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.