You may think it black-hat of me to knowingly include, for the purposes of search-engine optimization, tags that are apparently irrelevant to the post. But consider the following:
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Zemanta Tags and Life User
I'm now letting Zemanta choose tags for my past, present and future posts on Life User. I may choose a few manual tags additionally, but I won't turn down any Zemanta suggestion, no matter how irrelevant it seems. This is intended as a form of search-engine optimization, meaning it's meant to increase the chance of (hopefully interested) readers finding and visiting Life User from a search result page.
You may think it black-hat of me to knowingly include, for the purposes of search-engine optimization, tags that are apparently irrelevant to the post. But consider the following:
You may think it black-hat of me to knowingly include, for the purposes of search-engine optimization, tags that are apparently irrelevant to the post. But consider the following:
Floating Widgets in a Blogger Post
(Note: Those of you using ad blockers will need to turn them off to see examples in this post.)
In my last post, I explained what to do if your JavaScript widgets, added to the body of a post in your Blogger blog, weren't displaying. But doing that didn't solve all my problems and may not solve all yours. If your widgets are aligned to the left (or right if you write in a right-to-left language) and put an ugly break in all but one line of text beside them, this tutorial is for you. While I've only tried this with Amazon widgets, it should work with any copy-and-paste widgets with a preview page.
This is what an Amazon widget looks like when it's an inline element, which the MP3 Clips widget is by default. It's fine for small images that are used as icons or to display foreign scripts that the user may not have fonts for, but it's ugly for images of any significant size, as well as for video embeds and most Amazon widgets.
In my last post, I explained what to do if your JavaScript widgets, added to the body of a post in your Blogger blog, weren't displaying. But doing that didn't solve all my problems and may not solve all yours. If your widgets are aligned to the left (or right if you write in a right-to-left language) and put an ugly break in all but one line of text beside them, this tutorial is for you. While I've only tried this with Amazon widgets, it should work with any copy-and-paste widgets with a preview page.
This is what an Amazon widget looks like when it's an inline element, which the MP3 Clips widget is by default. It's fine for small images that are used as icons or to display foreign scripts that the user may not have fonts for, but it's ugly for images of any significant size, as well as for video embeds and most Amazon widgets.
JavaScript Widgets Within a Blogger Post
When adding the Amazon song-preview widget to my last post, I ran into two problems specific to Blogger. Since I'm probably not the only Blogger blogger who uses Amazon Associates
widgets or any other kind of JavaScript widgets within posts, I thought I'd share the problems and solutions here.
Amazon does offer an "Add to Blogger" option for widgets, but it adds them to your blog's sidebar. If you want to tie a widget to a specific post, you'll have to copy-and-paste the code manually. When I did this, the widget didn't display at all even after the post was published. (It's normal for them not to display in Preview or Compose mode, since <script> tags are suppressed in these modes.)
widgets or any other kind of JavaScript widgets within posts, I thought I'd share the problems and solutions here.Amazon does offer an "Add to Blogger" option for widgets, but it adds them to your blog's sidebar. If you want to tie a widget to a specific post, you'll have to copy-and-paste the code manually. When I did this, the widget didn't display at all even after the post was published. (It's normal for them not to display in Preview or Compose mode, since <script> tags are suppressed in these modes.)
Hiding 1x1 Images in Blogger
Bloggers such as myself who are in the Amazon Associates program use invisible 1x1 images to keep track of how popular our links are. But Blogger's style sheets put padding around all images by default, creating an ugly space. I had trouble fixing this, but I finally found a way.
program use invisible 1x1 images to keep track of how popular our links are. But Blogger's style sheets put padding around all images by default, creating an ugly space. I had trouble fixing this, but I finally found a way.
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