From the first day of my Blogging career, I’m a big fan of Blogger. There are a lot of discussions held at blogging communities about the comparison of the two most popular content management systems i.e Blogger and Wordpress. Few people say that Wordpress is just like your own property – you can do whatever you want to. But in blogger there’re some restrictions or you can say limitations. Well here we aren’t going to start discussion about these content management systems but only one thing I would like to say is that “ SEO is easy in Wordpress as compared to Blogger “. No doubt that blogger is my favorite CMS as I said above, but today when I took a step to optimize my blog’s page then I realized that blogger has some restrictions. However I managed to make changes in my blogger templates and optimized it for search engines. Today I’m going to share some best tips to optimize your blog’s template and make it search engine friendly. First of all let me explain
What are the benefits of making blogger’s template SEO Friendly?
I hope you know that Search engines use a robot called “ crawler “ to crawl pages, I’ve used the word robot because that is an automated thing, So the crawler don’t know where your blog’s actual content is because that is only programmed to catch its specific tags like Meta tags, no-follow – do-follow tags etc. IF we optimize our blog’s content in the way the crawler can catch it easily, so there are a lot of benefits of it. Some are below:
- Your Blog posts will index fast.
- It will show-up in SERP’s.
- It will rank high for your keyword, If you have pointed that for crawler (Search Description)
- It’ll be easy to read for your blog’s visitors.
- There will be no duplicate content issue.
How to optimize your Blogger blog’s ON-Page?
Your first priority should be to make your blog reader-friendly – and then after it optimize for search engines. If your blog’s content is not easy to read or not good for your readers then optimizing for search engines won’t works for you. Well, First of all you should
Optimize Post Title
z There are a lot of title styles mostly bloggers use – like
- Post title with keywords – tag line | Blog title
- Post title with keywords | Blog title
- Blog title: Post title with keywords
- Blog title: Tag line – Post title with keywords
- Blog title: Post title and keywords – Tag line
Ok! now let me tell you what Is Post title with keywords, Tag line and blog title
I’ve used the word tag because most of bloggers put tag line in this field, You can also use your other keyword title here but tagline is good enough. Example: How to make money with Squidoo –“ Best for Beginners” The bold sentence is tagline in the title.Post title with keywords
Its just a simple title we use in our posts like “ How to make money with squidoo “ it’s a title of one ofmy post but I’m showing here just as example. In this title there is no tag-line and blog title. Its just simple sentence.Tag Line
Blog title
I think you already know what Is blog title, mostly people use blog title at the end of the post and some before post title. Examples:
1. Post title | RockPaki
2. RockPaki: Post title
What title is best for search engines?
" None Of them ;) "
It’s a very very common thing that search engines hate duplicate content, whether that is in title, post or blog’s template. Daily we write articles for our blogs, why? Can’t we copy them from other blogs? We can! But still we don’t because we know that search engines don’t like copied content. Ok have you ever thought about it that your tittle also has duplicate content? If not then see
- Post title with keywords – tag line | RockPaki
- Post title with keywords | RockPak
- RockPaki: Post title with keywords
- RockPaki: Tag line – Post title with keywords
- RockPaki: Post title and keywords – Tag line
I’ve highlighted the duplicate content in these tittles with red color. I know what you are thinking; yes this is the blog title. But as I said above that these pages are crawled by an automated program. So that will consider them as duplicate content in your post titles. So let me tell you what type of title is perfect for your blog posts.
1. Post title and keywords – Tag line (or you can put another title with keywords)
2. Post title with keywords
3. Tagline – Post title
You can see there is no touch of Blog’s title in these title styles. So now your title is 100% unique and easy to crawl for search engines. Let me tell you how to remove blog’s title from your post tittles in blogger blogs.
Go to blogger > Template > Edit HTML
Find this code:
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
Replace with:
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'><title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title><b:else/><title><data:blog.pageName/></title></b:if>
In case if you cant find the above code in your template, then try finding this one:
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'><title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title><b:else/><title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title></b:if>
and Replace with:
Note: These days showing the blog title at the end of post title is an acceptable practice by Google,but you should remove them from your internal pages. Some blogs like TechCrunch, QuickSprout are doing the same, in search engines they are showing the blog title at the end of post title but when you open their page then there is no blog title. I don’t know this thing is possible on blogger or not but if it is, and then you are welcome to contribute in this post.<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'><title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title><b:else/><title><data:blog.pageName/></title></b:if>
Proper Use of No-index and No-follow tags
In SEO, We have look at every thing in our blog’s page – even you can consider your blog widgets,labels,Categories comment section and other pages. If you are not giving them a proper tag then they can hurt yourwebsite rankings and your site will not pass authority in other pages. No-index tag is used to de-index aparticular object from search engines. So try to de-index all un-useful pages from blogger like labels, feedURLS and other things which cause duplicate content. I’ve de-indexed Labels, Archives, and feed urls on my blog – RockPaki
Now my page rank juice will not pass on un-useful pages and my post content is highlighted for crawler. You can use this code in Robots.txt file to de-index these pages.
