SEO, Monetizing Tips

What is a Search System?

2008-11-30T15:43:00.000-08:00

What is a Search System? Search system: An organization that possesses a combination of software, hardware, and people that is used to index or categorize Web sites — they build the index or directory you search through at a search site. Google is a search system, but AOL.com and EarthLink.com are not. In fact, if you goto AOL.com or EarthLink.com and search, you actually get Google search results.

What is search site?

2008-11-30T15:40:00.000-08:00

What is search site? Search site: A Web site at which you can search through some kind ofindex or directory of Web sites, or perhaps both an index and directory. (In some cases, search sites allow you to search through multipleindices.) Google.com, AOL.com, and EarthLink.com are all search sites.

Google and the Open Directory Project provide search results to hundreds of search sites. In fact, most of the world’s search sites get their search results from elsewhere.

What Are Search Engines and Directories?

2008-11-30T15:28:00.001-08:00

The term search engine has become the predominant term for search system or search site, but before reading any further, you need to understand the different types of search, um, thingies, you’re going to run across.

Basically, you need to know about four thingies:

1. Search indexes or search engines: These are the predominant type of search tools you’ll run across. Originally, the term search engine referred to some kind of search index, a huge database containing information from individual Web sites. Google’s vast index (http://www.google.com/ ) contains over 3 billion pages, for instance. Large search-index companies own thousands of computers that use software known as spiders or robots (or just plain bots — Google’s software is known as Googlebot) to grab Web pages and read the information stored in them. These systems don’t always grab all the information on each page or all the pages in a Web site, but they grab a significant amount of information and use complex algorithms to index that information. Google is the world’s most popular search engine.

2. Search directories: A directory is a categorized collection of information about Web sites. Rather than containing information from Web pages, it contains information about Web sites. The most significant search directories are owned by Yahoo! (http://www.dir.yahoo.com/) and the Open Directory Project (http://www.dmoz.org/). Directory companies don’t use spiders or bots to download and index pages on the Web sites in the directory; rather, for each Web site, the directory contains information such as a title and description. The two most important directories, Yahoo! and Open Directory, have staff members who examine all the sites in the directory to make sure they are placed into the correct categories and meet certain quality criteria. Smaller directories often allow people submitting sites to specify which category should be used.

3. Non-spidered indexes: I wasn’t sure what to call these things, so I made up a name: non-spidered indexes. A number of small indexes, less important than the major indexes such as Google, don’t use spiders to examine the full contents of each page in the index. Rather, the index contains background information about each page, such as titles, descriptions, and keywords. In some cases, this information comes from the meta tags pulled off the pages in the index. In other cases, the person who enters the site into the index provides this information.

4. Pay-per-click systems: Some systems provide pay-per-click listings. Advertisers place small ads into the systems, and when users perform their searches, the results contain some of these sponsored listings, typically above and to the right of the free listings.

How to Upload Video to Blogger Blog

2008-11-20T08:06:00.000-08:00

"How to Upload Video to Blogger Blog" video tutorial.

Some times you want or need to put a video in to your blog post, it's not a hard task, just follow this video instruction.

How to Upload Video to Blogger Blog part 1

How to Upload Video to Blogger Blog part 2

There is another way to upload video to your blog, and I think that it is a better way: simply go to www.youtube.com , register and upload your video. After you are done, just copy the "Embed" code and past it in to your post (in "Edit html" mode)

How to set up Google Analytics on Blogger blog

2008-05-02T11:42:00.000-07:00

How to set up Google Analytics on Blogger blog:

Google Analytics is a service for tracking your traffic. It will show you information about your visitors: from where did they came to your blog, what keywords they was using in search engines (to find your blog), from that back links they came from, the countries where they live, landing pages etc.

How to setup Google Analytics:

1. First of all, you need to have Google account. Just go to Google and create it. After that, go to Google Analytics page and sign in and click sign up.

2. Enter your blog URL, account name, choose your country and click "Continue".

3. Enter your last name (optional), first name (optional), telephone (optional), country, click "Continue".

4. Read the following terms and conditions bla bla bla (optional =)))), check the checkbox, and click "Create new Account".

5. Now you will get a code. You need to put it in to your blog template. Go to your blogger account --> Layouts --> Edit HTML --> Backup your blog. Copy and paste the code into the bottom of your content, immediately before the </body> tag . Save your template. Go back to Analytics page and click "Continue".

That's it. Google Analytics updates every day, you can access the reports from your Google account or here: www.google.com/analytics

How to Backup your Blogger blog

2008-05-02T09:49:00.000-07:00

How to Backup your Blogger blog:

That's a simple question, but people often ask about: "how to backup my Blogger blog?"

