Share Blogger Post Automatically to Facebook using IFTTT

Automatically posting a blog post to Facebook used to be a challenge. The idea was simple, which is to notify Facebook that you have a blog you want posted on your wall, and the social media will do as you command. The implementation, however, was more complicated than that.

Even with Facebook's post-by-email feature, only the blog name and title will appear on the wall, leaving behind the content or link. There are other plugins available, but they don't work as straightforward as they're supposed to be. There is always something missing.

How to Share Blogger post automatically to Facebook using IFTTT

Here is an online utility IFTTT (If This, Then That), which is capable of moving social postings between sites. Setting it up is fairly easy, and just as easy to use. So, let's see how we can share Blogger posts automatically to Facebook using IFTTT.

Step 1. Sign up for a free IFTTT account

Visit IFTTT.com and set up an account by creating a username and password.

Now, IFTTT will take you through a mini-tutorial - click on the word 'this', 'that' and 'Continue' button several times. Finally, select 3 channels that interest you and click 'Continue' to finish with the registration.

Step 2. Create a new recipe

Once registered, we need to 'Create a Recipe'. A recipe is basically the process of combining two platforms together - in our case, we will combine Blogger with Facebook. This shouldn't take more than five minutes.

To get started, click the 'My Recipes' link and then click the 'Create a Recipe' button, as shown below:

Start creating the recipe by clicking the blue 'this' word and select a "trigger channel". The trigger you need to choose is Blogger - search for it in the box, as illustrated below:

Step 3. Connect Blogger blog with IFTTT

Connect your Blogger account in order to tie it with your IFTTT account. A 'Request for Permission' pop-up will appear > click the 'Allow' button and choose which blog you want to use with IFTTT from the drop-down menu, then click the 'Update' button.

After our Blogger blog has been connected, 'Choose a Trigger' that allows you to specify what kind of posts will be published to Facebook. You can choose 'Any new post' or 'New posts labeled'.

Finally, press the blue 'Create Trigger' button to proceed to the next step.

Step 4. Creating the 'That' trigger

After registration, Create a Recipe that will specify the direction with which your blog posting will take. Since you want to link Blogger to Facebook, then the Recipe will be - if Blogger, then Facebook. What you're doing is replacing 'this' to Blogger, which is the source, and 'that' to Facebook, which is the target destination.

To set up 'that', click on the blue-colored 'that'. This will bring up a window that contains a list of social media sites. Search for 'Facebook' in the box and select the 'Facebook Pages' option (select the plain 'Facebook' option if you want to post to your personal profile).

Step 5. Connect Facebook page with IFTTT

Connect your Facebook account. Make sure you are logged into your Facebook account, before you connect. Pressing the 'Connect' button will open a pop-up window to allow IFTTT post on your Facebook page, then select your Facebook page.

Hit the 'Done' and 'Continue to the next step' buttons and we're almost done...

You will be prompted to 'Choose an Action', where you get to specify if you only want to 'Create a status message', 'Create a link post', or 'Update a photo from URL'. Choose 'Create a link post' as shown below:

Step 6. Choosing the ingredients

Once you choose an action, a 'Complete Action Fields' window will appear with 'Link URL' and 'Message' box. To add an ingredient, click on the 'Message' field and you'll see a test tube icon on the right hand side. If you click it, a drop-down menu will appear which will let you choose a field to include - select 'PostTitle' and click 'Add Ingredient' blue button on the right side.

If you are unsure of what each ingredient does, please visit this page.

Step 7. Finish creating the recipe

Finally, click the blue 'Create Action' button and your recipe should look something like this:

To complete your recipe, hit the 'Create Recipe' button.

And that's it! This is how IFTTT recipes are created. Next time you publish a Blogger post, it will be automatically shared to Facebook.

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How to Hide Posts from Blogger Homepage

The point of blogging is to make your blog posts visible to your target audience as well as to search engines. However, there are times when you need to hide certain blog posts from homepage. For instance, one post may contain outdated information, so you don't want it to be seen by your audience but you also want to keep it on your site for records purposes. Or perhaps you want a certain post to still be seen on your blog, but you don't want it to show in the home page.

