Top 5 Paid Premium Templates for Blogger

As time is passing Blogger is getting better and better. With more number of users, the developers have increased too. Unlike WordPress more than 98% of blogger templates available are free of cost. But now we are seeing a slow but effective growth in the blogger paid templates.

Paid Templates are lot better than free ones in almost all aspects.(Obviously as one is paid for it). Paid Templates have features such as -

• Good Support
• Better Quality
• No or Less Bugs
• Premium Look
• Uniqueness
• Easier to use
• Documentation for beginners and etc.

Below I present Top 5 Paid Premium Templates for Blogger which you can buy and use in your blog.

5. GridSpot

Grid Spot designed by Tien of BloggerItems.com can be said to be the first template after which paid templates came one after the other.
Grid Spot comes with features like Auto Logo, Responsive Design etc.

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4. Bpress

 

Bpress is another example of Modern Blogger Template with features like Popup Contact form, Easy customization, ticker etc. Developed by Lasindu Nadisan Bpress is an awesome magazine style blogger template.

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3. Sevida

 

Sevida designed by MKR is another great blogger template. It has a responsive layout, magazine style premium look, Ajax search, Custom commenting system and many other features. This template looks and its layout is dynamic.

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2. Cody

 

Cody is a nicely furnished blogger template. It looks are no less than of a WordPress template. Other than that is SEO Optimized and has a flexible layout. Cody is fully responsive and its rich look makes it more attractive.

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1. Flat News

 

Flat News which is again designed by Tien is literally one of the best blogger template we have ever seen. It looks are killing and on the other side it is equally convenient to edit this template. The template has many features such as Responsive design and easy customization. If you are ready to spend some bucks on your blog, this template will be worth your money.

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We come to the end of this list. Lastly I want to conclude that Premium templates may need you to pay but they have no alternates which can completely counterfeit them. Try these templates today and make your blog best from the rest.

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Tricks To Improve Blog Ranking in Search Results

Hello friends, today we have Ankit from BloggerTipsTricks.com as a guest author. He  has shared a lot of Blogger Tricks on his blog to improve blog traffic, readership, blog followers, social share counts, blog optimization and many more. And today he is here with an amazing and unique trick to improve blog ranking in search engines. Using this trick, you’ll be able to get following benefits.

• Better Position in Search Results


• High Organic Traffic


• High Google Page Rank


• Royal Readers and many more.

I know that you are waiting to know this wonderful trick. So, let's hear from Ankit that how to apply this trick on our blog.

How to Improve Ranking in Blogger?

Hi Bloggers, I am Ankit here with a trick to improve blog ranking. Below are some easy steps that you have to follow for today’s tutorial.

You need a HTML sitemap page or Table of Contents page to get this trick in work. If you already have one in your blog then you have done half of the job but if you don't have one then I  strongly recommend you to create it first.

In previous post at this blog, Dhiraj Barnwal (Admin of this blog) shared two amazing Table of Contents widget for bloggers. You can choose any one for your blog which you like most. Read below tutorial for the instructions to add table of contents page in your blog.

• Read: Table of Contents Widget For Blogger

So, now you are ready with your Table of Contents page. Let see how to use this page to get ranking in search results.

As a blogger, you must know that we should not create too many backlinks for our homepage. Number of backlinks to inner pages must be thrice than homepage to be safe from over SEO penalties.

That's why we need a Table of Contents page. We have to create backlinks to this page that will help our entire blog to get better ranking in search engines.

How Table of Content Page is helpful for Blog Ranking?

You may be thinking that how building backlinks for Sitemap page can give benefits to our entire blog. Well I have listed all the points below that will clear your doubts.

• Sitemap page contains links of all of our blog posts, and if we build backlinks to it then our blog indexing rate will improve.


• It'll flow the Page rank juice to all of the posts that will help them to get better rankings in search results.


• Building backlinks to Table of contents page will create a SEO friendly landing page for readers.


• Improves blog bounce rate because readers have to click on links to read the posts.


• and many more.

Your Views

This is what I follow on my blog. Please leave your valuable comments here and share your views about this trick. If you like this trick, then please visit my blog to get more amazing Blogspot SEO Tips and Tricks that will help you to optimize your blog in better way. Thanks for reading this tutorial. Happy Blogging!

About the Author

This article is written by: Ankit Singla. He is a 21 years old Indian blogger, loves to share blogspot tips with newbie bloggers so that they can experience it in a very easy and interesting way. Catch him on  Facebook or Google+.

