Increase Your Blog Readership More Effectively

If you are a regular reader of this blog, then you might be aware that I have shared lots of tips and tricks to improve blog performance and ranking. My earlier posts focus on some best and working ways to increase traffic to new blog, blog page views, increase blog followers, email subscribers, increase number of comments on blog posts etc. All those ways also work best to build blog readership. Today, I want to grab your attention on a tip that suited best to improve readership around blog. I have tested this tip on my blog and really got amazing results. Lets learn about this tip in detail.

How to Increase Blog Readership?

If you are new on this blog, then I strongly recommend you to read my earlier posts that work awesome to improve readership around our blog. You’ll surely get productive results for your blog. Please check below articles.
Now let’s focus on today’s tip to build solid readership.
Do you ever heard about Roundup Posts? If no, then let me explain you what are these and how they are beneficial for improving our blog readership.
Roundup posts are simply the compilation of other posts that comes under same topic.
For example: In one of my earlier post, I shared a roundup post that was not based on any new topic. It was just a collection of some other posts that comes under the same category of Blogger SEO Tips. Check below link for more clear idea.
So, now you are properly aware with the concept of roundup posts. It’s time to learn that how they can help us to increase our blog readership. Below are some points that will help you to understand the benefits of roundup posts.

1# Attract New Visitors

Sometime it happen that new visitors land on our blog. They are new, that means they are not aware with our previously published posts. In that case, roundup posts works awesome to attract them towards our other posts. They spend more time on our blog to read more content. This will also help us to decrease our blog bounce rate.

2# Increase Blog Comments

These types of posts will be a recap for our regular readers. If they have missed our previous posts due to any reason, then we can expect a handful of valuable comments on our old posts. It’ll also help us to increase our blog comments.

3# Internal Linking

Roundup posts play a vital role to build solid internal linking between our blog posts. We just need to keep importance of using anchor text correctly in our mind to optimize our internal links.
Optimized internal links will help us to maintain our blog readership. Read below article to know the role of internal linking in better readership.

4# Increase Blog Page Views

I like this point the most. Such posts are really helpful to increase blog page views. We can definitely notice an instant spike in our traffic stats. Our regular page views will increase by publishing such type of posts.
So, these are the top 4 benefits on roundup posts in blog readership. Let see how to choose posts to make such compilation more SEO friendly and interesting.

How to Choose Posts for Roundup?

We should compile those posts that come under same category. It’ll be best to choose those posts which cover the same topic so that our roundup post become more keyword rich and detailed on particular topic. These types of posts easily get high ranking in search results.
Below is the list of all roundup posts that I have made till yet on this blog. Please take a look at all of them. It’ll help you more to choose your blog posts in a better way for making roundup of them.

Final Words!

This was the today’s tip on how to increase readership of your blog. I must recommend you to compile and publish such a post in your blog and notice the increment in your blog page views. It’ll be productive for you.
Please do let me if it creates any difference for you or not? Wish you best of luck for your blogging success. Happy Blogging!

Adding a Youtube Video in the Background of a Blogger blog

Some of you might have wondered how to put a video to play in the blog's background, so that instead of having just a color or an image, to have a video. We can do this thanks to the jQuery plugin Tubular that lets you use a YouTube video as a background of a web page.

Although the result can be very original and attractive, I must say it has three drawbacks: they can not be silenced, if the video has ads, they will also appear, and it can slow the loading time of the blog, so if anyone wants to use it, may consider putting it only on special occasions, or on blogs that load very quickly.

Also it can be done in HTML5, the problem with this method is that you need to load the video in 3 different formats (.mp4, .webm and .ovg) along with a picture for browsers that do not support them, so this YouTube option seems more practical to me, despite the drawbacks.

You can see it working on this demo blog

Steps 

1. The first step is to just above the </head> tag, this script:

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
/* jQuery tubular plugin
|* by Sean McCambridge
|* http://www.seanmccambridge.com/tubular
|* Copyright 2012
|* licensed under the MIT License
|* Enjoy.
|*
|* Thanks,
|* Sean */

var videoWidth = 853;
var videoRatio = 16/9;
var defaultDiv = 'wrapper-video';

jQuery.fn.tubular = function(videoId,wrapperId) {
wrapperId = (typeof(wrapperId) == undefined) ? 'wrapper-video' : wrapperId;
t = setTimeout("resizePlayer()",1000);

jQuery('html,body').css('height','100%');
jQuery('body').prepend('<div id="yt-container" style="overflow: hidden; position: fixed; z-index: 1;"><div id="ytapiplayer">You need Flash player 8+ and JavaScript enabled to view this video.</div></div><div id="video-cover" style="position: fixed; width: 100%; height: 100%; z-index: 2;"></div>');
jQuery('#' + wrapperId).css({position: 'relative', 'z-index': 99});

var ytplayer = 0;
var pageWidth = 0;
var pageHeight = 0;
var videoHeight = videoWidth / videoRatio;
var duration;

var iframe = '<iframe id="myytplayer" width="' + videoWidth + '" height="' + videoHeight + '" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/' + videoId + '?autoplay=1&controls=0&modestbranding=1&showinfo=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&version=3&wmode=transparent&loop=1&playlist=' + videoId + '" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>';

jQuery('#ytapiplayer').html(iframe);
jQuery(window).resize(function() {
resizePlayer();
});
return this;
}

function onYouTubePlayerReady(playerId) {
ytplayer = document.getElementById("myytplayer");
ytplayer.setPlaybackQuality('medium');
ytplayer.mute();
}

function resizePlayer() {
var newWidth = jQuery(window).width();
var newHeight = jQuery(window).height();
jQuery('#yt-container, #video-cover').width(newWidth).height(newHeight);
if (newHeight > newWidth / videoRatio) {
newWidth = newHeight * videoRatio;
}
jQuery('#myytplayer').width(newWidth).height(newWidth/videoRatio);
}