Either way, you have to find ways to hide certain blog posts. Fortunately, if you're using Blogger, you can easily do so by taking a few simple steps. You can use this guide to get started.

Backdate Blogger Posts

Let's discuss this technique first since it's simple and doesn't require you to deal with any lines of code. Basically, the only thing you need to do is to change the publishing date of the post you want to hide; specifically, you need to backdate it to the oldest possible date. Doing this is effective if your Blogger site is configured to show the latest posts first (as most blogs are); once a post is backdated, it will no longer be shown in the home page.

How do you do this? If you're publishing a new post and want to hide it, look for the "Schedule" option on the right side of the post editor and click on "Set date and time". Choose a previous date on the calendar, click 'Done' and Save the post, then go back to your blog's home page to check if the post has disappeared.

The same process applies if you want to hide an older post; the only difference is that you need to click on the post's title in the dashboard to open it in the editor. Backdate the post using the steps above and save it, then open your blog to verify that the post is indeed hidden from view.

Please note that this process will only hide your posts from the homepage. People will still be able to see them if they'd take the time to go through your blog posts from the previous years. This is also the case for those who'd come across your hidden blog post through search engines.

Hide Blog Posts in Blogger Using Code

Another thing you can do to hide a blog post is to edit its code. This is a bit complicated since one small mistake can affect the post structure and make it unreadable. This, in turn, can affect your readers' experience as they browse through your site and even have a negative effect on your search engine optimization techniques. With this in mind, it's important to be careful when dealing with code.

Method 1: Hide Blogger Post Using the Post's label

There are two techniques to choose from, and one of them involves the label of the blog post you want to hide. If you're ready to go ahead with this method, you'll first need to make a backup of your template. Having a backup is important since it ensures you'll have a copy to fall back on in case something goes wrong.

Once you've backed up the template, go to "Templates", click on "Edit HTML" and then click anywhere inside the code area -> press CTRL + F keys and search for this line:

<b:include data='post' name='post'/>

Once you've found it, replace it with this code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
        <b:if cond='data:label.isLast == "true"'>
            <b:if cond='data:label.name != "add label here"'>
                <b:include data='post' name='post' />
            </b:if>
        </b:if>
    </b:loop>
<b:else/>
    <b:include data='post' name='post' />
</b:if>

Note: replace the text "add label here" with the label (case sensitive) of the blog post that you want to hide in Blogger homepage. Keep in mind that above code won't work if you have multiple labels on that post, so please make sure the post has only 1 label.

Important: every post that you want to show on the homepage should have at least one label otherwise they will not be visible because the b:loop statement won't be executed for them.

Finally, Save the changes by pressing the 'Save template' button on the upper left side of the editor, then view your blog to check if the blog post has been hidden.

Method 2: Hide Blogger Post Using the Post's ID Number

Aside from the method above, you can use another technique that involves the post ID number of the blog post you'd like to hide. To know the ID number, you must go to the dashboard area, find the title of the post you want to hide, and click the "Edit" text link below it. Doing this will open the post in the Blogger editor.

Once you're in the editor, click on the address bar above and go to the end part of the URL. Here, you'll see a line of text that looks like this: postID==, followed by a long string of numbers. This is your post's ID number. The ID number usually contains 19 numbers, so it will look somehow like this: postID==1234567890123456789. Copy this ID since you'll need it for the next step.

When you have your blog post's ID, open the Blogger dashboard, go to Template, and click "Edit HTML". Search for this line:

<div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'>

Replace it with this one:

<div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' expr:id='&quot;post-&quot; + data:post.id' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'>

Note: if you found two occurrences of it, replace both of them.

Now search for this tag:

</head>

Once you find it, paste the following code above it:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<style type='text/css'>
#post-1234567890123456789{display:none;}
</style>
</b:if>

Don't forget to replace "1234567890123456789" with the 19-digit ID number of the blog post you'd like to hide. Once you're done, make sure to save the template. You can open your blog in another tab or browser to check if the post has indeed been hidden.

That's it!

Whether you backdate your post or opt for the post ID method, you have to remember that the blog post you've hidden is still on your website. This means that it will still be indexed by search engines, show up on search engine results, and get found by people who are searching for the keywords that are present in the post. If you really want this blog post to be seen by no one, you'll need to use robots.txt (for Google) to remove it from search results. Better yet, completely delete the post from your Blogger dashboard and just keep a soft copy of it in your computer.

