ADD ADVANCED META TAGS TO BLOGGER FOR BEST SEO

On my Previous post How to Add Meta tags for Blogger I described the Importance and how to use those tags for Better SEO. Today I will Give you the Advanced Meta Tags Through which your Blog will be at a Good Position on Search Engines. So keep up reading the whole article thoroughly.

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How to add Advanced Meta Tags to Your Blogger? 

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• First, Login to your Blogger and select your Blog.

• Go to Template –> Edit HTML –> Proceed

• Now Search for-

                                    <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

                                               

• Now Paste the Following Codes just after the above code-

<meta content='width=1100' name='viewport'/>
<meta content='all' name='robots'/>
<meta content='index, follow' name='robots'/>
<meta content='1 days' name='revisit-after'/>
<meta content='index,follow,noodp,noydir' name='robots'/>
<meta content=' description here ' name='description'/>
<meta content='Keywords here' name='keywords'/>

• Now Change Description and Keywords as your needs.

                   Description- Your Site Description on 200 Words.
                   Keywords- Best Keywords that Suits Your Blog (Separated By Comma)

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20 Twitter Badges to Show Off Your Tweets

There are a number of ways to promote your Twitter account. You can add yourself to one of the many growing Twitter directories, advertise your brand, or, as I'll discuss in this post, feature a badge with your Twitter information on your website, blog, or even in your email.

Here are 20 embeddable badges and widgets that you can customize to include your tweets and, in some cases, those of your friends. Have another badge or widget to add to the list? Tell us about it in the comments.

Twitter badges

Chris' Twitter Badge - A simple HTML badge that comes in the form of raw code you just copy-and-paste while changing a few links.  It will show your last four tweets and keeps the basic Twitter branding and logo from the site.

SayTweet - SayTweet allows you to upload a picture of your own, tag the Twitter users shown, and their tweets will show up in speech bubbles on the image as they publish them.

Sigpad - Sigpad asks you to enter your Twitter username and it then creates a bookmarklet you can add to your browser toolbars.  Once you've done this you can compose emails in AOL, Gmail, Outlook, Windows Live or Yahoo Mail, drag the bookmarklet into the body, and your latest Twitter update will be shown in the email when you send it.

TwitStamp - TwitStamp lets you set up an easy, attractive, and customizable badge that displays your latest tweet. You can select the badge's size, background and so on.  You can also set up a TwitCard that will show your name, avatar, bio, latest tweet, number of followers and more.

Twitter Statuses Badge - A Twitter badge that will show the last few tweets from your account, along with how long ago you posted them and the permalink to them so that people can go to them directly.  Can be customized via CSS to better match your blog or site.

Twitterati Badge - A very simple JavaScript solution for your badge needs that will let you set height, width, colors, border and so on.  Displays your tweets as well as those of your followers.

TwitterCard - One of the biggest complaints people have about badges for any service is that they don't fit in with their overall blog design.  TwitterCard tackles this complaint head-on by giving you a JavaScript powered badge to show all your Twitter info in the 125X125 format.  This will fit in perfectly with your ad units, or just about anywhere on your site without looking the least bit out of place with current design standards.  Also has the ability to be implemented via HTML or a WordPress plugin. (please note that the JavaScript was not working when we tested it, but the other methods were).

TwitterMySite - Enter your user name, any extra text you may want and in what color, and simply click "Generate my Button."  You'll be offered up a selection of different badges, all set with the variables you entered, ready for you to paste into your site.

U Stand Out Twitter Badges - U Stand Out offers up a nice selection of badges you can use for your site or blog that range from artsy to straight-to-the-point.

Vincent Abry Twitter Badges - A collection of Twitter badges for just about every taste in various sizes for all the different blog configurations out there.

WishAFriend.com Twitter Widgets - These Twitter widgets are all flash-based and offer you different themes such as holidays, fun, USA and so on and will display a scrollable selection of your most recent Tweets.  Just enter your username and then get the embed code to get started.

Twitter widgets

Bastawhiz's Twitter Widget - A customizable widget that lets you set the height, width and the number of tweets to display.  Each tweet is hyperlinked to the permalink on the Twitter site for easy access.

