You surely have seen on many blogs and websites a Recent Posts Widget in the sidebar that shows the recent or newest or latest posts of the certain blog or website. This widget shows how to write posts title for SEO, date of post and an image of the post and even a snippet of the post. So today we are going to learn how to make this widget for your blog with some very easy steps. So let's start now.

How to add Recent Posts Widget to Blogger

What is Error 404 Page ?

This page appears only

1. When a reader reaches to a page that does not exist or

2. Reader type wrong permalink for a post or page. This type of link is known as broken link or Custom Page Not Found or (Error 404 Page).


Also Read: How to Remove "Powered By Blogger" Attribution from Blogger

How to Add Custom Error Page (Page Not Found) to Blogger

Now you can create a Custom Error 404 Page (Page Not Found) for Blogger blog. This error page design i'm giving you is an idea only (which i use in my blogs). This error page gives the users message that page is not found or currently unavailable. It also has a link to Homepage of the blog and a Search box for users to search within your site. You can create a custom error page as per your blog design and creativity. 

Follow these steps to apply this error page on your blog or website.

1. Blogger Dashboard >> Select Blog >> Select Settings tab >> Search Preferences
2. Now under Error and redirections you can find Custom Page Not Found. Next to this there is an Edit option. Now click on this.
3. Next a box comes up and paste following given code

<h3>Your requested page was not found</h3>
<p>Sorry, we cannot find the page that you are looking for. It might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.<br/>
Please check that the Web site address is spelled correctly.</p>
<b>Other things to try:</b><br/>
<ul>
<li>Go to our <a href="/">home page</a>, and use the menus or links to navigate to a specific post.</li>
<li>
<form method="get" action="/search">
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td><input type="text" style="width:95%;padding:2px;" value="Search this blog.." onfocus="if (this.value == &quot;Search this blog..&quot;) {this.value = &quot;&quot;}" onblur="if (this.value == &quot;&quot;) {this.value = &quot;Search this blog...&quot;;}" name="q"></td>
<td><input type="button" Value="Search"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</li>
</ul><br /><a href="http://bloggerseotipstraining.blogspot.com/2013/04/add-custom-error-page-not-found-in-blogger.html">Error Page from Blogger and SEO Tips</a>

 4. and finally click on Save Changes button to save code.

Now visit any page which is not a part of your blog e.g., ( www.yourhomepage.com/ssssss ) and see this beautiful error page working having a link to homepage and a search box.
If you have any question regarding this than comment down and ask, I'll try to answer your questions. Thanks.

Today I'm going to teach how you can insert read more link in your blogger posts.

After inserting your read more links in your blogger posts you can change them to stylish buttons of your choice.
Now first we will see how to insert read more links in the blogger posts.
"Back To Top" Button for Blogger

How to Insert 'Read More' links in Blogger Posts.

In Blogger Blogs, there are newer posts, home and older posts links below every post. That's been set by default by blogger , but you can change them to buttons as mentioned above or the text of your choice. e.g.. next page or previous page.

In this tutorial I'll teach you how you can change these links into buttons or change the text to your choice.
So let's start changing these links by some very simple steps.

Also Read Procedure to  Remove "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" Link on Blogger?

Change Older Posts,Home and Newer Post Links to Buttons in Blogger

Start the procedure by following below steps:

Log-in to Blogger dashboard
Go to Template >> HTML >> Check the Expand Widget Template

For Previous Post Button search for below code (tip: use CTRL+F)

<data:newerPageTitle/>

Replace it with this code below:

<img src="Img-Url-for-previous-button"/>

For Next Post Button search for this code:

<data:olderPageTitle/>

Replace it with this one below:

<img src="Img-url-for-next-button"/>

For Home Button search for this code:

 <data:homeMsg/>

The above code may appear twice, so both times replace it with below code:

<img src="img-url-for-home-button"/> 

Now save your template and you've done almost all steps :-)

Things to Remember

• Change bold img tag URL's with your desired Button URL's or if you just want to change the text then only write the desired text (do not write any URL.)
• You can download the buttons from Google then upload it on your blog new post to get the URL on the images, then copy that URL's and paste them in these codes and then visit your Blog and see the butons working.