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How To Show Star Ratings In Google Search Results - Blogger

Google rich snippets allow you to make your site's search results view better to get maximum visitors. And it is seen that sites with rich snippets enabled get more visitor specially sites selling products or sites about review of any ad network or site with cooking recipes. Among Google rich snippets most popular are search box in search results and star ratings widget because most of sites are able to show them for their search results but not all! other rich snippets like logo of company or organization or social profiles in search results appear only for big companies or organization.

So in this post I am going to show you how to show star ratings for all posts in Google search results.

How to add Google Rich Snippet schema for star ratings in blogger?

Step 1: Go to blogger dashboard, go to template and edit html.

Step 2: Search for below code:

<div class='post-footer'>

You will find this code 2 times paste the below code above the second one.

Step 3: Copy below code and paste it above the code you just searched for.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div style='display:none;'>
<div class='vcard' id='hcard-templatoid'>
<span itemprop='description'><span itemprop='itemreviewed'><data:post.title/></span></span>
<time itemprop='dtreviewed'><data:post.timestampISO8601/></time>
Rating: <span itemprop='rating'>4.5</span>
Diposkan Oleh: <span class='fn n'>
<span class='given-name' itemprop='reviewer'><data:post.author/></span>
</span>
</div>
</div>
</b:if>

Step 4: Save your template.

Customization:

1. To change ratings change its value,  the default value is 4.5 highlighted with yellow.

2. It will automatically add author name as the reviewer but if you want to add a name by your choice replace <data:post.author/> with the name you want to see as a reviewer.

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How to check Rich Snippet for star ratings is installed ?

Well, its very easy to know that you have installed rich snippet in right way so that it work. You don't need to wait for Google to show it because it may take a week. So a simple way to check it, use Google Webmaster Testing Tool. Don't know how? follow below steps.

Step 1: Go to Google Webmaster Testing Tool.

Step 2: Enter URL of any post and click on RUN TEST.

If you get a Review in your results like shown below in the image then your code is installed successfully and it will work as soon as Google crawl your site.

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How To Increase Google Adsense Earnings - Boost Adsense Revenue

Google Adsense is a strict ad network thats why its approval, making money with it, maintaining it is not easy. You need to keep focus on wrong clicks, right clicks, traffic, code placement and modifications and also you need to check that your ad code should not be on other sites. You should use your Adsense account with very care otherwise you will get banned. So to increase your adsense earnings you need to work in such limits that your earnings are increased without getting banned. So in this post I will tell you how to increase adsense earnings without getting banned.

1. Adsense For Search:

Install Google custom search box in your blog and enable adsense ads in your search results. Now when someone will make any query using your search box he is going to see ads along with search results and there are 100% chances that people will click your ads because these ads are relevant to made query.

How to setup google custom search box in two pages in blogger ?

2. Youtube Ads:

If you have youtube videos, enable ads for your videos. Each of your video will show a skipable ad on every view and there are very positive chances that you will get clicks on these ads. Other ads are also show on the videos.

3. Ads In Posts:

Enable ads between your posts and add ads in between posts which are popular. How to add ads between posts in blogger

4. Text Ad Units

If your content is readable and you have many readers then use text ad units in between posts. For instance if you have a blog about song lyrics or any stories  or education and people read your posts from top to bottom then text ads will be best for you because Google will show relevant ad text and people will click your ads.

5. Number Of Ads Per Page:

So far Google allowed only 3 ad unites per page but now Google allows unlimited ad units per page so you can place as many ad units as you want but don't use ads in such positions where people click your ads mistakenly.

6. Ad Positions On Page:

Place your ad units in positions where all the visitors are able to see your ads even if they don't scroll. For example a big Leaderboard below header.

7. Ad Sizes:

Google says that wider and bigger ads perform better. The sizes found to be most effective by Google are:

160 X 600 wide Skyscraper
336 X 280 Large rectangle
300 X 250 Small square
728 X 90 Leaderboard

8. Ads Theme:

Google has many ads themes, choose a theme that match your site style.

