Showing posts with label Blogger Tricks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogger Tricks. Show all posts

Friday, February 26, 2010

Optimize your blog images and code for search engines

This time, I 'm explaining about Image Search Optimization (ISO). It is the way to drive organic traffic from image search engines. If you observe HTML code of images, you will find "alt" attribute; other wise you can insert it to the code.  The "alt" attribute allows you to specify alternative text for the image.  If the image cannot be displayed for some reason, then the text of the "alt" attribute provides information about image.
HTML code of images
Alt content helps your pictures to index in image search results. Proper alt text and file-name makes it easier for image search projects like Google Image Search to better understand and search bots can easily crawl your images. Effect of alt text was showed in below image.
Image was not displayed to the user for some reason, but text was there.

Optimizing tips to be followed:
  • File names and alt text should be brief, short and descriptive. Don't give generic file names like "img.jpg", "pic1.gif", "1.jpg.  Avoid writing extremely lengthy file names and pasting entire sentences.
  • Use commonly supported file types like JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP formats.
  • Reduce your images size because images of low size can load fast. Use Image optimization tool to compress your image size without affecting image quality or use any photo-shop software.    

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

How do I move a blog between two Google accounts?

Process of moving a blog between gmail/Google accounts:

1. Sign in to Blogger with Google account-1, containing the blog which you'd like to move.
2. Now Open Dashboard, go to the Settings --->> Permissions tab.
Blogger Guide
3. Click the Add Authors button and send an invitation to the Google account-2.
4. Now log in to Gmail of Google account-2; click on the confirmation link that you have received and accept invitation (use a different browser).
5. Go back to the Dashboard of Google account-1 and open Settings --->> Permissions tab.
6. Click the grant admin privileges link to give Administrator privilege to the Google account-2.
7. Again go to the Blogger Dashboard ---> Settings --->> Permissions of Google account-2 and remove the Google account-1 from Blogger.
8. Your blog is moved to your destination account.

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.