Blogger Buster Twitter Widget - A Twitter widget built specifically for blogs on Blogger.com.  Just enter a title for it, your username and the number of tweets to display and you're done.

Language Is A Virus - Language Is A Virus offers hundreds of different Twitter widgets that you first choose by the size small, medium or large, and once you've selected that, you can sort them by color.  Find the one you want and you have it as a badge or a widget, but if you go the widget route it will also display your last 5 tweets.

Official Twitter Widgets - Twitter offers a mixture of Flash and HTML widgets depending on the platform you wish to put them on.  Officially supported sites are Blogger, Facebook (via an application), MySpace, and TypePad. Twitter also offers generic widgets for other sites.

Sprout - Ever wanted to build your own widget from the ground up?  Well, Sprout will let you build them for several services, but Twitter is probably the most popular.  If you're worried about not knowing anything about programming, Sprout handles that for you by giving you the ability to just drag-and-drop the elements you want, but arranging them easily in the way you want.

TwiBadge - TwiBadge is a WordPress plugin widget that allows you to easily add the official Twitter widget to your site.  This allows you to show a group of your most recent tweets, your user name and number of followers, but best of all, it will also enable your readers to login and follow you so they can do everything right from your sidebar.

Twitter Widget - WidgetNest offers up a nice little Twitter widget that keeps the theme of the main site.  It displays your name and avatar, and your last several tweets scroll one at a time at a speed of your choice. Coding is available as JavaScript and Flash.

TwitterSalt - TwitterSalt allows you to customize your widget on their site and then just by using a single line of HTML code you can post your updates on sites, on message boards, in emails and more.

WordPress.com Twitter Widget - WordPress.com hosted blogs can't upload their own plugins, but they've been nice enough to add a built-in widget for you to add your tweets to your blog.  Just enter a title, your Twitter name and the number of tweets to display, and then you can just add it to your sidebar

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Add Meta Tags to Blogger for Better SEO

In this tutorial we will discuss, how to add meta tags to blogger blogspot blog, to improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of blog, and go beyond the limitations of the blogger platform.

You must have been to many articles that are telling, how to add meta tags to blogger

What are Meta Tags?
A meta tag is a line of HTML code that describes your site. It used to be the case that you placed meta tags at the top of every web page; one meta tag for keyword, another for a description. Although they would not be seen by viewers of your web page, search engines (such as Google) used them.

Keywords are those that best describe you business or blog's purpose. The description contains your keywords, but is sentence style. If someone used Google to search for one of your keywords (for example "blogging hub") and you were listed on the search results page, the meta description would appear under your listing providing the user with a brief summary of your blog.

However, because so many people abused meta keywords, many search engines don't use the meta tags in their algorithms anymore. But it doesn't hurt to include them on your blog.

Limitations of Blogger and SEO
Well, by default Blogger is not properly optimized for SEO. Meta descriptions and keywords are not supported. Title tags are also not optimized.

However meta tags and meta description can be inserted into Blogger template to make it Optimized. But make sure that you have done correction of your title tags, but if you don't know anything about title tags then please refer to adjust blogger title tags to improve SEO first.

How to Add Meta Tags to your Blog Home Page

1. Login to Blogger if not already logged in.

2. From the Dashboard, go to Design, Edit HTML.

3. Back up your template as a precaution by downloading full template to your computer.

4. Check the Expand Widget Templates box.

5. Find these lines which will be near the top of your template:

<head>

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

6. Paste the following code immediately below

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>

<meta content='Place your blog description here' name='description'/>

<meta content='Place your blog keywords here(separated by commas)'

name='keywords'/>

</b:if>

7. The blog description should be more then 120 characters and less then 150 characters including spaces.

8. It's important to use keywords, it is just as important not to overuse them. If you do, your site will be flagged as "spam" and won't show up at all on results pages. My recommendation is to keep your keyword usage to 4-8 percent. So out of 100 words, you should only use a keyword 4 to 8 times.

