How To Do Social Bookmarking For SEO

How To Do Social Bookmarking For SEO

SEO companies and firms charge dollars for professional SEO services to their clients and the clients pays them happily because they get effective results. Why these people pay dollars to the company if they can learn SEO themselves by reading online tutorials and practicing on them? The reason behind this is that if perfect Search Engine Optimization can build up your blog ranking then over and bad SEO can ruin your blog completely. That’s why it’s a better option to invest some money on your blog optimization. This investment will give you multiple times of benefits and your online business will grow. These companies works on many strategies to optimize a website to bring it at top in major search engines and today in this post I’ll discuss about one of the best SEO strategies that is Social Bookmarking which comes under Off Page SEO.

Most of the newbie bloggers who start learning SEO from reading online tutorials exclude this strategy from their SEO plans because of the following reasons.

1. They don’t aware with Social Bookmarking.
2. They don’t have proper knowledge of how to do it for SEO.
3. They feel it as a waste of time to submit links on various social bookmarking sites.

Whatever the reason but we should not ignore Social Bookmarking for better blog optimization. Today in this post we will discuss about what is Social Bookmarking, how it works in SEO and what are its benefits.

What is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is a way to bookmark our favorite web pages online to read them anytime and anywhere if we are connected with the internet.

Why Social Bookmarking Comes?

When we surf the internet for the information, we bookmarked some web pages in our browser so that we can read them later without surfing the internet again.

But because of any reason if our browser get crashed or our system get formatted or if we are not at the front of that computer where we save our bookmark then we can’t access them.

We have to again surf the internet to search those pages. To overcome this issue social bookmarking comes. Now we can use our bookmarks easily from any location using any computer which is connected by the internet.

How Social Bookmarking Helps in SEO?

The web pages we bookmarked at social bookmarking sites is considered as a quality backlink in the eyes of search engines.

And we all know that the quality backlinks helps us to increase blog traffic and Google Page Rank. That’s why SEO professionals include SB in their search engine optimization practices.

• Read this: How to Build Quality Backlinks?
• Must Read: Amazing Tips to Increase Blog Traffic

How to do Social Bookmarking for SEO?

Doing SB is not a tough job. Everyone can do it after learning how to do it.

First you have to collect a list of top social bookmarking sites so that you can easily start your work on them. You can use this Social Bookmarking List to start the process.

Once you are ready with the list, follow below steps to do SB.

In this tutorial I’m taking an example of a very famous SB site i.e StumbleUpon.com

1. Go to www.StumbleUpon.com.
2. Create an account or you can also log in with your facebook account.
3. Now click on the little drop down arrow along with your username at the top right corner and choose Add a Page.
   
4. Now fill a simple form with the appropriate information about your web page like web page address, category, tags etc and click on Add This Pagebutton.
   
5. You are done!

Note: Don’t start submitting your links in social bookmarking sites after reading this tutorial.

The submission should be in a proper way so that you blog always get free from any SEO penalties because I have already said that wrong SEO can ruin your blog.
Thanks to Ankit Kumar Singla

Tutorial for How To Merge Blogs in Blogger

Tutorial for How To Merge Blogs in Blogger 

Trend of creating blog on blogger is increasing day by day because of its simplicity and easy to use interface. Now bloggers takes interest to create multiple blogs on blogspot for their different uses or different niche. Creating a blog on blogger is free and easy to manage that’s why most of bloggers create multiple blogs for their benefits like earning money from blog by monetizing it with any advertisement programs like Google Adsense. People often use to create different blogs for same niche to monetize all blogs and to make more money from all. But sometime it’s being difficult to manage all blogs with same niche because of less amount of fresh content to publish on all blogs. In that case a blogger might think to merge all his/her blogs under same niche so that it being easy to update the blog without any hassle. If you also want to combine your blogger blogs into one then read this tutorial. It is very easy to achieve the goal of combining two or more blogs. Let see how to do it.

Merging Blogs in Blogger

To merge different blogs first you have to import the data of that blog which you don’t want to run anymore. Follow below steps to do it.

