Blogger has developed cool new templates but there would be times that you want to return to the good old theme after changing it. The Wizz teaches you how you can access your old Blogger style template and reactivate it to your Blogger via this TUTORIAL.

There’s a plethora of tutorials out there that teaches you how to add a smooth ‘Back to Top’ button on your Blogger blog but most of them involves editing the HTML code of your current template, which I don’t like doing. That is why I chose the simplest method that Rahul from helperblogger.com and others like him used, and that is to make use of Blogger’s ‘Add a Gadget’ feature. You can find the tutorial for it HERE.

source: http://www.allblogtools.com/tricks-and-hacks/add-a-smooth-%E2%80%98back-to-top%E2%80%99-button/

Why read the book when there’s the movie available? Probably that’s what most people think in getting instant info about a topic so selecting an image for your post is essential in attracting more visitors in your blog and get them more interested.

An image is a useful tool to help your readers follow easily on what you’ve written, so here are some tips provided by James Adams to select the best image needed for your post.

1. Relevance. Add images that are relevant to your post but don’t go overboard by adding pictures just for the sake of adding one. Make it straight forward just like the texts you’ve made.
2. Copyright. Keep in mind that not all images are available for others to use. There are copyrights on the net and in print. To be safe, it’s better to use your own images or find one

That provides free use. There are sites that offer free use of images. If you will be using an image coming from another site, email or contact the owner and ask for permission to use.

1. Editing. Edit your pictures before posting it. If the file is too large, make some adjustments. Having a clean image gets the point straight to your readers better than an unclear one. There are many great tools for editing an image, one is the popularly used Photoshop. There are also alternatives if you don’t have Photoshop. You can also use Gimp which is free.
2. Avoid. Consider other user’s net speed connection, so you may try to avoid selecting images that may have loading factors. You don’t want your readers get turned off when browsing your site and it loads slowly because of some animated images.
3. Include. You may have to include images that are better to use and have unique illustrations. Familiar image loses its weight since people have seen it already on other sites, so look for something that associates well and relevant with your work.

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source: http://www.allblogtools.com/tricks-and-hacks/choosing-brilliant-images-for-your-posts/

In this feature I will show you a tip on how to find the email address you’re using in in Blogger in case you had  forgotten it. You may have lots of Google accounts and then comes a point wherein you can’t even remember which of these email addresses you used for your Blogger blog. No worries. Here’s what I found courtesy of Lasantha Bandara if that happens.

Simply enter your blog URL you want to access here: http://www.blogger.com/forgot.do

After you have entered it and clicked Lookup, Blogger will send an email with sign-in instructions to that email address.

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source: http://www.allblogtools.com/tricks-and-hacks/how-to-find-a-forgotten-email-address-used-in-blogger/

We already know that bad website design and poor content can deter your website’s visitors, but if you think that that’s all there is to it then think again. It may be hard to believe but apparently lots of website owners and bloggers, especially those who are new, still miss the other minor but important factors in making your visitors stay longer and return to your site.

Bounce rate, in layman’s terms, is basically the number of single visits in your site that results in the visitor spending only a short amount of time and then leaving immediately, hence the term ‘bounce’. You don’t want your visitors to bounce off of your site, so below is a list of tips on how you can minimize that from happening.

• Provide Easy Site Navigation – One thing that turns visitors off from a website is not knowing where and how to locate your site features. If your visitors have a hard time finding links to certain pages on your site, you can bet that the next thing they’ll look for is a way out of your site. Being forced to search for buttons or links just to go to another page on your site can be as frustrating as having to search for the TV remote just so you can change the channel.

• Minimize Ads – Do you know the feeling that you get when you have to sit through all those commercials just so you can watch your favorite TV show? That’s what it’s like for visitors when see all these ads and banners on your site: it overwhelms them. Having too many ads on a website is a turn off for visitors and therefore a no-no if you want them to stick around longer.

• Make Sure You Have A Search Box – Believe it or not, some blogs and websites actually don’t have a search box feature, which is another no-no because visitors do use it. It makes it easier for them to find what they’re looking for than clicking through a lengthy list of archive, labels, and categories.

• Improve Your Site’s Loading Speed – Nobody wants to be kept waiting, and that includes your site’s visitors. Don’t test their patience by making them wait for your whole site to finish loading. One common cause of slow page loads is having way too much widgets or plugins installed in your site. You could say that having too many widgets is almost as wrong as having too much ads on a website; one annoys the visitors while the other makes them wait.

• Interlink Your Blogs Posts – To put it simply, provide links to your other [older] posts somewhere inside your articles. The way to do this is by referencing a topic that you have previously written about, which will act like a “Related Posts” link from within your article. For example,  if you were to mention “increasing website security by using a PHP script,” on your article and you have already written an article on said script, you can hyperlink the phrase “using a PHP script” to that particular phrase.

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source: http://www.allblogtools.com/tricks-and-hacks/5-tips-on-how-to-reduce-your-blogs-bounce-rates/

If you’re looking for a good quick and insightful read and on how to re-energize your blog this might just be that source of inspiration and helpful information you’re looking for.

Joy Deangdeelert Cho’s book Blog Inc. gives you a fresh perspective on some of the things you thought you already knew about blogging, whether you’re a beginner or an advanced pro blogger. The information contained in her book will help you learn the basics of not just blogging but also site traffic.

Learn how to expand your network, build your community, and connect with other fellow bloggers in the community. Aside from the usual blogging tips, it also consists of interviews with some of the most successful bloggers on the Internet with each of them sharing their own inspirational stories on how they started with little to nothing.

The topics are very well-organized and structured and covers lots of areas such etiquette, social networking, and of course SEO among others. Again, it contains loads of helpful blogging tips and techniques, and it is highly recommended by its readers to bloggers of all levels, for business or for personal use. Check it out on Amazon.

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source: http://www.allblogtools.com/tricks-and-hacks/blog-inc-blogging-for-passion-profit-and-to-create-community/

Designing a template for your blog doesn’t need to be that complicated, that is if you’re using Blogger’s Template Designer. No need for skills in Photoshop, CSS, HTML and all these step-by-step tuts found in books and all over the Internet.

A lot of people do their designing this way, going through its CSS and HTML, tweaking them and creating layouts on Photoshop until they get the design they want. But that’s difficult and can take a long time, especially if you’re not that familiar with CSS and HTML codes.

Thanks to Blogger’s New Template Designer, you can customize your template the easy way even if you’re a beginner. Not only can you change the design and layout of your blog, you can also pick from 6 beautiful templates to get you started. Also, you can customize backgrounds, fonts, font colors, and CSS without having to go to the HTML Editor. How easy is that?

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source: http://www.allblogtools.com/tricks-and-hacks/beautify-your-blog-with-bloggers-new-template-designer/

Want to know which Blogger template are you using? Well, Blogger has 6 different templates to offer by default – Simple, Awesome Inc, Picture Window, Ethereal, Watermark and Travel.

Here’s a featured simple tip that I learned from Mohammed Bilal Aslam on how you can check your Blogger template’s name and I’ll be sharing you that one as well.

Follow these easy steps:

• Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template
• Click Edit HTML
• Click Proceed on the new window that will open
• Scroll down and look for this code

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Blogger Template Style
Name:     Simple
Designer: Josh Peterson
URL:      www.noaesthetic.com
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Here’s a sample if you did step number 3:

As you locate the code in step 4, you can now see the name of the template used. In the sample above, the name of the template used is “Simple”.

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About this Author:

Marvin@Allblogtools

Marvin Bea is a blogger, webmaster and musician from the Philippines. His interests include arts, photography, travel, fitness and health.

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