Blog traffic and gaining the trust of your readers mostly depends on some particular thing in blogging which are: Inspirational content, consistency in your posting and finally your blog design. Most people fell in love with your blog not only because you have good contents, but also the styles and good designs that make up your blog.

Today, i will be sharing the knowledge on how you can change blogger bullets to a customized one(image).
so whenever you list somethings in your blog pots, and instead of showing like an example below,

• This Is First Demo Line
• This Is Second Demo Line
• This Is Third Demo Line
• This Is Fourth Demo Line
• This Is Fifth Demo Line

It will change to what you are seeing below:

The interesting part and the beauty aspect of this customization is that anytime you place your mouse cursor on the bullet list, the image color changes

HOW TO GET THE CUSTOMIZE BULLET

For you to get this customize image, you need to follow the following steps and adding this features to your blogger blog is easy.
1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard, Navigate to Template ==> Edit HTML and checked the Expand Widget Templates Check box. Then use (CTRL+F) to search for ]]></b:skin> tag in your templates.

2. Finally add the code below and add it before the ]]></b:skin> tag

.post ul {list-style:none;}.post ul li {     line-height: 1.4em;         background: transparent url(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7wsQzULWIwo/SuM3oYoTkRI/AAAAAAAACHw/Dig1etGrcpY/s400/251.gif) no-repeat scroll 0px 4px;     margin: 0.3em 0;     padding: 0 0 0.8em 20px; }.post ul li:hover {         background: transparent url(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7wsQzULWIwo/SuM3oFg5zlI/AAAAAAAACHo/n5UluB5ugMI/s400/255.gif) no-repeat scroll 0px 4px;}

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Getting enough comments on your blog, shows your blog is alive and it’s getting noticed. Many had suffers the enough on the issue of comments, i received so many emails where people were telling and asking that how can they get people to comment on their blog. 

However, it has been confirmed that if you get enough comments on your blog, that you’ll increase both your SEO benefits and your own personal status.

Also Read:How Do You know if Your Blog is Making a Difference

 Each new comment on your  post, adds more valuable content on that post, also the more comments you have, the more cloud you appear to get, because people are more interested in what you have to say concerning the issue you raised. So the question in hand now is : How do you get people to comment on your blog post? And here i have got enough ways that could convince people to comment on your blog.

1. End Each Blog post with a Question

Do you even give rooms for people to comment? This is the first point to getting started, there are some people who published post without seeking people’s own opinion or comments to what he/she has said. At the end of every one of  my blog posts,a do ask a question. 

Something as simple as “What do you think about this?”, Do you agree with?, “Share your thought on this issue via the comment box”. Asking for feedback from your readers do go a long way in commenting and even gaining the trust of your readers. And most possible asking their opinion and you also replying to their comments make them feel more comfortable leaving a comment. Bold your questions so it could stand out from every other letters there.

Also Read: How to Make your blog popular

2. Comment on Other Blogs:

Actually this took me a pretty long time before i knew this, but immediately i found out this point there was no turning back. Always make an insightful comments on other blogs, no man single handedly can make a forest, you need to extend you tentacles.Most times, don’t just comment with simple “Thanks for this great articles!” Simple make your own comment to be valuable, make it interactive, and this ways the blog author and other reader could visit your blog.And this eventually would help you to increase you blog traffic.

3.People Don’t Know It’s Exist:

Not until you make and do good publication of your blog, people will never comment on your blog. One thing you need to know is that comments are as a result of incoming traffic and if you blog is not actively promoted through more than one method, then it will remain the same with no growth. Therefore, its very important to take every available opportunities to promote yourself , your blog and brand whenever you think it’s appropriate.

4. Your Blog posts are Not Interactive:

One thing about Blogosphere that many other bloggers had thrown away is that Blog world is an interactive platform. One of the reasons why the new bloggers and most cases some pro blog are not getting good comment is because, they are not just been interactive with their posts. 

I will give kudos to Lindaikeji because am very sure most times she might be tired of replying comment cos of the ways people comment on her blog. She was able to attend this level all because she made her own blog world an interactive platform. Also the likes of Gistmode, justnaira, all these blogs that i have mentioned did a great job in commenting. Always try and make your blog posts to be friendly, interactive.

5. Ask For feedback On Social Media:

Instead of just tweeting and sharing on Facebook with the typical format of “Title – Link”. Also always try and ask for feed backs i.e We would love your comments etc, and this is also a type of tweet or update that a blogger would post and show you care about what your audience thinks, rather just doing your things in your own ways because you need traffic..

6. Your Entries Are Too Long:

I bet you People get tired of too long blog post, most especially the teenagers and young adults of nowadays. Even though the most informative and well- written posts can be passed over by readers who are busy.

 Most often they believed good and well scripted article can be passed across to masses by summarizing it, and you should know that when posts aren’t read, they are not commented on.