Answer:

1. Go to your Blogger account.

2. Choose your blog and click "Layout" and "Edit HTML".

3. Now you see the "Backup/Restore Template", click on "Download Full Template".

Your blog is saved on your computer. To restore it, just click on "Browse", choose your saved template and click "Upload"

How to Subscribe to all Comments on Blogger Blogs

2008-05-02T09:22:00.000-07:00

How to Subscribe to all Comments on Blogger Blogs:

Many readers are asking this question, some of them want to subscribe to all comments, some of them want to create "Recent (Last) Comments" widget...

The answer is very simple:

This is the URL address of ALL comments from Blogger blogs (ordered by data):
http://YourBlog.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?orderby=published

Don't forget to change YourBlog to real blog name.

Cheers

Google Page Rank Update: April

2008-05-02T08:58:00.000-07:00

29 April 2008: Google Page Rank Update.

Blogneedmoney have Page Rank 3 (PR3) now. It was PR0 =) The reasons of that are:

- backlink from my mixx.com profile (PR3)
- backlinks from some blog-catalogs
- links to my posts from social bookmarking websites

What about you ?

How to add multiple administrators to Blogger blog

2008-04-30T11:51:00.001-07:00

Some times you need to add multiple administrators for your blog (if you and your friends want to make posts on the same blog or if you want to move your blog to another account or if you want to change the owner of blog).

Adding multiple administrators to your blog is not hard but lot of people don't know how to do this.

Adding multiple administrators to your blog:

1. Go to your blog Dashboard --> Settings --> Permissions.
2. Click "Add Authors".
3. Enter the email address (-es) of your new administrator(-s).
4. They need to check their e-mails and click on the link to join the blog.
5. Go to Dashboard --> Settings --> Permissions and promote newcomers to administrators.

All done, Cheers

How to ping my blog? 100 Ping Services

2008-03-29T08:38:00.001-07:00

So, how to ping your blog and what is ping service? Ping services - services that informs search engines that your blog has new publications. After ping, search engine robots quickly crawl your new articles to index them.

If your blog on Wordpress, go to: Options - Writing - Update Services - in the end you will find a list with ping services for pinging your blog.

I want to share with you my list of 100 ping services. Some of them are blog-catalogs pinging services, so first you need to add your blog to that catalogs. To ping your blog, just follow the links.

100 Ping Services List:

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogoole.com/ping
http://blogoon.net/ping
http://blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://blogsnow.com/ping
http://blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://weblogues.com/RPC
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://catapings.com/ping.php
http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/pingRPC2
http://rpc.newsgator.com
http://newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://pingqueue.com/rpc
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping
http://wasalive.com/ping
http://blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://blogsearch.google.com/pingRPC2nd
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rpc2
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/xmlrpc
http://pingoat.com/goat/rpc2
http://rcs.datashed.net/rpc2
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/rpc2
http://newsisfree.com/rpccloud
http://queerfilter.com/ping
http://weblogues.com/rpc
http://api.mw.net.tw/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/ping
http://blogsdominicanos.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/pingRPC2
http://blogsearch.google.us/pingRPC2
http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://fgiasson.com/pings/ping.php
http://focuslook.com/ping.php
http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping
http://imblogs.net/ping
http://ping.blogg.de
http://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://ping.wordblog.de
http://pinger.onejavastreet.com
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://rssfeeds.com/suggest_wizzard.php
http://rssfwd.com/xmlrpc/api
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://weblogalot.com/ping
http://xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php
http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
http://focuslook.com/ping

Firefox SEO Plugins

2008-03-28T17:56:00.001-07:00

SEO plugins for Firefox can be really useful for you. They will help you to analyze your blog. So I decided to search for some Firefox SEO plugins for you.

This is my list of Firefox SEO plugins:

Google toolbar. Really useful plugin. Must have.
SEOQuake. It shows: quantity of indexed pages in Google, backlinks in Yahoo!, Alexa Rank, Del.icio.us, Whois and other staff.
Rank Checker button. Check rank of your blog.
SearchStatus. Compete Rank Toolbar, Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, shows no_follow links.
User Agent Switcher.
SEO for FireFox. Different annalistics of your pages.
Page Age. Shows the age of your pages.
Web Developer. Lot of developer features, different info about links and pictures on the page.
Compete.com. Shows traffic information.

New xml Blogger Template - Black Rainbow

2008-03-16T17:05:00.000-07:00

New xml Blogger Template or xml Blogger Layout - Black Rainbow. This xml blogger template is optimized for Adsense and little SEO optimized. I was working all day to create this xml blogger template, so check it out:

Description: it has 3 column, black color design, good background and cool logo design.
This is second xml blogger template what I've made.

This xml blogger template can be used only on xml blogger blogs (sometimes you call it - beta).
It has 8 places for banner.

