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Finding Your Blogger Blog’s Sitemap

February 17, 2011February 18, 2009 by Paul Salmon

Adding a sitemap to Google’s Webmaster tools is one of the first tips you will be told to do when you first manage a web site or blog. It is an easy process to do, and you can get many benefits from it, such as monitoring how Google is indexing your pages, the external and internal links it finds, and any problems Google may find with indexing your site.

For Blogger users, the sitemap to your blog may not be easy to find. Blogger does have a built-in tool that can help you add your sitemap, but if other services can use a sitemap, you may want to know where the sitemap is located. The good news, is that it is easy to find.

How to Add a Google Sitemap for Blogger Blogs

February 17, 2011November 26, 2008 by Paul Salmon

I have seen many questions regarding adding a Sitemap to Google’s Webmaster Tools for a Blogger blog. Many people don’t know that you already have a Sitemap-ready file created for you by Blogger, and that all you need to do is use that one in Webmaster Tools.

In this post I will look at adding your Blogger blog’s Sitemap to the Webmaster Tools so you can keep track of your pages using those tools.

How to Change Your Comment Links in Blogger to DoFollow

December 17, 2010November 19, 2008 by Paul Salmon

There is always much talk about nofollow and dofollow links on web sites. Much of the discussion is about whether you should make a link nofollow. For blogs, this discussion is centered more around the links in the comments of a blog post. Many visitors may leave a comment in an effort to get a free link back to their blog with a dofollow comment link.

In WordPress you have plugins that can control whether a link in the comments is nofollow or dofollow. In Blogger blogs, however, the default is to use nofollow links in the comments of the posts. In this post I will explain how to change the comment links in a Blogger blog to dofollow, if you would like to make the change.

How To Display Post Excerpts in Blogger

December 17, 2010October 17, 2008 by Paul Salmon

Update:

On September 9, 2009 Blogger introduced “Jump Links” that incorporates the <-- more --> tag, much like WordPress. This allows Blogger users to display posts excerpts easily in their blog. For more information, please read the help article on creating Creating ‘After the jump’ summaries.

Many blogs may display only a few paragraphs of a post, and then provide a link to the rest of the post. These blogs usually publish rather large posts, and would like to display several posts on they home page, without the page getting too large.

WordPress has a tag that you can insert to create a post excerpt, but Blogger doesn’t have such a feature. In this post I will explain a work around you can use to create post excerpts in Blogger.

How To Easily Display a Blogroll on Blogger

December 17, 2010October 15, 2008 by Paul Salmon

It has been a while since I have written a post about Blogger. While I have since switched to WordPress, I still think Blogger is a good platform for those just starting out in blogs.

Many people like to create and display a list of blogs on their blog called a blogroll. The list is usually comprised of blogs that the author enjoys reading. Blogger includes a gadget that you can use that will display more than just a blog’s title. I will explore this gadget in this post.

Blogger to WordPress – Part 4

December 17, 2010September 19, 2008 by Paul Salmon

This post is the fourth and final post in my series about converting from Blogger to WordPress. I have discussed installing WordPress locally, domain names and hosts, and plugins and themes.

In this post I will finish off with moving your blog to WordPress, pointing the two domain names to your WordPress blog, and then preventing Google from thinking your two domains contain duplicate content.

Blogger to WordPress – Part 3

June 7, 2012September 17, 2008 by Paul Salmon

In the first part I discussed installing WordPress on your local machine, and importing your Blogger posts into WordPress. From there, I talked about purchasing a domain name, and a host in part 2 of this series.

If you have been looking at WordPress on your local machine you have probably come across plugins and themes. You may have figured out what they are, but if you haven’t, I will discuss them in this post.

Blogger to WordPress – Part 2

August 15, 2013September 12, 2008 by Paul Salmon

This post will continue the steps that I took to convert my Blogger blog to a WordPress blog. In Blogger to WordPress – Part 1 I talked about installing WordPress on your local machine. This was done to help you learn WordPress and practice importing your Blogger data.

In this part I will talk about domain names and hosts, what they are and how they will be used during the conversion.