Showing posts with label SEO / SEM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SEO / SEM. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 January 2013

3 Best Ways To Build SEO With Images


Optimize Blog Post Title With H2 Tag For Better SEO

Top SEO Myths You Should Know



Squeeze Page Optimization for SEO


Sunday, 13 January 2013

Search Engine Optimization Services - SEO


There is nothing easy about SEO.  It takes a long-term commitment and a strategic approach to drive results.  Every company wants to rank on the first page of Google.  With our relentless pursuit, we will get you there, and keep you there.
Our team uses a combination of proven inbound marketing techniques and our established relationships to build authority to your website.  We provide complete transparency through our monthly reporting on the actual work performed.

On-Page Optimization

A key component in a successful SEO strategy is on-page optimization.  Our on-page optimization starts with analyzing content and then looks for opportunities on your website that will result in increased traffic.
Key Components:
  • SEO Copyrighting
  • Usability/UX
  • Duplicate Content Analyst
  • Page Load Time
  • Code Structure

Off-Page Optimization

The main influencer in search engine rankings is your backlink portfolio. Do you have enough backlinks? Do you have the right backlinks? Quality link building is time consuming and it takes an SEO expert to spot the difference between a good link and a bad link. We use our established relationships to build the right links that will help your website rank higher.
Key Components:
  • Content Marketing
  • Guest Blogging
  • Press Release Optimization
  • Link Baiting
  • Blogger Outreach

Local SEO

Our local search engine optimization service focuses on the main factors that will increase your search presence in your geographic area.  We can also help with claiming and optimizing your business listings in Google, Yahoo and Bing.
Key Components:
  • Local Citations
  • Link Building
  • Content Creation
  • Social Media
  • Business Listings

Monday, 20 August 2012

Must Read Before Register Your Own Domain

There are many things a web designer has to think of when designing a website. Moreover, if he has full responsibility, he has to come up with a good domain name as well. Although many think it is not so important, the domain name is as important as your company name, the website or the Facebook page. Having a good domain name will many times not only bring you more traffic, but also make your webpage easier to remember – and this brings traffic too.

Finding the perfect domain name is not easy in today’s web. Many of the domains which you could think of using are either used by another company or bought for profit by individuals or even other businesses. Web professionals often spend more time finding the right domain name than designing an identity or a website.



Branding


Branding is a very important concept for a business. Every company has a brand, which represents their name, logo, color schemes and visual identity. However, not all of them are branded. The difference is in the brand awareness. A company with a brand awareness relies on their customers’ ability to recall and recognize their brand in different conditions and link them to their brand elements. It has something to do with clients being satisfied with a product and recognizing the products. It is the difference between Coca-Cola and a no-name Cola company. Or the difference between Apple and a Taipei-based unknown tablet producer.

Ten years before it was not the case, but today if you have a company and want a powerful brand, basic knowledge of domain names is very important, as it is similar to your office address. It is where people can find and get in touch with you.

Extensions


The three most used extensions in the world are .com, .net and .org. A domain name with one of these extensions might seem ideal for any kind of business. Going for a free international domain such as .tk might not be so successful. It happens many times that visitors can’t remember your website, so they try the name and these three popular extensions. This is what I also do most of the time, as I assume a company I would be interested in doing business with, or a website I would be interested in visiting would have one of these three extensions. The three top extensions got so popular that, as I just said, visitors just expect companies to use them.
  • Some domain names providers offer the option of buying all three at a discounted price. Having all three of them with your brand name will be very useful for you in the future – this is a very intelligent move that will put you in pole position.

Another advantage of using all three (or one of the three) is that they are very cheap to buy. The support for them is also all over the place and it it more difficult to find a provider which doesn’t sell them than one which does. Now I am not saying you simply have to own one of these three. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has one of the coolest domain names ever: www.ma.tt. Yes, he has a Trinidad & Tobago domain, but  it fits his name perfectly. If you can find something intelligent like that, go for it. But think of the fact that people who don’t know too much about the web don’t even realize there is something else besides .com, .net and .org.



This section should be food for thought. However, choosing the domain extension should be one of the easiest task in creating a powerful brand. But wait, there is much more to follow.


