Showing posts with label Blogger Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogger Tips. Show all posts

Friday, 9 October 2009

Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Yahoo And Bing

How to submit blogger sitemap to different search engines.I hope most of us have done it with there blogs but most still would be not knowing on how to do it.But this post is for all bloggers even if they have submitted there sitemaps as i would share some method to remove some errors while you are getting in indexing all blog posts in search engines.

How to Submit Blogger Sitemap to Google.

Follow the simple steps to add blogger blog to Webmaster Tools

1. Login to Blogger Dashboard.
2. At the end of the page, under Tools and Resources box – Click on Webmaster Tools.You will Be asked To Enable Webmaster Tool Enable It.
3. If asked, enter username and password again to Login.
4. After Logging in Click Add A site Button.



5.Now Enter Your Blog Address And Continue.Dont Forget To Include '/' At the end of your blog address.Like this http://www.anshuldudeja.com/ .
6.Now you will be asked to verify your blog Just verify it as they say.

7. Inside Webmaster tools, click on Submit a Sitemap and add the following code inside the box :


atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100


8. If you have more than 200 posts then replace value 100 by something bigger number like 500.If they are more than 500 then add sitemaps in this format.


atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500


As Labnol has developed the tool for it also. Just visit the tool page here to get submit blogger map to google yahoo and bing also.For More Help you can read this post also on how to use this tool with an video tutorial.

I hope you will do it easily now.If you still have any problems let me know in comments.I will try to solve them.
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Thursday, 6 August 2009

Remove Duplicate Content And Urls From Blogger

Hi Friends,i hope you all will be fine.As since it has been really a long time for me to have any useful post for you.As before i was busy in exams and after it i didn't got time but today i have an really useful post for you.As blogger is not very search engine optimized and we have to keep in mind some things to make it seo or have to implement some hacks to make it seo to an extent we can.

As previously i had an post on problem with blogspot blogs in seo,which also was very informative post for every blogger.You have to read it for sure before continuing this post.

Some other tips you can read on to increase your visitors are how to increase visitors from search engines and promote you random posts via emails.

Now let continue on some useful tips to make you blogger really seo by removing all duplicate content from your blog.Duplicate content can be urls,meta tags,titles and descriptions.

First Issue:-
Adding Of Meta Tags:As we all bloggers add meta tags to there blogs.Meta tags are used to tell search engines about the important keywords of your blog and inform it to rank high,there blog for these keywords.As in the way we all add meta tags to blogger,we don't know that they are adding it in wrong way and effecting rank of all blogger pages,becuase the way we are adding meta tags,the seach engines are considering it for all your posts.As i will tell on how to add these meta tags correctly.

If you you don't know how to ad meta tags you can read for sure.

Solution:-Whenever you are adding meta tags to blogger just embed that tags between these two lines,i am writing below.As embeding between them will make it add only for blog home page url.



<-----------------Meta Content Here------------------->



Just add meta tags in between them,and to get meta tags you can read on this post.As now search engines will consider them for only your blog home page,not all blogger pages,which will remove duplication of same keywords for all your blogger posts.


Second Issue:-
Different Urls With Same Content In your blog:As there is one more problem in blogger as search engines indexes comment links of blogger posts,now if you have comments on posts and search engine indexes blogger posts url and also indexes its comments link and find the same content in both,which make the duplicate content for search engines and your seo for that post will be effected,its an serious cause and should be solved.Just view the picture below to make it clear.



Image source From Bloggerstop.net

As you can see in image the post page is same but it is being indexed for two differnt urls,which creates duplicate content and affects seo.

Solution:-Go To (Layout -> Edit HTML), click on "Expand Widget Templates",
Then Press (CTRL+F) and find below codes:







And Replace above codes with any one codes you like:-


First One:-







These codes will change the form of link and stop them from being indexed.

Second One:-





It will make the link simply nofollow and inform engines not to follow them.


Now your comments link will not be get indexed by search engines.In a month time, i am sure google will start visiting your blog more and make it seo.Best Of Luck From Me !!!
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Saturday, 1 August 2009

!!Latest Widget !!How To Add News To Your Blog!!

