SEO Guide for Adding Blogger Sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Riddhi Mohan

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!

Visit our Complete SEO Success Guide for Bloggers section for more SEO tips & tools.

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Make a Ton of Ringtones & Swap Ringtones on Android (First Look Video)

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Riddhi Mohan

The Wonderful Mobile Application, Sharetones which is available for iPhones & windows, is now availabe for Android users, as Sharetones 1.0 beta.

Creating ringtones from songs you already own on your phone, Sharetones is able to send your songs to a database of over 65,000 tones and return several options that someone else has created. One ringtone may capture the intro instrumentals; another may clip the chorus. Best yet, for a limited time, it’s beta version is also Free.

The app won’t charge a thing on Android throughout the beta period, but after that it’ll cost you $1.49 for 3 recipes, $2.49 for unlimited use for a month, or 7.49 for unlimited use for a year.

Here is a video(Very First look) showing Swapping Ringtones on Andriod.

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

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Riddhi Mohan

“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.

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Feel the taste of your Favorite Guest Operating System(OS) on Linux with VirtualBox 3.0.0

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Riddhi Mohan

Running multiple OS on the system is the choice of various curious programmers who indulge themselves in working on different OS on the same PC which is very helpful to get knowledge, understanding the technology behind them & how they works. Although there a different methods like installing dual Os on the same system etc. using Virtual machines has become quite popular one commonly known as VirtualBox.

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use the popular, amazing, open-source, virtualization software from Sun Microsystems. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

Sun xVM VirtualBox allows users to create “virtual machines” in their host operating system so that they can install any guest OS, facilitating the development, cross-platform running and testing of multi-tier applications on a single computer. Being very space efficient, Sun xVM VirtualBox has around 40 megabytes and is ready for use after just a five-minute install.

Recently VirtualBox from Sun Microsystems, reached version 3.0.0 a day ago. So, a more powerful one thatis VirtualBox 3.0.0 ia available now with lots of new features.

The big and breathtaking implements in VirtualBox 3.0.0 are:

Users can now use Direct3D 8 and 9 games or applications.
The new SMP (Symmetrical Multiprocessing) guest support with no more than 32 virtual processors.

Other major improvements & additions in VirtualBox 3.0.0 for Linux are:

Support for Linux kernel 2.6.31
Support for Guest Additions in Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Fixed CentOS 64-bit support
Better performance for PAE guests on Linux kernel 2.6.29 or higher
Better network I/O
Revamped settings dialog
Lots of fixes for 3D support
Windows 7 Remote Desktop Protocol client support
Fixed TX checksum offloading for Linux kernel 2.16.8 or higher
Time synchronization handler provided by the new vboxadd-service module
Added guest properties, which offers information about logged in users, operating system or network;
Added USB high-speed isochronous endpoints support, with read-ahead buffering for input endpoints & many more.

Download Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0.0

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What Microsoft forget to implement in Windows Explorer | StExBar provides you that

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Riddhi Mohan

Windows explorer helps you do things more easily. But If you have something that Microsoft had not provided in Windows Explorer like your own favorite commands which are not just available from the toolbar, but also via hotkeys and via a context menu. This means that you can line up all your favorite applications right on Windows Explorer’s toolbar.

StExBar is a toolbar for Windows explorer that adds a number of handy commands and shortcuts to it. By default StExBar includes some common action like create new folder, copy file path, rename, open command prompt and a few others. You can also add custom executable files to it.

The StExBar Below the Windows Explorer

It comes with a ‘lightweight’ console which simply requires command you like to execute into the edit box on the right of the StExBar and hit enter. The command will be executed in the system console.

For example, creating a new folder will be just a one click away. It allows you renaming multiple files at once.

You can also perform the following activities with one click:

Rename many files or folders at once using regular expressions strings
Copy the full paths for files and folders
Copy the name of files and folders
Open a command window set to the current working directory
Show/hide system files with one click
Add your own custom buttons and commands
Use the text box on the right to filter items in a folder

Configure it according to your taste & Add more commands

You can also go into the Options dialog and change the order of the commands if you like. You can also hide the filter box or use it as a command prompt replacement. Customize it with your own taste.

You can actually use that text box on the right as a command prompt. Go into options and uncheck “Use filter instead of cmd replacement”. Now you can type commands into the box just like you would if you did Start and then Run.

So, StExBar is a must have utility for making day to day tasks very easy & comfortable.

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Google New Code Project “Let’s make the web faster” [Video]

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Riddhi Mohan

Together, let’s make the web faster! is what Google is saying now. Its a Video form Bill Caughran & Vic Gundotra, VP Engineering , Google telling about what Google is looking forward in making Web faster.

Its a nice video exploring what Google is thinking to do to achieve a better, faster Internet. What changes they are going to make in communication protocols to let internet users a more faster web experience. So , included this video in the Weekly Video Grabber section of Inforids.com

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

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Riddhi Mohan

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

SEO Guide for Creating XML Sitemaps for your website

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Riddhi Mohan

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.

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

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Riddhi Mohan

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.

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Adding Blogger Sitemaps to Google Webmasters

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Other major improvements & additions in VirtualBox 3.0.0 for Linux are:

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

Its Free & Open Source

Ease of Use

Built-in Tools

Search Engine Friendliness

Popularity and Community

Support & Forums

Create XML Sitemaps Online

Create XML Sitemaps using Plugin

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Understanding Sitemaps

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

Why Sitemaps?

Sitemaps are helpful for site to catch

Sitemaps informs search engines about the