You can check out the domo and download Black Rainbow xml blogger template:

DEMO

Download

If you dont know how to instal xml blogger template, you can read this manual:

How to install xml Blogger Template

Check out my first Free xml Blogger Template: 'Girl and Sofa'

Find all: Blogger Templates

5 Tips - How to Get Your Blog on the First Page of Google

2008-03-11T17:21:00.001-07:00

How about 5 easy tips about how to get your blog on the first page of Google? Yeah, I see you are shaking your head and smiling. I think you are understand that if your blog will get on the first page of Google - you will get much more traffic to your blog, because bigger part of Google users use only first page of Google search results. That's why it is so important to get on the first page of search results. Believe me or not, but this method is working. For example, I have a collective social blog (or community) where everyone can make their own posts, share articles, tips, reviews and knowledge - Mocii.com, most of the posts are about Tech/Gadgets, reviews, how to's. It is also useful because you can submit an unique article there and put backlinks to your blog or posts from your blog (link will be without nofollow tag). So, all my posts on Mocii.com are on the first page of Google search results (most of them in Top 5, some of them on the first position!)

5 Tips - How to Get Your Blog on the First Page of Google:

Submit posts with unique content. Your blog content must be unique, content is a king! Do not steal content from other blogs, Google will see everything! If you really like someone's post, you can re-wright it. Your content must be 99% unique. Don't wright every hour, it is too much. Submit 1-3 posts / day and keep this tempo.
After you will create 10 posts on your blog, you must add your blog sitemap (rss) to Google Sitemap. If you have Blogger blog - use your RSS, if you are using, for example, Wordpress - create sitemap with Google Sitemap Generator or create your own sitemap. After adding - Google will crawl your sitemap everyday and he will know about all your new posts. Remember, Google will love you if you will have blog with good, quality and unique content.
Add your blog and RSS to blogs and RSS catalogs and readers. Use Google to find them. This will give you lot of free backlinks and traffic.
Submit some unique articles to article directories. Don't forget to put backlinks with anchors to your blog and to some of your posts. Articles must have the same subjects as your blog or post. Do not submit too often.
Put your backlink everywhere where its possible. Put your link to

DMOZ

make answers on Yahoo! Answers

Cheers

Swap Blog Title and Post Title on Blogger

2008-03-10T17:19:00.001-07:00

Your template is invalid because the tag 'b:section' appears inside of the tag 'head'. This error appears because of Swap of your blog title and post title on Blogger hack. I think there was some changes on Blogger. To fix that error, you need to do the same hack: Swap of your blog title and post title, but with some changes.

Just follow the steps:

1. Go to dashboard ==> 'Layout'==> 'Edit HTML' and backup your template.

2. Find this line: <title><data:blog.pageTitle/><title> and delete it.

3. Find <head> code and put this code BEFORE <head> :

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<b:section id='titleTag'>
<b:widget id='Blog2' locked='false' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'>
<b:includable id='nextprev'/>
<b:includable id='backlinks' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='post' var='post'><data:post.title/></b:includable>
<b:includable id='commentDeleteIcon' var='comment'/>
<b:includable id='status-message'/>
<b:includable id='feedLinks'/>
<b:includable id='backlinkDeleteIcon' var='backlink'/>
<b:includable id='feedLinksBody' var='links'/>
<b:includable id='postQuickEdit' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='comments' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='main' var='top'><title><b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'><b:include data='post' name='post'/></b:loop> | <data:blog.title/></title></b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

4. Save your changes.

PS:

I'm not recommending you to do this hack, because, usually, Title code must be after <head>. So I don't know what kind of effect it will give to you. I think it is better do use simple basic <title><data:blog.pageTitle/><title> code.

How to start a blog in Blogger

2008-03-07T10:22:00.001-08:00

How to start a blog in Blogger (video guide). I'm boring to tell you about how to start blog in Blogger, so I decide to show you this video guide:

How to add Google AdSense to each post in Blogger blog

2008-03-04T06:32:00.001-08:00

You need to put Google AdSense to each post in your Blogger blog, if you want to earn money on your blog. Google AdSense is a perfect way to earn money. It is a banner with contextual links. You can add Google AdSense by using Blogger Widgets, but using them - you can add your banner just on your sidebar, before, after or between posts.

Do you know that the best place for Google AdSense ads is in the post and it must be wrapped around the text? Now you know. This tutorial will show you how to add Google AdSense to each post in your Blogger blog and make it wrapped around the text:

1. First of all you need to have Google AdSense account.

2. After registration go to your Blogger Dashboard, click on 'Layouts', after that, click on 'Edit HTML'.

3. Backup your Template by clicking on 'Download Full Template'.

4. Click on Expand Widget Templates checkbox.

5. Find the following line in the HTML code in the text box:

<data:post.body/>

6. Now put the following code BEFORE <data:post.body/>:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div id='googleadsense'>
</div>
</b:if>

7. Now you need to put your parsed Google AdSense banner code between <div id='googleadsense'> and </div>

( to make your Google Adsense banner code Parsed, you need to change all '<' to < and '>' to > it is easy to do with this tool - google adsense parser - just follow the instruction.)

