Saturday, June 9, 2012

Improve Website Traffic Using Google Webmaster Tools

Google Web Search is a good source for getting tons of visitors. It uses page ranking system to index the search result.  In indexing, page rank plays key role in determining which pages appear first in search results.  A page with a higher Page rank is deemed more important in search results and is more likely to be listed above a page with a lower Page rank. Above lines conclude that - " In order to get traffic from Google, We have to improve our website Google page rank."

Now improvement plan comes here. Your website should be content rich and updated on regular basis. Also, try to follow quality content guidelines. Once you are ready with good website, go for promoting website to Google search. This can be easily done by adding your website to Google Webmaster tools. It acts like a catalog to boost up your ranking. Google Webmaster Tools provides you with detailed reports about your pages visibility on Google. Now, I am going to demonstrate adding blog and its site map to webmaster central.

Adding a Blog to Google Webmaster Tools:
01. Open google webmaster and Sign in to Webmaster Tools using your blogger User name and password (or) Google account details.
02.Click on Add site option and enter your blog URL. Then click on continue.
Webmaster guide
03.Now you have to Verify your Ownership. Here go for Alternate methods and select HTML tag. To complete verification, copy the Meta tag appeared on the page. Observe the example on screen shot for clarity.
Don't close this window until completion of all steps.
04. Log in to your Blogger account and click on your blog. Now open Template Option on left side, then click Edit HTML and later Proceed in next page.
05. Identify the <head> tag in your blog HTML. By searching (press ctrl + f), you can find that tag easily.
Adding Meta tag to HTML
06. Now paste copied Meta tag just below the <head> tag. Then click Save Template.
07. Now click on the verify in webmaster site. Your ownership verified.

Adding a Site Map to Google Webmaster:
01. In webmaster home, click on your verified blog. Now expand Optimization tab in dashboard and click on Sitemaps.
Adding sitemap to Webmaster
02. Now click on Add/Test Sitemap. Enter following colored line in appeared pop up box as sitemap path (or) your sitemap path under your domain. Then click Submit Sitemap.

rss.xml?redirect=false&orderby=updated&start-index=1&max-results=100

03. If your blog has more than 100 posts. Add one more sitemap by changing start-index from 1 to 101. Similarly for ever 100 more posts, you have to add new sitemap with start-index followed by 201, 301,401 and so on. You have added your blog and blog site-map successfully. For any Information, Help or Guide, Add your comment.

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6 comments:

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