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How to make your blogger blog more SEO Friendly

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the base of every blog, without it one can't call his blog a commercial/professional one. The ranking of your blog in Google largely depends on SEO and we all know better the ranking in Google, more the traffic we get. So one should make every possible effort to make his blog more SEO Friendly. But how do I do it ? SEO is a vast topic. There are thousands of ways for improving your blog's SEO. Such as adding Meta Tags, Keeping the right number of characters in the post title, adding alt tags to all images and many other things.

Today I will show you how you can -

1. Make all the external links open in new tab 
This will reduce your bounce rate, increase the no. of pageviews on your blog and your blog traffic will not be transferred just because of one single link.

2. Make all the external links nofollow
By default all links are dofollow that means Google can crawl them and hence much of the PageRank juice of the page goes away. So in order to prevent them one should add nofollow tag to all external links.

3. Adding alt tags to all images
Alt tag in an image describes it and through it search engines like Google Images show you blogs image on related query. This helps to get more visitors to your blog and improve SEO greatly.

So the question comes how to do all these things ? Manually doing this will take hell lot of time and it would nearly impossible for blogs with huge number of posts for manually doing this task. So in order to save your effort a JavaScript code is already coded.

How to add SEO Friendly code to Blogger

Go to Blog Title → Template → Edit HTML and add the below code just above the tag </head>

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>

<script type='text/javascript'>//<![CDATA[
jQuery('a').each(function(){// Let's make external links open in a new tab. var href=jQuery(this).attr('href');if (typeof href !='undefined' && href !="" && (href.indexOf('http://') !=-1 || href.indexOf('https://') !=-1) && href.indexOf(window.location.hostname)==-1){jQuery(this).attr("target", "_blank");}});//]]></script>

<script type='text/javascript'>//<![CDATA[
jQuery('a').each(function(){// Let's make external links nofollow. var href=jQuery(this).attr('href');if (typeof href !='undefined' && href !="" && (href.indexOf('http://') !=-1 || href.indexOf('https://') !=-1) && href.indexOf(window.location.hostname)==-1){jQuery(this).attr("rel", "nofollow");}});//]]></script>

<script type='text/javascript'>//<![CDATA[
$(document).ready(function(){$('img').each(function(){var $img=$(this);var filename=$img.attr('src') $img.attr('alt', filename.substring((filename.lastIndexOf('/'))+1, filename.lastIndexOf('.')));});});//]]></script>

If your blog already has the JQuery plugin you may remove the code in red and if not add the whole code in order to make the script work.
Once you have added the code save your template.You are done now. Now you can see alt tags in your images, Nofollow tag in External links and Opening of external links in new tab. I would recommend every blogger to add this code because one small effort of yours can make improve your blog's SEO significantly.

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Why I would choose Blogger rather than WordPress

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Blogger Vs WordPress - Every Bloggers Battle. One may find Blogger Vs WordPress posts on many different blogs and forums but today I am going to post why I would stick with blogger and never go for WordPress. I know many bloggers will disagree with my post but this post may open their eyes. Just have a look at all the below points.

Expenses

The first point and rather the most important for a new blogger is expenses and the money he is going to spend on his blog. We all know Blogger is completely free. There is no charge for hosting or the sub-domain.
If you go for WordPress you have to pay for Hosting + Domain which may cost you around $100 which you can save on Blogger. Other than that a WordPress user may have to buy additional plugins, Security services and premium theme for his blog. That would cost you around $100 more. Well you can alternatively choose best cheap web hosting for hosting your WordPress blog which will minimize your expenses.

Installation

WordPress says that it has 5 minute installation but is that so?? I don't think so. A WordPress user has to edit .htaccess file, choosing whether to keep www or not and inform the same to Google Webmaster Tool, protect important files, Change the permalink settings, making wp-config.php more secure and better and a hell lot of things.
But when it comes to blogger it is hardly a matter of seconds. Choose the subdomain, blog title and start posting. Thats it. Blogger has everything simplified making user experience better.