//]]>
</script>

And this one too:

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
$().ready(function() {
$('body').tubular('61BLn00AN_w','wrapper-video');
});
//]]>
</script>

2. Then locate the <body> tag (CTRL + F)
Or if you are using a template from Template Designer, find this line:

<body expr:class='&quot;loading&quot; + data:blog.mobileClass'>

3. Under either of these two, add this:

<div id='wrapper-video'>

4. Now search for the </body> tag, and before it put this:

</div>

Save the changes and that's it. In red you must put the ID of Youtube video, the ID are the characters that appear at the end of the URL:

Remember: There is no option to mute, so if you don't want to have sound as in the demo blog, you have to choose a video that has no sound. I also recommend using a video in HD in case you don't want any black parts to show around it.

If you are using jQuery, remove other versions that you have to avoid duplication and have problems.

How to Add Google Analytics to Blogger

Google Analytics is a platform created with the purpose of helping us to track the number of visits and page views on our blog, which also uses several filters to check exactly from where the visitors are coming via standard or custom reports.

Google Analytics is the leading free tool that has a good relationship with the internet marketing and offers suggestions and improvements or benefits for our website.

As Analytics is part of the variety of Google tools like Blogger, many bloggers still don't know if it is possible to add the tracking code in Blogger. Implementing analytics in Blogger is very quick and easy, so you don't need to be experts or web developers. Here's a small guide for placing the Google Analytics tracking ID on our blog.

Implementing Google Analytics on Blogger

1. Do you have a Google Analytics account? Then it's perfect. If you don't have one, please Register.
2. Within the account, we'll go to Admin and in the Property column, click the menu, then click Create new property, where we enter the information from the website.

3. Click on "Get Tracking ID" and it will provide a box with a code, select and copy the code (CTRL + C).

4. Now let's go to our Blogger account.
5. Look for your blog and click on it, then go to Template > click the Edit HTML button and paste the code previously generated in Analytics before the </head> tag (CTRL + F in order to find it).

And this would be the entire procedure. Within about 24 hours, we shall see the first statistics of our blog in Google Analytics, otherwise check the following:

- Double check that the code has no spaces or characters.
- Doesn't have errors in the configuration
- There are no poor implementation of the filters.
- The Flash plugin is working or javascript is enabled.
- You will have minor issues if you are receiving visits from China (this conflict is not yet solved, according to Google).

4 Alternatives to Google AdWords

Many think that Google AdWords is the only tool dedicated and available to perform a study such as a keyword search, but it isn't so, today I refute this idea by collecting some alternatives that, although are not equal to Google AdWords, at least encourage us to make good keyword analysis for the SEO of our website.

Going back a bit, for those unfamiliar with the main features and tools of Google AdWords, we can find a very simple interface yet complete in every sense.

- AdWords appearance has changed, however there is a chance of returning to the old design;
- allows you to place a phrase or keyword, a web site and use the categories;
- for a better keywords search, you can apply filters such as location, language and add custom fields (competition, local or global monthly searches, CPC, Ad share, etc.);
- displays keyword ideas in columns with the amount of local and global monthly searches and approximate CPC;
- you can download keyword ideas, search results in a format to open with Excel.

Having recalled and refreshed the memory a little with the characteristics of AdWords, now it is time to learn about other options both free and paid.

Google AdWords Alternatives

Bing Webmaster Tools: Bing may not be the tool that we had first thought of, however it wants to provide the best conditions for studying keywords.

After we register, to access the tool, go to Diagnostics & Tools and click on the second option on the list: Keyword Research.

SEMRush: Other freemium alternative that displays a very complete report of a particular keyword or website. However, it has limitations and if you opt for a PRO recurring plan you need to pay a monthly membership from $69.95 per month.

Ubersuggest: This nice and simple online tool searches keywords suggestion as well as potential titles for an article. Personally, I recommend it 100%.

Keyword Eye: If you are looking to perform a keyword research on a particular region, Keyword Eye will be your help. It also has the option of requesting the display of search volume or AdWords competition and a full report of anchor text, keywords and domain.

At first it offers a free plan with limitations and to enjoy all other benefits, we have to pay $9.99 per month.

How to Add a Recent Forum Topics Widget to Blogger

If you are using the Nabble forum in your blog is very likely that this gadget will interest you because, as the title suggests, it will display the lastest topics that have been published in your forum in a very similar manner to the recent comments gadget that works with the blog's feed.

If you want to add a list with the Recent Forum Topics then follow the steps below:

Go to your forum and look at the bottom where it says Feeds, click on that link and then two links of the Feed will appear (the first being the Topics only Feed and the other one is Topics and replies) - choose the one you want.

After this, log in to your Blogger Dashboard, go to Layout, click on Add a Gadget link, choose Feed from the gadgets list and paste the Feed URL you have selected inside the text box.

Click on Continue, and you only have to configure the parameters, then Save changes to see the results.

That's it! Enjoy :)

How to Write SEO Optimized Blog Posts

I'm not a SEO Expert, nor what we will read further is a top secret, but this is about the basic positioning that everyone should apply in order to optimize their blog posts. And with these techniques, effort, and a lot of patience, we can occupy the best places in the search results of different search engines.

For sure not all the cases are alike, neither all blogs are positioned in the same manner, some might have greater competition than others depending on how popular is the topic that they handle, thus, when it comes to web positioning, there's no specific time that applies for all. Having said this, let's begin.

