How To Disable AdSense Gadgets, On Static Pages

As a Blog Owner do you know that AdSense ads are not permitted on pages with very little AdSense relevant content? I guess you dont know and this is something you have to take action on so as not to loose your Ads.

Unfortunately for some blog owners, the responsibility for preventing this is left to the blog owner.

Blogs with static pages, and AdSense gadgets in the sidebar, are a problem here. Static pages with little blog relevant content - such as label indexes, expanded owner profiles, special gadgets like Followers displays - cause problems with the AdSense ad classifier - and can cause blogs to lose ads.

As an AdSense publisher, the blog owner is expected to ensure that ads are not displayed on unsuitable blog pages.

Fortunately, it's not difficult to block AdSense ads from static pages. Just add a CSS rule witha "static page" conditional, to block display of each AdSense gadget.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "static_page"'>

If you want to block gadget "AdSense1" from displaying on all static pages, that's a simple CSS rule, added using "Add CSS".

Note that I wrote this to selectively block AdSense gadgets from displaying - but you can use it with any gadget, that you need to block. AdSense is simply one gadget that needs to be selectively displayed.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "static_page"'>
<style>
#AdSense1 {display: none !important;}
</style>
</b:if>

As always, be aware that the blank line above and below the code, as displayed here, is not intended to be decorative. Any time you add CSS rules, the blank line is required, to separate each CSS rule - and make each rule operational.

If the blog publishes actual blog content on some static pages, conditionals will be a bit more complicated. This is one more reason why static pages are not typically used for blog content.

Owners of #Blogger blogs with AdSense ads, that use static pages without AdSense relevant content, need to block ads from displaying on such pages. Failure to display ads selectively can cause problems with ads on the blog.

Fortunately, a simple CSS rule can be used, to block ads from static pages.

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How to Redirect 404 Not Found Page to the Home Page in Blogger

Whenever a person lands on a web page that is either deleted or has no existence Blogger blogs usually display its common 404 not found error message i.e. “Sorry for the inconvenience, the page you are looking for has no existence”. First impression counts more than anything. A person would never desire to display not found error pages to his new visitors. Therefore, it is essential to redirect all 404 not found pages to the home page so users can easily get access to the content that is waiting for them. Since, Blogger do not support PHP, so we have to make use of JavaScript that does the job pretty nicely. Therefore, today in this article, we will learn How to Redirect All 404 Not Found Pages to Homepage in Blogger.

Before, we get on with our tutorial. Let us first discuss the true definition of not found pages. Most of the webmasters would be well aware of it but some beginners might get confused. Consider the following meaningful definition:

• 404 Pages: The 404 not found error message is a form of standard HTTP response code, which indicates the client that the destination which he is looking for, is unable to interact with the server or has no existence. 

• 301 Permanent Redirects:  URL redirection, also known as URL redirecting is a technique that allows a webmaster to forward his one domain to another domain through URL redirection, or making different web page available under many URLs

The Solution:
The solution is pretty much straightforward because there is no rocket science behind this technique. A small chuck of JavaScript coding would be doing the entire job. Consider the following instructions and apply them as mentioned below. 

Go To Blogger >> Settings >> Search Preference. Now from the list of functions Select Custom Not Found Page and paste the following JavaScript coding in the HTML Box. If some folks are using custom 404 error message, than they can add the following code at the end of the coding.

Sorry for the inconvenience, the page you are looking for has no existence.<script type = "text/javascript">
//Blogger 404 Redirect Powered by MyBloggerLab
BSPNF_redirect = setTimeout(function() {
location.pathname= "/"
}, 1000);
</script> 

• 1000 is the delay time in microseconds. Anyone can change it. Changing the value to Zero (0) would redirect immediately without any delay. 

Save it and that’s it. Now whenever a visitor would hit a 404 page, it would automatically redirect him to your homepage. Note: This technique should be used only if lots of your indexed posts are deleted and they are getting high SERP ranking.

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How to Enable Free HTTPS SSL Certificate in Blogger

Are you looking to add some extra security measures to your blogger site? Are you worried about your blogger blog getting attacked from malware? With Blogger's Free SSL certificate service, now you can protect your blogger site and your visitors by adding an extra layer of security. Moving from HTTP to HTTPS and installing an SSL certificate to your blogger site is fairly simple. In this article, we will show you how to enable free HTTPS SSL certificate in Blogger.

What is SSL Certificate?

SSL stands for secure socket Layer which increases the security between a website and a user. We daily fill online forms, shop products online, and numerous other things we do to send our information to the web servers. In order to protect the data transfer we need a secure connection.
That's where SSL Certificate provides that matters. HTTPS connection, establishes an encrypted connection between a user and a web server, so hackers do not get access to the information of a particulate user.

