How To Check Your Blog DMOZ Listed Or Not Yet

Till now, you have already learnt, how to submit your blog into DMOZ Open directory. So today, I will show you the way how to check your website DMOZ listed or not yet. You may install browser extension to trace the listing, but it is subject to how fast the provider index those data. DMOZ submission is manage by volunteer, it is very dependent on their free time. Some fast and some slow, another possibility your listing may be rejected. If you are looking for a tool to check your DMOZ listing of your website(s) or blog's, you don�t need to look any further. You are able to check a site�s listing without any tool by make a search hit on DMOZ search box. just follow the steps below and you're done�.!!! Enjoy!

How to check it?

Here are the step to determine if your site is listed on DMOZ.org:

1. Go to dmoz.org


2. Use the search function and search for yoursitename.com

If you need a tool that can check multiple domains in bulk, you might try this website. Add up to 500 URL�s in the box. You don�t need to add http://www.

In case your site only recently got added to DMOZ, it�s well possible it will show as not listed. An option is to manually search for the site (using the above steps) or to wait a few hours/days. Not listed? Try to add your link to the directory.



Note:- You need to keep in mind is that DMOZ are not providing a service for webmasters to list their sites. DMOZ are providing a service for the end users, the net surfers, the people looking for a site on a topic and then they find DMOZ have catalogued 50 sites for them to choose from.


DMOZ invite submissions but do not guarantee a review in a timely manner, DMOZ do not guarantee that the site will be accepted. If your website/blog are meet with DMOZ Quality guidelines the defiantly your website is approved by DMOZ.  I hope this explains how things work regarding submissions.

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How To Submit Your Blog Into DMOZ Open Directory

If you don�t think a link from DMOZ matters, even just a little bit, then you�re simply ignoring the reality of this ancient directory. DMOZ  the Open Directory Project -- is a volunteer-curated directory of millions of websites, indexed according to topic. DMOZ was launched in 1998, and its age, size and quality standards make it one of the more powerful Web directories. Because it has a high Google PageRank, a link from DMOZ may Grow up your blog's PageRank and help it receive more traffic from search engines. But Barry Schwartz share story 1 year ago about a user,(�He said after two years of trying to get a DMOZ link, he got it, Google indexed it but he saw absolutely no ranking improvement after the fact. He feels like all that wait and anticipation, was a huge let down."). Submit your blog/website by Following the steps below.

How Get listed to DMOZ Directory

Step 1. Go to DMOZ.org. Click a category heading such as "Computers" to indicate the general topic of your blog.



Step 2. Click a subcategory heading such as "Computer Science" or "Internet" to describe the topic of your blog more exactly. Continue this method until you have selected the subcategory that most Strictly matches to your blog's topic's.

In our case.

Computers>> Internet>> Web Design and Development>> Promotion>>Weblogs

Step 3.

1. Click the "Suggest URL" link next to "DMOZ Blog" in the top right corner of the page.

2. This brings you to a new page titled "Submit a Site to the Open Directory." If you could not find a "Suggest URL" link at the top menu of the page, select a more specific subcategory. Because some categories do not have "suggest URL" or "update URL" links. These categories don't accept suggestions, so you should find a more specific category for the site.



Step 4.

Type the address of your blog in the Site URL input field, such as like "(hhttp://seowebstars.blogspot.com/)". Click to select the radio button next to (What type of link is this?).



Step 5.

Type the name of your blog in the Title of Site input field.



Step 6.

Next type a description of your blog in Description form, using no more than 25 words. The description should momentarily explain the type of content your blog contains.



Step 7.

Complete the Your Email Address input field to give DMOZ a way to contact you about your listing.



Step 8.

Type the code in the User Verification input field appearing in the image below. This step prevents the DMOZ submission process from being completed by an automated script.



Step 9.

Read the Submission Agreement thoroughly.



Step 10.

Click the Submit button to send your blog to the DMOZ editors for approval. You should now see the message Submission Received. and you are done..!!!!



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How to Implement the Rel=�Author� Tag on wordpress blog

Guest Post - Our host is Maria Smith (Marketing Director) who takes a look at Rel="author" tag. See How To Become a guest author.

If your focus is to insure that your posts are being found online, then I�m sure you�re familiar with rel=author? Well if your answer is no,  it�s OK. I�m here to explain and show you how you can quickly and easily implement the rel=author tag. As Google develops and becomes increasingly �personalized�, we take a look at Google Authorship mark up. By using rel=�author�. You can enhance the way the SERPs display your content and put your name and face to your work � the photo is taken from your Google+ profile.  There are, of course, plenty of �how to� guides on the topic but even the official Google guide is over-complicated. This will help you add Google authorship markup, quickly and easily.

First of all let's define what is Rel=�Author� Tag. This tag allows to mark website with "authorship". As a result author's photo and Google+ link appear on the right side of snippet.

Just like screenshot below.

This little trick brings traffic to website as users click on link with authorship more often than on link in its regular performance. Authorship gives human face to naked outline of facts. Besides, this is proving that article is unique original and contains the author's opinion.

So, if you have blog, authorship tag is must have. Note, according to Google policy authorship mark should prove that real person wrote the article, authorship mark shouldn't be used for business promotion.

Thus, the question is how install Author Tag?

Those who has website running on WordPress are the lucky ones since there is a plugin WordPress SEO. Plugin just has to be downloaded and activated. Along with different setting and options, there is social options that allow to choose which social network to be connected with.

The only thing to do is to fill out the field and add the link from social profile. After this action photo from social network account will appear next to snippet.

If the website runs on HTML, it's necessary to add in �<head>� section of every page that is supposed to be marked with authorship the tag.