9. Click on Save Template button and you are done.

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Adjust Blogger Title Tags to Improve SEO

This article is related to SEO that how to improve search engine optimization for blogger blogspot blog. In this article we will discuss how to edit and correct the title tags of blogger blog to improve page rank in search engine results. By default the blogger title tags are not search engine optimized because the order is not correct the blog title is followed by post title which search engines really don't like and you could not get the targeted traffic that's why you have to manually optimize them, and this is a big disadvantage as compared to other plat forms like Wordpress or TypePad. Where they have built in SEO modules which help them to get higher in search results.You should also Add Meta Tags to Blogger for Better SEO.For this read my tutorial on
Add Meta Tags to Blogger for Better SEO

The default title tags of blogger are like that “first blog name and then post title or title of the post”, which is not search engine friendly and popular search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing don’t give them much importance. Instead of this the search engine gives more importance to the title tags, where the blog name comes after the post title. Following example will show you the main difference of default and SEO optimized title tags. First the default title tags which looks like Blog Name | Post Name.

As you have seen the default title tags there is just a simple trick with which it becomes search engine optimized and you could get the targeted traffic.

Before Applying Hack

 After Applying Hack

Following steps will help you to improve search engine rankings:

Editing Title tags for better SEO

1. Login to Blogger. From the dashboard go to Design > Edit HTML

2. Now find the code given below by simply pressing Ctrl + F key in the HTML tab

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

3. Now replace it with the following code (Ctrl + C copy, Ctrl + V paste)

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | 
<data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

4. And that's all you're done now click on Save Template and then View Blog.

As you have seen that your page title comes before you blog title. Now you will see a significant improvement in traffic accessing your site.

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Add Outbrain Ratings Widget to Blogger

Outbrain provides a free and very stylish content recommendations and ratings widget which can be easily added to your Blogger Blogspot blog. In this tutorial I will discuss the benefits of Outbrain and also provide a step by step walkthrough of the process of adding an Outbrain widget to your Blogger blog and your Feedburner FeedFlare if you have burned your blog feed at Feedburner.

Benefits of Adding Outbrain to Your Blogger Blog
By adding an Outbrain content and ratings widget to your Blogger blog you will encourage visitors to record their reactions to a post they have just read. Along with features likes polls this is another good method of encouraging visitors to interact with your blog. Outbrain also makes it possible to display your most popular posts within the widget. In addition the Outbrain ratings widget may help drive more traffic to your blog when your visitors use the Recommended Posts feature which is embedded in the widget. By the same token it may also mean that the traffic doesn't stay long as visitors will be wooed away by recommended links so you will have to weigh up the benefits versus the costs for yourself. Outbrain also provides reports on widget activity

How to Add an Outbrain Ratings Widget to Blogger
1. Register at Outbrain. This is a simple sign up process that requires you to click on a confirmation email once you have requested sign up and filled out a simple form.

2. Once registered click on Get the Widget from the footer menu

3. Choose Blogger as your Blogging platform

4. Select the language of your widget if other than English which is the default

5. Click on Get the Widget button and Outbrain will automatically refer you to Blogger in a new window. Sign in to Blogger in the new browser window. Don't close the Outbrain window as we will be returning here. 


6. Choose your blog from the drop down menu and click on the Add Widget button.


7. Navigate to Layout > Page Elements and reposition if necessary your new widget which will now be appearing in the sidebar of your blog. Save any changes you make.

8. Return to Outbrain in your open browser window and click on theclick here link to verify your blog. You will receive a message verifying that you have claimed your blog

9. Click on the View Blog link in the menu tab section and view your new Outbrain widget in action.

Note that once your readers start to rate your posts by clicking on them the stars will become yellow. 5 yellow stars is an excellent rating


Customizing Your Outbrain Ratings Widget

1. Return to the Outbrain window in your browser

2. Navigate to Manage Posts using the Sidebar Menu on the lefthand side

3. In the list of blogs you will see your blog listed. Click on thesettings link

4. If you leave the default setting you will see recommended links appearing as pictured above in #9. If you don't want any recommendations you can set this to no.

