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| lapa37 |
 Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject: checking out new blog |
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I just read one of the posts where torkyn asked "just what you all looked for when you first see a blog and what make a blog appealing to you. i would really like to increase the traffic to me site so any advice for a newbie would be greatly appreciated" and Shawn responded that he had checked out the blog.
I wanted to know do you check out new blogs and offer advice? If so can you? |
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| Rose |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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I checked out your blog. Your theme is a little too dark for my liking, but it is very pretty. I noticed that you link to other bloggers which is very good for getting visits, but you might want to make those links actual hyperlinks. Make sure that you are using title descriptions in your photos as search engines cannot read photos. The front page is a little long, but you can add expanded posts to fix that. I think you are on the right start. 
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| lapa37 |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject: Thanks for the feedback |
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| Could you explain to me how to do the things you suggested I do in my blog. Like what you said here "Make sure that you are using title descriptions in your photos as search engines cannot read photos."Also here "The front page is a little long, but you can add expanded posts to fix that."I don't know what expanded posts are. Also how do I do hyperlinks. I'm sorry I am asking so much but I can not find these answers on blogger. |
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| Rose |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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That's ok. First things first.
How can I create expandable post summaries?
The Help Center has detailed instructions at How can I create expandable post summaries?
If you want an alternative check out Special effects for Peekaboo posts
How do I edit the alt tag?
When you upload an image to Blogger if you click on html on the post you'll see alt="" within the code. Add some text between the quotation marks describing the photo etc:
alt="Message that describes the photo"
and remove the <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" and replace it with
| Code: | | <a title="Message when someone runs their curser over your picture" |
Now when someone hovers their mouse over the photo, a tooltip will appear showing the alt attribute text.
Do you understand?
If you're using IE you may see <a href =
Simply put <a title="Message when someone runs their curser over your picture" before the href.
How to create a hyperlink in Blogger
In your compose toolbar you'll see a chain right next to the T. Now, all you have to do is to highlight the blog name that you want to link to and click the link button and paste the url in and press ok.
Example:Blogger Talk Forum
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| keeneye |
| Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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I was trying this alt tag thing too, and I can't seem to make it work for all of my images. I was able to do it with one post but the
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"
doesn't seem to be present in all of the code for each image. I'm also not seeing <a href= either.
I'm not very well versed in HTML so I think I need a little help...any suggestions Rose?
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| Rose |
| Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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<img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q3MwE3ZnQzQ/SDI_dopDkJI/AAAAAAAAAEU/cUfTUVwA-Z8/s200/fish_001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202290297924718738" border="0" />
Change it to
<img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q3MwE3ZnQzQ/SDI_dopDkJI/AAAAAAAAAEU/cUfTUVwA-Z8/s200/fish_001.jpg" title="flourish pattern" alt="flourish pattern" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202290297924718738" border="0" />
Just put the name of the photo between the "" in alt="" and add title="the name of the photo" before the alt.
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 10:04 am Post subject: |
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