<a rel=�author� href=�https://plus.google.com/u/0/your page/�>

After that, you should adjust your Google+ account. First, select  About section, second go to  Link section, then find field Contributor to and add your website link here. Like Screenshot below.







To sum up, authorship tag doesn't require any special actions, it's quite easy to implement this tag and take benefits from using it. Any opinions? Please leave your responses in the comments section below, and let us know what you think! Cheers ;)

In the video from Matt Cutts, he goes on to describe how authorship profiles will be strengthened by use of rel="author" Here's the video.

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How To Make Keywords Work

Guest Post - Our host is Maria Smith (Marketing Director) who takes a look at how to make keywords work. See How To Become a guest author.

Needless to say that keywords is significant aspect of website optimization. Keywords perform navigation function for search engines as well as for users. Thanks to keywords search engines match up sites content with search query and show the website in search list. Keywords should correspond with searches as accurately as possible to provide the site with top position in search ranking. Of course, there are a lot of other factors that impact on search ranking except keywords and searches accordance, but I want to pay attention to this crucial search ranking factor. Let's see what types of keywords exist.

Types of keywords

1) Head queries are the most frequent. Usually consist of 2 words. Head queries are used by trusted respected and the most popular resources and market leaders. It's quite difficult and has no reason to begin website optimization with this type of queries. Popular 2 words query will never bring a new website to the top. That's why second type of keywords is in field of interest.

2) Tail queries usually consist of 3 and more words or even can be a phrase. This type of keyword is characterized by low frequency of queries per month, but can be effective for optimization at the beginning. Long-tail keyword allows to appear in the top of search quite fast. Moreover, long-tail keyword is the way of fast optimization of blogs and informative sites.

How to select right keywords?

The main problem is to choose right keyword. Success of site promotion primary depends on solving this problem. Along with their main goal, keywords should bring traffic and increase conversion.

First, there are a lot of tools such as Semrush, Word stream, Word Tracker that allow to suggest possible keyword options and analyze competitors keyword. But the best tactic is to come into your potential client world and imagine what queries he uses. The most valuable factor for selecting keywords is human element. So suggested queries should be as natural as possible. List of 20 the most common queries is enough for initial analyze. Initial analyze can be done manually without keyword checkers. Just put keyword in search field and find out variations and main competitors. Manual analyze allows to estimate situation better. Tools are needed for comprehensive keyword investigation.

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What keywords variations should be in the list?

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? all names of service/product/blog name including short forms, slang, professional terms etc.

? names of elements/parts/ingredients, if it's possible

? detailing solutions, for instance, for SEO service it can be "keyword optimization", "link building", "Internet marketing" and so on.

? characteristic of product or service, for example, "High Quality Backlinks"or "effective SEO".

After creating a list of keywords and using mentioned tools, you will get information about which suggested words are head queries, which ones are used by competitors to select the most suitable ones. Ideally, final list of keywords for optimization should consist of 10-30 words.

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Why And How To Make Your Blog/Website Load Faster

Now this is one big concern for every Website Owner, We all obviously want our websites to load quickly because we know that makes them look better to the Users and Visitors. But in reality a quick loading website has tons of other big time benefits and a Webmaster should definitely work upon optimizing his her website in a way that it loads quickly. In this post, you will learn how to make your blog faster. Not just faster, the fastest. Yes, it is possible. Today  we will be talking on how to make your blog faster especially Blogger. You must have realized that mostly websites/blogs loads crazy fast, doesn't it?

Advantages of having a fast blog.

Search engines are always trying to return the best possible results to their readers, and you often see search rankings for websites going up and down. This is because they're regularly updating their algorithms, and changing their search ranking criteria, so that the most relevant and the best possible results can be returned to the searchers. Now this is one big concern for every Website Owner, We all obviously want our websites to load quickly because we know that makes them look better to the Users and Visitors. But in reality a quick loading website has tons of other big time benefits and a Webmaster should definitely work upon optimizing his her website in a way that it loads quickly. Here in this article we tell you of Top 10 Reasons why you should optimize your website so that it load�s quickly and doesn�t lags.

1. Higher Search Engine Ranking - Google loves fast blogs and websites. They index them first.
2. Saves you readers - If visitors go on your 'slow' blog, they will eventually get fed up and Go away from your website/blog.
3. More page views. - If you have a fast blog, readers will not hesitate to browse through your other posts.

Also See : 3 Best Ways to get more Blog readers.

Best User Experience

Websites/Blog have turned out to become the most important online identity of a Community  Company, Brand or a Product and you can�t really let your slow loading website/Blog to hamper your online reputation. Users want websites that have great UI and offers Great User Experience. A slow loading website/Blog can never give that and thus hampers your reputation and may just annoying  your honorable Customers.

• Follow The Steps Below :

1. Compress Your Images

Our next step is to compress images. Save all of your blog�s images into one folder, and go to Smush it. This is an image compressing tool made by Yahoo. Upload all of your images, where they will be compressed, and download them in a zipped file. You can then re-upload them to your blog. Both techniques shown so far will decrease your page size and loading time by at least 30%.

2. Compress Your Scripts

Your next step is to compress all of your JavaScript. Please go to JS Compress. Upload your JavaScript, have it compressed, and re-upload it to your webpage.

3. Delete Gadgets and Sidebar Tools

Delete any useless gadgets and widgets in your blog sidebar, footer or anywhere else. These gadgets which are of no use are a main bug in speed optimization. Try and delete as many gadgets possible. This will really reduce the size of your page and load up fast!

4. Reduce Homepage Posts

The number of your posts on the Homepage can really boost the speed of your blog. Reduce the number of posts by going to Layout - Blog Posts - Change posts number. Recommended is 6 posts per page. That's what you should set.

5. Remove Extras

Remove extra Plugin, Third Party Widget, photos or text from your blog. If you have any picture in the sidebar, extra text that is probably useless or crappy html widgets, remove remove remove!

