Ever think of using blogger to promote your product? or use it as a minisite? I mean you use blogger to host your minisite to promote your product/ebook/affiliate.

A Minisite is a small/minimum site with one or only a few pages. It maybe a part of a bigger site or a standalone site by itself. It has a narrow subject focus and is used to target a product or a population segment commonly known as a niche.



The advantages of using blogger to host your minisite is that there is no limit of bandwitdth and free.

If you intrested to know how to do it check this site: http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/06/launch-minisite-estore-in-blogger.html

Here is another hack/trick im looking for. To add social bookmarks button in your blog, visit the Add-This widget building page. Select the "Bookmarking widget". Choose the style of button you prefer, and that you want the widget to appear on a Blogger blog (the code is slightly different depending on the type of website it features on).

If you want stats of bookmarks made with your button, you'll need to create an account. This isn't nescessary to create and use the buttons, so it's up to you. You'll be presented with the code to paste into your blog template.

If you're using New Blogger (using layouts), you'll need to do the following:

1.Go to Template>Edit HTML (check the "expand widget templates" option is ticked). You should make a backup of your template before modifying the HTML by clicking on the "Download full template" link at the top of the page first.

2 Find the line <div class='post-footer'> . You can paste the code right under this line if you prefer. I have chosen to include this in the final line of the post footer instead, beneath everything else, as you can see in the following section of code:

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'><br/>
<!-- AddThis Bookmark Post Button BEGIN -->
<div
align='left'><a expr:href='"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=4QVQQ2TM5XDPAYVN&url="
+ data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'
title='Bookmark using any bookmark manager!'><img alt='AddThis
Social Bookmark Button' height='16' src='http://s5.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif'
style='border: 0px; padding: 0px'
width='125'/></a></div>
<!--
AddThis Bookmark Post Button END --></p>

3. Preview your blog to make sure the bookmark button appears as you want at the end of the posts. Then save your template.

For Bloggers who use Classic Templates, use this method instead:

1. Go to Template>Edit HTML. You may want to back up your template before modifying the code.
2. Find the <$BlogItemBody$> section and paste your AddThis code right after it.
3. Save your template and enjoy your new bookmarking feature.

There are other social bookmarking widgets available for Bloggers, such as TopRanking's social bookmarks button. Personally, I prefer the Add-This option as it streamlines the image required and gives readers the option to use any bookmarking service they want.

This is another thing that im looking for and did make some research which i will be using for my new adsense project. All what you have to do is to parse your code.You will have to replace < with
and so on. If you want to save your time , An online parser is available . All you have to do is to parse it there and then paste it into your blog template. Put Adsense Ads between post at blogger did not violate their TOS. The adsense team said it ok:

Hi,

You are permitted to make minor edits in Blogger Beta. However, please keep in mind that in general publishers are not allowed to alter the AdSense ad code for any reason. Once you've generated the ad code in your AdSense account pages, you may not alter any portion of the code or manually change the layout of the ads.

Thanks for your understanding.
Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team"

Basically there are 4 ways to put your adsense ads between post







Option 1 is good for image ads .I would choose a 250 x 250 square for it.
<div style=”float:left;”>Parsed ad here</div>

Option 2 is also good for image ads .I would choose a 250 x 250 square for it.As both of them support video ads
<div style=”float:right;”>Parsed ad here</div>

Option 3 works well with banners or half banners
<center><div>Parsed ad here</div></center>

Option 4 looks well in each format. I prefer a square for it.
This time, you will have to place it where the blog post end and the post footer start
<center><div>Parsed ad here</div></center>

For more assistance, here is the code which I have used.

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>
<div class='post-body'>
<p><div>&lt;center><script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-XXXXXXXXXXXX";
google_ad_width = 234;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "234x60_as&quot;;
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel = "2066577887";
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "333333";
google_color_text = "000000";
google_color_url = "6C82B5";
//-->
</script&gt;
<script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;
src=&quot;http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js&quot;>
</script&gt;</center></div><data:post.body/></p>
<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>

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