1. Open that blog.
2. Go to Settings > Other.
3. Click on Export Blog link to download its data.Trend of creating blog on blogger is increasing day by day because of its simplicity and easy to use interface. Now bloggers takes interest to create multiple blogs on blogspot for their different uses or different niche. Creating a blog on blogger is free and easy to manage that’s why most of bloggers create multiple blogs for their benefits like earning money from blog by monetizing it with any advertisement programs like Google adsense People often use to create different blogs for same niche to monetize all blogs and to make more money from all. But sometime it’s being difficult to manage all blogs with same niche because of less amount of fresh content to publish on all blogs. In that case a blogger might think to merge all his/her blogs under same niche so that it being easy to update the blog without any hassle. If you also want to combine your blogger blogs into one then read this tutorial. It is very easy to achieve the goal of combining two or more blogs. Let see how to do it.
   
   

   Merging Blogs in Blogger

   To merge different blogs first you have to import the data of that blog which you don’t want to run anymore. Follow below steps to do it.
   1. Open that blog.
   2. Go to Settings > Other.
   3. Click on Export Blog link to download its data.
   

   Transferring Data in Blogger

   Once you export the data of your old blog, you need to import it to new one.
   
   1. Open new Blog.
   2. Go to Settings > Other.
   3. Now at this time click on Import Blog link.
   4. Import the downloaded data of your old blog. It will store all the blog posts and comments into your new blog.
   5. You are done!

   Final Words!

   This was all about how to combine blogs on blogger. You can merge as number of blogs as you want by following this tutorial. I hope you guys like this tutorial. If you any doubt or query regarding this topic then feel free to ask me by leaving a comment below this post. I’ll surely reply you. Happy Blogging!

Custom Robots Header Tags Settings in Blogger

Custom Robots Header Tags Settings in Blogger

Blogger’s developers team continuously working hard to improve its features and usability. In blogger’s new interface they added many new features to make it more SEO friendly. One of the new features introduced by blogger’s developers is Custom Robots Header Tags. This is really a handy tool which helps us to select which portion of our blog should be indexed and which should be protected from indexing in search results. This tool plays great role in our blog’s Search Engine Optimization. Using it properly can improve our blog ranking that helps us to gain more visitors from search engines and hence our blog page views will also increase. In this tutorial you will learn how to setup custom robots headers tags in blogger. Let’s see how to setup them.

Setup Custom Robots Header Tags

First enable this option from your blogger settings and then I’ll tell you how to use it.

1. Log in to your blogger account.
2. Now navigate to Setting >> Search Preferences
   
3. Click on edit link under the Custom Robots Header Tags section as shown in below screenshot.
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5. Once you click on the edit link you will see many options. Simply tick on the options as shown in the below image.
   
6. Now click on “”Save changes” button.
7. You are done!

Feedback!

This was all about how to use custom robots header tags under search preferences in blogger. Please post your valuable feedback through comments. I tried my best to explain this tutorial but still if you have any doubt then feel free to ask me. Thanks!

Thanks to Ankit Kumar Singla

4 Benefits of Internal Linking in SEO

4 Benefits of Internal Linking in SEO

    Every blog or website owner must think about the strategies to increase its usability and value for both to the readers and search engines as well. Providing regular unique and original content to the readers is must to rank well in search engines and to achieve your blogging goals. But increasing its value is the crucial thing. As we all know that Google’s ranking algorithms are going hard to follow day by day. Search Engine Optimizationhas changed its meaning and usage in past years. Today, we need to focus on maintaining usability of our blog to protect it from losing its value in the eyes of major search engines. We need to build best quality backlinks to stand out our blog from the crowd. There are lot of techniques to increase blog readership and value to gain trust of the readers and search engines as well. In today’s post I’ll discuss about one of the techniques that isinternal linking and its benefits.

Advantages of Internal Linking

There are numerous benefits of internal linking in SEO and we will go through from them one by one. But before telling you the benefits of it let me tell you what does internal linking means?

Internal linking is the technique of Search Engine Optimization to link one post to another in such a manner that increase blog or website’s usability to the readers and provide them more relevant content to read.

Now you have understand what does internal linking means, so let see it’s advantages in SEO.

