http://www.theinfotechblog.com/2014/01/best-seo-meta-tag-widget-blogger.html
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/02/meta-tags-introduce-your-site-or-blog.html
Meta tags introduce your site or blog to search engines. Meta tags communicate with the search engines and give more details about your site. These tags are vital especially if you are running a website or blog to make sure that search engines can easily find your site and index the pages more accurately.
Adding meta tags is very important in order to get more traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo and others. Adding meta search tags are not the only element for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), yet they still play an important role.
You can find below a detailed description on how to add Meta Tags to your blogger (blogspot) blogs.
Step-1
Log into your Blogger account with your username and password. Once you are in your blog's dashboard click the 'layout' button (see the screenshot below)
Step-2
Look under the Layout tab and click on the 'Edit HTML' tab.
Step-3
Make a backup of your template if you haven't already. This is always a wise idea in order to let you easily repair any accidental mistakes that might happen while you edit the HTML code of your blog.
Step-4
Here is the code you have to add in your template.
Step-5
Find the below code (in the top section of your template) and add the above code just after this code.
Step-6
See the below screen shot, after you add the Meta Tag code.
Note:
Fill out and replace what is in the red as shown below.
DESCRIPTION HERE: write your blog description
KEYWORDS HERE: write the relevant keywords to your blog
AUTHOR NAME HERE: write the author's name (your name)
It is important to note that not to fill the description section with keywords. “Do not do this”. This may result in Google and other search engines banning your site.
Now click preview and view your blog. If everything looks correct and there are no errors, save your changes.
Now, you have sucessfully added the meta tags to your blogger (blogpsot) blog!
Extra tip - Analyze your meta tags with - Meta Tag Analyzer
blogger blogging tips
Speed your site add slash
When it comes to speeding up your website or blog every piece of information is vital if that will help to improve opening your site faster.
Basically a link will be like “http://www.makeablogtips.blogspot.com/about”, and when a server opens this link it needs to determine what kind of file or webpage is connected to this address. This process could take little extra time and resulting in somewhat delaying loading your site.
To avoid this you can simply add a slash (“/”) at the end of the link, so the new address will look like this: “http://www.makeablogtips.blogspot.com/about/”, whereby the web server will immediately identify the address as a directory link and minimizing the time loading the page.
Optimize Images and speed up your sitettp://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/02/meta-tags-introduce-your-site-or-blog.html
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/03/top-8-tips-for-creating-dynamic-blog.html
Twitter is about making the world smaller generating efficient communication within the 140 characters at a time. Generally most of whom are live on Twitter are either in their workplaces doing their duties or attending to other responsibilities while keeping an eye on twitter. So if you need to grab the attention of your busy followers your tweet should outshine and stand out and this is where the Dynamic Post Title comes in.
First important fact we have to understand is all what we tweet is not going to be read at the first instance, therefore retweets (RT) become important so that your tweets can reach a maximum audience as possible.
Sometimes followers could initiate RTs only by reading your post title in your tweet. Therefore it is vital to have a Dynamic Post Title which could set off RTs.
I use the following tips as my guide to create most of my post titles. Here are the Top 8 Tips For Creating Dynamic Blog Post Titles To Ignite Twitter Retweets.
Personalize your Title: This is to include ‘you’ or ‘your’ in the post title. This will in fact help personalizing your post, and thereby can have a good impact.
Make it Educational: Indicate in your title that by reading the article the readers will obtain some sort of detail, idea or information.
Title with Question: Post titles with questions, for example starts with “How to”, “What is” or in other forms can get better response from readers.
Provide a Benefit: The title should inform the readers that they will receive free tool or something that will benefit them by reading your post.
Unique Title: Make your title unique which will be new to your readers.
Specify Numbers in Title: Have a numeric list or a specific number in your title. For example “8 Tips”, “5 elements”, “Top 10”, “Lose 10 pounds in 30 Days”, “7 Things”. This will indicate defined information or benefit to your readers and will be interested in reading your post and retweeting.
Make title Solid: Words such as “maybe”, “sometimes”, “somewhat”, “around” or words containing similar meaning can have a negative and passive effect with the readers. Therefore make your title short, strong and to the point.
Keep title Short: As you are aware Twitter has 140 character limitation hence you need to leave space for someone to retweet (RT) your tweet. So that to give credit to the retweeting person.
Following are six simple tips to manage and optimize the time.
1. Track The Time
You have to focus on which activities you are spending time on and how much.
Most of us find we function at different levels of effectiveness at different times of the day as our energy levels fluctuate.
How long do we spend each day on unproductive things that don't really contribute to our success? Do we really know how much time we spend reading junk mail, talking to others, chatting on net, watching TV, etc?
How often have you thought, "I could achieve more to contribute to my success if I just had another half hour each day."
Memory is a very poor guide when it comes to keeping record, as it can be too easy to forget time spent on non-core tasks.
Filling out an “Activity Log” could help to analyze how you actually spend your time.
Download this Activity Log, print out a copy for each day of the week and start tracking your time.
2. Set Goals & Priorities
It is essential to set the goals and prioritize the things to do, hence you will not be missing out on your other important responsibilities. This will provide a tranquil & healthy mind to achieve your blogging ambitions.
