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How to Setup Free Domain co.cc with Blogger Blog

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Now a day Everyone Provides great Features free of cost to attract the Internet Users towards itself. Blogger is the Fastest Growing free Blog. Sometimes ago, You could not Installed Your own Domain with Blogger. But Now You can easily use Your Custom Domain with Blogger. This is one thing But Now You can also Use Free Custom Domain with Blogger. I am talking about Co.cc Free Domain. Where Co.cc Provides Domain free of cost also providing Custom Domain Feature for Blogger. Haven’t it fun?

Before Reading! You Must have an Co.cc Account. If You Don’t Have Then Create This at  >>  Get co.cc Domain

Lets me show How to Setup Free Domain co.cc with Blogger Blog!

How to setup Blogger for my domain?
Blogger l Co.cc

Here are steps in simple words

  • Login Your Co.cc Account and Goto Domain Settings.
  • Click on Manage Domain on Right side of Your User Panel.
  • Setup Your Respective Domain. (If You don’t have already a Registered Domain. Then First Register a Free Domain)
  • You will see Three Options. Select 2nd Option (Zone Records).
  • Enter the Following Information in the Visible Form:
  1. In Host Field: Enter Co.cc Domain (www is Required)
  2. TTL: 1D
  3. Type: CName
  4. Value: ghs.google.com
  5. Click on Setup Button. After Fill the Form with the Above Information.

 

Now! Login Your Blogger Account:

  • Goto Settings > Publishing and Click on Custom Domain.
  • Click on Switch to Advanced settings.
  • In the Domain Field: Enter Your Co.cc Domain (www is Required)
  • After Word Verification. Click on Save Settings.
  • On the Next Screen! Enter Your Co.cc Domain again and Select the Check box Below (Redirect ..)
  • Again Word Verification and Save Settings.

And you have. Done Check your blog for new domain!

How to Add Three Column Footer Widget in Blogger

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You might have seen a three column footer at many professional or commercial blogs. Where you can add stuffs. Take my three column footer as example. Footer make visitors busy and give him a good impression at End of your blog. It contains 3 columns widgets where you can add your own choice of widgets. You can easily Three Column Footer Widget and customize it as you want. If you are using WordPress Thesis Theme than check out this tutorial to add Footer Widget  in Thesis. See a screenshot.

footer

 

How to Add Three Column Footer Widget in Blogger (updated)

Follow these steps, to add Three Column Footer Widget

Step 1:

Go to Blogger Dashboard > Design > Edit Html

Step 2:

Backup Your Template

Step 3:

Search for ]]></b:skin> now paste the following CSS code just above ]]></b:skin>

#lower {
border-top: #737373 6px solid;
margin:auto;
font-family: Georgia;
width: 960px;
padding: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
background:#1f1f1f;
}
#lower a {
color: #DBDBDB;
font-family: Georgia;
}
#lower-wrapper {
margin:auto;
font-family: Georgia;
padding: 20px 0px 20px 0px;
width: 960px;
}
#lowerbar-wrapper {
background:#1f1f1f;
float: left;
color: #ebedee;
font-family: Georgia;
margin: 0px 5px auto;
padding-bottom: 20px;
width: 32%;
text-align: justify;
font-size:100%;
line-height: 1.6em;
word-wrap: break-word;
overflow: hidden;
}
.lowerbar {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
.lowerbar .widget {margin: 0; padding: 10px 20px 0px 20px;}
.lowerbar h2 {
margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
padding: 3px 0px 3px 0px;
text-align: left;
color:#fff;
text-transform:uppercase;
font: bold 16px Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
border-bottom:3px solid #666666;
}
.lowerbar ul {
list-style:none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}.lowerbar li a {
width: 265px;
font-family: Georgia;
background: #3f3f3f;
border: 1px solid #111;
line-height: 1.4em;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
padding: 0.5em;
margin-bottom: 11px;
margin-right: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
overflow: hidden;
color:#000000;
}.lowerbar li a:visited {
width: 265px;
font-family: Georgia;
background: #3f3f3f;
border: 1px solid #111;
line-height: 1.4em;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
padding: 0.5em;
margin-bottom: 11px;
margin-right: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
overflow: hidden;
color:#000000;
}.lowerbar li a:hover {
background: #4f4f4f;
border: 1px solid #7a7a7a;
line-height: 1.4em;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
padding: 0.5em; -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
overflow: hidden;
color:#000000;
}.lowerbar a {
font-family: Georgia;
background: #3f3f3f;
border: 1px solid #111;
line-height: 1.4em;
float:left;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
padding: 0.5em;
margin-right: 3px;
margin-bottom: 11px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
overflow: hidden;
color:#000000;
}.lowerbar a:hover {
background: #4f4f4f;
border: 1px solid #7a7a7a;
line-height: 1.4em;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
padding: 0.5em; -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
overflow: hidden;
color:#000000;
}

Step 4:

