How to change favicon of your blogspot?

Do you notice that your blog have an icon with a letter "B" in an orange square on your browser tab? It is too boring because that doesn't make your blog different with the others.
Now, it's time to change favicon for your blog. I will sho w you the simply step to complete this task.

Step 1: Create your new favicon
We can easily find an Icon Generator Online website on Google. For example, I use Favicon Generator and Gallery.
Open your browser and go to Favicon Generator and Gallery, you will see The Favicon Generator  at the middle of the page as the figure bellow

Click Browse and select your icon image. Then click on Generator Favicon button. Your new icon has been created. Click on the download link to get it to your machine.

Step 2: Upload your new icon to your Google Profile
Go to your Google Profile and select Photos tab and click on Upload New Photos. Select the icon that you has just created and upload it. After that, select it on your Image page. Right click on the icon image and select View Image Info as the figure bellow.

On the Image Info window shown, Right click on the image link and select Copy

Paste this link to a text file for the later use.
(If you don't have Google Profile, just create it or use another Image hosting to upload the icon)

Step 3: Change your favicon on your Blog
Go to Dashboard, select Template -> Edit HTML -> Proceed. The put the following code before the losing </head> tab.

    <link href='Your favicon url' rel='shortcut icon'/>
    <link href='Your favicon url' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/vnd.microsoft.icon'/>
    <link href='Your favicon url' rel='icon'/>
    <link href='Your favicon url' rel='icon' type='image/vnd.microsoft.icon'/>

Copy the link that you had saved to the text file before and replace Your favicon url with it. Then, click save.
Now, your favicon of your blog has been change. If you still see the old icon, you need to clear the cache by click on Tools menu on your browser (I use Firefox), select Clear Recent History, then check on Cache checkbox and click on Clear Now button.
Congratulation, your favicon's blog now has been change. It make your blog distinguish with other blog.

You also can change your favicon by click on Layout on the Dashboard, then click on Edit on the Favicon Gadget. Browse your icon location and click on Save button.

Hope this helps!

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How to apply an XML template for blogspot?

Appearance of a blog is one of the most important factors that help us to attract more visitor to our blog. In this post, I will show you how to apply an XML template for your blog spot.
You can get blogger templates from btemplates.com, this is a website that has a huge source of templates for blogger.
Step 1: go to btemplates.com and select a template, then save it to your local machine

Step 2: Go to blogger.com, if you are using the new blogger interface, switch to the Old Blogger Interface

Step 3: On old blogger interface, click on Design tab

Step 4: Then, click on the Edit HTML tab in the top left conner

Step 5: On Edit HTML page, click on browse and find template you'd downloaded before on your local machine, then click Upload

Finish!

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Tips to attract more visitors for your website/blog

It's difficult to develop or build a website/blog, but it's more difficult to draw people to visit it. Today i’m gonna tell you some simple tips to attract more visitors for your website/blog. This article would help lot those who specially new webmasters. So let start..
1. Unique Contents:
The first and foremost issue is unique contents in your website or blog. Spread you idea through the new contents and grab the unique visitors.
2. Comments On Other Blog:
Make a positive comments by providing your website link on the good traffic and PR site. It’ll give you lot of backlink and visitors also.
3. Forum Signature:
Find some popular forums. Have a signature link that will point back your website. Its help you to increase your backlinks and visitors. Some popular forums are x10hosting.com/forums, webproworld.com/webmaster-forum, currentinfo24.com/forums etc.
4. Social Bookmarking:
Publish your post on some popular bookmarking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Reddit, Linkedin etc.
5. Yahoo Answer:
Answering the question in yahooanswer.com. This will give you lost of yahoo backlinks and visitors.
6. RSS Button:
Link a RSS button on your website. It will help you to increase your page view.
7. SEO Optimized:
Make your site SEO Optimized. If you are using wordpress then it is easy to use seo plugins. Besides, you can also use meta tag like this way..

<meta name="keywords" content="some keywords goes here">
<meta name="description" content="short description of your post">

8. E-mail Subscription:
Use e-mail subscription for your website. For this you can use Google Feedburner (feedburner.google.com), Feedburner will give you HTML code that you can post on your website to allow user subscription. The subscriber users will get update of your new post immediately.
9. Link exchange:
You can exchange some links with your related sites. you can find this from some popular forums or by searching in google.
10. Title Selection:
Title selection is an another issue for making attractive to the web browsers. Make it attractive as your post suggest.
11. Check Your Progress:
This will help you how much visitor do you get in a day. Create an account in Google Analytics (google.com/analytics) and add your site with the analytics by putting tracking code into your website that the google analytics generate. You can also verify your site in Google Webmaster Tools (google.com/webmasters/tools) and watch how many & how way visitors behave with your website.
12. Free directory:
Submit your site with some of free directory. There are lot website those provided backlinks with free of cost. Try out with google search results to find some directory.
13. Alexa toolbar:
Encourage your friends or colleagues to use Alexa toolbar (Click here your construction video). Explain them about the tracking system of the toolbar. Ask them to rate your Alexa website profile.
14. AddThis Or Sharethis Button:
Place AddThis or Sharethis (FB, Twitter, Digg, delicious etc.) Button into your every post. AddThis is free and can be used any kind of website.
15. Attend in a discussion:
Joint in a discussion on popular topics with other fourms or website.

Hope this helps!

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Create Alexa toolbar for your website/blog easily

Is there a simple way to create a toolbar for our website/blog that includes our own content and branding? The answer is yes and I will introduce to you the easiest way.
The Alexa Toolbar Creator help you to build a toolbar to helps you to connect with your visitor in order to increase traffic for your website/blog.
The Alexa Toolbar includes the following components:

• Your Logo which links to your website
• Site Search Field Button which helps your visitor to search content on your website
• RSS Button which adds dynamic headlines from your blog or other RSS feed to your toolbar.
• Menu Button which provides your users with direct links to the most important pages on your site, or anywhere online.
• Social networking Buttons such as Facebook, Twitter etc. which taking your user toolbar direct to your company Facebook or Twitter page

The following video will guide you how to build an Alexa Toolbar:







Alexa Toolbar is an excellent  way for you to connect with your customers, it will notify the users the latest content on your website and increase it traffic. Let's take it!
Create now
Hope this helps!

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