Focus on a topic

Whatever the theme of your blog is, when writing a post, try focusing on a definite subject that has a clear objective and has no distractions. For example, if you write about Digital Cameras, then the beginning and the end of the post should be only about it. Don't start talking about digital cameras and end up telling about what you have done last weekend. A reader goes to a page because is looking for a specific information, so unless it is not a personal blog (where you write about your daily life) do not digress.

Define the post title

The post title should be precise, so that you can briefly summarize the content of the post, but you must not abuse this either, and although it should be concise, do not save words that might be keys to the search.

Examples:

Collection of all the cameras that have been released last year on the market

The best digital cameras of 2012

Clearly, the first one hasn't been defined very much and the second is not only more accurate but it is more appropriate as well, for what people are searching on the internet.

The keywords

Keywords are those terms that the most people search for on the internet and you should try focusing on them when writing an article; these keywords have to be included throughout the entire article but you should be careful not repeating them too many times.

Example:

During the fourth week of the technology, there were many products that are utilized today, and the most famous experts gave a speech on them.

At the opening of the fourth Technology Week, the experts talked about various topics, including how to choose a digital camera, had discussions about the pros and cons of the iPad, and which are the best smartphones.

In the first example we have written without giving importance to any terms, meanwhile, in the second one, we used phrases that are searched on the internet by the most users.

So, the most frequent search terms should be included wisely without cluttering your posts with them, or it can be counterproductive.

These keywords should be added in the title of the posts, as well.

Rely on synonyms

While it is good using keywords, we should not limit ourselves to a single word. It is recommended using synonyms because users do not name things in same way and using less keywords, you'll avoid leaving the reader under the impression that you are being repetitive and insistent.

Examples:

For those who like good quality pictures, Nikon D7000s Digital Camera is a 16.2 megapixel digital camera that takes great pictures.

For those who like good quality images, Nikon D7000s is a 16.2 megapixel digital camera that takes excellent pictures.

In the first example we have repeated the word digital camera and pictures twice, meanwhile, in the second one, we used the digital camera keyword once and changed the word pictures with images.

This way, the reader will find a greater diversity of words and might enjoy the article more.

Using bold and italics

The main keywords should be highlighted, so that they will stand out from the rest; this is taken into account by the search engine robots being like some kind of lures for them, so the words with which you want to position yourself, need to be highlighted with bold, but be careful, this shouldn't be done with CSS, but with HTML, i.e. they should not be tagged with font-weight: bold; but rather with <b> or even better, with <strong>.

Examples:

For those who like good quality images, Nikon D7000s is a 16.2 megapixel digital camera that takes excellent pictures.

The result seems to be the same, but it is not. Although the three sentences are in bold, only one is more attractive to robots, which is the first.

For those who like <span style="font-weight: bold;">good quality images</span>, <strong>Nikon D7000s</strong> is a 16.2 megapixel <b>digital camera</b> that takes excellent pictures.

The same goes for the italics, use them for highlighting important words, but do not put them between font-style: italic; but rather between <i> or even better <em>.

For those who like <span style="font-style: italic;">good quality images</span>, <em>Nikon D7000s</em> is a 16.2 megapixel <i>digital camera</i> that takes excellent pictures.

Again, the first has a better chance of positioning than the others. So, it is recommended to highlight the keywords in bold and italics, or to put them between <strong> and </strong>, or between <em> and </em>.

Using links

Some believe that we shouldn't use links in the posts because this way we are giving away our Page Rank. This is not quite true, using referral links to sites that have already shaped their credibility, will also help us to shape our own. Certainly, we should not flood our posts with links, but we can do it when is necessary and especially with sites that address the same topics as you.

Also, avoid putting the typical "click here" or similar texts. When you put a link, the anchor text should be fairly descriptive.

Examples:

<a href="Link URL">Click here</a> to know more

More information about <a href="Link URL">digital cameras</a>

In the first example, the anchor text is not relevant and descriptive, in the second it is.

Illustrating with images

Articles with images are not only visually appealing, but might help the reader to understand what you are talking about, thus, whenever you can, use an image in your post to illustrate the publishing, but do not overdo it, because many images or very large images can slow the loading time of the blog.

New and relevant content

You should focus not only on writing many posts, but also making them relevant to your readers. New and original content is more attractive to the search engines than a copy & paste and actually, the last gets penalized. So try to write new stuff, even if you think that all has been said, it isn't so, each person has a different way of saying things.

Also, always try to get informed before writing an article; do a research and see if the information is valid, based on that, you will gain the trust of your readers.

With these few techniques you can increase the chances of positioning your posts on the internet. As I said earlier, these aren't things that no one heard about, but I know that many are beginners and don't know how to optimize the blog posts.

It does not hurt repeating that the positioning is not given overnight, but with some effort and patience, you should see the desired results over time.

How to do Directory Submission in SEO?

In my previous post, I shared a trick to check keywords ranking on Google and said to discuss about an amazing tip to build do follow backlinks to improve SERP position. Post Penguin Update, there are many ways you can follow to get quality backlinks for your blog like blog commenting, guest posting, social bookmarking etc. Except these, you can also do Directory Submission to gain quality dofollow backlinks. Using Directory Submission post penguin comes under the safest way to increase link building popularity of blog. Many newbie bloggers find it difficult to understand how to do directory submission for SEO. That’s why today I bring a tutorial to help all those bloggers so that they can learn about directory submission process. But before starting the process, let’s discuss something about web directories and their benefits for SEO.

What are Web Directories?

Before search engines, internet users used to search relevant information on web directories. Directories provide categorized information with best relevancy. But today we have great search engines like Google to search everything in a fast and quick manner.

What is Directory Submission in SEO?

Directory submission is a method to submit blog or website into web directories. It involves steps of adding website URL with site details into most appropriate category.

