The latest tips and news from the Blogger team
Make Money With Your Blog and Google AdSense
June 28, 2010
Posted by Courtney, AdSense North America team
AdSense is a great way to get paid for doing what you love to do: blogging! AdSense allows you to show targeted ads on your blog and earn revenue from your traffic. It also helps your visitors find things they may be interested in, based on the content of your blog posts. Best of all, AdSense is free and you have the option to remove the ads at any time.
The AdSense system shows ads relevant to the content of your blog and you can easily customize the look and feel of the ads to match your blog. If your blog is about fashion, you may show ads for shoe designers or clothing stores. If your blog is about cars, you may see ads for car dealerships or auto shops. Using filters, you can have control over the content of the ads you display by choosing to block categories of ads or even specific advertisers.
With the free suite of powerful AdSense reporting tools, you can pull detailed reports that will help you track your revenue and identify opportunities to earn more money. You can see earnings by day, page, domain or specific ad unit and can also use
Google Analytics
to see the source of your traffic and earnings.
Adding AdSense to your blog is easy. Just follow these steps:
Log in to Blogger, choose your blog, and go to the “
Monetize | Set up AdSense
” tab.
Choose where you want to show your ads on your blog and hit “
Next
.”
If you’re new to AdSense, follow the easy online steps to sign up for a new AdSense account. If you already use AdSense, you can log in to AdSense and link your Blog to your AdSense account.
If you’re using a Classic template, you can add AdSense to your blog by following the steps outlined
here
.
To learn even more, come
take a tour
with Google AdSense.
New Share Buttons
June 24, 2010
Posted by Jiho Han, Software Engineer
Sharing is an important feature for bloggers. When your readers find an interesting post, they probably want to share it with other people; this in turn brings more traffic back to your blog.
Blogger now offers new share buttons. The new buttons can be placed under each post and let your blog readers easily share your post via email, Blogger, and popular social networks—we now support
Google Buzz
,
Twitter
, and
Facebook
, and we plan to add more services in the future.
Blogger also has a
Share link in the navbar
, but for improved convenience you can now have share buttons below the post (we also gave them nice rollover icons). For Twitter, we’ve also integrated the
goo.gl
URL shortener to give you the maximum space in the Tweet to add your own remarks.
You can start having the new share buttons show up under your posts by editing the Blog Posts widget and enabling Show Share Buttons in
Design | Page Elements
. Go ahead and turn the new sharing buttons on, and let some fun sharing begin!
Updated: Accurate Post Preview and New Video Player
June 23, 2010
You might have already noticed that in addition to the
Blogger Template Designer
, we added some other new features in our recent release.
First, the accurate post preview, a feature that’s been
available on Blogger in Draft
, is now available to everyone. Before you publish a post, you may want to preview your post to see how it will actually look to your readers, in the same format and style of your current Blogger theme. To try it, click the Preview button on the New Post page. You will see a new window open with the accurate preview of the post.
We also introduced a new video player that’s based on the YouTube player. The new Blogger video player allows full-screen viewing -- now visitors can watch videos that you published on your blog in full-screen mode. The new player also features a better user interface, such as animated seekbar (the red bar along the bottom of the video) and bigger buttons. You can also right-click on the player to see more information about the video, such as playback performance (“Show Video Info”) or network speed (“Take Speed Test”). Note that despite the new video player, the videos you upload to Blogger are still only visible on your blog, not on YouTube.
As always, please send your suggestions and feedback through the
Blogger User Forum
. Thanks for using Blogger!
Blogger Template Designer Now Available To Everyone
June 10, 2010
When we launched the Blogger Template Designer to Blogger in Draft in March, you gave us a lot of feedback and suggestions.
Our blog post
received nearly 1,000 comments and many of you shared your blog’s new looks on Twitter using
#newbloggertemplate
. Since the launch, we fixed many bugs and added even more themes and background images. But the Blogger Template Designer has only been available on Blogger in Draft, which is why we’re excited to announce that the Blogger Template Designer is now available to everyone.
Highlights
How you look online is important, and everybody wants to look unique. With the Blogger Template Designer, you can create your own blog designs through:
Beautiful new templates
. We’ve designed 19 brand-new templates, with more on the way. You can quickly give your blog a great new style by selecting one of the new templates.
[1]
Separating design from layout.
Designs are completely defined in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), meaning that any design can be applied to any blog layout, making templates more flexible and unique.
Hundreds of free, professional background images.
We've paired up with
iStockphoto
to offer you hundreds of gorgeous background images at no cost.
A single control to change all your design's colors.
With other platforms, users have to define every color in their blog separately, making changing the color theme of your blog a tedious task. The Blogger Template Designer lets you change all the colors in your blog at once, by changing the Main color theme.
Pixel-perfect layout manipulation via smooth resizing.
You can define your layout down to the pixel via sliders that update the blog's preview in real time.
A real-time preview sits below the design control panel.
Watch your blog update as you create your template design.
Keeping it simple.
Throughout the Template Designer we use hierarchy to hide complexity from you.
Complete control.
Under the advanced tab, you can override a design's CSS and enter your own CSS in the editor and see your blog's preview updated in real time.
Cross-browser support.
Blogger handles cross browser support for you, so you don’t have to. Want a design with rounded corners? We give it to you in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome.
Try it now!
Anyone can try out the template designer
here
. If you like your design, you can apply it to a new blog or to an existing blog. You can also try the Template Designer on your blog (
Design > Template Designer
).
Feel free to spread the word with the
#newbloggertemplate
hashtag on
Google Buzz
or Twitter. If you are a template designer, you are also welcome to join the
Blogger Template Design Group
. If you have feedback or suggestions, let us know on the
forums
.
As always, thanks for using Blogger!
[1] Note: Selecting a new template will erase all of your customizations on the existing template, so if you have customized your template be sure to first save the current template at
Design > Edit HTML
.
Help Us Improve Blogger
June 04, 2010
We're working hard to make Blogger better and need your help. Sign up for a usability study and give us feedback on some exciting new ideas currently in development. These study results will help us better understand your needs and refine our features before they launch.
Interested? Sign up
here
.
Update: We have now closed the sign-up. We really appreciate your great interest!
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