How to Add Twitter Cards Support for Your Blogspot Blog

Want to show your blog posts summary with Tweets? This feature is available for anyone by Twitter. It is called Twitter Cards. You need to configure your blog/site according to Twitter guide in order to display your links summary in tweets. WordPress.com blogs already have this support but for WordPress.Org blogs you need some Twitter Cards plugin or edit your template.

Here I am going to tell you how can you make your blogspot/blogger blog posts to display summaries of your blog links in Tweets.
It is very easy, just copy paste this code into your blogspot blog template before </head> tag. You need to edit only one thing in this code, that is Twitter username. Put your Twitter username and use the code given below.

Permalink feature is now available on blogspot blogs

Google Blogger team have added Permalink feature to blogspot blogs.

Now when you are writing a new post you are able to choose custom URL for your post to make the post url simple and SEO friendly.

Another small update is, now google translate tool is available inside post editor. Click on the book icon in tools bar when writing a post/page.


Did you know that blogspot had launched other SEO feature also for blogspot blogs. Such as robot.txt, custom error pages, custom post description, custom redirects, crawler and indexing easy settings. All are available under Settings > Search Preferences.

Convert your Google Blogger Profile to Google+ Profile

• Get access to upcoming Google+ features on Blogger
• Highlight your posts in Google search results for your social connections
• Maintain one identity
• Your public Google+ profile will replace your Blogger profile

Blogspot seven new AJAX HTML5 CSS3 powered templates for dynamic views

These new 7 templates on blogspot are still incomplete and in testing.
They load fast, built by AJAX HTML5 and CSS3 programming.

You can enable them for your blogspot blog by going to Template settings from your blogger dashboard.

Preview dynamic view templates from following links

- http://aaqilx.blogspot.com/view/sidebar (My favourite)

- http://aaqilx.blogspot.com/view/classic

- http://aaqilx.blogspot.com/view/magazine

- http://aaqilx.blogspot.com/view/mosaic

- http://aaqilx.blogspot.com/view/sidebar

- http://aaqilx.blogspot.com/view/snapshot

- http://aaqilx.blogspot.com/view/timeslide

Dynamic Views will work on your blog if the following are true:

• Your blog is public. Your readers don’t need to sign in to view your blog.
• Your blog has feeds fully enabled. In the Settings | Other tab, you have chosen "Full" for Allow Blog Feed. If you're using our old interface, you can find the option under Settings | Site feed.

How to delete your blog on blogger blogspot

How to delete your blog on blogspot by Google.

Go to http://www.blogger.com/home
Settings > Other > Delete blog

If you don't remember that on which of your emails your blog is associated with, go to http://www.blogger.com/forgot.g

Blogger Buzz: Tips for New Bloggers

Blogger Buzz: Tips for New Bloggers

Tips for new bloggers, by Google.

Go to above link to read original post.

Blogger has integrated Lightbox for photos viewing [Blogspot]

Blogger service have gotten update of Lightbox. It enables photos viewing from posts or pages beautifully without refreshing or opening new page.

Other photos on same page are displayed as thumbnails at the bottom easy to click and view them too.

Lightbox have been enabled on all blogspot blogs, no need additional codes editing etc from templates.

Try clicking on the image at right side in this post, you will be able to see Lightbox on blogger in action.

Original announcement post: Blogger Buzz: Your images never looked so good

Blogspot mobile templates now have share and +1 buttons [Blogspot]

Google team have added share and +1 button on blogspot mobile templates. It is beautiful and fun to use sharer from blogspot mobile.
You can try this by visiting aaqilx.blogspot.com from your phone.

If you haven't enabled mobile template for your blog. You can enable mobile template for your blog by going to your blogspot blog template settings. This will show your phone visitors an mobile optimized blog version for their screens.