These are some hidden tricks in the blogger.com platform which can helpful for anyone in managing his/her blog properly. Basically, These tricks are already built-in in blogger but most of the users don't know about them and they keep asking others. So, Today I decided to share a handy collection of these tricks which will surely help you. 

There is the "Pages" widget in blogger which you might have seen in custom and default templates. Sometimes, that widget is located in the wrong place or it is not needed for some so anyone might want to remove or hide it from his blog. So, This first trick will show your how to hide pages widget in blogger.

• Go To Blogger >> Dashboard >> Pages
• There you will see the pages you've created. 
• At the top, There will be option "Show Pages as".
• So click it and choose "Don't Show" 

You may be receiving huge number of visitors from mobile devices so it can be important for you to setup a good template for mobile devices. In other words, that template should only appear in mobile devices. unfortunately, we can't upload custom templates for mobile but you can use default templates or current desktop template for mobile so here is how you can do it.

• Go To Blogger >> Dashboard >> Template
• There will be two sections, 1. Live on Blog 2. Mobile
• In the second Mobile section, click the Settings icon.
• Now, Choose any template and also Preview it.

Mostly, all the blogs are having comment form below each post but you might have noticed such blogs whose comment form's location is changed. We can do this easily by changing option from settings only. Test out the tutorial given below.

• Go To Blogger >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Posts and Comments
• In the comment section, There will be option Comment Location.
• Click in drop down button and choose the new location.

Sometimes we get a lot of spam, abusive and bad comments which are harmful for our blog so we need to protect our from this like showing captcha, comment moderation and more. In this trick, I'm going to show you that how can we add comment form message or "Comment Policy" which can affect on spammers to stop posting bad comments.

• Go To Blogger >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Posts and Comments
• In the Comments section, There will be Comment Form Message in the last.
• Click on Add link and a box will appear.

When that time comes, you start receiving a lot of comments in your old and new posts then comment moderation is important for it in order to avoid posting bad spammy and abuse comments which can harm your blog. But, when you enable comment moderation it sends the email notification in your Gmail account and it irritates. So in this trick, you're going to learn how can we stop receiving comment moderation emails.

• Go To Blogger >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Mobile and Email
• In the Email section, there will be Comment Notification Email option.
• In that box, you will see your email address where you receive the notification emails.

Commonly, we use to setup our blog on Feedburner in order to send the blog email updates to our subscribers but it requires to verify the email. There is another special feature in blogger that we can send blog updates to specific 10 email contacts. To protect from spam, we can send updates to only 10 contacts who will not require to verify their emails.

• Go To Blogger >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Mobile and Email
• In the Email section, There will be Email Posts To option.
• Click on Add link and paste or write the 10 emails separated with commas.

Bloggers allows you to blog in every language which you want so there is option to change the language of your blog completely. Which can be helpful for those who receive traffic from only specific area and may be there any specific language is being used. Well, If you want to change language of your blog then simply follow the below tutorial.

• Go To Blogger >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Language and Formatting
• In the language section, There will be first Language option.
• Click the drop down button and choose you new language.

After the language of your blog, then is next trick which is about changing the time zone, time format and date which is being showed up in your blog like inside posts, date header and more. For the proper SEO, Google recommends to show date of post instead of time. Here is the tutorial to change that all things.

• Go To Blogger >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Language and Formatting
• In the formatting section, There will be options to change Time zone, Time Format and Date.
• Simply, Click any drop down button and change it as per requirements.

There is an option in blogger by which we can send the customized, short and until jump break (read more) small emails to the email subscribers. And by sending short mails, we can protect our content from being content instead of sending full mails. But it is according to your choice which option you select. I just want to inform you about that feature which you can use in future.

• Go To Blogger >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Other
• In the Site Feed section, There will be Allow Blog Feed option.
• Click the drop down button and choose the settings according to your needs.

This is the 14th trick in which we're going to learn that how can insert the custom post feed footer in subscription emails. You can create or write the message which will be showed up in email footer which will be sent to the email subscribers of your blog.

• Go To Blogger >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Other
• In the Site Feed section, There will be Post Feed Footer option.
• Click on Add link and paste your footer message there. 

Blogger also allows you to provide the adult content on your blog but for that you will need to enable the adult content feature in your blog. After that, when someone will access your blog then it will ask that the page contains nudity content and if he/she accepts then he can access your blog. This can also save your blog from being deleted by automated classification system.

• Go To Blogger >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Other
• In the Adult Content section, Click on Drop down button and choose Yes to enable it.

