As bloggers, we post frequently on their blogs in order to encourage readers to come back again and visit the site daily. But also, it's making harder for our readers to discover everything we’ve posted that they might be interested in, because the more we post, the more quickly our posts slip down into the archives.
We are aware of WordPress that there are lots of plugins available for their bloggers to highlight the older posts using 'Featured post' plugins. Unfortunately, there was no option for bloggers using blogger.com as their blogging platform to show their older posts on the homepage. That was making very hard for the readers to find out the posts for what they were looking for.
To help make it easier blogger has added a new feature for their users, which can help them to highlight their featured post or the one which would be the most important for their readers. We will learn today, how to use this feature in our blogs.
Follow these steps to activate this feature
#1. Login to your
blogger accounts.
#2. Select the blog.
#3. Navigate to 'Layout' section.
#4. Click on 'Add a Gadget' anywhere or where you want to display the post.
#5. It will open a pop up window, you have to select the second feature from the list, that will be with the name of 'Featured post'.
#6. It will ask you to select the post, which you want to highlight anywhere on the site.
#7. Choose how you want to display that post, with thumbnails, with images or without images.
#8. Now click on 'Save'
#9. It will close the pop up window, click on 'Save arrangements'.
#10. You have done. It will start displaying your post.
You can change the posts anytime, by editing that gadget and choosing the other posts.
Hope it will help you in activating this feature. But I know some of the people don't like to read the written articles or tutorials, also sometimes in many cases it's difficult to understand the steps correctly. Don't worry I have a perfect solution of this problem also.
I had captured the screen of my lapton while applying this feature on my own blog i.e.,
Tips2secure and uploaded that video on youtube to guide other people.
You can also watch that tutorial visually here in this post without going to Youtube or searching for that video. Just click on the 'Play' icon and it will start playing the tutorial live. I know you will enjoy this video.
Conclusion
This is one of the great features of blogger, which will help you to
rank your older post by sending
traffic and visitor to that posts. You should use this feature and also should update the post periodically. You can also feature your posts, which is more useful for you or generate money for you,
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