How do I add a poll to my blogger?

Monday, July 26, 2010

Do you ever wonder about your visitors' opinions? Maybe you'd like to find out what your readers think about controversial subjects, or perhaps you just want a vote on whether your should change your blog's font to Verdana. Either way, it's simple to do by adding a poll to your blog.

You'll start by going to the Layout | Page Elements tab for your blog:


Click the "Add a Page Element" link that appears in the sidebar for your layout. You'll get a popup window with all the different types of page elements you can add to your blog. Look for the one called "Poll" and click on "Add to Blog."


The poll settings let you enter the question you want to ask, and the possible answers you want to allow. You can enter as few or as many possible answers as you like; if you need more than are shown, just click the "add another answer" link.

By default, polls are set to run for a week before they stop accepting new votes, but you can change this time frame by entering a new date in the settings. You can also check the option to allow people to vote for multiple answers, if appropriate.

Once you've saved your poll, it will appear on your blog. The "Vote" button will cast a vote for whatever option is selected, and will display the current tally of all votes. You can also click "Show Results" to see what votes have already been cast without making a vote of your own.

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How do I moderate comments on my BlogSpot ?

Thursday, July 15, 2010

The ability to moderate comments to blogger BlogSpot !

As they are added to your blog can be very handy if you want to catch any comment spam before it reaches your page or if you'd like control over the kind of messages people can leave on your blog. You can find the comment moderation setting on the Settings | Comments tab, along with all of the other comment settings:

Selecting "Always" will automatically enable comment moderation for all incoming comments on your blog. You may also choose to moderate only older comments by specifying a number of days in the "Only on posts older than" setting. Selecting "Never" will disable comment moderation for this blog.
Enabling comment moderation then drops down an email form. This lets you moderate comments via email without affecting your regular comment notification setting. It is optional, since you can always moderate comments through the Blogger interface.

So enable comment moderation from one of the first two options, enter a notification address if desired, save the settings, and wait for your next comment. All incoming comments will now go to a special "Moderate Comments" page, which you can find under the Posting | Moderate comments tab:

On this page, you will see a list of all the comments that have been created but have not yet been approved or rejected. (This list excludes any comments made by admin members of the blog.) By default, they will be sorted by the time they were created, but you can also group them by their respective posts, by clicking the "Post Name" sort option at the top.

Each line in the list displays the beginning of the comment, the author's name, and the time it was created. Clicking the triangle to the left will expand the row to show the full text of the comment, along with "Publish" and "Reject" links, which you can use to approve or disapprove the comment. You can also select multiple comments and publish or reject them all at once, by using the check boxes on the left hand side and the buttons at the top or bottom of the list.

This entire process can also be done via email. If you entered an email address for moderation, you will get a message for each comment which will contain "Publish" and "Reject" links, as well as a link to the main moderation page for the blog. For example:


The links provided will prompt you to log in to your Blogger account, if you aren't already logged in. They will only work for new comments, and will not let you change the state of a comment that has already been moderated.
Notes:

• Comments that have already been published or rejected are removed from the moderation list. Rejected comments are deleted and cannot be recovered. Approved comments can be deleted in the usual way if you decide you no longer want them.
• Only blog administrators will be able to moderate comments. Team members without admin privileges will not have access.

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New Stats Feature on Blogger in Draft

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Is there a statistics feature on Blogger?

How to check traffic on Blogspot?

How to see statistics and analytic of my blog?



Here's a new feature implemented by Blogger, however in Blogger in Draft for the moment. Once it's finalized, it will probably be implemented on Blogger as well.





Once you're on the Stats page, navigate yourself on the navigation to see more detailed information. The stats can be changed depending on your choice - Now, Last Day, Last Week, Last Month or All Time.





Overview Section



On the Overview page, the page views is shown.





Blog posts with the highest page views.





Short summary of the traffic sources and audience.





So basically it's like a summary. The stats of the blog can be roughly seen on this page.



Posts Section



On the next page, the Posts page, the more blog posts with the top highest page views will be shown.





From this, blog posts are giving the blog most traffic can be identified.



Traffic Sources Section



On the Traffic Sources page, more details can be obtained. The referring URLs, also known as links, that direct traffic to your blog.





The referring websites. Shows which website gives the blog the organic traffic.





And the referring keywords as well. Usually these are the keywords people search on Search Engines and got into the blog.





So these information is basically the sites and links that has given traffic to the blog.



Audience Section



On the last page, the Audience page, there's a page views statistics categorized by countries. Visitors' location can be identify by looking at the illustrated map and list.





Also, page view categorized by web browsers. The top used browsers used to access the blog can be known too.





And lastly, page views by operating systems. Pretty self-explanatory.





All in all, a little information about the visitors can be seen here.



Besides this default stats feature, other external Traffic Tracker and Statistics on your Blogger blog as well.

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How To Remove Blogger Navigation Bar in Template Designer (Update)

Friday, July 2, 2010

How to delete navigation bar on Blogger Draft template?

How to remove default bar on Draft Template Designer?





It can also be done via this method. Navigate yourself through:



Dashboard > Design > Template Designer > Advanced > Add CSS

And then add this:

#navbar-iframe {display: none !important;}

Click "Apply to Blog" and you're done.



Credit: Comment by Bytexpert



P/S: Click here for the previous workable method.

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