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This tutorial will gonna help you to customize your read more link in your Blogger. Showing summaries of your blog posts in your homepage is always a good idea since showing full post of your recent post will gonna occupy a large space and your readers would have to scroll to see your below posts.






By showing summaries of your posts you are also enabling your readers to look up at the posts below your most recent post. Blogger includes this READ MORE feature but for more better look I am gonna explain you step by step procedure to customize your READ MORE link in your Blogger.


Steps To Customizing Read More Link In Blogger:-


1--> Login to your Blogger Account.

2--> Go to Blogger Admin Page > Template > Click on Edit HTML.

3--> Check Expand Template.

4--> Ctrl + F and find  <data:post.body/>


You will find codes like given below:-

      <data:post.body/>

      <div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->

    </div>

    <b:if cond='data:post.hasJumpLink'>

      <div class='jump-link'>

        <a expr:href='data:post.url + &quot;#more&quot;' expr:title='data:post.title'>   <data:post.jumpText/></a>

      </div>

    </b:if>


5--> Now replace the blue codes with codes given below:


 <!--READ-MORE-STARTS--><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'> <a expr:href='data:post.url'><div style="text-align: right;">Read More ->></div></a> </b:if>            

<!--READ-MORE-STOPS-->

You can Replace the Red text with anything you want to show up in your Read More link. You could also show up image in ths link now. Just replace the Red text with <img src='Link-of-the-image'/>

6--> Save your template and its done.

                        

How about adding Related Posts below your blog posts? Advantage of adding Related Posts below your blog post is that your readers may find some of your Related Posts interesting and click on the link to read the post, thus your readers stay time on your blog increases and thereby increases your pageviews. So this tutorial will help you to add Related Posts below your blog posts.

Steps Of  Adding Related Posts Below Blog Posts In Blogger:--

1--> Login to your Blogger Account.

2--> Go to Blogger Admin Page > Template > Click on Edit HTML.


3--> Check Expand Template.

4--> Ctrl + F and find </head>

5--> Above </head> , Copy and Paste the codes given below:

<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles Start-->
<!-- remove --><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<style type='text/css'>
#related-posts {
float:center;
text-transform:none;
height:100%;
min-height:100%;
padding-top:5px;
padding-left:5px;
}

#related-posts h2{
font-size: 1.6em;
font-weight: bold;
color: black;
font-family: Georgia, &#8220;Times New Roman&#8221;, Times, serif;
margin-bottom: 0.75em;
margin-top: 0em;
padding-top: 0em;
}
#related-posts a{
color:black;
}
#related-posts a:hover{
color:black;
}

#related-posts  a:hover {
background-color:#d4eaf2;
}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var defaultnoimage=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpiZNaEwLhWMkxU9Hv2QJ5gNKpnn7pCJqgyiaITNwUQ6TOU0UYpmSuW5dOj2iWTdTjGdkid30zZEwECaGCR-lrWXwqcFyssfKUkf0bS5gmLm-zA_jhkZOF1Xx2kgB-wc3zvFqIGOnS7d8/s400/noimage.png&quot;;
var maxresults=5;
var splittercolor=&quot;#d4eaf2&quot;;
var relatedpoststitle=&quot;Related Posts&quot;;
</script>
<script src='http://bloggergadgets.googlecode.com/files/related_posts_with_thumbnails_min.js'
type='text/javascript'/>
<!-- remove --></b:if>
<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles End-->

6--> Now press again Ctrl + F and Find <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

7--> Above  <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> , Copy and Paste the codes given below:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> 
     <!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code Start--> 
     <div id='related-posts'> 
     <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'> 
     <b:if cond='data:label.isLast != &quot;true&quot;'> 
     </b:if> 
     <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> 
     <script expr:src='&quot;/feeds/posts/default/-/&quot; + data:label.name + &quot;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=related_results_labels_thumbs&amp;max-results=10&quot;' type='text/javascript'/></b:if></b:loop> 
     <script type='text/javascript'> 
     var currentposturl=&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;; 
     var maxresults=8; 
     var relatedpoststitle=&quot;<b>Related Posts :</b>&quot;; 
     removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs(); 
     printRelatedLabels_thumbs(); 
     </script> 
     </div><div style='clear:both'/> 
     </b:if> 
     <!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code End-->

8--> Save your Template and Done.

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I started off this blog with default Picture Window template of Blogger. I avoided using any kind of custom blogger template available all over web freely. It is a good idea if you are new to Blogger and want to learn all about Blogger. As I am new to Blogger and want to learn everything about Blogger so to develop my skills in this field I chosed a default Blogger template . If you know HTML and CSS, you can customize your template very easily anytime.


Knowledge is gained by experimenting and I never sit behind when it comes to doing something new and innovative things. So why should we give credit to others by using their customized Blogger templates when we can create our own templates for our Blogger blog.

Before doing any editing or tweaking task of your HTML code, remember to save and backup your existing template so that if anything goes wrong in your template you can switch back to your earlier state without any effort. Just play with codes to customize your template and design it to have an excellent look of your blog that attracts your visitors eyes.

For more Blogger Tutorials you can check out Blog Tips And Tricks.

And there is always the free web to get help whatever you want.

Do you know how much important is your title of your articles of your blog? This is the one that drives the visitor to read your posts. It should reflect your whole post. By seeing your title they must understand what actually your article is covering, or what you are trying to say via your article.

Just think how much important is your title of your articles of your blog in search engines point of view. You must know that if your pages are indexed by search engines, then your pages will appear in search results by its post title and blog title. So choosing a very attractive title for your articles will be a good idea to make people click to read your articles. To get more traffics from search engines select the title of your articles very wisely.

Now lets talk about the length of the title. Short and simple title is always the right choice to choose. Make sure that your title is very short and simple. So visitors at once seeing your title could understand about your article very easily. Readers don't like very lengthy and complicated titles and will definitely ignore it.

If you are really thinking of driving more traffics to your blog then try to use effective keywords that drives more traffics to your blog in the title of your articles. Using keywords that drives maximum traffic to your blog in your title could  be an excellent idea. It would be a good SEO technique to follow and try to implement it .

Now you could imagine the role of the title of your article in earning traffics to your blog and how much important is the title of your article. Every blogger should follow these guidelines mentioned above to get more success in blogging field.

Choose your title intelligently and keep blogging.

Hope you like it :)

Many people around the globe created their own blogs. Some of the people are blogging as a hobby, some bloggers are blogging to share some valuable informations with their readers and some of them are blogging for earning some money. And many of them have their own reasons for blogging. So all of them are having some reasons for blogging.

After creation of a blog, choosing a niche for your blog is very much important.

-->Choose the topic in which you are interested.

-->Choose the topic what you like to write the most.


-->Choose the topic in which you have a commendable knowledge.

-->Choose the topic in which you have done enough research.

-->Choose the topic what your readers wants to read.

The above given points are the guidelines what you should keep in your mind before writing posts in your blog. Just writing something in your blog will not gonna attract readers to read your posts. You should choose a niche for writing your posts and must stick with that niche forever. This is gonna help your visitors to understand what your blog is actually all about. And if they like your post, they will remain loyal to your all future posts and will keep coming to your blog to read your posts.