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SEO Guide for Adding Blogger Sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools

Posted by inforids on September 9, 2011 1 comment

After understanding what are sitemaps & importance of sitemaps for SEO of your site it is now required to go for the first step, submitting sitemaps to google webmasters & tell google search engine crawlers, your websites links structure.

Adding Blogger Sitemaps to Google Webmasters

[1] Sign-in to Google Webmaster Dashboard using your Google Account.

[2] Type your blog URL and click Add Site

[3] Once your site is added to Google Webmaster, you need to verify the site by adding a Meta Tag to your blog

[4] Copy the Meta Tag code given by Google Webmaster

[5] Now go to Blogger Dashboard – Layout – Edit HTML – then search(Ctrl+F) for the code given below in the header section:

<b:include data=”blog” name=”all-head-content”/>

[6] Then Paste the Meta Tag just after the above code and Save the Template

[7] Now click Verify in the Google Webmaster Tools. Your site will be verified if you followed the above steps clearly

[8] Next step is to add sitemaps of your blog. Select Sitemap from the left sidebar in the Webmaster tools

[9] You can add the following sitemaps of your blogger blog to the Google Webmaster: (Addonly the RED part of the URL given below)

http://www.YourBlog.com/atom.xml?redirect=false

http://www.YourBlog.com/feeds/posts/default?=rss

[10] Finished! Your Blog’s sitemap will be added to Google now!

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Tim Ferriss View on Building A High Traffic Successful Blog [Video]

Posted by inforids on September 7, 2011 No comments

“How to Build a High Traffic Blog without Killing Yourself” titled Presentation from Tim Ferriss, author of The 4 Hour Workweek at WordCamp recently, can give the golden keys that can help you build a high traffic successful blog.

This, about 50 mins video, can be quite helpful to bloggers present date. He covered a wide range of topics, from posting frequency to blogging tools and community building. The cool thing is that most of the stuff is coming from the tests that Tim run over the years. Worth watching. So, I have included this in the Video Grabber(Weekly) section of Inforids.com

Enjoy the Success tips.

Why WordPress as Website or Blogging Platform? The 6 Heavy Reasons you can’t Ignore

Posted by inforids on September 4, 2011 1 comment

WordPress, first appeared in 2003, is a free and open source blog publishing application. WordPress is the official successor of b2cafelog which was developed by Michel Valdrighi. The latest release of WordPress is version 2.8, released on 11 June 2009. When you think of WordPress you probably think of blogging. That’s how most people use it. They sign up for a free blog and start posting about a variety of things. Some blogs are very specific and targeted while others are just general every day kind of blogs. You might not be aware of it, but some excellent looking websites are also using WordPress without using it as a blog at all.

Those 6 heavy reasons that insist you to use WordPress as your first website or first blog are:

Its Free & Open Source

WordPress is an Open Source software which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind of personal or commercial website without have to pay a single dime for it. It is built on PHP/MySQL (which is again Open Source) and licensed under GPL.

Ease of Use

WordPress is designed for the masses. That means there’s really no specialized knowledge necessary to sign up for a blog and get started. If you want to go beyond the free blog and take advantage of their premium features, they’re thrilled. So they lead you through it step-by-step to make it easy.

It assumes that you have Zero knowledge of web designing. Deciding to go from a free blog to hosting a domain with your blog as your site is fast, inexpensive and easy. At that point, your .com address contains the blog, which you can arrange pretty much any way you want.

Built-in Tools

Using the blogging and content tools provided by WordPress, it’s easier for many to create a great looking website than it is to use a more complicated piece of software. To create a WordPress site you don’t need an HTML editor or some “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) software to help you build the site. You can still use these, for the most part, but you can also do the same things right through the WordPress interface, including using CSS.

You also won’t need a tool for uploading like an FTP client, and you won’t need to learn a complicated file manager or control panel. If you’ve chosen a theme and made a few blog posts, you already understand how making changes in WordPress works. There’s really no learning curve in going from free blog to website.

Search Engine Friendliness

WordPress blogs, if they’re using keywords and contain relevant content, can rank high in searches on those keywords. Google tends to favor some sites over others, while completely ignoring some domains. Content on WordPress tends to be favored. So your website, as long as you actually do concentrate on keywords and content a bit, will probably have a better chance at showing up in search engines than if it were hosted somewhere else.

