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Tuesday, 22 March 2016

How to Enable Free HTTPS SSL Certificate in Blogger



Are you looking to add some extra security measures to your blogger site? Are you worried about your blogger blog getting attacked from malware? With Blogger's Free SSL certificate service, now you can protect your blogger site and your visitors by adding an extra layer of security. Moving from HTTP to HTTPS and installing an SSL certificate to your blogger site is fairly simple. In this article, we will show you how to enable free HTTPS SSL certificate in Blogger.

What is SSL Certificate?
SSL stands for secure socket Layer which increases the security between a website and a user. We daily fill online forms, shop products online, and numerous other things we do to send our information to the web servers. In order to protect the data transfer we need a secure connection.
That's where SSL Certificate provides that matters. HTTPS connection, establishes an encrypted connection between a user and a web server, so hackers do not get access to the information of a particulate user.

Every site has a unique SSL Certificate this helps in identifying secure connection. Any site that is pretending to have a secure SSL, HTTPS connection and its certificate does not match, and then your browsers will give you the warning message.




Why you should use SSL?
When it comes to search engine ranking, Google gives more importance to HTTPS sites than HTTP sites. Having a secure connection gives a stronger message to the search engine that you give importance to your site security.

This is the reason why sites which have a secure connection might run a little better than the other sites which doesn’t have a secure SSL connection.

How to Enable FREE HTTPS SSL Certificate in Blogger
Roughly, a basic SSL certificate costs about $10/year for each site. Luckily, blogger offers a free SSL solution to its blogger users. Unfortunately, blogs with custom domains does not support this feature only free domains can have free SSL certificates.

1. To Enable HTTPS, sign in to Blogger and select a blog on which you would like to enable HTTPS.

2. Go to Settings >> Basics >> HTTPS Settings.

3. In HTTPS Availability, select YES




Now your blog has a unique SSL certificate which will provide an extra layer of security to your site. Now go and open your site with https:// and enjoy free SSL support from blogger. You can add SSL support to all your blogger blogs for FREE.

We hope this tutorial may have helped you in learning how to add a Free HTTPS SSL certificate in blogger. Sadly, this feature is only for free. BlogSpot domain and not custom domains. However, we will surely bring away soon that will allow custom domain users to have free SSL certificates as well. If you like this article, share it with your friends and let


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Monday, 7 March 2016

How to Remove Powered By Blogger Attribution Link from Blogger?

When we use other's copyrighted thing then we have to give him proper credits such like if we share any other blog's post on our blog then we link back to his blog as credit link. If we use default Blogger Templates or mostly third party templates then we will see a attribution link which link backs to Blogger  and when we edit it from Blogger Layout Tab then there is no remove button to remove this widget because it is locked by default. But mostly bloggers remove it to make their blog more professional so Today I will tell you to remove this attribution link and make your blog more professional.
There are 3 methods to remove this link so i listed all of them:

Unlock Method:
By default the attribution gadget is locked means you can’t directly remove it because the remove is missing while you try to remove it by edit option as i listed above. So, we will unlock it that add remove button in the gadget edit box. To unlock the gadget follow these steps.
  1. Search the below code in your Blog's Template:
<b:widget id=’Attribution1′ locked=’true‘ title=” type=’Attribution’/>
  1. Now change the red colored true to false. Once you change the code will look like this:
<b:widget id=’Attribution1′ locked=’false‘ title=” type=’Attribution’/>
  1. Save your template.
  2. Now Go to layout and find the attribution widget.
  3. Click on edit link and press the remove button
  4. Done!

Edit HTML Method:


  • Go To Blogger Dashboard.
  • Backup your blogger template before doing any changes.
  • Click Edit HTML:
  • Press Ctrl+F and find the below code.
<b:widget id=’Attribution1′ locked=’ true’ title=” type=’Attribution’/>
  • Once you find that code, remove the attribution section code carefully. See below screenshot.
  • Click on Save Template button. You will get a message that asks you to keep or delete the widget. Press delete widget button and save the template.
  • Done!

Hiding Using CSS:

  1. Go to your template edit HTML
  2. Find this code: ]]></b:skin>
  3. Paste the below code above that code.
#Attribution1 {display: none;}
  1. Save the template and you are done!
These are the simple 3 methods to remove the blogger attribution link, use any of them and you will surely remove that link from your blog. Now Its your turn to share this post to your friends and write your review in comments till then Peace, Blessings and Happy Removing.
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5 Things for a Blogger to Always Keep in Mind


Every Blogger have long list of what he have to do and exactly what not. For example a great Blogger is one that don't create for the search engines but for his people. There are several things which a Blogger should retain in his mind while Running a blog. Some in the main details are listed below. If you're new to the world of Blogging next this post may be really helpful for you.

1. Patience always yields sweet fruit  
2. Update your Blog Regularly  
3. Spread your Blog posts through Social Networks  

Fb, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Google+ are some of the huge Online social sites where you can popularize your posts. Should you ignore them, note that you're just neglecting lots of traffic. Spread your posts but never do spammy things because it gets a bad effect of your blog.


