We’ve added socialize widget and hope it’s working properly after installation. Just reply comments here if anything goes wrong. Clik download button below to get this free cool blogger template in web 2.0 design.

You can download this template which is mirrored by us for your pleasure. This Sosuechtig Blogger template is very suitable for personal blog which talks about daily life. We added socialize widget injected inside the template.

So where do I start to find out such information? Nice question indeed. First you have to search information focused on your travel destination. Just an example, I want to write about traveling guide to Spain. So I have to find out what’s become Spain attraction. The easy step to start is telling about things a visitor can do in Spain such: Visiting the Alhambra in Granada, seeing Frank Gehry's amazing architecture, skiing in the Sierra Navada Mountains, visiting Gaudi's Barcelona and of course watching bullfighting. Also write about where are good places to stay as additional information, yet it is important.

Writing more detail about some place in a country will also great too. When I want to write about Spain, I can also break the post into more deep focused explanation about most attractive place such Barcelona and Madrid in Spain. So I won’t forget to mention list of good hotels in Madrid and Barcelona. It is aimed to make easier for prospective tourists to find great place to stay there.

The most important thing is about writing travel reviews of most people’s favorite place such Hawaii and Paris. Writing most favorite attractions in Paris is an added value to potentially drive traffic. What else people look for in Paris? It is of course the great hotels to stay in Paris. Because it is could be the first information what visitors looking for before they decide to take a flight.

Don’t ever think that getting such information above is difficult. Every one can even do that with only one visit to actual places. So where do I can get the rest information especially to find out some great cheap hotels? Cheaperthanhotels.co.uk site may be the right place to start with. First time I visited the site I thought they just provide famous places at Europe. But no they don’t, yet they provide complete hotel information around the world. Moreover I tried to search information of hotels in my country, Indonesia. And yes they have the information.

Anyone can browse hotel directory in Cheaperthanhotels.co.uk in an easy way. The hotel directory is provided for each country completely with each address. The site classified each hotel by its classes (5-stars, 4-stars, 3-stars, and so on) and its prices.

When you visit the site you should find a “Last Minute Deals” box which you can search for any deals of hotels around the world. You can also see list of top destination for UK travelers there.

Then get the url of your newly posted page. I did it by going to [edit posts] section, right clicking [View] link and copying the url.

Now go to your Google CSE control panel at [Code] section. Now tick [Host results on a non-Google site using an:] and [iframe] option. Then paste your post url in the form. Next a column contains your search box code will appear. Select and copy the given code.

Paste the code inside your blogger template.

And here it's looked like at this blog.

Go to Google CSE control panel again and copy the search result code.

You should go to edit section of your Blogger again and reedit your post. Delete what you’ve typed before and paste the code inside it. Hit publish again.

Then you can test how it works at your blog. Try to define some search keywords.

That’s what we need to do for setting up a Google Custom Search Engine on a Blogger platform. You can try Google CSE in action from this blog. You can utilize Google CSE in this blog to search any posts contain keywords you want. Any questions just write down at comment link below this post. Subscribe to Blog Template 2.0 to get quick update. [Prev]

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It is time to customize style of how search result will be displayed. There you can pick some colors and make changes by clicking [Save Changes] button. Make sure to make it suitable with theme of your Blogger template.

You can additionally add a logo on result page.

Now it’s time to make money with your Google CSE. Remember we didn’t integrate it yet to our Blogger template. It is just preliminary setting. We need to do this customization at first. Go to [Make Money] section. I assumed you already have an Adsense account, so tick [I already have an Adsense account] option. Then fill in the forms provided.

Previously I left the Preview section. Yes, because here (at this part) we can do a preview about what we have set up before.

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Originally I found this tutorial at DoshDosh about setting up Google CSE (Custom Search Engine) for Wordpress based blog. So here we try to talk about setting up Google CSE for Blogger based blog. To find out more about what about Google CSE you can go here.

This tutorial will be divided into 3 parts to make it easier for browser loading. I’ve inserted Google CSE on BlogTemplate20 a few days ago and I’ll try to write some short explanation about how to set it. We’ll keep this tutorial short clean and simple as usual. Keep reading and write me your comments if you have questions about it.

Go to Google CSE homepage and click [Create a Custom Search Engine] button. You may login if you need to (using Google account).

Next you’ll find some questions you have to answer according your Google CSE basic information. Here you can give a name for your Google CSE. Make sure to tick [Only sites I select] option.

You have to specify a list of web sites url to search. Now enter your blog URL with slash and apteryx (/*) behind it. You can find out why we use this format by clicking [Tips on formatting URLs] link. Otherwise just type your blog url there (see example).

After hitting [Next] button your Google CSE is a half finish. You should try your new Google CSE in the next page to preview how it works. Meanwhile I just clicked [Finish] button to make it fairly quick coz we can customize it later.

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I found 2 free tools enable us to find out about it. The first one is a free page rank checker plus website value estimated tool from SmartPageRank. Secondly is Link value estimator from LinkVendor.

SmartPageRank.com provides free page rank analyzer which is checking from various Google Center to validate page rank result. Yet, additionally you’ll get estimation of your website/blog value. Value appears in checking result represents an approximate value of your blog, not an actual real value. Value of your blog is determined by these factors: page rank, traffic, backlinks, age of domain, directory listing, and other unlisted factors.