Google Penguin is the algorithm by Google which is being updated after every 3/4 months, in simple words, it is updated 4 times a year. Google Penguin's first update was announced on April 24, 2012. Along this update, There are total 5 updates of Penguin released till now. Google Penguin search those websites who are doing over search engine optimization like Black Hat SEO, copying content, keyword stuffing, keyword density, bad back linking and more and affect those sites who are doing this bad tactics. Penguin decrease the traffic and search appearance of a site in Google search if it is affect by Penguin. So everyone shouldn't do the bad tactics in order to be safe with Google Penguin.

So, As I told you that there are total five updates released of Google Penguin and this one is released just some hours ago. In this update, most of the sites are not affected because according to the Matt Cutt's [software engineer at Google] tweet on twitter shows that only 1% of total searches are affected. It means everyone is trying to improve their webs and beating Penguin that is good for everyone but bad for those who are affected.  Well, Before this update, Google has introduced another algorithm which is known as Humming Bird, who affected 90% of searches around the web. It just shocked all the webmasters and as well as bloggers. We've not discussed about it but in the upcoming post, we'll make conversation about it.

Previous Google Penguin Updates

• Penguin 1 - on April 24, 2012.
• Penguin 2 - on May 26, 2012.
• Penguin 3 - on October 5, 2012.
• Penguin 4 - on May 22, 2013.
• Penguin 5 - on October 4, 2013. 

How To Check If You're Affected?

You might want to know that if your blog or site affected by Penguin 2.1 so where is what we're going to talk about. You will not get any notification, mail or message from any official place that you're affected but you can examine that you're affected or not by looking at the traffic of your blog. I think you're using Google Analytics as your traffic counter, well, land on it and check the traffic status. Do not check the all traffic sources, but only check the "Organic Traffic" which comes from the search engines. Now, if the organic traffic is decreased then you should feel that you're affected in this update and if it is same like previous or even if it is increased then you're not affected. That's how to know that we're affected or not.

If your blog is affected in this update then you can surely recover it from penguin. Sorry, This time I'm not going to give any tips about recovering your blog from this update but as I'm going to do the research on it and will publish it here in the upcoming post. So, please wait for the next post to recover your blog. And don't forget to tell us that if you're affect or not in the comments section. Take a lot of care and keep beating penguin!

Which Topics Are Allowed For Guest Post?

Many newbies in the guest blogging submits the irrelevant post to the blogs and in case that post is not published. It is important to check that what topics are allowed in guest posts and below I've listed all those topics which we accept for the guest post.

• Blogger Tricks, Blogger Widgets, Blogger Templates
• Newbies Guide In The Blogging World.
• Blogging Tips.
• Search Engine Optimization.
• Make Money Online.
• Useful Tools For Bloggers.
• And All About The Blogging!

Rules and Guidelines For Writing a Guest Post

For the security and legal purpose, we've some little rules for guest authors which every one needs to accept and follow. Simply, I've written down below.

• Unique Content / Not Copied : This is most important thing that your post or article must be unique and not copied from anywhere else. No matter, if you spin those articles. We've some special tools to check that a content is copied or unique.
• Article Must Be Well Written and SEO Friendly : This is the other thing on which we most focus that the article must be well written. It doesn't have grammatical mistakes. Your article must be SEO friendly in which it may not have a lot of Keyword Density or Keyword Stuffing.
• It Must Have Minimum 500 Words : The content length is also important. I recommend to write at least 500 word article otherwise it will not be accepted.
• Featured Image : You also have to send the featured or main image of the post along with the article. You can get it through Google Images or create a new one.
• Affiliate Links and Unrelated Links are not allowed in the article.

Required Info Of Author

It is also important that you will need to give the required information about the guest author so that we may give the proper credit to him/her. Here is what we're talking about.

• Well Written Author Bio With 250 Characters.
• Author's Image/ Photo
• Social Links [Optional]
• Author's Blog link. [ Link must be included in the author bio ]

How To Submit The Guest Post?

So friends, these were some little rules which you will need to follow in order to be the guest author here. No matter who you're everyone can be the guest author here. Just follow the simple rules. In the last, here is the method that how can you submit the guest post to us.

1. The first thing that you've to write your post in MS word file along with the featured image and author's info.
2. Collect all these files in a folder and compress that folder with WinRAR.
3. Compose an email, attach that file and send it to yaqoob@bloggeryard.com

When The Post Will Be Published?

We publish one post regularly so if accept your post then will inform you that we've accepted your guest post and it will be published on the next day. I would take about 48 hours to reply you back to your application. If your post is rejected then it must be having some faults so try to improve it and re-submit it again. 

Guys, I'm anxiously waiting for your guest posts. I hope you will surely contribute with us. Take Care!