New, Improved Mashable-like Floating Social Sharing Buttons Widget for Blogger

I have grown tired of trying to find ways to solve horizontal alignment problems that normally come with the use of share buttons such as Facebook and Twitter. Finally made the decision to remove everything from my blogs and adopt something that was originally inspired by Mashable.
Yes, Mashable still has it on their blog and I have been using something similar for about 3 days now. So far, so

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Iframe-based Twitter Tweet Button for Blogger. The better alternative!

Twitter has provided webmasters and bloggers 3 different ways of adding their Tweet button to websites and blogs.
The most popular and undoubtedly the easiest way for everyone is by using JavaScript but what many didn’t know is that it has the tendency to create a lot of problems to those using it. I have seen problems caused by JavaScript-based Tweet button too many times already and I’m getting

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Facebook-friendly Open Graph Tags for Blogger blogs. Passes Debugger Tool!

I was getting bored in the last few hours. My boredom led me to a Facebook Like button on one of my blog posts. I fooled around with it for a while when I discovered something quite horrendous. It seems that Facebook has changed something (I don’t know what!) and my blog post no longer look decent on Facebook!
Since it look quite awful, I have no choice but to take another close look at my

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Examples of Schema.org microdata markups for Blogger comments. Passes Rich Snippets Testing Tool!

In the last few weeks, I have proven two things here on this blog:
I have proven that it is entirely possible to markup Blogger blogs with Schema.org microdata markups and
I have also proven that precise implementations of Schema.org microdata markups can also help Blogger blogs look so much better in Google+.

Today I want you to explore the possibility of marking up Blogger comments with

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Schema.org microdata markup suggestions for Melvin’s TheEmoLab Blogger-powered blog

In the last few weeks, I have been documenting personal successes and failures in annotating my blog with Schema.org microdata markups. I believe I have achieved plenty but I’m not yet ready to share everything here on this blog due to certain unmentionable reasons.
Some visitors to this blog had taken notice of my experimentations and one of them had even asked me to look into his Blogger

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How to remove/get rid of irrelevant +Snippet thumbnails before everybody can see them in Google+

I just learned that one of the pains bloggers that are using Blogger have to face in Google+ is the appearance of irrelevant thumbnails after readers had share their blog posts in Google+. Thumbnail images that have nothing to do with the shared blog posts were ‘chosen’ by +Snippet and some bloggers find it quite embarrassing, I suppose.
Do not blame +Snippet
Now, there’s one thing that we have

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Schema.org microdata markups for Blogger blogs! Passes +Snippet and Rich Snippets Testing Tool!

In my last post, I have shown you some examples of Schema.org microdata markups that bloggers can apply on their Blogger-powered blogs to give Google +Snippet the right kind of information about our blogs and blog posts before they are shared with other people in Google+.
I don’t know about you but I’m very particular about how tools such as +Snippet grab information about our blogs and blog

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How to markup Blogger blogs with Schema.org microdata. Examples provided. Put an end to your +Snippet headaches!

Google introduced the +1 button to the whole world on March 28th 2011 and today we can see it almost everywhere in the internet.
Even bloggers that are using Blogger have +1 buttons on their blogs but unfortunately many didn’t know how to make +1-friendly annotations or markups on their blogs. Correct +1 annotations and markups are important because they can help visitors properly populate their

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Solution: Blogger’s OpenID ‘Your OpenID credentials could not be verified’ error – Solved!

One of the biggest frustrations that we bloggers that are using Blogger have to endure is undoubtedly Blogger’s failure to let us conveniently leave comments on other Blogger blogs with OpenID. We are forced to use some other identities such as Blogger/Google Profile or Name/URL and we are not happy with that at all! :(
Even though Blogger has provided such facility for bloggers and blog visitors

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