Best SEO Practices for Blogger Blogs

We all know about WordPress. It is just another alternative for blogger but it has one thing which blogger blogs lack. They are Plugins. WordPress has a wide range on plugin which you can use in your blog. There are different types of SEO Plugins available for WordPress such as - Yoast SEO, All in One SEO etc. Blogger does not supports these plugins and you have to do all the SEO work manually. You may hire someone but this could be costly. So below are few tips on how you can make your Blogger blog more visible to search engines.

How to add Custom Text Ads Box like Adsense

Many of you may have seen Google Adsense text ads in other or your blog. Today I will show you how you can add Text Ads Box widget to your blogger blog. In this widget you can edit everything i.e. the colors, Title text, Description, Ads provider etc. etc. If you sell text links on your blog this widget may be quite helpful for you.

The live demo of this widget can be seen by clicking the below button and looking at the right sidebar of the opened page.

Live Demo

Now if you have seen the demo we can proceed with the steps on how you can add this widget to your blog.

Official Contact Form Widget released for Blogger

As +Prayag Verma ofStylifyyourblog.com wrote on his post on 02 April 2013 that blogger is working on Contact Form. He found out CSS codes for Contact form from the bundle css file which is by default in every blog. That Contact form is released now. Just prior to Google I/O 2013 all Google products are really working hard to improve their services and the same goes for blogger.

You don't have much options to edit this form. If you know basics of CSS you may use inline CSS in your blog to edit it. Whenever someone sends you a message through this from it will directly go in your email which is linked with Blogger.

Cool Badge with CSS Effect for Blogger

o today I am going to show how you can add a Cool Badge which is in shape of a circle. When hovered over it, a CSS transition takes place and we can see a beautiful effect. These effects are seen in JavaScript and rarely in CSS.

The CSS is beautifully coded and the transition works because of the pseudo elements i.e. :after :before. Other than that browser hacks are used in it. This badge is extremely attractive and will force users to hover on it. You can add this widget in between the posts or in the sidebar. A quick live and working demo of this widget can be seen just below.

How to block Adblocker users in your Blogger blog

Ad-blocker is an extension available on major browsers which blocks the advertisements which appear on Facebook / Google / Youtube and all small and big website/blogs. Ad-blocker currently has millions and millions of users. Bloggers work hard to provide services to their visitors and in return they too should get something and this extension is actually the road block in the path.

Due to Ad-blocker the ads don't reach some of the visitors and thus there would be no money no matter how much large user base you have. So in order to block Ad-blocker users, you just have to add a small piece of code. When any Ad-blocker user visits to your blog he will be redirected to a page which will instruct him/her to disable the extension and visit the page again.

There are many pros and cons of this plugins.

Pros -  

1. You will have more income as ads are visible to all.
2. After adding Ad-blocker the UI of the website changes to an extent. After adding this plugin all can see the actual page.

Cons- 

1. Bounce rate is going to be much higher
2. You may loose visitors.

A bloggers main job is helping others and not making money so I would personally recommend not to use this plugin. But if you think that you are not getting anything for the things you have been providing to your visitors you may add this plugins.

How to Stop Blogger Country Specific Redirection

Blogger is a vast blogging platform with millions of blogs hosted on it. So some time before Blogger introduced Country Specific Redirection. For example a visitor from India who visits your blog by entering the URL abc.blogspot.com will be redirected toabc.blogspot.in. Blogger introduced Country Specific URL to provide better support to local blogs. Today I am going to show you how you can stop this redirection.

Before that you must be wondering that why should you stop redirection. The answer is simple. After redirection is on, you lost your Alexa ranks and the Pagerank juice too. This is not healthy for your blogger blog. So to remove the Redirection follow the steps given below.