8. Now you need to add new CSS style for your banner, search for

]]></b:skin> and put following code BEFORE it:

#googleadsense {

float:left; /* write 'right' , if you want to have ads from the right side*/
}

9. Save your template.

How to Change Header Width in Blogger

2008-03-04T04:28:00.001-08:00

Want to change header width in Blogger? Changing header width looks like changing blog width in blogger. Remember! Your Header Width must be the same or less width when the blog width. To change your blog header width you need to follow this steps:

1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard and click 'Layouts'.

2. After that click 'Edit HTML' and first of all - backup your template by clicking 'Download Full Template'.

3. Now you need to find CSS Style of your header, just find this line :

#header-wrapper {

(if you are using not default template, this parameter can have different name, for example : #header)

4. Now you must find or add width parameter under #header-wrapper line. For example it can look like this :

#header-wrapper {

width:660px; /* This parameter you must to change. */
margin:0 auto 10px;
border:1px solid $bordercolor;
}

5. After the changes, just save your template.

Also you can read:

How to Change Blog Width in Blogger
How to change sidebar width in blogger

Cheers.

How to Change Blog Width in Blogger

2008-03-04T03:50:00.001-08:00

Change width of blog in Blogger, one of the question what my readers often ask me. Well, changing blog width is not so hard. Width is one of the main part of your blog design. You must to choose correct width for your blog first. Standard width of your blog in Blogger is - 660 px.

If you want to change it, just follow my small tutorial:

1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard and click 'Layout'.

2. Click 'Edit HTML'.

3. Now Backup your template by clicking 'Download full Template'.

4. Now you need to find CSS Style for your blog body. Just find this line :

#outer-wrapper {

5. There mast be Width: 660px parameter under that line. Just change it to your width. (#outer-wrapper is default CSS name of blog body parameters, but if you are using template what was designed by someone, this parameter can have different name. Usually its situated after #body parameter, the name can be: #page, #blog, #blogbody or something like that).

6. After changing , preview your blog by clicking 'Preview' button. If everything is OK - click 'Save Template'.

That's all! Is it so hard? I think - no. You can also read :

How to change sidebar width in Blogger blog

How to Change Header Width in Blogger

Yahoo Buzz - review

2008-03-01T16:00:00.001-08:00

Yahoo! Buzz is opened already (few days ago) , but in beta... and just for 100 chosen sites... and my blog is not there *crying*. So, What is Yahoo! Buzz? Lets do short review.

Yahoo! Buzz is something like Digg. It is social bookmarking site, where you can put a short review of your (or someone else) content (post, article, news, video). Content is ranked based on votes, if you have good post - you will get alot of traffic, backlinks...

What is the different between Yahoo! Buzz and Digg?

Well, Digg content rank is based on votes, rate of submitter, quantity of friends =). Yahoo! Buzz content rank is based on votes, search-term popularity, and what everyone is reading and emailing - right this instant.

Digg drives traffic directly to your site to read the full story, the same Yahoo! Buzz do.

People can rate your content on your site or on Digg, well, Buzz do the same.

The most popular content from Digg appears on the main page, the most popular content from Yahoo! Buzz appears on the Yahoo! HOMEPAGE!!!

The most interesting question is - How many traffic you can get from popular story, which will appears on the Yahoo! homepage? Hm... How about 1 000 000 unique visitors within 1 hour!!! After such avalanche of traffic your web server will be on fire =) But someone told me that they will rotate top stories and monitor the traffic they send, otherwise small sites will be burned alive =)

I'm overexcited and waiting for end of Beta. By the way, do you know, What is the best time for submitting stories and news on Digg? =)

Link Building: backlinks from Yahoo! Answers

2008-02-29T06:54:00.001-08:00

You can get backlinks by answering on Yahoo! Answers. Because of Yahoo! Answers made by Yahoo! - your answer with backlink will be loved by search engines. Y! Answers ranked highly enough on low-competitive keywords and this is a gold mine for you =). In addition, Yahoo! Answers daily passes a huge amount of traffic, you should put a good answer with backlink in the popular theme and you will get a good part of this traffic. Moreover, it is not just the traffic, this is targeted traffic, which is better then search engines traffic.

If you do not have an Yahoo! account, please, register (the same account you will use on Flickr and other Yahoo! services) and login.

First of all, you need to find a question for your keyword. For example, lets take keyword "speed reading" , type it in search field.

Click search.

Now, to narrow the search, click the "Advanced"

and select the item "Open Questions." These are questions without best answer.

Now click "Search" and see the results.

Here's a question:

If you have the answer, please respond.

In the text, once or twice put the keyword. This will help answer rise in the results of search in search engines.

You may insert a link to your blog here.

