New Fonts For Blogger Blogs | Google Web Fonts

Last Wednesday Google launched a set of new web-fonts, fonts which can be used anywhere on any website freely. The Google Font API allows you to use all these fonts in your own blog.

Check out this new font as an example:

New Fonts For Blogger

So, how to use these fonts on your blog?

For every new font you want to add to your blog, you simply have to paste a single line of code in your blog's template. Once you are done with it, remember the name of the font and use it anywhere in your blog (in any post or part of a post or in your widgets).

Steps to add a new font:

The Best SERP Tool Ever | SEO For Blogs

If you are new to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), then SERP or 'Search Engine Results Page' is simply the search-results page that is returned to a user when s/he searches something on the Internet (Google/Yahoo etc.), and that "something" is the "keyword" or the "key phrase".

A Typical SERP for 'San Francisco'

Official Google Buzz Buttons [With Share-Counter] For Your Blog

Yesterday Google officially released the Google Buzz Share and Follow buttons.
These buttons will directly post your articles to Google-Buzz, instead of Google-Reader as it was the case in the previous method. Moreover one set of these buttons has a counter too, to count the number of ReBuzzes your article gets.
You can see the working demos of these buttons in many popular websites and blogs including The Washington Post, Blogger, YouTube, The Huffington Post, GigaOM etc.

Add Google Buzz Buttons To Blogger/BlogSpot Blogs

13th Feb.: Code updated to replace the word null with your blog's name.

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14th Apr.: Now official Google Buzz buttons are available (with a share-counter).

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Follow BloggerStop at G-Buzz

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First it was Facebook, then Twitter and now it is Google-Buzz.

Being a blogger, you don't have to worry on who's copying whom! All these websites let their users interact more easily and for webmasters, it means free traffic with minimum efforts. So, keep all your options open as you never know which of them may bring a big wave of traffic to your blog!

Now talking about G-Buzz, although Google has not yet provided any official "Buzz It!" buttons, but it does allow you to synchronize your blog-feed with the Buzz, so that all your posts are directly sent to your Buzz account. Simply add your blog to the connected sites list...

Inspired by Mashable, now I too have created the Google Buzz It! buttons for the readers of BloggerStop. Here's how you can add these buttons to your blog:

Speed Matters - Site Speed is an Important SEO Factor Now!

Google loves speed, and there's absolutely no doubt in it. Most of the searches made on Google, return the results within a second. And Google doesn't want to limit its speed only till the search result pages [SERPs], rather, it is now trying to give the best user experience by showing fast loading pages in its top results.
May be a few years back Google/Matt Cutts had a different opinion, when content and information was given prime importance in search engine ranking. But presently with similar content in hundred's of pages across the web, page loading speed has to be made an important SEO factor.
The official news...
In a recent interview with WebProNews, Google's Matt Cutts has given some insights on how site speed may soon be an important ranking factor:
"Historically, we haven't had to use it in our search rankings, but a lot of people within Google think that the web should be fast," says Cutts. "It should be a good experience, and so it's sort of fair to say that if you're a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a bonus. If you really have an awfully slow site, then maybe users don't want that as much."

Moreover Site Speed has been included as a new feature under "Google Labs" section in Google Webmaster Tools too:


So anything new in SEO?
There are no additional SEO requirements due to this announcement, already loading speed is important to make the visitors happy, now it has been added as an important factor in search engines rankings.
1. Check your sites loading time at PingDom [quite accurate and recommended tool]
2. Other tools to check and optimize your blogs loading time.
3. Google itself is ready to help you to speed up the loading time - Google Speed and Helpful Tools [Check you Webmaster Tools account too - a must for everyone]
4. Also read this post [from OneCoolSite] on how you can optimize your site's loading speed.
5. Select templates with minimum graphics and javascript/css files.

Exactly when will Google update its algorithm?
May be Google has already included it, but Matt implied that it will be added to their algorithm in 2010.

Image credits: The Insider