6. Use Cloud Flare

Cloud Flare is a (free) service that makes your blog faster, safer, and smarter. In other words, Cloud Flare supercharges websites. It is a CDN service that will protect and accelerate your website, and doesn�t interfere with the Word Press Caching system (W3 Total Cache).

This plugin keeps your blog safe from the Hacking attacks, spammers, and bots by challenging them with a CAPTCHA system whenever it doubts a user�s authenticity. With this tool, you�re easily able to block the spammers� IPs and websites with just few clicks.

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Also see: How to Customize Post Body Font Size, Color & Style in Blogger.

Last Words

Ok, so now that u have seen the effects and may have talked to your Webmaster already and he would have said you that he can�t do anything and its your Server fault. But most of the time�s it�s the Website�s issue, as the Webmaster haven�t optimized the sites a way they should be done and have very low or no mentioned expiry date of images or scripts so they increase�s your website loading time. Tell us about your experiences in the comments section below.

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What does Google think about paid links?

Guest Post - Our host is Maria Smith (Marketing Director) who takes a look at What Does Google Think About Paid Links. See How To Become a guest author.

Debating about whether purchasing links, reviews, considerations, etc. is ethical or not is something we'll leave up the individual. Search engines would prefer that all links are natural, but the fact of the matter is that a substantial number of the links on the internet have been paid for in one way or another. Be sure to check out Google's official policy on paid links.

 

It's not a secret that paid links as SEO technique doesn't meet Google requirements, moreover, unnatural link building violates the Webmaster Guidelines. Google keep fighting against paid links.If formerly amount of quality paid links was main factor for ranking, currently such criteria as engagement with users and content shared in social media are taking into account as well. Successful webmaster should understand not just SEO concepts but marketing techniques also. Matt Cutts suggests that webmasters forget about SEO and create quality and useful sites for users. Nevertheless link trade stayed lucrative business niche. First of all, quality backlinks are still significant criteria for page rank. The point is that not every paid link is considered to be unnatural and harms the site. See Matt Cutts Answers Below in Video.

 

 

1) Quality backlinks on trusted resource within the industry.

Let's see. First of all, the link should be relevant, for instance, if you supply casino apps, don't place it at website about animals. Second is authority. Such factors as domain authority and page authority are essential, but the most important thing is that host website should be trusted, get traffic and not look like link directory. Thus, traffic will bring clicks, besides, quality sites don't offer a lot of place for links. So it gives competitive advantage and good relation of Google.

 

2) Sponsorship backlinks.

If the company is a sponsor, it places their links on sponsored site. This type of links is considered by Google as if a sponsor had a right to require a link. Another area for paid links is social media. First, as it was mentioned above Google likes social references. Content shared in social media increases position in SERP and attracts traffic. Consequently, paid likes, followers, and fans are in demand. Social media development drove increasing amount of networks that unit advertisers and account owners. Besides, social media provided with work software developers that create software for likes generation and so on. To sum up, in view of recent events Google requires backlinks to be corresponded with high standards in order to pass page rank and content to be "social" to improve SERP position.

 

Author - My name is Maria Smith. I am Work as a Marketing Director at Link Ads.

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what is External Links and how are they effect on pagerank

An external link is a hyperlink that points to another website on the internet, normally on another domain from the current website. Your linking tactic should include what types of sites you will and will not link to as well as how many external links there should be on any given page. External links are important to web pages because they provide additional information and give your audience a scope of resources to follow. External links on your site become backlinks for the sites you link to. And many sites are more likely to link to you if you link to them first. In this article we will Tech you briefly What links you need to nofollow and which links you must do follow.

 

Which of External Links Effect Your Page Ranking 

Many web Developer are hesitant to use them because they feel that they will harm their site in some way.

• Customers will leave the site and never come back.
• According to Google, you should not link to bad neighborhoods. They are bad websites that Google doesn�t like them. For example link scheme, FFA or free for all, spam, scam and � websites. Linking to such websites will hurt your website ranking and PageRank.
• You should not link to off-topic websites. If your website is about �Blogging�, you should link to Blogging related websites or blogs not health, beauty and weight loss websites. Linking to off-topic websites will hurt your website ranking and PageRank.
• You should not link to the websites that are known as the bad or suspected websites by SiteAdvisor.
• I shouldn't link to sites with lower PageRank than my site.

When a website or blog links to your website or blog, search engines interpret that as a real-life vote of confidence that your website can provide some sort of expertise or further explanation of a topic being discussed on the your blog or a website. Search engine algorithms attempt to �read� human behavior when they decide where a page surfaces in the search engine results page.  So naturally, they are going to favor what someone else says about you over what you say about yourself on your own site. Hence, external inbound links into your site are going to carry far more SEO weight than the internal links you provide on your page.  But every SEO link strategy needs to incorporate both.

 

This is true that the websites that have more related information for your visitors are all your competitors but  you should provide your visitors with links to the other resources. This will make your website helpful and supportive for users. Websites of the same niche are like the members of a union. They should know each other as the co-workers not competitors. They are a group of people who have common interests, skills and abilities. So they can help each other.

 

Is using the rel=�nofollow� attribute good?

The rel=�nofollow� attribute prevents the search engines spiders to follow a link to the target page or website. If you add the rel=�nofollow� to a hyperlink, it will not have any link popularity credit and value for the link target page. Google created this attribute to prevent spamming in public places like weblogs that people can add links by themselves. This is a good way to prevent spamming but you should not use this attribute in the external links that you add by yourself.

 

Did You Know Why?