Every site has a unique SSL Certificate this helps in identifying secure connection. Any site that is pretending to have a secure SSL, HTTPS connection and its certificate does not match, and then your browsers will give you the following warning message.

Why you should use SSL?

When it comes to search engine ranking, Google gives more importance to HTTPS sites than HTTP sites. Having a secure connection gives a stronger message to the search engine that you give importance to your site security.

This is the reason why sites which have a secure connection might run a little better than the other sites which doesn’t have a secure SSL connection.

How to Enable FREE HTTPS SSL Certificate in Blogger

Roughly, a basic SSL certificate costs about $10/year for each site. Luckily, blogger offers a free SSL solution to its blogger users. Unfortunately, blogs with custom domains does not support this feature only free domains can have free SSL certificates.

1. To Enable HTTPS, sign in to Blogger and select a blog on which you would like to enable HTTPS.


2. Go to Settings >> Basics >> HTTPS Settings.


3. In HTTPS Availability, select YES

Now your blog has a unique SSL certificate which will provide an extra layer of security to your site. Now go and open your site with https:// and enjoy free SSL support from blogger. You can add SSL support to all your blogger blogs for FREE.

We hope this tutorial may have helped you in learning how to add a Free HTTPS SSL certificate in blogger. Sadly, this feature is only for free. BlogSpot domain and not custom domains. However, we will surely bring away soon that will allow custom domain users to have free SSL certificates as well. If you like this article, share it with your friends and let

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How to Remove Malware Warnings from Your Blogger Blog.

Does your blogger site inject with some sorts of malicious code? Are you facing weird notifications like “Danger Malware ahead” whenever you are trying to access your website? If yes then, your website is probably serving malicious codes. In this scenario, you should quickly scan your site for any kind of virus. If you are also looking for a way of getting your site clean from any kind of malicious code or virus then, you have landed to the right place. Today in this article, we will show you How to Remove Malware codes from Your Blogger blog.

What is a Malware?

It is a kind of software that tries to damage your computer, and computing systems. Malware or malicious software is planned to secretly access a computer device without even informing the computer owner.  The main intention of this software is to harm other computers and perform such actions which can damage data or disrupt systems.

Due to these high security risks, few corporate companies rely on cloud computing, which helps them to secure their confidential data from any kind of malicious injection.  

How to Remove Malware from Your Blogger Site?

To remove a suspicious code from your site, you have to identify which code or script is causing the problem. While access your site through Google Chrome browser, you may have seen a warning message like “Attention Malware detected”. This warning message helps you in knowing the problem. 

Take a look at the following screenshot which says that this site may harm your computer. If you go in depth, you would be able to see something like this, “Your site example.com contains some malware injection from example.com which is a known malware distributor”. Sounds fishy huh?

It means that example.blogspot.com is causing the problem because it is a known malware distributor and you have linked it on your site. The solution to this problem is a lot simpler than it looks you just need to remove that link from your site and everything would be back to normal. 

Go to Blogger.com >> Template >> Edit HTML >> Search for the URL of those websites which are causing the problem and just removed them from your coding. Once everything is done, press the Save Template button to finish the process. 

Congratulations: Now Chrome would not display warning messages to you or your visitors. 

Conclusion:

According to the estimated, daily thousands of websites gets compromised and you could be the next one. Therefore, it is essential to take all safety precautions before it gets too late. Since, Blogger is in the cloud so it cannot be hacked, but this does not mean it cannot be injected from malware. Thus, always download templates from reliable designers and sources.  Furthermore, make a habit of scanning the templates before you apply them onto your site. 

We hope this article has helped you in understanding how you can remove malware from your site. What are your thoughts and views about malware injection and detention, whether it is threatening or not? Share your views by commenting below.

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How to add a Heatmap in Blogger to Track User Click Activity

Are you looking to get better insight about how the user interacts with your website? Most online business uses Google Analytics, which does not provide visualize details about how users interact with your website. Heatmaps tools allow you to record every visit to your site, you can see how people browse, where they click, where they scroll and how they fill out forms. With Heatmaps, you can visualize important clicks, mouse movement and scroll behavior. In this article, we will show you how to add a heatmap in blogger to track user click activity.

What is Heatmap?

A heatmap provides you a visualized report on how your visitors use your website. Heatmap provides reports about your top pages by highlights those areas with high user activity.

Heatmap provides information about where a user clicked movement of the mouse, and much more. This allows you to solve usability issues, increase conversions, increase sales and improves the user experience of your website.

This tool is different from traditional analytics tools like Google Analytics, Statecounter. Which provides you information about how many unique visitors you have, where they came to your site, and how much time they spend on your site.

Heatmaps tools and plugins are different they tell you how users are interacting with your site components.

How to add a Heatmap in Blogger?

