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

Effective Guest Blogging Tips to increase ranking

Effective Guest Blogging Tips to increase ranking

A post for bloggers with effective guest blogging tips to experience its benefits and to perform well in the blogosphere.

Most of the website owners have started considering guest blogging very seriously as it is an effective marketing technique in the online world. Not only bloggers, even multinational companies have started guest blogging for some valid reasons.

If you are an influential blogger, I am sure that you have already started to guest post on other blogs of your same niche and tasting its benefits.

But if you are a newbie blogger, then you might ask “What is guest blogging?” and “Why should I write guest posts on other blogs?”

Yeah, both are good questions! But before answering to it,let me ask some questions because I always taking care and love to read other blogs 

Add “Do you” for every question of mine!

1. Want to increase credibility among your blog readers?
2. Need to have more blog subscribers?
3. Prefer the natural promotion for your blog?
4. Desire to gain more visibility and traffic to your blog?
5. Favor effective link building method?
6. Wish to make friendship with fellow and prominent bloggers?

I know, all your answers for my questions are “YES” as you are a passionate blogger. Then do “Guest blogging” on active blogs to reap these benefits.

Now here is the answer for your very first question:

What is Guest Blogging?

“Guest blogging is a strategy of appearing on other same niche blogs with your fresh post as a guest.”

But be sure that your guest post should not ruin the status of the blog where you are appearing as a guest blogger. It means that you need to submit quality guest posts on other blogs and help those blog owners to get good traffic through your posts.

Hope you are now somewhat clear with “Guest blogging and its benefits”. Am I correct?

I always used to write high quality guest posts for my blogging friends and influential bloggers. Also am feeling virtuous as this is my 13th guest post in my 5 months blogging career.

Ok, let me explain some common myths of guest blogging.

Guest Blogging Myths

Myth #1. Number of guest posts approved is important than its quality.
Some bloggers performing guest blogging just to build backlinks to their blog. They are showing interest to create more number of guest posts on various blogs and never mind about its quality. It is a bad practice and should be avoided by the bloggers.

Truth: Quality guest posts sounds greater than more no. of guest posts submitted just for link-building.

Myth #2: Blogs should have good PR to submit guest post on other blogs.
Newbie bloggers think that their blog should have high Pagerank to submit their guest post on other blogs. It is not true! My guest posts were accepted in PR4 and PR3 blogs and my blog’s page rank is 0. So, don’t hesitate to guest post on energetic blogs even if you have low or zero page rank.

Truth: Valuable guest posts which are helpful for the visitors are readily accepted in famous blogs.

Myth #3: Taking much effort for guest blogging is waste
I came across few bloggers with the statement “Why should I write long and quality posts just for backlinks and I have alternate ways for it”. No it is really wrong and the bloggers should not expect instant results from guest blogging.

Truth: Guest blogging is only effective if it focused to have long term benefits.

Tips To Get Your Guest Posts Accepted

1. Try to impress the blog owners whom you are selected to submit your guest posts with polite approach and explain why you have selected their blog to submit your post.
2. You should write guest post for related niches with good PR and high authority blogs, so sure to be thorough with their guidelines of guest posting.
3. Follow your unique style in writing to stand out from other guest bloggers.
4. It is really exciting to see your name on well performing blogs right? So include a simple and gorgeous Author-bio for your guest post.
5. Make efforts to engage the visitors from the beginning of your guest post by offering some fresh or unread data for them.

Conclusion:

I am definitely saying that no other publicizing method can beat guest blogging. It is a honest white hat SEO technique which brings countless benefits to the bloggers. Also it is a good opportunity for the bloggers to reach wider minded audience and chance to establish a good relationship with the powerful bloggers.

Through the guest blogging experience, the bloggers can get their name known in the blogosphere.

Now it’s your turn to speak!

Have you been a guest blogger? What are the benefits you attained with it?
If you are a newbie, just say “Are you going to perform guest blogging?”
What about the effective guest blogging tips which I have shared here? Is it beneficial?