Location


Talking about extensions, location is something else you might want to think of. It depends a lot on your business and its purpose. It depends a lot on the audience, market and their behavior. If you have a Danish company targeting only Danes, having a website ending in .com would make no sense, when the option of having a .dk extension is easy to spot. All countries have their own domain extensions. TLDs (top-level domains) are obviously not the only ones available.


Using a country-code TLD is mostly for companies and individuals in the respective country. Wikipedia has a long and complete list of worldwide TLDs. It is easy to notice that some of them require either having a company registered in the country or at least a permit of residence, therefore registering them might not be so easy if you look at coming up with a trick as Matt did.

It is also an option for the ones targeting nations not using an English alphabet, like the Asian or Arabian countries; or Russia. Those are called IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) and you should only use them to supplement a .com address (or any other TLD); otherwise it will get confusing for visitors whose main language is English or whose alphabet is the one we use in Europe or America.

Hacks



We talked about them a bit earlier. Hacks are those smart things you can do to integrate the domain extension into your domain name. Surprising or not, there are even tools out there on the web that can help you find possible combinations. Domai.nr is probably the best one to use, as it gives you very many options at a simple search. People decide to use hacks not only because they are cool, but mostly because they are very close to finding the right domain name for their company, but it is taken. This is so frustrating and it will happen so many times when you search for a domain name. Finding the right domain name for you is not going to be easy, therefore you might want to look into hacks.

Before buying


Great, now you found your domain and are ready to buy it. No, you are not! Something is missing. You need to make sure your domain name does not create legal issues. Make sure it is not similar to the one of another company doing the same business as you do.


Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoftis the most popular dispute regarding domain name infringement. This happened almost 10 years ago and was a huge case in the media, when the young web designer Mike Rowe was disputing his domain name with the American giant because of the domain name’s resonance.

Applying for a trademark is something huge companies do, as they know their websites will be popular by default, but this is really expensive to go for. If you are just in the beginning, you might want to protect your name some other way and leave purchasing a trademark for later down the road. Some technique you could use is called bulk purchasing. Many individuals prefer to buy lots of domains with different extensions, but the same name, and redirect all of them to the main website.

WHOIS services


A mistake many individuals make is registering their domains under a WHOIS privacy service. This is a very dangerous technique, although it seems like it is a helpful one first time you hear about it. What happens if you register your domain under a WHOIS privacy service is that your contact details are hidden. Instead, the fields are filled in with the name of your provider. Why is this dangerous? Because according to ICANN policies, is the name in the WHOIS details that owns the domain.



This means that if your website gets hacked, you have little chance of proving the domain was actually yours. If their name is in the records, it is actually them owning the domain you paid for. So even if you want to protect your name, I don’t advise you to do it by using these services, as it is very dangerous.

Conclusion


Having a good domain name can also improve the user experience on your website. Even if today many of a website’s visits come from search engines and referrals, having an easy to remember domain name is always going to be helpful. They are likely to reduce the percentage of people forgetting how to find you.

Keep in mind that top-level domains can help you in search engine results. A .com will always be indexed faster and better than a .ru. Spending time to think of all details and find the right domain name is something that will take a lot of time.

Is there a specific way you search for a domain? Have you ever paid for a domain through an auction? Do you think the domain name matters?

Monday, 30 July 2012

Directory Submissions – Still a Good SEO Strategy?

