Earn Charity Donations on Blogger with SocialVibe

From your Blogger dashboard, click the Layout tab. Then, click the Add a Gadget link and click on "Featured", then select SocialVibe. (If you don't see it in the Featured gallery, follow this link, or click "Add your own". In the textbox, add the URLhttp://www.socialvibe.com/s/blogger/gadget.)

Here's the fun part. Choose the cause you want to support from the drop-down list. If you want to customize the size and title, you can do that here as well, and you'll see a preview of your gadget underneath. When you're satisfied, click Save.

Congratulations, your gadget has now been added to your blog! Your readers can help you earn for your cause by engaging with your gadget, and will even have the chance to leave you comments and add a SocialVibe gadget to their own blog.

Discover amazing products and earn money with OpenSky!

Below is the post by John Caplan, founder and CEO of OpenSky explaining the useful features of OpenSky.


"OpenSky allows bloggers, including all Blogger users, to discover unique products and sell those on their blogs. As we are interested in helping our users find various ways to monetize their blogs, we’ve asked John to introduce OpenSky for our users. -- The Blogger team


For most of you, writing a blog is about sharing your passion in a way that connects you with others. That’s why Blogger was created -- to help people have their own voice on the web to share that passion.

We at OpenSky want to empower you to share even more with the people who read your blog. We do this by helping you discover great products and giving you the ability to share those products on your blog. Not only will you deepen your relationships with your readers, but you’ll also earn money from every sale.

Most everyone who reads your blog probably loves discovering new products, especially unique items that they wouldn’t find in a giant chain store. And your readers will especially love learning about stuff from someone they trust, like you.

That’s why blogging and product recommendations work so well together.

How OpenSky works

OpenSky is a free platform that empowers you to discover and sell unique products that speak to your passion. So you can hook up your readers with great things they’ll love. 

Monetize your site with Google Affiliate Network!

There are lots of great ways to make money from your blog. One of those ways is to use an affiliate network. Put simply, an affiliate network is a way to promote products from some of your favorite retailers; you get paid when any of those retailers makes a sale based on a promotion you ran on your blog. Our friends at the Google Affiliate Network have a great program and have agreed to make a special offer to our users—so if you haven't heard of GAN already, have a read, and be sure to sign up!

With Google Affiliate Network, you can access affiliate ads for top retailers. If the ad or text link you post on your blog results in a sale, you earn a commission. This means that you can start working with advertisers who will pay you a performance fee for driving a sale or other conversion.

Google Affiliate Network gives you access to a diverse range of affiliate programs for advertisers including Barnes & Noble.com, Red Envelope, Sears, ProFlowers, Abe Books and Puma. Once you have access, you can apply to create advertiser programs, promote ads, search for links to specific products, sign up to access product feeds, and utilize Link Subscriptions that deliver the latest links and promotions directly to you each day.

Google Affiliate Network is featured in the Monetize tab in your Blogger account or you can apply using the link below (please note that you’ll need an AdSense ID to join).

Here’s how to get started:

1. Sign up for a Google Affiliate Network account with your valid AdSense Publisher ID.
2. As soon as you're approved for Google Affiliate Network, sign in and apply for advertiser programs.
3. Follow the instructions to start displaying cost-per-action ads.

How to add Youtube videos in the sidebar?

Would in be interesting if your viewers would watch videos related to your blog on your sidebar? Here is the next tutorial for that.

• First, Login to your blogger Id.
• Click Design.
• Click Add Gadget on the top of your sidebar.

How to add Slideshow in your sidebar?

• First, Login to your blogger Id.
• Click Design.

• Click Add Gadget on the top of your sidebar.
• Click Slideshow.

How to add a picture in the Slide show?

• First, Login to your blogger Id.

• Click Design.
• Click Add Gadget on the top of your sidebar.
• Click on Picture.

How to add text in the sidebar?

Add some words to your blog - like a welcome message with Blogger gadget – Text.

• First, Login to your blogger Id.
• Click Design.
• Click Add Gadget on the top of your sidebar.

• Click on Text.

Reactions: easily engage your readers

Add Reactions, simple annotations chosen by authors and given by readers.

With Reactions, readers can easily respond with one click, increasing feedback on posts.

To enable Reactions, log in to your dashboard, go to Layout > Page Elements and click the Edit link in the Blog Posts element to open the blog post configuration tool. Then, check the box next to Reactions, edit your reactions as a comma-separated list, and click Save.

Widgetbox: Make a Widget From Your Blog!

Key Benefits?

1. The easiest way to build a widget from your blog
2. Colorful, interactive, and engaging
3. Easy to add to Blogger and sites across the web
4. As you update your blog, the widget automatically updates with the latest posts, headlines, and images
5. Helps you reach new readers and drive traffic back to your blog

How Do You Build Your Widget?