Use Fresh “Search Description “for every post.
Search Description is used to tell search engines that what you have posted in your blog post and that description will be shown in SERP’s. Mean it’s useful for both – humans and Search engines.
· Humans: If your post’s search description is very attractive and tells everything about your post, then you’ll catch more visitors from search engines.
· Search engines: If your search description doesn’t have keyword you are going to target then there are less chances of the post to get good position in SERP’s. No! I’m not asking you to stuff keywords in search description but just put 1 or two keywords with an attractive sentence.
How to write Search Description for every post in Blogger?
In post editor you can see at sidebar, below labels – “Search description “click on it and write your description. How to write Search description for only homepage in blogger?- · Open Blogger’s dashboard
- · Go to settings of your blog
- · Open the tab ‘ search preference “
- · Click on Description and edit it.
After writing the search description – don’t forget to read it two or three times to make sure that there is no mistake.
Use <h1>, <h2> and <h3> tags properly
These tags are very important to tell search engines that what type of content your blog has. There should be only one <h1> tag in a single page -- Yes this is wrong if your page have more then one <h1> tags. In blogger the <h1> tag should only used for title of BLOG. <h2> tags.. We can use them for the title of posts, there is no limit for h2 tags to show but 6-10 h2 tags are enough for a single blogger page. For headings in our posts, we can use H3 tags. H3 tag is so called the third headline tag and you can use it on your post’s headings, sidebar widgets, footer widgets, pages and other 3rd party widgets. They are not very effective as compared to H2 and H1 tags.
Optimizing the Pictures
Image files are playing an important role in rankings; they can also give you a huge traffic from search engine as well as customers. There is no doubt that images are the best thing to attract readers and to make your post eye catche. Well I’ve already written a detailed post about IMAGES SEO you can read it.
Internal Linking
Internal linking is a good way to pass page authority in your blog, Proper use of anchor in posts and linking back to your old post can pass a huge page-rank juice in your site as improve reader’s engagement.It helps crawler to crawl your page easily and internal links are considered as a positive point in blogs. So always try to link your posts with each other in a tricky way with a suitable anchor text.
Optimize Pagination in Blogger
I know this question is popping in your mind that how we can optimize pagination? Pages of the blogger are same, But actually Google has some specific tags for pagination i.e Rel=next and rel= previous. Actually I’m trying to make this point short for you because most of people get confuse, Rel=Next tag is used to point that there are some pages after this, and rel=previous tag is used to tell Google or any search engine that there is no page after it. Simply give the first one tag, I mean “ Rel=next “ to the first page of your blogger blog and “ Rel = Previous “ to the last page of blogger pagination. Now your site structure is 100% perfect and easy to crawl for search engines.
Unique and fresh content
If you have readed all points I’ve mentioned above then now your blog’s On-Page optimization is done, but as we all know that without quality content we cant make our site authority in Google, You must give firstpriority to unique and fresh content and then come to optimization, Without good content, SEO is just a waste of time! Anyways, Now I think your blog is totally optimized but still you need to get updated from Google algorithms, I will try my best to keep you updated and will edit this article. Well, Google’s page rank update is near, check out some best commentluv enabled blogs to comment ;).
How to optimize a static website in search engines? Its a
big question by newbies as they dont know blogging or search engine optimization. If I go
back to 2010 when we (My cousin and Me) started a static HTML site. At that time I was also
a newbie in search engine optimization field and dont knew how to optimize that
site. First I thought to put content but as the website topic was about Television channels so it
was not necessary to put content, then I started off-page optimization with some
content but these things didn't worked for that.
Last month I saw some
HTML sites with few pages ranking high in search engines without any quality content, I searched about them and learned few
things about optimizing Static HTML sites. So here I'm going to post some best tips for you to
optimize "Your" Static websites.
Meta Description:
Every website owner wants his website to rank on a specific
keyword in search engines, So meta keywords and meta description helps you to tell Google
and other search engines about your website, your website topic and what is in your
website. For example my static website is about television where I've installed some indian and
pakistani TV channels, so I will write meta description like this:
" [web name] is a website provides free only TV channels, Indian TV channels, pakistani TV
channels fast and live streaming"
You can see this meta description also covers some keywords
like "free online tv channels"
"indian TV channels" etc (This is just a example to give you
an idea to write meta description for your website)
Make a about us column at sidebar (Optional)
We all know that now a days google is smarter then all
SEO’s, Its not possible to dodge google in any thing – Google and other search
engines want quality content to rank pages and if your website has no quality
content then simply you cant rank! But here the case is something different,
how we cant add content in static html sites as you can see my website is about
entertainment so writing articles and putting other content don’t makes sense.