If you have any questions regarding this post than comment below.

In Blogger, there is a link namely "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" which appears below every post sometimes at left side or at center. It also appears on Blog'e home page. By clicking this link a visitor can subscribe to your RSS feeds. but instead of this unnatural link, there are many other awesome ways to give visitor the opportunity to subscribe to your blog feeds. 


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Mostly people, especially new blogger users dislike this link. They want to make their blog more beautiful and shiny. So and therefore, they want to remove this link as quickly as they find a solution for it. There are many tricks have been shared on the internet about this issue. But the one I'm going to share, is the easiest method to remove this link from your blog. Let's now come straight to the solution.
Use Related Posts Widget in Blogger/Blogspot

You can remove this link by using many tricks, but this is the simplest & quickest method, because by using this method we will just hide it from our blog by using CSS property. You'll have to add just one single CSS line to your blog's style sheet and that's all. Now follow the steps to do this:

You would also like to use:  Social Media Sharing Buttons in Blogger.

• Log-in to your blog
• Template >> HTML >> Proceed
• Search For this code ]]></b:skin> (tip: Use CTRL+F)
• Now Just above/before ]]></b:skin> insert following code

.feed-links { display:none !important; }

Save your template and view your blog. Feed Atom link will no longer be there.

Today we're going back to basics! And nothing is more basically important to a site than properly written title tags. You know the ones that used to appear in the little blue bars in your browsers. Most modern browsers try to hide these, though that doesn't stop them being helpful!

So what is a title tag? Why is it important to SEO, and how do you write the darn things?

Meta Tags:

First let's talk about meta tags. Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide information about a web page for the search engines and website users.

Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of a HTML document. These elements are the:

• Title Tag
• Description
• Keywords (No one uses these anymore and you can get spam "points" for overuse on Bing, so just forget them. If you have keyword stuffed "spammy" ones, you probably want to fix those.)

What is a Post Title Tag?

Title tags are part of the meta tags that appear at the top of your HTML inside the < head> area. Think of title tags like the title of the chapter of a book. It tells people and search engines what your page is about.

Title tags are also part of what makes people decide whether to visit your site when it shows up in the search results. The title tag should contain important keywords to help the search engine determine what the page is about.

Write title tags for humans; format them for search engines.

NOTE: Every experienced SEO has their own unique methods to doing this, so I'm going to give you best practices along with some of my methods. However, there are a million ways to write a title tag.

What Does the Title Tag Look Like?

The title tag looks like this in your HTML code:

<title>Important Words Go Here</title>

Here is how title tags appear in a browser that uses the bar to display title tags (other browsers might only use the tab space or not show them at all):

Finally, here's where Google shows the title tag:


REMEMBER: A title tag is THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE TAG in your page. It tells the search engines what your page is about. It is still vitally important to your SEO strategy.

Quick Checklist

When you're writing your title tag what do you need to know? Here's a quick checklist with some tips on how to write optimized title tags:

Length: Title tags should be a maximum of 70 characters long, including spaces.
Keyword Placement: Your most important words (keywords) need to be first in your title tag, with your least important words being last in the title tag (most to least). However, if you're working in a language that reads right-to-left, then it is reversed, and it would be least important to most important.
Keyword Separation: Use pipes | to separate important (keyword) phrases (no commas, underscores, dashes or any other punctuation unless the keyword is written that way).
Wording: Keep your important phrases short and simple. Leave out words that would make it read like a sentence. (e.g., and, if, but, then, etc.)
Company Name: If your company name is not part of the important (keyword) phrases, put it at the end of the title tag; if it is part of your important words, put it as the first words in the title tag. Some SEOs will tell you to leave it out. You can leave it in for branding purposes – so people will see the brand and click. This isn't valid for all sites.
DON'T DUPLICATE Title Tags: They must be written differently for every page. Don't mass replicate your title tags.
Make It Relevant: Title tags must be written to be descriptive of the content on the page. (e.g., the About Page would be:
About | Important Keywords | Company Name

or

Important Keywords | About Us | Company Name.

