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Both Blogger and WordPress have an option to put the site offline or make it unavailable permanently or temporarily. You may need to put your site offline for a number of reasons. In this post, I will just talk about how to limit access to a blogger site. At the same time, you can deny the search engines to access your site and you can also restrict general people to view your contents.  As mentioned earlier, there could be several reasons behind putting the site offline. Such as -  You can restrict search engines to crawl your site. Because you would like to decorate your site first. In that case you can limit search engines' access.  You may need to make your site unavailable temporarily due to political violations or religious issues.  Or may be the site could be a private one. Maybe it's subject to be unavailable to the public.  Whatever the reason, or even if you don't need to put your site offline, at least you should know the way. S...

If you're running a blog in blogger platform, you should notice, sometimes your site is redirected to local domains. I mean your site is redirected to country specific URL. But it doesn't happen in all countries. Maybe 15 - 20 countries have their own blogger domain. But Google will implement the local domains for blogger blogs in other countries very soon!  Let's give me an example:  You know the URL of Marks PC Solution is -  http://munnamark.blogspot.com If you're Italian you will see my site's URL as-  http://munnamark.blogspot.it A Canadian will see my site's URL as -   http://munnamark.blogspot.ca An Indian will see my site's URL as-  http://munnamark.blogspot.in Okay fine! Blogger has its own local domains for different countries. But what's wrongwith this country specific URL? There are a number of problems:  Your social stats (+1, Likes, Tweets) may fall dramatically due to the variations in domain....

In my very last post, I talked about word verification in blogger blog. Reducing spam comment was also discussed there. Today you're getting a full tutorial on optimizing comment option in blogger . What you should do and shouldn't do in Comments setting will be discussed today. Enjoy . . .  The aim of this tutorial is: To make your blog's commenting process easier To keep your blog free of spam To make your visitors engaged with your site Make sure you're signed in to your blogger account. Go to the Settings option from design or dashboard. Click on Post and Comments. Go to the Comments area. Now do the following: Comment Location: By default the location is embedded . You shouldn't change this to Full page, Pop up or Hide. Visitors like embedded comment box. This will appear just below your post.  Who can Comment? : There are four options: Anyone, Registered User , User with Google Accounts, Only members of this blog. Choo...

By default blogger blogs are designed to show word verification when visitors comment in a post. Though this is a very useful tool to avoid spam, but real users often get bored by this option. Besides blogger has an automatic spam checking tool. So you can remove the word verification option from the comment in order to let your visitors express their opinion easily.  While commenting on blogger blogs or other websites you may face a word challenge. And this is a very common thing. Specially when you open any online account. Sometimes words used in the verification option are too hard to guess. And users are very annoyed with this.  Look at the image above. When you comment on blogger blogs or someone comments on your blog he/she will face a challenge like this. Normally this option doesn't show any hard challenge. But sometimes they are also difficult to guess. Users have to try this again and again. If they are annoyed they will l...