You can also insert a link directly to the text, using <a href> </ a> tags, but Yahoo! not always aloud such answers. But the "Know Your Source" is ok.

Of course, you can not know for sure whether your answer recognized as the best, but if your message will help a person to solve the problem, your chances greatly increase. You can also wright answers with backlinks to questions with "Best answer", this also gives a certain effect.

The final comments

1. Your goal - is to get the maximum number of good and different backlinks. The more backlink weight of the blog, the higher its ranking in search engines.

2. Give to link building a certain number of hours a day, and follow the schedule.

3. Increase backlink weight gradually. From time to time, check their positions in search engines, and look how Yahoo! indexing your backlinks.

4. You do not need the traffic itself. Your goal - is to make money. Track conversion rates and highlight some time to test strategies that will enable you to increase revenue.

How to Organize Contest for blogger's and Get lot of Traffic and Backlinks

2008-02-28T15:21:00.001-08:00

Organizing online blogger contest is a good way to increase traffic to your blog or website. Also you will get a lot of backlinks and your search engine presence will grow. How do you think John Chow become so popular? Yes, because of Blogger Contests.

Overall, its one of the easiest and interesting method of Link Building.

What kind of Contest you can make?

It can be anything... for example:

Design contest (Who create coolest logo for your blog), Photoshop Contest, 'pimp your blog' contest, Best blogger girlfriend ... etc. The stupidest idea - the better contest =)

What do I need, to make Contest?

1. Name of the Contest - try to find something interesting.

2. Rules of your Contest.

3. How long your Contest will go: a week or a month or...

4. List of competitors.

5. Terms and conditions.

6. Feedback with you.

7. What is the point of your contest.

8. Sponsors - you can be your own sponsor, but you can easily find someone.

9. You need to have a good prize for a winner, it can be money, link, banner, review of his blog etc.

10. You need to have a Voting's for a winner.

There can be more staff, use your fantasy!

Where to promote my contest?

Here some links for you:

Tips:

Don't worry about the prize. You are not a Google, you can't make big prize for a winner. It can be 10, 20, 50 $ or link to the winner blog =)

Don't make hard contests ! You will get more competitors, if your contest will be easy.

Don't lie to competitors, if someone wins, just give him a prize. Don' create a virtual winner, its not fair!

Link Building: Backlinks from eBay blogs

2008-02-28T08:04:00.001-08:00

Do you know eBay? Do you know that you can get backlinks from eBay? Well, now you know =) This is one of the high-quality link building trick.

All eBay members can create personal blogs. Just create your new blog here. After registration, you can create contextual links, with your own anchors, in the text and they are without no-follow tag!

Tip: You can create as many blogs as you want. Use anchors with quality keywords in your backlinks instead of simple link to your blog or website.

If you will make simple optimization of your eBay blog, the backlinks will be better.

Blogger Posts title Optimization for Search Engines

2008-02-28T04:48:00.001-08:00

Blogger blogs not well optimized for search engines and you need to fix that. One of the things that is not optimized are Titles of your all posts in Blogger blogs.

Usually title looks like this : Title of your blog : Title of post

It is wrong! For better SEO you need to have: Title of post : Title of your blog

Lets fix that:

1. Go to blogger dashboard, click 'Layout' and 'Edit HTML'

2. Find this line: <title><data:blog.pageTitle/><title>

3. Replace that line to this one :

4. Save your changes.

Done, now you have better optimized title of your blog posts. Cheers

PS:

This method is not workind anymore, read how to fix that: Swap blog title and post title on blogger

SEO - Small Must To Do List

2008-02-27T14:37:00.001-08:00

There are lot of Search Engine Optimization methods and its hard to do them all. This is a small list of things, what you need to do then starting new blog or web-site. Soon I will wright about every part of this list.

1. You must have robots.txt file.

2. You must submit your sitemap to search engines

3. Off-load functionality code (javascript, css, etc.)

4. Use SEO friendly page titles.

5. Use proper meta tags.

6. Do not use frames.

7. You must have a website (blog) map page.

8. You must have a 404 Error handling page.

How to add Google Sitemap for Blogger blog

2008-02-27T08:37:00.001-08:00

How to add your blogger blog sitemap to your Google Webmaster tools ? - my blog readers often ask me this question. Unfortunately, Blogger blogs don't have real sitemap and you can't create it. But do you know that your RSS or Atom feed are some kind of sitemap?

'Why do I need to add sitemap to Google?' - Well, the short answer is : it will help Google to crawl your blog pages better and faster.

You can add your RSS feed to Google Webmaster Tools and Google will use it like sitemap of your blog.

