Saturday, July 30, 2005

[Tags] [Blogger] Putting your tags on a post template

Thanks to Andrew for all the good information about tags. He helped me find a mistake I was making in Technorati that completely knocked me out of their system (at least I think that's what did it, anyway it's fixed now).

I wanted to share an idea I had that is working well. Now mind you, I'm in first grade in this s'cool, so if everyone else already is doing this, just indulge me. I am pretty proud that I thought of it.

On Blogger there is a place in dashboard (under Settings / Formatting) where you can create a post template by adding any html language for formatting that you want to use on every post. I use the same tags for Technorati about 90% of the time, so I made a template with the tags on it. That way they automatically are on the new page when I create a new post. It's great. It's much easier than saving them as a text file and cutting and pasting every time, which is what I had been doing. And if I want to change one of the tags, I can just go into html when I create the post and change what needs to be changed.

I hope there is someone reading this who is as technologically challenged as I am who can benefit from this idea.
Kalyn

9 comments:

Amy Sherman said...

Kalyn, will you share the code you use? You can add some spaces to the code so it will still show up in the post. Thanks.

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Kalyn Denny said...

Another chance to learn (for me!). I tried to post the tags like Amy requested, but even when I put in some spaces, they still showed up in the post as tags, not the code (weird tags, but still tags). Anyone know how I should do this. Maybe I didn't put enough spaces. I hope no one saw that post and got befuddled before I deleted it.

Or Amy you can e-mail me and I will send them directly to you. I think that will work.
Kalyn999@aol.com

Kalyn

Kalyn Denny said...

Amy, I tried but I could not get the html to go through in a post, even with spaces. It showed up as a tag (a weird one, but a tag.) Can you enlighten me?

Or if you want to e-mail me, I will send it to you directly. I think that will work.

Kalyn
Kalyn999@aol.com

Kalyn Denny said...

I was trying to reply to Amy and the web site was not responding. As you can see, every time I reloaded it sent the comment. Yikes. Kalyn

(Sam, if you can delete those comments take pity on me.)

Anonymous said...

Brandon, have you tried editing your template? Look for the blogger tag that corresponds to the timestamp, and add your (i'm guessing Technorati?) tags before/after/where ever you prefer.

Or, if you change the font style to that of your date/timestamp, you can just add a couple of returns and then the tag to your post template, and no one will know better. ;)

Hope I've helped somewhat!

Jennifer said...

I tried putting my Technorati tags in the time/date stamp in Blogger for a few days and discovered that because the time/date stamp doesn't show up in RSS feeds, Technorati wasn't picking up the tag. It looked nice, but it didn't work!

But then I discovered that Technorati will pick up invisible tags within the body of the post. For example, I use the "Spokane" tag a lot. The code for this tag normally is:

<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/spokane" rel="tag">spokane</a>

To make it invisible, but still readable by Technorati, the text can be removed.


<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/spokane" rel="tag"></a>

This will work for any of your tags.

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