Building a widget with Widgetbox is simple, easy, and fun. Simply:

1. Enter your blog feed
2. Design your widget’s look and feel
3. Publish the widget
4. Add it to your site and watch it spread across the web
5. Access statistics on unique views, widget installs, and other blogs and domains that have installed your widget
6. Do do all this go to http://www.widgetbox.com/info/blogger.

Create Pages in Blogger

The Pages feature lets you easily publish static information on stand-alone pages. For example, you can create an About This Blog page that discusses the evolution of your blog, or a Contact Me page that provides directions, a phone number, and a map to your location.

You create a page similar to how you write a blog post. From Blogger click the Posting | Edit Pages tab, then click New Page. (Note: you can create up to 10 pages.)

How to convert Wordpress blogs to Blogger?

Ever wanted to move your WordPress blogs over to Blogger? Here is the trick.

• Login to your WordPress account and navigate to the Dashboard for the blog that you'd like to transfer to Blogger.
• Click on the Manage tab below the Blog name.
• Click on the Export link below the Manage tab.
• Download the WordPress WXR export file by clicking on Download Export File.
• Save this file to your local machine.
• Upload the file on http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/ and click Convert.

Add location info to your posts with geotagging

Geotagging has been available for a while on Blogger in Draft, but is now available to all users. To add location information to your blog posts, simply click the Add Location button in the bottom right of the new post editor. This will bring up a new window that displays the familiar Google Maps interface and you can search, drag, zoom, and drop markers for the location of your choice. 

Add a Twitter results search widget.

Add a Twitter results search widget. It Displays search results in real time! Ideal for live events, broadcastings, conferences, TV Shows, or even just keeping up with the news.
Go to http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search
if you're unfamiliar with Twitter, its FAQ states that, "Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives. Friends near or far can use Twitter to remain somewhat close while far away. Curious people can make friends. Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool. Developers can use the API to make Twitter tools of their own. Possibilities are endless!"

Add Zemanta to your Blog!

Download Zemanta for your browser because it is a plugin which will provide recommendations as you write.
For a browser add-on:

• Download Zemanta
• Install it on your browser
• Open your blogging dashboard
• Start writing and experience Zemanta!

All Blogging platforms supported

New Transparent Navbar Styles From Blogger

As a blog author, you've probably spent more than a little time getting exactly the right "look" for your blog. A blog is an outlet for creative expression, and how your blog looks says as much about you as what is written on it.

The Blog*Spot navigation bar ("navbar") is one area where Blogger realized that there was some room for improvement. Our four traditional color scheme choices — Blue, Black, Tan, and Silver — are somewhat limited, especially if your blog's background color is lime green or hot pink.

These new color schemes take advantage of the ability of modern browsers to render transparency (a technique known to web designers as "alpha blending"). This allows the navbar background to blend together with your blog's background color and pattern. The "Transparent Light" color scheme has a semi-transparent white background, producing subtle pastel colors, while the background of "Transparent Dark" is a semi-transparent black that produces a shaded look.

Customize Your Blog’s Background With Your Own Image -The Blogger way

We know that personalizing your blog is important. Although you can adjust templates, layouts, backgrounds and more with our Template Designer, you wanted more ways to make your blog completely unique.

Now you can use your own image as your blog background. Go to Design | Template Designer | Background, click on Background Image, and you’ll see the new “Upload image” option, which allows you to select and upload your image. There are a variety of options such as alignment, repeat, and scroll for how to display your new image. This feature is another graduate from Blogger in Draft. You can find more information in our original announcement.

How to put a blogroll in your sidebar?

Use a Blog List to put a blogroll in your sidebar, or make a few to categorize the blogs you read. The Blog List works well for any page that has an RSS or Atom feed, so you can get creative: link to news sites, podcasts, Twitter streams, search results, or anything else with a feed.

Here’s a quick summary of the features that a Blog List gives you:

• Link to blogs, web pages, and feeds from your blog’s sidebar, with an optional favicon
• For pages with RSS and Atom feeds, Blog List can show last updated time, post title, and a snippet of the latest post
• Sort links alphabetically or by last update time
• Show all links, or hide some behind a “show all” link
• Import subscriptions from Google Reader
• Blog List links are visible to search engine crawlers, so your blog’s PageRank and reputation flow to those you link to

Want to see it in action? We made a help video to walk you through adding and configuring a Blog List:

How to add Blogger Stats counter in your blog?

Earlier, I showed How to add Statcounter to your blog and How to add Radar URL to your blog like i have in the top right of my blog. Now I will show you how to add blogger Stats counter in your blog. 

• First, Login to your blogger Id.
• Click Design.
• Click add Gadget on the top of your sidebar.

• Click on Blog Stats.
• Select your style. 
• Check Animate Counter for better viewing. Click Save.