Some Blog Publisher & Webmasters wants to put some widget on their sides or blog that shows some fresh news on their blog or sides to attract the people.If till now you not having this type of widget then now this is for you.

you can Click Here

Or go to http://www.feedzilla.com

Freezilla is a frre widget for every one and you can chose the source,type of news you want to taget the visitor.



And also you can chose the method for installation like Flash, HTML, Javascript, Wordpress,myscpae,blogger and lots of more.


Why add Feedzilla news widgets to your site?

* Attract targeted visitors to your website by providing them with the latest news in over 1,700 categories of your choice.
* Increase your visitor's repeat traffic by providing fresh and relevant news.
* Add credibility to your site by providing news from top news providers.
* Improve your ranking on the search engines (SEO), by adding free, updating and customizable news to your site.
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Thursday, 30 July 2009

How To Publish Post Via E-mail?

The Mail-to-Blogger feature in the blog enables you to publish the post via Email. For this feature you have to make a change in you r blog setting. Just go to “Settings” then click “E-mail & Mobile” or “E-mail”



You can create a Mail-to-Blogger address which you will use to publish the posts via email to your blog:

To post to your blog via email, you need to configure your Mail-to-Blogger email address in Settings | Email:




The format of the email address will be username.secretword@blogger.com. Note that this Email must be kept secret. Otherwise, anyone who gets it will be able to post as you.

Also be sure to specify whether or not you prefer your email posts to publish automatically. If this option is not checked, then your posts will be saved on your account but will not appear on your blog until you log in to Blogger.com and publish them yourself.

Once you have saved your Settings, you can send email to your blog. The subjects of your email letters will be the titles of your posts, and the body of the emails will be the posts themselves. To include an image in your post, you can attach an image to you your email.


Notes:
• Sometimes email programs append text to the bottom of each sent message; to make sure this cruft doesn't get posted to your blog, put #end at the end of your post.
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Monday, 6 July 2009

How Post XML,HTML & Java Scripts As Same in Blogger Posts

How to post, XML,HTML,Java Script and such kind of material as a plain text in Blogger.
As many bloggers still don't know why they are not able to post the javacodes in there blogger posts.As i had posts on it before but now i am going to tell you about a simple mozilla addon.

You can check on these posts too if you want same thing to be done in blogger posts,first one is the syntax highlighter and second one is the display script and css codes in blogger posts.This is one which i am using.

Now i will tell you on how to to do this in very simple way with an simple mozilla addon.

1. First You Have Firefox Browser and Then Install Greasemonkey script on your Firefox browser by gonig on below link.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

Click on add to firefox and then install.See Below Image for reference:--




NOW RESTART THE FIREFOX IF ADD-ONS WINDOWS OPEN SIMPLY CLOSE THE WINDOW


2. Now Click on the below link and install the User script 'Blogger - HTML encode on post edit' to blogger.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/42696.user.js






This Script will adds a new button at the bottom of your new post area.It encodes the selected text so that it can be posted as plain text in Blogger.It will look like the Below image.




When you want to encode some code select it and cick on 'HTML ENCODE SELECTION' button.Below Image for reference



Your code will look like below image after being encoded.Now you can publish your post and see the result.


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Tuesday, 2 June 2009

Problems With Blogspot Blogs In Seo

We all use blogspot blogs,but do you know what drawbacks you are facing while using this free blogger service.Well i am not saying you not to use blogspot service,but want to make you aware of what you are gaining over here and what you are loosing over here,so as to make you aware of every aspect about using blogspot blogs leading to its pros and cons.

I will share here different problems with blogspot blogs which effect your seo heavily.

Now everybody think blogger is product of google so we can use blogspot service as it will be packed with seo in google search engines.

At this point suppose you are right,as me too when started my blog thought same as you will be thinking.

Assuming your thinking right,you are getting good seo from google search engines.Now what about other search engines,they dont give importance to blogspot domain names,as there are thousand of engines more to give you traffic,if you still leave them,you can't forget two basic search engines like of yahoo search and msn search.Using blogspot name you are loosing half of your traffic,as these engines can give you same traffic as given by google.Means leaving blogspot name can double your traffic from search engines for sure.

