10 advantages of maintaining a blog at medium.com

We have introduced this blogging platform - medium.com in our earlier article. It's one of the 63 blogging platforms. We have shared how to get registered with it and start blogging right away. Hope you found that article simple and helpful. But today let us see the advantages of blogging in it.

Blog Creation Easy

You don’t need professional knowledge in web designing just to open a blog at medium.com. You can just sign-up using your Twitter, Facebook or Gmail Accounts. You can start blogging right away.

Simple Designs

The design of blogging space it provides doesn’t contain confusing HTMLs and CSS. You don’t have to worry anything about web designing. An average computer user can comfortably use it.   

No sidebars

You don’t have to worry about sidebar/footer widgets/gadgets. Medium.com contains none. It’s clean and professional.  

Same theme

When there aren’t any templates to be picked base on our preferences, all the people who maintain blog have uniform designs.

Professional

The design, appearances and also font size and styles are professional. Posting of an article is not only easy but also professional.

Easy to Post

You don’t have to worry anything about blog posting know-how. Writing an article and sharing with others is as easy as sharing a status on your Facebook Wall.  

Post Import

It’s just a matter of click to share your authored articles from other blogs or websites hosted in other platforms. You just have to copy-paste their URL addresses and the click on Import. Also contents will be just like how you have written in original platform.

Editor’s Pick

A list of inspiring or influential posts will be picked by editors and shown under Top Stories on Medium. This will not only help others to learn how to write well but will also provide encouragement for beginners.  

Featured Tags

You can either add your custom tags/labels for your posts or pick up from a list of featured tags. If you use tags from featured tags, probability of getting connected with and followed by other bloggers in the platform will be increased.

Bookmark Button

If you have come across a wonderful post and you’re too busy to complete reading it till the end, medium.com has a bookmark button. Just by clicking this button, the same article will be saved to read later.

To change blogger post publish date to time & Vice-versa

In a blogger post, author of the post will be given along with either date on or time at which the post was published. This information will be shown on the top left-hand side corner of a post just below the post title. In some templates, it will be shown at the bottom left-hand side corner.
      

The manner in which it starts also varies. In some, it will be like Posted by: Author name at Time or on Date. In some templates, it will be like By Author name | Date or Time. Free blogger templates usually have former whereas in third party templates it will be latter. 

But you can change them into a format which you want. Let us consider the following HTML before proceeding any farther:

<meta expr:content='data:post.canonicalUrl' itemprop='url'/>
            <a class='timestamp-link' expr:href='data:post.url' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' expr:title='data:post.timestampISO8601' itemprop='datePublished'><data:post.timestamp/></abbr></a>

In above HTML, you must have seen 'timestamp' being mentioned thrice. This represents that additional information of a post will be like Posted by: Author Name at Time. Now let us say you want to change into date instead of time, just replace timestamp in above code with date. Once you have changed it, your post details will be like: Posted by Tom at Friday, August 21, 2015. Otherwise it will show time at which post was published. This trick will work well in free blogger templates. 

If you are using third party blogger templates, format may be little different. Our template is also such template. Ours is something as shown below:

By <a><data:post.author/></a> &amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp <data:post.timestamp/> 

This means the additional information of our post will be like By Tom | Time. If we want to change it into something like By Tom | Tuesday, September 8, 2015; we have to replace timestamp in above code with date. 

                          

We hope you got this trick well. You can try the appropriate one in your blog once. It's really fun. If it didn't work well, let us know by dropping your problem in the comment. Enjoy Blogging. Cheers! 

Simple Blogging Trick to Hide a Gadget Title in Blogger

It’s not necessary that all the sidebar widgets on your blog should have names/titles. Some widgets/Gadgets appear professionally better when they are left unnamed or say without titles. But blogger demands widget titles for all except third party HTML/JavaScript widget. Here it’s optional. 

Let us say that you have added Popular Posts widget. When it’s being processed to be added, you cannot SAVE unless you give appropriate details in its title space. Blogger doesn’t accept blank title space in such widget. This means you have only two choices – either to add the widget by giving its title or by not adding the widget. An option where you can add even without making its title visible for readers isn’t there. 

But don’t worry. We have got the trick that will give you a third option. You can have any widget in your sidebar or footer without having titles. This trick also can be used to fool your readers by adding same widget say Popular Posts more than once but with different parameters. Reader will be lured to read your popular posts twice. 