What is the Use of Directory Submission in SEO?

Directory submission is used to increase website indexing by gaining backlinks from top web directories. Quality backlinks improves our keyword ranking in search engines and help us to increase our blog traffic and page rank.

How to do Directory Submission for SEO?

Doing Directory Submission is not so tough job. Only you have to do is follow below steps one by one.

1. Go to this Directory Submission Sites List.


2. Open any site to start doing submission for example Jayde.com.


3. Choose relevant category for your blog according to your blog niche.





4. There are many sub-categories also. So, go in deep as much as possible.


5. Once you find the most appropriate category for your blog, click on Submit Your Site link at the top right corner.





6. A form will appear to fill. Fill all the details and information about your site like Title, Description, your Email ID etc and submit the form.



7. You are done!

Final Words

This was the basic process to do directory submission. As same as Social Bookmarking Tips, there are tips for directory submission also. You must care about them to do better SEO for your blog or website. I will discuss those tips into my next tutorial but only when I receive positive response from you and share on social media sites for this post. Stay tuned for part-2 of this tutorial. Happy Blogging.

Get Naughty Smile With Immense Blog Traffic

This is the commonest thing I do hear co-bloggers complaining about, finding ways to boost their blog traffic either by following the normal procedure like targeting certain keywords, using catchy blog title, optimizing the image for search engine using image alt tag, blog comment, guest blogging and all the like.
All these aforementioned point are what many blogger does to generate quality traffic to their blog but many discovered it doesn’t work for them while it works for most bloggers and to others, it brings to their blog quality backlink, however you have done all these and nothing work for you try these awesome tips to get naughty smile on your face with immense traffic to your blog.

Get A Naughty Smile On Your Face With Boost in Traffic :D

3 Ways To Build Your Blog Traffic

1# Give a free report:

Your blogging niche doesn’t matter, either specific or general  blogging niche as long as it is what people demands to learn and know about, then the tendency of generate quality traffic is very high.
This is not to stress yourself or give yourself a headache or a hectic hour about writing pages as if it a textbook, you can just write maximum number of 10 pages, convert it to PDF and give it out as a report or using online tools to reveal to people that the same method can be used to brand their product and have their name boldly typed at the back with you blog link and relevant blog post in the report for more information.

2# Build credibility using forum:

This is one of the best way to generate blog traffic. I remember in a comment on a month anniversary of my blog, a commenter encouraged me to venture into forum participation (a pro-blogger) for that matter, meaning forum count a lot in blog traffic and to get exposed to your audience using forum signature and work with forum as an expert by contributing immensely to bringing more ideas either to existing topic or your now created topic.
Join existing conversation, reply to conversation, subscribe to reasonable topic, and create your own topic for people to learn from you and with your profile having your signature, you will be able to drive more traffic to your blog as long as there is a signature beneath your name and you give a reasonable information or ideas in your topic. 

3# Offline marketing is necessary:

Don’t let this escape your mind that online marketing is one way to the extreme, by advertising your blog, joining blogging group, blogger forum, seo forum, and all the like; there is no limitation to the number of traffic source you can venture into as long as it’s not against Google Adsense TOS so that search engine will not dis-indexed your blog and, making some offline tactics to build traffic is really encouraged in building traffic.
I once published on how you can make use of your friend as a source of your blog traffic, and this really work. Spend some cent in printing handbill about your blog offers, what your blog is all about and share it amongst your friends or colleague and chances are that; that getting direct traffic to your blog is very high. Make your handbill graphics more professional and look catchy, definitely this will drive more traffic if properly done and in a polite way.

Conclusion:

High traffic = high income; building quality blog traffic for a start can be tough at times but when the properly steps are followed definitely the traffic will keep coming over the time and this is what I referred to as a last long blog traffic.

Social Bookmarking Tips For Better SEO

Yesterday I shared a tutorial on How to do Social Bookmarking For SEO and today I will continue that topic in detail with some tips which we should keep in mind during social bookmarking to prevent our blog or website from spamming.
When I was first come to know about social bookmarking, many questions arise in my mind and then I tried my best to get the answers of all those questions.
In this post I’ll share those questions having their answers with you so that you can learn everything in detail and do better SEO for your blog.
I must recommend you to read my previous article if you have not read it yet. It will help you to know about social bookmarking in detail. Now let see how to do social bookmarking effectively for better SEO.

Social Bookmarking Tips and Suggestions

Below are some tips and suggestions in the question answer form. Read all of them carefully to know about the points which we should keep in mind during social bookmarking.

1. Which sites should we use for Bookmarking?

In my previous post, I shared a website which has a huge list of social bookmarking sites. But you should not target each of them.
There are many sites in that list which gives you a nofollow backlink which have not so important for SEO.
So, use only dofollow social bookmarking sites so that you can build quality dofollow backlinks for your blog. It will help your blog to achieve better position in search results.


2. How Much Bookmarking should we do on a Same Site?

The answer of this question is depends on the page rank of the bookmarking site.
Quality websites with high page rank are in limit so you can bookmark your all links like homepage and internal pages in them.
But there is no limit of the sites which have low page rank. So, for better performance always keep in mind to submit only a single link either homepage or internal page.


3. Limit of Social Bookmarking in a day?

Excess of Everything is bed. SEO is a process of smart work with logic.
Social Bookmarking gives you backlinks but if you do limitless SB on a single day then it will considered as spam in the eyes of Google. Hence you will waste all of your hard work.
Always do SB in limit like 25-40 per day. Don’t cross the limit if you want better results. If you do SB in proper manner then your blog traffic will increase day by day.


