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Social bookmark buttons at bottom of post

If you are desirous of getting more traffic to your blog, one way is to add social bookmarking buttons at the bottom of your posts so visitors can easily bookmark the pages they are interested in and easily return to them as demonstrated here at kudoz Culture. There are many ways to do that. One of the easiest is to use go to Add This and register an account. After signing in, click GET YOUR BUTTON. In the next page, from drop-down menus, select the type of button (Sharing/Bookmarking button), tick the radio button from among 1 of 6 buttons, where you want the bookmarking button (On a blog) and your blogging platform (Blogger). When done, click GET YOUR FREE BUTTON >> and you will get your code for the bookmarking button in the next page.

Create Recent Comments Widget Using FeedBurner BuzzBoost and CSS

It always happens that while the diamond is still in your backyard, you will always be searching for the silver coins which are much less valuable than the diamond and searching for which takes much of your time. This happens with me when I was searching for a Recent Comments widget for my blog. I searched through out the web, all the blogger blogs who have nice blogger tricks and tutorials for a good recent comments widget. I got some, but uses javascript and are much harder to control.

While doing my routine surfing yesterday I found the real diamond, which was always there, but I never thought of it. I stumbled upon a blog which showcases the diamond and I was thinking what a fool I was. If you have a FeedBurner account, which normally most of the bloggers have, you can easily create a Recent Comments widget for your blog, using the BuzzBoost feature provided by FeedBurner.

Below shown is the current Recent Comments widget that I am using right now, which entirely made up with the FeedBurner BuzzBoost feature and some CSS.

Here is how I did it. If you want to have a Recent Comments widget for you blog, follow these steps. Before doing anything read this article about editing your blog template. You need a FeedBurner account for this widget to work. You can register for FeedBurner here.

How to create Recent Comments Widget using FeedBurner BuzzBoost

• STEP 1 : Copy your Blogger Comments feed. This normally comes like this.
  
  http://YOUR-BLOG-NAME.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
  Replace YOUR-BLOG-NAME with your blog name.


• STEP 2 : Log in to your Feedburner account.


• STEP 3 : Under the existing feeds in your Feedburner account you will find this text box to burn a new feed. Paste the blogger comments feed you copied from STEP 1 in this text box and click Next.


• STEP 4 : In the next page click on the Activate Feed button.


• STEP 5 : Click Skip directly to feed management link, which is shown next to the Next button on the next page.


• STEP 6 : In the next page click on the Publicize tab which is show below the name of the feed you just burned. It appears near the top.


• STEP 7 : Select the BuzzBoost feature from the menu items shown in the left side.



Activate the BuzzBoost Feature


• STEP 8 : Make the Feed Settings in the resulting page and click Activate.


• STEP 9 : Copy the HTML Code for the BuzzBoost provided by FeedBurner.


• STEP 10 : Go back to your Blogger Home.


• STEP 11 : Click on Layout >> Page Elements


• STEP 12 : While on the Page Elements page click on Add a Gadget Link in the sidebar of your blog template.


• STEP 13 : Select an HTML/JavaScript gadget and paste the code you copied from FeedBurner BuzzBoost in the textarea.


• STEP 14 : Click Save.


• STEP 15 : Bingo! You are done. Now you will see the recent comments in your blog displayed in the gadget you just created.

You can customize the BuzzBoost gadget or list by yourselves by adding some CSS Styles in your blog template style sheet. The article about how to customize the BuzzBoost appearance will help you to do further customizations in the BuzzBoost appearance.

If you have any queries, issues or suggestions regarding this feel free to post them in the comments section.

Customize Feedburner Buzzboost

One of the most helpful service that FeedBurner provides to its users is BuzzBoost. BuzzBoost is a simple publicity service that allows you to cross-promote the content of your feed — be it a blog, podcast or commercial newsfeed — any place where you can display HTML. For example, you can display the latest headlines from your blog on your Web site, podcast site, or on a partner site. BuzzBoost is FeedBurner’s answer to RSS-to-HTML transformation.

BuzzBoost can take many forms and be displayed anywhere you can copy and paste a short snippet of HTML.BuzzBoost is perfect for anyone who wants to use their feed content to gain exposure. As you know, more exposure can often lead to more subscribers. If you have several blogs or other sites that have their own feeds, BuzzBoost provides a simple way to cross-promote them.

If you are already making use of FeedBurner service you might already be aware of BuzzBoost also. You can also make use of BuzzBoost to show off your Recent Posts with headlines and summary. Only thing you have to do is to enable BuzzBoost and make the specifications, copy the code and paste it the place you want it to appear in your blog.

If you are not registered with FeedBurner you can register for free here

You can activate the BuzzBoost service from here.

Create Category (label) feeds for your Blogger Blog

This post’s for all you Bloggers who have a blog at Blogger.com (blogspot.com ).

Do you have a lot of categories (labels as they are called) ?

Do you feel some of your readers would want to subscribe only to a category in your blog rather than subscribing to all the posts on the blog?

There can be many more reasons why you would want category feeds . You may be someone like me who at times blogs about films and then once a while blogs something like this post .

Below are the steps to create category feeds for blogger.com (blogspot.com) blogs :

1. Decide which category(label) feeds you want. It can be a select few or all of them. The choice is yours.

2. Suppose you decide to have a separate feed for a category named example .

3. The feed URL for the category example will be:

http://www.yourBlogName.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/example

That’s it. I swear, you just created a category feed for your blog.

Now you can do whatever you want. Either burn this feed in feedburner or give away the raw feed to your subscribers.

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How to Add Social Bookmark Links beneath Blogger Posts

Social Bookmark Links are widely used by bloggers to help their readers share the useful contents to the world! Digg, Technorati, Delicious, Stumble Upon, Facebook etc are widely used online social bookmarking and sharing communities.

This post explains how to add Social Bookmark Links below post body(content) in Blogger(blogspot) blogs. It's very simple, just do the following steps:

Please Note: Before Editing your Template, Save a copy of your current template by clicking 'Download Full Template' in 'Edit HTML' page of the Blogger 'Layout' Window and 'Preview' the changes before Saving

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard - click Edit Layout - then click Edit HTML
   
   
2. Select Expand Widget Templates as shown in the image below:
   
   
   
3. Then Search(Ctrl+F) the code given below in your template:
   
   
   
   
4. Add the code given below just after the above line:
   
   
   
   Share this:
   |
   Digg It |
   Add to Technorati |
   Save on Del.icio.us |
   Stumble It |
   Share on Facebook |
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Finally, Save the Template. Finished!
   

You will see Social Bookmark Links as shown in the image below. Drop Comments!

How to Add Recent Posts Widget to Blogger

It's the fact that Feedburner always helped the bloggers or webmasters with their variety of useful services like Free Email Subscription service, RSS reader, PingShot services, FeedFlare, SmartFeed and so on. This post explains how to add Recent(latest) Posts Widget to Blogger(blogspot) blogs using Feedburner's BuzzBoost service.

Do the following steps:

1. Sign-in to your feedburner account and select your blog from My Feeds:
   
   
   
2. Click Publicize tab from the top menu:
   
   
   
3. Then select BuzzBoost from the left sidebar:
   
   
   
4. Next you have to chose the number of recent posts you want to show, then select the optional items from the list and click Save:
   
   
   
5. Now you have to Select the widget code from the top box and Copy it:
   
   
   
6. Then go to Blogger Layout Page - click Add a Page Element/Add a Gadget - select HTML/Javascript - then Paste the code and click Save. Finished!
   
   

You will see your Recent Posts Widget according to your Template's design and color! Happy Blogging!

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