If we assume your thought correct then only you are lossing half of your visitors and how much visitors you will loose now when i will prove your thought wrong.

Yes the true is blogspot blogs are not seo in google search engines also,what we assumed above was wrong.As i will tell you some things to prove it.

First Thing:-Domain name is always preffered over blogspot domain name not only on other search engines but on google too.For some keyword you search,you will not to positioned to first position in results as always blogs with domain name will be a top,if they also have an post with that keyword.As if i would have used domain name,my traffic would have increased by 40 percent sure.
As you can see google adsense program now rejects all blogs on blogspot for there program,as they themselves avoids blogspot domain name and approves too quickly the self hosted blog with domain name.

Second thing:-Google search engines doesn't index blogspot label pages.But in self hosted blog your category pages get indexed also.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/search/label/webmaster%20tools

Now andy has explained here why google doesn't index them and some easy solution,you can read it.

This problem has to be solved by google blogger service,you dont have much to do in it.

Thirdly:- When you use older and newer post link to see different pages the link get like this below:-

http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-05-04T11%3A53%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7

Even these links are not indexed by search engines.So again a great loss.

Now One more important Point:-Think you have been using blogspot for an year and you want to switch to wordpress,you are in threat to loose all your traffic and seo for your all post pages.As you can set redirects while switching to wordpress easily but it will not work as well as you think, Google will insert their virus/malware notice and all redirects will not work as easily as you think.

In that case i greatly liked the trick labnol used to switch to wordpress without loosing an page rank and search engine juice,you can read about it from here on how he switched from blogspot to wordpress.

Using custom domain name from beggining or from many months and then switching will not might be much problem for you.

So you must have to have custom domain name if still you are using blogger.

I have written this post reviewing andys post,you can read it from here also to make more clear about it and ask from him more about it.
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Tip On How To Increase Your Visitors From Search Engines

Today i am going to share my experience with you or you can take it as trick to increase your visitors.As everybody has been blogging on different niche in which he's good but at one time in a day you would think for sure,today i should blog about which thing,that can give me visitors.Yes friends everybody want to increase the visitors to there blog and try to convert them to there readers as much as possible.

So i will share one trick on how to get increase your visitors from the search engines,if your blog receives a part of traffic from them.

Lets share an trick with you.What i use to do is,i daily use to check my traffic counter for visitors coming to my blog once a day for sure.As its not possible to check the all thousands visitors daily so just i use to check at random a day and at any time.

Now my counter let me know the keywords from which the visitors searched on engines and came to my blog.When i use to check these keywords,i daily use to find some keywords for which the visitors seems to coming to my blog but the content visitor needed based on those keywords was not into my blog.This means the visitors need some content on that topic and content is not easily provided and he's coming to my blog accidentally.So why not i should provide that content on my blog.

So why you miss an opportunity to blog about that particular information on your blog and lets increase your visitors from search engines,if you will do this regularly i promise not only your visitors will increase,your blog will also become so much seo that it will be started loving by engines and will give you high rank in it.

And if you try little bit to target some keywords too on search engines keeping in mind,what keywords people use,to find any particualr content on web and will easily find you with that keyword on top,will also help a lot in beggining.

I hope you would love this trick to make your blog seo and increase your blog visitors.If you have any other questions you ask me in comments.
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Monday, 25 May 2009

Show More Than 5 Recent Posts From your Blogger Rss Feed

How To get post description or author name and post date to be shown with title of post altogether if you are using recent post widget for your blog and also show more that 5 posts as blogger feeds restrict you to show upto only 5 posts,but with feedburner you can show all of above with any number of posts you want to show up in your widget.

If you just want simple script of codes to extract any number of recent posts from your blog you can get it from this blog as it will display only recent post of your blog with only titles.

Now lets discuss on getting your posts displayed from your feedburner account.