Linking to on-topic websites or blog will not only provide more useful information and resources to users but will improve your website PageRank. Your website users will have no idea about the rel=�nofollow� attribute you add in the external links because it doesn�t make any changes in the links functions and appearance. But in fact, when you have the rel=�nofollow� attribute in a link, search engines can not see it and so they can not know that you have linked to an on-topic website. So you should use the rel=�nofollow� attribute in the pages that users can add their links by themselves.

 

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Nofollow Tag For Comment Links

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Add Nofollow To Your Download Links and Demo Links.

 

This aticle is made informative as possible. So, did you like these tips, or would like to add something to them? Feel free to post your msg into the comments section below. Stay Tuned for more updates. Cheer :)

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protect your blog from panda effect by adding nofollow tag to comment links

Google Panda effect is the name most of you might heard. It is a strict Google new algorithm that looks for content farms and link farms and completely stops indexing the publisher. Have you ever wondered how you can automatically add the rel="nofollow" attribute to all the links embedded in the comments users post on your blogger Blog? It is quite simple really, but unintuitive to find if you don't know where to look. Make sure that spammy links do not have a reason to infiltrate your comments, especially if you have anonymous users posting comments. The rel tag is about the only tag found in the anchor search engine robots listen to. Using the rel tag therefore makes sure the value of those links in search engine ranking is relatively null. Most of blog posts are either duplicate copies or infringed material. This year Google penalized many such sites along with some reputed blogs. So add no follow tag to your blog comments links to  Protect Your blog from Google Panda effect.

 

Recommended..!!

1. Nofollow tag for labels links
2. Add nofollow tag to your download links

 

Add Nofollow Tag To Comments Links

If spammers are spamming in blog comments to get better SEO and anchored links for their sites, NoFollow would render such spam useless. Problem is, spammers still spam. avoid spammers who just comment in order to steal your PageRank.

 

1. Add It To Author Links

1. Go to your blogger dasboard>>template>>edit html

2. find the follow piece of code.

<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl'

 

3. and replace with below code.

<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'

 

2. Add it to comment spammy links

1. Go to your blogger dasboard>>template>>edit html

2. Next Search for this.

<a class='comment-link'

 

3. and replace with this code.

<a class='comment-link' rel="nofollow"

 

Click on save and you are done..!!!

Note:- You can confirm the nofollow tag by viewing your blog source code in browser. and search comments. We also use nofollow tag to our blog comments links.

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Google Webmaster Tools Released Easier navigation without GPS

Google Webmaster Tools should be just as important to a SEO professional as Google Analytics. Google has continued to develop and maintain webmaster tools to include new features as the same time it is improving Analytics. The Webmaster Tools labs continues to showcase new features, such as author stats and structured data. However, while these new developments mean better optimization of websites, some of the classic features of Google Webmaster Tools still help SEOs keep a firm grasp on their metrics and how to improve. Yesterday Google Webmaster Team Released a Polished new navigation in addition Webmaster Tools. The update will make the features you already use easier to find, as well as unveil some exciting.

 

Navigation Reveals how search works

Google announced the launch of a new Webmaster Tools feature, which lets organized the Webmaster Tools features in groups that match the stages of search.

 

• Crawl Section is where you will see information about how Google discovers and crawls content. In here are your crawl stats, crawl errors, any blocked URLs by crawling, Sitemaps, URL parameters, and the Fetch as Google feature.
• Google Index section will keep track of how many of your pages are the Google index and how Google understands that content. Here you can monitor the overall indexed counts for your site (Index Status), see what keywords Google found on your pages (Content Keywords), or request to remove URLs from the search results.
• Search Traffic will show you how your pages are doing in the search results. Such as how people find your site (Search Queries), who�s recommended your site (Links to Your Site), and see a sample of pages from your site that have incoming links from other internal pages.
• Search Appearance will mark up your pages to help Google understand your content better during indexing and potentially influence how your pages appear in the search results. This includes the Structured Data dashboard, Data Highlighter, Sitelinks, and HTML Improvements.

( Image Credit:- My Blogger Tricks )

 

More Detail About The Group Section

Structured Data tab within the Search Appearance section is relatively new and focuses on identifying the Structured Data that is found within a website. These can include schema.org and microformats.org markup. When clicking through, each data type report shows which pages the markup has been found on, as well as the date they were last detected.

 

Data Highlighter is a webmaster tool for teaching Google about the pattern of structured data on your website. You simply use Data Highlighter to tag the data fields on your site with a mouse. Then Google can present your data more attractively -- and in new ways -- in search results and in other products such as the Google Knowledge Graph.

For example, if your site contains event listings you can use Data Highlighter to tag data (name, location, date, author, and so on) for the events on your site. The next time Google crawls your site, the event data will be available for rich snippets on search results pages.

 

The Search Appearance section also provides a HTML Improvements tab, which offers many common errors, such as duplicate meta tag descriptions or missing title tags, that can easily be fixed. Fixing these will help pages get indexed faster and more effectively for users by Google.

 

Access To Administrative

Google also finally added the ability to access the administrative functions to a gears icon at the top right of each profile. Account-level admin tasks including setting user permissions, site settings, and the change of address feature can now be found in that gear icon in the top right corner of the page.

This is the list of items as visible to site owners, such as �full� or �restricted� users will see a subset of these options. Depending on your level of access, will determine what options you see in this menu. ( Image Credit Goes to webmaster team )

 

Search Appearance Pop Up

Google added a new �Search Appearance pop-up� that is Designed to make it easier for new webmasters to imagine how your web site will appear in search results. It is also aimed to make it easier for webmasters to learn more about the content or structure changes that may help to influence each element. It includes the essential search result elements like title, snippet and URL, as well as optional elements such as sitelinks, breadcrumbs, search within a site, event and product rich snippets, and authorship information.See Popup Example Below ( Image Credit Goes to webmaster team )

Was this article helpful to you? How many of these mistakes were you making? Got any further questions? Please feel free to ask us in the comments below. We'll try to help. All the best..!!!