9. Adsense for Mobile:

If your mobile site is getting at least 200 views weekly then you must enable Google Adsense ads for mobile site. It will boost your revenue because Google ads in mobile show relevant mobile apps and people download these apps so you get paid for that.

I hope above tips will be helpful, if you have any suggestion do share it with me in comments. Thanks for visiting 101Helper.

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Customizable Related Posts Widget for Blogger

We already posted a few tutorials on how to add related posts widget with thumbnails in Blogger with summaries or only titles, which can be compiled into a single All-In-One Widget with powerful options. This new customizable related posts widget for Blogger integrates all the features we've seen before and more, such as thumbnails (square or round), post dates, excerpts, display only titles / thumbnails.

Now let's see what this related posts blogger widget has to offer.

Related Posts Widget Features:

• 9 attractive styles to match your needs
• Show Title, excerpt & thumbnails
• Display simple related posts with titles / summaries / post date
• Choose whether to display the post thumbnails or not
• Ability to control the thumbnail image size
• Option to choose square or round thumbnails
• Show post text excerpts
• Control the length of the post excerpt / title
• Determine the number of related posts to display

Requirements:

1. The related posts widget recognizes post thumbnails uploaded through Blogger itself (or Picasa Web Albums), other images from Photobucket, Flickr, or other non-Blogger hosts will not be supported.
2. This widget is compatible with the standard desktop Blogger templates except Dynamic Views, which does not accept customization.
3. The script does not work on private blogs, so your blog / site must be open to the public in order to show.

Adding Customizable Related Posts Widget in Blogger

Log into your Blogger dashboard, go to 'Template' and open template editor by clicking the 'Edit HTML' button below 'Live On Blog' preview.

Next, we're going to use the template search feature, be sure to follow these directions exactly:

1. Place your cursor on the template code.
2. Click once.
3. Press CTRL and F at the same time (PC) or Command and F (Mac).

The search box will open in the upper right corner of the template editor.

Type </head> in the search box, then press ENTER. This will take you to the </head> tag in your template and highlight it in yellow.

Select and copy the entire CSS style below and paste it directly ABOVE the </head> tag:

<style type='text/css'>
.related-posts-container{margin:55px 0px;}.related-posts-container h4{font:20px &#39;Open Sans&#39;, sans-serif;margin-bottom:20px;}.related-posts-container ul,.related-posts-container ul li{list-style: none;margin: 0;padding: 0;}.related-posts-container ul li a{text-transform:capitalize !important;font:bold 13px &#39;Open Sans&#39;, sans-serif;outline: 0;}.related-snippets{margin-top:5px;font:italic 12px &#39;Open Sans&#39;, sans-serif;}.related-posts-1 li{list-style:inside none disc !important;}.related-posts-1 li,.related-posts-2 li{border-top:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.04);padding:0.8em 0 !important;}.related-posts-1 li:first-child,.related-posts-2 li:first-child{border-top:medium none;}li.related-post-item{margin:0 3% 3% 0 !important;width:22.7%;float:left;list-style:none;position:relative;}li.related-post-item:last-child{margin:0 0 2% !important;}.related-thumb-large{width:100%;height:auto;border:none;margin:0px auto 10px;padding:0 !important;}.related-posts-8 li .related-title,.related-posts-9 li .related-title,.related-posts-9 li .related-snippets{padding-left:74px;}.related-posts-8 li:nth-child(even),.related-posts-9 li:nth-child(even){margin:0 0 4% !important;}.related-posts-8 li,.related-posts-9 li{background-color:#ffffff;box-shadow:0 0 4px rgba(180, 180, 180, 0.55);width:42% !important;float:left;margin:0 4% 4% 0 !important;padding:3% !important;}.related-thumb{float:left;height:64px;margin-right:10px;object-fit:cover;width:64px;}.related-posts-6 li,.related-posts-6 a{line-height:0 !important;}.related-posts-6 .related-thumb-large{margin-bottom:0;}.related-posts-7 li.related-post-item{margin:0 !important;width:25% !important;}.related-wrapper{position:absolute;left:0px;right:0;top:0px;bottom:0;margin:0 auto;z-index:4;background:rgba(77,77,77,0.2);}.related-wrapper-inner{position:relative;height:100%;z-index:99;width:100%;display:table;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;-moz-box-sizing:border-box;-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;box-sizing:border-box;}.related-wrapper .related-title{vertical-align:middle;display:table-cell;color:#ffffff;font:bold 16px &#39;Open Sans&#39;, sans-serif;padding:0 20px;}.related-date{margin-top:5px;font:italic 11px &#39;Open Sans&#39;, sans-serif;color:#999999;}
</style>

