With Twitter's worldwide popularity and with over 200 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day, it has become a must for every web master to use twitter sharing buttons and applications as much on his web as possible. This lets users to easily tweet our blogs and websites which thereby generates traffic for us in return. Muhammad Awais Afzal of BT4U has coded a beautiful cute twitter bird that flies from corner to corner of your web page as you scroll up or down. It has a follow me link as well as tweet link. It is compatible with all browsers.
You have seen that I have created an automatically updated table of contents page that shows the links to all posts published so far at this blog. This widget displays all your posts category wise and really saves time. I was previously adding new links manually to the Blogger Tricks page but as soon as I came to know of this great widget from BT4U I instantly converted to it. This widget will also tell visitors that which posts are new and which are old. I have modified the CSS in order to make it suit your blog appearance.
Follow the steps below to create a TOC page for your blog
5. Save your template and now create a New Page (not a new Post). 6. Give Your new Page a relevant title like “XYZ Table Of Contents” and then in the EDIT HTML mode of your blogger editor paste the code below, UPDATED CODE:
See a screenshot on how things will appear, Now simply replace http://www.bloggertrick4you.blogspot.com with your Blog URL and hit save. View your new page to see a beautiful Table Of Contents with a nice drop down effect.
Customize The TOC widget
By default I have kept the Category background in active colour mode to appear as blue and inactive as dark gray as shown below,
If you want to change the colour of the Active mode then simple change #9dc2e7 and #438cd2 . Here #9dc2e7 refers to a lighter shade and #438cd2 refers to a darker shade colour. So whatever colour you wish to use simply replace #438cd2 with your prefered colour and #9dc2e7 with the lighter shade of your prefered colour.
Google has a fantastic service of adding their custom search box to any blog/website.Search box helps your visitors in finding the content of their interest without moving away from your blog. Google Custom Search engine is easy a search box on your website which show you search results on web history on Google but there is a benefit when you put upon your website page because people when search this box ads are appear in these results and you can easily make money form Google Custom Search engine.
If you have a account of Google Adsense then you can easily do this for making money from your website.
Just few months back I wrote a post on how to add a Recent Posts Widget by Feedburner to your Blogger and Typad blogs and today we will learn a similar tutorial based on a really attractive and fast loading Recent Comments widget offered by Feedburner. This widget is really fast loading in a sense that it is well scripted and the JavaScript it uses is stored on feedburner’s server so there will be no load time delay on your blog.So lets learn how to add it to blogger.
Replace YOUR-BLOG-NAME with your blog’s good name.
3. Press the Next Button and you will be brought to a new page. Simply insert an easy memorable Feed title and feed address. I prefer both to be the same.
4. Press Next and then fill the two options on the new page as shown below,
5. Finally press the Next button again and you have successfully burnt your comment feed!
Now click the publicize button just at the top
On the left sidebar click BuzzBoost
Hit The Activate button on the right pane
Then fill in the options as shown below,
Its advisable to leave all boxes unchecked.
Finally click the save button and get your HTML code which will be just at the top of the page as shown below,
You might have glimpsed latest mail widget suspending on the sidebar of some blogs but most often this widgets have a JavaScript cipher in it that badly rises the load time of your sheet. Today we will learn how to add a latest posts widget suggested by Feed-burner to your blogs which is neat, appealing, exclusive and most importantly fast stacking.
Let me notify you that Feed-burner also utilizes JavaScript but it’s really smart when it arrives to sheet burden time, because the JavaScript is not exactly connected to your blog, 50% of the burden time is shared by Feed-burner.
Feed-burner as you all know is the best web service for submitting your blog feed. Once you sign up with them they will provide you with several widgets like a Rotating Headlines Banner, Subscription Email form as you can see on my sidebar, a feed counter and most importantly a Recent Post widget like the one on my sidebar,
These are steps you may follow,
1. Sign up for a Feedburner Account , which I hope you already have.
2. Log in your account and click on the Publicize button as shown below,
4. On the page that opens , you will see a small form,
Fill the form with relevant information. Leave all Boxes unchecked. Keep the number of items(Links) as low as possible. You can choose 8 links to be displayed but 6 would be better. Choose Links to be opened in Same Window Read Also:How to Add Facebook Slide Likebox
5. Now copy the code they provide you as shown below,
6. Log in your blogger Account and then go to Layout > Page Elements
7. Select add a gadget and the choose HTML/JavaScript
8. Now Paste the code into the widget and give it a title “ Recent Posts”
As I pledged in my mail on Feed-burner latest Posts Widget I am here to share the knack of adding a Twitter Recent mails Widget. This widget will undoubtedly add a pro feel to your blog, glimpse it in action by banging Here! Many Newbie bloggers use a JavaScript Recent mail widget to there blogs but to hold your blog distinct you should either select Feed-burner or Twitter. Twitter is a pleasant location to appeal a gigantic traffic if used intelligently. supplementing the twitter latest mail widget will certainly increase the number of your followers and obscurely the traffic to your blog. So now before trashing any more time, lets get to work! Read Also:Facebook vs Twitter in SEO: Full Comparison
1. Sign up for twitter Feed
For your latest posts to be shown in twitter widget you must submit your RSS feeds to a free web service called twitterfeed They will post your latest blog posts along with the title and description in your twitter account for free! You just sit back and relax.