So how you can use this trick in your blog? 

Login to your blog>Click on Layout>Click on Add a Gadget>Choose a Gadget which you wants to add, for illustration let us keep Profile>Add it by clicking on a Plus sign below it. Now you can see blogger intelligently giving us a default title of this widget as About Me. Do you like it? If not you can change it to something like This is Me. And Click on SAVE. Click on View Blog to see how your blog appears with the addition of it. 
    

But your blog appears little disoriented when your Profile Gadget has name/title. Seems it would appear better if you leave it without title. If that is the case with yours too, instead of About Me or This is Me, give <html/> as its title. This will lock the HTML. Click SAVE. And then you can click View Blog to see the changes.

If you love this trick and also want to hide the titles of other gadgets, you can easily have it by replacing the titles of any widget you have given with <html/> and then clicking SAVE. What can simpler than this? 

If you have successfully used this trick, please leave your blog URL as a comment below. We also want to have a look. Thank you. Enjoy Blogging!

Medium, another latest and best blogging platform

There are many blogging platforms. We know WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and LiveJournal etc. You have heard enough of them. But I think you must have heard little about yet another blogging platform - Medium.

Blogging with medium will be really sexy. Procedural requirements are less and easy. Publishing of articles is like writing a status in Facebook wall. Importing of articles from other websites is easy. 

If you have a profile at medium.com, you can do the following from your account:

1. You can have a customized page (just like in any other blogging platforms)
2. You can also ask as many questions as possible. Members are many
3. You can read articles shared by other members. Just like in Facebook adding and friends/followers is very easy
4. Editor team shares a number of articles published by members that are worth reading under Editor's Pick

So if you too wanted to join with medium.com, please follow the given steps for registration:

1. Open Medium (www.medium.com)
2. Sign in using either Twitter, Facebook or Gmail
3. Press enter
4. You are inside medium.com
5. You may read Editor's Pick
6. Click on your profile photo
7. Click on New Story to write new article
8. Click on Import story to share from other websites 

This is it. You have fully accessible account with medium.com. Now you can use it to write new articles, ask questions, share old articles and also read articles published by other members. Hope you will enjoy being with medium. Cheers!

20 good reasons as to why we should maintain a blog

Sometimes I come across people who often ask me reasons as to why I maintain a blog in my own name. Many at times, due to limited time I fail to give all the reasons for blogging. So today I have a comprehensive list of reasons for why I maintain a blog. It can be reasons for blogging for all bloggers:

1-Blogging helps a person to improve his English. A person has to communicate thousand and thousand of readers which will demand good English. So he will always remain curious and read more to share the best with his readers.  

2-Blogging is a bigger platform. One has to use different strategies to bring more and more readers. This will improve his/her creativity.  

3-Blogging is a platform where one can learn thousands and thousands of new things. It’s a community of professionals.  You can make learners or be learned.

4-Blogging helps in developing interpersonal relationships. It is an easy way to gain digital citizenship and often meet inspiring people and one's life time idols. 

5-Blogging helps a person to improve his basic computer skills and web designing related knowledge.  

6-Blogging itself is a form of salesmanship. In the process of trying to bring more and more readers, one’s online marketing skills will be developed. 

7-When a blog receives a good number of readers and then knows how to implement various blog monetizing policies, blogging can be a platform to make money.  

8-Blogging can be one of the ways to develop a business. It’s an easy and free mode of marketing a business to reach targeted customers. 

9-Blogging is an easy way to improve one’s personality. Comments and suggestions from readers will help in studying self.  

10-Blogging on recent changes in political, scientific, societal, economy, technology, gadget and fashion fronts will help to remain dynamically updated and useful. 

11-Blogging is a free place to share your views, ideas, feelings, knowledge and develop your own community.  

12-Blogging is a platform to discover a list of people who are helping the world move in their own inspiring ways. 

13-Blogging helps a person to improve his SEO techniques needed in web designing and other online works. 

14-Blogging often can be a platform to make a difference in society by doing what one is good at and making people know about it through blogs. 

15-Blogging is a platform to help people who don’t know what we know and also how to do what we are doing. 

16-Blogging is a means through which one can remain connected with friends, relatives and kinsmen.  

