Blogger Beginner

How to Create a New Blog?

2015-10-30T07:59:00.000+05:45

Creating a blog is not easy. But Blogger, a content management system and Blog platform has made it super easy. You can do it in 18 easy steps.

1. Visit blogger.com.

2. Enter your gmail address.

3. Make sure you have entered your gmail address as given below.

4. Now type your gmail password.

5. You will be asked to choose either Google+ profile or Blogger profile. You had better choose Google+ profile.

6. Be sure the information in the Form is correct.

7. Hit on Upgrade.

8. Optionally you can Follow some Google+ users.

9. After following click on Finish.

10. Continue to Blogger.

11. Click on New Blog.

12. Fill Title, address and choose a template.

13. Make sure your blog address is Available.

14. If available, you will be confirmed.

15. Click on Create Blog.

16. Now your blog has been created. Click on View.

17. Your blog starts opening where your blog url {address} looks as below.

18. And your blog looks like this.

Congratulation! You have successfully created your blog. Now play with the blogger dashboard for a few hours, you will have clear idea what to do next.

How to Create a Gmail Account

2015-10-27T10:28:00.002+05:45

Creating a gmail account is super easy. You can do it within a minute by following 7 easy steps.

1. Open any browser you prefer {Firefox, Explorer, Opera, Safari, etc.}. In our case, we are using Google Chrome. Double click on the shortcut icon of Google Chrome.

2. Type gmail.com on the address bar to open Gmail.

3. Click on 'create account'.

4. Fill the form. Write first name and last name. Choose your email {eg. ritatimalsina45@gmail.com}. Type new password to create a password. Retype the password to confirm. Click on the radio button of the 'Month' and select month, then day and year of your birthday. Select gender. Write mobile number if you like.

5. Finally, Type the captcha {our captcha is 1204 shown in the screenshot below}. Check the Terms of service and privacy check box and then click on 'Next step'.

6. You have created gmail account. Now continue to gmail.

7. Congratulation!! You are done. You have open your gmail account.

How to Get Hidden Ads in Adsense Dashboard?

2015-10-24T12:04:00.001+05:45

Sometimes you may not see ads in your adsense dashboard. It may happen when you add adsense directly through Blogger. Follow the following steps to handle this situation.

1. Log in Blogger using your gmail address and password

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2. Go to Layout setting.

3. Click on the 'Edit' of the element 'Adsense'.

4.. Modify the adsense differently as you think appropriate.
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5. Click on 'Save' button.

Now go to your adsense account dashboard. You will find the adsense unit appeared there.

How to Show Adsense Ads below the Post in Mobile Views?

2015-10-21T11:45:00.000+05:45

This post helps you to show adsense ads below the post in mobile views without enabling custom templates for mobile. You can do it in 16 easy steps.

1. Log in Adsense by providing your credentials.

2. Click on 'My ads' to create a new mobile banner.

3. Go to 'New ad unit'.

4. Name your mobile banner.

5. Select the banner suitable to your blog post.

6. Hit on ''Save and get code' button.

7. Copy the code from the dialog box.

8. Go to Blogger and sign in.

9. Go to 'Post'.

10. Select the post you want to show the ads on and click on 'edit'.

11. Scroll down.

12. Write 'adsense for mobile' below the post.

13. Click on HTML above.

14. Replace 'adsense for mobile' with the mobile ads code you had saved earlier.

15. Click on 'Çompose'.

16. Finally, click on 'Update'.

Now, you have successfully added the adsense ads below the post for mobile. You can follow the same method to show ads in other parts of the post.

How to Remove Undeletable Gadgets in Blogger?

2015-10-20T17:58:00.000+05:45

Some gadgets on Blogger are undeletable from dashboard. However, it is possible to remove them by applying a small change in the HTML source of the Blog. Below is the example of removing an undeletable gadget namely attribution {powered by Blogger}.

1. Go to 'Layout', find the undeletable gadget and click on 'edit'.

2. You don't see 'remove button' there.

3. Now, look at the address bar of the same dialog box and then click on the URL.

4. Unselect the URL by clicking again so that you can take your cursor to the end of the URL at the right side. Remember the last word is the name of the gadget which you are going to delete. Here, the gadget's name is 'Attribution1'.

5. Now close the dialog box and click on the radio button.

6. Go to the 'Template' setting.

7. You should click on 'Edit HTML' there.

8. Click on 'Jump to Widget' radio button.

9. Click on the widget which you are going to delete, i.e. 'Attribution1' in this example.

10. Now you will see html tags with 'locked =true'.

11. Change 'true' into 'false' by typing.

12. Save template.

13. Now the template starts saving.

14. Congratulation! The template is saved.

15. Click on 'Layout' at the left side.

16. Then click on the 'edit' of 'Attribution' element.

17. Wah! You can see 'Remove' button here.

18. Remove the element by clicking there.

19. You will be asked to to confirm.

20. Click on OK to confirm.

21. Now the gadget has been removed.

22. At last, remember to save arrangement at the top.

In this way, you can delete the undeletable gadge. Sometimes, you may see some blank elements with only title which are undeletable. It is happens particularly when you upload a new template. You can follow the same method mentioned above to tackle this problem.