4. Can we Use Same Description in Each Bookmarking for Single Keyword?

Absolutely not! This is highly recommended not use same description in each of your bookmarks. You can do as many SB as you want for a single keyword but it should be of quality.
If you put same description in each of your submissions then it will only look like spamming. You will never be able to get results from your bookmarks. So always change little bit in your description with each new bookmarking.
Note:: Your title, description and tags must be different from each of them. Don’t include your blog title in tags or description. You must need to be original at every step to build up your blog to increase its traffic and page views.

Final Words!

These were the social bookmarking tips which will help you to better use SB for SEO. I tried my best to make this post as informative as possible.
If still you have any doubt then you can ask me here by leave a comment below this post. If you don’t want to take any SEO risk then you can hire me to do professional SEO for your blog.

Use Social Media Sites for Higher Ranks in Google

So, SEO has been changed since a long time. Google has been implementing changes in their search engine algorithm and now because of those changes, the SEO strategy has actually changed. The search engines now expect to see some social media activities of your website in the social media sites as well – which means social participation of your business. Google actually makes the things clear – the more your social participation is seen, the more your website would be seen on their search results.

Social Media Sites Improves Ranking

The recent updates including the one in the Penguin world has brought such changes in the search engine policy. You are going to be ranked favorably provided that you are the authority of your business. They observe your interaction with your customers and it can be easily done over the social network; probably that’s the reason behind measuring this change in the searching policy. If you can manage to do the socialization in the right way, you will get higher ranking. Now, how do you do that? It’s easy if you know exactly where to click. You have to know what your consumers actually want from your business. Share lucrative posts on social media about it – be it a service, or product. If you can make them interested – they will share without you telling them to do so. The more shared, reposted, re-tweeted that post gets; the more exposure and rank you earn in Google.
And where are you supposed to do that? In the social media, the ones that get the most hits and here are six of them.

1# LinkedIn

No matter what social network you use for socializing, the most priority should be given on completing your profile first. When you fully complete your LinkedIn professional page and your personal page with profile picture and all the details, you get the advantages of being in touch with the professional people in your workspace orbit. Also, Google prefers results from LinkedIn.

2# YouTube

Google’s own this media sharing site and is a great tool for promoting your business for almost free. You can put video promotional about your product or service and get the attention of your consumers. Videos up to 10 minutes are completely free so it won’t cost a single penny for many businesses. And if done properly, video marketing makes your business more attractive to the consumers.

3# Facebook

There is forever running debates on the cyberspace about how Facebook will or will not lose interest to its users in the future. As we can’t see the unforeseen future so we don’t have any comments on that but Facebook clearly is the most popular social network these days. Proper use of this tool will surely get you the most consumers worldwide.

4# Twitter

It has become ‘embedded’ in many souls all around the world. Twitter has clearly showed how a 140 lines tweet can severely impact people’s lives. I don’t there’s much to say – just use this tool properly.

5# Pinterest

As people can pin and re-pin their interests to this social network, make sure your posts get enough pin to make the other consumers interested. That’s how you engage your potential customers.
So now given that the social networks to higher your ranking, get to work. The more you make the correct use, the more you earn higher ranking in Google and don’t forget to check previous post on this blog written by Varun to know how social media sites plays best role to increase referral traffic to blog.

[INFOGRAPHIC] 9 Ways To Make Your Blog Successful Using Pinterest

Marketing the blog in the right way have great leverage on blogging success. It’s the best practice to promote our content, product or any service to the targeted audience or buyers. But how to market the blog? How to get the potential readers or viewers to our business website or simply say to our blog?
Here at BloggerTipsTricks, we already have discussed about the various ways to drive eager new readers to a blog either it’s using social media sites or by using any promotional strategies. If you are not regular with our updates or haven’t read our promotional strategies yet, then I must recommend you to go through following guides.

9 Ways For Brands To Be Successful on Pinterest

Pinterest is not only a place for pinning the images. It’s much more that. It’s now evolving as an Online Marketing Tool. It’s emerging with a very fast speed and if you left behind, then you’ll lose a serious market – a market of potential readers or customers.
In this infographic, you’ll learn how Pinterest can be a great online marketing tool for your brand, blog or website.

Infographic Credit: visual.ly

Final Words!

At last, I just wanna say that if you are not using Pinterest to promote your blog, then start using it. It’s really great and you can get huge traffic from it.
Read: 7 Smart Tips To Drive Traffic From Pinterest To Your Blog
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Top 10 Directory Submission Tips For SEO

In my previous tutorial, I shared step by step guide on How to do Directory Submission in SEO. If you have not read it yet, then I recommend you to read it first because today’s post will continue that topic. Without knowing the previous information, you will not be able to understand what I’m going to share today in this post. Most of you will definitely know about directory submission and its benefits in SEO but there are some tips and suggestions that you must keep in your mind during doing directory submission for your website or blog. Tips which I am going to share below are very important. They will help you to use directory submission sites effectively and you will be able to take proper benefits from them for your blog Search Engine Optimization. So, without taking your any more time, let’s discuss those tips.

Directory Submission Tips for SEO

Below I am going to mention all of my tips and suggestions so that you can learn about directory submission more efficiently.
Tip #1: PROPER DATABASE

Make sure, before you start doing directory submission for your blog or website, first make a proper database of Directory Submission sites list. Pick and use those sites from your database one by one. It will help you to remember which site you have already used to do submission and from where you have to start now.

Tip #2: NEVER SIGN UP

You have no need to register for an account to submit your link. You can directly submit your links without any sign up. Why waste your precious time to create account on multiple directory submission sites. Just go to the directories and start submitting the link.