17-Blogging in the best way through which one will often become the most wanted person and build an image of being expert. 

18-Blogging is one of the best modern ways to tell your stories to global audience and also read their stories too. 

19-Blogging can be a drive to store the document which can be necessary in future references.  

20-Blogging is now a source of fun. You will never know just by reading one inspirational post can relieve from countless stresses. 

Therefore, when there are more reasons to blog than not to blog, why don't you also embark in the journey of blogging? 

12 important skills to become a successful Blogger

Blogging isn't as easy as it appears. It requires quite a number of skills. If one wants to become successful in blogging, one will need many things. Therefore, today let us see what it takes to become a successful blogger.

1. Good English

English is a global language. It’s also one of the highest used languages both in speaking and writing. We can say that maximum language that is being used in internet world will also English. Therefore, to be a successful blogger, one should possess a good command in English writing – eloquently persuasive. It is being observed that avid readers have good written English. This means active reader can measure a good blogger. A person having poor English cannot bring good content to a blog. In blogging, content is king. 

2. Web Designing Skills 

It’s undeniably true that one should possess basic web designing knowledge to become a successful blogger. A person who knows SEO techniques, individual post potential maximization, monetizing the blog and basic web designing languages will find lesser friction in becoming a successful blogger compare to a person who doesn’t have any of such skills. Web designing knowledge is also needed to cope with constant changes in the blogging world. 

3. Creativity 

Blogging itself is a world. Number of bloggers across the world is so large that one should implement different tactics and strategies to make our blogs noticeable in the crowd. To do that one will need a high level of creativity. Every blogger must strive to develop uniqueness in their contents. Information on any topic will be readily available. But creativity can present same information in a more appealing manner. 

4. Photography 

When everything is becoming digital now, photography is also becoming almost inseparable with blogging. Photographic skill is needed to bring good post thumbnails. Importance skill cannot be denied for a person who blogs on fashion, food, culture and environment. 

5. Graphic Editing 

A person needs basic graphic editing skills. Photographic skill is not an end in itself. Graphic designing and editing skill makes the photos more beautiful and professional. Everything captured by lenses cannot be directly used in a blog. They should be passed through series of editing stages. Now there are many Photoshop softwares that aid us in graphic editing. 

6. Networking 

Successful blogging is all about bringing more and more people to view your blog. High level of interpersonal network, good number of followers on social media and other book marking sites and membership in other social media groups can help a lot in improving traffic of a blog. Marketing skills and promotional skills that are also needed in blogging will also gradually be born out of this. One should also try to write posts in other websites. One should also have good ways of interacting with people in social media. 

7. Hardworking 

When blogging is concerned, content is king. When your blog has a good content, the probability of getting noticed by search engines will be higher. But to have great content, one should hold on the grip and maintain consistency. This requires hard-work. 

8. Patience 

If you really want to be successful in blogging, you should have long-term plans and goals. But on the way things may not turn-out to be favorable. Patience is needed when one falters from the goals and needs to love what one does. Niche blogging demands doing of researches on almost every topic. Research works demand patience. Moreover what makes a blogger successful is his or her patience in attending to queries of his readers or answering their questions. 

9. Generosity 

We have heard a adage ‘Hand that gives is the hand that gathers’. There is another, ‘giving is the start of receiving’. But in our case, it can be like, ‘blog that gives will be the blog that gathers’. Readers tend to visit your blog again and again if you don’t let their courage used in seeking your help go in vain. You should always have willingness to help your readers and share your ideas on their problems. You should also have courtesy to appreciate them if they who leave good comments. 

10. Adaptability 

Blogging itself is always on move. Companies that provide blogging platforms keep on changing the way they manage and design blogs. They also keep on introducing new products and services to face competitions from other companies. To move with them, one should always update his knowledge and remain adaptable. 

11. Analytical skill 

The readers will read your articles and see how you have analyzed the problems presented. If you have good analytical skills, it’s sure that your way of analyzing problems and readily giving away to readers will persuade them to visit again and again. A blogger having good analytical skill always keep his readers desirous, curious and circled by presenting things in a more thought-provoking manner. 

12. Humorous 

People usually find reading any website mundane when it doesn’t contain even one humor. They often appear rude for them. Adding some related jokes or presenting things in a more satirical way will not only make their time in your blog enjoyable but also bring new visitors when they share them with friends or relatives.

