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Blogger is a popular blog-publishing service powered by Google. To know how to create a blog in Blogger, read my post - How To Create A Blog In Blogger. Many of you are preferring Blogger over many other blog publishing services available online. This is because of  rapidly increasing new features in Blogger and  it is free of cost. Some of you created your blog to showcase your writing ability and others to build their business over Internet.



Let's now come to the point. The reason of writing this post is to help you in creating new pages in Blogger blogs. If you are a newbie and don't know how to create a page in Blogger blogs then read this post.  I am creating a sample page to show you the whole process.


Steps To Create A New Page In Blogger:

1) Login to your Blogger account.

2) Go to Blogger Admin>Pages

3) Click on New page



4) Select Blank page



5) Page Editor will come up. Enter page title in page title section and write your content in the content box. There you can see a editor menu bar that will help you in styling your content. For example you can change text fonts, choose text colours, make text bold, italics etc . You can also put links or images in your content.



5) After you are done with editing your content, click on Publish to create your new page.

My sample page look like this:


You can put the link of your new page anywhere in the blog where you want to show the link to your readers. The best position for putting the link of your pages are position above header and position below header because it will be more visible to your visitors. So this is how you can create new pages in Blogger blog. For more tips and tricks keep visiting bloglivead.blogspot.com regularly. You can also like my facebook page for getting all the latest updates. URL of my facebook page is - facebook.com/BlogLive123

Creating a contact form page in your blog will be helpful for your readers as then they will be able to communicate with you directly. It will give them a easy way to share their problems with you. Even this will allow them to give feedbacks and viewpoints to you for your blog.


It is easy to create contact form in wordpress blogs. Blogger don't have such feature but good news is that you can create contact form in Blogger by adding some piece of codes. There are many websites providing this kind of services. Emailmeform.com is one of such website that provides this kind of service. Emailmeform provides free code for using a contact form. This tutorial will help you to create a contact form page in blogger.

Steps To Add A Contact Form In Your Blogger Blog

1) Sign up for a free account at emailmeform


2) Once you done with regstration process, click on the "Add Form" button.


3) A popup window wll come up to show you two options:

a) You can go to template section and choose from a list of pre-made forms.
b) Or you can go to form builder to create your own form.



4) I would prefer to create my own form. Choose the form builder option.

5) Choose parameters you need in your contact form.



I  have selected Name, Website, Email, File Upload and Paragraph text.
I have changed field Label of "Paragraph Text" to "Message"

7) Now my form looks like this:



8) Now click on the Form Title to give title to your form and add some descrption or you can uncheck tick if you dont need this. I have uncheck this parameter. Click Save button.

9) A popup wndow will come up like this:



Choose the second option and add a recipient email ID.

8) Again a popup window will show up choose the third option.



9) In Form manager Click Code and Choose the "HTML Only" option and copy the code.



11) Paste the code to your newly created blogger page and you are done. To know how to create blogger page read How To Create A New Page In Blogger.

A favicon which is short form for Favorite icon, also known as a shortcut icon, web site icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a small icon which is usually 16px X 16px in size. You may have noticed a small icon picture just before the URL of any website in your browser's address bar. That small icon is called a favicon. For every website there is a favicon. Google Blogger provides same favicon for every Blogger blog by default. Blogger favicon just look the way represented in the image given below.



Blogger also allow its users to remove or change their blog's favicon anytime. This favicon can be a unique identity of your blog. So design your favicon and add new favicon in your blog. Above picture illustrates the difference between the default Blogger favicon and self designed favicon. Build a impressive and unique favicon for your blog. This tutorial is for helping you in removing default Blogger favicon and adding your self designed favicon. You should be ready with your self designed favicon before applying this change in your blog.


Steps To Add Or Change Favicon On Blogger:

1) Log in to your blogger account.

2) Go to Blogger Admin>Layout

3) Click on the Edit link on the "Favicon" setting.



4) A popup window will open from where you can browse to your favicon image kept in your hard drive to replace the default favicon image.  Click on browse and select the favicon file from your computer hard drive. Always remember that favicon file must be a square image, file must be in .ico file extension and file must be less than 100 KB in size.

