Create Hyperlink That Opens In A New Window

The basic structure of a hyperlink looks like this:

<a href="http://www.bloglabs.info">

As you can see, we have all we really need to create a link and make it go somewhere.  But how would we make it open a new window?  Easy.  We need to add one more property to the 'A' tag to make it do what we want.  All we need to add is:

target="_blank"

That's it!  Just like the href property/value pair (href="some value"), we simply include the target="_blank" to the 'A' tag and we're done.  Here is what the finished product will look like:

<a href="http://www.bloglabs.info&lt " target="_blank"> BlogLabs< </a>

Sometimes, editors (not people, the ones we use to write posts with)
will provide this functionality as an option for you when you create a
hyperlink.  Blogger does not do this, you need to
view the HTML source, find the 'A' tag you want to modify and then add
the target="_blank" value pair to the hyperlink definition.

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Add Blogger Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools!

Submitting the Sitemaps of your blog to Google Webmaster helps the search engine(Google) to crawl your webpages easily and more quickly! This post explains the procedure to add your blogger blog's sitemap to the Google Webmaster Tools.

1. Sign-in to Google Webmaster Dashboard using your Google Account.
   
   
2. Type your blog URL and click Add Site:
   
   
   
   
3.  Once your site is added to Google Webmaster, you need to verify the site by adding a Meta Tag to your blog:

 

4. Copy the Meta Tag code given by Google Webmaster as shown in the screenshot below:

5. Now go to Blogger Dashboard - Layout - Edit HTML - then search(Ctrl+F) for the code given below in the header section:

<b:include data="blog" name="all-head-content"/>

6. Then Paste the Meta Tag just after the above code and Save the Template

7. Now click Verify in the Google Webmaster Tools. Your site will be verified if you followed the above steps clearly:

8. Next step is to add sitemaps of your blog. Select Sitemap from the left sidebar:

9. You can add the following sitemaps of your blogger blog to the Google Webmaster:
   
   
   http://www.YourBlog.com/atom.xml?redirect=false
   
   
   
   http://www.YourBlog.com/feeds/posts/default?=rss
   
   
   
10. Finished! Your Blog's sitemap will be added to Google now!
    

Drop Comments below if you liked this post! Enjoy Blogging!

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Remove/Hide "Newer Post - Older Post" Links in Blogger

 

In almost all Blogger Templates, you can find the Newer Post - Home - Older Post Links below the blog posts. If you want to remove or hide these links, just do the following simple steps:

• Go to Blogger Layout page and click Edit HTML link
  
  
• Then Search(Ctrl+F) your template to find the following codes:
  
  
  

  
  

  #blog-pager-newer-link {
  float: left;
  }
  
  #blog-pager-older-link {
  float: right;
  }
  
  #blog-pager {
  text-align: center;
  }
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• Now Replace the above code as given below:
  
  
  

  
  

  #blog-pager-newer-link {
  float: left;
  display: none;
  }
  
  #blog-pager-older-link {
  float: right;
  display: none;
  }
  
  #blog-pager {
  text-align: center;
  display: none;
  }
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
• Save the Template. Finished!

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How to Remove Label’s Post Count in Blogger Blogs ?

By default, there will be post count enclosed in brackets in the Label Widget of Blogger blogs(see the above image). You can remove that post number count by doing the following simple steps:

# Before you do anything to your templates, please backup your template first.
Login to your dashboard, go to Layout -> Edit HTML and Click Download Full Template 

Select Expand Widget Templates as shown in the image below:

 

• Then Search(Ctrl+F) and REMOVE the code given below in the template:
  
  
  

  (<data:label.count/>)
  

  
  

  
  
  
• After removing that code, Save the Template. Finished!

You will see your Label widget without post count as shown in the image below. Drop Comments!

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Adsense Enabled Privacy Policy Generator

As per the new terms & conditions made by Google Adsense a few days ago, all the publishers have to post a Privacy Policy in their sites advising the visitors specifically about cookies and web beacons. If you don't agree with the new conditions , you'll be kicked out of the Google Adsense program at the end of May.

Here is what the new policy says :

"You must have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy that complies with applicable privacy and data protection laws and that clearly discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on your website. Your privacy policy should also include information about user options for cookie management."


Cookies & Web beacons:
Most adsense publishers are familiar with http cookies (or web cookies). They are a small parcels of text sent by a server to a web client(browser) and then sent back unchanged by the client each time he/she accesses that server. But the term Web beacon may be new to you.
A web beacon (also known as tracking pixel or pixel tag or clear GIF) is a small transparent graphic image (usually 1 pixel height and 1 pixel width) that is placed on a website or even in an email that is used to moniter the behavior of the client/user visiting the webpage, to find out some user information like IP address,etc.

So, to abide the new terms of Adsense, you have to include an appropriate Privacy policy in your site/blog.
If you are new or not sure how you need to create a Privacy Policy, Don't worry! There are a few Adsense Privacy Policy Generators which will make your life easier.. SERPRank's Privacy Policy Generator is one of those.

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How to add a Paypal Donate button to your Blog

This post explains how to add a Paypal donate button to your blogger(blogspot) blog:-

Adding a Paypal donation button to your blog will give your loyal readers a chance to support(encourage) you by donating a few bucks.
If you don't have a paypal account yet,.. you can get a Free Paypal account here.

so,let's see how to put a Paypal donation button in your blog...

1.First,Log in to your Paypal account.
First,Log in to your Paypal accoun

2.Click on the 'Merchant Services' tab (see at the top of the page).

Click on the 'Merchant Services' tab (see at the top of the page)

3.Scroll down the window and you will see an option "Donations" in the right sidebar.Click on it!
Scroll down the window and you will see an option

4.Now,you will see some options like Donation name/service ,donation id,etc etc...
The first field (Donation name/service) is the only thing that is required and all the remaining fields are optional.
Enter that first field,choose a button style,scroll down the window and click on "Create a button Now"

click on

5.Now,you will see some html code... Copy it and sign in to your blogger dashboard »» Click on the layout »» Add a Page element »» html/javascript »» and paste that html code and SAVE THE CHANGES.

Here is how the button will look in your sidebar

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Generate Traffic

Like it or not, if you want to be successful on the Internet, you will need to generate traffic to your websites or blogs. It does not matter if your goal is to make money with advertising, to sell ebooks, to generate leads to your business or simply to share your ideas; if people are not visiting your site your efforts will be worthless.
That is why I decided to start this “Website Traffic Series,” where on each post I will cover one different traffic generation strategy. Now I am not trying to reinvent the wheel, since I know that there are plenty of advice out there on this topic. What I will do is to summarize what is known about each strategy, and break it down into “Concept,” “Doest it work?” and “How to get started.” That is, I want to provide some practical advice and a reality check with my own experiences at the same time.
If things go all right this so be a long series, so stay tuned!

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