Popularity and Community

If you’re not paying WordPress and website experts to do your website for you, then the idea of setting up a website anywhere, let alone on WordPress, is probably daunting. But because WordPress is so popular and used by so many people, it’s easy to get help with a problem.

If you have your website set up with Host X and you’re having problems with the PHP, you can wait to hear back from them or do an online search and try to find the exact problem in the exact server configuration in detail. But the WordPress community has active forums where you can ask questions. And chances are your blogging question has already been asked and answered, so your problem could be solved with a quick search.

Support & Forums

If you got stuck somewhere, then its a NO problem. This is because there are so many people using WordPress, so many websites on support which are always there to take you out from the trouble easily. Also, many Intellient Minds are working in WordPress support forums, where you will be listened & answered.

See what is new in WordPress 2.8

Top 6 Twitter Profile Secrets for Twitter Users

Posted by inforids on September 3, 2011 3 comments

If you are a twitter user like other 40 million users, how you can use twitter more effectively.

Here are the top 6 twitter profile secrets for twitter users.

[1] Choose your username wisely. It should be simple & clear. You can either go for your website name or your name.

[2] Use a profile image that is clean & good. It should convey some meaning. It will be better if you relate to your website. A close-up, company’s logo or other catchy and meaningful image on your profile display image will be nice.

[3] Don’t write long bio in your profile. Keep it clean and catchy. Let visitor search for that.

[4] Use keywords (for which you want to be found) in username & bio.

[5] Design custom background image for your twitter profile. It shoud be simple & clean enough so that visitor feel it interesting in each visit.

[6] In website column, apart from website or blog URL you can put effective landing page’s URL to make first impression very impressive.

This can help you increasing your foloers on twitter. You can follow me. Follow Techprism

10 Nice Reasons to Start a Blog | Blogging is Power

Posted by inforids on September 3, 2011 4 comments

We think that its blogging, but its more than that, Its Power.

In the early 1990’s people started to set up their own websites known as web logs, a term which has been colloquially evolved into the term blog. What is a blog? These days every 1.5 seconds a new blog is created! Putting that in another way:

• 7.4 Million blogs were created in the last 120 days

• 1.5 Million blogs were created in the past 7 days

• 900,000 blogs created in the last 24 hours

• 37,500 blogs created every hour

It means blogging is becoming more and more popular everyday. Should you join the blogosphere?

Yes you should , but lets see why do people blog?

Your Thoughts and Opinions are Important

Publish your thoughts & notions through blogging. You have something to say, and blogs provide a place to say it and be heard.

Take Out Your Inner Expert

Why hide your inner expert? Put the beauty to the world. Blogs are wonderful tools to help bloggers establish themselves as experts in a field or topic.

To Make a Difference

Encourage people to go for things which you think is right. Many blogs are issue-based meaning the blogger is trying to provide information to sway people’s thinking in a certain direction.

There are People Like You. Connect to Them

Build a like-minded community. Listen to those who think like you. Blogging brings like-minded people together. Starting a blog can help you find those people and share your opinions and thoughts.

You can Help Many

You can be the a source of great help for someone. Many blogs are written to help people who may be going through similar situations that the blogger has experienced.

Echo your Voice to Turn into Billions

Take your business, company & voice to billions. Blogging is a great way to help market or promote yourself or your business, product or service.

Stay Updated & Increase your Knowledge

You will get something that you don’t know yet, through blogging. Since successful blogging is partially dependent on posting frequency and providing updated, fresh information, it’s a perfect way to help a blogger stay abreast of the events in a specific field or topic.

You Love to make Money

Open doors for making money. It’s important to point out that most bloggers don’t make a lot of money blogging, but the potential does exist to generate revenue from your blog with hard work and commitment.

To Have Fun and Be Creative

Doing blogging for just fun is common. If writing interests you, certainly it will become your passion. One of the most important keys to successful blogging is having a passion about your blog’s topic, so you can write prolifically about it. Some of the best and most interesting blogs started out as blogs that were written just for fun and to give the blogger a creative outlet.

