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This article shows how you can make a slideshow of all the photos from an album in your own Google Plus Photo collection, which can be shown on a website or blog. Sharing a photo album from Google+ Photos Google's help-pages note that you can share a Google Photos album using a link - and is a good option for showing your photos to people who are outside of Google+. But what are the options if you want to show a Google Photos album, not just an individual picture, in your blog or website? Put the link in your website. But that just gives bland, boring text, like click here to see my photos. Put one picture in your website, labelled "click this photo to see the rest", and link it to your Google Photos album. But that just shows one photo - and it takes people away from your website when they go to view your photos. Load each photo from the album individually to your website. That's fine for 2-3 or even 10 photos. But what if you've got dozens or even hundreds - ...

This QuickTip is about the new in-depth search results feature that Google has recently introduced, and how you set up your blog-posts so they have a chance of being considered as in-depth. In-depth search results Google recently announced a new category that may sometimes be shown in a search results page, ie the page of information that is shown to a person after they have run a search in Google. These suggested "in-depth" results are meant to help people to "find relevant in-depth articles in the main Google Search results" This feature will be initially only be used on search results from on google.com in English, but is likely to extend to other google searches (eg google.co.uk, google.in, etc) and other languages over time. Google's stated aim is for the in-depth panel to appear when someone searches for " person or organization name, or other broad topic ", and for it to include "thoughtful in-depth content that will remain relevant for mo...

This article explains how to stop label values from showing in the header or footer lines for each post in a blog that is made with Google's Blogger. If you have used the Labels / Page-gadget approach to putting your blogposts into separate pages , then each of your posts will have one or more Labels attached to them. Most Blogger templates are set up so that these label values are shown with the posts, too, in either just underneath the post-title or in the post-footer. And when a reader clicks one of these post-specific label values , they are shown a "post-listing format" blog page, which includes ( the first part of) all posts which have that label. However some people want to stop their blogs from displaying this these label values perhaps because: They want their blog to look more like a real website They are using some labels which are meaningful to them as administrators but not to readers (eg at the moment, I'm using a label "ZZZ - needs 2013 review...

This quick-tip introduces the Google Webmaster Tools structured data testing tool, which gives you a view of how your site looks to the search-engines. Today I discovered that Google Webmaster Tools offers tools for testing the structured data on your website. I haven't seen any announcements about it, just noticed it there when I was looking for something else - so I'm not sure if it's really new, just new-to-me, or I've been lucky enough to get a it before most people do. You can find it here (or at least that's where I'm finding it):     http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets Once you're at that page, you can paste in either an URL (your own, or someone else) or some HTML, press preview - and the system will show you how the meta-tags , open-graph tags and o ther Google-supported structured data on your site looks to Google.   This isn't important for many bloggers - but is very useful information if SEO matters for your blog . And you ...

This article is about how to update a file that you have loaded to Google drive. It only applies to files that have not been converted to Google Docs format - for example, PDF, Word, Excel etc files. New versions vs new files in Google Docs On a couple of my blogs, I provide files that people can download and use themselves. When you share a file in this way, there are three main issues to consider: Where to put the file How people will find it What format to use. Today, Google Drive is the most obvious file hosting option for people using Blogger. (A file host is somewhere that you can put files which Blogger cannot upload - see File Hosting options for Blogger for more details and other alternatives.) I thought a lot about the best format to use for these files: if I convert them to Google Drive (AKA Docs) format, they won't count against my file-storage quota, and everyone has access to Google Drive/Docs.  But not everyone has a Google account, or access to Docs at the ti...