So for this purpose
add a column in sidebar with name “ About us “ write about 200-300 lines about
your website covering some keywords and save it. This thing will add some
content in your homepage and now your page is not looking spam. – This is my
own idea, you can use other things like footer, description in pages etc. Be
creative and think yourself, this is just a idea ;)
Guest posts
Guest posting is a best way to build quality links, It takes
some times because you have to write articles but the links you build with
guest posting are so called “ Quality backlinks “. You can search for blogs
related to your niche and do post on them with your website hyper link (with
keyword). It passes page rank juice,
domain authority and new visitors to your website.
Forum Posting
Be a member of some high ranked forums of your niche, Post
regularly there and build your reputation.. Make a signature with your website
link (anchor=keyword). Reply to others thread, make your threads and ask people
to reply you.
If you are not using
a high ranked forum then don’t waste your time because they are not very useful
for your website. A high ranked forum can pass a lot of page rank juice,
domain/page authority and a huge traffic as well.
Question & Answer Website
In question and answer websites like yahoo answers, A lot of
people are asking questions about different topics! Search and check if someone
is asking something about your topic, For example if someone is asked a
question “ Where to learn blogging tips? “ So Blogging tips is my blogs topic,
Simply I will go there and reply with my website link.
Same like this, make
your backlinks through question and answer
websites. You will get traffic, ranking and a lot of authority.
Make use of Video sharing websites
Youtube, Vimeo , tune.pk etc all are video sharing websites
with high rankings, Not only traffic but we can also get quality backlinks from
video descriptions. Make a video, upload it on different video sharing websites
and put your website link in description, and that’s it!
Domain authority is a very important thing for bloggers, its
more useful then the page rank and other rankings as Domain authority also helps to get
good position in SERP's, Most of Bloggers don't know the importance of domain authority and
they don't focus on it. Now a days bloggers are just focusing on making page rank and
backlinks but they are totally
Useless if you don't have domain authority or page
authority. Don’t forget that content is The king -- so If you don’t have quality content on your
blog then don't even think about Rankings.. Yes! Domain authority, Page authority and Google
Page rank is just useless Without unique and quality content. I always advice you in all
of my posts related to SEO that first make unique content then go for off-page SEO.
Ok now the question
is “After making good content “how to increase domain's authority?
Some people thinks that the number of backlinks will
increase their domain authority and some thinks that domain authority increases as the domain's
age increase, But the actual reason of increasing domains authority is the number of
" Quality backlinks " Lets suppose my website/blog has 20,000 backlinks from random websites,
blogs and directories -- and my another website has only 100 backlinks but from high ranked
sites. So what you think which one is more beneficial? Of course! Second one, Domain
authority just depend on the quality of backlinks. If your blog has a good number of backlinks
but they are not from content, high ranked sites and they are not related to your niche
then they are almost useless for your blog (sometimes). So now this thing is almost clear
that what things are beneficial for increasing domain authority (The number of quality
backlinks, Unique and quality
content).
How to get High Quality Backlinks?
Its not easy to get quality backlinks for your blog, you
need to be creative and enough smart to let people link to your blog. Always remember
this: Never Use Any Tool For Link Building. I’m sure If you are thinking to use
any tool for making backlinks then there are few days left of your blog in
search engines. As I said you should be creative and smart enough to grab
backlinks to your blog. Well below you can see few ways for grabbing quality
backlinks.
Unique and quality content:
There is no doubt that content is the king of every blog and
website, If you don’t have enough unique content then your blog can’t rank. If
your content is not reader friendly then your blog can’t rank and if your
content has no quality then again your blog can’t rank in search engines. So
the first step for making domain authority is to make unique and quality
content.
Guest Post:
Almost every blogger knows that what the guest posting is!
But If you don’t know then in guest posting we have to write for other blogs
for attracting their readers to your blog, to get connected with blogosphere,
to get backlinks from their blog and to drive traffic.
So the Guest posting
is the #1 and the best way of making quality backlinks for your blog. Through
guest posting you can get a link from their blog with do-follow attribution.
Always do guest post on high rank blogs so they can also pass page rank juice
and domain authority to your blog.
Forums and QA sites
When I started blogging I don’t knew what a do-follow and a
no-follow backlinks is, I was just making backlinks as much as I could. On that
time I went to a forum where I saw link backs in signatures – without thinking
for a second I just signed up on the forum and put my blogs link in the
signature. After few months when I learnt Search Engine optimization and came
to know the difference between no-follow and do-follow backlinks then I saw
that backlink and said “ This Is useless” because that was a no-follow
backlink. But Believe me even till now I’m getting a lot of benefit from that
no-follow backlink because that forum has high page rank and domain authority
so that still passing a huge domain authority to my blog.