Next, we need to add the script  - search for the following line:

<b:includable id='postQuickEdit' var='post'>

Once you found it, click the small arrow not beside it but with one level above to expand code and scroll down until you see </b:includable> - right below this tag, you should see the line including the "postQuickEdit" id.

See the screenshot for more help:

Just ABOVE the </b:includable> tag, add the following script:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div class='related-posts-container' id='related-posts-widget'/>
<div style='clear: both;'/>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var labelArray = [<b:if cond='data:post.labels'><b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>&quot;<data:label.name/>&quot;<b:if cond='data:label.isLast != &quot;true&quot;'>,</b:if></b:loop></b:if>];
var relatedSettings = {
blogURL:&quot;<data:blog.homepageUrl/>&quot;,
relatedHeading:&quot;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span&gt;Related Posts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&quot;,
relatedPosts:4,
relatedStyle:4,
thumbnailSize:&quot;w300-h200-p-nu&quot;,
defaultThumb:&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1F7_8dIkcsAcjwFnma6m_8E9rubtadTBMnIWXZEK-xblEAzmyMGAWjJs21WyJuqmUNFsNdjNBChTIFTMKWokBJSsHSQRLIYJHWteijVVTOGTHZgZHLKf-0TNGT44BB6F8YkvVvdRglZI/300-h200-c/no-thumb.png&quot;,
roundThumbs:false,
titleLength:&quot;auto&quot;,
snippetLength:45,
centerText:false,
openNewTab:false
};</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
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//]]>
</script>
</b:if>

How to Customize the Related Posts Widget for Blogger?

To change the 'Related Posts' text that appears above the widget, modify the text in red:

relatedHeading: &quot;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span&gt;Related Posts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&quot;,

To change the number of posts to display, change the '4' value from this line:

relatedPosts: 4,

Note: you may need to change the percentages in the CSS styles above in order to make posts fit the related container. Just follow the values in red and play with them until you get the best results.

To change the style of the related posts widget, modify the '4' value from:

relatedStyle: 4,

Available Related Posts Styles

1. simple related posts widget that will show post titles only
2. display post titles and snippets
3. display post thumbnails, titles and snippets
4. display related posts thumbnails, titles and post date (shows by default)
5. display related posts thumbnails and titles
6. post titles in front of thumbnails, instead of having them below the thumbnail
7. display thumbnails only
8. small thumbnail with titles on the right and date below
9. small thumbnails with post titles and excerpts on the right

Customizing the Related Post Thumbnail Size & Style

By default, thumbnails are resized and cropped automatically to be 300px wide by 200px tall. If you want to change the width and height of the thumbnails, modify the '300' and '200' values from:

thumbnailSize: &quot;w300-h200-p-nu&quot;,
defaultThumb: &quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1F7_8dIkcsAcjwFnma6m_8E9rubtadTBMnIWXZEK-xblEAzmyMGAWjJs21WyJuqmUNFsNdjNBChTIFTMKWokBJSsHSQRLIYJHWteijVVTOGTHZgZHLKf-0TNGT44BB6F8YkvVvdRglZI/300-h200-c/no-thumb.png&quot;,

Note: 'w' comes from width, 'h' comes from height. To make the thumbnails square, change the 'h' (height) value and make it equal with 'w' (width) value. A higher value will result in more high-res images.

If you want thumbnails have rounded corners, change 'false' with 'true':

roundThumbs:false,

Customizing Related Titles & Excerpts

To shorten the post title, change auto with the number of characters to show:

titleLength: &quot;auto&quot;,

To reduce or add more characters to the snippets, change the "45" value:

snippetLength: 45,

If you want to center text (title and summary), change 'false' to 'true':

centerText:false,

To open links in a new tab when visitors click on a related post, change "false" to "true":

openNewTab: false

Once you're done with the settings, click the 'Save Template' button and now you can see the related posts widget live on your Blogger blog.

