How to Evaluate Your Link Profile

Getting good links to your site is one of the best ways to raise your page rank, improve your position in search results, and get more traffic to your site. After Google's Penguin update, the source of your links is more important than ever. Poor quality links such as those from article directories or link farms can now actually bring the page rank of your site down. It is important to evaluate the quality of your link profile on a regular basis to make sure that you are only getting high-quality links that will improve your ranking. Here's how you can evaluate the quality of your link profile

Official Blogger Contact Form Gadget Released

Word about Google working on a official Contact Form gadget started to go around when many Blogger developers start to encounter some code in the Blogger hosted CSS and JavaScript files which clearly indicated that a Official Contact Form gadget was on the way. Finally today after a long wait of 14 years , Blogger has released the new Contact Form gadget which will surely ring a death knell for third party contact form providers

Five Reasons to Switch to Google+ Comments Now

Google+ Comments launched just 2 weeks ago yet it has garnered lots of good reviews and a positive response from the Blogger user community. This move is a part of Google's ongoing initiative for plusification of its products but its a clear sign that Blogger is still and will remain a indispensable product in Google's arsenal. G+ Comments are also a clear challenge to the FB Comments , Disqus and other commenting systems even though it is yet to launched outside of Blogger officially. The presence of unofficial implementations for Drupal and Wordpress establishes the fact that its being liked by everybody out there. So if you one of those people who are still not convinced of using it on your blog then here are Five Solid Reasons that will surely make you change your mind

Infinite Scrolling in Blogger

Infinite Scrolling refers to the ability to continuously load new content on a page without refreshing it which gives an appearance of endlessness. It is used by major sites like Google+ , Facebook and Twitter and pretty successfully at that. The biggest benefit being exposure to more content and faster browsing . We will see how to integrate it into our Blogger blog by using Infinite Ajax Scroll jQuery plugin

Blogging , Fun and HPConnectedMusic

This is my 3rd IndiBlogger Blogger Meet and it was nothing less exciting and fun-filled than any previous one. We reached the venue just when synchronized clapping and tapping had started , there were some awkward hiccups but it set the mood for the rest of the meet.

A Great Giveaway: Three Premium Themes from ThemeFuse

The great crew over at ThemeFuse has decided to giveaway 3 WordPress themes licenses to our readers. So many blogs use WordPress, and that means that a good theme is essential. The lucky winners of this giveaway will be able to enjoy one premium WordPress theme, of their choice, and all at no cost! In the coming week we will be handing out 3 vouchers, and here's how you can get your chance at one:

The New Blogger Template Editor

The first major update to the Blogger Template Editor since 2006 . Loosely referred to as Edit HTML , it has gone though a complete makeover. The previous Editor appeared as a lightbox-style window and was pretty similar to the version available before Blogger switched to the new look back in October 2011. This update is a full-blown overhaul with build from scratch approach bringing a whole new set of features to the table