 

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Please Protect your blog from panda effect by adding nofollow tag to your lables

When it comes to search engine optimization, things are changing all the time. Aside from the rollout of Google�s �Search, Plus Your World� in January 2012, the biggest update to the search company�s algorithm is Google Panda. Google Panda was first unleashed upon the Web a year ago in February 2011, and, in that year, there have been several updates to its algorithm. That is a Stringent Google new algorithm that looks for content ranches and link farms and completely stops indexing the publisher URLS. If your blog contains too many inappropriate content or Matching content or your post Amount is less than 300 words, you have too many category/labels on your blog or website that makes no Intellect then you can be the next target of Google panda update. So be aware from these errors and add no follow tag to your blog or website lables/category links. We will nofollow the labels that appear below your post titles and also the labels appearing in your sidebar category widget.

 

Add No Follow Tag to you blogger label links

 

1. Go to your blogger dashboard>> template>> edit html

2. and find the following code in your template coding.

<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'>

3. and replace above line with this code.

<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag,nofollow'>

You are successfully added nofollow tag to your post body lable links. next steps is adding nofollow tag to your sidebar lable links

4. Now search for following code.

<a expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' expr:href='data:label.url'><data:label.name/></a>

5. Replace above code with this code.

<a expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' expr:href='data:label.url' rel='nofollow'><data:label.name/></a>

That�s it now you have done your little work but response is very big. You can confirm by viewing your template source in browser. I hope your blogs may grow raise more and may stay protected from Google panda effect. Keep up to date with new features and opportunities by subscribing to our blog via email Notification, adding our Google+ page to your circles or like us our page on facebook. Thanks for reading our posts.

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Submit Blogger Sitemap to Bing and yahoo without any error

Getting traffic to your site starts with being listed in the search results shown on Bing. Bing Webmaster tool can help you with this stride.The first step to getting your site online and to get better rankings in bing and yahoo  is to submit your sitemap to search engine. Eventually the search engines will find your site but this will help expedite the process. Once you submit your sitemap, it could take several days for the search engines to index your page(s). Results may vary so don�t write this in stone. Factors such as other websites pointing to your site can affect this time as well.  After Submitting your website URL To bing. You can get Sketchy  information  on how many sites were connecting  you and could also make a Calculation of the total number of internal links within your website or blog. But since now Yahoo has joined hands with Bing search engine by Microsoft, our job turn out to be even more easy, because submitting your blog at Bing will set it alive at two search engines, together  Bing and yahoo. Heretofore MSN did not Essential sitemap and you only needed to submit your link to them by pinging them but with the replacement of MSN search engine by latest BING, Microsoft is now Agreeably following Google's ways.

 

Please Note:

Please take our tutorials with full confidence. We share stuff only after through reading and exploration.  We will update you with most accurate Tricks and tips of blogger always. So follow the methods with  confident when it comes from My blogger tricks.

 

Submit your blog  or website url to bing and yahoo

1. Sign in To Bing Webmaster Tools (Using Hotmail or live account)

2. Once you logged in you will see a number of on your bing webmaster tool dashboard.

3. Click on add your site button.

4. you will see option like screenshot below.

 

 

5. Fill up the form with correct info.

6. In a sitemap tab add below sitemap link. before adding change blog name with your blog.

http://myblogger-tricks.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

7. Once you complete form information click on save and you are on verification page.

8. Now you will be asked to verify if you are the true owner of the website or blog you submitted. You will be provided three standard methods. Choose the second option which is "Copy and paste a tag in your default webpage"

9. You will be given a HTML code. copy it and paste the code just below <head> inside your blogger template.

 

For Do this you need follow the Steps.

Go to your blogger dashboard>>template>>edit html and near the top you will found <head> tag just below it paste verification meta tag.

10. Go back on bing webmaster tool and click on �verify� button. If you place the verification code correctly then your sitemap will be successfully added to the list.

 

10. Initially the status will be Pending. After Bing has fetched and processed the sitemap, Bing Webmaster tool will update the status and the other details such as how many URLs we discovered while highlighting any issues encountered.  If you see an exclamation mark in front of a status you can see additional information about an error or issue we encountered by hovering over the icon.

Note: processing submitted sitemaps takes time and can take from a few hours up to a few days. Normally it should take at most 3 days for Bing and Yahoo to start showing data for your newly submitted site but it can even take 5 days.Normally it should take at most 3 days for BING and YAHOO to start showing data for your newly submitted site but it can even take 5 days. So be patient and expect your blog links appearing in BING and YAHOO search engines within 3-5 days. You will then be able to track organic traffic to your blogs via your webmaster account which is almost similar to Google Webmaster tools account.

 

Ping Yahoo and Bing

If you have an automated system that generates your sitemap, you may find it easier to inform Bing about your sitemap by sending a HTTP request. Using your favorite method to send the request, use the following one URL. Don't ping search engines too frequently for it can be taken as overloading the servers which can even get you penalized from search listings. Do it only when you feel that your links are not appearing at Yahoo and Bing page.

 

Follow the Steps

1. From the links below, replace www.mybloggertricks.com with your blogspot links or custom domain links. (Example: yourwebsitename.com )

2. Paste the following links in your browser address bar one at a time and hit enter. You will see a message "Thank You for submitting your sitemap."