Your priorities can be reevaluated based on responsibilities, time constraints, on the potential profitability or benefit of the task you are facing or on the pressure you're under to complete a task.
3. Find The Time which is Productive
Identify when you can write. Some bloggers choose morning hours while others are comfortable with the evening or night hours. Therefore you have to specify the time where you could concentrate more and be effective.
Remember one hour of quality time would be sufficient to achieve your daily target of blog writing, rather than three hours of time where you have loads of distraction.
4. Set a realistic target
This is the most important rule. Expecting yourself to post frequently or every day could compromise quality for quantity, it's probably also going to make you feel like you are failing. Target of 2 - 3 high quality posts per week and keeping it consistent would be good, but it is depending on your aspirations…
5. Stay Focused on Writing
Once you find the quality time zone and input your best efforts, you could get dragged out of the writing due to distraction and disturbance.
To prevent this, you need a plan to free your mind. Here are some ideas such as shutting down your email, turn off your television, turn off your phones, shut down the Internet.
6. Be passionate and proactive
You must be disciplined and shift your focus from passive viewing into active working.
Spending more time surfing the internet and watching TV than working on the blogs, at the end of another day we have nothing to show for.
You need to be actively involved and be proactive in your passion of blog writing.
These six tips are just the beginning…
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/01/6-tips-to-manage-time-for-effective.html
successful Blogs are written by the people who are passionate about their subject matter. Blog posts which are useful, effective and sharable can bring you more traffic and links. Here are my top 12 blog writing tips.
1. Brainstorming and outlining.
Brainstorming is a process for generating new ideas. You can write or type all the ideas and points that you can think of relating to your specific area of interest, and thereby you can create an efficient outline for your post before proceeding to create the final post itself.
2. Dynamic post title
A clear and dynamic title can be a major factor for the post being read, shared and spread like a virus through the web. Create a title that is eye-catching. Also include keywords you are targeting or people are searching related to the topics that your blog cover.
3. Be short but effective
Make your post short but good. Provide your readers with maximum amount of information with the least amount of words. Ideally 250 words would do.
4. Be passionate
Do not write for the sake of writing. Write from your heart. Study other famous blogs, do some research and educate yourself enough about your topic. Writing a post with passion can actually overcome other negative elements.
5. Useful for the reader
Put yourself in another person’s shoes and think. Will the post contents be really useful for you, if you are the reader? A post will never become popular unless it is useful and fulfills a need. The more your post helps people, the better it will do.
6. Begin with clear subject
Blog is a tool to communicate from a person to another. Therefore begin your post with explaining your post subject clearly using the least amount of words possible.
7. Keep things simple and scanning easy
Make sentences and headlines short and to the point. Provide the information your readers are looking for and that they will find valuable. Every few paragraphs insert a sub heading which makes your content easy to scan because it breaks it into smaller pieces with clear headlines for each section.
8. Outbound links
Support your post with links to other web pages that are relevant to your post. Connect and this may result in interconnection with other blogs.
9. Keywords key for success
Keywords that you use in your post title, subtitle and in other areas in the post is vital for the search engines to find your post.
10. Recheck and edit
Read and recheck your post, you may find many areas that need to be edited before you hit the submit button. Re-read your post and polish it before you send it out to your readers.
11. Look to the future
Get ideas from all over but be genuine with your posts. The most important thing is to keep writing. If you write with passion and conviction, you’ll be able to connect with other people, and your writing will improve every time you post.
12. Refine your old posts
Your blog writing will improve with time as you gain experience. As you become a better writer, go back over your original posts and clean them up. In result of improving the post, it may breathe new life and bring you increased traffic.
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/01/12-tips-for-writing-blog-post-that.html
logger has introduced an important feature called 'Stand-Alone Pages' (static pages). These are pages made of sticky posts and displayed in tabs or links indefinitely at the top of your blog or in the side bar.
These pages could be used to provide important information to the reader, such as About Page, Archive, Contact, Special Posts, Offers, etc. Blogger allows you to make up to 10 such pages hence you can create your navigation bar.
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/search/label/.Blog%20Design
This is an important piece of information for those want to create a sticky post or add a widget on top of the posts in the main page on Blogger blog. There is a easy way to do it.
A “sticky post” is a post that could be placed on top of your main page indefinitely, and normal posts will be posted below this. This page is used often to announce important information to the reader, such as a contest or upcoming event.
Here are the easy steps.
1. Log on to your Blogger account and click "Layout" in your "Dashboard."
2. Select "Add a Page Element" (Add a Gadget) and choose "Text" and enter the details you want, you can also select "HTML/JavaScript and enter a code or select other options. After completing save the Page Element.
3. In the “Add and Arrange Page Elements” section choose the page or gadget you have just created, click and drag the item to the top of the "Blog Posts" section and place it there.
4. Now click "Preview" in order to make sure the sticky post or widget appears at the top of the post section and click "Save."
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/02/how-to-add-widget-or-sticky-post-on-top.html
To open link in a new window is useful for the site owner not to lose a visitor, and helpful for the visitor not to leave halfway the site they have visited.
Therefore, I thought of making a post to explain how to open a hyperlink in a new window or tab. This is actually simple but very beneficial.