There can be many skills needed in becoming a successful blogger. Instance basic computer skills, communication skills etc. are also needed. If you have more, please share them in comment. Thanks!

Simple steps to open a new blog for yourself in Blogger

There are as many as 20 blogging platforms. However, out of many WordPress and Blogger are the two most popular platforms. This means you have quite a good number of choices where to open a blog. But before that, you have to see pros and cons of opening a blog in those platforms. 

We have shared posts on advantages and disadvantages of opening a blog with WordPress. If you're techno-savvy, it's always better to open a blog with WordPress. It provides a good space to showcase your skills in web designing, SEO techniques, online money making etc. Otherwise, if you want to enter as an average blogger and then slowly grow out of trails and errors, we would like you to recommend blogger for you. 

If you have made up your mind in opening a new blog in blogger or blogspot, please go with following steps: 

1. Make sure you have Gmail Account
2. Click on www.blogger.com 
3. Sign in using your Gmail account
4. Click on New Blog
5. Give Title of your Blog
6. Give URL in Address*
7. Choose the templates
8. Click on Create Blog!
9. Your Blog is created
10. Click on View Blog
11. Click on view Blog to display your new blog

*This blog address is available should appear

You can then continue with writing new post, changing templates, changing fonts, changing font colors etc. But before taking everything at once, continue writing posts and then in the process learning will automatically happen. 

How to add SEO Responsive Meta Tags in Blogger

What are the benefits of adding Meta Tags in a blogger template? Well, it simply makes your blog's content noticeable for search engines. This means adding meta tags will help you in receiving more traffics and pageviews. Therefore, today let us learn how to add meta tags in your blogger template and make your blog more noticeable in the internet world.

Open WordPad in your computer>Copy and paste given HTML in it:

<!-- Meta Tags ~  stcbmtl.blogspot.com  -->
<meta content='Blog Description' name='description'/>
 <meta content='Search Word 1, Search Word 2, Search Word 2' name='keywords'/>
 <meta content='Blog Author' name='Author'/>
 <meta content='Blog Author Email' name='Email'/>
<!-- /Meta Tags ~   stcbmtl.blogspot.com  -->

Once pasted in wordpad, edit the above HTML as per your requirement. We have highlighted in red that need to be corrected. In search word 1, 2 & 3..there isn't any fixed range. You can add as many as possible. 

Once you have done editing in wordpad, you have insert those meta tags in your blogger templates:

Login to your blog>Click on Template>Click on Edit HTML>Find (Ctrl+F): <head> and just below it add the HTML (one edited in wordpad).

If you have inserted your meta tags correctly, then you can click on Save Template. Meta Tags have added. You can now expect increase in the number of visitors your blog receives. Enjoy blogging. Cheers! 

How is the Blogging trend in the Kingdom of Bhutan?

Blogging has never been a much talked topic in Bhutan prior to 2000. However, with the increase in access to internet and other social media, now there are as many as 300+ bloggers from Bhutan. Every day one or two Bhutanese is entering this wagon. Therefore blogging is also gaining its momentum in Bhutan.

But bloggers from Bhutan, since they entered much later (compare to bloggers from other countries) in the blogging world, there aren’t many blogs that have higher international ranks. Moreover most of the bloggers aren’t professionals. They are mostly youths who blog their feelings and memories. 

However, the blogging trend is gradually picking up in Bhutan. In few years down the line, you can expect few bloggers from Bhutan competing at international levels. There are already few Facebook Groups and a community being formed to uplift this trend in Bhutan. But for today, let us try to analyze the Blogging trend of Bhutanese Bloggers.

Bloggers' Age Group

Bloggers from Bhutan, almost all are youth. Though there are few countable adults above 50 years of age, majority of Bloggers are youth whose age ranges from 15-40.

Professional Bloggers

There aren't professional bloggers from Bhutan. All bloggers have created their blogs out of passion for reading, writing and sharing their ideas. There aren't any single Bhutanese blogger who is earning his/her bread out of blogging.

Topics of Blogging

There aren't fixed topics on which Bhutanese bloggers focus on while blogging. Since almost all Bhutanese bloggers are youth, the topics on blogging ranges from love stories to some views on some government regulations. Though there are few who strictly blog on political environments of Bhutan, maximum bloggers are just random bloggers.