Share your valuable thoughts with me as I always love to hear your voice

Show Post Title Before Blog Title in Blogger

Post titles and blog title plays a vital role for better ranking in search results. This is the first thing which is checked by visitors to either they should click on this link or not. That means your traffic depends on this thing. Keyword rich titles can bring you more traffic and increase your blog page views. Google shows only first 66 characters of the title in search results. That’s why we should use them effectively. By default, in blogger, our blog title shows before post title. This reduces the SEO benefits because our post titles which have the main keywords got chopped because of the characters limit in search results. So, to take the proper benefits we have to optimize our blog so that post titles shows before blog title in search results.

post title before blog title

Show Post Title First in Search Results

1. Go to Blogger >> Template >> Edit HTML.
2. Backup your blog template. (Read this: How to backup template in blogger?)
3. Now search below code in your template.

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

4. Replace that code with the below one.

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;’>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

5. You are done!

Now wait for the update in search results. Once search results got updated you will see the changes. But you can see these changes in your browser also. 

Comments!

This was the little but very powerful trick that will help you to show post titles before blog title in search results. It will also increase your blog CTR that automatically increase your blog traffic and page views. Happy Blogging!
Thanks to Ankit Kumar Singla

How to Improve Keywords Ranking in Google

How to Improve Keywords Ranking in Google

Writing content for blog is not enough to rank well in search engines like Google. We need some special care to make our blog SEO friendly. Then it will rank awesomely in all major search engines. In my previous posts, I shared some Off page SEO Tips that are beneficial to improve keywords position in search results. As you may already know that we must focus on On Page and Off Page SEO Techniques both to make our blog SEO friendly and search engines lovable. That’s why today I bring some tips that will help you to rank well in search results. Hope you guys like to read these tips.

Improve Keywords Position in Search Results

There are many things that we must care during blogging. Read below points and try to follow them to improve your blog traffic through search engines.

1# Optimize Post Titles

During writing new post for your blog, always tries to use SEO friendly post titles because this is the first thing that decides your ranking in search results.

Include your main and targeted keyword in your post title. If you are a blogger use then read below tutorial to optimize your post titles.

• Read: Show Post Title Before Blog Title in Blogger

2# Add Keywords to Content

Provide best quality content in your blog and add some keywords into it at prominent places that fits there.

Keyword density should be kept in mind to make content for SEO friendly. Use at most 2% or 3% keywords in your content.

For example if you have 500 words in your article, then you can use your keyword 10 to 15 times.

• Must Check: How To Add Keywords in Blogger Posts For Optimization?

3# Add Keywords to Images

Images not only use to make blog posts more attractive. They can also be used as an extra place to put keywords into it.

There are some image optimization tips that you must know to optimize your images. Read below tutorial to know about this topic in details.

4# Add Keyword Rich Labels

Labels are used to categorize blog posts. They also used by related posts widget to show related posts under every post. But if you used them correctly then you can take its benefit to improve your keywords ranking in Google.

Always add a keyword rich label name to every post you publish on your blog because it is also a best place to put keywords.

If you have already added some labels without adding keywords into it then don’t worry, you can rename it also.

The above 4 tips are for On-Page SEO, now continue reading for some Off-page SEO Tips. These tips are also beneficial to improve keywords ranking in search results.

5# Use Guest Blogging

Guest Blogging is the best method to gain high quality keyword rich dofollow backlinks. If you don’t know about importance of backlinks in search rankings then let me tell you that quality backlinks are very important for every blog or website to improve search rankings.

Use guest blogging to increase number of keyword rich backlinks of your blog. Write high quality content and submit it to other blogs under your niche. It will also help to increase your blog page views and readers.

• Read: Effective Guest Blogging Tips

6# Blog Commenting

You might think that why waste time to leave comments on other’s blog. This is the big mistake that newbie bloggers do.

You should participate in the conversation on other blog’s by leaving a valuable comment. It will not only introduce you and your blog into the blog-o-sphere but also you will get quality backlinks for your blog.

Don’t waste your time to leave comments on random blogs. You must targetKeywordLuv and CommentLuv enabled blogs to gain dofollow backlinks. If you don’t have any idea about that then read below tutorial.

7# Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is the part of Off-Page SEO Techniques. It helps a lot to improve keywords ranking in Google.

I have published a post on How To Do Social Bookmarking in SEO but it must do with proper care. Misuse of this can ruin your blog ranking too.