First step is to create a link or an anchor text in your blog post. For this you have to highlight the text in to which the hyperlink will be inserted, then click the “Link” button as shown in the below screenshot example.
Then a pop-up screen will appear where you will be asked to enter the destination URL for the above anchor text to be linked to, as shown in the below screenshot. You may type or copy and paste the URL of the webpage (you can test this link) and press “OK”.
This is the important part. Now you have to press on the “Edit HTML” tab, and locate your hyperlink. As per the above example the link will be like this:
<a href="http://makeablogtips.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-are-blogs-popular.html">blogs have become very popular</a>
If you want this hyperlink to open in a new window, all you have to do is to edit the hyperlink tag by adding target="_blank" as shown below:
<a href="http://makeablogtips.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-are-blogs-popular.html"target="_blank" >blogs have become very popular</a>
Finally preview and publish your post.
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/02/how-to-open-link-in-new-window.html
RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. RSS is a technology that is being used by many millions of internet users around the world to keep track of websites.
What is RSS feed
Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ that you subscribe to. It is simply to tell a website to let you know every time that they update. In a sense, this is what RSS does for you. RSS is a technology that provides you with a method of getting relevant and up to date information delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ for you to read in your own time.
It saves you time and helps you to get the information you want quickly after it was published from many sites into one place.
How to use RSS
The first thing you would want to do if you’re getting into reading sites via RSS is to find yourself with an RSS Feed Reader.
There are many feed readers with a variety of approaches and features –like Google Reader and Bloglines. Either one will do if you’re starting out. I use Google Reader and there are many others to choose from but to get started either of these are fairly easy to use and will help you work out the basics of RSS.
The best way to learn how to use either Google Reader or Bloglines is to simply subscribe to some feeds and try it. Both have friendly help sections to answer your questions you may have.
On Site Subscription
You may have noticed a lot of little buttons and chicklets appearing on your favorite sites and blogs. Little orange buttons, ‘counters’ with how many readers a blog has. They come in all shapes and sizes. Here are a few you might have seen:
Subscribe to Blogger Blogging Tips via feed
Bookmarking & Shortcoming
In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to check what had been newly added. But some main problems of bookmarking is as follows.
- When you are trying to track many websites at once it can get complicated.
- When you forget to check your bookmarks you can miss information.
- You may visit sites many times and end up seeing the same information, if those website do not update.
If you don’t want to Use an RSS Reader - Email is an option.
If you are not comfortable with the above explanation and seems little complicated, then you may subscribe through Email. Many sites in addition to enabling RSS feeds also provide subscription via Email.
Here at BloggerBloggingTips we have both RSS and Email subscription options, as it is indicated at the top right hand side bar where there is a field where you can enter your email address and receive emails with our latest posts. You can unsubscribe at any time and your email will be kept private and not used for any other purpose than to send these updates.
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/01/what-is-rss.html
http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html
I was browsing the net sometime back and found an exciting tool called “Meta Tag Analyzer”. This tool checks your meta tags to optimize according to your website or blog content.
If you are running a website or blog, adding Meta Tags are vital for the search engines to easily find your site and index the pages more accurately in order to get more traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo and others.
If you are new to meta tags, you can first add meta tags to your Blog to use this meta tag analysis tool.
Adding meta search tags are not the only element for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), yet they still play an important role.
Meta Tag Analyzer tool will help you analyze your website or blog and check your meta tags for search engine compatibility.
All you need to do is to type the address of your site and it will report on the following.
If you are new to meta tags, you can add meta tags to use the Meta Tag Analyzer.
Meta tags introduce your site or blog to search engines. Meta tags communicate with the search engines and give more details about your site. These tags are vital especially if you are running a website or blog to make sure that search engines can easily find your site and index the pages more accurately.
Adding meta tags is very important in order to get more traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo and others. Adding meta search tags are not the only element for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), yet they still play an important role.
You can find below a detailed description on how to add Meta Tags to your blogger (blogspot) blogs.
Step-1
Log into your Blogger account with your username and password. Once you are in your blog's dashboard click the 'layout' button (see the screenshot below)
Step-2
Look under the Layout tab and click on the 'Edit HTML' tab.
Step-3
Make a backup of your template if you haven't already. This is always a wise idea in order to let you easily repair any accidental mistakes that might happen while you edit the HTML code of your blog.
Step-4
Here is the code you have to add in your template.
Step-5
Find the below code (in the top section of your template) and add the above code just after this code.
Step-6
See the below screen shot, after you add the Meta Tag code.
Note:
Fill out and replace what is in the red as shown below.
DESCRIPTION HERE: write your blog description
KEYWORDS HERE: write the relevant keywords to your blog
AUTHOR NAME HERE: write the author's name (your name)
It is important to note that not to fill the description section with keywords. “Do not do this”. This may result in Google and other search engines banning your site.
Now click preview and view your blog. If everything looks correct and there are no errors, save your changes.
Now, you have sucessfully added the meta tags to your blogger (blogpsot) blog!