Author Bloggers

You can say that Bhutan doesn't have many highly read authors given its population and also low literacy rate. However, when we wrote this article it was found that only two out of seven Bhutanese writers don't maintain blogs. This means people from Bhutan who write books also maintain blogs. 

Gender-wise Blogging Trend

There are as many women as there are men in blogging. However, it was found that women mainly blog in story writings, fashions, photography and foods whereas most men are found to be blogging on domestic violence issues, economic problems, politics, mega-projects and various youth problems.

Non-blogged topics 

There aren't any bloggers from Bhutan who is blogging on economics, finance, travels, web designing and online money making. They might be touching them in the process of blogging in other areas. Otherwise there aren't any who strictly blog in those areas.

Politician Bloggers

The present prime minister of Bhutan, Honorable Tshering Tobgay though used to be the most avid and read blogger from Bhutan before when he was serving as a Opposition Leader, now his blog is as good as being dead. Another MP Mr. Sangay Khandro maintains a blog in which he shares his views and often seeking views from his readers on various bills before being tabled at parliament meetings. National Council Chairman Dr. Sonam Kinga though opened a blog and even wrote few articles, his blog mystically disappeared from the cyberspace.

You can say that blogging trend in Bhutan is gradually picking up. Currently though there aren't Bhutanese professional bloggers who make their livings out of it, few years done the line, you may expect at least few of such bloggers. Bhutanese bloggers are now becoming more and more organized with organizing of Bloggers' Meet and Bloggers' Conference by Community of Bhutan Bloggers (CBB as they like to be called).       

How to disable an uppercase font style in blog header

If you're currently using other templates i.e templates other than those provided free of cost by blogger, blog title/header will be in uppercase font just like in our case. Some templates though appear better in such style but many don't suit well. Moreover, there will be as many people who like lowercase style as who like uppercase style. There should be choices. 
   

Our blog title in Uppercase Text-Transformation

If your current third party template also has this style i.e uppercase font style activated in blog title/header font and also in page-tab fonts, let us try to make them into normal/lowercase. 

To convert uppercase font style in blog title to lowercase font style:

Login to your blog>Click on Template>Click on Edit HTML>Find (Ctrl+F) the given CSS:

  h1{
  margin: 10px 0 20px;
  font-size: 3.3em;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  letter-spacing: 0em;
  word-spacing: .1em;

In above CSS, you can replace blue font i.e uppercase into normal/lowercase. Once it's being replaced, you can click on Save Template and then on View Blog to see the changes. If it's as you wanted, you must have got it right. And if you want to convert lowercase (if your template has that) to uppercase, you can repeat entire steps and just replace lowercase/normal to uppercase. 

To convert uppercase font style page-tabs to lowercase font style:

We have converted uppercase text-transformation in blog header to lowercase transformation. Now let us customize this font style in pagelist/page-tabs of a blog.
      

Our blog title in lowercase text-transformation

Login to your blog>Click on Template>Click on Edit HTML>Find (Ctrl+F) the given CSS:

  #mainNav li{
  display: inline;
  margin-right: 20px;
  font-size: 1.5em;
  text-transform: uppercase;

In above CSS, you can replace red font i.e uppercase into normal/lowercase. Once it's being replaced, you can click on Save Template and then on View Blog to see the changes. If it's as you wanted, you must have got it right. And if you want to convert lowercase (if your template has that) to uppercase, you can repeat entire steps and just replace lowercase/normal to uppercase. 

Hope you got this tutorial well. Please leave as a comment if you have across any problem while customizing this in your blog. Thanks!  

How to change default font styles of a blog description

You can change the font size and color of your blog's description or as some say tagline directly from the blogger dashboard. But you cannot change the font style unless you get into Edit HTML frame and add few CSS codes. 

No matter how beautiful you have made customizing its font size and colors, font style will remain as the in-built default font. But don't there is a way to customize the font style and use the style that you likes.

Steps to customize the font style of blog description in the blogger:

1. Login to your blog
2. Click on Template
3. Click on Edit HTML
4. Find (Ctrl+F): <p class='description'>
5. And replace it with: <p class='description' style='font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px;'>

If you want to change the font styles, you can just change the font family, the blue font in above CSS. 