There are some tips and suggestions for those bloggers who want to participate in social bookmarking to increase their rankings in search results.

8# Directory Submissions

As same as social bookmarking, directory submission with care can also help blog owners to make their blog popular in search results.

There are also some points for directory submission that you must know to take proper benefits of your hard work.

Please read below tutorial to know what you should know before doing directory submission for your blog.

Final Words!

These were the top 8 tips to improve keywords ranking in Google. I tried my best to share all the working methods here.

If I miss something then please let me know through comments and if you know other tips and tricks to improve ranking in Google then please share them with me. Thanks! Happy Blogging!

Thanks to Ankit Kumar Singla

4 Ways To Get Referral Traffic on your Blog

If you are a Blogger, you need to feed traffic to your blog, to make it survive. Each and every Blogger tries & discover multiple ways to gain more traffic to the Blog. Most of the Bloggers tries to gain Organic Traffic, but mostly Bloggers fail to Discover the Potential of Referral Traffic.

4 Ways To Get Referral Traffic on your Blog

Most of the Bloggers shares there Monthly Traffic Report and you mostly have seen that there Organic Traffic is very high and Referral Traffic is low. According to me you can maximize and increase your Referring Traffic also by just following few working ways.

Followings are the tips to get Referral Traffic

1. Commenting on Blogs

The best way you can ever discover to gain Referral Traffic is by Commenting. Just create a list of blogs related to your niche. Then spend few hours daily commenting on each blog. This will gain you good traffic and you can also gain Backlinks.

The best way is to Subscribe to there Feeds and be a first Commentor. Leave a useful comment, so that other visitor gets attracted to visit your site. This really helps in gaining tons of referral traffic, if done properly.

2. Guest Posting

This is the 2nd best way to bring tons of traffic to your Blog. To be Successful in this mission, you should try to do heavy guest posting on high traffic blogs, so that you can drive that traffic to your own blog also. While Guest Posting, do add a catchy Author Byline and add links in it so that viewers can land on your site.

3. Add your Link in the Blogroll

You might have seen “Blogroll” or “Blogs I Like” Page in most of the Blogs. This is the place where blog owner exchange Blog Links for Traffic Boost. Try to Contact the Blog Owners and ask him to add your Blog in his Blogroll and you will do the same. This method wont let you gain good traffic, but you can gain decent traffic if you manage to add your Blog to more than 20+ Blogrolls.

4. Get or Buy Ad Space

You can try to buy Ad Space on the Blog’s Sidebar if you are looking to invest money in Referral Traffic. If you are not interested in Investing then you can search for blogs that award there Readers or Commentators with Free Ad Banner Space. Grabbing the Ad Space on one’s blog easily boosts your Referral Traffic.

After Following all these 4 steps seriously, I managed to bring lots of Traffic in my Blog. You too can gain good referral traffic by following these ways seriously.

6 best ways to create a better blog by shoutmeloud.com

6 best ways to create a better blog by shoutmeloud.com

As an experienced blogger, I often come across this question -

“What Does It Need to Become a Better Blogger’.

So, I thought about writing this one for all those who have just started and have the same in mind…

… It is not for you if you have already earned a credibility as a blogger for years.

Important Reminders for Amateur Bloggers

I admit that the following tips may sound usual to many of you.

However, how many of us actually take care of them when we follow our blogging schedule.

You may consider this as a reminder of key points required to maintain a credible blog.

Write Briefly

The attention span of people on web is too short.

With so much flashing around and ads hovering in front of eyes, a few of them take out real time to read long and lengthy pieces of content.

The fact is that many of us hardly like to spend time scrolling…

… and this is the reason your whole story should be put across in no more than 600 words.

You may work on shorter ones with 400 or 300 words if you have supporting videos or photos.

Longer than 600 is acceptable if it is really an interesting story that you are sure people will stick to.

In this post, Neil Patel from QuickSprout, explained how content length affects rankings and conversions.

Use Catchy Titles

Use humorous titles or ask a question.

Your aim should be to entice people to click on your title to read.

Try using the type of headlines you love exploring.

This will take you much closer to the psyche of the reader in your niche.