Directory Submission is the easiest way to get backlinks for your new born website/blog. is Directory submission still a good SEO Strategy for promoting your website. many thing change after Google penguin update.
Quality of backlinks
Search engines such as Google rank webpages on the basis of the number of QUALITY backlinks not on backlinks. For this reason, it is very important to build quality backlinks to your website on a regular basis. Theoretically, web directories can be a good source of backlinks. Because they have content that is relevant to your website, these backlinks can have some search engine benefits. However, in actual practice, most web directories have thousands of links pointing outwards. They also do not have good link popularity and many of them have low-quality spammy links. It should also be noted that submitting your links to a large number of low-quality directories all at once can adversely affect your search engine rankings. Thus it is a good idea to submit only to high quality web directories that have high page rank. My last work for site TeleLeadpro, within 2 month I got top position for keyword Consumer Lead Generating Software and some other keywords.
Time and effort
Directory submissions can take time and effort on your part. For example, if you want to submit your links to the top 500 directories, it can take several hours or days. You can use directory submission software or tools such as Roboform to make this job faster and easier. However, it still has to be done manually and is a time-consuming process. Considering the as SEO benefits, is it really worth the time and effort to submit to directories?
Approval rates
Let us say, you submit your link to 500 web directories. Probably, some hundred of these will approve your link within the next few weeks. Several of them will reject your link outright. And the remaining will approve it months later because they have plenty of links in the backlog. Many directories will simply disappear. Because of this, you will not see any search engine benefits within limited time frame.
Scope of promotion
Most directories do not accept inner pages, no matter how informative or professional they may be. Thus, you can only promote your homepage using directory submissions. Thus it is not a good option to promote your blog posts. It is better to go other better options.
Conclusion
To conclude, it is not worth the time and effort to do web directory submissions anymore. It is better to invest in other promotion strategies such as article marketing, guest blog writing and direct advertisements. Web directories had their golden days, but right now their days are over.
this is my idea. what you thing pleas share with me .

Monday, 16 July 2012

SEO TIPS "ON PAGE" FOR YOUR WEBSITE

It could be so easy, but it is actually a bit more complexed!Having a website does not guarantee that people will find it on the internet. Today, an increasing number of companies have a website, which complicates the task of getting out among its competitors.Search engines have emerged with the mission to organize the web content so that users can find the desired information. Depending on the platform your website is designed upon and how their content is prepared, the searchers will be more or less difficult to rank your website and present it as an option for the user at the time of the survey.How do I know if my site is optimized?We can consider that the search engine algorithms are extremely complex and take many factors into consideration to rank any websites. We here highlight some SEO factors "on page" that if your web designer does not pay particular attention to the set up,You Need To Look for a company that specializes in SEO to help you in setting up the criteria SEO "on page".Title - the title of each page must be unique and have a keyword that is featured for the page in question.

Header - as a headline in a newspaper should be a single sentence in your text and highlight the most relevant keyword.These two pieces of information are highly relevant to the searchers identify where the main subject of your page is that you are referring. When this information does not appear organized in a clear and objective Way, your website will be penalized and end up losing many positions in search engines to your competitors.Being on the first page of search engines and ahead of your competitors will ensure that more people will be interested to visit your website and increase the chances of new contacts interested in buying their products and services from you.

Thursday, 5 July 2012

10 Best Link Building Practices

Link building is hardly something you learn overnight. It requires specialized insight and SEO knowledge in order for a plan to be implemented effectively. Adhering to the following ten best practices for effective link building will

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

8 Ways to increase traffic to your blog

Lot of bloggers, both, newbie as well as seasoned, struggle to increase traffic to their blogs.
If you are a professional blogger, and running a blog to earn your bread and butter or at least some pocket money, then you have to increase your blog

25 Link Building Tactics to Improve Blog Search Engine Rankings

Blogs are often touted as good for search engine optimization. The reality is, blogs are simply software tools and what you get out of them from a SEO perspective is in proportion to how well you know how to use them.  Good keyword categorization and content are a start, but blogs are not much of a SEO

Friday, 22 June 2012

Make Use of Keyword Research Tools for Your Website

Using keywords meta tag on your pages could help you with driving more traffic to your website through search results. But it may not be the best option since Google has started to ignore meta keywords tag on sites. But it still has impact with some other search engines. It's not me

Publish Your Posts on Facebook using RSS Graffiti

As if you like to take advantage of the social media to gain more traffic and reach more interested users for your content, you might have already created a Facebook fan page for those needs to be satisfied via Facebook. Else you can post them on your own wall to find
them useful to your friends. Yeah, Facebook has largenumber of users worldwide and it became more and more popular everyday. That's why you are trying to take advantage of Facebook. You can post a link of your post on your profile or fan page to notify Facebook users when you have fresh content on your site. But wouldn't it be better to automate that process to post automatically on Facebook whenever you have fresh content?