Tip #3: CHOOSE CATEGORY FIRST

When you are ready to do directory submission, make sure you first select the most appropriate category and then click on Submit Link button. Most of newbie bloggers directly click on Submit Link without choosing the category. You can select the category later also but it will be difficult to choose most appropriate category from the list of all the categories.

Tip #4: CHOOSE PROPER CATEGORY

To take proper benefit of your hard work, you need to submit your site’s link in proper category. Don’t submit your link in any irrelevant category. If there is no appropriate category in that directory submission site, then try to pick as relevant category as possible and submit your link in that category.

Tip #5: MAKE REPORT OF DATA

After selecting the most appropriate category, you need to click on Submit link. But before clicking the Submit link, first copy the URL of that category from your browser’s address bar and keep that URL in any text editor. You can use MS-Excel and prepare a proper report of that URLs so that you can easily find your link after approval.

Tip #6: FILL UNIQUE INFORMATION

During filling the form to submit your link, always keep in your mind that you must fill as unique information as possible. By unique information, I mean to say that don’t fill same data (especially description) in all the directory submissions. Each submission should be unique and original.

Tip #7: CHOOSE REGULAR LINKS

All directory submission sites provide three options for submitting the link, Featured links, Regular links and Regular links with reciprocal. Always select regular links because selecting featured links will charge you some cost. Why pay if we can submit our link for free. And if you select regular links with reciprocal, then you need to put link of that directory on your blog. And nobody will like to build blog a link farm.

Tip #8: CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL ID

Once you submit your link in directory submission sites, make sure you check your email account for confirmation link. Usually it takes few days to receive confirmation link. You need to check your emails daily. Once you receive the email, click on confirmation link to confirm your email address. You submission will not approve if you fail to confirm your email address.

Tips #9: WORK IN LIMIT

You need to make a plan with your keywords after doing a keyword research. Select your keywords and then do at most 10 directory submissions for single keyword. Never exclude this limit for same day. You can do more submissions next day. Always try to change your keywords day by day. Never target same keyword whenever you use web directories for link building.

Tip #10: SUBMIT SINGLE LINK

If you are targeting different pages with different keywords, then don’t submit every links in same directory. Only submit one link per directory. It will give your blog more exposure and popularity in search results and your blog will always be protected from every SEO penalties.

Summary

These were the top 10 tips for directory submission for SEO. In short I just want to say that always submit your links with different description in each directory and try to target those web directories which have good Page rank and better Alexa ranking. Only those directories can provide quality backlinks for your blog. I hope you guys will find these tips helpful. Please leave your valuable feedback below this post through comments and let me know your own thinking about directory submissions in SEO.

Google Penguin 2.0 Update Recovery Trick for Bloggers

After Penguin 2.0 update, bloggers, whose blog got hit, are worrying to recover their blog from the penalty. They are definitely looking for all the working methods on search engines to get their blog recovered. What they are doing is really obvious because they lose their targeted traffic and ranking in search results. In my earlier post I tried my best to share some Google Penguin 2.0 Update Recovery Tips and I got awesome responses from my readers and other bloggers too. That’s why today I bring a Trick that will increase the chances to get their blog recover from penguin penalty. So, let see what the trick is.

Google Penguin 2.0 Update Recovery Strategy

Before I reveal this trick, let me tell you one thing. If you apply this trick on your blog, then you must keep your blog closed for search engines until all of your blog pages not get deindex from Google. It can take few days, weeks or even a month. So, now this is up to you either you should use this trick or not. Now let’s begin the tricky part.

Google Penguin Recovery SEO Process

1. Do some settings in your blog to protect it from indexing in Google.
   Follow this tutorial: Prevent Blogger Blog From Being Indexed in Search Engines
2. Now wait until all of your blog posts not get deindex from Google.
3. In this time of period, don’t sit relax. You have to do lot of work in this waiting period. You need to optimize your links, already published posts etc. Do everything which I told do to in my previous post.
   Read it here: Google Penguin Recovery SEO.
4. When you finished doing all the updates, simply undo the settings which you did in step #1.
5. Now all of your blog posts will start get index by search engines and your blog will surely get recover from penguin penalty.
6. That’s it

How Does This Trick Works?

This is really a genuine question that how this trick can help us to get our blog recovered from penguin update penalty? Let me tell you what exactly we do. When we restart indexing our blog after updating all of our blog posts and backlinks, search engines considered it as a newly launched blog. And now you tell me how can a newly launched blog get hit by penguin? Lol!

Final Words!

So, this was the little but effective trick to recover blog from penguin effect. If you are one of them whose blog got hit, then I recommend you to use this strategy. Hopefully you will get positive results. If you like this post, then please do me a favour by sharing this trick with others. Thanks and wish you all the best for your penguin recovery process. In my next post, I’ll share some best post penguin SEO tips that will help you do to better SEO of your blog. So, keep your eyes glued on my blog and subscribe it to get updates. Take care!

How to Recover Blog From Penguin 2.0 Update Penalty?

Google Penguin 2.0 update that was rolled out on 22 May 2013 is the trendiest topic for the discussion among the bloggers and webmasters. Where lot of spammers got affected and lost their ranking in search results, hard workers also got awarded by this update. There is really a big change in search results after Google released this scary penguin update. According to Matt Cutts official blog post about Penguin 2.0 Update, 2.3% of English-US queries are affected after release of this update. From past few days, I getting too many emails of my blog readers that they lost their traffic and ranking in search results. They all ask me same question that how to recover their blog from penguin penalty? I want to let them know that I’m not an expert but as per my knowledge and experience, today I’m going to share some tips that you must try to get recovery from penguin 2.0 penalty.

Recover Blog from Penguin 2.0 Effect

Below I’m going to share those mistakes that bloggers do to invite penguin to feed their blog as its breakfast. After each mistake, you will get its solution. So, let begin the recovery process.

