Monday, January 4, 2010

Improve Your Blog Visibility on Yahoo Search - Site Explorer

Yahoo! - Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo Search Engine.  It also improves your pages Visibility on yahoo search results.  It will give an idea about the most popular pages from your site.  By submitting a Site Map or feed URL, You can find pages that link to your site and out linked from your Site.  It is Similar to Google Webmaster Tools

Add a Site or Blog to Yahoo! - Site Explorer:

1. Sign in to Yahoo! using your existing Yahoo! ID details or Sign up for new account.
2. Now open Yahoo! - Site Explorer   and enter your Site or Blog URL in appeared box. Then click Add My Site.
yahoo site explorer guide
3. You have to authenticate your site.  For this,    you go for 2nd procedure   By adding a META tag to my home page.  Copy the Meta tag and add a backslash ' / ' before  ' > '.   Don't close this page.   Have a look on Screen shot.
Yahoo meta guide
Don't forget to add slash, Otherwise it shows XML error.
Example Tag:  <META name="y_key" content="ebc9d2f7530798e8"/>
4. Now open Blogger Dashboard in your blogger account --->> Next click your blog Design  option --->> then click  Edit HTML.
5.  Find <head> tag and Paste Meta Tag just below it.  Click Save Template.
6. Now come to Yahoo! - Site Explorer and click Ready to Authenticate.

Add a Site feed or Site map to Yahoo! - Site Explorer:

7. In Yahoo! - Site Explorer, open Feeds under your site and enter your feed URL path as rss.xml. For better understanding, see screen-shot guide. Now click on Add Feed
8. You have done it. Effects don't appear in one day. It takes several days to get good results.

Note: Yahoo - Site Explorer was permanently merged with Bing webmaster tools.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Increase Traffic - Optimize Blog and Post Title in Blogger

In default style, Blog Title appears first in search results. Post Title appears after blog title.  For lengthy Blog Title you won't find post title in search results and appeared title may not be related to search keywords.  So visitors don't like to click your link.  All search engines first looks for the title and page link and then it looks for the content.  By Optimizing the Blog and Post Titles, you get post title first and then blog title.  This trick helps your blog to get good search rank and makes your blog to appear in first page of search result.  It drives more traffic from search engines like Google, yahoo, MSN Bing.

Optimize Blog Title and Post Title - search engine optimization:

1.  Go to the Design section in Blogger Dashboard then --->> Edit Html.
2.  Backup your template by clicking Download Full Template.
3.  Find the following code - Press (ctrl+f ) and enter below code into search box.
It shows below code in your Html. 
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
4.  Replace above code by the following code:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>
5.  Now Save Template. You have done successfully.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

How to create a Blog - Blogger

Before creating a Blog, You should know what is a Blog. A blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. It is a platform to collect and share things that you find interesting and whatever you want with your friends and the world. It gives you own voice on the web.

Come to main point - "how to create a blog"

1. Open Blogger.com and click on create a blog.



2. Create a Google Account using your existing e-mail. If you already have a Google account perhaps from Gmail, Google Groups, or Orkut ; Use that username and password. Now click on Continue .

3. Give Blog Title and Blog address (URL) . Click on Continue.



4. Choose a Template and click on Continue. Your blog is created. Now you can post anything you want.
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