Installing Blogger Templates: Simple Steps to Install Blogger Templates

Templates of HideMyTips are very simple to install and apply. To do this some simple steps are required to follow up. In this section, the details of installation of any template will be discussed.

How to install new templates for your blog:

Follow the following simple steps to successfully install any new template for your blogger / blogspot blog:

Step 1: Choose a template and download the template from HideMyTips

Before installing any templates from HideMyTips, you need to  choose a template and download that file of your computer. For example, we choose Misty Blue Ocean template for our blog. So, download the template (Misty Blue Ocean) from HideMyTips and save it to your computer.

Step 2: Login to Blogger / Blogspot account

Before trying to install any templates of HideMyTips, you must have to access your blogger / blogspot account. To access your blogger account, simply follow the address to www.blogger.com or www.blogspot.com by typing in the address bar of your browser and hit Enter key. Then put your Email address and password and hit Sign In button. After successful login, you will be redirected to Dashboard page.

Step 3: Choosing Design option from dashboard

Select the blog which you want to change template from the Dashboard panel of your  account. now click on Design option from the Dashboard panel.

Step 4: Accessing blogger template and downloading the old template

After accessing Design option, choose Edit HTML tab under Design part. “Edit HTML” is required to change any modification of your template code, to change the template, to add extra code block to your blogger blog template etc.

Before changing the template with the new template from HideMyTips, it is safe to save the old template because if you face any mismatch with the new template, you can restore the old template. So, it is wise to keep a backup of your currently used template. You can easily back up your current template from the Download Full Template link. Just do a backup of the full template.

Step 5: Uploading the new desired template

It’s time to upload the template. To do this, click on Browse button and browse the location where your desired new template is located. After that, click on Upload button. You will see that the template will be started uploading and within some moments the template will be uploaded completely.

Note: After finishing uploading, you may notice some errors. Please ignore all the error messages, if any.

Step 6: Saving the new template

When you have finished uploading the new template, you will notice a button marked as SAVE TEMPLATE at the bottom of the page. Simply, click on the “SAVE TEMPLATE” button to save your template.

And that’s all. By following the above steps, you can easily upload any new template for your Blogger / Blogspot blog. Actually, it’s very simple and easy. Just a matter of few clicks. Hopefully, you can successfully upload a new template. If you face any difficulties or problem, please mention it to the comment section. Your comments are highly expected.

Template Menubar: Menubar Is for Easy Navigation

Menubar is used for easy navigation for your blogger blog or blogspot blog posts or contents. Menubar is located just below the header or before the header which is easy for navigation. Menubar is really an eye catching elements of your blog and is pretty useful for all type of visitors for easy browse throughout the blog. Below in the snapshot, you will find a typical snapshot of menubar which is located just below the header.

All of the templates which are designed HideMyTips, have been coded to have this Top Menu. It’s easy to add links to this Top Menu. To add links in the Top Menu, login to your blog account and go to the Layout --> Page Elements tab and click the Top Menu’s “Edit” link (see the red Ellipse line below). And after accessing that you can easily add links as you like!!

Thus the Top Menu option enables you to add menus as you like to add. Moreover, it also supports sub-menu also.

Blogger Template: Misty Blue Ocean

Misty Blue Ocean template is the template which alive your blog. Applying the theme Misty Blue Ocean template turns your blog the blue mist of the ocean. The Misty Blue Ocean template has one column which is standardized for any blog. The basic color is mist and blue mix but can be change all the colors and fonts.

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Features of Misty Blue Ocean Blogger Template:

• Gorgeous misty blue color theme
• Almost all colors and fonts are easy to customize.
• Edit buttons of Blog Posts are fully functional.
• One column sidebar which is perfect for presenting widgets (Google Search widget, Labels widget, Achieve widget, Popular Posts widgets etc.)
• Menubar below the header is for easy navigation and easily customizable.
• Header image can be easily changed.
• Tested ok in all browsers using Browsershots.org.

 

Terms of Use:

This new XML Blogger template (Misty Blue Ocean Template) is totally free by leaving the footer credit to hideMyTips.blogspot.com intact.

How to Hide or Remove Blogger NavBar Completely (Top Navigation Bar Hiding)

Blogger NavBar means Blogger Navigation bar. Blogger Navbar is a type of toolbar of any blogspot blog which appears by default at the top of every Blogger-powered blog with the included features like [B] (Blogspot home page link), Search Blog (to search blogs), Flag Blog (to mark the current blog as objectionable), Share (to promote contents), NextBlog (takes to a random, recently-updated Blogger blog), email address (shows the log in account email address if logged in), Dashboard (if logged in, a link to dashboard) and Sign In/Out (displays the appropriate option, depending on whether any user is logged in or not). The Blogger-powered blog’s Navbar can be easily removed or hide if you don’t like the toolbar. Most of the recent blogger are not much interested on it now-a-days. In this page, you will find the detail information to completely remove the Blogger NavBar from your blog.

