This Quick-tip is about how you can verify the website (or blog) associated with your Pinterest account - and solving a small problem with the meta-tag that Pinterest give you. Pinterest have recently announced Pinterest Web Analytics, which …
The "best" of the comments I'm never going to publish. Like many bloggers, I've noticed an increase in spam-comments over the last few months. And as a blog gets more popular, I guess it's naturally going to be found b…
This article is about how to stop the annoying email messages that Twitter sends when an acquaintance joins Twitter and decides that they think you should follow them there too. What happens if a "friend" invites to you follow th…
This quick-tip describes some tools that I've recently discovered that measure page-load speed and make suggestions about how to improve it. Google have said a number of times that page-load-speed (ie how quickly a visitor to your blog se…
This QuickTip is about finding the "expand widgets" option in Blogger's template editor. Today, Blogger Buzz announced a new version of the template editor . This is exciting in all sorts of ways, including that it implies t…
This article describes Google's Inactive Account Manager, a new tool that gives you control over what happens to your Google account if you don't log on to it for a period of time. Ages ago, I read a thought-provoking article on ProBlog…
This QuickTip shares a feature that I just noticed inside Blogger's Add-a-gadget > Adsense option. Previously I've mentioned that rather than using the AdSense gadget offered by Blogger's Add-a-Gadget wizard, I usually get ad-c…
This article is an introduction to Google's Maps Engine Lite, which is a tool for creating custom maps. What is Google Maps Engine Lite In late March 2013, Google announced a beta (ie late-stage test) of Maps Engine Lite - and now it …
This article describes options for making link to a blog's old URL automatically point to the blog's new URL after a custom domain change. If you have a blog made with Blogger which has a custom domain, then it's easy enough to swit…
This article is about setting up Google Analytics on your blog in a way that includes data for AdSense clicks and behaviour. Google Analytics and Blogger. Analytics is Google's tool for measuring website performance:   how many vi…
This QuickTip is about a change to AdSense's policies about modifying their ad code: in short, you are now allowed to change the code in certain way, to achieve certain things. AdSense have announced changes to their "Modifying ad co…
This QuickTip is about a file that Google Buzz is going to put into your Google Drive, as part of it's final turn-off routine, for all Buzz accounts that haven't yet been deleted. Google Buzz was one of Google's early-and-short-li…
This QuickTip introduces a useful post about password management from Google. Giving computer or password-management advice to people who don't have lot of experience with IT has always been challenging: there is a lot of background info…
This QuickTip is about how to access your existing Google Custom Maps, once you have started using the new Google Maps interface being introduced in mid 2013. Google is now offering the opportunity to migrate to new Google maps. Â (ref: http…
This QuickTip is about the new types of "things" which the Data Highlighter tool knows about. In December 2012, Google introduced the Data Highlighter (DH) - this is a tool that lets you point to items in your blog posts LINK and…
This post tells the story of my choosing a replacement for Google reader. Every so often, I do a post here on Blogger-HAT which is a little "different". Today, I'm starting the quest to choose a replacement for Google Reader…
This article shows how to install Facebook's Open Graph tags into Blogger Why Open Graph Neil Patel recently explained on Quick Sprout why having Facebook and Twitter tags installed into your blog is important . To cut his long story…
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