There are a lot of heatmap tools that offers amazing services but we will be using MouseFlow.com to add a heatmap in your Blogger site because they provide quality tracking features and the best thing its FREE.

The very first thing you need to do is to go tosign up page and register a free account. Enter your domain name on which you would like to add the heatmap, email address and password. Once everything is done, press "Create my account" button.

Once you have signed up successfully, you'll get a tracking code which you need to add on your site. This code will allow your site to be monitored for user activity. Copy the code, and move to the next step.

Go to Blogger >> Template >> Edit HTML >>Search for <body> and just below it paste the tracking code you copied earlier. Once you have paste the code, save the template.

After adding the tracking code in your template, go to eu.mouseflow.com/websites/ and start monitoring the visual activity of your website. The best thing about MouseFlow is that it provides you recordings of your user activity, which really is a handy feature for every online business owner.

We hope this article has helped you in learning how to add a heatmap in blogger, if you have a better FREE heatmap tool then feel free to leave it's link in the comment section below. If you liked our article, share it with friends on Facebook, Google+ or twitter.

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Fixing XML Parsing Errors in Blogger Template

Have you ever encountered Parsing Error in your blogger template? Then today we are sharing a tutorial with you which will help you to fix XML parsing errors in blogger. 

This kind of error occurs when you try to insert Adsense JavaScript, Facebook JavaScript or other widgets made with JavaScript in your blogger template. When you insert any JavaScript with some special characters in your blogger template then it shows this error “The reference to entity "version" must end with the ';' delimiter."

And, this error confuses and irritates many bloggers so for such bloggers today in this article, we will show you how to fix XML Parsing errors in blogger template.

What is XML Parsing Errors 

We have briefly mentioned about XML parsing error above and here are going to explain it bit more for your convenience.

This error usually occur when you to try to upload any third-part JavaScript in your blogger template. It is also called syntax error as it refers to coding. This error looks like the below one;
Error parsing XML, line 1005, column 91: The reference to entity "version" must end with the ';' delimiter.

There are some special characters in you script which causes this XML Parsing error. Following are the special characters which are illegal and cause parsing errors;

1. < (Less Than)
2.  > (Greater Than)
3.  & - Ampersand
4. ‘ (Single Quote)
5. “ (Double Quote)

And your script will not work until you fix that error and for your solution you may refer this guide and clear your all queries and get the solution.

How to Fix XML Parsing Errors in Blogger

Here are the steps which you need to follow in order to Fix XML Parsing Errors in Blogger. Now without taking your time more get to the steps to explore your solution.

Method #1:  Replacing Some Special Characters

This is first method which you can use to fix XML parsing error which is by replacing some special characters in your JavaScript.

Special	Replace With
>	>
<	&lt;
&	&amp;
“	&quot;

Now wherever you find these special characters in your JavaScript then replace it with above mentioned characters. For example, if you find > in your code then simply remove it and replace it with &gt; and then parsing error will be fixed.

Method #2: Insert Script in CDATA Section

The CDATA Refers to Character data which carry the text data and does not let XML to parse the data within CDATA section and the data within it remain unparsed including those special characters, thus prevent parsing error. CDATA section starts with <![CDATA[  and ends with ]]>, your script will be included between it.

Refer the below code to enclose your script correctly inside CDATA section;

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
    Add Your JavaScript Code Here
//]]>
</script>

Ones you have uploaded your script within CDATA then your XML parsing error will be solved with complete ease.

This was our guide to make you guys aware with the process of fixing XML parsing error. We are sure that this guide would have been proven helpful for you guys. If you still have any confusion left related to this article then lend your confusion in the comment box. I shall get back to your queries as soon as possible.

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Easy way to Setup Custom Domain on Blogger with Godaddy.com

Custom domain setup in Blogger.com is used to create your own blog URL.      (for example: from myblog.blogspot.com to myblog.com).

When you purchase a domain fromGodaddy.com, they assign an IP address (A record and CNAME record) for the domain. Hence, you need to change those records to point to your Blogger.com blog. This post can help you to change the A and CNAME records of your Godaddy account.

Follow the steps given below:

1. Login to your Godaddy account and click on the My Account tab.

1. Under Domains, you will see the list of your domain names. Click onAdvance Details of your desired domain. You’ll be directed to the Domain Manager page.

1. At the bottom of the Domain Manager Page, you will see a section under the heading DNS Manager, where you can edit the DNS configuration of your domain by clicking the Launch link

1. Under the A(Host) Tab of the DNS manager, enter the 4 IP addresses as below, one-by-one, using the Quick add button, to change the A records.

216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21

1. Click on the Quick Add button in the box labeled CNAME(alias). If you’ve already created a CNAME record for your blog’s address, click the pencil icon next to the existing CNAME record.
2. After you are done adding records, click on Save Changes to save your edited data.
3. For the Name, enter only the sub-domain of the address you want to use for your blog. For example, if you picked www.myblog.com as your address, enter www here.
4. Enter ghs.google.com as the Host Name. Specify a TTL or use the default setting of 1 hour.

