Find Broken Links on Your Blog

Broken Links : If a link is deleted or changed after being created on a blog/website, clicking on the existing link will result in a 404 error page. These 404 error page links are known as broken links or dead links.

Problem with Broken links :

Broken links will not affect search engine rankings, but they may create problems for your blog visitors. Broken links can create a bad user experience. When a visitor clicks on a link or page of your blog and it shows a 404 error page, your blog visitor may be disappointed. Do not disappoint your blog readers because if they get disappointed, they may not return to your blog again. Therefore, try to find broken links on your blog and fix them as soon as possible to ensure a good user experience.

The best solutions for broken links are -

Finding the broken links on your blog and removing those links from your blog.
Preventing search engines from following broken links on your blog.
Redirecting broken pages to the home page using 404 error redirection.

These three solutions are the best ways to fix broken links on a blog. We have already discussed redirecting from a page not found error page to the home page of your blog. To fix the broken links of your Blogger blog, you first need to find them. In this post, we will discuss how to find broken links on your Blogger blog, and later we will discuss how to fix them.

How to find broken links on your Blogger blog :

Broken links are generally created if we change the Permalink structure of a blog or by deleting unwanted posts on your blog. You can find broken links using broken link checker tools and by using webmaster tools (now called Google Search Console). One of the best ways to find broken links on your Blogger blog is by using Google Search Console. If you don't have a Google Search Console account, first create one and add your blog. We have already discussed how to use Google Search Console and how to submit a sitemap to Google Search Console.

Follow below steps to find out broken links on your blog

Step 1 : Sign in to Google Webmaster Tool( Google Search Console).

Step 2 : Select your blog in the webmaster tool.

Step 3 : On the left side, click on Crawl and click on Crawl Errors.

Step 4 : Next click on Not found box under URL Errors.

Step 5 : Now it will list all broken links of your Blogger blog.

Like this, you can find out broken links on your Blogger blog using Google Search Console. You can also check for broken links using broken link checker tools.

List of tools to check for broken links on your blog.

Brokenlinkcheck
Linktiger

How to Add AdBrite Ads to Blogger

AdBrite is an alternative to AdSense that can also generate decent income. It's a good option to consider if your AdSense account has been banned or if you don't have an AdSense account. Additionally, it's a good idea to explore alternative ways to earn money with your Blogger blog using AdSense alternatives. In this post, I will show you how to add AdBrite code to your Blogger blog.

How to add adbrite ad code to your Blogger blog :

Adding AdBrite code to your Blogger blog is just as easy as adding Chitika ad code. However, it can be difficult to get accepted by AdBrite. If your blog receives a good amount of traffic, it will be easier to get accepted by AdBrite. To begin, sign up for an AdBrite publishing account and obtain the ad code. Once you have the AdBrite ad code, you can add it to your Blogger blog using an HTML/JavaScript widget.

How to get AdBrite ad code :

Go to SiteScout website.

Click on Sign Up

Enter all details and click on Start Using SiteScout.

Follow all instructions and get ad code.

Follow below steps to add AdBrite ad code to Blogger blog easily.

Step 1 : Go to Blogger Dashboard

Step 2 : Click on Layout

Step 3 : Click on Add a Gadget

Step 4 : Select HTML/JavaScript widget

Step 5 : Paste AdBrite code on widget configuration window and click on Save.

Congratulations, you have successfully added the AdBrite code to your Blogger blog. You can use this same process to add any advertising ad code to your Blogger blog.

Change Line Spacing in blogger blog

Line spacing in Blogger blog:
We can change font size and line height in Blogger blog. With the help of this post you can change the line spacing of your blog posts in Blogger.

How to Change Line Spacing in Blogger blog :

Step 1 : Go to Dashboard

Step 2 : Click on Template

Step 3 : Click on Edit HTML

Step 4 : Search for .post-body in the Template HTML code

.post-body{
font-size: 100%;
line-height: 1.6;
position: left;
}

Adjust the line-height attribute value in the above code to increase or decrease the line spacing in your Blogger blog posts.

Step 5: Click on Save Template.

How to Backup Blogger Blog

Not only for Blogger blogs, backup is necessary for all blogs and websites. In this post I would like to show you how to backup your Blogger blog. Before going to do any changes in your Blogger template, you have to create backup of your Blogger blog. Because if any error occur while doing changes on your Blogger template, then you can restore your blog template with backup file. We can create backup of Blogger blog template and blog posts.

Why back up your Blogger blog is important :

To customize/optimize blogs, some times we need to edit Blogger blog template code. So some times you may get error while editing blog template code and if you can't handle that error then you can simply restore your blog template with XML backup file. suppose your blog was deleted by you (or it will happen unexpectedly) and if you didn't restore your blog with in 90 days then your blog will be deleted permanently, so it is better to keep back up your Blogger blog. Backup all your widget codes and export all your posts in blog.

How to backup your Blogger blog :

It really very simple to create a backup of your Blogger blog. When compared to WordPress, creating Blogger blog backup is simple. Blogger providing an option like Export blog to download all your blog with an XML file. To restore your Blogger blog, use Import blog option and upload the backup XML file.

Follow the below steps to backup your Blogger blog easily.

Step 1 : Go to Blogger Dashboard

Step 2 : Click on settings

Step 3 : Click on others

Step 4 : Under Blog tools click on Export blog

Step 5 : Click on Download Blog

With above simple steps you can easily crate a backup of your Blogger blog.

Add Different Meta Tags to Individual Blogger Posts

Meta Tags : Meta tags are simply HTML tags that allow you to include a meta description (a summary of your blog or post content) and keywords (similar to tags in WordPress) on your Blogger blog post. While WordPress has plugins that make it easy to add meta tags, Blogger doesn't have the same plugins or widgets.

Adding meta tags to a Blogger blog post can be somewhat challenging compared to WordPress, but it is still possible. In a previous post, we discussed how to add meta tags to a Blogger blog. In this post, I'll show you how to add meta tags to your specific Blogger blog post.

The Importance of Meta Tags for Blog Posts:

Meta tags describe what a page actually contains. This is why they are useful for search engines to understand your blog. They help search engines crawl your blog more frequently and index your blog pages/posts more easily.

How to Add Meta Tags to Individual Blogger Posts :

To add meta tags to your Blogger blog, you just need to add a small code to your Blogger template. Adding meta tags code to your Blogger is not difficult. Once you've added meta tags to your Blogger blog, you can also add them to individual blog posts.

Follow below steps to add meta tags to individual posts in Blogger :

Step 1 : Go to your Blogger Dashboard

Step 2 : Click on Template

Step 3 : Click on Edit HTML

Step 4 : Search for below code in your template code

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

Add below code, just below to the above code

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "URL link of your post"'>

</b:if>

Changes you have to do :

Replace URL link of your post in the above code with the URL of your Blogger post

Replace DESCRIPTION with the description of your blog post.

Replace KEYWORDS with keywords that are related to the content of your blog post.

Step 5 : Click on Save template

This is how you can add meta tags to individual blog posts on your Blogger. However, if your blog has 10 posts, you'll need to paste the above code 10 times into your blog template as explained in Step 4. If you don't want to go through this process and just want to add a meta description to your Blogger posts, you can use the Search Description feature to add a meta description to each individual blog post on your Blogger.

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