The imminent closing down of Google Pages might not be news, but the efforts that Google are taking in order that users get a smooth transition, once Google Pages closes down, is great! Firs there was the ‘download all your content‘ campaign, and now it is offering blogger (blogspot) users a chance to backup all their scripts (or for that fact any references to googlepages) on to a new server @ bloggerhosting.appspot.com (more…)

The best way to increase the readership of your blog, would be to keep your reader engrossed with various links internally-linking to your blog. That’s exactly why you should include a tag cloud in your blog. Tag’s allow us to sort our posts, into groups with common characteristics. (for eg. ‘blogger-widgets’) Now how, in God’s name, do you create a tag cloud?! Well that’s why Tagul is here. (more…)

Fancy Google’s live search box (the one where results suggestions appear below the textbox)? Now you can have the very same effect on your own blog. sikbox is a new service that allows you to add a similar live search box to your blog or website and it supports blogger, wordpress, joomla, drupal and pretty much any other type of a website. (more…)

If you had read my article,5 Tips for Newbie Bloggers, the last tip was to submit your sitemap to major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com. But what’s the benefit? Well if your site is relatively young or new, it may take time for search engines to crawl your site and display your sites in search results. Submitting your sitemaps is one method of hurrying this process. So read on. (more…)

OK. So your also on the blogging bandwagon. You’ve just set-up your blog, wrote about 5-6 articles and just basking in its glory. You’ve made your parents, siblings and your friends visit it, and they rave about hove great it is and they ask questions like ‘How did you do it?’ and ‘Did you program this page?’ If your state is somewhat like this, then this article is for you. (more…)