Category: Tutorials

Freedom Wall Tutorials: Learn how to do some day-to-day stuff, blogging tips, search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, domain customization, and hosting.

SEO TIP: Meta Tags to Optimize Blogger Blogs

One way to optimize the search engine crawls in your blogger post is to have the best meta tag. Search engine indexing and revisiting are most important to proliferate your contents on the web and make your blog appear on the first page of the search engine. I doesn’t need a high page rank. Also, it is important that your blog title appears first before the blog name. Please see the example below. Google search result To edit you meta tag, open the design tab of your blog in blogger then click edit html. Find these lines, and and replace ... Read more

NetworkedBlogs Posts Your Blog Updates Automatically to Facebook

There is this exciting Facebook app that post your blog updates automatically to your Facebook wall, the NetworkedBlogs ( you can see the sample below). I had joined NetworkedBlogsfor I guess two years now but I do not write something about it because it announces that due to some changes in Facebook, it may stop updating your wall. Good thing that the app is still working now. All you have to do is to register your blog and allow the app to publish all updates in your wall and there it goes. You may also invite your friends to follow ... Read more

Do not Jailbreak iOS 4.3.2 with SnOwbreeze

Something happened to my iPod Touch 4G (read the story here) so I decided to restore it, of course with the latest Apple Firmware, the iOS 4.3.2. Since AppStore apps are really expensive, especially for me who just wanted to try then delete if I don’t like the app, I’d jailbreak with SnOwbreeze 2.6 for me to use cracked apps. I tried using redsnOw 0.9.6rc14 however it could not recognize the iOS platform I do have. Good thing that I had successfully jailbroke my iPod and I can see Cydia and Installous in my apps. I can also use free ... Read more

My iPod Touch is not Booting: I found a Solution

Grrr! It was really a bad Maundy Thursday. Aside from a very silent neighborhood, my iTouch, my last resort to ease the boredom, does not boot. It’s been hours that I only see this apple logo in the device, and damn, it stayed in the booting mode till the other day. Sad is, warranty is void because I jailbroke the device (this is not a good thing for jailbreaking). So I tried to restore it, the problem is, I used iTunes from internet cafe’s. My idevice is passcode protected and will require a passcode every time I connect to iTunes. ... Read more

Index Your Blog Posts Automatically to Google Search

Google is the most powerful search engine today. It is where most internet savvies around the world type and click and is ranked no. 1 by Alexa web ranking. If you have a blog and wanted to create significant visitors to your blog, you must allow Google to crawl and index your blog posts and articles and be searchable. To be able to do this, try using Google Webmaster, a great tool that will automatically inform Google about your blog updates. By this, your articles will be indexed to Google search, making it available to all internet browsers worldwide. Sign ... Read more

How to Fix “Google Error 404” for Blogger Custom Domain

Have you purchased from Google a custom domain for your blogger but a “Google Error 404: The Requested URL / was not found on this server” appears when opening your domain in your browser? At first, I cannot believed when it happened to me. I was able to use my custom domain before, so I was shocked when one time, such error occurred. I tried my best to trouble shoot and below is the solution I found. When you purchase a custom domain for your blogger using Google, it is bundled with Google Apps. Before proceeding, please check first your ... Read more

How to Insert Adsense Ads to Blogger Post Body

One way to maximize your earnings is to show you must have a good location of all your ads. You may use your sidebars for your ad space but your readers may just negate it specially those who only after the contents of your post or articles. With that, there will be lesser clicks and slower income returns. The best location for your ads is to paste it inside your content block…(See the ad space just above the first paragraph of this article and below the post title). In that location, I am sure that my readers will first noticed ... Read more

Blogger Template Customization Made Easy

One reason why many visit one’s blog, aside from the interesting posts is the appearance of the blog. It should be inviting, easy to navigate and has a good layout. Classic templates offered on blogger don’t usually give too much space and size and some latest applications are not compatible to it. And one great solution for this is to customize your template into a more pleasant to see and more spaces and columns for your third party tools. Here are the easy steps you must follow. The steps below are basically designed for the newbies and those non newbies ... Read more

Embed an IntenseDebate Comment Form Below Each Post

The comment form you see below this post is an example of an IntenseDebate comment form. The form is very much sophisticated and powerful since there is an option for you to share you comments with your friends through facebook and an option to tweet your comment directly after posting. Yo can also reply to others comment. IntenseDebate comment form is much easy to use because there are four ways to log-in. You can log-in through your twitter, facebook, IntenseDebate account and can use your open ID. You may also comment as guest where you will only provide your name ... Read more