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

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.

You can also add your blog content and sitemap to:

Friday, April 2, 2010

Free website visitor tracker, web stats - StatCounter

Do you ever tried to know how many people are visiting your blog, or where they come from? You can track the visitor stats using web tracker sites like Google Analytics, Site Meter, StatCounter. Web stats are useful in optimization of your blog.

There are many sites which provide stats on blogs or websites. But I use and recommend statcounter because it is simple, more informative, free service, real-time stats and easy to install. StatCounter is offering both invisible and visible trackers.

Steps to be followed to install visitor tracker:
Statcounter working process
Working of StatCounter
  1. Register an account in StatCounter.
  2. Create a Project. There you will be given one tiny HTML and Javascript code.
  3. Insert the code on your blog or website. For blogger, Go to Design, add a HTML / JavaScript gadget, and copy the StatCounter code into the gadget.  Position the gadget where you wish, like you did the other gadgets.
  4. Now you can analyze your stats.
StatCounter Visitor reports includes:
  • Date and time of visit.
  • Ip address.
  • Browser details.
  • Operating system info.
  • Screen resolution.
  • Referring link.
  • Search query details.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Drive more traffic using Bing Webmaster Center Tools

Microsoft is offering free Bing Webmaster Tools to improve your website. It can help your blog in getting indexed by Bing search engine and Drives more organic traffic. By Submitting a site map, It gives detailed reports about websites link to your site or blog (back links).  Bing webmaster center provides statistics about your sites. Here you can identify any issues that Bing encountered while crawling your site or blog.

Submit your website to Bing:

1. Open Bing Webmaster  page  here.
2. Sign in to Webmaster Tools using Windows Live ID like hotmail.
3. Click on Add a Site and enter required details like blog address and sitemap address. Now click on submit.
Bing webmaster guide
4. Authenticate your ownership of your blog by inserting a Meta Tag into HTML. For this copy the Meta tag and follow below mentioned procedure.
Bing webmaster center
5. Now open Dashboard in Blogger --->> Next click your blog Design option --->> then click Edit HTML.
6. Find <head> tag (click ctrl+f to search it) and Paste Meta Tag just below it. Click Save Template.
HTML Guide
7. Now click on Return to Site List. You have added your blog and wait for improvement.

You can also make use of Google Webmaster Tools that helps you in bringing more organic traffic from Google search.

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.