Extra tip - Analyze your meta tags with - Meta Tag Analyzer
http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html
Meta tags are used to provide the deep information about the website's content to search engines. Like any other tag, that tags do not appear on the page where used. Meta tags are added to the <head> section of HTML web page. There are many meta tags with different attributes used to define many different aspects. Such as content's description, keywords, author's info is defined by using the meta tags. We can say that meta tags define "data about the data" that a website or web page holds. Use of meta tags is a quite good practice to fulfill a very basic SEO phase.
In that article, we will discuss the Top 10 meta tags that must be used on any blogger/website to fulfill a basic SEO phase perfectly.
In blogger, we can set the Meta tags similarly as mentioned above.
Here are some Meta tags with Top 10 different attributes that are must be used and necessary for SEO aspect in real.
In blogger, there is the default option to set the description for every single post. So go for it instead of using that tag.
The Description meta tag is below here:
Replace your descriptive textual material with the three dots under quotation sign.
The material under red border is defined using meta tag of description attribute.
Meta tag with keywords attribute is used to declare the keywords of your content. You are able to declare more than one keyword using a comma sign (,) after each, under quotation marks.
Claim your website's or contents' authorship by using that meta tag attribution. If you have any web author for your website, you can declare that by replacing "author" with "web_author".
Title tag is below here:
In blogger, there is the built-in option to set the Title for every post individually.
Meta tag with robots attribution is used to tell the crawlers/spiders whether you want to let them index your web page or not.
The ideal meta tag with robots attribute is here below:
"index" declaration indicates that you want to let the crawlers see your web page and "follow"declaration indicates that you want to let the crawlers index your whole web page and all the other web pages linked there.
If you don't want to permit the crawlers to index your any specific web page, use "noindex, nofollow" instead. (It will not appear in search)
In blogger, there is the default option to set the option for crawlers. Go to your blogger "Dashboard", click on "Search preferences" scroll down and choose the options under "Crawlers and Indexing" tag.
There is a meta tag specifically for Google crawlers.
Claim your ownership using that tag. It does not impact the SEO factor practically.
It is quite important to declare the natural language of the website or web page in which that is indexed every time.
Viewport meta tag is here below:
Content-Type meta tag is here below:
Refresh meta tag is here below:
http://www.tentoppest.com/2016/04/top-meta-tags-must-be-used-in-blogger-and-website.html#
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/02/meta-tags-introduce-your-site-or-blog.html
Meta tags introduce your site or blog to search engines. Meta tags communicate with the search engines and give more details about your site. These tags are vital especially if you are running a website or blog to make sure that search engines can easily find your site and index the pages more accurately.
Adding meta tags is very important in order to get more traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo and others. Adding meta search tags are not the only element for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), yet they still play an important role.
You can find below a detailed description on how to add Meta Tags to your blogger (blogspot) blogs.
Step-1
Log into your Blogger account with your username and password. Once you are in your blog's dashboard click the 'layout' button (see the screenshot below)
Step-2
Look under the Layout tab and click on the 'Edit HTML' tab.
Step-3
Make a backup of your template if you haven't already. This is always a wise idea in order to let you easily repair any accidental mistakes that might happen while you edit the HTML code of your blog.
Step-4
Here is the code you have to add in your template.
<meta content='DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='AUTHOR NAME HERE' name='author'/>
Find the below code (in the top section of your template) and add the above code just after this code.
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
Step-6
See the below screen shot, after you add the Meta Tag code.
Note:
Fill out and replace what is in the red as shown below.
DESCRIPTION HERE: write your blog description
KEYWORDS HERE: write the relevant keywords to your blog
AUTHOR NAME HERE: write the author's name (your name)
It is important to note that not to fill the description section with keywords. “Do not do this”. This may result in Google and other search engines banning your site.
Now click preview and view your blog. If everything looks correct and there are no errors, save your changes.
Now, you have sucessfully added the meta tags to your blogger (blogpsot) blog!
Extra tip - Analyze your meta tags with - Meta Tag Analyzer
blogger blogging tips
Speed your site add slash
When it comes to speeding up your website or blog every piece of information is vital if that will help to improve opening your site faster.
Basically a link will be like “http://www.makeablogtips.blogspot.com/about”, and when a server opens this link it needs to determine what kind of file or webpage is connected to this address. This process could take little extra time and resulting in somewhat delaying loading your site.
To avoid this you can simply add a slash (“/”) at the end of the link, so the new address will look like this: “http://www.makeablogtips.blogspot.com/about/”, whereby the web server will immediately identify the address as a directory link and minimizing the time loading the page.
Optimize Images and speed up your sitettp://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/02/meta-tags-introduce-your-site-or-blog.html
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/03/top-8-tips-for-creating-dynamic-blog.html
Twitter is about making the world smaller generating efficient communication within the 140 characters at a time. Generally most of whom are live on Twitter are either in their workplaces doing their duties or attending to other responsibilities while keeping an eye on twitter. So if you need to grab the attention of your busy followers your tweet should outshine and stand out and this is where the Dynamic Post Title comes in.
First important fact we have to understand is all what we tweet is not going to be read at the first instance, therefore retweets (RT) become important so that your tweets can reach a maximum audience as possible.
Sometimes followers could initiate RTs only by reading your post title in your tweet. Therefore it is vital to have a Dynamic Post Title which could set off RTs.