Customization

Blogger has a Template Designer in which you can easily set the width of columns, change header style, background, colors and many different things. Bloggers post editor is simplified too. The layout in blogger helps you to add Widgets very easily. The new and improved template editor helps you to customize every bit of your template with the help of CSS and HTML which is extremely easy.
Newbies as well as Intermediates would find customization in WordPress a bit difficult. The edit theme option requires you to know php which I would regard as a bit tough than CSS and HTML

Themes

No doubt WordPress has more themes than Blogger but are all of them free to use ? The answer is No. WordPress themes which are of good quality are sold at high rates whereas 99.9% of the Blogger Templates are free of cost. As I have already mentioned Blogger templates are easy to edit and customize but the same does not applies for WordPress.
When it comes to quality WordPress themes are really good but it is not difficult for a Blogger template designer to convert that WordPress theme into a Blogger Template.

Migrating

Suppose you sell your WordPress blog so in order to complete the process you would need to change Nameservers of the domain and changing hosting server and lots of other time consuming steps. During the process your blog may have to be down for sometime too. This may be real pain for one.
In blogger all blogs are hosted by Google so you can't migrate your blog but you can do something more simpler and easier i.e. changing accounts. You add another person as an admin and remove your self. You are done, it was as simple as ABC.

Google Services

Blogger is a Google product so it would be clear that it will be enjoying a better status than WordPress in front of Google. Google also has a better Adsense support for Blogger blogs. You have 1 click Ads installation for Adsense. Other than that Blogger blogs get SEO benefits too and all the blogs are Pre-SEO optimized. You can easily embed Youtube videos etc. in blogger.
WordPress on the other hand has no relation with blogger and does not get all the above benefits. It has to rely on costly plugins for SEO and other things.

Updates

Basically WordPress updates itself to remove bugs. Updates for adding new features have been seen very rarely. If I am not wrong WordPress is its 3.6 version but still it does not have much difference compared to its initial version.
Blogger Team on the other hand is working really hard on the platform. We have seen the updated version of blogger with a better UI. The dynamic blogger templates were introduced just a few years back. The Official Contact Form, Template Editor, Google+ Comments, Permalinks, Robots etc. are just some of the recent updates by Blogger.

Security

All WordPress bloggers would be knowing about the recent botnet attacks that affected 30 million blogs. Brute-force password-guessing attacks occurred in WordPress blogs and many bloggers who had a weak password got their blog hacked. This was a serious issue.
Blogger on the other hand is one of the most safe blogging platform. Google one of the largest internet giant runs it. There servers are never down and uptime is 100% If one wants to hack a blogger account he would have to hack the persons google account. So first he would have to find the assigned email ID of that particular blog and then try to break one the most secure systems. If the 2 step verification is on, then Mr. Hacker better luck next time. No doubt blogger is much more safer and secure than WordPress.

Conclusion : 

WordPress is really a very good platform which has numerous options, plugins and themes but there is someone else in the same industry which I will portray as the "Real Blogging Boss".  Blogger was started much before (1999) than WordPress (2003) and today it has way more blogs hosted on it than WordPress or any other platform and it surely rocks the online industry.
Last but not the least I am a proud blogger user and if you use blogger you should be too.

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Official Contact Form Widget released for Blogger

As +Prayag Verma of Stylifyyourblog.com wrote on his post on 02 April 2013 that blogger is working on Contact Form. He found out CSS codes for Contact form from the bundle css file which is by default in every blog. That Contact form is released now. Just prior to Google I/O 2013 all Google products are really working hard to improve their services and the same goes for blogger.

You don't have much options to edit this form. If you know basics of CSS you may use inline CSS in your blog to edit it. Whenever someone sends you a message through this from it will directly go in your email which is linked with Blogger.

How to add this widget to Blogger

Adding this widget is quite easy. Just follow the below steps to add it.

1. Go to Blogger.com → Blog Title → Layout → Add Widget
2.  From the tabs menu click on More Gadgets.
3. Now click on Contact Form and finally Give your desired heading to it
4. Save the widget and lastly save the Template

Thats it. Now whenever a visitor wants to contact you he can do the same by just press a single button moreover you can see the messages in your email box. Now there would be no need of 123forms and Foxyforms. This contact form is in its initial stage and we may see further development on it.

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Best SEO Practices for Blogger Blogs

We all know about WordPress. It is just another alternative for blogger but it has one thing which blogger blogs lack. They are Plugins. WordPress has a wide range on plugin which you can use in your blog. There are different types of SEO Plugins available for WordPress such as - Yoast SEO, All in One SEO etc. Blogger does not supports these plugins and you have to do all the SEO work manually. You may hire someone but this could be costly. So below are few tips on how you can make your Blogger blog more visible to search engines.