First of all Benefits of using feedburner script:-

1)You can show description also with title if you want.
2)Favicon too can be showed.
3)Author name can also be shown.
4)Date of post.
5)And subscribe link too at the end.


So Just to install your recent posts widget from any blog or blog category login to your feedburner account.If you don't have burned your feeds with feedburner then just visit to feedburner and burn your feeds.

Now just open your feedburner account now and click on the title of the feed you want to show of your recent posts.If you have burned many feeds then only you will see many feeds with there title on front page else if you have burned only one you will get only one title so dont get confused.Like in picture below i have four blogs feeds,so i will select the title for which i want to set up this feedburner widget.



Now after clicking the title you will enter that feed.
1)Then you will see Publicize tab Enter there.
2)Now at left will see Buzzboost Click it.
3)Now you will see option like these in picture below to make your widget.




Now select all these option you want to show or not like author name,post description,post date,if yu wat to show up only post title then you can have seetings like i have dont in above picture.

After making all selections just hit the activate button below.If its already active you will see Save button as i got in picture above.Then you will be given codes to show of your widget,with the preview as well as how your widget will look.

Just copy the codes from there the login to blogger > Go to Layout > Page Elements > Add a gadget > Html/Javascript and paste the codes and save it.

Just whenever you want to make modifications to your widget just make it modified from your feedburner account it will change look itself in your blog mean to say you have no need to change the code again and again,just modify it and the changes will apply itself once you add the codes to blogger.
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How Check Broken Links In Blog And Website

How to Check Broken Links In your blog or website as if you would have many posts in your blog and its not possible to constantly check for any broken links in your website manually,and its importanat to find the broken links as the post may not be useful without that link.So you just need a program or software to check all your internal and external links in your blog or website for broken links.Dont you,If yes then for what you are waiting.

Just visit this site http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html#Download to know more abut it

Read all about it if you want to know about whole process.This is the Download Link on above site to download the software.

Just download it unzip it to get set up and install it in your computer,i will just take seconds.

Then start the software it will ask for url provide it and click ok.The pocess will start,the time it takes depend upon the links you are having in your blog.Below is the snapshot my blog report,you can check it how good the software work.Its really helpful.

Please click the image to view it large




I hope you will love this software its really helpful to you as nobody checks for broken links as posts get old,but we should remove broken links as it never make you loose your readers.
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Promote Random Blog Posts Via Gmail

One way to promote your blog is adding your signature links in all the mails you send.There are many ways to promote your blog and this is the one out of those as will help promote it though,as you think i daily receive about 10 mails to solve my readers queries and its going on to increase to.You can take great advantage of it a you can use signature as an random posts from your blog as will attract your readers more to your blog.

Tip: It is always effective to send out different links with your email to your Friends as they wont be boring seeing the same link all the time.

Lets see how we can add a link to a random post from your blog or website to your email signature

*Log in to your GMail account.
*Go to the Gmail Lab Page.
*Find the Random Signature and Signature tweaks.
*Enable both labs.
*Click Save Changes and Gmail will reload.
*Go to Settings
*Go to General
*Under signature select the signature box and type you name and other information you would like to display in your email.
*Then check the check box Append a random signature from feed and add the feed URL to your blog or website.
* click "Save Changes"

This is add random links to your post with the title from your RSS feed. Simple but quite effective method to add a random link to your signature from your blog or web.
If you liked his post please leave your comments as all will be appreciated.
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Friday, 10 April 2009

How Backup Your Blogger Posts And Comments

Backup your blogger posts and comments regularly,this is blogger tip i think every blogger should follow for its safety,do you back up your blog posts regularly ? Very less amount of bloggers would have been using this tip including me,so lets follow this tip and start backing up your blog posts from now as i have stared it from today.

If you searching for backup of blogger template its here.

How to Back up bloggers posts for all Bloggers including blogspot users.

Login to http://draft.blogger.com
Then Go to
SETTINGS ► BASIC ► BLOG TOOLS, click on the Export Blog, and once more on EXPORT BLOG button.




Choose the location where you want to save the file, and click Save. And that's it!

