How To Submit Google Sitemap To Blogger ;

Adding Google Sitemap to blogger makes google crwal you webpages and increases the chances of them being listed in google. By adding Sitemap google can crawl your website more effectively.
To add a google sitemap to your blog:

Go to Google Webmasters

Now add your website as shown below:

Now select the meta tag method, which will generate a code.


Copy that code and go to Blogger Dashboard -> Layout -> Edit HTML and paste the code above </head> code and Save Template.

Verified status will appear as shown below.



Now your site will be verified and a verified status will appear in google webmasters as shown below.

After verification is done, you need to add your sitemap url of your blog through Submit Sitemap option on your Google Webmasters Dashboard. In new blogger there are 4possible feeds to submit.

http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/rss.xml
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full

Replace the text in red (yourblogname) with the name of your blog.

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How to drive traffic to your blog - Part 1 ;

Succeeding with a blog can be very easy if your blog is driving substantial traffic, before trying to promote your blog remember the basics that unless your blog has appealing and quality content you wont be able to reap the benefits. Promoting without quality content might drive visitors once to your blog but what you want is the visitor to keep coming back.

Here are some tips I would like to share with you from my personal experience:

1) Social Media

Use social networking services like stumbleupon, digg, reddit and others to drive 'free' traffic to your site. Social bookmarking services drive a substantial amount of traffic as your website is referred by your readers which is one of the best form to spread your website awareness.

2) Comment on popular blogs

Commenting on popular blogs with good traffic leaving behind your website url. Remember to comment on blogs relevant to your niche to drive traffic that is relevant to your site. The idea is to comment in top one or two comments, becoming a regular commentor helps in getting quality traffic. Some blogs also promote regular commentors which is an added advantage. Having said that remember not to post comments for spamming purpose but to debate or add some quality information to topic.

3) Use Feedburner

Provide subscription services for your visitors to get notified whenever you post through Feedburner. Feedburner automatically notifies the subscriber when you publish a new post encouraging subscriber to visit your site.

4) Be Interactive

Interact with your visitors through blog comments, emails and other services. Print your blog url on outgoing emails to promote your blog by attaching your signature.

5) Write Smart!

Write smart and "to the point posts", dragging posts too long can distract visitors and "kill" attention. Smart writing is effective writing.

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Making Money Online by Blogging For Newbies ;

Big Question: Can you make money online ? YES, you can probably make a living out of blogging. There are two types of blogging i believe - blogging for fun/hobby & the other being blogging for money which might be a hobby as well but is more serious.

In order to earn money from blog, Ad space is utilized. Some of the top blog earners . To succeed in blogging you need traffic, traffic and more traffic! as it generates the income through ads. Blogging for money is not easy though, it requires serious dedicated effort and quality posting to develop a exceptional visitor base.

Blogging requires no monetary investment if its done through free blogging sites like Blogger or Wordpress but serious effort as I said above. So if you are ready to put in some effort, here are some tips:

Step 1: Find a Niche

Before you start blogging you should choose a niche, a niche is line that you are good at, you are passionate about. For example, you might be passionate & knowledgeable about golf or photography or say any other thing that you like. Its basically your specialization. Once you have found a niche your task becomes relatively simplified as doing something that you're good at on a regular basis increases your chances to succeed.

Step 2: SEO for traffic

Once done with step 1, you will need traffic to your website people who read your articles. Now we all know the best way to get traffic is through search engines like google, yahoo, etc. In order to get your site ranked high in search engines you need to optimize your website through SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

Step 3: Placing Ads

In order to earn money from blog you need to place ads on your blog. Google adsense is most widely used by bloggers. Sign up with one or few alternatives given below and start advertising on your blog.

- Google Adsense
- Text-link Ads
- Adbrite
- Bidvertiser
- Widgetbucks
- Yahoo Publisher Network
- Amazon Affiliates

Step 4: Patience

After doing the above steps, you need to understand that until your website generates decent enough traffic you wont earn that much. Be patient and work on building traffic.

Some of the top bloggers earnings are given below:

Techcrunch - 200,000$/month

Mashable - 180,000$/month

Perez Hilton - 140,000$/month

Gothamist - 80,000$/month

Timothy Sykes - 80,000$/month

Venture Beat - 62,000$/month

Life Hacker - 60,000$/month

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How to Add Meta Tags to Blogger ;

As mentioned in my previous post, having a meta tag can help search engine autobots to crawl your website easily and index pages. Meta Tags are in other words are a communicating link between a website and a search engine crawler.