I use the following tips as my guide to create most of my post titles. Here are the Top 8 Tips For Creating Dynamic Blog Post Titles To Ignite Twitter Retweets.
Personalize your Title: This is to include ‘you’ or ‘your’ in the post title. This will in fact help personalizing your post, and thereby can have a good impact.
Make it Educational: Indicate in your title that by reading the article the readers will obtain some sort of detail, idea or information.
Title with Question: Post titles with questions, for example starts with “How to”, “What is” or in other forms can get better response from readers.
Provide a Benefit: The title should inform the readers that they will receive free tool or something that will benefit them by reading your post.
Unique Title: Make your title unique which will be new to your readers.
Specify Numbers in Title: Have a numeric list or a specific number in your title. For example “8 Tips”, “5 elements”, “Top 10”, “Lose 10 pounds in 30 Days”, “7 Things”. This will indicate defined information or benefit to your readers and will be interested in reading your post and retweeting.
Make title Solid: Words such as “maybe”, “sometimes”, “somewhat”, “around” or words containing similar meaning can have a negative and passive effect with the readers. Therefore make your title short, strong and to the point.
Keep title Short: As you are aware Twitter has 140 character limitation hence you need to leave space for someone to retweet (RT) your tweet. So that to give credit to the retweeting person.
Following are six simple tips to manage and optimize the time.
1. Track The Time
You have to focus on which activities you are spending time on and how much.
Most of us find we function at different levels of effectiveness at different times of the day as our energy levels fluctuate.
How long do we spend each day on unproductive things that don't really contribute to our success? Do we really know how much time we spend reading junk mail, talking to others, chatting on net, watching TV, etc?
How often have you thought, "I could achieve more to contribute to my success if I just had another half hour each day."
Memory is a very poor guide when it comes to keeping record, as it can be too easy to forget time spent on non-core tasks.
Filling out an “Activity Log” could help to analyze how you actually spend your time.
Download this Activity Log, print out a copy for each day of the week and start tracking your time.
2. Set Goals & Priorities
It is essential to set the goals and prioritize the things to do, hence you will not be missing out on your other important responsibilities. This will provide a tranquil & healthy mind to achieve your blogging ambitions.
Your priorities can be reevaluated based on responsibilities, time constraints, on the potential profitability or benefit of the task you are facing or on the pressure you're under to complete a task.
3. Find The Time which is Productive
Identify when you can write. Some bloggers choose morning hours while others are comfortable with the evening or night hours. Therefore you have to specify the time where you could concentrate more and be effective.
Remember one hour of quality time would be sufficient to achieve your daily target of blog writing, rather than three hours of time where you have loads of distraction.
4. Set a realistic target
This is the most important rule. Expecting yourself to post frequently or every day could compromise quality for quantity, it's probably also going to make you feel like you are failing. Target of 2 - 3 high quality posts per week and keeping it consistent would be good, but it is depending on your aspirations…
5. Stay Focused on Writing
Once you find the quality time zone and input your best efforts, you could get dragged out of the writing due to distraction and disturbance.
To prevent this, you need a plan to free your mind. Here are some ideas such as shutting down your email, turn off your television, turn off your phones, shut down the Internet.
6. Be passionate and proactive
You must be disciplined and shift your focus from passive viewing into active working.
Spending more time surfing the internet and watching TV than working on the blogs, at the end of another day we have nothing to show for.
You need to be actively involved and be proactive in your passion of blog writing.
These six tips are just the beginning…
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/01/6-tips-to-manage-time-for-effective.html
successful Blogs are written by the people who are passionate about their subject matter. Blog posts which are useful, effective and sharable can bring you more traffic and links. Here are my top 12 blog writing tips.
1. Brainstorming and outlining.
Brainstorming is a process for generating new ideas. You can write or type all the ideas and points that you can think of relating to your specific area of interest, and thereby you can create an efficient outline for your post before proceeding to create the final post itself.
2. Dynamic post title
A clear and dynamic title can be a major factor for the post being read, shared and spread like a virus through the web. Create a title that is eye-catching. Also include keywords you are targeting or people are searching related to the topics that your blog cover.
3. Be short but effective
Make your post short but good. Provide your readers with maximum amount of information with the least amount of words. Ideally 250 words would do.
4. Be passionate
Do not write for the sake of writing. Write from your heart. Study other famous blogs, do some research and educate yourself enough about your topic. Writing a post with passion can actually overcome other negative elements.
5. Useful for the reader
Put yourself in another person’s shoes and think. Will the post contents be really useful for you, if you are the reader? A post will never become popular unless it is useful and fulfills a need. The more your post helps people, the better it will do.
6. Begin with clear subject
Blog is a tool to communicate from a person to another. Therefore begin your post with explaining your post subject clearly using the least amount of words possible.
7. Keep things simple and scanning easy
Make sentences and headlines short and to the point. Provide the information your readers are looking for and that they will find valuable. Every few paragraphs insert a sub heading which makes your content easy to scan because it breaks it into smaller pieces with clear headlines for each section.
8. Outbound links
Support your post with links to other web pages that are relevant to your post. Connect and this may result in interconnection with other blogs.
9. Keywords key for success
Keywords that you use in your post title, subtitle and in other areas in the post is vital for the search engines to find your post.
