easy way. There are now more social websites than ever. These websites may benefit your blog with traffic ,new visitors and more page views. Blog without readers is like an empty cinema hall broadcasting a superhit movie, thus you need visitors to read your posts and visitor that who will love them too. Sharing your posts on social media websites helps you increase blog traffic. Today we will discuss about different ways social media websites can help you to boost your blog traffic. Applying these changes to your Blog you can gain more pageviews and if you run ads, more money too. Increase Blog Traffic Using Social Media Build a good twitter following. Create a Facebook page linking to your blog and link it back from your home page. Add Facebook Like and Share Buttons to every post. Share every post on your facebook page. Add Facebook open graph Meta tags. Create a pinterest pin board for your website. Share latest ph

SEO Friendly Permalink Structure

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A Permalink is a URL to your Forum thread, Blog post or Product page. Permalink may be referred as permanent link . Permalinks play a major role when it comes to SEO of your website. If you are not using Breadcrumbs your permalink is the green text which is shown below your title on search engine result pages . How Permalinks are displayed in Google search Most of the content management systems allow users to change the format of permalinks, Below we will discuss about search engine friendly permalinks for different type of websites. We will also focus on user friendly structure of URL so users can get a idea about landing page. SEO Friendly Permalink Structure For Blogs A blog contains many posts, some categories and tags, some archive pages and a index page. We should use different kind of permalinks so it will be both user and search engine friendly. Permalink Structure For Blog Post Every blog post contains a date,categories and tags. if you are using blogger, you can not

Redirect Non WWW visitors to WWW version and vice-versa using .htaccess

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If you have a website at www.example.com and  want to redirect users from example.com to www.example.com you can do this using a htaccess 301 permanent redirection . This method is both SEO friendly and user friendly. Even visitors landing on example.com/file.html will be redirected to www.example.com/file.html . We also have the code to redirect www. exmple.com visitors to example.com . Why should you redirect ? Search engines like Google,Bing and Yahoo! would see example.com and www.example.com as two separate websites. They recommend you pick one version you would like search engines to display and using a 301 permanent redirect is the best option. Is this method SEO friendly. A 301 redirection is the most SEO friendly way to redirect users from one address to another. This is search engine friendly and won't cause harm to your SERP rankings. Even Google recommends this If you need to change the URL of a page as it is shown in search engine results, we reco