To add meta tags to blogger, follow the procedure given below.

Go to Layout through blogger Dashboard

Now click Edit Html

Using Ctrl+F find the code given below

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


Now insert the code given below after the above line

<meta content='WRITE DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='WRITE KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='WRITE YOUR NAME HERE' name='author'/>
<meta content='blogger' name='generator'/>
<meta content='ALL' name='ROBOTS'/>

Change the text in red with the required details and Save Template.

Remember not to add irrelevant keywords and too many keywords of the same category (example: football shirts, football t-shirts, football team shirts) as search engine ranks will have a negative effect due to this.

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5 SEO Tips To Improve Search Engine Ranking ;

SEO is the process of enhancing the presence and visibility of a website on search engine listings. In this post i will share with you 5 important seo tips to achieve a higher search engine ranking.

1) Title Tag

Title tag is the most important factor to improve search engine rankings. Having a title tag makes search engine easier to index web pages. Title tag although having some similarities with meta tag is different from it. Search Engines while indexing the webpage primarily look for title tag which makes it one of the most important factors.

Learn more about title tag here.

2) Meta Tags

Meta tags consists of two primary tags – keyword and description. Meta tags are indexed in search results but lately due to excessive keyword stuffing search engines have fallen out of favour with meta tags. Regardless it doesn’t harm in including them. While inserting keywords in the meta tag be sure not to enter too many keywords of the same category and avoid “overdoing”keyword stuffing.

Learn about inserting meta tags in blogger here.

3) Link Building

Link Building implies linking with other sites for SEO. It is important to note that while linking you might get good links as well as bad links, getting a good link will certainly help improve your search engine rank whereas getting a bad link might degrade it. It is advantageous to get links from higher ranked websites for better rankings.

4) Sitemaps

A sitemap is a list of website pages easily accessible to crawlers and visitors. It assists search engine bots to find and evaluate pages on the website. There are two kinds of sitemaps – Text and XML. Text sitemaps are not as flexible as XML sitemaps which are widely preferred and used for SEO. XML sitemaps are used by Google, Yahoo and other earch engines. A sitemap can be important if your website/blog is new, does not have many links, having flash on webpages, many webpages archieved and not linked very well.

5) Content Relevancy

Posting relevant content is very very essential. If you have stuffed your meta tags with keywords that irrelevant to the post it will do no good to search engine rankings. Moreover the visitors need good relevant content to remain glued to the website and if not then the very next moment he will visit another website no matter whatever your search engine rank.

Besides these tips use social media like twiiter, stumbleupon, digg, etc to drive traffic to your websites as we are doing SEO to drive traffic ultimately to our websites/blogs.

Over and above all after doing the requisites it is very important to be patient and wait for the rankings to improve.

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SEO Tip - Add Title Tag To Blogger ;

One of the most important things to improve search engine ranking is by optimizing the blogger title tag. Here by optimizing the title tag we intend to remove the blog title from the individual posts so that search engines can easily search keywords and index the page.



- From Blogger Dashboard go to Layout

- Click Edit Html

- Use to Ctrl+F to find the code given below:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
Replace the above code with the code given below
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>

- Now Save Template, its done!

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How To Add Meta-Tags To Individual Posts in Blogger ;

Meta tags play an important role in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and having them in every post is definitely advantageous. Unlike wordpress where meta tags for every post can be added automatically with the help of plugins, blogger needs codes to be added for every post which is one of the drawbacks of blogger.

Follow these steps to add meta-tags for every post in blogger:

Step 1: From blogger Dashboard, go to Layout.

Step 2: Click Edit Html option and tick Expand Widgets.

Step 3: Search <head> using Ctrl+F.

Step 4: Paste the code given below after the <head> line.

<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == “enter the url of the post here”‘>
<META NAME='”keywords” CONTENT=”enter keywords here separated by commas”' />
<META NAME='”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”INDEX,FOLLOW”'/>
</b:if>

Replace the text in red with post url and keywords respectively.

Note: For every post you have to repeat this procedure by adding post url and keywords repectively. If you want to add 5 individual meta-tags you have to add the above code 5 times.

Step 5: Save the Template.

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