 

Steps to hide or remove Blogger NavBar completely form your blog:

Hiding or removing Blogger NavBar completely form your blog is very easy. You don’t need any knowledge regarding the CSS or HTML. Just follow the following steps to hide or remove Blogger NavBar completely form your blog:

Step 1: Log in to Blogger Account

Firstly, log in to Blogger by typing the address www.blogger.com or www.blogspot.com. After successful logged in, blogger will redirect to you the dashboard page to change anything.

Step 2: Searching the code

From your Dashboard panel, click on Layout and then select Edit HTML option. Here, you need to search the following code segment:

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Step 3: Adding code to hide or remove NavBar completely

Now, you need to copy the following codes of line and just paste this code blog immediately BEFORE/ABOVE it.

#navbar-iframe    {
                height:0px;
                visibility:hidden;
                display:none
                }
Step 4: Saving your work

After doing the above steps, you need to save all the modification which you have done in the previous steps. Just click on the SAVE TEMPLATE option and that’s all.

And that’s all. By doing the above steps you can easily hide or remove Blogger NavBar from the top your blog. Hope, you could easily success to remove or hide Blogger NavBar completely from your blog. However, if you face any difficulties or problem to do the above mentioned steps, just simply tell that in the comment section. Your comments are highly expected.

Tagging Tips for Your Blog to Boost SEO

Blog publishers or website publishers often struggle a lot to optimize their blog and blog posts and better search ranking. This is pretty useful to rank the page content to the top of the search engines and blogs get a high volume of traffic to the post. Lots of techniques are available for blog search engine optimization. Among all of the tips and techniques of SEO, one of the best and easy technique is to use tagging techniques to optimize any blog or blog posts. This article will just explain the tagging tips for your blog to boost your blog search engine optimization.

Most good tags are often 1-3 words rather than a long phrase or 5-6 words phrases. However, you can combine two phrases to create a good new tag. For example, “tagging tips” , “your blog”, “boost SEO” gets lots of traffic instead of using “tagging tips for your blog to boost SEO”.

The number of tags should be 6 to 10. I found lots of people have good contents but no tag at all. I think, without using any tag they are loosing the huge visitors traffic. But what is the actual number of tags? I think it’s good to use 6 to 10 keywords and this really gives much seo for your blog.

Too many tags often create a problem. Putting some tags for your content page is really useful but too many tags does not pretty useful for your blog posts. Use only measurable number of tags. Many people use many keywords like 15 to 30 keywords. But there is a common situation that most search engine sometimes ignore the rest of the tags except the first 10 tags. So, in this situation al the rest of the tags are pretty useless for the content SEO.

Avoid using inappropriate, or unrelated tags. Tags must be relevant to your content pages and the page title. If the tags are not relevant to your content page then the page rank may be depressed by the search engines. So, try to guess the relevant tags for your blog and use them only for your blog contents.

Beside using the main tags, use several variations of the tags. For example, for this article we use “tagging tips” tag. So, a variation of this tag may be “tagging tip”. Here, we use the singular form of the tag. Thus you may also use the similar words for tagging your content page.

Some SEO expert or forum may suggest to avoid to echo the title of the contents. But it is really effective and useful to echo your title of your content page. Don’t be afraid to echo content title in the tag sections of your content page.

Tags are separated by commas for most of the site. However, some site may separate the tags by spaces or other symbols. So, try to figure out the actual ways to define tags.

Tags are really effective for better SEO for your blog. Some tips i.e. tagging tips are explained in this page for better SEO of your website or blog. Based on all these methods, all the content page are tagged for better ranking of the pages to search engine and thus the SEO is easily included to all the content page.

How I Make Money With Google AdSense?

Money earning is actually a business. Yes, when you like to earn money the term is related to is the business. I like business. I do business to earn money. Like me lots of people are there who like to earn through business. But my business is not like the traditional one. I like to do business and this is the passive income business. If it is possible to earn money through passive income, why do I go for other type of business? Yes, I earn through business and this business is related to Google AdSense. I have a blog which you are visiting right now. This blog generates my passive income or passive money each day which is pretty much for my monthly income and I am really glad to pay my house rent and electricity bill each month.

It’s really true that I earn through Google AdSense and the income is really appreciate for me. I earn $1000 per month easily through this blog and writing hubs in HubPages and there I am known as rancidTaste. I earn through writing my good contents. I write contents in English and I earn through Google AdSense and nothing else. Like me, you too can earn money through Google AdSense thorough your blogs and contents.

Before earning money through Google AdSense, one thing must have to know that you are earning through your contents. So, your contents must be good and unique and must be useful for the visitors. Always try to write good contents instead of poor contents. I found myself that the good contents have much value even years after years. Recently, I decided to publish all the contents to HideMyTips but before that I have published some blogs. All the contents of those blogs are fully written by me. And I think those contents are really good and I still get lots of comments of those contents. Just some moments back when I decided to write this content page, I moderate some comments to my contents which were published two years ago. So, the good contents are always good whether it is old or new. Good contents have best value always.