RSS Graffiti is a type of a useful application to fetch your feed to your Facebook profile or fan page. As you may know, feeds are automatically updated when it can find fresh content on your site. So RSS Graffiti will publish whenever your feeds get updated. So rather than sparing extra time to post your content on your Facebook profile or page wall manually, you can make use of RSS Graffiti to publish your latest content automatically and notify your Facebook friends and fans who are waiting for your latest content in no time. Now let me help you to configure RSS Graffiti for your blog and to publish your future updates on your Facebookprofile or page easily without any extra effort.

Steps:

1. Go to RSS Graffiti Facebook Application Page.

2. Now click Go to App button.

3. Click Allow button to give permissions to access your Facebook pages to publish on behalf of you.

4. Now click Add New Publishing Plan link.

5. Name your publishing plan and click Create Publishing Plan button..

6. Now on left side, click Add New button.

7. Enter your blog or site feed URL on in the given textbox on Add a New Source box.
Note: If you are a Blogger user and don't know your feed address, read Know Your Feed URLs in Blogger.

8. Click Add Source button next to Sources label.

9. Now you will direct to settings page related to your added feed. Set scheduling frequency, number of posts you need to feed per update and order of updates.

Note: You can switch to Advanced view and access advanced settings related to your feed.

10. Once you done with settings, click Save button.

11. Now click Add New button next to Target label.

12. First, select your target using Choose Target drop down box. It can be either your Facebook profile, page or group.

13. Then select how it should post on behalf of in Publish on Behalf of drop down box.

14. Now you need to select how your posts should be posted on Facebook. Select preferred post style - Standard, Compact or Status Updates.

Note: You can see a preview below, when you select each option.

15. Click Save Changes button.

16. Now make sure you made posting active by switching button to ON phase.

How to Backup and Restore Your Template in Blogger

We do many experiments in Blogger. Mostly we are seeking for widgets and add them, try applying custom templates and do more stuff with the template on our blog. After going through all smart and hard work to customize and craft your template, you would never wanna lose your
customization. But when you deal with your template or make changes to your template, what if something goes wrong?

Nothing goes wrong until something goes wrong. So you can't predict about what is gonna happen next. When you edit your template or add external widgets to your blog, there could be something goes wrong with HTML or sort of code inserted into your template. Therefore it's recommended to take preventive action before something happen to your template. We know how much you care about your blog. So as a preventive measure, Blogger provides you features to backup your template. Let's see how to make use of back up and restore features.

Back Up Your Template

Your widgets, headers and all related to template will be backed up here.

i. Go to Blogger Dashboard.

ii. Click on your Blog Title.

iii. Navigate to Template tab.

iv. Click on Backup/Restore button on top right.

v. Click Download full template button and you will have a backup copy of your template in XML format (.xml). Keep it in a safe place.

vi. Close the pop up.

Restore Your Template

i. Go to Blogger Dashboard.

ii. Click on your Blog Title.

iii. Jump to Template tab.

iv. Click on Backup/Restore button on top right.

iv. On the pop up you will find Choose File button and click on it. Browse for your backup XML template file (.xml) and click Open button after selecting it.

v. Now click Upload button.

vi. Close the pop up, after the restoration of your template.

How to Submit Your Website to Search Engines

Being listed your site on search results would be more helpful to interested visitors to find your content more easily and to drive more traffic. Search engines are designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and other servers. So periodically most search engines will crawl and update their index of website links algorithmically to find and offer them in search results whenever an user perform a search. But sometimes search engines may still unable to find your content or crawl your site.

Though your website not listed on search results, you don't need to wait until they find and crawl your site. You can submit your site to search engines manually.

Submission of URL

You can submit the URL of your site to search engines to let them notify to crawl your site. You don't need to submit each and every page URLs here, just top-level page will be enough. Submission of URL not guarantee that it will crawl your all website page URLs.
Submit your website URL to,

Google
Bing
Yahoo

Submission of XML Sitemap


A Sitemap is a page where visitors prefer visiting if they are unable to find particular page on your site or if they need to browse your posts. An XML Sitemap is a XML file with list of URLs. So submitting XML sitemap to a search engine helps it to find and crawl all your pages associated with your site. So it is far more effective rather than submitting each URL of your site.

