Bloggers' Help & FAQ

Short domains for your blog

noreply@blogger.com (Kumail Abbas Zaidi) — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:12:00 +0500

Note: Sorry, I didn't post any articles for the past 1 month. The reason was that I was having my Mid-Year exams.
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Nowadays, people are trying to get free .com domains, this is (truly) a scam. You can't get a free .com domain. I have tried to get .com domains all of the times I failed, or that turned out to be a scam. You can get .tk, .net.tc, .do.am, .at.ua, and so on... These all domains are totally free, if you are getting these for money then, please don't buy them!

There are a number of websites giving such domains but only some of them turn out to be trustworthy such as:

1) Dot.TK
2) Smart Dots

If you want a .tk domain then visit link number 1 (Dot.TK). If you want a .net.tc or more different domains visit link number 2 (Smart Dots).

I made a short URL for my blog (Bloggers' Help & FAQ) too, it is bloggers-help-faq.tk . You can use this short URL to easily tell people your site/blog's URL.

If you have any query please leave a comment...
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<a href="http://bloggers-help-faq.blogspot.com">Click Here to visit Bloggers' Help & FAQ - A blog which consists of all kinds of FAQ's and other information for Blogger blogs which may be relavent to other sites or blogging companies./>

Why can't I find my Blog in Search Engines?

noreply@blogger.com (Kumail Abbas Zaidi) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:41:00 +0500

This is a frequent question from new bloggers. New bloggers who have just started are very impatient to find their blogs in search engines. However, search engines take some time to index new blogs. The first thing bloggers should do is to check if their blogs had been indexed. This can be done by typing their URL of their blog in search engines and searching it. For example, to check if this blog (Bloggers' Help & FAQ) is indexed, I would type:

site:bloggers-help-faq.blogspot.com

If any result shows up it means my blog is indexed.
If nothing shows up, it means it had not been indexed yet and you have to submit it. If it had been indexed, there would at least one result.
Even after a blog is index, it would be perhaps at the end SERP's (SERP means "Search Engine Result Page") which obviously would be very hard to find.
You should be very patient because sometimes Search Engines take more time than usual. If you are facing any problems feel free to comment.

NOTE: I have added a detailed post on SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Click Here to read it.

How to submit your blogs/sites to search engines?

noreply@blogger.com (Kumail Abbas Zaidi) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:01:00 +0500

Nowadays, the most asked question about blogging is "How to Submit your Blogs or Websites to search engines?". The solution is very simple, the answer is the following:

1. Google:
First of all visit their URL Submission Page and submit your blog URL. Then wait for uptill a week and then search for your blog by searching its URL in the search box. Then add backlinks to your blog to promote it.

2. Yahoo! Search:
View their Site submission page and submit your site/blog. Search for your blog by searching its URL in the search box. Then add backlinks to your blog to promote it.

3. Bing (aka MSN Search):
Visit ther URL Submission page . Then submit your site. Search for your blog by searching its URL in the search box. Then add backlinks to your blog to promote it.

4. Sumbit it to more than 20 search engines:
Visit Submit Express and submit your blog/site.

Redirecting a Blogger blog to another URL

noreply@blogger.com (Kumail Abbas Zaidi) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:32:00 +0500

Redirecting a Blog to another URL is very easy and you should try doing it.
Below is the best way to redirect your Blog. Add the following code to your blog's Template HTML between the <head> and <head/>:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://yournewurl.com"/>

After adding it, it would look somewhat like this:
<head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://yournewurl.com"/>

Replace http://yournewurl.com with the URL you want to redirect your blog to.

Redirecting a Blogger blog to another URL

noreply@blogger.com (Kumail Abbas Zaidi) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:32:00 +0500

How to add a favicon to your Blogger Blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Kumail Abbas Zaidi) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:09:00 +0500

Adding a favicon to your Blog is very simple!

First of all login to your Blogger Dashboard and click on "Design" on the blog you want to add a favicon on. Then open the "Edit HTML" tab. You have to add the script below between the <head> and the </head> tags:

I recommend uploading the favicon.ico to a directory of a site for e.g. KumailAbbas.t35.com. I recommend adding the above script after the <head> tag and then before the </head> tag (sum up to 2 times). If you lost your way don't forget to leave a comment!

How to add pages to your Blogger Blog.

noreply@blogger.com (Kumail Abbas Zaidi) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:45:00 +0500

Do you want to add pages to your Blog like About us and Contact Me? If yes then this post will help you alot!

First of all Open Blogger in Draft. Then Log in with your account.

When you have logged in to your Blogger in Draft Dashboard it will look somewhat like this:

Then click on Settings on the Blog you want to add the pages on and then click on the Posting tab. After it click on the Edit Pages tab.

Just click on NEW PAGE button and the page that will come will be like this:

That's all folks! You just have to type in what you want to show on the page and the title and your page will be ready!

Checking whether your content is copied or not?

noreply@blogger.com (Kumail Abbas Zaidi) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:16:00 +0500

Want to check whether your posts or articles are copied or not (from your blog/article)? If the answer is yes, so this post will help you a lot. Firstly if you want to check, visit the Google Blog Search home page, select some of the text and copy it on the search bar (To get best results from Google blog Search copy the text from two lines for example: “some text from the first line. Some text from the second line”) and press the search button. You will find the results from your site/blog, if there are other results from other sides, use WHOIS Lookup service to find detailed information about the owner of that website but I am sure he/she has set the Domain Privacy "ON" to keep his information unpublished however, you will get an email id similar to privacy-123456@domainprivacygroup.com which will forward your email to the administrator or owner of that website.

Effective way:

Putting big notices or warnings about not copying the content/article/post, does not works (most of the time). Google Alerts is a big community which finds the copy cats. You can create alerts with key phrases or sentences you are using in your content and Google will send you an email with the link to the website where that particular phrase/sentence is published "anywhere" on the internet.

Easy Solution, MOST IMPORTANT STEP!:

The most important step is to copyright your blog/website content and this is most important. Creative Commons is a free organization which lets bloggers, article writers, authors, publishers and educators to copyright their contnent and link to a detailed copyright page that can be used in the legal proceedings. To know more about this free service you can visit their official website or visit the FAQ's page where you will get answers to most common/frequent questions.

If you face any kind of problems don’t forget to leave a comment!