Google & Title Tags

Sometimes Google doesn't like your title tag. In fact, sometimes Google thinks it can pick a better one, so it will rewrite the tag for you. There are several places it might get this information, most of them you won't prefer to one you crafted yourself.

While there isn't any assurance your title tag won't be replaced, make sure you write a title tag that is page related, content descriptive, short and sweet, and not keyword stuffed. This is your one defense.

Keyword Stuffed Title Tags

You've probably come across badly written title tags that try to rank for everything or repeat a word over and over. Keyword stuffing is the worst offense when it comes to title tags.

Say your site is trying to rank for Blue Bells and Yellow Bells. Many times you will see the main keyword repeated multiple times across the title tag. It might appear like this:

Blue Bells, Yellow Bells, All Types of Bells | Bells Bells and More | Doors.com

This is bad title tag writing. You don't need to repeatedly write the keyword. Google especially can pick up the keywords like your eyes can read them, so you would best to rewrite this as

Blue & Yellow Bells | Doorbells | Doors.com

We removed the extra words, combined the products (if possible you would split these products to separate pages, a blue and a yellow, but this isn't always feasible or desirable) and added a category keyword which would appear in the middle of the title tag on all doorbell related page titles, then end it with the domain name (again this is for branding purposes – there are also good reasons to not do this, it depends on the SEO).

Now our title tag is short, sweet, simple, and to the point. We have also categorized it and added in branding for good measure.

We also took out the word "and" and replaced it with an ampersand (&) so that you don't accidentally relate the two items and make Google think you want people who are looking for Blue AND Yellow Bells.

And there you go, a basic lesson in title tag writing. This can be the most challenging and fun part of any SEO's work! Or should that be "Inbound Marketer's" work?

Some Title Tag Writing Examples

Let's look at a few examples of writing title tags with actual examples.

If your important words (keywords) were "Charlie Sheen" and "Winning" your title tag would be written in that order:

Charlie Sheen Winning

Charlie Sheen would be the first words in the tag.

Now what if we had more than one set of words? What if my keywords were "Charlie Sheen Winning" and "Tiger's Blood"? Your title tag would still be written with "Charlie Sheen Winning" as the first words in the tag. Then you would add a pipe | and "Tiger's Blood" as the second phrase:

Charlie Sheen Winning | Tiger's Blood

Don't use hyphens, underscores, commas or any other type of character – just pipes.

Now what if we had more than one set of words and a company name we were not worried about optimizing for (the company name was not part of the reputation issue). If my words were "Charlie Sheen Winning" and "Tiger's Blood" and "CBS", you would separate these three phrases with pipes, with CBS last and farthest from the beginning, which Google sees as the least important phrase:

Charlie Sheen Winning | Tiger's Blood | CBS

The company name can be repeated in every title tag as long as it as not part of the important words and appears at the far right end of the title tag.

What about sentences? Couldn't you just write a sentence such as "Charlie Sheen Says Winning And Tiger's Blood And Gets CBS Riled Up"? You could, but those extra words like "says", "and", and "riled", dilute your important words and make them less important to content, so best to keep it short, simple, and clear. Leave out the extra words.

Title Tag Writing Pop Quiz!

When using strict SEO principles. Which are the BEST title tags for the important (keywords): (pick 2) "Charlie Sheen" "Winning" "Howard Stern Show" when optimizing (trying to rank for) the words "Charlie Sheen (1) Winning (2)"

1. Charlie Sheen Winning on the Howard Stern Show
2. Howard Stern Show & Charlie Sheen | Winning
3. Charlie Sheen is Winning Points on the Howard Stern Show
4. Charlie Sheen | Winning | Howard Stern Show
5. Charlie Sheen and Howard Stern Winning the Show
6. Winning | Charlie Sheen on the Howard Stern Show
7. Charlie Sheen Winning | Howard Stern Show

Doesn't matter as long as the words are all there

If I were writing this, the correct answer would be No. 4.