Low Quality Links

If you have low quality link profile then the chances are higher to get hit by penguin. Low quality links can be of:

1. Leaving spam comments on other’s blog
2. Low Quality Guest Post
3. Links from sites having low DA (Domain Authority)
4. Non Relevant Links (links from unrelated websites or non relevant to your niche)
5. And many more..

Solution:

1. First analyze your backlinks using online tools like Ahrefs, Open Site Explorer etc.
2. Make a list of low quality links (PR 0, low DA) and send a request to site owner to remove that link.
3. List down remaining links and disavow them using Google’s Disavow Link Tool.

Focus on quality of backlinks your are building for your blog. Always try to build quality backlinks to stay safe from such penalties.

Low Quality Content

Publishing low quality content on blog can also be a reason of getting hit by penguin penalty. Low quality content means:

1. Duplicate Content
2. Missing Content
3. Keyword Focused Content
4. And you know what I mean…

Solution:

1. Start posting original content on your blog.
2. Edit old incomplete posts to add more worth to them and make them alive.
3. Provide links to reference sites where necessary.

Exact Match Anchor Text

If you are focusing only single keyword to get link for your blog or website, then this is the biggest mistake you did in your link building process. Penguin hates this type of practice that bloggers do to rank for particular keyword.

Solution:

The best solution of this mistake is: Use Anchor text diversity. Never use same keyword everywhere when building link for your blog. Below are four types of anchor text that you must try to use.

1. Exact Match Anchor Text: Use same keyword in your link for which you want to improve visibility in search results.
2. Partial Match Anchor Text: These types of anchor texts have some additional words with the exact match anchor texts like if you want to target Blogger SEO Tips, then you can use your anchor text as SEO Tips for Blogger.
3. Zero Match Anchor Text: These types of anchor texts have no any keyword in them. You can use some common words like “Click here” to link your web pages.
4. Branded Anchor Text: This is the last type of anchor texts. Instead of using any keyword, you can use your blog URL as anchor text like BloggerTipsTricks.com.

These are the four types of anchor texts. Use them to make diversity in your anchor text and try to maintain a proper ratio between them.

Final Words

So, these were the 3 tips to recover blog from penguin 2.0 penalty. If you know other tips that can help bloggers to recover their blog from this penalty then please share them here through comments. I’ll be really thankful to you for your kind support. Happy Blogging!

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Optimize Internal Links to Boost Blog Ranking

Internal linking within content is very important. As you may already know, website or blog that provide easy navigation to its users most loved by Google and internal linking plays a vital role in improving website’s navigation.
Users feel it easy to navigate from one page to another of the website if you provide them relevant links within your content. Using internal linking wisely can help you to improve your rankings in search results. Hence you will get really targeted traffic to your blog.
You may notice that webmasters put relevant links in their content which is a form of internal linking. Newbie bloggers also use this internal linking methodology in their blog posts but they fail to use it effectively. That’s why today I bring some tips that will help you to use internal linking effectively to boost your SEO rankings.

Using Internal Linking Correctly

Before we start today’s topic, first you need to know what is internal linking and what are its advantages. I have already published a post that covers this topic in detail.
Now, let discuss how to use internal linking correctly for better SEO.

Use Keywords in Anchor Text

Anchor text is the word or collection of words we used to create hyperlinks. Many bloggers use anchor text like ‘click here‘ or ‘see this page‘ to make hyperlinks in their blog posts. But this is not a good way to optimize the links. You must use target keywords as anchor text. It will make the job easier for search engines to understand the topic of linked post. Hence there are higher chances to rank for those keywords.

Use Title Attribute

I have checked many blogs and found that bloggers use alt and title attribute in their images to optimize them but only few of them are using title attribute for links. If title attribute is beneficial for images then why it can’t be used to optimize the links. Make use of them and start optimizing your internal links.

Never Link to Label Pages (For Blogspot Users Only)

Many bloggers are doing this mistake. They use labels to create internal linking. You must know that posts are more important than labels because labels are only used to categorize the blog posts. We receive traffic from our posts only. So, instead of linking to labels start linking to related posts. One thing you can do is create HTML sitemap and use it to link in your content. It will also help you to increase your page rank. Read below article to know how HTML sitemap can use to increase blog Page rank.

Final Words!

This was the little guide on how to make effective use of internal linking in your blog posts. Always try to provide relevant links into your posts. It have other major benefits too like it helps to increase blog page views, reduce bounce rate etc and Google will also love your blog for easy navigation. So, start optimizing your internal links and make your blog’s navigation easier for your readers.

Adsense Ad Code Converter

HTML has special handling for characters like < and > symbols, so it doesn't work well with those characters where they shouldn't be.

Having spurious characters like those symbols in your text can have some weird effects - blocks of text not appearing, broken formatting, and generally just not seeing what you expect to see.

This can all be fixed by 'escaping' those characters. This process involves scanning the text for those characters, and replacing them with a special character-code that browsers can interpret as the correct symbol, without actually embedding that symbol in your text.

For example, the escaped character code for > is &gt;.

This tool automatically converts javascript ad code into the correct format so you can embed it directly into your new xml Blogger template. It’s perfect for converting AdSense, AdBrite, Chitika or any other javascript ad code you may have.

Instructions

Paste your Adsense code or any HTML in the empty box and then press the Convert button

How to put Adsense ads on Blogger/Blogspot

If you want to earn money from your site/blog, Google Adsense is the most popular service to monetize your blog or website content. When implemented, Adsense will display targeted Google ads on your blog and they can generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis.

In order to display ads on your site, you should first Sign Up to Google Adsense program.

