How to Change the Width of Blogger Blogs

Modifying the Width of Your Blogger Blog

Here is a quick step by step tutorial on how to change the width of your Blogger Blog.  It will show you how to change the standard template so that the width is the same as this blog. This basically entails 4 things. First you increase the width of the Outer Wrapper and then you increase the width of the Header and then the two columns inside the outer wrapper. This would be the Post column and then the Sidebar column. Lastly you increase the width of your Footer.

Full tutorial here.

Submit Your Blog to Google, Yahoo and Other Search Engines

Submit your blog url to Google at: Add your URL to Google.

A better idea is to add a Google sitemap to your blog. Go to Adding Google sitemap to your blog to learn how.

You may also submit your blog to Google Base and include a link back to your blog.

You may also submit your url to Yahoo! search for free at http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

For submission to MSN, go to MSN url submission.

Generally it is not necessary to submit your url to search engines nowadays as eventually the search engine will crawl your blog. There is no harm in submitting though. A faster way to do it is to get a link from websites that are already indexed by the search engines as they will automatically follow the links to crawl sites that are linked there. If you don't know anybody who can link you, you can submit your website to blog directories. An easy one to submit to will be My Blog Directory (it is already indexed). Just go to the bottom of the directory and click "Add your blog". (You may want to read more about how My Blog Directory may help you get some extra traffic to your site. Go to "How to make a blog directory for your blog". Other blog directories you can submit to are Blogwise, BlogCatalogue, Bloggernity, BlogFlux, GlobeOfBlogs. You may also "claim" your blog at Technorati.

Rss to Blogger blog post

Here is a quick and easy way to take an RSS feed from a friend or a news site and post it on your blogger.com blog.

1) Enter the RSS feed URL in http://www.feedmyinbox.com

2) Enter your email to subsribe to the feed.

3) Setup your blog to update blog via Email.

Go to Settings ---> Email & Mobile --> Email Posting Address (Also known as Mail2Blogger).

4) Forward the mails from feedmyinbox.com to this email.

5) You are done.

Note: You may want to save the blog post as draft when updating via email.