10. Recheck and edit
Read and recheck your post, you may find many areas that need to be edited before you hit the submit button. Re-read your post and polish it before you send it out to your readers.
11. Look to the future
Get ideas from all over but be genuine with your posts. The most important thing is to keep writing. If you write with passion and conviction, you’ll be able to connect with other people, and your writing will improve every time you post.
12. Refine your old posts
Your blog writing will improve with time as you gain experience. As you become a better writer, go back over your original posts and clean them up. In result of improving the post, it may breathe new life and bring you increased traffic.
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/01/12-tips-for-writing-blog-post-that.html
logger has introduced an important feature called 'Stand-Alone Pages' (static pages). These are pages made of sticky posts and displayed in tabs or links indefinitely at the top of your blog or in the side bar.
These pages could be used to provide important information to the reader, such as About Page, Archive, Contact, Special Posts, Offers, etc. Blogger allows you to make up to 10 such pages hence you can create your navigation bar.
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/search/label/.Blog%20Design
This is an important piece of information for those want to create a sticky post or add a widget on top of the posts in the main page on Blogger blog. There is a easy way to do it.
A “sticky post” is a post that could be placed on top of your main page indefinitely, and normal posts will be posted below this. This page is used often to announce important information to the reader, such as a contest or upcoming event.
Here are the easy steps.
1. Log on to your Blogger account and click "Layout" in your "Dashboard."
2. Select "Add a Page Element" (Add a Gadget) and choose "Text" and enter the details you want, you can also select "HTML/JavaScript and enter a code or select other options. After completing save the Page Element.
3. In the “Add and Arrange Page Elements” section choose the page or gadget you have just created, click and drag the item to the top of the "Blog Posts" section and place it there.
4. Now click "Preview" in order to make sure the sticky post or widget appears at the top of the post section and click "Save."
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/02/how-to-add-widget-or-sticky-post-on-top.html
To open link in a new window is useful for the site owner not to lose a visitor, and helpful for the visitor not to leave halfway the site they have visited.
Therefore, I thought of making a post to explain how to open a hyperlink in a new window or tab. This is actually simple but very beneficial.
First step is to create a link or an anchor text in your blog post. For this you have to highlight the text in to which the hyperlink will be inserted, then click the “Link” button as shown in the below screenshot example.
Then a pop-up screen will appear where you will be asked to enter the destination URL for the above anchor text to be linked to, as shown in the below screenshot. You may type or copy and paste the URL of the webpage (you can test this link) and press “OK”.
This is the important part. Now you have to press on the “Edit HTML” tab, and locate your hyperlink. As per the above example the link will be like this:
<a href="http://makeablogtips.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-are-blogs-popular.html">blogs have become very popular</a>
If you want this hyperlink to open in a new window, all you have to do is to edit the hyperlink tag by adding target="_blank" as shown below:
<a href="http://makeablogtips.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-are-blogs-popular.html"target="_blank" >blogs have become very popular</a>
Finally preview and publish your post.
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/02/how-to-open-link-in-new-window.html
RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. RSS is a technology that is being used by many millions of internet users around the world to keep track of websites.
What is RSS feed
Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ that you subscribe to. It is simply to tell a website to let you know every time that they update. In a sense, this is what RSS does for you. RSS is a technology that provides you with a method of getting relevant and up to date information delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ for you to read in your own time.
It saves you time and helps you to get the information you want quickly after it was published from many sites into one place.
How to use RSS
The first thing you would want to do if you’re getting into reading sites via RSS is to find yourself with an RSS Feed Reader.
There are many feed readers with a variety of approaches and features –like Google Reader and Bloglines. Either one will do if you’re starting out. I use Google Reader and there are many others to choose from but to get started either of these are fairly easy to use and will help you work out the basics of RSS.
The best way to learn how to use either Google Reader or Bloglines is to simply subscribe to some feeds and try it. Both have friendly help sections to answer your questions you may have.
On Site Subscription
You may have noticed a lot of little buttons and chicklets appearing on your favorite sites and blogs. Little orange buttons, ‘counters’ with how many readers a blog has. They come in all shapes and sizes. Here are a few you might have seen:
Subscribe to Blogger Blogging Tips via feed
Bookmarking & Shortcoming
In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to check what had been newly added. But some main problems of bookmarking is as follows.
- When you are trying to track many websites at once it can get complicated.
- When you forget to check your bookmarks you can miss information.
- You may visit sites many times and end up seeing the same information, if those website do not update.
If you don’t want to Use an RSS Reader - Email is an option.
If you are not comfortable with the above explanation and seems little complicated, then you may subscribe through Email. Many sites in addition to enabling RSS feeds also provide subscription via Email.
Here at BloggerBloggingTips we have both RSS and Email subscription options, as it is indicated at the top right hand side bar where there is a field where you can enter your email address and receive emails with our latest posts. You can unsubscribe at any time and your email will be kept private and not used for any other purpose than to send these updates.
http://makeablogtips.blogspot.in/2010/01/what-is-rss.html
http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html
I was browsing the net sometime back and found an exciting tool called “Meta Tag Analyzer”. This tool checks your meta tags to optimize according to your website or blog content.
If you are running a website or blog, adding Meta Tags are vital for the search engines to easily find your site and index the pages more accurately in order to get more traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo and others.