Before adding your ads, keep in mind that Adsense allows only up to 3 ad units, 3 link units and 2 search boxes per page.

In this tutorial i will show you the three ways you can add Adsense ads to your blog.

1. Adsense Gadget

Use this method to add ad unit as a widget, in places outside the blog post area. You can position it by simply dragging it in Page Elements, just like any other widget. To add the Adsense Gadget, follow these steps:

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard, go to Layout and click on the "Add a Gadget" link on the right side.

Step 2. From the pop-up window, select the AdSense Gadget

Step 3. Configure ad format and colors (see the screenshot for more details)

Step 4. Finally, click on the Save button and you're done.

2. Inline Ads

This will display an ad unit at the end of each post. To show ads between posts:

Step 1. Go to Design > Page Elements and click the Edit link in Blog Posts gadget box.

Step 2. Check the "Show Ads Between Posts" box.

Step 3. Configure ad frequency, ad format, and colors. Live preview is provided beneath the settings.

Step 4. Click on the Save button to save the settings.

3. Adsense code

The most notable benefits of using this method are:

• You can place ad anywhere in your blog
• You can add the code anywhere in your blog template - in your post content or page.
• To find out which format perform the best, custom channels will help you to track the performance of specific groups of ad units.
• You can choose types other than ad unit i.e. link unit, search box.

To create an ad unit:

Step 1. Go to Google Adsense website.
Step 2. Click on My ads tab, go to Ad units and then click on the "New ad unit" button.

Step 3. Choose your ad type, choose format and colors and assign channels.
Step 4. When you have finished editing, click on the Save and get code >> button and copy the code provided.

To add an ad unit to your blog, you have the following options:

• Paste the code in a HTML/Javascript gadget
• Paste the code in the blog post or page HTML section, or
• Paste the code direct in your template. (if you choose this option, first you should convert adsense ad code)

If you have any more questions, leave a comment below.

How To Remove Blogger Threaded Comments

 

The Blogger Threaded commenting system allows a reader to reply to other reader comments on that post. Blogger supports threaded commenting with two levels - the original comment, and the replies to that comment. If you want remove threaded comments from your blogger blog, follow these steps:

Important!
Before anything, we need to make a back-up of our Blogger template so that if we do make any major errors, we can easily restore the original working template to our blog.

To make a back-up of your Blogger template, from your Blogger dashboard - go to Template and click on the "Backup/Restore" button on the right side.

Clicking on this button, will prompt you to save your existing template as an XML file to your hard drive. You can change the name of the file and choose the location to ensure it is easy to find if you need to use this later.

Removing the Blogger Threaded Comments (with reply option)

Step 1. Go to Template and click on the Edit HTML button

Step 2. Click anywhere inside the code area and press CTRL + F keys to open the Blogger' search box 

Step 3. Paste or type the following code - or the first line of it - inside the search box in order to find it:

<b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
            <b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
          <b:else/>
            <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
          </b:if>
        </b:if>
        <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
          <b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
            <b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
          <b:else/>
            <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
          </b:if>
        </b:if>

Step 4. Now remove it (you'll find this code twice and replace it twice) and paste this code instead:

   <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
          </b:if>
               <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
                     <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
     
        </b:if>

Step 5. Save the changes by clicking on the Save template button.

That was all!

How to remove/hide or add a Peek A Boo Effect to your Blogger Navbar

 

What is Blogger Navbar?
Frist time somebody creates a blog in blogger.com, a bar will show up at the very top of a blog page. This bar is known as the Blogger Navbar (Blogger Navigation Bar) and it usually appears by default at the top of every hosted Blogspot blog.

Blogger navbar functions include:

• [B] (blogger logo): takes you back to blogger's homepage
• Search Blog: you can make searches on the blog and results will appear directly on the page.
• Follow: you can follow the blog you're currently viewing (blog updates will appear on your Blogger dashboard at Reading List - if you're not logged, you'll see a Share link, which allows you to share you favorite blogs on social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Google buzz, and Google Reader)
• Report abuse: you can report a blog if you consider its content objectionable (e.g., pornography);
• NextBlog: takes you to a random, recently-updated Blogger blog.
• email address@: If you are logged in to your account, you'll see your own address here. Other viewers will see their own email addresses, or none at all if they aren't logged in.
• Post: Direct link to the post editor
• Design: this link takes you to Page Elements, where you can add gadgets/widgets for your blog
• Sign In/Out: This displays the appropriate option, depending on whether you're logged in or not.

Blogger navbar is available in several colors, and is configured in the Template tab in Blogger's interface.

It can be useful but the only real disadvantage is visual. If you have customized design, Navbar usually doesn't fit in.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to remove it or add a peek-a-boo effect.

Removing/Hiding the Blogger Navbar

Step 1. Go to: Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML:

 ... select the "expand widget templates" box

Step 2. Find (CTRL + F) the following line:

]]></b:skin>

Step 3. Just above it, paste this code:

#navbar {
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}

Step 4. Save your Template.

There's another way of showing a Navbar. It is called
"Hover Peek-a-boo Blogger Navbar":

The navbar will only appear when you hover around the area on the top. To see it in action, take a look at this demo

Add a Peek-a-Boo Effect to Blogger/Blogspot Navbar


Step 1. Login to your Blogger Dashboard, then go to Design >> Edit HTML > check "expand widget templates"

Step 2. Search for the following piece of code:

]]></b:skin>

Step 3. Add the following code just above it:

#navbar-iframe{opacity:0.0;filter:alpha(Opacity=0)}
#navbar-iframe:hover{opacity:1.0;filter:alpha(Opacity=100, FinishedOpacity=100)

Step 4. Save the template... and you're done!

If you have any questions, leave a comment below.