How to add sitemap (RSS) to Google Webmaster Tools

1. Go to your Webmaster Tools

2. Your blog mast be added to Google webmaster tools, if not - read How to add Blogger blog to Google

3. Welcome back! ok, now choose your blog in webmaster tools dashboard (click on the link)

4. Go to 'Sitemaps' , and click 'Add a Sitemap'. Choose type: 'Add General Web Sitemap' and in the field put 'rss.xml' () . Click 'Add General Web Sitemap'.

5. Done, Cheers...

How to add Blogger blog to Google

2008-02-27T08:33:00.001-08:00

Add your Blogger blog to Google Webmaster Tools - This is the first thing that you need to do after creating your Blogger blog. After that you will be able to add Google sitemap for Blogger blog. It will help Google to crawl your blog or website better and faster.

This 'How to' is for any kind of websites (Blogger blogs, Wordpress and others).

1. Go to your Google Webmaster Tools

2. Enter your blog address and click 'Add Site'

3. Now you need to Verify your blog, click 'Verify your Site' . Next choose your verification method: Add a meta tag . Google will show you your meta tag, you need to copy the meta tag and paste it in your site's home page in the first <head> section of the page, before the first <body> section.

4. Adding meta tag to Blogger blog: Go to your Blogger dashboard, click 'Layout' and 'Edit HTML'.

5. Now just find <head> and paste your meta tag after <head> . Save your changes.

6. Now go back to your Google Webmaster Tools and click 'Verify'

7. Done, now you can add Google sitemap for your Blogger blog

Cheers

How to install xml Blogger Template

2008-02-25T07:19:00.001-08:00

After you have found xml Blogger Template, you need to install it to your blog. Follow this steps to do it:

1. Go to your blog account

2. Click 'Layout' and 'Edit HTML'

3. Backup your Template !

4. Now you need to download the Template you like to your hard drive (the template must be in xml format)

5. Click 'Browse' , chouse your template and upload it .

Done, Cheers

How to add bookmarks to Blogger

2008-02-21T06:51:00.001-08:00

You know How to Integrate 'Digg this' button to blogger blog, but what to do with other bookmarks, Reddit, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Propeller ...?

I will show you how to add them all by adding one button. This button calls AddThis.

1. Firs of all you need to register on AddThis

2. After registration you need to log in to AddThis and click 'GET THE ADDTHIS BUTTON'

3. To create your button, simply select the options that best fit your needs below.
All buttons are free for everyone (individuals, businesses, and organizations).

As we are talking about Blogger blogs, I will show you how to do it for Blogger:

Which kind of button? - Sharing and Bookmarking

Which look? - chouse your button look, I like this one:

Where? Where do you want to put the button? - on a Blog

Blogging Platform: - Blogger

It mast look like this:

4. Click: 'Get Your Free Button'

5. You will get a code. I like drop-down menu, so I chouse that one.

Integrating Button to Blogger post

1. Go to your Blogger account.

2. Click 'Layout' --> Edit 'HTML'

3. Backup your template!

4. Check Expand Widget Templates

5. Copy-and-paste the code of your AddThis Button into the contents of your template, right after the <div class='post-footer'> tag.

6. Save your template.

Cheers

How to Change favicon in blogger blog

2008-02-21T04:48:00.001-08:00

Favicon is one small part of your blog design, usually blogger blogs have Blogger logotype as favicon, but you can easily change it to your favicon.

It can be your blog logotype or some funny small picture, for example 'smileicon'.

Ok, take your logotype (if you have it) or some picture or draw your own logo in Photoshop (or other graphic editing software).

Creating Favicon

After creating you logo you need to change size of it to 16x16 pixel. After that, save your logo in '.ico' format ( for example: my_favicon.ico ).

Installing Favicon

Now you need to install your favicon to Internet. You can use one of the free image hosting provider or Google Page Creator. Just upload your .ico file to your Google pages directory, like on the picture.

Installing Favicon to Blogger

Now you need to go to your Blogger account.

1. Click on 'Layout'.

2. Click on 'Edit HTML', Backup your template!.

3. Now, if you using google pages, you need to add the following codes right after the <head> code:

*Change 'myname.googlepages.com' to your account address, change 'my_favicon.ico' to your favicon name.

4. Save your changes.

* This changes will not appear immediately, just refresh it once and it should appear.

Cheers

Girl and Sofa - free xml blogger template

2008-02-19T14:30:00.001-08:00

Also read 'How to install xml blogger template'

Free xml Blogger Template: 'Girl and Sofa', it is my first template for blogspot weblogs. From this time I'm starting creating free templates for different platforms.

Description: This template is kind of romantic one, it can be used for 'Girl' blog, lounge blog or whatever you want =)

It is 2-3 column template, optimized for Ads, like Adsense, Adbrite and other context links ads or banners.

DEMO

DOWNLOAD

If you have any problems with installation this template to your blogger account, post a comment in this post.