SEO Guide for Creating XML Sitemaps for your website

Posted by inforids on September 2, 2011 1 comment

After understanding what are sitemaps & importance of sitemaps for SEO of your site it is now required to go for the first step, creating sitemaps for your website. What are Sitemaps & how important they are in SEO?

There are so many methods to create XML sitemaps. XML sitemaps can be create using online tools or by softwares.

Create XML Sitemaps Online

Somtimes it is needed to create sitemaps online which is a much easier option when your site is having page size less than 500 MB. This option is excellent for you if you own blogs on Blogger, Typepad or other free blogging platforms. To build your website XML sitemap online you can use the excellent free service provided by xml-sitemaps.org which helps to create sitmaps in different formats like XML, ROR, Text & HTML.

Just enter the website URL & other details just what I have done in the following screenshot below & Click Start.

Field value for Inforids.com

This process will take some time depending upon the pages in the website.

Result will allow you to save the sitemaps in all the different format. Just Downlaod them & its done.

Create XML Sitemaps using Plugin

Thanks for the Google Sitmap plugin allows to create sitemaps for once & leave the rest of the job to this plugin.

This option is most suitable & easy to implement if you own a website hosted on servers & use WordPress platform. Simply download the plugin & upload it to the server using FireFTP or FileZilla software. Activate it from the plugins page & configure the options you want. All Done.

Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones.

So, Once you have an latest sitemap in hand you can submit it to different search engines, which will be covered in the nest post under Complete SEO Success Guide for Bloggers section.

What is a Blog? Explained in Plain English[Video]

Posted by inforids on September 2, 2011 1 comment

Some people say that a Blog is a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links, some think that it is a type of website usually maintained by an individual by which they put entries of descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video & some believe that it is like a personal diary or a daily pulpit or a breaking-news outlet or a collection of links or your own private thoughts or memos to the world….

So many definitions, notions & thinking about the blog which vary from view point to view point, interests & tastes of the people.

Here is a nice video explaining what a blog actually is, in plain English.

Everything in this video is put very well & helps you to come with the actual notion about the blog. So, I have chosen this video for the Video-Grabber Section for this week.

Twitter (micro blogging) in plain English[Video]

Posted by inforids on September 1, 2011 No comments

Once again the highly creative people over at the Common Craft show have put together an easy to follow and informative video, this time demonstrating the simplicity and beauty of Twitter. Its a nice Video explaing the twitter beauty & usage in plain English.

If you want to follow me on twitter, go here. Easy & instant, twitter is growing its usage day by day & now its most eminent micro-blogging medium today.

SEO guide for Understanding Sitemaps to Increase Search Engine Discoverability of your website

Posted by inforids on August 31, 2011 4 comments

Sitemaps play an important role in the Search Engine optimization. Why & How? All this I will be discussing here.

Understanding Sitemaps

According to Google.com

A Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.

Sitemaps.org defines it as

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

So, Sitemaps is a name give to a URL map of a website which lists all the web pages URLs linked in the website with the necessary meta information required by the search engines to discover a website.

Types of Sitemaps

Sitemaps are of two type, HTML Sitemaps which consists of the listing of the webpages present in a website XML Sitemaps consists the same information hierarchically but in a more organized order. Below you can see the difference in the content of HTML & XML Sitemaps of Inforids.com

HTML Sitemap of Inforids.com (Click to Enlarge)

XML Sitemap of Inforids.com (Click to Enlarge)

XML Sitemaps are most common in use today.

Why Sitemaps?

Sitemaps are helpful for site to catch

Dynamic content
Discovering pages by Searchbots during the crawl process
New meta data and has new links
Large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

Sitemaps informs search engines about the

How often the pages on your site change.
The date each page was last modified.
The relative importance of pages on your site.

Experience the Digg Effect: Adding the “digg it” button to each blogger(blogspot) blog posts

Posted by inforids on August 30, 2011 9 comments

Today, Digg is a most eminent place for we people to get linked with the notions, contents & information from anywhere on the web. Digg, the biggest online destinations is powered by the richness of great stuffs, information & contents from multiple sources(experts, bloggers, websites, news etc). Digg button can provide a real source of traffic to blogs & websites (increased number of readers) and for that adding the “digg-it” button to each blogger post is necessary to experience the Digg Effect.

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