For Posts between 1-500
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F
%2Fwww.myblogger-tricks.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%
26start-index%3D1%26max-results%3D500

For Posts between 501-1000 
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F
%2Fwww.myblogger-tricks.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%
26start-index%3D501%26max-results%3D500

For Posts between 1001-1500
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F
%2Fwww.myblogger-tricks.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%
26start-index%3D1001%26max-results%3D500

Simply paste your latest post URL inside Bing and Yahoo and see if your blog is appearing in the search results. If it did then say Chilly but if it did not then there are may be two reasons:

 

1. You need to wait for at most 5 days after first submission of your Blog.

2. You blog has no sufficient posts. Your blog must contain at least 15 posts.

 

Troubleshooting if Your Links Doesn�t showing

If notwithstanding waiting for 5 days, your links are still not showing up at Yahoo and Bing then do this:

PING them again and wait for a day. If things did not work then try this.

 

1.Remove your Site from BING webmaster tools and resubmit it.

2. PING them just after blog submission.

 

Note:- Although the URLs contained inside your XML Sitemap, RSS, or Atom feed naturally can change to reflect either the latest snapshot of your site or the last published pages or posts, the URL of the submitted Sitemap or feed should stay the same over time. You should not use date stamps or other incremental post-fixes inside the name of the XML Sitemap or feed that cause the URL to change each time you generate them.

That�s it! Once you complete the above steps, just sit back and be patient. It takes time for the search engines to index your pages. Using an automated submission program to submit to multiple search engines at once may be considered spam attempts and is frowned upon by search engines such as Google.Keep up to date with new features and opportunities by subscribing to our blog via email Notification, adding our Google+ page to your circles or like us our page on facebook. Thanks for reading our posts.

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How To Setting up Custom Robots header tag

Custom robots header tags allow you to tell web crawlers not to index certain sections of your site. It�s similar to customrobots.txt, but not as granular. For example, if you check the box for "nofollow" under the "Homepage" section, it means that you don�t want web crawlers to consider any links on your homepage leading to any other page. (Google Support)

Blogger is continuously improving search preference feature, Add Custom Robots Header Tags are very important for every blogger for better SEO. Increase Blogger SEO Traffic with Custom Robots Header Tags Settings. You should setup your custom robots header tags manually in blogger to get more SEO Support. In addition, you can increase your Site Unique Visitor with these type of settings.

Okay, let me help you in setting up your blogger blog's custom  robots header tags. Follow the below tutorial and set up your custom header robots right now:

 

Step 1: To enable these tags, Go To Blogger > Settings > Search Preferences, click Edit next to "Custom robots header tags," and select Yes. Activated!

 

Now you must learn when should you use them. Using them correctly can help you rank better and using them at wrong scenarios can surely going to opposite.

 

all:-  There are no restrictions for indexing or serving. This is default for all pages
noindex:-  Do not show this page in search results and do not show a "Cached" link in search results.
nofollow:-  Do not follow the links on this page
none:-  Equivalent to noindex, nofollow
noarchive:-  Do not show a "Cached" link in search results.
nosnippet:-  Do not show a snippet in the search results for this page
noodp:-  Do not use metadata from the Open Directory project (DMOZ) for titles or snippets shown for this page.
notranslate:-  Do not offer translation of this page in other languages in search results.
noimageindex:-  Do not index images on this page.
unavailable_after:- [RFC-850 date/time]: Do not show this page in search results after the specified date/time. The date/time must be specified in the RFC 850 format. Example: 17 May 2012 15:00:00 PST.

 

Step 2: After Learning Above Meaning Lets Start Setting.

 

noodp ?

This command instruct Google not to use the meta data from DMoz for showing up the images and snippets of your website in Google search engine result pages.

 

"noindex" and "nofollow"?

"noindex" command restrict search engines to show a page in search engine result pages, not even cached link to that page also. Any page or post that you want to hide from robots and visitors can be tagged as noindex. Visitors wont be able to discover that page via search engines or may be even with the Google Custom Search Engine.

The "nofollow" command instruct not to follow the link of a page. The "none" command is similar to "noindex" and "nofollow".

 

"noarchive" and "notranslate"?

The "noarchive" command restrict search engine to show cached link of a web page. Where the "notranslate" command disable the translation of a page in search results.

 

noimageindex ?

If you are sharing your Project  or Personal Picture on any of your posts or page then may be you would prefer not to make those pictures public and keep them limited to readers reach only.

all ?

This command means there are no restrictions for indexing and serving anything from a webpage.

What is the work of "unavailable_after"?
The command instruct the search engine that remove the page from the search results after a specific time period.

 

If you do not want to do the settings you can leave it as disable mode in default, you can get the better effect with your site SEO but it is an advanced mode for your Site. It will make more effective with your site content and make it make high rank from other blogger BlogSpot. I would really appreciate you to use it for your Blog. Please ask me any query you may have and feel free to share your precious views. Have fun buddies. Peace and blessings be upon you all always. Happy Blogging.

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How to Change Default Title Tag on blogger for SEO

Aim for title tags containing fewer than 70 characters. This is the limit Google displays in search results. Title tags longer than 70 characters may be truncated in the results, or search engines may choose to display different text from the document in place of the title tag. Recent experiments have shown that the number of characters displayed in the search results may also vary based on�among other things�the width in pixels of each letter. 70 characters is still a good general guideline for length, though. In most blogger templates when we view a post on blogger blog, title tag is first blog title then your post title which is not quite good as for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as in search engine our blog title will appear first instead of keyword searched for. This Tip will change the Blogger's title tag to help amplify relevant keywords to your blog which improve the search engine ranking of your blog. Just follow easy and simple steps below:-

 

Optimize your Blog Title

 

1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard>> Template>> Edit HTML

2. and Find the Following Code. (if you are using Default Title Tag.) You Can Find the Below code Near  <head> tag Opening.

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> 

Or 

<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>.

3. and replace above code With Following Code.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>

Refresh your blog. Title tag of your blog post will be your post title and blog title for your blog home page. This improves viewer�s trust and keyword strength of your blog.

