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Adding the Popular Posts Widget for Blogger Just click on your blog title, access the "Layout" menu, click "Add a Gadget" and choose "Popular Posts". A window will appear asking you to configure the widget by choosing which posts you'll feature (e.g. those that were most viewed in the past 7 days or 30 days or from the beginning of your blog). You'll also be asked to choose how many posts you'll feature in your Popular Posts section and select if you'll show the post title only or along with the image thumbnail and/or the snippet. (Remember that each widget style has different requirements, so follow the styles and instructions carefully to find out if you need the snippet and image thumbnail or not). Popular Posts Style 1 - Box within a box This is an interesting widget style since it uses your snippet and image thumbnail in a unique way. Your snippet is written in opaque text and placed in a small transparent box. This, in turn, ...

How to Display Code on Blogger Posts In order to display codes on blogger blog you should convert them to escaped characters and show them under the HTML tag   pre  as shown below. code in escaped characters Now let us check how to convert a script in to escaped form.  How to Convert HTML/Java Script code in to Escaped Characters You can simply parse a script in to escaped format by following the changes given below. <  must be changed with   < >  should be changed with  > “  should be changed with  " In case if the script is too big to convert manually, you can use any tools which convert a Java script or HTML script in to escaped version. The following links will help you to convert normal HTML and JavaScript codes in to Escaped Characters automatically.  http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/developer-tools/quick-escape/default.php http://codeformatter.blogspot.in/2009/06/about-code-formatter.h...

Hover over the  Settings  and select  Notifications  from the options. On the resulting page you’ll see multiple notifications. You can either edit existing one or you can click on Add New button to create a new notification. Now click on  Add New  button to create new notification. You’ll see the screen like below screenshot: Name Notification should be given a name which is for your internal reference. This notification name will be shown on the previous screen. Send To This option allows you to set the email address where this notification email will be sent. You’ll find three options:  Enter Email ,  Select a Field  and  Configuring routing . Enter email  allows you to define the email address manually where the email will be sent. If you {admin-email} in this section then it will send notification to the email address you specified in your website setting. Select a Field  is used if you have multiple em...

Adsense is used by majority of expert bloggers for their website monetization because it is a cookie based contextual advertising system that shows targeted ads relevant to the content and reader. As bloggers are paid on per click basis, they try various ad placements on the blog to  increase the revenue  and get maximum clicks on the ad units. Well, on some blogs, you might have seen Adsense ad units placed below the post title. Do you know why? It is because the area just below the post title gets the most exposure and is the best place to put AdSense ad units to increase  Click Through Rate (CTR). Even though ads below post title work like a charm but this doesn’t mean that it will work for you as well. If you want to find out the best AdSense ads placement for your blog, try experimenting by placing ads at various locations such as header, sidebar, footer, etc. You can try other  blog monetization methods  as well to effectively monetize y...