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Google Now Use Twitter Facebook And Site Speed To Help Rank Your Blog

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Google originally made its name by using a Page rank system based on links throughout the web to return relevant search results to users.Although there were many search engines available before Google the page rank system simply returned better results to users. Page Rank  (Googles Internal Page Rank Not So Much Toolbar Page Rank, a long story) is still the major factor in how search results are delivered and things like  Back links  and anchor text are still the major players and always will be.However over the years Google have added lots of other factors in how they return their search results, they claim there is over 200 components used to deliver the results we see.A couple of noticeable more recent additions to this are Social Media and Site Speed.

Use Blogger Template Designer Fonts On Custom Blogger Templates

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Back in January this year (2011) Blogger added 77 very  cool fonts to the Blogger template designer .The fonts they added were from the Google Web Fonts directory and included some awesome bold fonts, handwriting fonts and fun fonts that could give your blog a unique look.If you use a template from the template designer you simply go to the template designer editor then choose and save any font.While this was great news for Bloggers using templates from the template designer unfortunately Bloggers using Custom Blogger templates could not use the fonts so easily.So if you have a custom Blogger Template (A Template You Downloaded Online From A Blogger Template Site) in this post i will show you how you can manually add any of the fonts to your blog.

New Blogger Related Posts With Thumbnails Below All Posts

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We all know the importance of Displaying Related Posts below each post on your blog.Displaying a list of Related Posts not only keeps readers on your blog clicking through your archive but they are also crawled by search engines.But to get readers clicking through the related posts you need them to be eye catching and that's where the related posts with thumbnails works so well.The related posts with thumbnails lists a selected number of posts and also grabs an image from each posts to display.The gadget we have in this post is similar to the popular  Link Within Related posts  but with some great extra features and options. I have re sized the thumbnail and title so you can display more posts.Link Within Limits you to 5 posts with this gadget you can show as many as you like.This related posts gadget displays related posts using the labels, so it will list posts with the same labels as the posts it is below.You can add some extra customizations to this gadget and i will list them

16 Stunning Free Gallery Style Blogger Blogspot Templates

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In this post we will continue my list of The Best Free Blogger Templates in the most popular styles.We have already listed the best  Artistic Templates ,  Magazine Templates ,  Dark Templates  and  Odd Templates .Today i have listed some awesome Template with a Gallery design.Gallery templates can be used for any type of blog but are most popular with Photography Blogs, Design Blogs, Image Based Blogs and Portfolio Blogs.The basic premise behind a Gallery template is the posts are displayed on the home page as images, so the first images is cropped into a thumbnail and displayed.Some of the templates i have listed below are set to display up to five rows of images.The templates have lots of other features listed with the screenshot and for the Live Demo and Download details simply click the title.

Beautiful Animated Hover Effect Captions For Images On Blogger

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    In this post we have not only an amazing effect you can add to the images you use in your blog posts but it's amazingly simple and amazingly fast so wont slow down you page load time.The effect is similar to what you will see on many Featured Posts Gadgets, when you hover your cursor over the image a caption scrolls up from the bottom with your selected text. So, you can have the title of the image, a description, date taken, credit or anything you like.The code we will use has No Javascript this ensures it will load fast and as i said not slow down your blog.The code is all Css3 (Don't Worry I Will Keep It Simple) so you have a flowing and transparent effect with the caption.There is also a stylish Shadow edge around the image On-Hover. Just show us the demo and screenshot so we can see for ourselves i here you shout ! OK But, Before i show you the demo you should note while this image caption will work with all browsers older versions of Internet Explorer will

Amazing Animated Flying Twitter Bird Gadget For Blogger

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"Twitter", is one of the most popular Social networking sites in the world among Bloggers to promote their blogs.There are a number of  twitter widgets , scripts and plugins available to integrate Twitter with your blog.Most of the icons, buttons or badges are stationary or a  fixed floating Twitter gadgets .Now here i have a very cool unique Blogger Twitter widget, an actual Animated flying Twitter Bird that flies around your blog. This Plugin is java script based and it will display an animated Twitter bird that settles on different places of your blogs visible area. If a you scroll the page, the bird will fly towards the visible part and settle in a new place and it takes random paths for each flight.When you place the cursor over the Twitter Bird "tweet this" and "follow me" links appear,through this the visitor can tweet the article or follow you. Demo:- You can see the Twitter Bird Flying Around this page visible Area, Scroll this Page to see i

Polaroid Icons Blog Subscription Gadget With Rollover Effect

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The other day i posted 3 very cool sets of icons you could use to let people subscribe to your Rss Feed, Twitter and Facebook Page.In that post i gave you the code for the icons ready to use, you just had to add your URLs then copy and paste.Two of the icon sets were very similar both having a Polaroid Picture Design.One was fresh and bright while the other had a vintage worn look.This lead me to thinking wouldn't it be cool to have the worn vintage Polaroid icons in your sidebar and when someone hovers over them they switch to the bright clean icon.This is called a rollover effect. I'm sure you have seen image rollover effects before and this is a great way to use it. So lets look at it in action, i decided to use a rollover html code in the link rather than Css, just so once again it's a simple one time copy and paste.