Your Blog (content + posts) is save as .xml document. Quite small, too. You will not be able to see it, or read it on externally, but you can always upload it through Blogger.

Now you go to your any other blog and get there the import blog option following same path as above and upload the file you downloaded when it asks after clicking import blog option.Your all posts and comments will be uploaded,then the blogger will ask you to publish all posts,select the posts you want to publish and click Publish,all selected posts will be published.

Think how useful it can be for you in case your blog gets deleted by mistake or any other case by google,you can upload and make it to run again.

Yet another easy method for all type of blogging platforms. You just have to visit BlogBackUpOnline, open an account, register your blog, and it will be backed up daily. They offer enough memory (space) to store your Blog. Even for a Full time blogger.I hope you will be satisfied with this infomation.Best of Luck!!
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Monday, 6 April 2009

Add Yahoo Messenger Chat In Blogger To Add Interactiviy

Yahoo messenger,i think everybody loves it.Many bloggers who love blogging may like using the messenger as well on there computer,as me too online on my blog and messenger always,think if both of these options combine in your blog it will add more interactivity to my readers and easy for them to chat with me.

Then i went to messenger and found a widget which can be added in your blog like google has feauture to add gmail chat in your blog,as same we can add yahoo messenger chat in the our blog.Its very easy to add it in your blog.Just visit the yahoo,customize widget get codes and add them.

As before we have also had tutorials on how add yahoo emotions in blogger posts and yahoo emotions in comments.If you want these too in your blog before visit them.



Now how to install yahoo chat box.

Visit this yahoo pingbox service.

Select there the theme you want and write text what you want to show and save it.

Then will be asked to login with yahooo id,sign in and you will be send to customizations page of the chat box.

Select the size you want and color of the text and get the codes for your widget.

After getting codes paste them anywhere in the blog sidebar html/javascript page element where you want your yahoo chat box to appear to chat with your readers.

I hope you will love this widget for sure.
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Sunday, 22 February 2009

Add Button 'Save Blogger Post As Pdf' Blogger

How to add 'save As Pdf Button' in each blogger post of your blogger so as the readers can save your post in pdf format which they like.This tool will really help your readers in saving your post they like.I am vey happy to post this button as i m sure my readers will like this for sure as is very useful.After this post i will post an trick 'how to save any blogger all posts as pdf too' i.e to download all bloggers posts of any blog in pdf format.

How to add 'save As Pdf Button' ?

Login to Blogger > Layout > Edit HTML > Expand Widgets > Press Ctrl+F > Search For Below Red Codes



If you are using Read More Hack you will find above code twice so use second code.

Add the below codes after the above codes






Preview it.If its work fine.Save your template.

Fr demo of the Button Go here and try this button.
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Saturday, 21 February 2009

Free Image Hosting With Unlimited Bandwidth

Every blogger needs good and free image hosting services with unlimited bandwidth to host there images and blogger who designs template and have pictures blog need it very badly because there bandwidth completes very fast.As using these services on slow internet connections is very difficult as it takes much time to load page and upload images and the images upload is also as not easy as this service which i am going to review.

As all have been using image hosting services like Photobucket , Imagehack , Picasaweb , Flickr and many more but all these services gives you an limited space and limited bandwidth that exceeds in mid of month and creates an problem for you as your readers can't see the images.

The new image hosting service i got is Pict.com.




As you can see clearly from picture just click upload box select image from hardisk or web and upload in single click it will upload in seconds faster than other services.You will like this service for sure.

It has an one great feature also which i loved to use is that you can capture any website image or visible part of website or any selected part you want and directly upload it to your images or will save to your hardidsk.Like you take webshots i.e you can take webshots of any thing on web if you are using mozilla firefox.

They have provided firefox addon for this just download it and install it if you want to take webshots and directly upload your images.

After installing just right click on any website of which you want to take webshot and select Save Page To Pic.com and capture any part you like of that page.