    

5) Click on Save button  and open your site to see the change.       

Now you got your self designed favicon in your blog. How it feels to have your own favicon of your blog???

We all use Google for searching information that we want to know. Google provides us links of webpages that contains the information that we are looking after. If you own a blog then you might be doing everything possible to get more visits to your blog. To get traffics from search engines your blog must be indexed in the respective search engines. Your blog will be indexed in search engine only when you have submitted your blog to that search engine.


Today I am going to show you how you can submit your Blogger blog to the giant search Engine - Google. Google is the most popular search engine and number of webpages indexed by Google is uncountable. To make Google find, index and rank your site you need to submit your sitemap of your site to Google Webmaster Tools. Google Webmaster is a good SEO tool to use. You could also keep track of your sites statistics with the help of Google Webmaster Tools. As a new blogger you may not know how to submit your blogger sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. Here I am to help you.

Steps To Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster:-

1) Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/

2) Sign in to Webmaster Tools with your gmail id and password



3) You can see now a thumbnail and a link of your site. Click on the anyone of them to go to Dashboard of Webmaster Tools.



4) Click on Sitemaps


5) Click on ADD/TEST SITEMAP

Use http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 as your blogger sitemap

where red section is the name of your blog

Copy and paste the blue section of your sitemap in the space provided.


6) Click on Submit Sitemap and refresh the page

Your webpages are submitted and waiting to be indexed.

When you login to your Google Webmaster some days later, you should be able to see the indexed pages and statistics of your blogger. Hope this helped you.

Social networking sites can be a good medium of getting large traffics to your blog. We all use social networking sites to communicate with our friends and we often share our status, thoughts, emotions, photos, links, videos etc with our friends. If a link of your blog is shared  in the social networking sites by somebody then his/her friends will also come to know about your blog. As a blogger you will always be happy if your visitors share link of your blog posts with their friends and followers in social networking sites. A widget which contains group of social media sharing buttons will ease your work a lot and you can allow your visitors with an option of sharing your blog post via this widget.




Steps To Add A Widget Of Social Media Sharing Buttons

1) Log in to your blogger account.

2)Go to Blogger Admin > Layout > Click on Add a Gadget.




3) Select HTML/Javascript in Add a Gadget window.



4) Copy and paste the given code below in the content box.


5) Click on Save button. Now you got that widget in your blog.

You can add this widget anywhere you want. Choose the buttons of your favourite social networking sites. Your visitors will definitely share your post if they like your posts.

Here in my blog, you can find some different widgets too for social media sharing.

Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is very important if you want to achieve your links of your website higher in the search results in all top search engine websites. Recently Blogger introduced a new feature that will help you in adding meta tag in your blog very easily. In my previous post I talked about how you can add meta tag in your HTML section. To read that post go to How To Add Meta Tag In Blogger . By virtue of this new feature of Blogger you don't have to go to HTML section and play with the HTML codes. We can even include meta description for every single post with the help of this new feature. Now Blogger has Wordpress like feature for using meta tags.





This tutorial will help you to add meta tags description to blogger without editing your HTML code. This is a good SEO technique. So try this in your blogger blog.  If you don't know the procedure to follow then read the steps given below. I am giving you the step by step procedure just for the sake of helping you.  

Steps To Add Meta Tags Description To Blogger Without Editing HTML code

1) Log in to your blogger account.

2) Go to Blogger Admin>Settings>Search Settings

3) Under Meta tags Description option, click on edit and choose Yes to Enable search description and write description of your blog in not more 150 characters. Fill the column with perfect description of your blog..





4) Click on Save changes

5) Now when you make a Post, you can set the Meta Description from the Post Editor’s

Your post will appear in search engines according to what you have filled in the Search Description column.  So fill up this column very wisely so that more visitors gets attracted to your blog.

Hope you like this new feature that Blogger has introduced.

7) Replace the red lines with the parameters.

8) Click on Save Template and you just added meta tags in your html code of your Blogger.

That was easy.  Hope you like it. Meta tags are very much important for search engine optimizaton. Choose your keywords intelligently and have a perfect description for your blog. After adding meta tags, blog will definitely get more help from search engines in terms of blog hits. Experience the difference. Happy blogging :))