Increase Readership

Linking to old posts is the best way to increase readership around the blog. If You write a post and provide top quality internal links with proper use of anchor texts then your readers feel easy to navigate your site from one post to another. You help them to reach that location of your blog where they want to go for more information they are looking for hence better readership of your blog.

Increase Page Rank

Internal linking is the best method to increase link popularity. It passes link juice from one post to another in the form of links which seems like a vote to the linked post that helps it to gain Google Pagerank and rank well in search engines. By this process page rank flow completely in your blog and all posts that help them in gaining strength to stand out andbring more traffic from search engines. It also increases number of backlinks to all posts that help them to increase their rank.

Better Crawling and Indexing

You may heard that search engine crawlers are known as spiders. This is the main reason to call them as spiders because they like content interlinked with more relevant content. As linking to related posts helps readers to find the information more quickly and easily, it also help web crawlers to crawl and index all of your content by providing a convenient path to follow.

Decrease Bounce Rate

Last but not the least benefit of internal linking is it decrease your blog bounce ratewithout doing any extra hard work. You just provide links to more relevant posts and readers click those links to read more content. It automatically increase blog page viewsand reduce bounce rate that is must for every blog to build trust in the eyes of search engines. less bounce rate shows the authority and usability of a blog.

Thanks to Ankit Kumar Singla

How To Force Links In Blogger To Open In New Tab

How To Force Links In Blogger To Open In New Tab

Links in your blog helps users to navigate and find more information. Whether it is internal links or external links, for your users and for the sake of SEO it is necessary that you add links accordingly. By adding internal links your visitors will hopefully have a look at related posts that you’ve written in the past which increases page views and reduces bounce rate. On the other hand external links will only benefit your users and not you.

Making all external links open in a new window / tab is usually a good idea because by leaving your blog open in browser, users will have the chance to return back. Here we will show you how to make links in Blogger that is all external links to open in a new window / tab.

In Blogger by default all links that is both internal and external links will open in the same window. Whenever you publish a post using composer you will usually add a link by highlighting the text and clicking on the link button. Now in there you will have the option to set link target which most fail to check. Other than that manually adding “target=_blank” in to your hyperlink will make the link open in a new window.

Anyhow here is the quick and simple solution that makes all links open in a new tab. So you don’t have to set link target each time when you publish a new post. This also applies to links in your previous post.

How to make all links in Blogger to open in a new window /tab

Login to your Blogger blog and in your dashboard go to Template and then click on edit HTML. Now press CTRL + F, find for <head> tag and just below the <head> tag paste the following line.

<base target=’_blank’/>

Save template, that’s it. From now on all links in your blog will open in a new window.

9 Tips To Reduce Blogger Blog Load Time

9 Tips To Reduce Blogger Blog Load Time

Loading time of a blog is really an important factor in SEO’s prospective. Every webmaster should care for his/her blog’s loading time because now a days major search engines specially Google consider load time as a ranking factor. Beside this, visitors also don’t like slow loading sites. They will surely press back button and go to another place for the information they are searching for. It will also increase bounce rate that affects the blog ranking. So, Today in this post, I’ll share my own way on how to reduce load time in Blogger Blog. Below are some very important tips that you can use to optimize your blog load speed.

Tips To Reduce Blog Load Time

1# Avoid JavaScript

JavaScript makes page loading speed slow. Try to remove unnecessary JavaScript codes from your blog. Don’t link to external sites for storing your JavaScript codes whilst you can save them inside your blogger blog. You can save your all JavaScript codes in your template above </head> by using the code below

<script type=’text/javascript’>
//<![CDATA[
Paste Your JavaScript Code Here//]]>
</script>

Just replace the bolded text with the JavaScript code you want to store in your template.

2# Widgets and Social Media Buttons

Widgets and social media buttons are really very important but use of too many social media buttons and unnecessary widgets can slower your blog. Try to remove widgets that are not really necessary for your blog and use social media buttons wisely.

3# Give Proper Dimensions To Images

Always give proper height and width to the images you are using in your posts, because it help the browsers to load the image quickly. To give height and width attribute to your images use below code.

