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How to submit your web site to Bing search engine? Obtain Bing’s Traffic

Microsoft new search engine, Bing.com ready to apply decision approach to its searches, & with its arrival bloggers need to mark the presence of their website & blogs in this newly search engine. It is important to submit your websites/ blogs to Bing.com to direct queries & searches into your websites, thus increase traffic ultimately. Here are the 3 easy steps to do that.

Step One

To Submit your website URL to Bing.com, go here :  It requires you must login using any of your Live / Hotmail ID. Just Sign in to your live or Hotmail account & you will be redirected to URL submission Page.

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Step Two

Enter your web address & Sitemap URL. Click Submit.

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Step Three

Now you need to Authenticate your ownership. For that either go for uploading the file into the ROOT directory which they provide with the provided content or go for the Meta tag authentication.

Adding Meta Tag to blogger Account

It will give you a meta tag code, you need to add that code in your blog’s head section.

Please do the following steps to add meta tag to your blog.

Please open Blogger.com -> Layout -> Edit HTML – > Expand Widget Templates

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Just paste the meta info given by Bing.com under the head tag.

All Done. Enjoy search results traffic from Bing.com now.

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Twitter (micro blogging) in plain English[Video]

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

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

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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.

30 Must have WordPress Plugins for Admin to Enhance their Website Control

WordPress is the most eminent & competent platform for website owners & bloggers today. It’s also the most accepted one in platforms niche.  WordPress support for using plugins makes it more robust, easy & reliable platform for administrators, providing them full control over their websites & blogs. Here you can find the most requistic Plugins for WordPress Administrators.

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Online Encyclopedia for Photos, Fotopedia Finally launched

After Encyclopedia, the online giant information service, Fotopedia, the online photo sharing and organizing service, is finally available to the public. It has been in private beta for a couple of months and was revealed as a read-only preview last week with a “coming in a few days” promise.

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Increase Blog Traffic: Submit your websites & blogs to 100+ search engines & directories for Free

Search engine results makes all the differenceThe Primary Step in Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is submitting(or more specifically registering) your websites and blogs to the search engines which are the real source of traffic on any websit and blog. To increase search engine friendliness & traffic to your websites, you need to add your website/blog URL to different search engines & website directories so that your blog URLs get indexed in search engine’s databases.

Here you can can submit your website to about 100+ search engines & directories.

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Top CSS Tutorial, CSS Reference Sites for Learning & Mastering CSS

As web designer, you may already familiar with CSS. Mastering CSS is very important and needed for web development. CSS will save you much time in web design process as well as maintaining your website and make the site load faster, save hosting bandwidth and more professional. So it is good to learn and mastering CSS. You may ask it is hard to learn. Learning CSS is not easy but also not so hard to learn. Just think that: everyone can learn and mastering CSS why not you.

The following is list of top useful resource sites where you can find CSS Tutorial, CSS Reference, CSS article, CSS tips and tricks and other CSS related topics:

A List Apart

A List Apart is very useful resource site for people who make website; you can learn and read articles, tutorials, tips around CSS topics from many authors. Learn for practicing experience.
A useful resource place where you will see what many other people are bookmaking about CSS topics such as CSS tutorials, CSS articles, CSS tips, CSS trick and so on.

CSS Basics

CSS Basics provides 18 chapters which cover necessary CSS skills (including CSS Class, CSS IDs, CSS Position, CSS Fonts and so on) for web designer. You can read and learn chapters on the website or you can download all chapters as PDF format to learn at your own peace in computer.
W3Schools is very useful resource site for web designer which provides free CSS tutorials from basic through advance level. You also can find more on CSS such as CSS example, CSS reference, CSS quiz, CSS exam.
SitePoint
SitePoint provides a very good CSS reference. One important thing which makes it more useful CSS reference is that you can view in live demo and test CSS code yourself.
CSS Dog is another good resource for learning CSS and HTML. You can learn CSS start from beginner to advance level. In website, you can also found the CSS reference

Download Harry Potter Theme

SmashinGeeks has released Harry Potter theme for Harry Potter fans which is quite good. Harry Potter Font, built-in harry potter prologue are also used in the theme. This theme is quite simple and elegant.

