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Does Google Care About Web Standards Compliance?
Are you trying to keep your website compliant with current web standards and free of validation errors? Validation helps ensure that your website will work properly on the widest range of web browsers. Often times, validation errors don’t do any harm to your site, however, it’s usually best to be as standard compliant as possible. Plus, all the big companies try to validate their page....
Blogger Finally Welcomes Static Pages
Do you use Blogger? My earlier comparison between Blogger and WordPress showed that Blogger did not support static pages. This was useful for creating, for example, a ‘Contact Us’ page or an ‘About Us’ page. To create static pages in Blogger, users usually create a post and change the publish date to something really old.
Well, it looks like the Google Team at Blogger listened...
Submit a Full Sitemap for Blogger
Google offers Google Webmaster Tools for webmasters to submit their site to Google as well as get detailed indexing and keyword information. A similar service is also offered by Yahoo! and Bing. These services allow providing a sitemap(s).
Why are Sitemaps Important?
Sitemaps help tell search engines, such as Google, what pages exist in your site and is especially useful for those they might not find...
2 Better Commenting Systems for Blogger
I had started blogging with Blogger (Blogspot) before I switched to WordPress. Ever since switching, I realized how much I disliked Blogger’s commenting system.
Until recently, it didn’t even have avatars. There is no way for bloggers to personally contact the commenter as no option provides a user’s email.
In addition, many users don’t take advantage of embedding comments under...
Blogger vs. WordPress
Do you have a blog online (whether its personal, business, etc…) or are you planning on making one? A common question bloggers ask is, “What platform should I use?” Dozens of great hosting solutions are available like TypePad and Blog.com.
The two most popular free services are Blogger (from Pyra Labs acquired by Google) and WordPress (from Automattic). These two are free hosted solutions....
Blogger Adds Read More Links
Do you use Blogger (Blogspot)? Have you ever wanted to have those Read More links you see on WordPress blogs without having to modify your theme code? Well, now Google has finally added one of the most requested features. Of course, many have already had them because they modified the theme’s source code, however, no more need to do anything related to coding.
Google announced 2 days ago that...

