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Is Blogger Worth It Nowadays? An Honest Review from a Writer — WordsByEkta🌿

Is Blogger Worth It Nowadays? An Honest Answer from Someone Who Almost Quit — Many Times I started this blog in July 2025. Not with a plan. Not with a niche strategy or a content calendar. I started because writing is my thing — the one space that has always felt like mine. And Blogger was free, simple, and already there. It has been almost a year. I have not earned a single rupee. And I am still here. So when someone asks me: "Is Blogger worth it in 2026?" — I am not going to give you the influencer answer. I am going to give you the honest one. What Nobody Told Me When I Started I thought building a blog meant writing. Just writing. I didn't know about meta descriptions, canonical tags, duplicate H1 tags, or why my posts weren't appearing in Google despite being published for months. I was writing full HTML pages inside Blogger — including my own <head> tags and meta descriptions — because that's how I had learne...
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Blogger SEO Mistakes: Meta Description, H1, Title Box Fix & Permalink — WordsByEkta🌿

The Invisible Settings: Why Your Blogger Posts Aren't Showing Up Right (And Everything You Need to Fix It) I thought I was doing everything right. I had learned HTML properly — or so I believed. Every article I published started with a full HTML page structure. I wrote the <!DOCTYPE html> , the <head> , the meta description tag, all of it. I had even added my own title tags inside the content. Weeks passed. My posts were live. But something felt off about how they appeared in search results. The descriptions were random and out of my control even when i had meticulousluy placed meta tag descritpon in all of my htmls. Bing was flagging multiple H1 tags and duplicate titles. I couldn't figure out why. Then I discovered something that changed everything: Blogger theme already creates half the page. The theme handles the <html> , the <head> , the title, the meta tags — all of it. When I pasted a full HTML page into the post editor, ...
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Blogger Links Opening in Same Tab: Why It's Losing You Readers and How to Fix It — WordsByEkta🌿

How I Accidentally Discovered My Blog Was Sending Readers Away Forever (And the One-Line Fix) I didn't know I had a problem. My articles were live. My links were working. Readers could click and go wherever I wanted them to go. Everything looked fine. Until I actually sat with my blog the way a reader would. I clicked a link inside one of my articles — a "Back to Index" link — and my article disappeared. Gone. Replaced by the index page. If I wanted to go back, I had to hit the browser's back button and hope the article reloaded where I left it. That's when I understood: every time a reader clicked any link on my blog, they left my article permanently. I wasn't losing readers because of bad content. I was losing them because of a missing line of code. The Problem Nobody Warns You About When you add a link in Blogger — or anywhere — the default behaviour is to open that link in the same tab . The page the reader was on...
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Your Sitemap Already Has All Your Post URLs — Here's How to Extract Them — WordsByEkta🌿

WordsByEkta🌿 MS Word · Blogger Tips · SEO How to Extract All Your Blog Post URLs from Your Sitemap — Using Only MS Word No tools, no plugins, no coding. Just Find & Replace. Learn it once, use it forever. 📋 In This Article What is a sitemap? Why would you need a list of all your URLs? How to open your sitemap in MS Word Method A — The Backslash Trick (Recommended ✅) Method B — Step-by-step cleanup What the final result looks like 1. What Is a Sitemap? A sitemap is a file that keeps a list of every page and post on your blog — all in one place, in one format. It is written in XML (a structured text format) and is mainly meant for search engines like Google and Bing, so they can find and crawl your blog easily. For a Blogger blog, your sitemap is usually available at: https:// yourblog.blogspot.com /sitemap.xml https:// yourcustomdomain.com /sitemap.xml Like mine is: https:// wordsbyektaa.blogspot.com /sitemap.xml ...
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How to Create a Custom HTML Contact Form in Blogger (Without Gadgets) — WordsByEkta🌿

Blogger Contact Form Tutorial: Custom CSS, Formspree, and Auto-Redirect If you’ve been using Blogger for a while, you probably think you only have two choices for a Contact page: Use the pre-made, "clunky" Contact Gadget that rarely matches your blog’s design. Simply type your email address on a page—practically inviting spam bots to dinner. But there is a third, professional way. You can actually "code" your own custom contact form using HTML. This allows you to choose exactly how it looks—the colors, the fonts, and the specific questions you want to ask your readers. It turns a boring page into a "Painterly" part of your brand. The "Bottomless Mailbox" Problem However, here is the "investigative" truth: simply writing the HTML code for a form is only half the battle. Blogger is a fantastic platform for content, but it is a "static" host . This means it doesn't have a bui...
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What's quiet isn't worthless. What's simple isn't small. — WordsByEkta🌿

What's quiet isn't worthless. What's simple isn't small. ✍️ Written by WordsByEkta🌿 🖋️ Emotional Storyteller | Writing what hearts never say aloud 💌 If you connected with my way of saying hard truths — often overlooked but deeply felt — explore one of my free letters: wordsbyekta.gumroad.com ← Previous 🌿 Explore All Next →
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