Also read 'How to install xml blogger templates'

Find all my Blogger Templates

update: my new xml blogger template - Black Rainbow

Perfect Time for submitting stories and news on Digg

2008-02-18T07:43:00.001-08:00

This information will be interesting for you if you are working with Digg. I have some diagrams and graphs, they will help you to find perfect time for submitting your stories on Digg. They based on the results of the research. Data were obtained through Digg API. The research covers about 770 000 news, submitted on Digg during research time. Author of research is Dave Naffziger.

Best Day of Week

Biggest Digg activity accounted for mid-week (Tuesday-Wednesday). These days news makers placed most news. However, the ratios of approved news (news, which came to the home page) to the total number of submitted News leads other days: Sunday and Monday.

Best Time of the Day

The most perfect time for submitting your stories (news) is on Sunday, from 11-00 to 19-00 in the Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8).

How to Integrate "Digg this" button to blogger blog

2008-02-15T07:58:00.001-08:00

In this tutorial I will show you "how to integrate "digg this" button to your blogger blog and how to wrap "digg this" button around and inline beside Blogger post content. This will be good part of your blog design.

I think you know Digg, Why you need to install Digg button to your blog? This is the quote from the Digg:

The Digg This button is for website and blog publishers that want to encourage their audience to submit or digg their content on Digg. Join thousands of sites that have already added Digg This and seen their content exposed to the Digg community.

We've given our latest Digg This button a brain - it's smart enough to:

Encourage users to submit new content from your site to Digg. We'll detect if the content exists already and provide either a Submit or Digging interface

Display the real-time Digg count for content already on Digg

Support News, Video, or Podcast content.

Be backward compatible with the last version of our Digg This button

So, you can get some (or , maybe, big) traffic from Digg.

This is how it will look like:

It is hard to install this button to your blog and make it wrap around and inline beside post content, so, I will tell you how to do it:

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.

2. Go to Layouts and click on Edit Html subtab of Template tab.

3. Backup your template to PC.

4. Then put a check in Expand Widgets Template box at top of Edit Template text box and scroll down to the blog posts widget body to this line :

<p><data:post.body/></p> or <data:post.body/>

5. Append the following lines of code into the template BEFORE the line of <data:post.body/> located above:

<div id='digg'><script type='text/javascript'>
digg_url = '<data:post.url/>';
digg_title = '<data:post.title/>';
digg_window = 'new';
</script>
<script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'/></div>

6. Now you need to create CSS style for Digg this button. Find this line:

]]></b:skin>

7. If you want to have digg button on the left side of post, append the following lines of code into the template BEFORE the line of ]]></b:skin> located above:

#digg {
float: left;
margin-right: 5px;
}

If you want to have digg button on the right side of post, append the following lines of code into the template BEFORE the line of ]]></b:skin> located above:

#digg {
float: right;
margin-left: 5px;
}

8. Save your template.

That's all =) Cheers

How to get PR5 links to your blog or webpage

2008-02-13T16:46:00.001-08:00

I think you know that links to your blog is one of the best methods to make your blog popular. Backlinks will give you some traffic of new visitors to your blog, your blog will be crawled faster by search engines, PageRank of your blog will be bigger (this will increase traffic from search engines, because your blog will be on better position).

Yes, any link is good for your blog, but better to have good links. Link must be from the main page (home page) and it must have good PageRank. More links with good PR you have, bigger PR of your blog you will get.

So, where to get good backlinks? You can buy it, you can make link exchange with friendly blogs, or you can get them for free =)

Where to get free links? From social bookmarks =) Do you know Digg.com? Yes, you know it. How to get good PR link from Digg? Read next tip:

There are few ways to get good links from Digg:

1. You can create good post or article on your blog and post it on Digg. If you are lucky, your post will get to main page of Digg (page with popular articles). Main page of Digg have PR8! You will get lot of extra visitors, some backlinks, some money from banner Ads. But this is not for long, your link will be there just few hours.

2. How to get life time link from Digg for free? From you profile on Digg =) But you profile don't have PR at all, so you need to make it bigger. How? Easy =)

You can create good PR profile on Digg in 1-2 months. I've did it in 1 month (I have PR5 digg profile). All you need is to make posts on Digg, make comment and dugg stories. I don't know exactly how many this staff you need but I can tell you how many I had.

- 130 posted stories

- 50 comments

- 300 duggs

Better to have good stories, with diggs, and better to have popular stories, they will give you bigger traffic and bigger chances to make your profile popular.

3. If you have friends on Digg, they also can add link to your blog in their profiles.

Tips: Better to submit stories from your blog, each submitted story is a link to your blog.

You can have lot of profiles on Digg =)

Digg is not only social bookmark service =) You can use Reddit, Propeller and others.

Cheers

How to change sidebar width in blogger

2008-02-13T15:31:00.000-08:00

Your want to make your Sidebar bigger? Next tip is for you. This method looks like 'Changing color of sidebar' , it's not so hard.