Download Harry Potter Theme from SmashinGeeks 

The 10 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article

Article content decides it all. Your articles decide the audience, their responses & their credits. When you start a blog (Don’t have a blog yet,  See 10 Nice Reasons to Start a Blog | Blogging is Power, create an article there are ten ways you can approach your subject matter. Which approach you choose will have a big impact on how fast you grow awareness and audience, plus will be decisive in how easy you find the actual writing. What needs to be done before taking pen on the paper is really important to know because it answers how you can write an article more effectively.

Almost every writer likes to put the best content for the readers & a little pondering before putting their fingers on the keyboard can produce best results. Brainstorms, outlines, and research are all part of the planning and preparation steps that many writers work through before they sit down to actually string words together. But there are ten important questions that every writer must ask before creating that first draft & publishing it.

1. Knowing & attracting your Audience

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Rather than focusing your topic you can focus your audience. This is a tradeoff between these two. You identify a motivated audience, cater your blog articles specifically to them, and then can select anything that interests you that will interest that audience too.

2. Decide on an identified, focused subject

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Identifying the right key for the lock is the art of subject identification. Audiences love when you are ultra-specific in your goal and articulate it well. It works especially well when you identify a pressing need.

3. The Power of Titles

Any article is first identified by the title. The title should be appropriate & put the major idea of the content. The title has the ability make or break a blog post. It impacts how (and if) it’s found in search engines and social bookmarking sites, it influences whether people visit your blog in News Readers, it affects whether people leave a comment and is vital in whether people actually read what you have to say.

4. Good Images conveys it All

Image gives life to simple words on the paper & every image you use must say something related to the topic. This technique can be used for providing an additional point of interest in your posts. I do use images in every post on this blog but find that when I do that those clicking through on the post in my feed reader increases. Images have the power to communicate in ways that words cannot – use them.

5. Be Original & Creative

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Try to speak your own words. Come up with your own content. It helps giving readers an assurance that they reading a fresh & new content. They have got something new. You can think something unique to say and say it in a creative and fresh way. Say what everyone else is saying in the same way that everyone else is saying it and you’re almost guaranteed of being largely ignored. Stick away from any type of copyright infringement.

6. The Presentation stands for 50% of all your work

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Many times online readers tend to scan content & images on the website. As a result if you place visual cues in your posts that draw their eye to important points you’ll find people stick with you longer into your posts. Think like what you will like if you visit a website that is, think like the reader’s point of view & it will help you how to present the things more simply & beautifully.

See also: Top 8 Website Killer & Common Blog Design Mistakes | Dont Let them Go

7. Work on content organization & structure

A single well written list post can launch a blog to great heights in the blogosphere. While the prolific nature of lists in the blogosphere can also mean your lists get ignored, but listing the thing helps keep your article more organized. I find that when writing the same content as a list that you write as an essay like article the list will almost always get more attention. They easily caught the attention of eye & let readers to stick to the content until they catch the idea behind them.

8. Style of your writing

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There can be some difference in the tone of your writing that could not match with what readers want. A fiction piece will have an altogether different tone than a well-researched article. The language you choose, and the styles in which you write are largely directed by your target readership. Always pick a up a tone & style that is simple, clear & understandable.

9. Publishing & Socializing on a Right Platform

Few pieces of writing are publishable across different formats. You should at least have a general idea of the final format; especially be aware of whether your piece is headed for print versus electronic publication. For choosing the right socializing platform for your article after publishing it, you need to think on the need & effect of the article content on the set of readers & audience. Once you understand that, socialize it across suitable platforms.

10. Impact of the Article

Almost every writer wants to make readers feel something. It is important to think the impact of your article on the readers.

One of the positive impact can be Decrease in the Visitors Bounce rate on your website & can yield high traffic to you blog.

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

What do you want your readers to feel? Hope? Anger? Joy? Controversies? Is your article is imparting knowledge? Is it going to affect a specific set of people thinking? Writing informs, entertains, and sells. It intrigues, educates, and inspires. It’s imperative to know what impact your work will have on readers. Otherwise, it may end up having no impact at all. It is always to look up the results of what you are planning to do.

What do you think now? Share your views with us & comments below.

WordPress 2.8 Baker Released | A First Look on its Key features

Finally the “Baker” version of WordPress arrived yesterday, with so many cool & more enhanced features. Named for noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, this WordPress had got a lot with it for the people who love it. Major improvement were done in the themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speedwith about over 790 bugs fixes. This video explains  more than the words.

Highlights of what’s new in WordPress 2.8:

  • New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
  • Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
  • Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
  • Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
  • Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
  • Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
  • Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
  • Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation
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