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.

Simple Way to Add Instagram Videos on your Blog / Website

Instagram is a popular online photo and video sharing application that helps users to take photos or videos and share them online instantly. Instagram application is acquired by Facebook and it is available for Andorid and iOS devices. Recently Facebook has introduced the video sharing feature in Instagram that allows you to capture and share videos up to 15 seconds like as Twitter’s Vine application.

Do you want to embed or insert your Instagram videos on your blog or website? Here is a simple tool available online to add Instagram videos and the tool is originally developed by the popular blogger Amit Agarwal from Labnol. Now the bloggers or webmasters can add Instagram videos on their site easily.

How to Add Instagram Videos on your Site?

1. Go to Embed Instagram online tool.

2. Give your URL of the Instagram video that you want to embed.

3. Click on “Generate Embed Code” button to generate the code

4. Then copy the code shown on the page and paste wherever you want.

If you want to use Instagram videos on blogger posts, you have to paste the code by clicking "HTML” section of the post editor. That’s all.

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 Submit your Blog to Technorati Directory?

Technorati is a leading blog / internet search engine and web directory which indexes more than a million blogs. There is listed all major sites and ranked by traffic. You can check top stories, opinions, photos and videos of all types and most popular on the blogosphere. You can also submit your site to technorati to get some traffic. This is a free web directory service and you will get a backlink from Technorati.

How to submit your Site to Technorati?

1. Go to Technorati website and sign up for new account. Login your account and you will see your Account Name on the top right panel.
2. Scroll down the page and search for “My Claimed Blogs” section.
3. Enter your site name in the text box and click on “Claim” button.

4. After that you have to give some information about your site such as Blog Title, Blog Description, Site URL, Site Feed address, Twitter profile, Facebook profile, Google plus profile, Site Category, Search Tags for your site.
5. Then click on “Proceed to next step” button.

Verify your Technorati Account:

Return back to your account profile page and then click on “Check Claim” button where your newly added website in the claimed sites list.

You will see one short verification code in a claim status section like "7MBGB55RG7CJ" and copy that code. When writing a new post in your site, add this code within your post and click on “Verify Claim Token” button. That’s it.

Generally your website will be approved and added to Technorati directory within a week. You will get a notification to your email when your website is approved by them.

How to Tag your Google+ Friends on Blogger posts

Google often integrate their social networking site Google+  with Blogger. Earlier Google introduced the Google+1 button, Google+ Badge and Google+ Followers widgets for the Blogger. Now this offers extended with Google+ Mentions in your blog posts.

Yes, you can mention / tag your Google plus friends and pages also directly in your blogger posts. Already you know about tagging your friends in Google+ social site. Mentions means you can send or call a important notification to particular person that will be sent through email. In blogger also that is same concept, you can tag  anybody even they not in your friends list.

Simply type the symbol "+" and some starting letters of your friends, you will get all matching suggestions of your friends and pages. Once you mention somebody in your blog post, the readers can see the the link of that Google+ profile. If they want add him in their circles, they can do easily by moving the mouse cursor to the link. If they click the link, they directly go to that Google+ profile.

For example just move the mouse here +Tech Stumps

After your post published, your linked friends will be notified instantly about your mention. This feature works posts and also on blogger static pages.

Note: 

To use this Mention feature, you need to integrate your  Google+ profile to Blogger profile. For this simply click the Gear button on the upper right side in Blogger Dashboard. Then click on Settings -> Connect to Google+ . Now click the "Switch to Google+" button to switch your blogger profile to Google+.

And that's done everything, now enjoy the mentions feature.

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.

Auto Update Blog Posts to Facebook via RssGraffiti

We all having Facebook profiles and Fan pages for our websites. Facebook Fan page is helps to connect the blog readers and our site very well. Active Facebook users can see the blog updates immediately , when we post new updates. Most of the bloggers forget to share their posts on social sites because there is no shortcut or single button to post our updates to Facebook Page or Profiles. Also Facebook has not any option to update automatically. So you have to manually update the new posts in the Fan page. This will be disgusting some times when we have no time.