2. Create an OPen ID to sign up for a twitterfeed account
OpenId is an Id just like your blogger Id that lets you log into thousand’s of web services without the need of signing up for an account. In short its a free ticket that lets you take a complete ride of thousands of remarkable websites that accept OpenId and luckily blogger and twitterfeed is one of them.
First and foremost click at the link saying Authenticate At TwitterThis will tell twitter.com whether twitterfeed is allowed to access your twitter account or not. After authenticating, fill up the form by following the steps below,
After your tweet feeds are activated you will see a page as shown below,
It will take 30 minutes or less for your feed status to be activated. During this time read further on how to get a Twitter widget for displaying your latest posts in it.
Click Continue to set your twitter widget. You will come across a configuration page as shown below,
You have the choice of showing up to 20 posts on your widget but I would suggest just 5 for better page load time. I would also suggest not to give a title to this widget, we will give it a title later on.
You have two choices to add your cool looking twitter widget to your blog either by clicking theAdd to blogger button or grab the code link. I love to add codes to my template myself so I will go for grab the code
Copy the code they provide you,
Note:- Don’t worry about that Hot tip! I am here to take all that headache :D
Log into your blogger account and go to Layout > Page Elements
Asking your visitors to leave you suggestions or feedbacks can be pretty easy only if you provide them with an easy access to your feedback page. Readers are often lazy and getting them to leave a feedback is often tough. However you can let them comment willingly if you add a floating feedback button to your blog, that floats as a reader scrolls down or up. This floating button can be made more user friendly and eye-catching if you add a roll over effect to it. Hover your mouse over my feedback button at the bottom-left corner of this page and observe how the button magnifies when you hover your cursor over it. Liked it? Lets now learn the TNT of adding a Feedback Button to your blogs, along with a Floating Back-To-Top Button, which I will discuss later.
For a feedback button you will need two images, one small (30 by 145 pixels) and one large (35 by 170 pixels) You can also use my feedback button if you wish,
Small Image : Large Image :
You will then need to upload these images to an image hosting web service like Photobucket or other services like Google sites and sigmirror
Get URLs for both these images and then follow the steps below
<a style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:5px;left:0px;" href="URL Of Feedback Page" title="Your Feedback is always welcomed!"><img onmouseover="this.src='URL of your Larger Feedback button'" src="URL Of Your Smaller Feedback button" onmouseout="this.src='URL Of Your Smaller Feedback button'"/></a>
Note:- Remember to replace the Colored text with the required detailed specified. You can change the text “ Your Feedback is always welcomed!“ with any message you like. You must have a Contact page, where users could fill up an Email form to send you their Suggestions. See my feed back page to get an idea.
Finally save your widget and view your blog with a floating Feedback button at the bottom-left corner of your homepage.
Add a Floating Back–To-Top button to your blog If your blog’s homepage is really long or if you write lengthy posts then you must add a Back-To-Top button to your blog, by clicking which, users blog will be taken straight to the top (Header) of your blog. You can see my floating back-to-top button at the bottom-right corner of this page. To add this button to your blog you will again need two identical images, one small and one large. May be you would like some of these buttons,
Now lets learn on how to plant the TNT of adding a floating back-to-top button to your blog. Follow the same steps as you did for adding the floating Feedback Button. Just paste the code below In your HTML/JavaScript widget,
<!--BACK-TO-TOP-STARTS-->
<a style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:5px;right:5px;" href="#" title="Back to Top"><img onmouseover="this.src='URL Of Your Larger Button Image'" src="URL Of Your Smaller Button Image" onmouseout="this.src='URL Of Your Smaller Button Image'"/></a>
<!--BACK-TO-TOP-STOPS-->
Note:- Remember to replace the required detail with specific URLs of your Back-to-top buttons
Just save your widget and view your blog with a floating Back-To-Top button at the bottom-right corner of your homepage.
With Twitter's worldwide popularity and with over 200 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day, it has become a must for every web master to use twitter sharing buttons and applications as much on his web as possible. This lets users to easily tweet our blogs and websites which thereby generates traffic for us in return. Muhammad Awais Afzal of BT4U has coded a beautiful cute twitter bird that flies from corner to corner of your web page as you scroll up or down. It has a follow me link as well as tweet link. It is compatible with all browsers.
You have seen that I have created an automatically updated table of contents page that shows the links to all posts published so far at this blog. This widget displays all your posts category wise and really saves time. I was previously adding new links manually to the 
Note:- Don’t worry about that Hot tip! I am here to take all that headache :D
