Game Maniac Blogger Template

Game Maniac is a free premium blogger template with 3 columns, sidebar on the right and left, rounded corners, exclusive design for Blogger and posts thumbnails.
Excellent layout for blogs about games.

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Template Name : Game Maniac Blogger Template

Template Author : Biyan Pasau

Designer : http://www.dzignine.com

The Power of Being Personal on Your Blog

As i always recommend all new bloggers the most important tip i.e "write your own blog post, be personal in writing the content of your blog". Bloggers (new bloggers especially) they just copy what everyone else posted already, that's stupidity. I have written a post regarding this topic, How to blog in your own unique style. 
Blogging is, writing personal opinions. Why to copy from someone else, Be Personal, Write in Your Own Way and Style, Be casual and not formal always.
Many Bloggers say that there are rules of blogging but my opinion is that blogging doesn't have any hard or fast rules. Write in whatever way You want to write.
Google Recognize and index those blogs very quickly which have got quality and new content, and the blog posts which are unique they always get good search engine results.
The only thing you must do after starting your blog is to Optimize it for better search engine results.
These are the two Post you may want to see:
1) Blogger SEO: Part 1
2) Blogger SEO: Part 2

Facebook send button for Blogger

The Facebook Send button is a social plugin that websites can use to let people send a link to a friend through Facebook Messages, post it to a Group, or email it to an individual. Follow this tutorial to add it to your Blogger Blog.
1. Login to your Blogger Dashboard, and navigate to Design > Edit HTML.

2. Click on the checkbox which says “Expand Widget Templates”

3. Now look for

</head>

and just before it add,

<script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1' type='text/javascript'/>

This code snippet is needed for all of the Facebook FBML markup to work. If you have added it to get some other FB widget to work, then there is no need to add it up again.
4.  Look for <data:post.body/> and immediately below that paste the following code.

<div>
<fb:send expr:href="data:post.url" font="arial" colorscheme="light"></fb:send>
</div>

5. Save your template, and now you should have the send button working on your blog.

Blogger Buzz: What’s New With Blogger

Blogger is making some great changes! Here are some details on the official Blogger blog. They always have been my favorite blogging platform and now there are going to be some helpful changes.


Blogger Buzz: What’s New With Blogger

Adding Google Sitemap

Nobody can deny that Google is the best search engine. As google is used by most users so it is a great way to get new visitors to your blog.
Adding your site to google webmaster tools increases your blog’s visibility in search engines which means more traffic.
Adding Google Sitemap:

1. Login to Blogger Dashboard.
2. At the end of the page, under Tools and Resources box – Click on Webmaster Tools.
3. If asked, enter username and password again to Login.
4. Your Blogspot blog is now verified and it is added to Google Webmaster tools.
5. Inside Webmaster tools, click on Submit a Sitemap and add the following code inside the box:
   

   atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100 

6. If you have more than 200 posts then replace value 100 by something bigger number like 500.
7. You have successfully added the Google Sitemap.

Adding Facebook Share Button on Your Blogger Blog

Facebook has now officially introduced the Retweet like facebook buttons for your blogs or sites. Adding a Facebook share count button will show a neat count of how many times your blog post has been shared on Facebook.

Code for Facebook Share count button:

<div style="float:right;padding:4px;">
<a expr:share_url='data:post.url' name='fb_share' rel='nofollow' type='box_count'/>  
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share"/>
*lt;/div>

How to install Facebook Share Count Button on your Blogger Blog?

• Login to your Blogger Dashboard and navigate to Layout > Edit Html and check the check box which says “Expand  widget templates”.
• Find this piece of code

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

• and immediately after that place our Facebook share button code (that you copied)
• If you were unable to find this code in your template,then look for the first occurrence of

<data:post.body/>

• and immediately before that paste our Facebook Share button code(that you copied).
• Save the template and you should get a facebook share count button near each of your blog posts.

(Thanks to Blogger SEO for this Post)