<img width=”” height=”” src=”URL Of Image” /> 

4# Don’t Use An Image As A Background

If your blog template have image as a background, then remove it. A background image is responsible for slow loading speed. Always use background colors not an image. To remove background image simply search below code and remove it from your template.

body { background: #B3B3B3 url(http://abc.com/background-image.jpg);

The code will surely be different in your template. To remove background image, search this type of code in your template and simply remove the text which looks like the bold text.

5# Reduce Advertisement On Blog

Advertisement banners are coded with JavaScript. As I already told you in tip no 1 that too much use of JavaScript make blog loading speed slower. So please use limited advertisements on your blog.

6# Limited Number Of Posts At Home Page

Try to show only 4-5 posts at your Homepage because if you use too many posts to show at Homepage then it will take more time to load. Fast loading Homepage keeps your visitors happy and they will stay at your blog for long time. If you don’t know how to set number of posts on Homepage then see the screenshot below.

7# Always Use Quality Blogger Templates

Most of newbie bloggers do this mistake. They upload any template that attracts them. There are lot of templates available on the internet but most of them are improper scripted. Using of those templates make job tough for search engine spiders to crawl your blog. Choose theme wisely for your blog which should be designed by professionals.

8# Use Read More Link To Summarize Blog Posts At Homepage

Always summarize your blog post for Homepage by using a read more link. It has two benefits:

• Improve Blog Load Time.
• Increase Page views and Reduce Bounce Rate.

9# Eliminate External Links

Eliminate all unnecessary external links from your blog. One common example for this is using stat counters. You can use Google Analytics instead of stat counter widgets to check your website traffic status.

How To Check Blog Load Speed?

There are lot of tools available on the internet which can be used to check your blog load time. Here I am listing two famous tools.

• Google PageSpeed Insight
• Pingdom Tools

Just open the link and type your blog address like this.

http://www.your-blog-address.blogspot.com/

Feedback!

These are 9 Tips that you can apply to improve your blog loading speed. If you are aware with more tips that can help to reduce load time in blogger blogs, then please share them with me through comments. Your help will be appreciated.

Thanks to Ankit Kumar Singla

How To Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools

How To Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools

To be successful in your blogging career you must have to generate decent organictraffic to your blog. By the term “organic traffic” I mean the traffic which comes to your blog through search engines like Google. If you are a new blogger then you should be aware with the Google Webmaster Tools. This is a great tool which is provided by Google itself. It is useful for bloggers and webmasters to get their blog or website index by the Google and it also help to improve our blog’s crawling rate.

You just need to verify your blog ownership in Google Webmaster Tools and then submit a simple sitemap. It is very important to submit blogger sitemap to Google in terms of SEO which tells Google about your blog and its content. Whenever you update your blog with new posts, your sitemap helps to index them easily in search engines. This is what we are gonna discuss in this post. Let see how to add blogger sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.

Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools

Below are some easy steps you have to go through in terms to submit your blogspot blog sitemap.

• Sign in to Google Webmaster Tools.
• Click on the blog title for which you want to add sitemap.
• Click on Sitemaps button as shown below.

• At the top right corner of the page, press Add/Test sitemap button.

• Once you click the button, a small box will appear as shown in the screenshot below.
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• Add the below code in the text field.

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

This is the sitemap code for your blogger blog which you need to add.

• Press “Submit Sitemap” button.
• Refresh the page.

Congratulation! You have finished the process of submitting your blog sitemap.

Note: The above sitemap will work for 500 posts only. If you have more than 500 posts published in your blog, then you have to add one more sitemap. Whole procedure will be same but at this time you have to add this code.

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500

The sitemap which we submit to Google Webmaster Tools is a XML sitemap which is used by search engines to find our content easily. There is HTML sitemap too which is for our blog readers. We should add sitemap page to our blog so that our readers can easily view all of our blog posts at the single location. It’ll be easy for them to read post which they want to. If you don’t know how to add a sitemap page in blogger, then here is a tutorial for you.

• Read: How to Create HTML Sitemap Page in Blogger?

