TIPS AND TRICK TO MAXIMIZE BLOG

The main aspect of supporting SERP (Search Engine Result Page)

2010-06-22T00:09:00.000-07:00

What are the main aspects of good support for SERP (Search Engine Result Page) in search engine?

Here are some points that have an important role as a contributing factor in the SERP position of a site/blog:

Domain Name, Domain age and the correlation between the domain name to the content of site/blogs have influence on the SERP.
Page size, the size of Web pages that are too heavy to be missed by search engines.
Content, unique content and according to the blog topic will be easily indexed by search engines.
Backlink, quality backlink will greatly affect the SERP. Search for backlink using one language at least, different from the target IP, has the same niche, and have a PageRank.

How To Submit a site/blog to Google Directory

2010-06-21T18:27:00.000-07:00

Why do I need to submit my website to Directories?

Directories remain one of the best ways to promote your website or blogs. Each directory that your website/blogs is submitted and accepted to will provide a keyword or phrase known as an 'anchor link' and a short description linking back to your website/blogs. This in turn is seen by the search engines such as Google as a one way 'incoming link' back to your website and will go some way as to boosting your websites/blogs popularity. This is the way to submit your site or blog to google directory :

1. Open http://directory.google.com/
2. Find category that meet your site
3. Klik Link Submit a Site in the bottom of page
4. Your submission is received

How to Make Complete Sitemap of your Blogger Blog to Google for Better Indexing

2010-06-20T23:18:00.000-07:00

Sitemaps are text files containing a list of all web pages that exist on your site. It is important that you create a comprehensive sitemap as it will help Google and other search engines crawl your site better and that might mean more traffic coming your way in the long run. Ideally, the sitemap file should contain all URLs of a site but if your blog is hosted on blogspot.com, you’ll be surprised to know that the default sitemap file contains only the 26 most recent pages of your blog. That’s couse some of your older blog pages, that are missing from the system-generated sitemap file, may never get indexed in search engines. There’s however a simple solution to fix this problem.

Here The Three Step to Generate a Complete Sitemap for your Blogger Blog:

Step 1: If you haven’t done this already, sign-in to your Google Webmasters account and add your blog.

Step 2: Once your blog is added to Google, open the Sitemap Generator and type the full address of your blogspot blog (or your self-hosted Blogger blog).

For Google :

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

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

- Atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001max-results=500

Add all them manually

Step 3: What you get is list of sitemap files that contain each and every page of your blog. You now just have to ping Google, Yahoo and Bing to inform them about these XML sitemaps.

You need to manually add each of the sitemap files into your Google Webmaster Tools dashboard but for Bing or Yahoo, you can simply click blue hyperlinks and these search engines will automatically download the relevant sitemap files from your blogspot site.

Once all the Sitemaps are added, your Google Dashboard should look something like this.

If you see a red cross or an orange exclamation symbol instead of the green tick, that means something is wrong with your XML sitemap. Verify that the file exists by typing the sitemap URL in your browser.

Sometimes media enclosures (like MP3 files) in blog posts can create warnings during sitemap submission. And if you have switched from Blogger to WordPress, it still makes sense to submit sitemaps of your old Blogspot blog as that will only help search engines discover your new WordPress pages.

How to Hide or Remove Blogger Navbar (Navigation Bar)

2010-06-20T18:28:00.000-07:00

Can we hide or remove this Blogger Navbar? The Terms of Service for Blogspot.com do not mention anything about Blogger Navbar but it does state a word about the discontinued Blogger AdBar which was previously displayed on freely-hosted Blog*Spot blogs.

Since it is not mentioned explicitly in the Terms of service, it remains doubtful if removing and hacking the Blogger navbar is any violation of the Blogger terms of service. Lets say we are not "removing the navbar" but only "hiding the navbar" or we could even re-position the navbar to the bottom of the blog. Get rid of the blogger nav bar.

To hide the Blogger Navbar:

1- Log in to blogger

2- On your Dashboard, select Layout. This will take you to the Template tab. Click Edit HTML. Under the Edit Template section you will see you blog's HTML.

Insert (copy, paste) the following CSS code in your Blogger Template to disable the Blogger Navbar

#navbar {
  height:0px;
  visibility:hidden;
  display:none
}