Trackbacks in New Blogger.

Trackbacks are not implemented by Blogger which uses backlinks instead. See Pinging Simplified. Backlinks appear beneath your blog posts when someone mentions the permalink of your post on their blog. Permalinks are permanent links/URLs of your posts. For more information on permalinks see Linking to Another Article. To implement Trackbacks in Blogger you have to use another tool..........

If you want to respond to a post on a blog you can click 'Post a Comment' at the bottom and type in your response. That comment will be displayed below that post so that viewer's of that blog can read your comments. The author of that post will also read it and choose whether to respond to it or not with a return comment below your comment.


However, readers of your blog will never know whether or how that post inspired you. To inform your readers about this interesting post you choose to include an excerpt from it in your blog along with the permalink of that post. Now your readers can read the excerpt and if sufficiently interested will click on the permalink to visit that post and read it in full. But the author of that post will remain unaware that you have shown an interest in his/her post, unless your blogging software supports trackbacks.


If you have trackback support then that post is pinged and an excerpt of your post and the permalink to it will appear automatically at the foot of the source post. The owner can then visit your post and comment on it. This sets up 'conversations' throughout the blogosphere enriching and aiding the flow of ideas.


Blogger does not have trackbacks enabled so we have to use haloscan instead. For this goto Haloscan.com and register which is free. Then input your blogging username and password, click Next and choose which blog you wish to install it on. Backup your template and click Next and changes are made automatically to your template. Then login to Blogger and republish your blog.


To send a trackback publish your post in which you mention the post you are interested in and its permalink. Then login to Haloscan and click on "Send a Trackback Ping" tab. Fill the form and paste in the permalink of the source post as well as that of your post and submit. This will then appear below the source post if trackbacks have been enabled by the author.

Help Technorati Index Your Posts.

In Technorati for Bloggers I have described how to claim your blog at Technorati. Technorati is a specialized search engine for blogs. It indexes some 55 million blogs. There are two techniques to help Technorati index your blog......

POST TITLES

Technorati breaks up your weblog's home page into smaller sections such as posts and sidebars. You can help Technorati's spiders properly identify a unique post and its proper link destination by adding a link with a defined relationship of "bookmark" for each post. For example in the new blogger your post titles are shown by this code :


<a expr:name='data:post.id'/>
<b:if cond='data:post.title'>
<h3 class='post-title'>
<b:if cond='data:post.link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:post.title/>


To see this code login to Dashboard and click on Layouts. Click edit Html subtab at top and check the box to Expand Widgets Template. Scroll down in edit Template text box till you come to above code. In the above code locate this line :


<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>


and change it to the line below :


<a expr:href='data:post.url' rel='bookmark'><data:post.title/></a>


Save Template. Now your post title is a permalink as well as easily identifiable to the Technorati spiders.

TECHNORATI TAGS

A tag is a category name used to categorize your posts in the blog. To make Technorati tags for all your posts put a rel="tag" inside the link code. For example to put a technorati tag of Permalink include this code in the Edit Html tab of your post :


<a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/permalink" rel="tag">permalink</a>


You can do this without linking to technorati. For example :


<a href="http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2006/12/technorati-in-blogger-beta.html" rel="tag">Technorati</a>


Publish post after adding your tags. See bottom of this post where I have added them. After publishing post do not forget to ping Technorati to let them know that you have added content. See Pinging simplified or try a Multipinging Tool to inform multiple search engines in one go.

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Linking to Another Article in the New Blogger.

You can link your post to another article in the New Blogger. This is done when you are commenting on the other article or your blog post is about the other article......

In your blog post you will write about the other article and below the blog post you can show a link to the other article in case the blog reader after reading your post wishes to visit the other article to find out more about the topic. As an example I have linked this post to the original article in Classic Blogger Help section which describes how to use this link field in the old Blogger. Click on Related Article link below this post to see what I am talking about.

ENABLE LINK FIELD

First you will have to enable the Link Field in your blog. To do this go to Settings----->Formatting------>Scroll down to Show Link field-------->Yes------>Save Settings. This will enable the Link Field in the Post editor. See Picture below (Click on picture to enlarge it) :

INSERT CODE IN TEMPLATE

The next step will be to insert the code at the appropriate place in the template. To do this go to Template------->Edit Html------->Put a check in Expand Widgets Template box at the top of the Template text box.

Use Download Full template link to backup the template to PC before you make any changes to the Template.

Then scroll down in Edit Template text box till you come to the post footer part in the Blog Posts widget. You can place this code anywhere in the post footer. I have placed it below my labels.


<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'>
<span class='post-labels'>
<b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
<data:postLabelsLabel/>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>,</b:if>
</b:loop>
</b:if>

<b:if cond='data:post.link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.link'>Related Article</a>
</b:if>

</span>
</p>

The original code is in blue. Insert the new code in red. Preview and Save Template. View Blog. See Picture Below.

FILL IN THE LINK FIELD

Whenever you post to your blog about some other article on the web go to that web page in your browser. Copy its link from the address bar and paste it in the Link field in your Post Editor. It will then automatically appear at the foot of your blog post on publishing.



PERMALINK

Permalinks are "permanent links" to blog posts. For example the link to this blog is :

http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com

While the link or Permalink to this post is :

http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/01/linking-to-another-article-in-new.html

In the new blogger every one of your posts can live on it's very own page—its the ultimate permalink. In Classic Blogger first you have to enable post pages by goimg to Settings------->Archiving------->Enable Post Pages-------->Yes-------->Save Settings. Then you have to insert this code in your template to make titles into Permalinks :


<a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>" title="permanent link"><$BlogItemTitle$></a>


This is because in Classic Blogger each post does not reside on its own page/URL by default.

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