I have been an avid blogger and there have been many features which one requires as a must have for their blog. The bad thing is not all such features may be available directly with your platform. The good thing, there are multiple services available, free of cost, which help you reap benefits of those.
In this post I am going to mention about three such features available on blogger as part of the platform, which are a value add-on.
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1. Blog Stats: One such feature was the counter for your blog. Most of times I would rely on statscounter and services like those for getting those counters setup, but recently I noticed that blogger with few updates, have made it available as a ready tool.
The new blogger statistic I quite cool. With multiple options of how the counter looks, you can choose to have dynamic effects while displaying the counter. Also I have noticed that not only it works quite well, it seems to update with refresh of the page, which is nice.
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I am still not sure if you could reset the counter or start it from a certain number if you wish to, but this is still nice.
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2. Web fonts: being made available for the posts, is definitely a great add-on. Gone are the days when you could post only in the specific, 6-7 fonts given on blogger. Now, blogger has brought onboard a huge set of web ready fonts, and you can do a lot more creative stuff with your posts by usage of fonts. Try it.
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3. Ratings for blogs: Blogger has unveiled ratings for blogs, so your readers can rate a blog from 0 to 5. Although I thought the earlier feature where you could customize the message and get the user to tick them was much cool. For example, I could put “loved it”, “already knew” as options and then for each post these checkboxes would appear and user could tell you what they felt about your article, but guess ratings is more industry specific feature. So, kudos to bringing that on.
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So, this is it. Hope you liked the article. If you already knew about these, do share the features which you love, and the features you found coming out newly.
Share and learn! Have a great day.
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