Blogger Introduced New Premium Themes for Blogs - How to Change your Template?

Blogger has introduced some new themes for blogspot blogs. Most of the bloggers are using premium templates or custom templates for their blogs because default blogger themes are not so attractive. You have to find good templates on online and uploading templates is not a easy thing for beginners.

Now Blogger updated some interesting themes with beautiful design, attractive layout, catchy fonts and background pictures. Blogger created a new set of blog themes and each theme comes in variety of colors. Also themes are fully customizable and you can be added to your blog with just a few clicks.

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These themes are responsive so they can automatically adjust to any screen and loading speed is also good.  You can try these 4 set of themes and select your favorite to continue.  Here are the blogger new themes.

How to Change New Blogger Themes to your Blog?

•    Go to your Blog Dashboard
•    In the Left side panel, Click on Themes
•    You will see four new themes including Contempo, Soho, Emporio and Notable
•    Click on each theme, you can see the preview of the new blogger template.
•    Select your favorite template and Click on “Apply to your Blog” button.
•    That’s all. You’ll have a new beautiful blogger theme for your blog.

visit official blogger site

How to Automatically Share Blogger Posts to Google Plus

Every blogger should share their posts to get traffic from social networking sites like Google+, Facebook and Twitter. Sharing your content on many sites may take some time and there is no way to share posts automatically. We can do with some web tools like Dlvr.it to share posts automatically on the web. Now Blogger introduced a new feature that allows you to share blog posts automatically to Google+.

With this feature your blog posts will be shared automatically on Google Plus when you publish the new post. You can choose your Google Plus profile or Page and this process does not require any additional clicks. Also if you have enabled Google+ comments, any replies and comments on Google+ will also display on your blog.

Before you go: 

This new feature will be available only for all those who connected a Google+ page or profile to their blog. If you have not enabled Google+ profile, click on “Blogger Dashboard -> Google+ tab -> Get Started -> Switch Now”. Now your blogger profile will be changed to Google+ profile.

How to Enable Google+ Automatic Sharing for Blogger

• Go to your Blogger dashboard and select your blog
• Click on the Google+ tab on the left panel.



• You will see your Google+ profile and pages. Choose where your posts will be shared automatically.
• Tick the check box on “Automatically share after posting”. That’s it.

If you don’t like this automatic sharing feature, you can disable by tick the check box “Prompt to share after posting”. This feature will start working the next time you publish the post.

Blogger's Default Comment Form Redesigned with New Look

Blogger is the most popular blogging platform has redesigned its default comment form with new look and more simple. Blogger did not announced about this change officially on the web and I noticed this change in my blog today. It is automatically rolled out for Blogger blogs so you need not change anything in code or settings.

Here is the screenshot of Blogger Comment Form old:

And here is the changed Blogger comment box new:

The new comment box for blogs updated with new design including Publish button, Preview button, Sign out button and Notify me option. “Notify me” option lets you to get comment updates and replies to your mail directly.

Here is the Comment Preview screenshot: 

There are many comment systems available for webmasters such as Disqus and Facebook comments, so Google also released Google+ comments for blogs and sites. However now blogger has also better comment form, so the bloggers reconsider to switch back to Blogger comments. And we can use Blogger comments and Google+ comments simultaneously.

Which comment system are you using now? Share your comments below.

Read : How to Add Google+ Comment Box to your Blogs

How to Add Google+ Comment Box System to Blogger Blogs?

Google introduced the Google+ comment box system on blogger blogs which enables Google+ users can comment on blogger posts with their Google+ user details. This is an important update because Google has been connecting more features of Google Plus with the Blogger service. You too have already noticed with these services on blogger such as Google+1 Button, Badge, Followers Widget, Mention Peoples feature and switch to Google+ profile.

Google+ commenting have more features than default blogger comment system and the main benefit is social media signals that boost your SEO of your site. And also wherever your posts to be linked or shared on Google+, those comments and replies will be displayed in your original article. This will be getting more comments from the Google+ and your post will get more traffic also.

Features of Google+ Comments

• All the conversations in one place – you can see following things when you looking your blog’s comments.
Comments from direct visitors,
Comments on the post that you’ve shared to Google+,
Shared content on Google+ that links to your post

• The readers have the option to comment publicly or privately to their particular circles.
• When you commenting on a blog, you will see the option to share the post on Google+ instantly.
• The blog author cannot see the comment if a comment is not shared with him.
• If the original comment is shared to Google+, replies to the comments on the blog will show up in Google+ and vice versa.
• If you are an author of a post, you can receive Google+ notifications when readers comment or share your post.

How to Add Google Plus Comments to your Blog?

First of all, you have to switch to Google+ profile instead of your blogger profile. For this go to your Blogger dashboard and select your blog. You will see the option “Google+” in left side menu bar and select it then click on “Get Started” button. Then your new Google+ profile will be displayed on screen and click on “Switch Now” button. Now your blogger profile upgraded to Google+ Profile.

After switching your Blogger profile to Google+, you have to turn on Google+ commenting system on blogger settings.

1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard=>Google+ (Left side menu)
2. Tick the checkbox near Use Google+ Comments on this blog.

That’s it. These are the steps to show Google+ comments on most blogs or the blogs which using default blogger templates.

How to Enable Google+ Comments on Custom Templates?

If the comment box not showing in your blog or your blog having custom template try these steps.

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard=>Template=>Edit Html
2. Search this line by pressing CTRL+F

<b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>

3. Before that code, paste the following code.

<div class='cmt_iframe_holder' expr:data-href='data:post.canonicalUrl' expr:data-viewtype='data:post.viewType'/>

4. If the code appears more than once, paste before in all places.
5. Save your Template.

That's all. You have successfully enabled the Google+ commenting in your blogspot blog. Please share your comments below about this commenting method.

How to Stop Blogger Blogs Redirection to Country Specific Domains

Google redirecting all blogger blogs to their respective Country code TLD’s. If you are visiting a blog in India, it will be redirecting .com to .in domain. If you are visiting a blog from Australia, it will be redirecting to .com.au extension. For example if you are from India seeing this blog address http://xyz.blogspot.com goes to http://xyz.blogspot.in.