If you have any question please feel free to post your query below in comment form. Thanks for Reading our Post. Happy Blogging..

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10 Tips to design impressive and professional blog

 Blogger it's a very powerful platform to publish your blog. It's free and with some features which you can customize how you prefer, without limits. In this post I want to illustrate some tips which can help you to improve your Blogger template to design a professional layout for your blog. Most popular blogs have a number of blog design elements in common. Learn about ten of the most important blog design Tips your blog must have in order to have a chance at success. Read These 10 Tips To Make Your Blog Like Professional.

 

Make It Comfortable For Readers

That�s mean the fonts you choose should be large enough to be read on high resolution monitors, and they should be simple enough to be legible. In other words, don't choose a highly stylized font. Stick with Georgia, Verdana or another Web-friendly font. Also, make sure the text on your blog is easy to scan quickly. Clean blog design make your blog comfy for your readers to read and see the blog content as long as they want. A good looking blog design increase the number of your blog visitors/readers.

 

Choosing of font style & colors

Try to use as less variety of fonts as possible. Always use simple and plain fonts like Arial, Verdana so that every lay man visiting your blog will easily understand the whole content of your page. Only use bold and Italic cases in dire need. Different font color may also be applied to the hyperlinked text. The underline should only be used for Hyperlinks and the text will only be underlined on mouse over event.

 

Make your Blog Logo Impressive

If you want that your blog looks professional then design a cool and awesome looking logo for your blog. For making a professional logo I suggest you to use Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw any one on which you feel handy. (any version of your interest). You can also use simple or plain text with attractive font style to make your blog Title. Different superb, stylish and state of the art fonts can be chosen free of cost for your blog title from Google Web Font Directory.

 

Designing Header and Footer

Header and footer represent 80% of your blog design. Instead of putting just copyright content in footer, you should also use Social Sharing, Your Logo, Powered by logo and may also be Recent Posts Widgets in your footer section. It will make your footer super cool. When people can't find what they're looking for on your blog, they often scroll to the footer to find blog-wide links such as a contact us links, site map link, and so on. We Suggest to use images as header and footer background instead of solid background color.

 

Easy Navigation

Make it easy for visitors to find your content. Don't hinder their visit by using interstitial ads or splash pages. In other words, don't give them a chance to click away from your blog when they land on it. Your navigation menu should be designed to display a complete summary of your whole blog.

 

Right Widgets For Your Blog

Make sure that you choose stylish and cool widgets of your blog but most of people forget a big thing while designing a blog that they apply too many popups and widgets in their blogs. We suggest to those people that don�t do this because readers can only afford a pop up only for 1 time when they visit your blog, but don�t install pop ups that appears every time they clicks on a new page �that behavior will annoy your visitors. A very huge collection of free plugins are available on internet for blogger but it doesn�t mean that you use all of them in your blog widget section, remember 1 think make your blog looking stylish but in a simple ways. Remember the saying �keep it simple stupid�

 

Use Professional Images On Your Blog

Only plain text content is not good for your blog. In blog, you should add unique and attractive images in your post. Images can enhance the look of your blog but only if you use sharp with light weight and close concern with your post. Your images should give a close picture of your post. A header can be made more impressive with the use of an image portraying the whole theme of your blog. Header image should be clear enough to read and sharp enough to understand. Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw can be used as per your choice and experty.

 

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Friendly

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) plays an important role to words improving the number of visitors on your blog. It is the best and one of the important part of your blog. Every Search engine as has its own SEO (Search Engine Optimization) System. Different Search Engines have different steps to get maximum optimization. Having Search Engine Friendly Navigation basically means creating a structure that search engines can follow. A major culprit in search engines not being able to find a website is due to the links being images instead of text. So make sure your links should be in plain text. We need to follow these tips to Make SEO Friendly Blog and Template.

 

• Optimize Your Title Tag
• Meta Description and keywords
• Alt Text for images
• Setting up Custom Robots Header Tag
• Add No Follow Tag to Your Download, Demo links.
• Add nofollow tag to your Label Links
• Add nofollow tag to your comments links.
       

Choosing A Right Template For Your Blog If You Can�t Develop Your Own

The most perfect thing is design your own template. But if you�re not skilled with template development you can find a great number of free template designers. That can help, guide and even give you the whole template only for the cost of a simple link at the bottom of your blog. Some of these designer can be found on internet. We Searching Best Designer Websites on internet.

 

• Templateism
• Blogger Template

Successful Way Of Content Writing

Lastly I recommend to be as simple as you can in your writing. Your words should be as simple as only a simple man with little knowledge of the topic under discussion would have enough knowledge after reading your content. All of your content should be brief and to the point extra and unnecessary detail should be avoided at any cost. Originality of your content is the most important ingredients of your blog.  I know you thinking right know, why I am saying this?

Answer to the above question is that all the above referred details are the key to success in achieving maximum number of visitors at your blog. This is just a humble attempt to contribute a little knowledge, that I have, to all the visitors, but this is not the all, We recommend you to read more and more and so on.

Thanks for Reading our post. If you have any question please feel free to post any query below in comments box or use our contact form.. Happy Blogging..

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SEO tips for mobile sites

2013 has been named the Year of Mobile Commerce; with the Google searches from mobile devices expected to surpass the searches made by desktop computers each day during this year. With the number of smart phones and tablets in use expanding exponentially, now has never been a better time for companies to embrace mobile websites. Remember, your competitor is now only ever a click away. A poor mobile user experience could see shoppers and clients turn to those who make it easier for them.

When approaching a mobile website

It is vital to remember that mobile visitors are interacting with your website in a completely different way to the desktop user. Use Google Webmaster tools to understand your analytics and segment out current mobile traffic to get a better understanding of how existing mobile users wish to use your website from their devices. This will also help you understand your organic keyword traffic. Although your desktop website rankings can help with mobile SEO, you may find that the keywords used for your desktop site are not relevant to your mobile. This is why re-optimization is advised.