Once all above steps are incorporate in your blog, Click on Save Template and then click on View Blog to see the changes. If description font appears as you wants, you must have got it right. Cheers! 

10 effective methods to improve pageviews in Blogger

No happiness is better for bloggers than happiness derived from seeing continuous increase in the number of visitors and pageviews of their blogs. Though they try their level best to increase it, efforts often result into vain bringing no changes in the number of visitors their blogs receive. Therefore. today let us learn 10 simple methods through which we can increase number of visitors. 

  

ADD FOLLOWER WIDGET

This will ensure that the readers who came across your blog for the first time and got impressed to remain in the circle. In every possibility, though your content is good and informative, your first time readers may not visit for the second time. Therefore, adding follower widget in your blog will make sure that those people are informed of the contents every time you add new information. They'll be tempted to visit once more. This process will continue and thereby increasing number of pageviews.

FOLLOW OTHER BLOGS

Some bloggers are so egoistic that they won't follow your blog unless you follow their blogs. Therefore, to increase the number of people who know the existence of blog, you must follow other blogs.

 
COMMENT IN OTHER BLOGS

You must always try to share your views in the updates brought forward in the blogs you have followed. You can either leave questions or suggestions to visit your blog where similar views have been expressed.  This will increase the level of interaction and thereby increasing number of people visiting your blog.

ADD SOCIAL MEDIA BUTTONS

There may come a time where our readers may feel tempted to share the information we have shared to his/her friends in social medias like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Gmail, Pinterest etc. Therefore, adding social media sharing buttons will help them to share your ideas easily. You can also add Facebook like buttons.

WRITE GUEST POSTS

If you can write guest posts in other blogs having quite a good number of visitors, their readers will also channelized to visit your blog through the guest post you have written. But don't forget to give your blog at least once somewhere within the post article.

CREATE FACEBOOK PAGE
This is one of the popular means to increase your pageviews. Creating Facebook page for your blog and then inviting all your Facebook friends to like your page will be consistently informed of the updates whenever you share new articles or information. This will also enable easy sharing among his/her Facebook friend circle. This will increase your readership from Facebook. 


BUILD FOLLOWERS IN G+

Once you have created your Gmail Account, your G+ Profile will be activated. It's just like in Facebook - you can be either followed by others or you have follow others.  You can also share your blog updates on the wall of your G+ which all your followers will be informed of. Therefore, to increase readers through this, you have increase number of people who follow you in G+ profile.

ENABLE G+ POST SHARINGS

There is an option in G+ whether to share your blog updates automatically or manually. Sometimes we may forget to share our new articles. Therefore, it's being advised to keep it always on Automatic Sharing Mode.

SHARE YOUR POSTS

To increase readers of your blog, you can also share your ideas through social medias. You have to get registered in groups where ideas similar to yours are being shared among the members. Facebook has various facilities when such sharing mode is concerned.

MAKE YOUTUBE VIDEOS

Since Youtube is of the largest forum where visual ideas are being browsed, shared and seen, you can make some tutorial videos and upload in Youtube. But don't forget to give the link to your blog either embedded in the video itself or somewhere in its descriptive statements.  

 

How to make older posts appear in front page of a blog

Have you ever tried of bringing earlier posts, let us say posts which you published a year or two ago in the front page of your blog? I have tried today and it brought something to me - I could make some of my readers who have missed at the time when I published them. It's sometimes fun too. 

If you too wants to try this, please follow the steps:

Login to your blog>Click on Posts>Choose a posts which you want to bring at front>Click on Edit>On right side, Click on Published On button>Set the date on today's date>Click Done>Click on Update. 

You have brought forward earlier post to today. It will appear on the top of your blog's front page. If you want to treat it as very important post and wants to keep there at the top for quite sometimes despite you continue posting new articles, you can set the published date in some future dates. It will remain on the top until that date arrives. It's fun. Isn't it? Cheers!   

How to add Feedjit Free Live Traffic Feed in Blogger

Don't you want to see from which countries or states people are reading your blog just now as you're going through it? Yes indeed. This not only help us to know the nationalities of our visitors but also in writing posts related to countries from where you get maximum visitors. We don't want to write posts meant for people who don't read the contents. This helps in planning our blog post writings and in listing areas in which our posts should be focused on. 

