My Site Bandwidth Blasted!!

Written by kranthi on Sunday, August 10, 2008

Today morning, I got an email from my hosting company that my account was temporarily suspended due to excessive usage of Bandwidth.
Daily thousands of people are downloading our template copies.So, it's understandable. I got my account back and I can't afford to get it suspended again.
I edited each template again and changed the image links (presently, images hosted in 5 Photobucket accounts).

I'm providing the template image files in the download file.So, if you really like a template, please feel free to spend 10 minutes on uploading the image files to your account and change the image links in the template.. so, the problem will never repeat again.

How to do that?? (Tutorial)

QUICK METHOD:

1.Download a Fresh Copy of the template and replace your template code from
<head> <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/> <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> <b:skin><![CDATA[/*

to

]]></b:skin> </head>
with the one in the fresh copy

How to add Different Meta tags to Different Blogger Posts

Written by kranthi on Friday, August 8, 2008

Yesterday, a reader(Yakacha) asked me

Thanks for your beautiful templates.You r great.I want to ask u something. Do u know how we make separate unique title and meta tags for each posts in a blog? I have seen others doing that.

What's the use of adding different meta descriptions to different Blogger Posts?

It is very good for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) . Actually, why we are adding meta tags is to tell search engines what that page is all about... but, using same meta tags to all of your blog posts lessens the search engine rankings and traffic little bit.

But, if you add different unique meta tags to different Blog posts, it makes the search engines to know more about your individual blog posts and make them crawl and index your pages better and it also improves your Search engine rankings for sure ;)

So, how to add this?

For this to happen, you have to add some pieces of codes to the template.
First Sign in to Blogger dashboard » Layout » Edit html

and find this line


<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

and add this code just below that line


<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://bloggertricks.com/"'>

<meta content='DESCRIPTION' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS' name='keywords'/> </b:if>

So, the final code looks like this one

We now added meta tags to the homepage. Next, you want to add meta description for another post, for example : http://bloggertricks.com/2008/05/how-to-add-paypal-donate-button-to-your.html

Now, what you have to do is pasting the above three lines below the present code and changing the link,description and keywords.
So, the final code now looks something like


<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://bloggertricks.com/"'>

<meta content='DESCRIPTION' name='description'/>

<meta content='KEYWORDS' name='keywords'/> </b:if>

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://bloggertricks.com/2008/05/how-to-add-paypal-donate-button-to-your.html"'>

<meta content='How to add Paypal Button to your Blogger Blog, Adding Donations to your blog' name='description'/>

<meta content='Adding,Paypal,Donate,Button' name='keywords'/> </b:if>

Just like the above procedure, you can add different meta tags to as many blog posts as you can.

Try it out and share your experiences!

3 Column Vector Blogger Template 'Butterfly' - Download

Written by kranthi on Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Here again, a new stylish, fantastic looking Blogger Template 'Butterfly' for you guys!
Butterfly template was originally a wordpress theme designed by Templates4all.com and I converted that into Blogger format.
As you can see in the below screenshot, the template comes with two sidebars in the left and the main coloum in the right side. The highlight of the template is the mind blowing vector header.

Live Demo | Download

If you are a newbie, first follow the basic installation instructions here
After installing the template,you have to edit the feedburner url

go to Layout » Edit html
and find this below code and write your blog feedburner url


<div align='right'><a href='http://YOUR-FEEDBURNER-URL.COM'><img align='top' alt='' src='http://myblogtalk.com/bloggertemplates/butterfly/images/spacer.gif' style='width:150px; height:103px'/></a></div>

That's it! Leave a reply if you like the template or if you have any questions..

Google Updated PageRank's today

Written by kranthi on Saturday, July 26, 2008

Just a quick update.. Google updated the PageRank's few hour's ago. If you didn't checked your blog's pagerank yet.. check it now :)

Stylish 3 Column Blogger Template "Techlure" Free Download

Written by kranthi on Monday, July 21, 2008

Here I am.. again back with.. a great 3 Column Blogger Template for you guys!
The template is very stylish,professional looking with a nice header logo at the top and you can put adsense 728 X 15 adsense link unit at the top which will maximise your CTR and your earnings.
This was originally a wordpress theme designed by Padd IT Solutions... and I converted that wp theme into Blogger format.

Live Demo | Download

Installation Instructions:

First follow the basic installation steps here.

Once you completed installing the template successfully, you have to do a few things..

1.The *psd file of the logo is supplied with the download files. Open it with photoshop, select the text layer and use the 'Text' tool to edit the 'techlure' name with your's (your blog name)

After editing the logo, save the file in *jpeg format and upload the image to any image hosting service like photobucket and copy the direct link to that image..
and replace this below url in the template code with the one you just copied and save the changes.

http://myblogtalk.com/bloggertemplates/techlure/images/background-title.jpg

2.Edit the top navigation links by simple finding the below code ( Ctrl+ F to search)


<li class='current_page_item'><a href='http://bloggertricks.com'>Home</a></li>

<li class='nl'><a href='http://blogger.com'>Blogger</a></li>

<li class='nl'><a href='http://bloggertricks.com'>Templates</a></li>

<li class='nl'><a href='http://google.com'>Google</a></li>

<li class='nl'><a href='http://gmail.com'>Gmail</a></li>