For example:

Boring Title: How to promote blog posts?
Catchy Title: How to make money using social media!
>>Show Me!<<

Share it On Social Media

If you want more people to see your post, you have to share it on different social media platforms.

Use Google+, Twitter, Facebook to make your posts viral.

Look out for some other social media platforms being used by your competitors.

Check out the above post for 4 amazing places to share your blog posts…

…and attract eager new readers to your blog.

Build Relationships

It is really important to build relationships with your audience.

They invest time to read your posts and you should respect this fact.

Respond to the comments on your blog, thank readers who have shared your posts and comment on their posts as well.

This will help in building relationships and enhancing your network.

Building relationships lead to trust factor, and once people start trusting you, you get regular following on web.

Bow to the Tech

An expert designer and developer can make the ‘look and feel’ of your blog -

not only attractive but worth sharing too.

Spending some money on the design and beauty of your blog is not a bad idea if you are not good at it…

…and it’s also the sixth way of my blogging motivation.

Update it Regularly

Your blog needs to be updated at least once a week.

The more often you update the better it is.

Create a schedule to post information on week days.

Weekend traffic flow should be expected to be lower than week days.

I run an A/B test on my another blog to check what’s the actually benefit of updating the blog regularly.

Surprisingly apart from traffic, ranking and readership, I attracted lots of advertisers and I banked dollars with ease. See how!

Conclusion!

Following these easy yet important tips will help you build repute on the web and soon you will see your site in good names on search engines.

Which way you think is most important to become a better and successful blogger?

Do let me know your views in the comment section and please share this article on social media.

BLOGGER BLOG PLATFORM by techscite

BLOGGER BLOG PLATFORM by techscite

Hi! friends.

I think you can read my previous posts:

Read:TOP 10 BLOGGING PLATFORMS IN INTERNET by techscite 

Read: WORDPRESS BLOG PLATFORM by techscite   

Now it's time to know about BLOGGER.

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account.

Up until May 1, 2010, Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via custom URLs. Unlike WordPress, Blogger cannot be installed in a web server. One has to use DNS facilities to redirect a custom URL to a blogspot domain.

Google’s take on blogging is Blogger, an easy-to-use and free platform that requires only a Gmail/Google account to get started.

Blogger blogs can be customized with new backgrounds and layouts easily. Unsurprisingly, the platform is hardwired into Google’s AdSense advertising program (which might make the average blogger enough money for a cup of coffee each month) and other Google services like Google+ (for comments) and Feedburner (for RSS distribution) are easily configured.

Pros: Easy to use and get started.

Cons: Not particularly sophisticated and tied to Google — which killed off Google Reader, lest we forget.

Verdict: Less popular in this era, but Blogger is often the place where many, including this author, began writing online. Its customization options pale in comparison compared to others, and the layout looks a little dated when held against newer platforms.

WORDPRESS BLOG PLATFORM by techscite

I think you can read my previous article TOP 10 BLOGGING PLATFORMS IN INTERNET by techscite . So you know about top blogging platforms.In this article i explain briefly about WORDPRESS

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than 22.0% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013. WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites.

It was first released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, as a fork of b2/cafelog. The license under which WordPress software is released is the GPLv2 (or later) from the Free Software Foundation.

 

                                                  WordPress has two options: 

OPTION 1 : A freemium hosted service that provides .wordpress.com domains — 

                      E.g. jyotheeswar.wordpress.com  (but you can still pay to use your own domain) 

                              and includes limited customization. 

OPTION 2: The completey free .org version which allows for you to host WordPress on your 

                    own servers with much more control, edit themes to your hearts content, hack code 

                    and add as many WordPress plugins as you wish.

It is, in simple terms, the daddy of blogging. The platform powers almost 19 percent of the Web and has been downloaded more than 45 million times.

One of the platform’s core strengths is its community of creatives, who have produced thousands of customizations and tweaks allowing WordPress users to add sophisticated and powerful plug-ins (features) to their blogs, or dress it up in a new layout or design.

Pros: Customization, customization, customization!

Cons: Vast array of options can be complicated for less-experienced users — tread carefully.

Verdict: Still the best option out there. WordPress is especially useful for companies or those looking to develop (or have someone else develop) a sophisticated website.

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