Making your blog better in fie steps

Audit your blog frequently. Other website owners do have professionals for doing this but you have to do it yourself. If you have tweaked your site recently do a full site review.

Here are some simple things that can be done to audit the blog.

1. ADVERTISE YOURSELF.

Do blog readers know what you look like, who you are and what is your blog about? With what easiness do they find all this information.
Use your photo don't use cartoon avatars. The blog name, tag line, and about page should spell the information clearly.

2. SITE NAVIGATION.

Finding the link to your about page. The archives, categories and search. Make it crisp and clear, and obvious. Also, avoid too much cuteness in your navigation tabs; you want them to be easy to find.

3. INDEXING.

To be able to make sure the search engines can index your blog you have to create a sitemap and submit to Google. If you are on WordPress there is a plugin for that.

4. FIX THE BROKEN LINKS.

The broken link check site finds the broken links in your blog. If you have many broken links then the search engines will not show your results. If in wordpress the broken link checker will find your broken links for you.

5. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO)

Remove the "read more" tag at the end of your posts and be sure to include the title in the piece.


ADDITIONALLY

Make your site mobile friendly because nowadays more people surf the web on mobiles and tablets.
 

Blogger | 15 Awesome Calendar Icons for Post date Header

A calendar icon adds little beauty to a blog when used as post date header. You can see one here on this blog or might have seen on several other blogs around the web. And if you don't have it and wish to have a good looking one on your blog then grab it here for today I'm sharing fifteen (15) awesome calendar icons with you all to choose the best that suits your blog.

DOWNLOAD (cal_icons.zip)

Now, most of you must be wondering what to do with the icon only, so here goes the installation steps and codes to see this in action on your blog;

• Step 01:

Go to Blogger > Layout > Edit HTML > (click on) Download Full Template and save a backup of your template.

• Step 02:

(Check) Expand Widget Templates, find ]]> and now paste the following CSS codes just above it;

Code:

* Post Date Header Calendar Icon
-----------------------------------------------
*/
.calendar {
height: 50px;
width: 45px;
background: url(Calendar Icon Image Url Here) no-repeat;
font: normal 22px Arial;
color: #9C9284;
text-align: center;
margin: 0 4px 4px 0;
padding: 0 2px 0 0;
line-height: 100%;
float: left;
}
.calendar span {
height: 18px;
display: block;
font: normal 11px Arial;
color: #ffffff;
text-align: center;
padding-top: 0;
}

and replace the texts in RED with the Url of Calendar Icon that you have chosen as per your blog's look and uploaded (to the image hosting site you use), and you can also play with the texts in Blue in the above code to change the colour of the texts that will appear with in the calendar icon.

• Step 03:

Now find

and paste following codes just before it;

Code:

and save the template.

• Step 04:

This is the most important step, move to (Blogger) > Settings > Formatting and scroll down to the Timestamp Format options and choose the format just as shown in the image below;

Screen-shot: Timestamp Format

Now, save your settings, check preview of your blog and enjoy a new look of your blog with a sweet smile on your face.


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