Now search for </body> and paste following code just above </body>

<div id='lower'>
<div id='lower-wrapper'>
<div id='lowerbar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='lowerbar' id='lowerbar1' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='HTML12' locked='false' title='Testing' type='HTML'/>
</b:section>
</div>
<div id='lowerbar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='lowerbar' id='lowerbar2' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='Profile1' locked='false' title='About Me' type='Profile'/>
<b:widget id='HTML5' locked='false' title='Recent Comments' type='HTML'/>
</b:section>
</div>
<div id='lowerbar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='lowerbar' id='lowerbar3' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='Top Commentators @ AmmarWeb.Tk' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='HTML9' locked='false' title='Our Partners' type='HTML'/>
</b:section>
</div>

<div style='clear: both;'/></div></div>

Step 5:

Save your template .Now visit the page Layout > Page Elements and start adding widgets! :>>

Customization

You can easily customize the look and colours of the this footer widget. I have bolded the important parts in the CSS code above. Read the descriptions below carefully to better stylize your Three Column Footer Widget.

  • background:#1f1f1f; Changing the six digit colour code will change the background colour of this widget.
  • width: 960px; This is the width of the widget. If you want you can adjust this width value in accordance with the width of your blog.
  • background:#fff; and width: 32%; is the background colour and width of the three columns where the widgets are added.
  • color:#0084ce; This is the Colour of Title Headings
  • font: bold 14px Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; Edit this to change the font size and family.
  • border-bottom:3px solid #0084ce; Edit this to change the thickness, style and colour of the border that appears at the bottom of Title Heading
That’s All
A new tutorial on four column footer will be soon posted till than enjoy this one. Now Three Column Footer Widget is added!

 

Add Meta Tag to Blogger : Make Blogger Blog Fully Search Engine Optimize!

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Most of us use Blogger.com to start their free blog which may be for making money or sharing your knowledge, voice through blogging. But if your blog is not Search Engine Friendly than you can not archive your goal. For this purpose you need to make your blog fully Search Engine Optimized and add meta tag to blogger so that people searching their keywords will easily knows your site. Just follow following simple steps to add meta tag to blogger.

How to add Add Meta Tag to Blogger? (Updated)

Step 1:

Go to Blogger Dashboard > Design > Edit Html and search for <head>

Step 2:

Delete Every Thing From <head> to <b:skin><![CDATA[

Step 3:

Place following code just after <head>

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
    <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
    <b:else/>
    <title><data:blog.pageName/> - <data:blog.title/></title>
    </b:if>
    <meta content='Your Blog Description here!' name='description'/>
    <meta content='Your Keywords here!' name='keywords'/>
    <meta content='Author Name here!' name='Author'/>
    <meta content='Author Email Address here!' name='Email'/>
    <meta content='document' name='resource-type'/>
    <meta content='all' name='audience'/>
    <meta content='general' name='rating'/>
    <meta content='all' name='robots'/>
    <meta content='index, follow' name='robots'/>
    <meta content='id' name='language'/>
    <meta content='id' name='geo.country'/>
    <meta content='global' name='distribution'/>
    <meta content='1 days' name='revisit-after'/>
    <meta content='Indonesia' name='geo.placename'/>
  • Replace:-

To add your own description, title, keywords. Please replace all above words with your desire words! as shown below.

Blog Description : Write your blog description
Blog Keywords : Write the keywords of your blog
Blog Author : Write the author’s name(Your name)
Email Address : Write your Email address

Step 4:

Click on Save Template.

That’s it. Now your blog is full Search Engine Friendly. If you face any problem. Just Drop your comment. I will be able to help you about blogger Search engine optimization

Make a Blogger Blog Dofollow to get lots of Comments

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dofollow blogger

This post is related to my previous post about How to Remove Blogger Navbar Making a Blogger blog Dofollow is a nessecary thing if you want to get lots of comments. Peoples only comments on those blogs who are Dofollow like our’s. Because they need Backlinks for their blog which improve their Rankings. If your blog is Nofollow than these are only comments not back links so people will not comment on your blog. Making a blog Dofollow will increase SPAM in your comments so you need to check all comments before publishing. Well, To make a blogger blog Dofollow is not a difficult just follow following steps..

To Make Blogger Blog DoFollow

Just follow following simple steps

Step 1:

Go to blogger Dashboard > Edit Html > Expand Widget templates and search for

<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'><data:comment.author/></a>
or just
rel='nofollow'

Step 2:

Remove

rel='nofollow'

from step 1
Step 3:

Click on SAVE TEMPLATE and that’s all. Now your blog is Dofollow and will get lots of comments with SPAM

How to Remove or Hide Blogger Default NavBar

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blogger navbar image

In my recent post I show you How To Backup and Restore Blogger Template as we know Blogger has many cool features some are good some are bad  One of them is NavBar some peoples like Navbar some not. One benefit is that it allows visitors to Follow, Share and Search your blog. But Most people hate it like me. You can remove it easily by adding a simple code to your template.

To Remove or Hide NavBar

Step 1:

Go to Blogger Dashboard > Edit Html and search for  <b:skin><![CDATA[

Step 2:

Place following code just after <b:skin><![CDATA[ 

#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}

Step 3:

Click on Save Template and you had done…

 

Hope this method to remove NavBar helps you. Feel free to drop comments.