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This article explains why mobile mattes for some blogs (but not all), what tools Blogger has provided to help with this, and how to set up a mobile theme (aka template) for your blog.  It also links to Google's mobile testing tool, which shows you how your blog looks on a mobile device. By default, when someone uses a smartphone, tablet or other mobile device to look at your blog, they see the "full site" just like they would if they were using a PC.   The pages aren't set up to work well on their small screen, but they have access to all the features and gadgets you've installed. In some cases, this is fine.  For example, when I first wrote this article, I looked at the statistics for this site  and hardly any of the visitors were mobile.   However now, a couple of years later things have changed and I've implemented a mobile theme for this blog. But for other blogs, especially ones that have maps and other location-information or which people read on the...

This article shows how to make that the description is correctly shown when one of your blog-posts is shared on Facebook. When you share one of your blog-posts using either the via the "what's on your mind" space on Facebook or the Facebook share button on your blog, you may find that the only information automatically shown is: A picture (hopefully, but not always from the post) The post title The blog URL or the post URL But many people want the post-description to be included too. There are two things which you need to do to make sure that this happens correctly. Step 1: Add search descriptions to your blog-posts If a post does not have a description, Facebook will sometimes try to estimate one based on the contents. But this is not reliable, and it depends on the blog template you have used, and possibly even on other factors, eg at one stage, Facebook just looked for the the first (paragraph) tag with at least 120 characters in it - which gave very odd results for ...