This is how you can change the existing domain IP address that now points to your Blogger IP address. Wait for few hours for the changes to take effect in your IP records. After that you can say bye bye to your oldBlogger.com blog URL by changing it with your custom domain name. 

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4 Ways To Index Your Blog Quickly In The Search Engines

Getting your blog or site indexed by search engines is the most important aspect if you want to get traffic to your blog. Yes, your blog can get indexed, if you blog on a specific niche and write quality articles. But this would take some time. Apart from writing quality articles you need to make your blog popular around the web. Its just like opening a new restaurant and waiting for people to knew about it. Instead you can let people know about your restaurant by distributing pamphlets. Similarly instead of waiting for people to read your blog, you should get your blog indexed so they visit your blog.

Join Blog Communities

One great way to get your blog noticed by Google is to submit to a number of different blog communities. These serve as directories of sorts where bloggers can submit their blogs and have them listed under their specific categories. It also helps with networking with other like-minded bloggers, but the key is that many of these blog communities rank very well in Google.

Some of the communities that you may want to try include BlogCatalog and NetworkedBlogs. After you sign up for these accounts and submit your blog, your blog will get a dedicated page on each of these communities. Make sure you provide a good description of your blog too, as well as all the usual branding items like a logo.

Use Social Bookmarking And Networking Sites

Just like the blogging communities, social media sites tend to do very well with search engines too. It is important to set up Facebook fan pages and Twitter accounts for your blog. This not only helps with branding, but it helps to create a consistent “image” of your blog for Google.

Similarly, having your blog submitted to the popular social bookmarking sites can be of great value, especially if you can get your friends to “vote” them up in these networks. Some places that you may want to consider are Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Delicious.

Include Internal Links And Keywords

You’ll hear it many times from all the blogging gurus: content is king. More importantly, quality content is king. When you are writing your blog posts, be sure to consider including some internal links to other posts on your blog. Once again, this indicates to Google what content it should be watching and what content is the most important.

In doing so, it is also important to have a keyword rich blog. This once again gives Google a better idea of what your site is all about and what search terms should be associated with your blog and your blog posts. Remember to write for your audience, first and foremost, but remember to keep Google in mind when you’re writing your content too.

Submit A Sitemap To Google

Internal links are helpful, but a site map is even more comprehensive and can really help Google get a better idea of what to do with your blog. To get your blog indexed in Google as quickly as possible, you’ll want to make sure that you have a site map set up.

In short, sitemaps contain all the links to all of your posts and this helps to get the Google “spider” to “crawl” through all of your content in a meaningful and systematic way. If you are confused about setting up a sitemap, there are Google Webmaster tools to help you with that.

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Remove Footer Credit Link from Blogger Template without Redirecting to Any Website

Many websites are available on the internet which provides very stylish blogger templateat very low cost. If you purchase their template than that template will not contain any credit link. These websites also provide most of the free blogger template with Non-removable credit link. Means, what? If you’ll try to remove credit link from their template, then your blog willautomatically redirect to their website(Homepage or a particular site). This is because they added some JavaScript into their free templates. In other hand, if you undo the changes and keep their original credit of template then it works perfectly.

Some days ago, I have visited one of these types of Blogger template websites where I have seen what? that some peoples (newbies blogger) are requesting how to remove credit/footer link from their template and the admin and other staff members are making jokes of that requests which result in creation of this topic.

Basically, newbies blogger don’t want to invest money in purchasing any premium template and thus, use these types of free template for their blog. Many of them are trying to remove credit link but unsuccessful, if you are one of them then no need to wait more. Because here I have shared the method by which you can remove footer link and stop redirecting to any website.

How to Remove Credit Link?

Actually, these links are attached with someJavaScript or CSS. Finding JavaScript from the template and then removing is too boring and time-consuming also it requires lot’s of effort to do this. But in other hand, you caneasily hide the credit/footer link via CSS. This method is very simple and takes only 2 minutes.

Steps to Remove Credit/Footer Link:

• First of all, go to Blogger.com
• Just Login to your Blogger Profile andselect your blog.
• Now go to Dashboard > Template >Edit HTML.

• Go to the footer and find the credit/footer link which needs to remove/hide. You’ll find something like Copyright,credit or designed etc (Like the picture shown below).

• Add the following line with your original copyright ID. (As shown in picture below).

style=”visibility: hidden”

• Now, you need to Save your Template.

Conclusion:

Some of you are searching on the internet how to remove footer credit link and convert free blogger template into premium. So, I hope this tutorial helps you. Share your idea/suggestion/feedback related to articles I publish here. Thanks, and stay tuned.

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