Blogger is a free blog-publishing service owned by Google that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.
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I changed my domain name. How to keep my ranking and traffic?
Two weeks ago I changed my Blogger domain name from "energieshow.blogspot.com" to "lifeskills-coach.com". It works and redirects perfectly.
But since I was afraid of losing my ranking and traffic in Google Search, I added my new domain name to…
Mourad Blil
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Why is Disallow: /search in Blogger's robots.txt?
Can anyone tell me what does this mean in Blogger's "robots.txt" file? Do I need to edit anything in it? Should I remove /search from the Disallow: line?
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap:…
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Blogger and Google App hosting at naked domain using 1&1
My web hosting is through 1&1.com. I'm trying to set up both blogger and Google Apps mail at the naked domain.
I was able to get blogger set up on the www. version of the site by simply creating a CNAME record which points to ghs.google.com. The…
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Migrate Blogger Atom feed to self hosted blog
I have a blog running on blogger using my own domain (lets say www.example.com).
The standard blogger Atom feed is available at www.example.com/feeds/posts/default
Now I want to migrate my blog to a self hosted custom application without loosing…
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How do I tell blogger which image is the thumbnail to use in data:post.thumbnailUrl?
I recently started with blogger. I was tweaking the homepage a bit to display thumbnail and post excerpts with read more link.
A lot of websites say to use this kind of code:
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Blogger dynamic template sometimes broken
In all browsers (IE, Chrome, etc.) in my office and in home and in all Blogger blogs using the dynamic template, I'm having this strange problem:
No menu on the right side (except for the Subscribe button - other buttons are missing) plus no layout…
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Is a zero second meta refresh tag to 301 a Blogger post a proper solution?
Blogger does not offer a possibility to 301 redirect a post (or the whole blog) to an external domain name (say example.com). One is suggesting to use some zero second meta refresh tags in the header to solve this issue.
Is this practice accepted by…
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How to add sitemap to my Blogspot blog?
I added a lot of pages in my blog. I need to track the blog traffic.
If anyone know about adding sitemap to my blog, please send step by step tutorial for this process.
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Preserve and print a blog
When my daughter was born almost 5 years ago, we had the idea of posting various things about our lives, what she did as she was growing up, etc. The idea at the time was, when she's 18 we'll give her a link to the site and let her browse. My…
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Image as a background for a website - good or bad?
Blogger has some quite awful templates to offer, but one way to make it look less terrible to the eye of a layman (me) is with this background picture:
Yet, I haven't seen many popular blogs that do this. Is setting a large, colorful (but…
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How do I change an existing custom domain with Blogger to a new custom domain
I have a Blogger site which has a custom domain which I want to move one old domain to new. Let's pretend this is old-domain.com and new-domain.com.
I want to:
Preserve my search engine ranking as much as possible;
If any link to a page has the old…
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Can i export a wordpress site to html?
I want to export a wordpress site with themes and images to html format like we can do in blogspot. Is there a plugin or a tool for the same.
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GoDaddy forwarding for bare domain to www is not working for a .dev domain hosted by Blogger
I have a website (example.dev) registered with GoDaddy that only works when www. is prefixed to the URL. It is hosted at ghs.google.com, using Google's Blogger platform. In the Blogger settings I have activated a setting called "Redirect Domain"…
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Is there any way to use HTTP 410 Gone on Google Blogger blogs?
I want to ask about HTTP 410 Gone if I can use it on Blogger Blogspot. As we know by default the wrong URL returned to 404 Not Found, but I want to remove some old blog posts and I want to return them to HTTP 410 Gone instead of 404 Not Found.
In my…
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What are the advantages or disadvantages of using blogging platforms?
I want to create a blog and I want my own domain. It will be a blog mainly, but I don't exclude to add some sections for contacts and purchasing items from a store later.
Since some weblog publishing tools like Wordpress and Blogger give the…
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