Awesome Tips about Google Blogger

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.

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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
• 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
  • Just click the label to be removed at the label action
• Hide Labels count < X from Label Widget

<b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
  <b:if cond='data:label.count &gt;= 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
• 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 for Discovered - currently not indexed and Crawled - currently not indexed