In the same way if
you make backlinks on high ranked forums and Question-Answers sites with even
no-follow attribute then you can increase your domain authority easily.
Article Directories
Now a days there are a lot of article directories but you
should post articles only on those directories have high domain authority and
google page rank such as Ezine. Submitting articles on article directories can
increase your domain authority and traffic as well.
Commenting on Blogs!
Commenting on blogs is a great way to make relation with
other bloggers, Some blogs gives do-follow backlinks in comments and some
no-follow, Well If the blog is high ranked then do not worry about do-follow
and no-follow, Just do comment on them with your website link, (No spamming) .
I have a huge list of commentluv enabled blogs you can download here. ..::Download::..
Use Web 2.0 Sites
Most of web 2.0 sites have good page rank and domain
authorities, So why don’t you use them? Start posting unique and quality
articles on web 2.0 sites with your site link (Either dofollow or nofollow).
Here are some best web 2.0 sites for you: Download
Ok want to hear a bad news? RockPaki.com’s Domain authority
has decreased from 34 to 30 J
But lets start together and work hard to get domain authority and page
authority.
The success of the Galaxy Note led
to the Samsung Galaxy Note
II, and as Samsung already have the technology
available, along with the relatively untapped market for feature-packed, dual-sim
phones, the Galaxy Grand entered production.
DESIGN:
Much like the S3 in leeks, but
bigger! A chrome trim wraps around the edge of the 5-inch screen and houses the
power button to the right volume rocker on the left, micro-USB interface on the
bottom and a 3.5 mm audio connector on the top, lt is significantly bigger,
thicker and heavier the S3. Weighing in at 162 gram, the Galaxy Grand is no
lightweight, but gets away with it because of its massive screen.
The back cover is thin and flimsy,
but the fine pattern on it masks fingerprints well. There is a rounded square
cut-out on it for the lens, and a similar but smaller cut-out to its Left for
the flash. To the right of the camera you see two, slits for the speakers caged
underneath. Once you lift the back cover, there is space for SIM 1 on the top
left and Sim 2 on the bottom right of the battery. There is also space for a
micro SD card allowing an extra 64GB of storage, apart from the internal 8GB.
USABILITY:
Using a tablet such is this takes a
little while to get used to, but once you meet your peace with using both
hands, it’s actually not bad. The Touch Wiz user interface enables
much smoother navigation and seamless response. Using the keyboard, for
example, was not an excruciatingly painful as it normally is on touch
devices. If you see the dictionary, then typing message becomes surprisingly
quick.
Control over the dual-sim function
via the in house app is brilliant. For example, SIM 1 could be used for packet
data, while being able to receive calls from SIM 2. Despite its average specs,
the Grand Duos works seamlessly in the multi-window mode activated by a clever
switch in the notification bar navigation. This enables you to run two apps en
the screen at any given time, Furthermore, you can resize the space they occupy
at will and use a floating keyboard to input comments and watch something at
the same time.
.
THE VERDICT:
I like what Samsung has tried to do with the Galaxy Grand
Duos; they have kept the looks of the S3, but toned it down under the hood.
Smartphone manufacturers are generally in the rut of making bigger and faster
phones packed with more features than before, while shedding thickness and
weight. Samsung has gone out on a limb and tried a different approach by
pushing the appeal while limiting the price-tag.
There were a few shortcomings I noticed while this phone was
with me -for instance, the built-in alarm clock did not work. Most games were
fun on the 5-inch screen. Temple Run 2, Subway Surfers and Diamond Dash were
great, but I cannot say the same for Hungry Shark Evolution, which was very
buggy on the unit I got for review.
Due to the size of the display and 83 standard build, the,
Galaxy Grand does not look like a mid-range phone at all. I was surprised to
find out its priced 10k under the S3 at roughly PKR Rs:38,000 It's lots of bang
for the buck; apart from a few glitches, this phone runs great. These glitches
do not necessarily have to be in all units – keep in mind that we did not get a
brand-new phone for review and all devices come with a warranty.
Overall the display is bright, camera has great colour
reproduction, connectivity is seamless, and the touch and ecosystem are
incredible. The low resolution seems to be the only real drawback of the Galaxy
Grand Duos.
Images, Pictures or so
called wallpaper sites are very easy to maintain and drive traffic to them as
everyone is interested to watch funny pictures, wallpapers and other images.
I've seen that a lot of of "Funny pictures" websites are using social
media sites to drive a huge traffic to their sites or blogs, But
Squidoo
… Have you ever heard about squidoo? If
No! then squidoo is the most popular website ( web 2.0) Which allows users to
create posts on their web, In squidoo’s language its called “ Lens “ . There
are no special requirements to use squidoo as squidoo is a free website so
everyone can use it for driving traffic to their blogs and affiliates.
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