First you need to create an XML sitemap and grab URL or link for sitemap file before you submit it to search engines.

Create and obtain the URL of XML Sitemap of your Website
i. Generate an HTML sitemap for your site using a sitemap generator such as XML-Sitemaps by entering your website URL.

Note: Beware of free sitemap generators' limitations.

ii. Now right click on generated XML sitemap file link and copy link address of the XML sitemap file (sitemap.xml). The link address would be similar as below if we assume your site is MyBlog.blogspot.com,

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/download/MyBlog.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml

Else you can download XML sitemap file (sitemap.xml) and upload it to domain root directory. Then you can grab URL of your XML sitemap file uploaded. It will be similar as below if your website is MySite.com,

http://www.MySite.com/sitemap.xml
Now you are ready to submit your XML sitemap to search engines with the URL of your XML sitemap. Copy the submission URL relevant to search engine from below with added XML sitemap URL of yours and enter to submit after pasting it on your Internet browser address bar.

Submit your XML sitemap to,

Google

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=[URL of Your XML Sitemap]

Bing

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=[URL of Your XML Sitemap]

Ask

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=[URL of Your XML Sitemap]

Can You Make Use of the Keywords Meta Tag in Blogger?

What are keywords? Keywords are specific words which are searched in a search engine. You can make use of keywords meta tag for your pages to be listed in search engine results when users perform a search. Meta keywords tag let webmasters to add additional text along with the body text to be indexed by search engines. The best practice is adding relevant keywords meta tags for each page of your site which useful to find your page on web. But would it be worthy adding keywords meta tag in blogger for search engine optimization?

Mostly now search engines including Google, doesn't rely on keywords meta tag specified by users for web search ranking unless few other crawlers carries a little weight on them. The reason is webmasters can misuse keywords with or without the proper knowledge of handling keywords on their pages and mislead search engines which are rely upon them. Also using keywords meta tag enable competitors to find out or identify which keywords you have been using to optimize a particular page and they can grab list of keywords on your page to optimize their similar pages too.

Misspelling is another factor which you can use keywords for. Sometimes users misspell in searches. So you can use those possible misspelling words as keywords and it would be helpful with search engines which has attention on keywords to lead misspell searches to find your site.

When selecting keywords for your specific page, it should be relevant to the content on the page and need not to be case sensitive when you specify them. Sometimes there may be some keywords which not mention in the post but relevant in searching for that topic. For example, assume you are gonna use keywords meta tag on the page which has the title "Integrate Facebook to Your Blog". There you mention Facebook like button, comment box and other Facebook plugins by a common name like 'Facebook social plugins' and describe how to get them, but no word about Facebook like button though it is related. So if someone search for "how to get facebook like button" on the Web, search crawlers may not display your post on top of results because they don't care meaning of words and find words which entered into the search engine. So search engine don't know that Facebook social plugins means they include or refers to Facebook like button too. In such a scenario, you can specify keyword 'like button' in the meta tag and then search crawlers will find your post and index to show up on search results by identifying that your post has some information about Facebook like button.

Also you can use long tail keywords in the keywords meta tag. Long tail keywords mean keywords which has multiple words. As for example, think you specify 3 keywords 'Facebook', 'Like', 'Button' or else you can use 'facebook like button' which known as a long tail keyword. Usually long tail keywords have less competition than generic keywords. So proper long tail keywords would generate more traffic for you.

In Blogger, you can't modify each and every page directly in your blog. Just specifying meta tags barely will affect to all pages in your blog and only few keywords might be related with some posts or not at all. So the search engines which has attention on keywords meta tag will list your pages according to those keywords and sometimes readers who drives to your page via organic search results would be disappointed after finding no information related to their finding as they intended to. The one you can do is adding keywords meta tag to your template by referring to each and every post in your blog using their URL. If you have enough time to deal with all your posts, it will be the best thing you can do in Blogger.


If you think specifying keywords meta tag is useless or time consuming due to some factors, then you can ignore that and make use of time rather than spending keywords meta tag. But rather than ignoring keywords meta tag entirely, you can specify it for your homepage where readers can land and find posts related to your keywords from your homepage if you are displaying HTML sitemap link, blog archive or popular posts on homepage. Anyway homepage may not the place where you make most traffic on your blog.