Though this can be known from overview of blog from dashboard, it's never adequate. It gives aggregate of all the visitors in a day, week or a month. It moreover doesn't show the states. Therefore, we have always thought that Feedjit will always remain torch-bearer in providing Live Traffic Feeds of our blog. It's not only free but also very responsive.

Therefore, who won't love to have this installed in our blogs. Let us start to install in our blogs too. Please follow the given steps:

1. Open Feedjit. Click Here to Open it
2. Personalize the widths and no. of feeds of your Feedjit
3. Customize colours to suit your blog
4. Choose the platform of your current blog
5. Click on GO
6. Click on Step-2 (assumes you're not signed-in your blog)
7. Click on Add Widget. 

Once above steps are completed, you'll be taken into a layout frame of your blog. By default, this Feedjit will be shown at sidebar. You can change its position by drag-and-drop. Hope you got it installed in your blog. Lovely. Isn't it? Cheers!

Add responsive share buttons of Addthis in Blogger

Blogger though provides their own version of share buttons for our blogs, their share buttons appear little not-so-good. There are many other third parties that provide cool free responsive social media sharing buttons. 

One of the third parties that provide such responsive social media share buttons is Addthis. It also gives option to either go pro by paying some amount or get their free buttons. Let us add their free buttons in our blog.

We can also add social media sharing buttons of Addthis like above in our blogs. Please follow the given steps to get them in our blogs:

1. Login to your blog
2. Click on Layout
3. Click on Blog Posts
4. Disable Show Share Buttons

Once above steps are incorporated, you have successfully removed blogger default social media share buttons. If it's not at all activated in your blog, just ignore above steps. Now let us add customized Addthis share buttons:

1. Login to your blog
2. Click Template
3. Click Edit HTML
4. Find (Ctrl+F): <div class='post-footer'> (will appear more than twice. Consider second)
5. Paste the given code beneath to it

<div style='text-align: left;'>
<div class='addthis_toolbox'>
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Once you have added it, you may preview the blog. If no error comes up then you may click Save Template to complete it. Now open your blog once more. See those buttons have appeared below your post. Cool. Isn't it? Cheers!

How to add cool paragraph divider in Blogger Post

The paragraph divider may sound unnecessary for an average blogger. But for those who are little ahead in blogging and are in love with more and more customization, this will prove pretty helpful. I am sure. It is really good to add if each paragraph in your blog post contains separate message than other paragraphs. It's always better to make distinctive. 

Isn't it cool? If you too want to add this coolness being added unto your blog post, please follow the given steps:

To add in Previous Posts

1. Login to your Blog
2. Click on Posts
3. Click Edit in which you want paragraph divider
4. Locate paragraphs for which you want to add it
5. Put your paragraph within this HTML code: <hr>Your Paragraph<hr>
6. Click Update. Paragragh divider is added into your post.     

To add in new posts

1. Login to your blog
2. Click on Create New Post
3. Write your complete post
4. Click on HTML on top left-hand side 
5. Locate paragraphs for which you want to add it
6. Put your paragraph within this HTML code: <hr>Your Paragraph<hr>
7. Click on Publish. Paragraph divider is added into your new post. 

Hope you got them correctly. Open a new tab, type your blog's URL and then see those cool horizontal paragraph dividers have been added or not. If they are there, you must have got it. Beautiful. Cheers!

3 simple reasons why comments won't show in blogger

Sometimes readers' comments don't appear in our blog post articles. My friend had this problem. There are more than 100 comments in her blog, but none gets displayed in any post. So what must be the problem:

Profiles & comments

If you're currently using your blog from Google Plus profile, you shouldn't activate Use Google+ Comments on this blog. This will not only hide all your comments from your blog posts but also removes comments link from drop-down menu. 

Readers comments setting

When you write a post, on the right side of post article body space, there is one button named Options. Click on it and on Readers Comments, you should choose Allow. 

Compatibility problem

If you have been using third party templates earlier and now have shifted to free blogger template, comment codes used in former may not be compatible. Or you have done some changes in HTML which aren't compatible. Therefore, you have to revert all the changes and also revert widget templates to default.

Login to your blog>Click on Template>Click on Edit HTML>Click on Revert Changes>Click on Revert widget templates to Default>Click on Save Template.

Once all above steps are incorporated, check your blog once more. If those comments, which didn't appear visible earlier are now visible, you must have got it right. Cheers!  

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