how to customize popular posts widget blogger?

Now you can change the look of your Popular Posts Widget of your blogger blog to make it more stylish and attractive for your readers. You should use a Popular Posts Widget in the sidebar of your blog as there are so many advantages. And this widgets enables your visitors to read and learn those popular articles that are most trending on a blog or website. As Built-in Popular posts widget in blogger is not that much attractive and attention-grabbing in terms of designing and displaying of popular posts. So if you are interested and you wish to change your Popular Posts widget into a stylish widget then, you have to work on CSS Style sheets.Don't worry I will explain you the simple steps to do this. Most bloggers ask to change their popular posts widget so I am sharing the customization of this built-in widget. In this article, we will learn how to customize Popular Posts Widget to make it more attractive and stylish.

 How to add Popular Post Widgets in blogger?

If you have not used Popular Posts Widget before, So have a look to add this by default widget.Otherwise leave this step.
Before customize Popular Posts Widget you have to add your default Widget that is buit-in widget of your blogger template. So explaining you the simple steps to add this widget.

1. Go to Blogger account >> Select your blog >> Layout
2. Click on "Add Gadget" in the column you wish to use this widget
3. Select Popular Widget

Now you have installed a buit-in widget and next step is to customize this buit-in widget and make it more attractive for your readers.

We have successfully integrated a Popular Post widget on your blog

In built-in widget you can display up to 10 popular articles, but what I would recommend you, is to select only 7 as shown in this image

Now check the “Snippet” (optional) and “Image Thumbnail” because we are going to display images along the popular or trendy article, this will be more stylish and gonna make it more spice to your site.

 Customize the Popular Post Widget

Now you have already added a popular post widget and you wish to make it more spicy and attractive, then just follow these simple steps.

1. go to Blogger >> Template 
2. Now Select Edit HTML >> and then Proceed.

Now click on show widgets within your Template and  Search for "  ]]></b:skin> " you can use (CTRL+F ) to search this and just above it paste the following CSS Code shown below.

/*--- theTechCanvas --- */ .popular-posts ul{padding-left:0px;} .popular-posts ul li {background: #FFF url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUyaJ4_h4RBCBCdzH9ev0crh-pYhmXynxFmiB87EI-HQ29LPmQgoVku3fHA_qSJPeplZ4ndnfydmBsKNibT640sdj4AQbP5I35jvJwzomYVxq-HflbPLulgYiGfS0xHoT6cCu5BFdswz0/s1600/1.gif) no-repeat scroll 5px 10px; list-style-type: none; margin:0 0 5px 0px; padding:5px 5px 5px 20px !important; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius:10px; -moz-border-radius:10px; -webkit-border-radius:10px; } .popular-posts ul li:hover { border:1px solid #6BB5FF; } .popular-posts ul li a:hover { text-decoration:none; } .popular-posts .item-thumbnail img { webkit-border-radius: 100px; -moz-border-radius: 100px; border-radius: 100px; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4); -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4); box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4); }

Save the template and You have successfully customized your Popular Post Widget. Now see the changes in your blogger. Its more stylish and your trendy posts are appearing very attractive.

This will surely be liked by your visitors and definitely it will increase the number of your readers .
Enjoy your blogging with this customization and subscribe us to get our posts through your email.

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How to check pagerank? Google Toolbar

Bloggers mostly ask one of the most common questions that how they find the page rank of their blogs/website according to Google. So this article will explain you about the tools which shows you the pagerank of your blog or website.

Thes Page Rank tool help us to determine the page rank of your blog and website and it also help us to find which sites are more popular and can be appeared on google search engine on the top position of search result.

Google Page Rank is calculated by google formula and its a scale from 1 to 10 according to the quality of your blog. The higher the page rank more popular is the site.

There are many websites available that provide services to check your blog/website pagerank. One of them is the PageRank Checker. You can also find this site on the search engines by keyword pagerank checker. To get a more accurate result to check your  pagerank, then you have another option that is Google Toolbar . This tool is (google pagerank) may be placed on the internet browser you are using i.e Google chrome, Internet Explorer,mozilla firefox, Opera etc. I use mozilla firefox because this browsers is easy to use and have number of tools.
To find your pagerank in mozilla firefox, download the Google Toolbar and select what features would you look at your browser.

