Get a Flag Counter, Be a Prideful Blogger

Sector: Blogging

Friends, I think you will be glad to know about this tip on blogging. This is about making your blog a little more enriched. So watch out. 

A flag counter is a gadget that shows you from which country your blog is being visited and how many times.  Like, you can see in my sidebar. This gadget tracks visitor’s country and add his country flag to your blog counter. It also counts you total pageview made by your visitors. 

You are thinking you can know this from your blog stats. But tell me, can you see all the countries from which your country is visited? No, stats only shows mostly visited 8 countries not all and they keep changing. To get what I am saying, you need a flag counter. 

Isn’t it amazing that you wake up from sleep and found that you blog is visited from a new country? I can imagine a sparkle of smile of joy when you see that your flag counter has a new flag and your flag collection is presented with a new one. 

This is not a gadget that blogger provides. So you have to get it. Don’t worry it’s free. For your pleasant smile, follow the steps:

Go to Design. Be on the Page Elements page Decide where you want your flag counter to appear. Then click on the Add a Gadget. Click on the plus (+) sign of this gadget from the Basic gadgets: HTML/ java scripts. A new window will open.

There you will see two options: Title and below it Content. If you want to give your flag counter a title, write the title on the Title option. Then copy and paste the links below on the Content option:

If you choose to display your flag counter to appear on the sidebar, you need this link:

<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/gjac"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/gjac/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=248/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="free counters" border="0"></a>   

If you choose to display your flag counter to appear on just under the Header or in the lower portion of Home page (The place where I placer my popular posts and recent posts), you need this link:

<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/gSKw"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/gSKw/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=8/maxflags=248/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="free counters" border="0"></a>

I must recommend you not to place the Flag Counter below the Header. It doesn’t give your blog a good impression or look. 

Note: You can use this link as a HTML code for your website if you have one. Just have this link and paste this on your site HTML. 

Now click on Save. The window will close. The save your template as well. You are done. Now view your blog. You will see that your flag counter is now at your desired place of your blog. Have fun with you Flag Counter and keep smiling.