4. SEO is a very big factor 
Without SEO (Search Engine Optimization) any blog is like birds withour wings. Almost all the sites get maximum targeted traffic through Search engines and should your SERP (Search Engine Ranking Position) is quite low then you're sure to get less targeted traffic. This may be avoided by many ways of SEO. Better ranking can drive a lot of traffic.
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5. Never Copy and Paste  

A large number of Blogs ruins only for this purpose. Newbies expect a lot in short time. You mustn't expect benefits overnight. Give your website some time. As an example putting Adsense at start are unable to get a lot income yet when you hang on with patience until finally you build a great relationship and quality traffic then a outcome may be far better.
You must not break this blogging rule. If you're the individual who don't look after posting could your audience care to read your blog? Update your blog regularly and spread/popularize the item which we will have in next point.
We've seen mnay newbies copying and  pasting blog posts from some other blogs yet remember as God knows our each and every activity identical way Google as well as other search engines see each of our blogs. Copying content material is curse for the new blog therefore you should avoid that. Well should you like any post online then you possibly can Spin it (Re-write your article) or provide proper breaks. Plagiarism must be stopped rather than followed.

I hope these points will help in getting a lot of traffic. Do share this post with your friends and write your feedback in comments till then Peace,Blessings and Happy Blogging.
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Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Why Blogger is in the Cloud? What are its Benefits

Blogger is in the cloud which means it cannot be hacked. From time to time, you may have heard a lot of top ranked websites using different CMS (Content Management Platforms) getting hacked by brute force attacks or whatever you like to call it. On the other hand, you would never hear a site hosted at Blogger was hacked or compromised because Blogger is using cloud technology, which makes it almost unbreakable, may be indestructible. In this article, we will discuss Why Blogger is in the Cloud, what are its benefits and why you should use Cloud technology? 


What is Cloud Technology?

When it comes to storage, backing up and even getting remote access to your business data the cloud is efficient, powerful, straightforward, and great. Now can we clear the children out of the room? What is the cloud? Its ok you are not alone a recent poll confirms that 78% of American cannot define it even if they use the cloud. 
Cloud technology can be termed as the evolution of Internet. It is an internet based computing which shares resources, information and software to computers and other electronic devices on-demand much like electricity. It provides information to only authorized users wherever and whenever they need.

This technology provides you the flexibility to protect your confidential data from anonymous users. Some leading companies always rely on cloud computing to protect their confidential data from their competitors.  It is risk free and most reliable technology.

Why Blogger is in the Cloud and its Benefits?

Being a blogger user you might have notice that it does not allow you to host CSS, JavaScript or any other files on your site. However, it provides you the freedom to upload files on third-party hosting, and later on allows you to integrate it on your site. Since, your site is not hosted on local low quality servers that can be accessed by almost everyone including hackers. Google uses cloud technology to host each and every site that you create on Blogger. It doesn’t matter whether you are using a custom domain or not your site would remain on cloud.  

According to the evaluations, over a half of Trillion blogs have been hosted on Blogger and users are creating thousands of new sites a minute. To provide hassle free service to its users, Google uses cloud technology to keep their growing network durable and reliable. This technology not only helps a site to boost-up its performance but also assists you in protecting your site from any kind of malware, spam and viruses. 

Stability: Storing your data in secure and reliable data center will also give you a significant increase in stability. The Data centers and the real-time backup technologies allow your site to keep up the site and significantly reduce downtime and nearly remove information loss.

Since, Blogger was the single service with zero downtime overall, we avoided the chart here. We hope you would not mind. It just wouldn’t have been very fascinating
-Royal Pingdom

Security and Privacy: Data stored on local devices such as computers, hard drives or desktops are less secure. More often, there is a high risk of getting your system hacked. This is the reason, why a lot of prominent corporations prefer to upload their legal information on cloud servers so that it cannot be accessed by any anonymous user.  Blogger also uses the same technology to secure its servers.  This makes almost impossible for a user to illegally gain access to a site.

Globalize Your Work: People living in every nook and corner of the world can access your site with ease, provided they have an internet connection. It helps you to globalize your website – reach your audience all across the globe. 

Large Storage Space: Cloud technology is the only reason why blogger gives you the unlimited hosting bandwidth and unlimited disk space. You can all this with less than a 20$ per year and if you are not using a custom domain you can all this for FREE. 

Why you should use Cloud technology?

There is no reason why you should not use this fascination technology. It is a ray of electronic devices like smartphones, PCs and even connected TVs which through the web connect you to big fast computers or may be servers which themselves stores enormous amount of information.  You don’t need to have all the information stored on what you are carrying. You just need to connect to it. 

There are lots of benefits, first Keep information stored in one place can be access by anywhere by anybody in your group. Second, gadget departments can save big money because gadget you are caring around needs fast web access not more memory. Let’s see remote access to data and services for less money all stored on the cloud, you can’t be serious. 

What's Next?

We are sure this article, would somewhat help you in understanding why Blogger does not allow you to host content so freely. There are few limitations, which you need to study. What are your thoughts about it? Do you already know that Blogger is the cloud? If you have any tip or information related to this topic, then do share it with us.
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