Adding Meta Tag in Header

Go to Blog Title → Template → Edit HTML and add the below code just after the tag <head>

<meta content='Your site description' name='description'/>
<meta content='Your site Keywords' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='Your Name' name='author'/>
<meta content='youemail@ymail.com' name='Email'/>
<meta content='global' name='distribution'/>
<meta content='document' name='resource-type'/>
<meta content='all' name='audience'/>
<meta content='general' name='rating'/>
<meta content='all' name='robots'/>
<meta content='en' name='language'/>
<meta content='EN' name='country'/>
<meta content='blogger' name='generator'/>
<meta content='Your Name' name='owner'/>
<meta content='(c) 2013 Blog name' name='copyright'/>

After adding the above code edit it with your desired settings.

Adding Alt and Title tag to all images

Optimizing blog images are really important for SEO and for that one should add Alt and Title tag to every image of its blog. The following can be done by Clicking the image in post editor, click on properties and adding the needed text.

Customizing Permalink of your post

You can also customize the permalink that is URL of your blog post. For customizing the permalink of the post you have to click on Permalink tab under Post Settings and do the desired changes.
Tip : Remove slugs like in, on, to, for etc. You must be inquisitive to know why don't I do these changes well you will get the answer in the last line of this post.

Adding blog to different Search Engines

So that search engines can crawl your blog, it is very important to add your blog on different search engines. Below is a list of some popular search engines where you can submit your blogs URL.

AlltheWeb	www.alltheweb.com	Submit at www.alltheweb.com/help/webmaster/submit-site.
AltaVista	www.altavista.com	Submit at www.altavista.com/addurl/.
AOL Search	search.aol.com	Submit via Google (www.google.com/addurl/).
Ask.com	www.ask.com	Does not accept site submissions.
Best of the Web	www.botw.org	Paid submittal at www.botw.org/helpcenter/submitcommercial.aspx.
Bing	www.bing.com	Submit at www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx
Gigablast	www.gigablast.com	Submit at www.gigablast.com/indexphp?subPage=addUrl&page=about&.
JoeAnt	www.joeant.com	Submit at www.joeant.com/suggest.html.
Open Directory	www.dmoz.org	Go to appropriate category page and click Suggest URL.
Starting Point	www.stpt.com	Paid submittal at www.stpt.com/directory/addsite.htm.
Wikia Search	search.wikia.com	Click the Add button on any relevant search results page.

 Other Factors

There are many other factors on which your blog's SEO depends they are - Blog Speed, Originality of the content, Keyword research, Backlinks, SEO optimized template etc.

SEO is a very important factor for your blogs productivity so one should surely pay attention to it. Last but not the least I just want to say that never over-optimize your blog.
Write for your readers, not for the search engines.

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5 Things a Blogger Should always Remember

A Blogger have long list of what he should do and what not. For example a Good Blogger is one who don't write for the Search Engines but for the people. There are many things which a Blogger should keep in his mind while Blogging. Some of the main points are listed below. If you are new to Blogging then this post may be really helpful for you.

1. Patience always yields sweet fruit  

A large number of Bloggers fail due to this reason. New Bloggers expect a lot in very short span of time. You must not expect results overnight. Give your blog a little time. For example adding Adsense at very beginning can't get you much money but if you wait patiently till you build a good network and quality traffic then the result could be far better.

2. Update your Blog Regularly  

You must not fail to update your blog regularly. If you are the one who don't care for posting would your readers care to read your blog? Update your blog regularly and spread/popularize it which we will see in the next point.

3. Spread posts and site through Social Networks  

Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Google+ are some of the huge Social networking sites where you can popularize your posts. If you ignore this point, note that you are just neglecting a lot of traffic. Spread your posts but never SPAM it just lowers the reputation of your blog.

4. SEO is a very big factor 

Without SEO (Search Engine Optimization) a blog is  just like a body without backbone. Almost all the sites get maximum traffic through Search Engine and if your SERP (Search Engine Ranking Position) is low then you are sure to get less traffic. This can be avoided through SEO. Better ranking in Search Engines will yield you lot of traffic.

5. Never Copy and Paste  

I have seen many new bloggers copying and pasting posts from other blogs but remember as God notices our every single activity the same way Google and other search engines see our blogs. Copying content is curse for a new blog so you should avoid that. Well if you liked a post on the internet then you can Spin it (Re-write the article) or give the proper credits. Plagiarism should be stopped and never followed.

I hope these points will help you and your blog get more traffic. If you liked the article please don't hesitate to recommend it to your friends. Keep Blogging.

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