Final words

That's it! With the new customizable Related Posts widget for Blogger you will be able to add unique features to the related content section of your blog. However, all of these styles look and work slightly different, so take your time, and pick your favorite.

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How To Get Approved Adsense Account With Blogger

I have shared many ad networks for publishers along with whole method of how to sign up, implementation of ads and boosting earnings but today I am going to share something most amazing and searched by bloggers and other publishers, its Google Adsense. It doesn't need any intro everyone is aware of Google Adsense. The thing which is most liked by publishers is high rates and best services which makes Adsense on top of all ad networks and thats why all bloggers and other publishers wish to have approved adsense account to earn good money. But as its the best ad network it is strict too because it provides better services to its advertisers. It doesn't tolerate any violence against its policies in order to provide best services to both advertisers and publishers.

That's the reason why it strictly analysis sites to be approved. Especially in countries like India and China Adsense is very strict because many spammers get approved accounts by certain tricks and sell them for fast earnings. So its harder to get approved adsense account.

However with blogger it is a little bit easier to get an approved adsense account. Though it is called hosted adsense account but still its good if used with care(no policy violations). So in this post I am going to give u some tips to get an approved adsense account.

1. Blog/Website Traffic:

The first thing you need to focus is traffic. How much your daily traffic is? where it comes from? these are the things which matter in case of traffic. Every ad network pay good when you have good traffic but adsense pay much higher rates even your traffic is not too huge but organic. So you need to focus on traffic of your blog.

Steps to improve blog traffic:

Search Engine Optimization:

Improve your traffic by optimizing your blog for search engines to get real unique views.

1. Add meta tags to your blog
2. Enable search description for every post
3. Use best keywords that match your content
4. Optimize blog title
5. Use webmaster tools - BING, GOOGLE, YANDEX.

Social Sources For Traffic:

Get your site shared on social networks for example in facebook groups, Google communities, Twitter, reddit, stumbleupon.

Guest blogging:

Write posts in other blogs and get backlink from them. It will drive some traffic to your site and give u backlinks too.

2. Search Ranking And Social Profiles.

Improve your search rankings and create social profiles and share every post of you on your social profiles. To improve search engines rank built quality backlinks and focus on seo.

3. Content:

Google like text posts more then just images. It doesn't mean that you start writing long and long posts that once read by a person would never come back to your site, he will search for short, meaningful posts. Too long post are not liked by people so write a great content and meaningful content no matter its not long. Google emphasizes more on meaningful content rather than on long content, here is the statement that google always use:

"Write a content that is meaningful so that people have a reason to visit your site"

So above statement clears that your content shouldn't be long but meaningful so that it could be good enough to bring visitors to your blog.

One more question that many Adsense appliers ask is how many posts should I write to get my Adsense account approved and the answer is simple, you don't need to write 200 or 500 post and all should be long stories, absolutely not. You can get your Adsense account approved even with 50-80 posts but your posts should be meaningful enough to receive traffic. So its all about traffic!

Content that is prohibited by Google:

1. Pornography/Adult content.
2. Illegal content e.g drugs.
3. Hacking content.
4. Violent content.
5. Copied content from other sites.

4. Site/Blog design:

1. Loading speed:

Make your site load fast because it is a part of user experience. If user experience is not good you can't get Adsense approved!

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2. Navigation:

It is also recommended to have a good navigation so that visitor could easily find what he's looking for. A floating menu and search box would be a good choice!

3. User experience:

Keep focus on user experience, your site design shouldn't disturb the visitor. For example any pop-up that pops up again and again or alot of slideouts asking for email subscriptions.

Mobile site should also be free of such things which affects user experience specially pop-ups. If your mobile site have pop-ups remove them as soon as possible otherwise Google is going to penalize your site.

Beware of Google's mobile site pop-up penalty

5. Third party ads:

You don't need to remove all your third party ads and lose whatever you have earned. Though you need to remove all the ads when you are applying for adsense and once approved you can install the ads back but these ads should be compatible with Adsense!

Pop-up ads should be removed before applying to Adsense and you can't install them after approval otherwise your Adsense account will get banned because Google hates pop up ads.