If you are new to meta tags, you can first add meta tags to your Blog to use this meta tag analysis tool.
Adding meta search tags are not the only element for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), yet they still play an important role.
Meta Tag Analyzer tool will help you analyze your website or blog and check your meta tags for search engine compatibility.
All you need to do is to type the address of your site and it will report on the following.
- Status of the page
- Keyword analysis
- Title analysis
- Description analysis
- The web page/blog load time
- And other details
If you are new to meta tags, you can add meta tags to use the Meta Tag Analyzer.
Meta tags introduce your site or blog to search engines. Meta tags communicate with the search engines and give more details about your site. These tags are vital especially if you are running a website or blog to make sure that search engines can easily find your site and index the pages more accurately.
Adding meta tags is very important in order to get more traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo and others. Adding meta search tags are not the only element for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), yet they still play an important role.
You can find below a detailed description on how to add Meta Tags to your blogger (blogspot) blogs.
Step-1
Log into your Blogger account with your username and password. Once you are in your blog's dashboard click the 'layout' button (see the screenshot below)
Step-2
Look under the Layout tab and click on the 'Edit HTML' tab.
Step-3
Make a backup of your template if you haven't already. This is always a wise idea in order to let you easily repair any accidental mistakes that might happen while you edit the HTML code of your blog.
Step-4
Here is the code you have to add in your template.
<meta content='DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='AUTHOR NAME HERE' name='author'/>
Find the below code (in the top section of your template) and add the above code just after this code.
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
Step-6
See the below screen shot, after you add the Meta Tag code.
Note:
Fill out and replace what is in the red as shown below.
DESCRIPTION HERE: write your blog description
KEYWORDS HERE: write the relevant keywords to your blog
AUTHOR NAME HERE: write the author's name (your name)
It is important to note that not to fill the description section with keywords. “Do not do this”. This may result in Google and other search engines banning your site.
Now click preview and view your blog. If everything looks correct and there are no errors, save your changes.
Now, you have sucessfully added the meta tags to your blogger (blogpsot) blog!
Extra tip - Analyze your meta tags with - Meta Tag Analyzer
http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html
What are Meta Tags and why we use Meta Tags?
Meta tags are textual snippets used to define the website contents.Meta tags are used to provide the deep information about the website's content to search engines. Like any other tag, that tags do not appear on the page where used. Meta tags are added to the <head> section of HTML web page. There are many meta tags with different attributes used to define many different aspects. Such as content's description, keywords, author's info is defined by using the meta tags. We can say that meta tags define "data about the data" that a website or web page holds. Use of meta tags is a quite good practice to fulfill a very basic SEO phase.
In that article, we will discuss the Top 10 meta tags that must be used on any blogger/website to fulfill a basic SEO phase perfectly.
How to use Meta Tags in blogger/website?
Here is an example of meta tags:<meta name="description" content="..."></meta>In any website, meta tags can be used under <head></head> tags in HTML mode. Meta tags can be used on every single HTML page manually.
<meta name="keywords" content="..."></meta>
<meta name="author" content="..."></meta>
In blogger, we can set the Meta tags similarly as mentioned above.
No.1 "Description" Meta Tag
What does it mean by Description?
The description is the short textual snippet that defines our website or a web page when it appears in search engine's search result.In blogger, there is the default option to set the description for every single post. So go for it instead of using that tag.
The Description meta tag is below here:
- name="": Declares the attribute/property of meta tag.
- content="": Declares the material that exists under that attribute.
Note: Quotation signs are necessary.
How Description snippet appears on Google search result?
No.2 "Keywords" Meta Tag
The Keyword meta tag is below here:No.3 "Author" Meta Tag
Author meta is below here:No.4 "Title" Tag
That does not actually look like meta tag but it works the same. It has the great impact on SEO factor. Crawlers read the title first. If you declare the title of your content properly, it will be a quite beneficial practice.Title tag is below here:
No.5 "Robots" Meta tag
Note: Don't ever use that tag without complete understanding.
The ideal meta tag with robots attribute is here below:
If you don't want to permit the crawlers to index your any specific web page, use "noindex, nofollow" instead. (It will not appear in search)
In blogger, there is the default option to set the option for crawlers. Go to your blogger "Dashboard", click on "Search preferences" scroll down and choose the options under "Crawlers and Indexing" tag.
There is a meta tag specifically for Google crawlers.
No.6 "Copyright" Meta Tag
Copywrite meta tag is below here:No.7 "Language Meta Tag
Language meta is below here:No.8 "Viewport" Meta Tag
What does it mean by "Viewport"?