Some Great Features of Pict dot com:-
1.Easy to upload
2.Unlimited hosting space
3.Unlimited Bandwidth
4.Upload speed very fast
5.No need to sign up
6.Can take Webshots of any site
7.Simple To use

I hope you will like this image hosting service,even if you don't use it for all your images hosting,host some of them here too,to reduce your load on other hosting services by using this service. Best of luck with this new image hosting service.
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009

Make Mozilla Firefox Load Pages Faster

Tweak Network 1.3 is the mozilla addon which will speed up the loading of web pages and increase the maximum number of simultaneous downloads from a site. If you are using Firefox browser? There are many ways to make Firefox work faster; perhaps you have ever read many tips on the internet to make Firefox faster.Now i will share a tip to make your Firefox faster which is installing Tweak Network Add-on.


It is very easy to get Tweak Network Add-on; you just need to download it here

After going there click on Add To Firefox > Then it will Ask for Install > Click I
nstall Button > Then the Add On will get installed > It will Ask for restart of Firefox Restart it .

After you install Tweak Network Add-on, please follow the guides below.Please run your Firefox. Click Tools menu, when the options appear, click Tweak Network Settings.



Then an alert will appear Click OK. Now window will open.
Click Power button, then click Apply button ,Then Click OK Done



I hope this will speed up your mozilla if it works slow. Best of luck for this addon.Happy Browsing.
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Sunday, 28 December 2008

How Check DoFollow/NoFollow Blogs

How to check if the blog is DoFollow or NoFollow. This is the very important trick wanted by everyone to check for the dofollow blogs becauase blogs searched from the result of dofollow blog search engines doesn't provide with full satisfying results.So i will give you today one trick to how to check if the blog you like is Dofollow or Nofollow.

Just you need is that you are using mozilla firefox and then download this addon and install it.
After installing it will ask for restart your firefox , restart it to take in effect the addon you installed.
Now you can go to any blog or website and right click over any link on website and select the option NoDofollow , and you will see all the links turning to blue and red colors.

All the Blue color links are Dofollow and Red are Nofollow.It's the best way to search for dofollow blogs or websites as you can check each and every link on any website or blog either it is dofollow or nodofollow.
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Why Rss Feed Count Decreased subscribers

Why Rss Feed Count Decreased subscribers?
i.e why no of subscibers count on feedburner feed count decrease and increase every day.
Thats good question asked by one rss reader of mine?

How Feed burner calculates the subscribers count on its feed widget?

It total accounts for the e-mail subscribers and no of hits given by your rss readers daily.

i.e No Of Daily Subscribers=E-mail subscribers + Hits To Your Rss Feeds

As no of e-mail subscribers are always counted on the feed and are not reduced except if the reader unsubscribe, that often not happens for good blogger.jelir

Fluctualtion comes Due to the hits given by tour Rss readers on daily schedule.

If you have 100 rss readers it depends 50 readers give you hits on that day on your new post or may be even 10 on nxt day if you have no new post and you will see an decrease in your rss feed count by 40 subscribers on the following day.

*Tip-Post Daily an article on your Blog to be an succesful Blogger

So not get tensed you all have your readerssengihnampakgigi
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Sunday, 21 September 2008

Improve Page Rank Tips

Improving page rank Of Blogger and websites that google counts.
Here are some Tips To increase the page rank.

Include useful high-quality information on your site.

Create content that users want and will share with others.

Submit your site to various web directories and reference sites.

A web directory “specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links.

Post your site’s URL (web address) to popular web directories including Open Directory Project (ODP), Yahoo!, and LookSmart. Also post your URL to online reference, e.g., Wikipedia, industry-specific expert sites, blogs, etc.
Publicize your site to everyone with whom you communicate.

Add your site’s URL, e.g., www.googleguide.com, to every piece of communication you initiate. The TechSoup (The Technology Place for Nonprofits) article, Publicizing Your Web Site: Getting the message out there, recommends that “your Web address should be listed everywhere that your phone/fax number and mailing address,” e.g.,

* Business cards
* Letterhead
* Newsletters
* Brochures
* Press Releases
* Fax cover sheets
* Email signatures

Write a newsletter and send it out.