Comments

This was the step by step guide on how to add blogger sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools. If you found it worth reading, then please share it with your social media friends. If you have any feedback, suggestion or any query then feel free to comment below this post. Your comments will be answered as soon as time allows. Happy Blogging! 

How To Add Keywords in Blogger Posts For Optimization

How To Add Keywords in Blogger Posts For Optimization

If you have original and SEO friendly content in your blog, then no doubt you can surely get high ranking in search results. Writing SEO friendly blog posts is not much tough as beginners think. We just need to focus on some places where we can add keywords in our blog posts to make them optimized for search engines. Don’t forget, optimizing blog posts for search engines is not mean to compromise with content quality. We have to add keywords in a proper way so that it looks natural for our readers and for search engines too. I’ll outline 6 best locations to add keywords in blogger blog posts. Hope you would like to know them.

Optimize Blog Posts By Adding Keywords Smartly

Before I cover today’s topic, you must need to know that adding too much keywords in blog posts is not good for our blog health. We should keep it’s density below 3% for better optimization of our blog posts.

The locations I’m going to tell you to add keywords are the safest and best locations of our blog area. If you want to get your blog posts rank high in search results, then don’t miss to target below locations:

1# Starting and Ending Para of Content

Whenever you write new post for your blog, always remember to add your main keyword in first and last paragraph of your content’s. Both the locations are best for this purpose and search engines also look for keywords in these two places to decide the ranking of our blog posts.

We can add more targeted words in the form of phrases between the content to make it more SEO friendly.

Note: Don’t use same words again and again. Better to use multiple and relevant words. Using multiple related word not only protect our content from keyword stuffing penalty but also help it to appear high with multiple search terms. Hence more targeted traffic to our blog.. 

2# Image Name, Alt Tag and Title Tag

We all know that images plays best role in explanation of the topic. But using images we can also optimize our blog posts even better.

We just need to optimize our images before inserting them into our posts. The better we optimize the images, the better our posts will optimize for search engines. Read below mentioned post to know best 6 ways to optimize images.

If we talk about adding targeted words in blog posts using images, then let me tell you that image’s name, title tag and alt tag are the best and prominent places.

3# Title Of Our Posts

Our post titles are the top most places to add our targeted keywords. You may listen that we should use catchy post titles to attract more readers. But with catchy post titles we should also remember to add our keywords there.

Meaningful post titles grab more audience. Not only from social sharing sites, but from search engines too.

So, always try to use meaningful and catchy post titles to boost your posts traffic.

4# Permalink of Posts

Permalink is the URL of our blog posts. It’s a killer location to add really targeted keywords.

By default, permalinks create on the basis of our post’s titles. But we can use our custom permalinks to add our keywords.

To add custom permalinks go to your Post Editor > click on Permalink from the right side menu and choose Custom Permalink. Add your main keywords there and press Done button.

Note: Always try to use only targeted keywords in permalinks. Other non important words should be ignored.

5# Post Labels

Post labels not only used to categorize our blog posts. If used smartly then we can take their benefits to optimize our blog posts too.

Stop using non keyword rich names for your labels. Named them correctly and put your really targeted words there.

If you had forgetten to insert your keywords in label’s name, then don’t worry. We can rename them too.

6# Post Comments

Many bloggers are unaware with this trick that we can use our blog comments too to add some keywords in our blog posts.

Yes, you heard it right. There are lot of benefits of blog comments and if we use them effectively then no doubt we can get higher ranking in search results.

Whenever you reply your reader’s comment on your blog, try to add some keyword phrases in your reply in a natural way that looks obvious while reading.

Note: Instead of adding your focused words try to use some long tail keywords in your comment section. In that way you can improve your keywords ranking too.

Final Words!

This is my strategy to add keywords in blogger blog posts. And truly said these methods really help me to gain higher rankings in search results. I had shared all the working ways to optimize blog posts.

Now I would like to ask you a question: How you add your keywords in your posts for SEO?

Please share your experience with me and my readers via comments. Your comment can help many other bloggers. And if you think my post was something worth reading, then please share it with your social media friends. Sharing is Caring! Right?
Thanks to Ankit Kumar Singla