People likes good content. So, what is a good content? A good content is those that can satisfy visitors quest and visitors need. Suppose, think about this content page. This content page actually describes the ways I earn money through Google AdSense. Telling people to make money is not the thing of this page. Rather make people believe that they too can earn money like me through Google AdSense and to make people mentally prepared to make money.

Earning money through Google AdSense is totally yours income. It is your own business. Remember, all the earnings are totally yours and there is no share of money with your friends or family members. Many website or blogs or forums tell you that they help you to earn money. But why or how? I don’t think so and I suggest not to dependent to those money earning games. You are creating contents and everything depends on the quality of your contents.

Beside creating good contents, you have to care about the traffic of your contents. The more traffic you get for your contents the more possibility to earn through Google AdSense. There are lots of ways to bring traffic of your website. You may submit your contents to article directory or stumble or digg etc. Moreover, there are several forums or websites which may offer you to bring quality traffic by adding those website links to your sites. The social bookmarking sites like Facebook, hi5 etc. can also brings targeted traffic for your contents.

Doing all the above methods need hard work to bring traffic. But there is another great solution to solve it. You may create links yourself to bring targeted traffic to your contents. One such way is to add links of related post items. This method is particularly useful and it really brings lots of traffic to your contents. For example, I am writing a content of Google AdSense related. In my blogs or sites there are other contents related to Google AdSense. So, when I finished my writings, I may add some of those related contents article page at the bottom of the contents. This method is really very helpful to brings lots of visitors to the contents. Thus as the visitors are increased to your contents, the change of income through Google AdSense is also increasing.

Other option is to create useful contents to solve visitors problems or to create comments to other blogs and link back to your site or blog. When you comments to other similar contents, you may add the link of your contents and other people may find it useful for them and finally the move to your site. And now if the visitors are really satisfied from your site, they again come back to your site for good quality useful contents and also recommend your site to others. Finally, you are getting lots of traffic and the possibility of your passive income through Google AdSesne is increased.

In this way, I create good quality contents and those contents bring lots of visitors to my contents. Visitors make comments when they really satisfied to my contents and the Google AdSense displays relevant adds to my content pages. If visitors are really satisfied they are interested to the add links and finally go through the link. And the links bring me money. Thus Google AdSense helps me to earn much each day. This earnings are really very useful for me to pay my monthly house rent, to pay my monthly phone bill and to pay the monthly electricity bill and many more. I am really satisfied earning through my contents and Google AdSense. Finally, you can say taht contents, participation, linking, traffic helps you to earn money like me which I am earring daily. Hopefully, you also can and wish your success to earn money through Google Adsense.

@Written by HideMyTips (Admin)

Why to Prefer Dot COM Domain Name?

Many people like to have a domain name and it’s best to choose a .com domain name instead of other domain extension. This page gives you a brief idea why it is better to choose a .com domain name instead of .net or .org domain name.

Many domain extensions are available today on the internet. Lots of domain seller like GoDaddy, BlueHost, HostGator etc. domain seller sells lots of domain with a varieties of extensions like .net, .me, .org and many more extension. But anyway, which domains do the domain registrar sells, .com domain name is the most popular among all the domain names.

Many bloggers have commonly experienced a problem that if they have any other extension other than the .com domain name they loose a good number of visitors to visit their websites. It is seen that even if the visitor enters the domain name correctly – he/she tends to hit the ctrl+enter keys together, which causes the site/blog traffic to go to another website. Thus it creates a problem to the bloggers to visit their website or blog.

Moreover, if you search anything to Google or Yahoo or Bing, you will notice that all the search results are from the .com domain name. There are also results from .net or .org etc. site also. But the majority of the result comes from the .com domain extension. So, as far as Search Engine optimization is concerned – it is always safest to stick to a .com domain as it gives enough searched result and most popular.

Some people have the intension to make a experiment to use a .biz domain name for their company. Here, once again the people failed to create the brand and finally failed. This is totally horrible when you failed such type of situation. Two of my friends choose .biz extension for their website and they changed the .biz name to .com name after two months. After changing the .com name, they noticed that the visit rate increases to 37 times and they told me the thing. So, it’s the .com which always wins to all the domain extensions.

Throughout this page, I only want to mention about the reason to choose .com domain name instead of .net or .org or other. It is mentionable that .net like domain name also good and many .net like domain is popular around the world. But the best one is to choose a .com domain name as most people have the tendency to type only the domain name and hit Ctrl + Enter key together to access the website. So, my personal recommendation for all these reasons choose a .com domain name to easily get the traffic or to get the visitors easily and easily indexed by search engines.