In today's world where a large percentage of work as well as entertainment takes place on the internet, blogging has become extremely popular. What used to be known as a simple online diary where every day people expressed their thoughts and opinions on a variety of different things has now become big business for many bloggers. Blogs attract advertisers, and with every click on an advertiser's link, there is money to be made. Many bloggers also sell their own products on their blog or advertise for their friends and colleagues, allowing a constant flow of revenue to be generated.

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Many people are discovering the fun and even benefits that blogging can bring to one's life. For one, it becomes a means for others to express their thoughts like a diary. Others consider blogs as a way to socialize on the Internet. Some have even made blogging a profit-generating venture, compelling some individuals to leave their full-time jobs because the pay is even better than their 9-5 jobs. 

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You must have seen the floating vertical share bar on many popular blogs and must have thought about adding it to your blogspot blog as well. AddThis has made this very simple. Its a fairly simple process and after you add this vertically floating share bar to your blog, you will also check how many times people shared your content with their analytics service which they offer for free! The share bar is available in different sizes and you can also customize it so that it blends perfectly with your blog.

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By default all the Blogger blogs have the same fonts. So it's better if you spice up your blogspot blog by changing the font of your post title. This will ensure that the blog visitors will notice your blog post and it also looks good. So it's good if we use a different font for the post title. We had created a post on the similar topic long time back, but this is an updated post which will work properly for everyone.

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Whenever any person visits our blog, the first thing that the person notices is the design of the blog. Even before the person starts reading the content on the blog, the look of the blog attracts and creates an image in the mind of the person. Hence it is very important that we take great care before choosing a template for our blogger blog. There are thousands of blogger templates available online, some of them are good while some are great examples of how your blog shouldn't look. ThemeForest has helped in created a highly dedicated and wonderful community of designers who create some of the best blog themes. One visit to ThemeForest and you will see many beautiful blogger templates which you would have found hard to find anywhere else. Hence we have created a list of some of the beautiful and amazing Blogger templates on ThemeForest.

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Since the Blogger dashboard was redesigned, there have been many changes in the way the dashboard appears and the placement of the earlier options. Many times, the people who are used to the old Blogger dashboard find it confusing to locate the various blogger options. So here is a simple tutorial for those people who are thinking about deleting their blogspot blog.

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Today, blogging is not unknown term, especially for those who spent their most of the time on computers with internet connection. Just because of this increasing popularity, one can find more than 200,000,000 blogs in this computer world on various interesting niche. Therefore, before diving in this deep and vast world of blogging, it is prerequisite to inculcate interest in yourself to create a blog. In other words, the three most general motivations behind an idea of making blogs are Passion, Income and benevolence. Basically, blogs can be formulated on various topics but the main thing is in which niche you are more interested.

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Blogger has now introduced a Google+ counter for the blogger dashboard which will allow you to quickly check how popular your posts are. This Google+ counter is visible when you visit the blogger dashboard, right beside the individual posts. Whenever the readers of your blog click on the Google+ button, the +1 will get added to the dashboard counter and you can see the list of people with their name and profile picture.

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Friends, I am very excited and happy to tell you that the Cool Tricks N Tips facebook page has crossed 1000 likes!!! This is a very special moment for us and this has only been possible because of the awesome people who visit this blog and like our articles. I would like to thank all the readers of Cool Tricks n Tips for making this possible and hope that you continue to visit our blog.

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The Blogger team is making sure that the Google Blogger platform becomes better and better. They have introduced some amazing features for the blogger platform like Static Pages, Blog Stats Widgets, Template Designer and many other cool features that makes the blogger platform even more awesome. The latest addition is Threaded Comments. This feature is available on the Wordpress blogs and on other blog comment systems like Disqus, Intense Debate since long time and its good to see that even Blogger has the threaded comments feature.

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The Blogger team has continued adding new and better features to the blogspot platform and recently it introduced custom mobile templates for the blogger platform. These days, the number of blog visitors who access the blog using their mobiles is increasing and its better if we have a mobile theme for our blogspot template.

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Recently Google+ team launched Google+ Pages which helps businesses, brands, blogs etc to connect with other people. Now Blogger team has launched their own page on Google+. All you have to do is to add the Blogger page in one of your circles. By doing this you will be able to see all the Blogger updates in your Google+ stream. This is a great way to interact with the Blogger team and also with other bloggers.

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Recently while writing a post, I happened to see the Open this link in a new window tick box when you select the Add or remove link option. This was one feature that I wanted to see in the Blogger post editor since a long time. You will see this feature in Windows Live Writer and some other post editors and is a very handy and useful option. For those who are clueless why I am happy about this option, do read this post which will tell you how it can help you to increase your blog page views.

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Recently Google has added the option to connect your Blogger profile to your Google+ profile. Slowly Google is integrating its social network Google+ with all their products. Connecting the Google+ profile to your Blogger profile is simple. You wont see this option when you visit the normal blogger page. To connect Blogger to Google+ you have to visit the Blogger in Draft page.

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Hostgator is a very popular web hosting provider. Even I am using Hostgator for my blogs. Sometimes using the free blogger platform is insufficient for your blogging needs as you need to upload some files or start your own self hosted Wordpress blog. At such times having a web hosting plan is very important. Hence I am sharing an awesome Hostgator web hosting 25% discount coupon code which will help you to save as much as 29.85$ !!

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In March, the Blogger team had released a video displaying the New Blogger User Interface. Now they have introduced the New Blogger Dashboard to the Blogger Draft users. This means very soon they will introduce the new dashboard to all the uses. We feel that the launch will coincide with the public launch of Google+. Also there is news that Google is going to rename Blogger as Google Blogs. This redesign may accompany the name change.


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KISSinsights is a great way to know what your blog visitors think about your blog and what they want with the help of simple surveys. KISSinsights helps you to create surveys for your blog and its very simple and easy to add the surveys on your blog.

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Nowadays more and more people are using their mobile phones to access the internet to visit various web sites. Not all the phones have a good web browser or good data plans. So its important that the people who use mobile phones view the version of the blog which is suitable for their mobiles. Many sites are offering services which provides a mobile version of your blog. Even blogger is offering this service for the blogspot users for free. Enabling the mobile version of your blog is very very simple and wont even take more than 2 minutes.

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Google launched the +1 button yesterday for websites. In this post we will tell you how to add the +1 Google button to your Blogger blog. Google has made the process of adding this button to your blog very easy as the code needed to add the button is very simple. Just follow the steps that we have given in this post.

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Recently while surfing a site, I came across a nice related posts widgets. On further checking, I came across this wonderful Related Posts Widget by Outbrain. The Outbrain related posts widget is a good looking Blogger Gadget which is very easy to add it on your blogspot blog. This widget is also used on blogs of National Geographic, Discovery.

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