It's really easy, follow this steps:

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard and choose your blog.

2. Go to 'Templates' (or 'Layouts') and click on 'Edit HTML'
Also save your template on your computer.

3. Next find sidebar CSS style, its look like this (if you are using standard templates) #sidebar-wrapper, but if you are using your own or one of the free templates from internet, CSS style can look different, but ( I think) it must contain word #sidebar.

4. Now you see that it have some parameters (width, float and bla bla bla), you need to change one parameter - width - it is easy, just change the number, for example: width: 300px;

5. Now you can save your changes.

You can also read:
How to Change Blog width in Blogger

How to Change Header Width in Blogger

Cheers

How to change sidebar color in blogger

2008-02-13T15:00:00.000-08:00

Changing color of sidebar is one of the easiest thing in redesign of standard blogger template.
But if you don't know HTML it can be hard for you, so this is another web design tip for you.

It's really easy, follow this steps:

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard and choose your blog.

2. Go to 'Templates' (or 'Layouts') and click on 'Edit HTML'
Also save your template on your computer.

3. Next find sidebar CSS style, its look like this (if you are using standard templates) #sidebar-wrapper, but if you are using your own or one of the free templates from internet, CSS style can look different, but ( I think) it must contain word #sidebar.

4. Now you see that it have some parameters (width, float and bla bla bla), you need to add new parameter - background-color - it is easy, just add background-color: #CCCCCC; in new line, but before } . (#cccccc - it is the color number, you can change it to your own color)

5. Now you can save your changes.

Also read about 'How to change Sidebar width in blogger'

Cheers

How to Hide Navbar in Blogger

2008-02-12T13:17:00.000-08:00

I think, when you are starting your blog, first thing you need to to is hide your Navbar. Why? Because I don't like it =).

It is possible just to hide Navbar, you can't delete it =(.

Follow this steps:

1. Go to Blogger dashboard.
2. Find your blog and click 'Layout' .
3. Go to 'Edit HTML'.
4. Find #header-wrapper line (you can click Ctrl+F on your keyboard and enter #header-wrapper, this is easy way to find this line=))
5. Now simply copy and paste the following piece of code directly above the #header-wrapper line:

#navbar-iframe {

height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;

}

6. Click 'Save Template'.

Now you don't have this annoying Navbar in your blog =)

Cheers

Why I'm doing this?

2008-02-12T08:23:00.000-08:00

I'm blogging for 3 years, and I'm newer tried to earn money from my blogs and webpages. So I decided to start doing this.

I have lots of trics and secrets about blogging, I will tell some of them to you.

Internet is full of money. I'm live in Ukraine and 100$ is big money for me, I sow all lots of month earnings from different blogers, 1000$, 10000$, 100000$ 8|

I want to do the same =)) but I will help you to do the same, so lets start!!

SEO, Monetizing Tips

What is a Search System?

What is search site?

What Are Search Engines and Directories?

How to Upload Video to Blogger Blog

How to set up Google Analytics on Blogger blog

How to Backup your Blogger blog

How to Subscribe to all Comments on Blogger Blogs

Google Page Rank Update: April

How to add multiple administrators to Blogger blog

How to ping my blog? 100 Ping Services

100 Ping Services List:

Firefox SEO Plugins

New xml Blogger Template - Black Rainbow

How to install xml Blogger Template

5 Tips - How to Get Your Blog on the First Page of Google

5 Tips - How to Get Your Blog on the First Page of Google:

Swap Blog Title and Post Title on Blogger

PS:

How to start a blog in Blogger

How to add Google AdSense to each post in Blogger blog

How to Change Header Width in Blogger

How to Change Blog Width in Blogger

Yahoo Buzz - review

What is the different between Yahoo! Buzz and Digg?

Link Building: backlinks from Yahoo! Answers

The final comments

How to Organize Contest for blogger's and Get lot of Traffic and Backlinks

What kind of Contest you can make?

What do I need, to make Contest?

Where to promote my contest?

Tips:

Link Building: Backlinks from eBay blogs

Blogger Posts title Optimization for Search Engines

PS:

SEO - Small Must To Do List

How to add Google Sitemap for Blogger blog

How to add sitemap (RSS) to Google Webmaster Tools

How to add Blogger blog to Google

How to install xml Blogger Template

How to add bookmarks to Blogger

Integrating Button to Blogger post

How to Change favicon in blogger blog

Creating Favicon

Installing Favicon

Installing Favicon to Blogger

Girl and Sofa - free xml blogger template

DEMO

DOWNLOAD

Perfect Time for submitting stories and news on Digg

Best Day of Week

Best Time of the Day

Categories

How to Integrate "Digg this" button to blogger blog

How to get PR5 links to your blog or webpage

How to change sidebar width in blogger

How to change sidebar color in blogger

How to Hide Navbar in Blogger

Why I'm doing this?