And you have to restart your browser after installing the Google Toolbar.

To learn about pagerank and important values ​​of google pagerank of blogs/website pages as they appear, you stay hovering over the green diagram shown in the below image will show the pagerank of website pages that you have currently opend.

You are now using Google toolbar so you don't have to worry about the accuracy as its a Google Toolbar. And especially it was published rumors on the internet about pagerank forgery.

So Check your blog pagerank accurately!

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content is king (Google loves fresh and unique content)

As we all know that google is the most popular search engine in the world. Every one search everything in google. So if you have a blog or website and you want to get a good search engine ranking then you need to have fresh and unique content on your blog/website because google does not prefer quantity but quality.
So write well and unique so that your page rank as well as your search engine ranking can be better.

 Use internal linking :

When you write your post link the keywords which are related to your already published posts. It increases your internal linking which is also the part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). And it will increase your pagerank and quality of your content.

For example MyTrickWays can be used like MyTrickWays

 Upload Images in your own blog or website :

Most of the time we just use the links of images which are uploaded in different server. But don't do this! It shows the poor quality of your post content. And it also increases the loading time of your page. As the browser has to collect the data(images and Content) from the different servers and it takes more time than taken by same server (Ex- Blogger.com). So upload all the images of your posts on your own server to minimize the time of loading your page by the browser and to make your content better and get a good page rank as well as good search engine ranking.

 Unique and fresh content gives you ultimate traffic :

If you have good quality content then no one can stop to give you traffic. So the content is the main thing one should keep in mind who loves blogging.

Nothing matters more than quality content of your post.

So you must keep in mind three things while writing your posts. And these are :

Quality content, Quality content  and Only Quality of content!

Because Content Is King.

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How To Upload Template In Blogger? 3 Simple steps!

 How To Upload Template In Blogger?

You have a blog! And you are thinking that is it possible to design a blog like a very attractive website?
Then Blogger has an option for customization of your blogs by installing templates.
You can choose any templates from hundreds of templates available in many websites.

 Where to download blogger template ?

There are many websites from where you can download blogger templates such as:
Btemplates.com, TemplatesDoctor.com etc.
Now this article will explain you the steps to install and upload your template which you have downloaded from one of the above or any website.

 Step 1: Go to Template as shown in image :

 Step 2: Click on "Backup/restore" :

 Step 3: Choose File to upload your downloaded template : 

Before uploading your new template you should download your existing template so that you can again upload that template in future without any customization.

So these were the simple steps to upload and install any template you like. I hope you have learnt the way of uploading templates in blogger and make your blog attractive just like a big website.Video tutorials will also be published later.

Enjoy your blogging and keep visiting MyTrickWays.com. 

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how to import blogger posts into wordpress? very simple steps!

If you have created a blog on wordpress platform of the existing topic which you are having on blogger platform. Then don't worry at all! This article expalin you very simple steps to import your all blogger posts into your new wordpress posts.
And You just need to do this process as early as possible after creating your wordpress blog so that your posts will be linked back into wordpress blog and remain listed in search engines.

Step 1: Go to your WP-admin Panel >> Tools >> Import

Step 2: Click on the button shown in this image " blogger "

Step 3: Give the Authorization to wordpress to grant access !

You just give the permission to WordPress to access your existing Blogger account by click on the button shown here “Authorize”.

Step 3: Now click on " grant access "

When you have granted the permission to wordpress to access your blogger account, you are now able to find a list of all the blogs of your certain Blogger account which is currently singed in. 

Step 3: import the one of your blogs listed here!

As shown in above image there are many blogs listed. These are the list of your blogs attached to your blogger account. 

You Just import that perticular blog which you want to import to WordPress by pressing “IMPORT” button shown in the right side of above image.Give the admin rights after the blog is completely imported into your wordpress account .

So you have imported all your blogger posts into wordpress.

I hope you have enjoyed and understood the way of importing.

Enjoy blogging!!

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