6. Comply With Google AdSense Policies:

Your site should comply with Google Adsense policies. According to Google Adsense policies:

1. Your content should be legal(no pornography, no violent content, no gambling content etc).

2. Your site should not violate any copyright policies(copy paste content).

3. Traffic sources of your site should not include PTC sites, Fake traffic from any software or traffic exchange sites, Traffic from unsolicited mass emails.

Read more at https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/48182?hl=en

7. Important Pages:

Your blog should have pages like contact pages, privacy policy, disclaimer, about, sitemap.

Conclusion

With all the above things you will get your adsense account approved. In case of failure don't lose hope try again after some time but keep in mind that without good traffic e.g minimum 400 views per day you can't get adsense approved and if you get adsense approved with low traffic by some trick then it will not be good because you won't get aby benefit of it because you would not have any real traffic and thats why you will not earn good.

Also an adsense account got approved with tricks will be more prone get banned. So avoid these things!

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Add Load More Posts or Infinite Scrolling to Blogger

You might have seen the implementation of infinite scrolling at Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Instead of showing Older / Newer posts links, we can load posts dynamically whenever a "Load more posts" button is clicked, or by scrolling down the page. This tutorial will show you how to implement Ajax based loading script that will add Load More Posts or Infinite Scrolling to Blogger, so that visitors can easily navigate without reloading the page.

How it works?

- You have the option to add a 'Load More Posts' button or load automatically the older posts as visitors scroll down the page.
- Once implemented, Load More Posts / Infinite Scrolling applies to all Blogger posts on index pages (homepage, archive, label pages). It can't be added on individual posts.

Demo

To see it live, check out the demo below. When you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will see the "Load More Posts" button. Once you click it, the next 3 posts set to display will load below.

Demo

Adding Load More Posts or Infinite Scrolling to Blogger

1. Log into your Blogger account and click on your blog where you want to add it.
2. Go to 'Theme' and click the 'Edit HTML' button to open the Template editor > click anywhere in the code area and press CTRL + F keys (or Command + F) to open the search box.

3. Type the tag below in the search box and press ENTER to find it:

</body>

4. Just above the </body> tag, add the script below:

a. If you want to load posts with 'Load More Posts' button like in the demo blog, add this script:

<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.0/jquery.min.js'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;static_page&quot;'><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
function resizeThumb(e,n){for(var t=document.getElementById(e).getElementsByTagName("img"),a=0;a<t.length;a++)t[a].src=t[a].src.replace(/\/s72\-c/,"/s"+n+"-c")}window.labelfx=function(){var e=function(e){var n=e||{},t=n.url_blog||window.location.host,a=n.id_labelcontent||"#labelfxn";$.ajax({url:"http://"+t+"/feeds/posts/summary?max-results=0&alt=json-in-script",type:"get",dataType:"jsonp",success:function(e){var n=e.feed.category,t="";if(void 0!==n){t="<ul class='labelx'>";for(var i=0;i<n.length;i++)t+='<li><a href="/search/label/'+encodeURIComponent(n[i].term)+'" target="_blank">'+n[i].term+"</a></li>";t+="</ul>",$(a).html(t)}else $(a).html("<span>No Label!</span>")},error:function(){$(a).html("<strong>Error Loading Feed!</strong>")}})};return function(n){e(n)}}(),resizeThumb("main",250),labelfx(),function(e){function n(n){e.getScript("http://"+n+".disqus.com/blogger_index.js")}function t(){s||(s=!0,o?(r.find("a").hide(),r.find("img").show(),e.ajax(o,{dataType:"html"}).done(function(t){var a=e("<div></div>").append(t.replace(l,"")),i=a.find("a.blog-pager-older-link");i?o=i.attr("href"):(o="",r.hide());var p=a.find(d).children(".date-outer");e(d).append(p),resizeThumb("main",250),window._gaq&&window._gaq.push(["_trackPageview",o]),window.gapi&&window.gapi.plusone&&window.gapi.plusone.go&&window.gapi.plusone.go(),window.disqus_shortname&&n(window.disqus_shortname),window.FB&&window.FB.XFBML&&window.FB.XFBML.parse&&window.FB.XFBML.parse(),window.twttr&&window.twttr.widgets&&window.twttr.widgets.load&&window.twttr.widgets.load(),r.find("img").hide(),r.find("a").show(),s=!1})):r.hide())}function a(){if("item"!=_WidgetManager._GetAllData().blog.pageType&&(o=e("a.blog-pager-older-link").attr("href"))){var n=e('<a class="loadpost" href="javascript:;" style="text-decoration:none;font:11px Open Sans, sans-serif;letter-spacing:1px;padding:10px 20px;background:#000000;color:#ffffff;">LOAD MORE POSTS</a>');n.click(t);var a=e('<img src="'+i+'" style="display: none;">');(r=e('<div style="display:block;text-align:center;margin:20px auto;"></div>')).append(n),r.append(a),r.insertBefore(e("#blog-pager")),e("#blog-pager").hide()}}var i="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCKC-L6wUL35995rCsOBtr2CgMIRKA-Mg7hi0MTVuUzqSMrdXZDtN0kNilq-tpxlmw_MrHRTG7XTVMNK9efjzZ1NGd5jXa5OpkiwjVBkoIj261-fyRJ23xptbkImBEzVKVGZebGtlRODf/s1600/loader.gif",o="",r=null,d="div.blog-posts",s=!1,l=(e(window),e(document),/<script\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/script>)<[^<]*)*<\/script>/gi);e(document).ready(a)}(jQuery);
//]]>
</script>
</b:if></b:if>

