Add a BlogRoll in Blogger and Pass PageRank Juice to Your Google Reader Subscriptions
Google had added a new feature in Blogger that lets you share your Blogroll with readers. You can either add blogs manually or import them from your Google Reader Subscriptions.
Blogger will automatically arrange the blogroll using the order in which blogs are updated. The blogroll can also show short text snippets from the latest post of your favorite blogs.
This could be an easy way to spread some Google Juice as Jerry Esteban writes on Blogger Draft blog - “The Blogroll writes all links out in HTML so that, unlike JavaScript-based blogrolls, you pass Google PageRank goodness on to the blogs you link to.”
To add a blogroll in blogger, open draft.blogger.com/ and insert the “Blog List” widget to your Blog Template.
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Superb. I was sick of the limited feature in javascript based blogroll widget :)
Also some more updates to Blogger being applied today:
# Clearer identity options on the comment form, which now highlights some of the more popular OpenID providers more obviously.
# Transliteration is now available in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu as well as Hindi
# Posts with more than 200 comments have them split across multiple pages.
# Layouts blogs now have a “Layouts” tab instead of “Template.”
I noticed it long ago but didn’t expect it to make such good to my favourite bloggers..
I find this very frustrating as I use Blogger for 2 blogs. 1 personal and 1 for a computer user group
Blogger offers me this page element on my personal blog but not for the PC group which is of course where it would be more useful
I can’t for the life of me see the difference or why it isn’t offered. Does anyone know?