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Pinging Your WordPress Blog To Google Blog Search

April 20, 2010 by bharath

Is new your new WordPress not appearing in Google blog search results? Learn how to include your WordPress blog in Google blog search results.

Google Blog Search Ping Service – The manual way

If your blog is relatively new and if it hasn’t been included in Google Blog search yet, then you can notify Google blog search about your blog and get it included in the same by visiting this Google blog search ping service page.You can either enter your blog URL or enter your blog’s feed URL.

You can also use this Google’s blog ping service to ping your latest posts manually.

Using WordPress Update Services – Automatic:

If are usingWordPress platform for your blog, you need not worry bout pinging Google blog search each and every time when you publish a new post to your blog.WordPress has a default “Update Services” where you can add various update services which you want WordPress to ping automatically after each post.You can find Update Services under “Settings> Writing” in your admin dashboard.

You can either choose pingomatic.com pinging which updates multiple services (including Google blog search ping service) and search engines about your blog updates or you can manually add the following Google blog search ping server (which supports XML format) into the WordPress update services:

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

You may also read more about Google crawling & indexing, also about protecting your WordPress internal files

Google’s SEO Report Card Available For Download

April 17, 2011March 3, 2010 by bharath

Google SEO report card

Google has released SEO report for its product pages for search engines.Actually, it is intended for Google engineers to analyze how the Google’s product pages doing in search engines so as to optimize them for better SEO.

subjects in SEO report for Google

The report (PDF file, 49 pages in total) contains 3 Subjects:

Subject I: Search result presentation

Subject II: URLs and redirects

Subject III: On-page optimizations

These subject cover the all the basic tests and reports reports for better SEO.These are not just for Google employees, you can use this report perhaps to start preparing for your own SEO report for your site.This would be the perfect reference guide if you want to come out with such a report for your site.

Download Google’s SEO Report Card

[Link updated]

If you want to start from scratch in Google’s SEO, you may want to download Google’s SEO beginners’ guide which is available in more than 40 languages.

Blogger ‘Blog Pages’ Allows You To Create Pages In Blogger

February 6, 2010 by bharath

Blogger has just rolled out another feature which has been available in blogger in Draft till now.

This one of the most requested features in Blogger.Now you can publish static information on stand-alone pages like you can create “About Us” or “Contact Us” or “Privacy Policy” pages on blogger (like you do in WordPress) easily.

You can have at most 10 pages in your Blogger blog.Writing these pages is very similar to the way you normally do in the case of posts.

This tutorial guides you to create a simple static page in you Blogger.com blog.

STEPS TO FOLLOW:

Step 1: Visit Dashboard of your blog in blogger.com and go to the “Posting” tab, under which you find “Edit Pages’ tab

new page link in dashboard

Step 2:Click on “New Page’ to start composing a new page like “About Us” for instance.Similar to writing a new post.Hit the “Publish Page” button once you are done with writing.

Step 3: Now choose the position where you want the Pages Gadget to appear.You can either chose it to appear along the blog sidebar or on the blog tabs.

Pages Gadget in Blogger

Step 4: Now you can see the page you have composed in browser.

If you have liked this, why not take time to read about our guides on Optimizing Blogger blogs for better SEO.

Swapping Blogger blog title and post title -Blogger SEO tweak

How To Verify Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Quiz For Fun

January 21, 2010 by bharath

Google Webmaster central has today announced that it’s going to conduct a fun and educational quiz for the interested webmasters.The quiz consists of 40 basic questions on topics that every single webmaster should know for successful SEO.

Of course, some questions and answers seem funny, ultimately it’s fun answering those questions.

Quiz will be open till Wednesday, January 27 at 5PM PST.Go take the quiz and If you get them right, as kept in as am options for one of those question, Do the Google dance.Answers to the questions in the quiz will be posted in the Webmaster Central blog after Jan 27.What more? if you are the top scorer of the quiz, your username will be posted in the Google Webmaster Central blog post.That’s lot of free publicity !!

