TL;DR
- How to use Google Blogger efficiently.
- Change Date And Time To Promote/Move Posts.
- Manage/Use Labels Effectively.
- Tips about SEO and Promote Posts.
Awesome Tips Series about Google Products
Awesome Tips Series about Blogger
Change Date And Time To Promote/Move Posts
Chrome uses published data
to decide where the post is shown in Blog Archive
or feed, we can change the published data
after publish to move the post.
- when set published date to future:
- Update the exiting one: this will not change the date and time in the url but will change where it's put at
Blog Archive
- Publish a new one or again: this will schedule the post to publish it in the future
- Update the exiting one: this will not change the date and time in the url but will change where it's put at
- We can change an old post to a newer date to move and promote it
- ex: Keyboard Shortcuts for Developers was move from 2018/05 to 2019/04
- We can move similar posts together or distribute them into different months/years.
Add a post to the past
- Publish a post first (using Automatic time)
- Revert it to draft
- Change date time to past then publish it again
- ex: Awesome Tips about Chrome Vimium was added on 5/30/2019 and changed its date time to
April 08, 2019
Manage/Use Labels Effectively
-
Multiple Labels Search
- and query: /search/label/Dev Tips+Chrome
- Or Query: /search/?q=label:"Problem Solving"|label:Troubleshooting
- Search a keyword within a Label: add q=%s
- /search/label/Dev Tips+Chrome?q=Markdown
- Add more Labels to an Existing Post
- Bulk remove labels
- Hide Labels count < X from Label Widget
<b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
<b:if cond='data:label.count >= 10'>
<!-- .... -->
</b:if>
</b:loop>
- Exclude labels at
Configure Labels
Blogger Feeds API
- feeds/posts/default/feeds/posts/default/-/THE_LABLE
- max-results: the maximum number of results to be retrieved
- orderby: updated, published
-
Search Multiple Labels(AND) in Blogger Feeds
- and query: feeds/posts/default/-///.../
- or query: /feeds/posts/default?q=label:label1|label:label2
Tips about SEO and Promote Posts
- Show Post Title Before Blog Title
-
Add
search description
- You have to add content to the box, if it's empty or you delete the description in the future, the
search description
function will be gone/ - It appears in Google Search or when we share it to Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter
- You have to add content to the box, if it's empty or you delete the description in the future, the
- Custom the url at
Links -> Permalink
to make it more readable
Add Custom Redirects
after changed the url
- ex: /2018/06/chrome-tips-and-tricks.html will be redirected to /2018/06/awesome-tips-about-chrome.html
Create a Custom "Page Not Found"
- ex: N/A
Promote your Content by Creating and Sticking Index Page
- Publish the post first then change date to a future date
- ex: home
How To Promote Posts Based On Labels And Recency
Tips
-
Remove the automatically added code: Dir="Ltr" Trbidi="On"
- Disable this by turn off "Enable transliteration" in Language and formatting settings
- If "Enable transliteration" is on, blogger will automatically add this code whenever it detects it's not there
- if you have custom javascript code in your post, this behavior will break the js code.
- Hide or Remove Blogger Attribution Gadget
- Open external links in new tabs automatically
- Add anchor links to section headings
- Create a page to list all posts
-
Left/Right key to go to older/newer post
- Use a widget to add javascript instead of update the template directly: it's easier, and will still work even when change the template.
Sitemap web pages
- Generate Sitemap html page including all labels
- Generate Sitemap html page including (multiple) specific labels
search-console
- Add your post to search-console by manually requesting indexing
- Check
Coverage -> Excluded
and request indexing posts forDiscovered - currently not indexed
andCrawled - currently not indexed
Top comments (2)
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