7. Make People Feel Good About Their Comments:

What you say when people comment on your blog goes a long way in how that person feels about your blog. Your attitude and opinion of their comment leaks through in your word choices.

Welcome divergent opinions. To build a community around your blog, you need a thick skin to protect you from people who don’t agree with you. But it goes even deeper than that. You need to welcome divergent opinions. 

You need to appreciate that everyone has a unique life experience that leads him or her to different conclusions. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t mean that anyone is wrong or right. It just means you have different opinions.

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As we all know that Social media has been for a long time, playing a very important part in search engine optimization, that is why you will always see social media gadgets on virtually every blog. If after you’ve created and won the heart of your readers, and probably you have enough subscribers on social media. All you just need to do is to automatically publish your posts on social media and get enough traffic. 

For the quite some times now, my mails has been bucked up with the issue of traffic, that’s why i have dwell most of this time on getting and solving the issue of traffic for people, because without traffic, no blog. This is exactly what motivates someone to manage and constantly update your blog posts. So today i will be discussing about how you can auto- post your posts on social media like Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn , etc using dlvr.it service. 

This service is free of cost and stress- less to use. Actually. i am also using this service to publish my posts to twitter and my facebook page. The reason behind choosing this kind of service is because it is very easy to use.One thing i found very interesting about it is that, you can on-off publishing anytime you want. So let get started on how to use it:



1. You will first go to dlvr.it

2. You will Signup with your email address and choosing password.



3. Go to your inbox and confirm your email address.

4. You will redirect to another page here you have to provide your feeds address in below format

5. Click on twitter icon and you will redirect to twitter .
6. Then give your twitter’s profile’s username and password and press “Authorize App” button.
    And this time around, your posts will automatically publish on twitter.

7. Now click on Facebook or LinkedIn

8. You will be redirected to Facebook page or selected social media.

Login to your selected account from which you are managing your fanpage and select your fanpage. Customize your services as you wish and save your changes. And at this time, your stress days of sharing are over. Just relax and post,then yo are automatically being posted.

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Are your readers complaining about your post been too long or saying that you should please find a way to shortening your post? i have got a great news for you. Actually, it happens that when i opened created this my blog, all my post are publishing in a long format, and people keep telling me because it lengthens the height of your blog and scare your readers away.

 But how can you add read more in an automatic way to your blog post, and which is going to keep your readers coming the more. Here am going to tell you the steps and how to add the automatic read more in your edit HTML template. Follow the steps below.

* log into blogger
* click on edit html
* check Expand Widget Template
* Look for code </head> (for fast find ctrl + F)
* put this code above </head>
 THE CODE

<script type=’text/javascript’>
var thumbnail_mode = &quot;float&quot; ;
summary_noimg = 300;
summary_img = 250;
img_thumb_height = 50;
img_thumb_width = 50;
</script>
<script type=’text/javascript’>
//<![CDATA[
/******************************************
Auto-readmore link script, version 2.0 (for blogspot)
(C)2008 by Anhvo
visit http://en.vietwebguide.com to get more cool hacks
********************************************/
function removeHtmlTag(strx,chop){
if(strx.indexOf(“<“)!=-1)
{
var s = strx.split(“<“);
for(var i=0;i<s.length;i++){
if(s[i].indexOf(“>”)!=-1){
s[i] = s[i].substring(s[i].indexOf(“>”)+1,s[i].length);
}
}
strx = s.join(“”);
}
chop = (chop < strx.length-1) ? chop : strx.length-2;
while(strx.charAt(chop-1)!=’ ‘ && strx.indexOf(‘ ‘,chop)!=-1) chop++;
strx = strx.substring(0,chop-1);
return strx+’…’;
}

function createSummaryAndThumb(pID){
var div = document.getElementById(pID);
var imgtag = “”;
var img = div.getElementsByTagName(“img”);
var summ = summary_noimg;
if(img.length>=1) {

imgtag = ‘<span style=”float:left; padding:0px 10px 5px 0px;”><img src=”‘+img[0].src+'” /></span>’;
summ = summary_img;
}

var summary = imgtag + ‘<div>’ + removeHtmlTag(div.innerHTML,summ) + ‘</div>’;
div.innerHTML = summary;
}
//]]>
</script> 

*Then you click save template
*Also look for code <p><data:post.body/></p> and change it to the code below

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;’>
<div expr:id=’&quot;summary&quot; + data:post.id’ style=’text-align: justify;’>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
</div>
<script type=’text/javascript’>
createSummaryAndThumb(&quot;summary<data:post.id/>&quot;);
</script>
<a expr:href=’data:post.url’ style=’float:right;padding-top:10px;’>[Read More…] – <data:post.title/></a>
</b:if>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;’>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
</b:if>

Then also click on save template, then go to your blog post after you reload and see the effect. Thanks for turning with us at this moment, please share this post for others to benefit and also subscribe for our daily update via the box below. thanks


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