Let's see how to add meta keywords tag for your each of your pages.

Note: If your blog has been restricted from the Public, this might not be work for you.

Steps:

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.

2. Now click on your Blog Title.

3. Navigate to Template tab.

4. Click on Edit HTML button.

5. Click Proceed button to view Template Editor.

6. Now add keywords meta tag below with suitable moderations in to your <head> section along with other meta tags.

Note: Make sure that you are using below code snippet only once per URL to avoid spamming. If you need to set keywords for multiple pages, you have to use below code snippet several times for each and every page/URL you intend to.


<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "[Your Page URL]"'>
<meta content='[Keywords]' name='keywords'/>
</b:if>

Add Google +1 Button for Blogger Posts

Google, the search giant, has introduced new social platform Google+ and it has a peculiar feature known as +1 button. Now it's more popular among most websites/blogs as it affects organic Google search results. Google +1 button is a way to recommend content for your friends and followers. Once you recommend a content appears on the web with +1 button, your friends will be able to see it with your recommendation across the web. As it enables your site to get recommended on search, most of webmasters was eager to implement +1 button on their respective websites and blogs. As a blogger, I don't think you gonna say 'NO' for it. So would you like to implement it for your content?

You have learnt how to set up Google +1 button for your website. But it's only represent your entire website or blog, not your content. So if you wish to implement Google +1 button for your posts, then you need to implement them for each post individually. But unfortunately, editing each post is far more time consuming in Blogger. But on the other hand, here you can implement it for all your posts easily without wasting your valuable time. Let's learn how to implement Google +1 button for each of your post without even affecting your page load time. But the only disadvantage with Google +1 button is, in case if you wanna migrate to a custom domain, your +1s or recommendations won't be migrate to new domain. So you have to keep that in mind when you implement Google +1 button on your blog. However recommendations are work as a motivator for your readers and if you provide quality content for your readers, you don't need to worry about the +1s at all.


Steps:

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.

2. Click on your Blog Title.

3. Now navigate to Template tab.

4. Click on Edit HTML button.

5. Click Proceed button to continue.

6. Tick on, Expand Widget Templates option.

7. Now right before the </body> tag, place below asynchronous Google +1 button script which loads +1 button without affecting page load time.

How to Change Number of Posts Shown on Your Blogger Feed

As a Blogger user, you might have already using a Feed Management Service such as FeedBurner, which optimize your raw feed for readers to subscribe easily and to gain more traffic to your content. If you haven't redirected your feed to FeedBurner, As and when you publish a new post on your blog, Blogger automatically updates your feed and syndicate to your Feed Management Service. But by default Blogger is feeding only recent 25 blog posts. What if you wanna change the number of posts being showed on your feed?

Yeah, it is. There's a limit of posts being displayed on your feed. You can notice that by default Blogger feed shows only recent 25 posts on your blog. But what if you wanna show more or less posts? Actually you can't show 100s of posts on your redirected feed because most services don't accept feeds larger than 512 Kilobytes. Because of that reason, sometimes Feed management Services doesn't accept your feed if its size larger than 512 Kilobytes. Then you have to reduce number of posts shown on your feed. But sometimes you may wanna shift 25 posts limit to show more posts. Then, you can make use of alterations to your original feed address when you syndicate blog feed to external feed management service. Let's get to know more about it.

Usually if you process your feed with a Feed Management Service such as FeedBurner, most probably you may have provided one of below feed addresses to syndicate 25 recent content.
Atom

[Your Blog Address]/feeds/posts/default?redirect=false

or

[Your Blog Address]/atom.xml?redirect=false

RSS

[Your Blog Address]/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss&redirect=false

or

[Your Blog Address]/atom.xml?alt=rss&redirect=false

As you seeking a way to display more posts or less posts in your feed, you just need to modify your original feed address specified at your Feed Management Service by appending redirect & max-results parameters to the end of the feed URL with the value of maximum number of posts to be displayed.

