real quick. Well first off they introduced some new looks
to Blogger, and over on the top left hand side
you'll see where you can scroll through the different
views you can have on a Blogger blog. Now this is
sort of replacing templates, or what we know as
themes on WordPress. And one of the things about
it is that you're not having a sidebar anymore. So you're
not seeing all of the banner ads and so forth
on the Blogger blogs if you use any of these new
looks. So right now I have the Classic look -- and
that's the Flipcard -- here's the Magazine style,
which as you know with a magazine style, they always
other article recently published that you can
choose from to browse -- Mozaic, which for me
was more like a hodge-podge, I'm not that much
of a fan of this one because, you don't really get
to see the full titles until you hove and to me
that one was a little confusing, but it depends upon
the kind of blog you have. If you have an art blog,
photography blog that would probably be perfect. Now this is called Sidebar and in the sidebar
you're just seeing the list of the recent posts.
This is a nice look too. Because this way somebody doesn't
have to scroll down you're whole blog in order
to see you're recent posts.
Snapshot is another one, and that's kind of a fun
look, once again people can't see the titles. They're
only seeing the image that you have in your post
so if you don't have any images in your post, this
might not be the way to go. Timeslide, this is very similar to the Magazine
style, and it also gives you a list of your recent
posts, over on the sidebar.
I'm going to go back to the Classic view, that seems
to be the one that's working for me. Although the Sidebar one was a little interesting
as well - let's try that again. Yeah, I do like the fact that you can see
all of the other posts there.
So, as I mentioned, you lost the ability to have
any of your banner ads or anything over in your
sidebar, but you still have AdSense! And let me show you how that works.
Head over to your dashboard and just click on
this little icon here, and you're going to see one
that says Earnings. And in your Earning area you'll see where
you can sign up for AdSense. This is where you're
going to connect your AdSense account to your Blogger blog.
And after you've made that connection you'll see that you have a choice of having AdSense
on your blog. You can either show the ads or not.
Or you can show AdSense for your feeds. So here's the options for AdSense on your blog
The sidebar and your posts or sidebar only or below your posts. I'm going to stick with
the default which is to display them in my sidebar and my posts. And we'll also insert
AdSense in my feed. That would be your RSS feed that people subscribe
for. And I think it's best to display the ads at the bottom.
At least let people read some of feed before they start
seeing AdSense, that's just my opinion. Now let's go back to the blog, and remember
that I choose the Sidebar view of my blog, and
you'll see there is another sidebar now, which has
the AdSense and at the bottom of my posts there's
also ads. One more thing, let's just go back to the
Classic look.
And you'll see in the Classic look, there is no sidebar
so, there's no ad there. And I know that one of my popular topics that
I always talked about is CommentLuv and
Intense Debate and I just wanted to let you know
that if you guys do decide to switch over to any of
these new looks with Blogger, you will no longer
have access to CommentLuv. So there is a down side to doing it this way.
But, if you're not concerned with that, and you
just want to have a different type of look and
feel to your blog, then go ahead and switch over
to one of the views that we just went through. And like I said, I'm going to stick with Sidebar,
that seems to be the one I want. In fact I think
I'll go back over to my AdSense settings and even
get rid of this ad that's over on the sidebar. But, there's all your choices that you have,
with the new looks in Blogger.
Hey and if you have any questions, just leave me a comment, and do me a favor.
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Thanks so much for joining me today. Once again, it's Ileane from Basic Blog Tips
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You guys take care and I'll talk to you soon. Peace!!
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