To check our changes, click the new “Preview template” button to see the updates:
Celebrating 10 years of shared success
Posted:
June 18, 2013
Ten years ago we launched AdSense
to help publishers earn money by placing relevant ads on their
websites. I can still remember the excitement and anticipation as
AdSense went live that first day.
Our
small team huddled together in a cramped conference room, and right
away we saw that publishers were as excited about AdSense as we were.
Fast-forward 10 years, and AdSense has become
a core part of Google’s advertising business. The AdSense community has
grown to include more than 2 million publishers, and last year alone,
publishers earned more than $7 billion from AdSense. AdSense is a
community that thrives because of all the content creators we are so
fortunate to partner with. Their stories inspire us to do our part to
make AdSense great.
On this occasion, it’s especially inspiring to hear the stories of partners who have been with us since the very beginning—like a retiree in New Zealand who was able to pursue her dream of writing about her garden, a tech support expert in Colorado who can spend more time with his kids, and a theme park reviewer who now sends employees around the world to test and review rides—all thanks to money earned from AdSense.
As part of our 10th anniversary celebration, we hope you’ll tune into our live Hangout on Air today at 10 a.m. PDT (5 p.m. GMT) on the AdSense Google+ page. I
look forward to joining several of our partners to share stories from
the early days of AdSense, talk about how we’ve all grown since then,
and discuss the future for publishers and online advertising. And if you
want even more 10th anniversary celebration, just visit our AdSense 10th anniversary page at any time.
Posted by Susan Wojcicki, SVP, Ads and Commerce
Bringing Google+ Comments to Blogger
Posted:
April 18, 2013
Cross-posted from the Google Official blog
Posted by +Yonatan Zunger, Principal Engineer
In all cases, you and your readers will only see the comments you have permission to see. Giving people these kinds of controls not only encourages more meaningful sharing—it can lead to more blog traffic.
Reading
and responding to comments can be one of the most rewarding aspects of
blogging. Not only do they help you connect with your readers, they can
also inspire later blog entries. The challenge, oftentimes, is following
all the conversations around your content—on Google+, for instance, as well as on your website. So we're making things a lot simpler.
Starting
today, you can bring Google+ Comments to your Blogger blog. Once you've
enabled the feature through your Blogger Dashboard, you'll enjoy a
number of important benefits:
View your blog and Google+ comments, all in one place
Now
when you're browsing your blog's comment threads, you'll see activity
from direct visitors, and from people talking about your content on
Google+. For example, if there's a public Google+ discussion about one
of your blog entries, those comments and replies will also appear on
your Blogger blog. This way you can engage with more of your readers,
all in one place.
Help readers comment and connect with their circles
Your
blog readers will now have the option to comment publicly, or privately
to their circles on Google+. And when they're browsing blog comments,
they can view all of them, just the top ones, or only those from the
people in their circles.
In all cases, you and your readers will only see the comments you have permission to see. Giving people these kinds of controls not only encourages more meaningful sharing—it can lead to more blog traffic.
To
get started with Google+ Comments, just visit the Google+ tab of your
Blogger Dashboard, and check “Use Google+ Comments.” (Older comments
will continue to appear in the new widget.)
You can also visit any post on the Official Google Blog (like this one), or on Blogger Buzz (like this one), to see Google+ Comments in action.
You can also visit any post on the Official Google Blog (like this one), or on Blogger Buzz (like this one), to see Google+ Comments in action.
Happy commenting!
Improvements to the Blogger template HTML editor
Posted:
April 09, 2013
Posted by: +Samantha Schaffer and +Renee Kwang, Software Engineer Interns.
Whether you’re a web developer who builds blog templates for a living, or a web-savvy blog owner who prefers to make changes to your template using HTML, CSS or JavaScript, you may be interested in some enhancements that we made to Blogger’s Template HTML Editor.
Your blog’s HTML template is the source code that controls the appearance of your blog. This template can be customized to appear however you’d like. The improved HTML template editor now supports line numbering, syntax highlighting, auto-indentation and code folding to make editing your template much easier.
Suppose we wanted to move the date of a blog post underneath the post title, similar to the Blogger Buzz blog. To do this, follow these steps:
Click the “Template” tab on the Blogger dashboard, then the “Edit HTML” button, to see the new template HTML editor:
Locate the “Blog1” widget quickly using the new “Jump to widget” drop down:
This widget controls how your blog posts are displayed. The code inside
the widget is folded by default. Clicking the new fold markers ‘►’ next
to the line numbers expands the widget and reveals a set of “includable”
tags:
Inside the “main” includable is the block of code that renders the post date:
Cut the post date code section and move it to where we want it, in this case, under the post title in the “post” includable:
To check our changes, click the new “Preview template” button to see the updates:
The post date is exactly where we want it, so tab back to “Edit template”, hit “Save template” and we’re done!
Finally, we’ve added a “Format template” button that automatically cleans up the indentation of the template, and made
Whether you’re a web developer who builds blog templates for a living, or a web-savvy blog owner who prefers to make changes to your template using HTML, CSS or JavaScript, you may be interested in some enhancements that we made to Blogger’s Template HTML Editor.
Your blog’s HTML template is the source code that controls the appearance of your blog. This template can be customized to appear however you’d like. The improved HTML template editor now supports line numbering, syntax highlighting, auto-indentation and code folding to make editing your template much easier.
Suppose we wanted to move the date of a blog post underneath the post title, similar to the Blogger Buzz blog. To do this, follow these steps:
Finally, we’ve added a “Format template” button that automatically cleans up the indentation of the template, and made
