This Quick-Tip describes the alerts that Webmaster Tools are now offering for changes in search popularity of particular pages. Google Webmaster Tools have added to their alerts features. Basically, this means that they try to notice the ch…
This Quick-Tip is about accessing your own YouTube videos, using Google's Takeout / Data-liberation service. If you upload a video using the Blogger Post Editor's video icon, then it's stored in Google Videos - which is now retired …
This Quick-Tip is about how to see the posts you made in Google Groups - in particular in the Blogger Product Forum. I used to be quite active in the previous Blogger Help Forum. Â But since they switched to the new Google Groups based Blogger…
This Quick-Tip is about the products that Google is dropping, or making changes to, from October 2012. Google's latest announcement about retiring products came out yesterday (Saturday).  Seems odd that they're calling it "spr…
This Quick-Tip is about an issue that some people have had with their "naked" custom domain not re-directing to the www-at-the-start version, and how to fix it using a feature in your Google Apps account. Since Blogger released their in…
This Quick-Tip is about using the Creative Kit, which has been giving me grief recently when I tried to use it from Picasa-web-albums. Sept 2013 update: Â Creative Kit has now been totally discontinued. Â Use either Picasa-web-albums or th…
This Quick-Tip is about Google Docs / Drive's new short-cut buttons for making a new document, spreadsheet or presentation - and how you can install them into your blog. Google have announced that one-click icons to create a Document, Spre…
This quick tip describes an announcement from Google about an upcoming simplified process for applying to use AdSense on Blogger or Hubpages. New simpler AdSense application process Google AdSense have announced  that from today there is …
This article shows Blogger users, who have purchased a domain through Google Apps using domainDiscount24 (dd24.com), how to set up the 2nd CNAME statement that is needed by  Blogger's custom-domain verification step. Most of the informati…
This article explains how you can use Blogger to make a site that looks just like any other website and why you might, sometimes, want to do this. Blogs vs Websites Some people are very happy to use Blogger to make a blog, that is, websi…
This article discusses the issues of giving your blog a home page, and how this works for people using mobile devices. Previously I've described the options for giving your blog a "home page" , and also how and why to enable …
This quick tip is about a new feature that AdSense have just announced, which lets you control the types of ads that are banned - by website, instead of just for your entire AdSense account. For a long time, I've recommended that Blogger-us…
This Quick Tip is about Google+ Communities, and the ways you could use them to promote your blog. Google+ has launched Communities - their equivalent of Facebook's Groups. If you  want to be a market-leader in your field then you m…
This Quick Tip describes a new rule that AdSense is introducing to their terms and conditions, about how often the new 300x600 ad unit can be used on a single page. Recently AdSense introduced two new sizes of ad-unit, the 300x600 Large Skyscra…
This quick-tip is about Google's winter 2012 product cancellations, which appear to have less impact on most Blogger users than their recent seasonal purges. Today, Google have announced their next round of discontinued products - they u…
This article describes the Creative Commons search tool, which you can use to look for pictures, videos, music etc that are available for other people to use under a Creative Commons license. What is Creative Commons Previously I've de…
This quick-tip is about the Webmaster Tools Tool Data Validator tool - which is an easier way to "teach" Google about the way things are described on your blog or website. Recently, Google announced a new feature in Webmaster Tools …
This quick-tip is about removing the coloured section that is in the background in Blogger's Travel template. Recently, I've been using the Travel template a lot: Â it just seems to line things up more sharply on the page. Today I no…
This article describes Blogger's share-to-Google+ feature, and shows how to stop Blogger offering to share to your Google + circles every time you publish a new post, and what you cannot (yet) do with the feature. Automatically updating …
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