Link: Take the Google Webmaster Quiz

Webmaster Quiz Screen shot

Sshh….Don’t reveal the answers at least until Jan 27 !!

Google India Search Quality Team Wants To Review Your Website !!

January 8, 2010January 6, 2010 by bharath

Google India Search Quality team has called for a very interesting campaign called Google India Site Clinic, this is a real chance for webmasters to get their site assessed by Google Pros.

According to the campaign plan, interested webmasters can submit their websites to the Google Site Clinic.The Search Quality team will analyze the websites submitted and will provide advice on improving the accessibility and other factors that will in turn affect the visibility of your website in Google search results.

The Requirements:

If you are the owner of the website that you want to submit to Test Clinic, you must first have a verified Google Webmaster tools account associated with your site(If you haven’t yet, get an account from this page)

The website to be submitted must be in accordance with the Webmaster quality guidelines.

The Dates:

The Site Clinic will accept websites for analysis from Jan 6, 2010 to Jan 20, 2010.

The Benefits:

You get a chance to get your website reviewed and hear suggestions right from the Google employees.After all who else can give you better suggestions to make your website more Google friendly than the ‘big G’ guys??
If your website is worth for showing other sites to follow, your site may feature as an example in the future posts of Google India blog under Site Clinic campaign.

The Procedure:

To submit your website for Site Clinic, just fill out this Google Docs form.

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Google SEO Starter Guide now in 40 languages

April 17, 2011June 8, 2009 by bharath

Google logo Search Engine giant Google had released Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide way back in November 2008.It includes a list of best practices that are being used inside Google that many webmasters would want to know.Now Google made this SEO guide to be available in 40 languages.

The languages include Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US & GB), Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuania, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (BR & PT), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Swapping Blogger blog title and post title -Blogger SEO tweak

March 27, 2009March 27, 2009 by bharath

In the previous post about Blogger title tweak, I’ve mentioned about the other way of optimizing blog title structure,swapping blog title name with post title name.

As said earlier,default blogger.com blogs title structure is “Blog Title followed by post title” for individual posts,now let’s see how to change this structure to “Post title followed by blog title” (swapping).

1.Go to Dashboard>>Select your Blog>>go to Layout Section>>Click Edit HTML tab

Find the little HTML section code shown by the red arrow in the following image your template HTML code

Where you’ll find the following title tag.

<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title> [Note:You may also use CTR+F function in your browser to search this little code.]

3.Replace the above code with this one:

 <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

[note that this will still show your blog title at home page,only changes individual posts structre]

4.Save the Template and open any post from your blog and observe the title structure on the top of your browser it must now look like “blog post title | blog title”

Like wise,Wordpress blogs titles also can be tweaked for better Search Engine Optimization,soon be posted here.

Please feel free to leave a comment here if you are having any troubles while doing this.

Blogger blog title tweak for better SEO

April 12, 2009March 27, 2009 by bharath

Blogger.com is most widely used free blogging platform on the internet.Easy to use interface,ability to publish post at one click does make it a highly recommended platform for newbie bloggers.

Having said that,one must also say that Blogger blogs are not so optimized for Search Engines.Take for instance the title structure of the individual posts which is “Blog title followed by Post title” by default in blogger.This may not be the one you want particularly if you are concentrating on SEO for your blog.

Let’s see one way to change this Blogger default title structure for individual posts to just “post title” (thus eliminating the undesired blog title at the beginning of the title structure].

1..Go to Dashboard>>Select your Blog>>go to Layout Section>>Click Edit HTML tab

2.In the template HTML code,look for(use CTR+F to find) the following little HTML code:

title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title> [pointed by the red arrow in the image].

3.Replace the above code with the following code:

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == "index"’>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>

4.Hit the Save Template button and load any of your blog posts in the browser and observe the change in the title structure,the new structure will only show Post title alone.

You may also want to refer to next post covering how to swap your blogger title with post title instead of completely removing the blog title from title structure.