Blogger is trying to make blogs more a social community. They have added Google Friend Connect with Followers gadget. Prior to this, your blog readers had to follow your blog using their blogger profile. This integration means that you can follow any Blogger blog using a single web profile like Yahoo, WordPress, Typepad, AOL or OpenID etc.
The webmaster of Bloggerforum has suspended any new posting for the time being. But why? Because of overwhelming spam! It’s odd for a popular forum in blogosphere. But I have to say I am not that much surprised. I have been a member of the forum since 2006 & have seen it become one of the most spam-prone forums.
It was never that strict at all. Users could easily take advantage of it by posting their own links as they wish. But the most annoying ones are the irrelevant spams like hosting, shoes or gadgets advertising. Recently I post a thread asking what was going on. The webmaster replied that it was not easy preventing spam & we only see tiny portion of hundreds of spammy threads that the moderators delete regularly. But I have to say there was something lacking otherwise it shouldn’t have been so vulnerable to spam.
Now it seems they have become so annoyed that one moderator has left. And Steve, the webmaster of the forum is now rethinking about the whole purpose of the forum. Here is the link to the last post by Steve that says all.
Good luck to Steve! I hope when it open again fully it would be a hard nut to crack by spammers.
First thing first. No you cannot, not at least legally. Whatever way others may show you, it’s not a proper way. Do you want to know why? Simply because it’s against Blogger TOS. Check this part taken out from it:
You can find your MyBlogLog profile ID when you click on “edit bio” link just below your profile picture. But this is not necessarily your MyBlogLog blog ID. When your register your first blog your profile ID gets assigned to it.
For each other blog you register with them you will get separate blog ID. To get your blog ID click on the “Settings” link of the corresponding blog.
Now, if you want, you can easily move your blog between Blogger, WordPress, MovableType & LiveJournal platforms thanks to new Google Blog Converters. It is the new open source project of Google Data Liberation Team released on January 9. Go to this page & on the right side-bar you will find links to convert between the export formats of Blogger, WordPress, MovableType & LiveJournal.
Do you know you can add a custom description to your blog feed in FeedBurner? Just click Optimize tab & then go to Title/Description Burner from the side-menu. You can add or change your feed title & description quite easily from there.
Tumblr is another free blog host that supports custom domain. But it is not like traditional blog platforms such as Blogger or WordPress. It is based on tumblelog which favors short media mixed posts with little or no commentary. You can say it a perfect blog for busier guys. If you don’t have time to write lengthy posts, just update your readers or friends with any of the following six types of posts:
What is your blog? Dofollow or nofollow? Are you thinking of making a change?
But everything comes with its pros & cons. No doubt, if you make your blog dofollow you will see high increase in your traffic. There are two ways through which more traffic will come. First of all, someone who visits your blog will come again to find new posts to comment. It will increase the number of your regular readers. Besides, u can submit your blog to dofollow search engines or directories & lists. You will get more backlinks & consequently more visitors.
Blog thumbnail images in Technorati are managed by snap.com. They do not update site images automatically. So if you need to update your blog image, you have to request explicitly. Go to the snap.com’s faq page. Search the page with “update”. Click on the question & you will see the form where you can submit your blog url to refresh your blog image. Screenshots generally get updated immediately.
Have you got this error while importing posts from Blogger to WordPress? It says:
There was a problem opening a secure connection to Google. This is what went wrong:
Connection timed out (110)