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This article shows how to edit the name of an existing Label value in blogger, without editing each individual post that it's applied to. Blogger and Labels Previously, I've explained that labels are tags you can use to categorize your blog posts , and that the are the raw material of putting your posts into pages . But what happens if you want to change the value of a label? For example, if you have a lot of posts that are labelled "Colour", but you find that most of your visitors are from the US and think you have poor spelling! It would be nice if Blogger had a feature that said "change all X labels to Y labels" - but it doesn't (at moment, anyway). One option is to edit each post individually, removing the old label and adding a new one. This works, but can be time consuming. A better option is to use the bulk-labelling tools. This is a lot easier, though not quite as easy as you might think. Blogger's Post-Dashboard labelling tools This picture...

This is a post from the Weekly Blogging Tips series. The posts on your blog don't all have to be of the same quality or type. If the topics you usually write about are complex and in-depth, needing a lot of research, then it's good to look for one aspect you can write about that is quick and easy, and to commit to making a post like this on a regular schedule.   Some ideas for posts like this: Notes about changes in other products Reviews of or congratulations on posts on other blogs in your niche A round-up of all the other posts you have made in the last month A recap or summary of your posts on a popular topic Clarifications of instructions in the official help-pages for a related product. Or,  if you really don't want to put "small" posts onto your blog's RSS feed, another option is to at least edit one of your existing posts every (day / week / fortnight - whatever works for you ), and share news about your update on which-ever social networks you ar...

Blogger-hints-and-tips was originally where I kept my own notes about how my solutions to problems with Blogger But then I found other people were visiting - because they were looking for solutions to the same problems!    And looking back, I was embarrassed about how low-quality the original posts  were.  So I made a commitment to only publish properly researched articles, and I started keeping a private blog with post-ideas that I haven't researched fully (which now has 200+ posts in it). Then in Sept 2012, I started posting "Quick Tips" - very quick posts about changes in other products that are people tend to use with their blogs, which I didn't have the time or ability research fully, but which I really wanted to share with my readers quickly. Recently, however, the number of  Quick-tips has decreased: as Blogger and the other tools have become more mature, there just haven't been the same number of changes. And at the same time, other projects have been ...

This article shows how to manage your Google+ Page's photo collection using Picasa-web-albums. Recently I described how to always use Picasa-web-albums, rather than Google+ photos , to work with the images that are stored in your Google account. One issue was that there was no way to use PWA to work with the photo's uploaded to a Google+ Page, rather than an individual Google+ profile. And this was highlighted when Google introduced an auto-enhancement feature which  could be disabled using Picasa-web-albums , but not using Google+ Photos. However a new feature introduced to Google+ Pages means that you can work around this. How to access Google+ Page photo albums using Picasa-web-albums Set up a separate password for your Google+ Page. . Log out of Google / Blogger / Picasa-web-albums (if you log out of one, you are generally removed from the others too). Log back in again , but this time using your newly created Google+ Page account. Point your web-browser to Picasa-web-al...

This article is about setting up a Google+ page so that it is a stand-alone thing, and can log in to Google services without needing your personal Google+ profile. When Google first introduced Google+ pages, they were totally linked to a Google+ personal profile. Now, however, you can turn them into stand-alone entitles by giving them a separate login-id (chosen by Google) and password (chosen by you). This means you can share your Google+ page with other people (eg employees, committee members), without either giving them your Google account password or forcing them to sign up for Google+ themselves. This is a significant advantage of Google+ over Facebook How to set up a separate password for a Google+ page Firstly, set up the Google+ page , using an existing Google+ personal account (aka Google+ profile). If you have logged out since, then log in to your Google account again (by logging into any one of Adsense, Gmail, Blogger, etc, or just by logging in to Google+). In the top l...

This article shows how to set up your blog, using Blogger, so that it looks like your posts are on separate web-pages. Can you put Posts onto Pages in Blogger? Ever since Google introduced "pages" into Blogger, people have complained that their posts all go onto the " home page ", and asked how to put posts onto different pages in their blog. The standard, but unsatisfactory, answer is " Sorry, that's not how Blogger works.   So called "static" pages in Blogger are meant to be used for reference information that doesn't change often, which you don't want to be part of your regular post-feed, but which you do want users to have easy access to. " Basically, this is part of the difference between post and pages . Luckily it's easy to set up your blog so that it looks like your posts are on different pages  [tweet this]     ( even though you and I know that this isn't how Blogger works) by following three simple steps. Follow the...