b. If you want to add the infinite scrolling without button, paste this instead:

<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.0/jquery.min.js'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;static_page&quot;'><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>
<style type="text/css">.status-msg-wrap{display:none;}</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
!function(i){function e(e){i.getScript("http://"+e+".disqus.com/blogger_index.js")}function t(){g||(g=!0,r?(w.find("a").hide(),w.find("img").show(),i.ajax(r,{dataType:"html"}).done(function(t){var n=i("<div></div>").append(t.replace(c,"")),o=n.find("a.blog-pager-older-link"),d=n.find(s).children();i(s).append(d),window._gaq&&window._gaq.push(["_trackPageview",r]),window.gapi&&window.gapi.plusone&&window.gapi.plusone.go&&window.gapi.plusone.go(),window.disqus_shortname&&e(window.disqus_shortname),window.FB&&window.FB.XFBML&&window.FB.XFBML.parse&&window.FB.XFBML.parse(),window.twttr&&window.twttr.widgets&&window.twttr.widgets.load&&window.twttr.widgets.load(),o?r=o.attr("href"):(r="",w.hide()),w.find("img").hide(),w.find("a").show(),g=!1})):w.hide())}function n(){return Math.max(p.height(),l.height(),document.documentElement.clientHeight)}function o(){n()-(p.scrollTop()+p.height())<150&&t()}function d(){if("item"!=_WidgetManager._GetAllData().blog.pageType&&(r=i("a.blog-pager-older-link").attr("href"))){var e=i('<a href="javascript:;">Load more posts</a>');e.click(t);var n=i('<img src="'+a+'" style="display: none;">');p.scroll(o),(w=i('<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 150%;"></div>')).append(e),w.append(n),w.insertBefore(i("#blog-pager")),i("#blog-pager").hide()}}var a="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCKC-L6wUL35995rCsOBtr2CgMIRKA-Mg7hi0MTVuUzqSMrdXZDtN0kNilq-tpxlmw_MrHRTG7XTVMNK9efjzZ1NGd5jXa5OpkiwjVBkoIj261-fyRJ23xptbkImBEzVKVGZebGtlRODf/s1600/loader.gif",r="",w=null,s="div.blog-posts",g=!1,p=i(window),l=i(document),c=/<script\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/script>)<[^<]*)*<\/script>/gi;i(document).ready(d)}(jQuery);
//]]>
</script>
</b:if></b:if>

Note: This code uses jQuery library, so if you already have jQuery on your page, please remove the line in red highlighted above.

5. Click 'Save template' button and check the 'Load More Posts' button / Infinite Scrolling in your Blogger blog.

Conclusion

That's it! So this is how we can easily add Load More Posts / Infinite Scrolling to Blogger. From now on, our visitors can stay in same page and navigate through infinite number of posts on the fly!

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