Atom

[Your Blog Address]/feeds/posts/default?redirect=false&max-results=40

or

[Your Blog Address]/atom.xml?redirect=false&max-results=40


RSS

[Your Blog Address]/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss&redirect=false&max-results=40

or

[Your Blog Address]/atom.xml?alt=rss&redirect=false&max-results=40

Color Indication Information

- Your Blog URL

- The Maximum Number of Posts to Display


Here this refers to maximum number of posts to be appeared on your feed. Specify maximum number of posts you need to be shown on your redirected feed. But keep in mind, some services may not accept feeds larger than 512 Kilobytes and you may have to lower the value at such a scenario.

How to Use HTML5 over Flash using Google Swiffy

Have you been using flash animations on your website/blog? It might be advertisements, site headers, widgets or whatever. But why people would more prefer on flash animations over text, images and other media types? Basically it adds more color and interactivity to your site while fulfilling intended purpose. The constraint is it needs flash plugin on internet browsers to render those flash based content. But how would you render them on a device which has no flash capabilities?

Google has introduced a new tool for webmasters and flash authors to display flash content using more browser-friendly HTML5 format. So further your content can be rendered on devices which has no flash capabilities such as iPhones, iPads etc. and modern internet browsers are not essential to have flash player plugin to render those animations. So this will add more traffic to your site through other devices too. The size of HTML5 output will be not more than 10% increase in most cases compared to a flash file.

You can see HTML5 in action with Google Swiffy at Google Swiffy Gallery. Swiffy currently supports SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0 with many common SWF features.

Steps:

1. Sign in to your Google account.

2. Navigate to Google Swiffy.

3. Browse your flash animation file (.swf) and click Upload and convert button to convert it into HTML5.

4. It will generate the HTML file with the link. Just right click and Save link as... by using HTML only or Page source save option to save the HTML.

5. Include the HTML file on your website/blog using an <iframe> tag.

i.e: <iframe src="http://mysite.com/flash.html" width="100" height="100"></iframe>

Enjoy :-)

How to Make a Sitemap For Blogger

Sitemap is a way to learn a search engines about pages scattered in your blog. A sitemap will list down all URLs in your blog and it will make it easy for search engines to find your pages. Else search engines need to come and crawl your pages to grasp updates on your pages. So you may have heard of the word "Sitemap" if you are using tools such as Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools to notify about your blog updates to search engines. They will ask for sitemap address from you whenever you wanna submit URLs. Eventhough you have heard of it, you may have no idea how to obtain or generate sitemap address for your blog. Wanna find out your sitemap address?

Blogger maintain a unique address as blog's sitemap address. You don't need to generate a new address for it. All you just need to do is finding relevant sitemap address for your blog and provide it whenever you need to submit your sitemap. Generally, your sitemap includes recently updated posts only. So if you update an old post and submit default sitemap, your post update won't notify for search engines. So you may have to alter sitemap address to populate all of your blog page addresses. Let's discuss how to find default sitemap address and alter it to grab all of your post URLs. You might think this is a advanced scenario to find yoursitemap. But its neither advanced nor hard to find.

Steps:

1. Type your blog URL in the address bar of your web browser.

2. At the end of your URL, append /robots.txt and hit Enter.

i.e: http://mayura4ever.blogspot.com/robots.txt

3. It will open up a simple page with text. As you see at the end, you can find your default sitemap address for your blog.



Also you can make use of below instead of what you found,

[Your Blog URL]/atom.xml?redirect=false

[Your Blog URL]/feeds/posts/default?redirect=false&max-results=[Number of Posts]
or

[Your Blog URL]/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=[Number of Posts]


Color Indication Information

- Your Blog URL

Add your blog URL here with preceding http://

- Number of Page/Post URLs to Submit

Here this refers to maximum number of pages that will be submitted to the Sitemap. Mostly this could be equivalent to the number of posts on your blog. Use a number which exceeds the count of number of posts published on your blog.
i.e: If you have 21 posts published on your blog, use a number larger than 21. It may be 22, 30, 100, 500, 1000 or even 100000. It will include all available page URLs with your specified limit.

5. Now you can submit your sitemap to relevant services.

Enjoy :-)