Initially, the websites were designed for the Computer or bigger displays only. With the passage of time, the users started to browse the websites on tabs and cell phones. Still the websites were struck to their cultural layout with fix height and width. It was quite tough to browse the website with that sticky layout on tabs and cell phones. So that meta tag was introduced to give a portable layout to any website on tabs' or cell phones' displays.Viewport meta tag is here below:
No.9 "Content-Type" Meta Tag
Meta tag with that attribution is used to declare the character encoding of document.Content-Type meta tag is here below:
No.10 "Generator" Meta Tag
The meta tag with generator attribute is used to specify the web builder. Declare the actual builder using which you develop a website i-e blogger developers will use the tag as defined below:"Refresh" Meta Tag (Optional)
The meta tag with that attribution is used to refresh the content after the specific time. Use itcarefully because using refresh meta tag, the user losses the control on your content such as he can't stop to refresh the content.Refresh meta tag is here below:
Conclusion
Use of all the meta tags defined above is a good practice. Most of the tags directly impact the SEO factor such as keywords, description, language and title.If you have any question or need any guidance, kindly contact us via support@tentoppest.com or message us directly.http://www.tentoppest.com/2016/04/top-meta-tags-must-be-used-in-blogger-and-website.html#
Blogging on the record gives you a credible voice and a link to the real world, so readers know what you say is authentic. But if you're going to write about anything controversial, very personal or embarrassing, then it might be worth hiding under that paper bag and going anonymous.
If you do choose anonymity, remember that even very secretive bloggers have been outed: the anonymous bloggers at Diary of a Call Girl, NightJack and Girl with a one-track mind were all outed in the press.
So you're never completely undercover. A hack with enough time on their hands could discover your real name, which is a real blogging risk. So take a few simple steps to hide your identity and help yourself stay off the radar:
Top Tips for Going Undercover
- Do use a pseudonym which you don't use anywhere else on the Internet.
- Don't mention personal details that might identify you, like where you live or work, your first name, age or those of your children.
- Do set up a new email account to register your blog, which doesn't have your name or details attached to it.
- Don't link your blog to a Twitter account which gives your name away
- Do log out when you've finished.
- Don't post photos. Especially not photos you've taken.
- Do register a domain name anonymously. For instance, use The Online Policy Group to register a domain name. (It's safer to use a blogging host like Blogger or Wordpress)
- Don't ever post on your blog when at work.
- http://www.mumsnet.com/bloggers/how-to-blog-anonymously
- How do you get site visitors to read, comment and come back? We show you how to turn quick-fix clicks into online readers.Online readers are impatient. Forget the image of a 19th century lady enjoying a 500-page novel by the fire. Picture a frazzled parent with a toddler in hand and an iPad in the other instead. You'll need to adapt your writing style to keep a web surfer hooked.How to keep netizens coming back:
- Web surfers are looking for something different, newsy, and relevant. So find an angle, a niche or a punchline that will grip readers. Offering information is a plus.
- Make your title snappy. Use your title to create expectation, and then fulfill this with your post. A catchy, clear headline will grab the attention of search engines and readers alike.
- Your content should be linked to the title - after all, that's why people clicked on your link. Make sure your post delivers what your title has promised. Some writers get in to the swing of blogging and can stray from the topic. If this happens to you, revise your title to fit.
- Web surfers read in an F shape and have less patience - so let them know what to expect in your introduction and don't waffle as you'll lose interest.
- Keep blog posts short. This isn’t a novel, it’s a blog – if people like your first post they’ll read on. But if they don’t reach the end of your post, they’ll never hear your punchline and you'll have lost their interest.
- Use keywords wisely - don't pack your blog full of the same old phrases so that search engines will notice. Yes, one of your most important readers is Google. But remember, human readers want interesting content, not repetition. So write the post and then decide on the keywords later.
- Reading online is all about interaction. Ask open-ended questions to encourage readers to comment. Respond to all comments – it’s only polite. If a reader’s commented, they’re more likely to return to see if you’ve responded – so it’s a way of starting a dialogue and reeling in your readers.
Open up your most recent post and see if it will come first place in a search engine race:- Can you sum up the point of your post in two sentences?
- Is the title short and catchy?
- Is the title linked to the subject matter?
- Does your introduction mention your post's topic by name?
- Is the opening sentence enticing?
- Is your writing clear?
- Did you add keywords to your post? (Here's how)
- Did you link to another post you've written? (This is called deep linking)
- Did you use hyperlinks? (Here's how)
- Did you add a picture and add an alt tag to the picture? (Here's how)
- Did you publicise your blog using social media?
If you answered Yes to 1-4 of those questions, you're a newbie blogger. Have a look at ourHow to Blog pages for more tips and instructions on how to create the blog beautiful, and how to increase your readership.If you answered Yes to 4-8 of those questions, you're a seasoned blogger. For more in-depth advice on blogging and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), see how to attract loyal blog readers, when to blog anonymously and how to use a metatagIf you answered Yes to 8-10 of those questions, congratulations! You're a blogging pro. There are plenty of newbies over on our forum who're in need of your expertise and advice - why not head on over and lend a bit of blogging magic? - Web surfers are looking for something different, newsy, and relevant. So find an angle, a niche or a punchline that will grip readers. Offering information is a plus.
- http://www.mumsnet.com/bloggers/blog-fitness
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When you're writing your post, you'll see the 'Labels' box on the right-hand side. Type your keywords in here - remember to use commas to separate them, and to type in one or two word keywords rather than whole sentences. You want to include specific details that you've mentioned like 'St James Park' or 'Ceebeebies' in your post, not just general umbrella topics like 'fun' or 'weekends'.Press 'Done' once you've entered all the keywords you want.Tip: you can click keywords you've used before just below the text box to use them for your new post too.