To get started with this service drive your browser to SmartPageRank.com and enter your blog url there.

To gain more validity result it will be checked through several Google’s data centers.

Then your blog page rank will be analyzed quickly.

As your blog PR appears, scroll down the page and you’ll find your blog value.

LinkVendor didn’t predict your overall blog value. But they predict how worth is price of link in your blog. To try this “Link value” service visit LinkVendor.com and type your blog url there. You can choose two available currencies in dollar or euro.

I think it is a cool blog popularity prediction service ever. See how worth this blog’s link.

The two of them also provide button's code to be placed at your blog. It is suggested for you to use this button if your blog has higher value.

We can find out how well our blog is doing in major popular search engine and some social bookmarking site statistics. The good thing of this tool is it provided for free. Where do we can find this such free SEO tool? Nice question. Xinu offers free SEO diagnosis tool to make webmasters and bloggers can easily check their blog stats, including pagerank.

All you have to do is by entering your blog url and hit [GO] button. Then your blog SEO stats will be generated quickly on the fly. Next you can see diagnosis result. Xinu provides you with complete diagnosis analysis of your blog popularity. I may call this Xinu service as SEO doctor.

The reason why I write this SEO diagnosis service is just because it is a free cool SEO monitoring service which offers complete SEO diagnosis. Since it doesn’t provide us with “SEO monitoring” page, so we have to always recheck stats every time we want to know if there is an update.

Result of checking page rank at Xinu it was coming in such amazing stats. Just like what we see on illustration above. This blog also gain Technorati rank 66.360 with 100 authority point. Some how this blog listed at rank 679.876 of Alexa rank. That is why the reasons for my smile all this day.

1. Go to MyPageRank and enter your blog url then click [Create my SEO Monitor] button.
   
2. You’ll get 80x15 banner code to be pasted at your blog template. Now select it, right click then copy it.
   
3. Paste the code inside your Blogger template. About how to put some codes to Blogger template is as easy as adding widgets.

What if you don’t really want to put banner on your blog? You have to put small banner linked to your SEO monitor page. Otherwise you can write down your page URL and visit it next time. Since SEO stats is updated weekly, so I don’t really think you have to visit that page everyday. Here it is the page will be looked like.

1. Tag other’s profile.
   
2. Tag other’s community.
   
3. Browse and join communities.
   
4. Write a message to other members.
5. Add other member to your contact.
   

The main objective of doing above things is to get other member’s attention which can produce traffic. Which one of these ways is the most effective to do? The answer is the last one of course. Why? I know it is looked like a simple trifling unimportant step to do.

Most MyBloglog’s members think the 3rd is the best trick. Yes it is, but MyBloglog limits you about 15 communities in a day that you can join (Correct me if I’m wrong).

But the last trick would not work best if didn’t know how to optimize this trick. So show me show me how’d you do that trick..?

Ok I’ll tell you coz it is just simple silly trick. When you want to add someone to your contact list than these options will appear.

You might not tick “… is my friend” and “… is my family” option, unless he/she is your real friend and/or family. Besides, your name will be shown at contact list only. So now tick the “I’m a fan of …” option. Thus way your name will be shown at contact list and admirers list at once. Rasionally a person will always curious of whos his admirers.

Explanation above doesn’t mean to restrict you in doing overall tricks. Aim of this article is only to optimize your MyBloglog account to grab some traffics for you blog. So keep trying and wish you luck.

Oh we still can buy text link ads or other advertising campaigns. But is it really suitable with our budgets? So I’ll tell you alternative ways how to get natural flows of your blog’s traffic. What I’ll write below is based on what I’ve done with this blog.

How’d we know that our blog’s traffic increase naturally? We need a stat tracker tool. Just for example that I use ExtremeTracking.com free service.

Believe it or not that the blog you’re reading now is not older than three months (while this article posted). I never did any mass submission thing but Google. But take a look at my blog stats. How much unique visitors I’ve got.

Screen shoot below illustrates this blog’s recent weekly unique hits. See the pattern of increasing unique visits. Is it looked so natural isn’t it? No instant traffics and no black hat SEO.

Note: Image taken at Week 07 on 04:56

How this could be happened? First, always update your post. Provide your readers with fresh contents. It doesn’t have to be daily post. You can do this once every 2 days, 3 days, and weekly. The success key is “Regular update” of your posting. Quality contents are suggested but it doesn’t need to be. You can provide light information and some jokes are fine too. But keep in mind that your post must be unique and informative.

Second, do a blog-walking around famous blogs across the net. You might visit blogs which have similar topics with yours. Read what you think interesting there and write comment to appreciate other bloggers.

Third, promote your blog. Write your own opinions and leave a link to your blog. Please beware of spamming alerts. Don’t leave a link with nonsense text without unique quality opinion. Otherwise you’ll be marked as spammer.

Fourth, join bloggers communities. The most famous giant community that you must join is MyBloglog. I think I’ll write a tricky article about gaining most attention from other bloggers on MyBloglog next time. But I swear this isn’t a promise.

Top of those steps, your blog needs to be indexed by Google. So find a way to get indexed. Or simply by submitting your blog’s url here. Until nowadays, Google is still the giant traffic machine.