Inform people what’s new or noteworthy on your site. The newsletter will remind people about your site and encourage them to visit to find interesting content.

Provide a Rich Site Summary (RSS).

RSS is also known as Really Simple Syndication. JISC describes RSS as “a lightweight XML format for distributing news headlines and other content on the Web.”

In addition to making it easy for other sites to distribute your headlines and content, your RSS feed will be indexed by popular Blog search engines, including Technorati, BlogSearch, and Ask.com Bloglines.

Ask other high-quality websites to link to your website.

Getting other “good” websites to link to yours usually helps your website’s PageRank and ranking on Google.

Note: If your site links to delisted websites, your website might also be removed from Google’s index.

Provide motivation for highly ranked websites to link to yours.

Getting highly ranked sites to link to yours will improve your ranking more than getting many poorly ranked sites to link to yours.

Note: If Google suspects that you’ve traded links with other sites for the sole purpose of improving your ranking, it might penalize or blacklist your site.

Check out a site before you link back.

When you receive a request for a link, check the site before you link back. Is it a site worthy of your link, i.e., vote of confidence? Would a link be of value to your page’s visitors?

Keep your website up.

If your website is not accessible for an extended period of time, Google may reduce the ranking of your site.

Give away content.

Enable others to copy, distribute, and make derivative works.

If most of your site’s content is commercial — e.g., pages about your business — consider adding other pages with useful information for the public. For example, if you sell bicycles, include pages or a blog about bicycle paths, bicycle gear, or with tips on bicycling. Publicize these and encourage others to link to them.

Translate your website into foreign languages.

If you don’t know a foreign language, find others that do.

Search Google for your website.

Instead of entering your URL into your browser, search Google for your site. Google is more apt to improve the ranking of a site that users seek and visit than one that gets no traffic from Google.

Thx To Google Guide For tips.


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Wednesday, 13 August 2008

How To Choose Profitable Blog Niche

Every new blogger faces this big question that "What topic to choose for his/her blog"? Some people blog just for fun or hobby and some blog purely to make money from it. If you fall in latter category, it is imperative to give some serious thought about choosing your blog niche. The success of your blog in terms of money depends heavily on how wisely you select the topic of your blog. Following are the guidelines, which will help you in your quest to select an appropriate topic for your blog:

Personal Interest:If you are blogging on the topic that you love and are passionate about it, then you have already won the half battle. The first and the most important thing is to select a topic that you love to explore, read and talk about. Readers are only going to come back on your blog if they find the content appealing and useful, which you can only serve them if you are comfortable and expert in your domain. You will also loose interest very soon in generating fresh content if it is not of your choice. Having the favorite topic in hand for the blog does not mean that you will surely get profit from your blog. There are other factors involved. Read on..

Popularity
:Assessing the popularity of the chosen niche is the next step. If people do not search for the topic you have chosen, then no matter how hard you work, the results will never be promising. Start analyzing with search engine results. Google the first keyword that comes in your mind related to the topic and see the results.

Profit Potential:The popularity of the topic alone doesn't mean it can give you profits. The most critical thing is to look whether it has sufficient advertiser's base in major PPC Advertising networks. Google Adsense and Yahoo Publishers Network (YPN) are the two most popular PPC programs. Google has provided Google AdWords Keyword Tool and Google Adwords Traffic Estimator to look for high paying keywords related to your blog niche. You can use these toolsto get a fair idea about the traffic and average CPC for the relevant keywords for AdWords/Adsense. Although the provided data is not accurate estimate, still it will give you fair amount of data to assess the earning potential of your blog niche. For more accurate keyword research you can use WordTracker and can get the list of targeted keywords for the topic of your blog.

Content availability:To keep running your blog, you need fresh quality content at a consistent pace. Some bloggers face this situation where they start very enthusiastically, but soon they end up in searching for fresh ideas for their blog content space. For making a successful blog you have to feed it with new valuable content continuously. Choosing a niche that has scope of vast amount of content creation is a wise decision. You can subscribe to news bulletins, discussion forums and your peers in the Blogosphere to get new ideas and topics for fresh new content.
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