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Tutorial # 24 - Introduction to Blogger Widgets/Gadgets

If you go to Layout > Add a Gadget, there are various gadgets available as shown in the image below. Almost all the gadgets/widgets are quite easy to understand, so we are not going to waste any time in such widgets. You may add a custom widget to Blogger you want to add a widget which is not available in the blogger list of gadgets/widgets. The HTML and JavaScript widget within Blogger is a blank widget that allows you to add or paste third-party functionality or other code to your blog.
We can also insert various plugins and widgets/gadgets using HTML mode in the blog posts and pages.
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Tutorial # 23 - How to advertise your site/blog through facebook


Step 1: Log in your account in facebook, if you don't have your facebook page, create a one. Then click on "Promote" at the right top corner.


Step 2: You will get different options regarding advertisement as shown below.


Step 3: You may either give ads in facebook for either your website or facebook page. By clicking any of the above, you may get various options regarding your ad design and target audience.
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Tutorial # 22 - How to apply for Google AdWords

Well it seems that using Google AdWords is very difficult to understand but it isn't so. Even a beginner can start promoting his blog with it, all you need is a way to pay and follow this tutorial. So lets begin, follow below steps to start promoting your blog through Google AdWords.


Step 1: Go to blogger dashboard and navigate to Campaigns. Then Click "Start Now"

Step 2: Type your Email, Select your country, Select your time zone and your currency(in which you will pay for advertising).
Step 3: Click on Create Your First Campaign.


Step 4: Give a title to your campaign, Select the type of ads either Standard or All features, Choose networks and devices(on which ads will show up e.g computer, tablets, mobile etc).


Step 5: 
Scroll down the page and move to Locations, here you have to choose the countries in which you would like to show your ads. Choose All the countries or your own country or if you want to target specific country then choose Let me select. If you choose Let me select then type the name of the country in the search box below and select it.


After location you have another option below "Languages" so check the languages in which you would like to show your ads. Be sure that the languages you select aren't only languages but these languages will decide that on which Google domain your ads will appear.

Say that you choose English, now your ads will be shown on the Google domains which have English language e.g. Google.co.uk, Google.com, Google.pk.

It doesn't mean that your ads will not be shown in the countries you choose.

Step 6: There are three things that you have to deal with, one is to choose a bid strategy, budget for your ads and other is to ad extension to your ads.

Choose Basic options in bid strategy because Advanced options are difficult to understand.

In bid strategy area you have two options:
1. Adwords will set my bids to help maximize clicks within my target budget.
2. I'll manually set my bids for clicks.
Choose I'll manually set my bids for clicks because if you let Google to choose bids for you then you will get more and more traffic but have to pay high rates.



After choosing I'll manually set my bids for clicks you will have two options:-
1. Default bid.
2. Budget.
In the default bid type the rate which you will pay for each click(PPC).

Tip: For a quick boost in traffic while spending lowest amount set $0.02 as default bid.

In budget area type $1 or $2 no matter what you type but it is just a limit in which you will pay Google Adwords. For example if you set a budget of $1 and default bid $0.02 then you will get 20 clicks for 1 dollar and after that your ad will stop running because your daily budget is consumed. If you don't get 20 clicks in a day then your remaining budget will be used next.


Ad extension is an optional feature to include relevant business info with your ads e.g location, sitelinks, call info. So if you want to use this feature just check any of the given option and follow instructions to proceed away.


 Step 7: Click on Save and continue and you have successfully created your first campaign now its time to create an ad group which will include you ads so follow next step.

Step 8: Give a name to your ad group and below it design your ad look. You can see a preview of your ad on the page.

Step 9: Scroll down and write your keywords in the given text area as shown in below photo. Write 10-20 keywords on after other.


Step 10: After writing keywords click on Save and continue to billing as shown in below image


Step 11: After selecting your country, click on Continue. Then you'll get to Billing Settings.


Step 12: Select account type as individual and fill up your info. E.g your name, address, phone number etc and scroll down the page.


Step 13: Select Automatic payments in How you pay option


Step 14: Check the Yes, I agree the above terms and conditions and click on complete sign up.
Congratulations! you are done successfully. You can read more about Google adwords below e.g how to create more campaigns or edit the existing one, how to change billing info and account info and also how to cancel your account any time.

How To Make Changes In Settings?
Although payment settings and other settings are configured and saved at the time of setting up account but later you can change your payment as well as account settings. To change your account settings just click on the settings button on the top-right-corner of the page.


To create more ads and ad-groups just navigate to campaigns and click on  +CAMPAIGN 
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Tutorial # 21 - How to enable "Email this Post" option under every post

Step 1: Email This Post enables your blog readers to share your posts with others. To enable this feature, go to the Layout tab on your blog and click "Edit" on the blog post widget.

Step 2: Then, on the window that pops up, scroll down and check the box for "Show Email Post Links."

Step 3: When readers view your blog, they can click the little envelope icon at the bottom of your post to email your post to their friends.

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Tutorial # 20 - Appropriate Use of Permalinks

Permalink is a URL that links to a blog post.

Step 1:
When you write a post, Blogger automatically generates a permalink for your post from its title. If you prefer to use a custom permalink, you can do so via the “Permalink” option in the Post Settings box. See figure below:

Custom URLs are usually used in order to make it SEO-friendly.
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