What do to if Google tags your blogger blog with a Malware warning

So yesterday, I discovered that Google had tagged my Digital Rockhound's site.

So I used Google WebMaster's tools and verified that my site was clean.
I used this site  http://www.unmaskparasites.com to confirm that I had links to a site with malware.
Turns out I did.

I used a Google site search to help narrow where the links were.  I had two links in a link gadget to the offending site.  Simply removed them.

Then, I used WebMaster's tools a requested a reindex of my site. Good news here is that the links were at root level so the indexing was fast.  


After Google re-indexed my site, no more scary malware warnings.

Reformatted code examples

When I upgraded by site template, I forgot to re-add div class to format source code.
Code snippet I use is from http://bguide.blogspot.com/

/*
Custom CSS class to display code snippets.
http://bguide.blogspot.com/
2008 Feb 03
*/
.mycode
{
white-space:pre;
font-family:monospace;
font-size:9pt;
line-height: 10pt;
height:auto;
width:auto;
padding:5px;
margin-left:10px;
overflow:auto;
}

Learning more about Blogger and CSS

How to add a custom CSS to a blog's template.

Description of a Blogger Template

Added the following CSS style Sheet:

/*
Custom CSS class to display code snippets.
http://bguide.blogspot.com/
2008 Feb 03
*/
.mycode
{
border:1px dashed #aaaaaa;
background:#eeeeee;
white-space:pre;
font-family:monospace;
font-size:9pt;
line-height: 10pt;
height:auto;
width:auto;
padding:5px;
margin-left:10px;
overflow:auto;
}

To implement:

<div class="mycode">

/* Paste the code snippet here */

</div>

My code....

public static void UnregisterControl(Type t)
{
try
{
GuardNullType(t, "t");
GuardTypeIsControl(t);

//CLSID
string key = @"CLSID\" + t.GUID.ToString("B");
Registry.ClassesRoot.DeleteSubKeyTree(key);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
LogAndRethrowException("ComUnregisterFunction failed.", t, ex);
}

}

Creating HTML tables in Blogger

Blogger puts in extra space some how in a blog post containing HTML tables.
I found a fix: http://www.mt-soft.com.ar/2008/12/06/how-to-create-tables-in-blogger/
Wrap a Div around entire HTML containing formatted tables.


From http://www.blogger-book.com

Testing method of avoiding large white space created by standard way of coding table

I have a post detailing how to write the HTML for a table in this post How to avoid large space above table when writing the HTML for a table in Blogger. There were two methods, the one I used is cumbersome. MLA commented in that post and asked for my opinion of his way of avoiding large white space above tables when writing HTML for tables in the standard format. I said I will test it, so I am testing it first in a New Blogger blog. If it works here, I believe it should also work in the old (classic) Blogger. So here goes. If you don't see any large white space between this paragraph, and the table, that means MLA's method works:

Product	Code	Price
Apple	0123	$1.25
Orange	0247	$1.55
Pear	1928	$1.45

Well, there are no large space between the paragraph above and the table as you can see, so MLA's method works.

This is how MLA did it. He created a class "nobr" using CSS, like this:

Then below the CSS, he created a division

specifying the class. He will then type the HTML for the table in the standard format within that division. For example, this is the script I used to create the above table:

Get Comments for Blogger Blog

.Net Documentation for Blogger API from Google
Very easy but I need to remember the following (and I know I won't :)

Getting comments for all posts on the blog, use

http://www.blogger.com/feeds/blogID/comments/default

This link does not appear in list of links on AtomEntry.Links
AtomEntry.Links[3] was

http://www.blogger.com/feeds/blogID/posts/default
and I simply replaced "posts" with "comments" and then queried the blogger web service.

private void GetComments(AtomEntry blog, string login, string password)
{
Service bloggerService = new Service("blogger", "WebPhotoTool.Accounts");
bloggerService.Credentials = new GDataCredentials(login, password);

FeedQuery query = new FeedQuery();
query.Uri = new Uri(blog.Links[3].AbsoluteUri.ToString().Replace("posts","comments"));
AtomFeed feed = _bloggerService.Query(query);
foreach (AtomEntry entry in feed.Entries)
{
}
}

Animated Flash Label cloud

http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2008/08/blogumus-flash-animated-label-cloud-for.html

http://www.blogspottutorial.com/2008/12/add-flash-label-widget-in-blog.html

Live Traffic widgets

From FeedJit

How to add Star rating to my blog

Use this
http://www.outbrain.com/get/ratings

Setup and configuration for New Blogger Tag Cloud / Label Cloud

Steps to create Label Cloud in a Blogger Template