When you understand the end-user�s goals

Designing a mobile website is straightforward. If you discover that mobile users are seeking store locations or contact details whilst using their mobile devices, you can make sure these are a prominent feature of your mobile homepage. Mobile sites will load more slowly than desktop pages, so keep your design streamline and low-fuss in order to enhance the user experience. You will need to consider the navigation of your mobile site too, mobile users tend to hate having to scroll.

Did you know that 40% of mobile search is local?

This means it�s important to consider local search and geo-positioning when undertaking your mobile strategy. The use of HTML Geolocation API is advantageous.

In terms of SEO link building,

Fortunately there is no need to build separate links to your mobile site. Google knows that both sites are the same, despite the difference in content and layout. Today mobile web users expect that your website is responsive, which means the site will automatically convert to a mobile design when being reached on a mobile device. This saves the user hassle and time of having to select a mobile web option or entering a separate domain name. Normally mobile browsers emulates a desktop view by squeezing big resolutions into small screens that is often difficult to read and browse. You must be familiar that how difficult it is to click a web link in IPHONE unless you zoom it.. In order to tell the browser to detect the screen size we will add a META viewport tag inside <head> section of your layout.

Any Template can be converted into a flexible layout in just two simple steps:

1. Add Meta Viewport

Paste Following Code just below <head> tag.

�width=device-width� detect the screen size.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, 
maximum-scale=1">

2. Use CSS3 Media Queries

See these two media queries for smart phone and Tablet devices.

@media screen and (max-width : 480px) {
/* If screen size less than 480px Load this style */
/* Done for Smart Phone */

}

@media screen and (max-width : 768px) {
/* If screen size less than 768px Load this style */
/* Done for Tablet */

}

The use of a sitemap is also important to mobile SEO

You may already have a mobile HTML sitemap in place, but it is best practice to add an XML sitemap to your mobile website and submit this to Bing and Google. This will allow search engines to make a note of your separate mobile website. An effective mobile website is extremely easy to achieve, but alongside SEO techniques for mobile optimization, it is important to keep the end user in mind. This way you will get more traffic and help boost your rankings further. Another tip to remember is that as mobile screens are smaller, it�s important to keep Meta descriptions and tags to a mobile-friendly style too: 40-60 characters for tags and 90 characters for descriptions.

Author - Author Bio: This article was brought to you by Miromedia who are an SEO Coventry agency.

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Add A Meta Description To Your blog home page & Post Page � blogger SEO

Meta descriptions for your web pages can improve the chances of your site being found and clicked on. In Short Meta description tags are very important to optimize your blog in search results. you can finally add meta description to individual posts and pages on Blogger! This new feature is only one of several new features added by Blogger aiming at improving its SEO (Search Engine Optimization). With new Blogger interface we can add a meta description tag to Blogger blog without editing template's HTML. But you can not add meta keywords to your blog using Blogger Settings. (Meta Descriptions, which are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages, are commonly used by search engines on search result pages to display preview snippets for a given page. (from http://www.seomoz.org) ). A good description increases the post�s chances of getting clicked. So Lets start the tutorial.

 

Enable & Add Meta Description

 

Blog Meta Description - This is a description of your entire blog.You use this to describe your entire blog to search engines.

 

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard>> Settings >> Search preferences > Meta tags > Description and click the Edit link. (Like Screenshot Below)

2. Enter the meta description for your blog. This meta description will appear on your homepage and other multi-post pages.
3. Click Save Changes button.

 

Adding Meta Description To individual Pages

 

Posts Meta Description - This is a description added to every individual post on your blog.You use this to tell search engines what each post is about.

 

1. In your post editor see right side panel  under Post Settings click search description option ( This option appears only after you enabled search description in step1)

 
2. Enter the meta description for the post and click Done.
For older posts, you have to go back to edit each post and manually add in the description.

Verify Your Meta Description

 

You can verify your meta description by using this free meta tag checker tools

• Free Meta checker Tools

More Troubleshooting

 

If none of the meta descriptions appear, chances are your template does not contain the necessary code to import the meta description from Blogger database.

1. Go To Blogger Dashbaord>>  Template >> Edit HTML and find the following code.

<b:skin><![CDATA[

2. and paste the following code before/above <b:skin><![CDATA[

<b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != &quot;&quot;'>
  <meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='description'/>
</b:if> 

3. and verify again. I just hope this tutorial would be helpful for all of you. The steps are extremely simple and easy. Wish you all the best with your blogging endeavors. Happy blogging. If you face any trouble please feel free to post any query below in comment box. stay tuned for daily updates by subscribing our blog. subscribe our RSS Feed or Email Feed Below.

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Add blogger Official Contact Form to your blogger blog

Blogger Team lunched Official Contact form for blogger users. Contact Form Is Indeed Necessity For a Blog. It Helps Your Reader To Contact You Easily Without Any Problem. Readers Can Ask Question Or Suggest You Something Through Using Contact Form.  We Have Shared An Contact Form Already With You. Which You Can Place On Any Page Of Your Blog By Putting Code. The wait is finally over , yeah Its True ! the wait is over . Blogger finally comes up with his own contact form, Now you no longer have to rely on 3rd party Contact Form solutions.Blogger added a new contact form widget which will be fit into your blog's sidebar You can also add the same contact form on a separate page and customize it , if you want to. Adding this contact form is really easy , just follow below steps.

 

1. Go to Your Blogger Dashboard>> Layout>> and click on add gadget ( Screenshot Below)

 

2. Click on More Gadget and click on Plus Button.

 

3. Rename Title as you want Click on Save & you are done�!!!!

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