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how to customize blog tag cloud

                    If your blog is success in heavy traffic there is a secret behind it.it is called as "tags".All your posts in blog are grouped & arranged by their tags to find them easily for visitors.And the other thing ,visitors will stay on your blog if posts arranged well by their tags.Since, the default Labels Widget of Blogger Platform does not have a clean and elegant look. Therefore, we have to customize it with the help of CSS.

See here the difference between the old tag cloud and the customized   tag cloud.



How to customize the Tag cloud 

   follow the below steps carefully.
  • Go to Blogger Dashboard >>Add a gadget >> Tag
  • Now customize the gadget settings as below screen shot.

                 select display settings as "cloud"
       then uncheck the Show number of posts per label.





             then get ready to customize the tag cloud which you added.
  • Go to blogger dashboard >> Template 
  • Don't forget to backup your template before make any changes on html.
  • Then Edit HTML >> search for the ]]></b:skin> (press ctrl+F and paste that code in to the search box )
copy & paste below code above ]]></b:skin> 



To Change the Hover Color Replace #ff0; with any color according to the desire needs.
To increase/decrease the font size replace 14px according to your needs.

Now save the template.

Related Posts Widget For Blogger / Blogspot


Related posts widget is very important for a blog, because it increases the number of page views and also help the visitor to view other posts related to blog. Now here is wonderful trick to display links to related posts beneath each posts. At their blogs today there are many types of related post widget, and related items thumbnail images using HTML, Java script, etc. .. Here I will show a method that is easy to show install.It only title jQuery.It related post widget will look like a picture below.




How To Add Related Posts Widget For Blogger


I have seen few who are showing the Related Posts Widget of posts below their posts. It’s also a good script placement which can increase your pageviews.

To add the code , just follow the above instructions.


I have to write two set of instructions for each steps, as some of you are using the default layout, and some of you are using the new layout.Backup your template before attempting this tutorial.

Step 1:



In old layout: Go to Dashboard - Design - Edit HTML - Expand Widget Templates.
In new layout: Go to Dashboard - Template - Edit Template HTML - Expand Widget Templates.

Now find (CTRL+F) this code in the template:


And immediately before it, paste this code:




2.Now find this line of code
If you cant find it then try finding this one


Now immediately after any of these lines(whichever you could find) place this code snippet





And now click Save Template 

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