5. If you have set up your blog with the idea of earning a little extra money you may choose to turn off sponsored recommendations. If you leave the radio button set to yes any proceeds from the sponsored links clicked on will go to charity. The charity sponsored can be selected via the drop down menu

6. Outbrain will show the most popular posts in the sidebar of your blog if this feature is enabled. To enable popular posts select theenable radio button.

7. Click on the Submit button


Adding Outbrain to Your Feedburner FeedFlare
If you already have a FeedFlare appearing at the footer of your burned Feedburner feed of your blog you can easily add Outbrain too.

Go to Feedburner and choose your blog from the list of My Feeds. Select the Optimize tab and then FeedFlare from the lefthand sidebar menu. In the Personal FeedFlare section paste the following code (URL) into the text box:

http://widgets.outbrain.com/FeedFlareUnit.xml

and click on the Add New Flare button. Click on Save. Your readers will now be able to rate your blog straight from your Blogger feed.

Outbrain Troubleshooting Tips for Blogger Installation

• When you install Outbrain on your blog resist the temptation to rate one of your posts as this vote can't be deleted once it is cast. Even when I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the widget the vote did not clear.
• The Popular Posts feature takes a while to show any posts as it needs at least 2 visits before it will start rating the post
• If you have other problems with Outbrain try this active Outbrain support forum for answers

In this tutorial you have learned how to install the Outbrain Ratings widget on your Blogger Blogspot blog and customize it. Also some of the benefits of the Outbrain widget were discussed along with a couple of Outbrain installation troubleshooting tips. If you have a moment let me know how you get on installing this widget. Don't forget to bookmark this post for easy reference.

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Submit Blog to Blog Directories

This article discusses the benefits of submitting your Blogger Blogspot blog to blog directories and provides a comprehensive list of some of the best blog directories on the internet. This is an introductory article aimed at the new Blogspot blogger but is suitable for any blogger who wishes to build site traffic quickly.

Benefits of Submitting to Blog Directories

By adding your Blogger Blogspot blog to blog directories you are likely to increase your site traffic expotentially. If your site has been languishing in the doldrums and not getting the kind of traffic you were expecting it could be that you haven't generated enough inbound links to your site. Signing up to some top performing blog directories will create quality backlinks and expose your site to many potential visitors.

I have signed up for each blog directory in the recommended list below and in all cases have found that they have generated at least some site traffic. A few have boosted traffic considerably and have helped me establish new blogs quickly by generating an audience. One or two blog directories have more than exceeded my expectations.TopBlogList and Blog Catalog fall into this category attracting 10 or so unique visitors within a day of sign up.

How do Blog Directories Work?

Most blog directories require that you place their button somewhere on your blog. In some cases the button's function is to track visitors from your site to the directory. Some buttons may reflect the ranking of your blog in relationship to other blogs in your chosen category within the directory. If you see a number appear on the button it denotes your blog's position.

Get Organized Before You Begin Submitting to Blog Directories

To add your blog to a blog directory you first need to register. The sign up process will run more smoothly if you get a little organized before you begin. I suggest that you take the following steps first:

Craft a description for your blog of around 400 words

Check your feed details as you may be asked to provide the URL of your feed. This is especially important if you have burned your feed at a feedburning service like Feedburner

Make sure you know the exact URL address of your site. If in doubt navigate to your home page and check the the URL in the address bar

Decide which email address to use. Blog directories tend to create a lot of mail so unless you want to have your mailbox clogged up consider carefully which email address would be best. You may decide to start a new email address specifically to handle this kind of mail.

Decide on a username and password and stick to it throughout as it will make life a lot easier than trying to remember twenty different usernames and passwords

Determine your top six keywords and keyword phrases as most blog directories ask you to provide these tags

With such a big choice of blog directories to submit to I have found it pays to be systematic. Keeping a list of where you've signed up in Notepad or similar will help guard against double ups.

How to Add a Blog Directory Button to Your Blogger Blog
Most blog directories send out an email on sign up. Once you click on the link you membership will be confirmed. In most cases you will then be directed to a menu where you can begin adding your blog or blogs to the directory. Once you have entered the details of your blog the directory will generate the button code which can be copied and pasted into a HTML/Javascript widget. It is a good idea to place all buttons together in one widget for convenience and to reduce loading time. If you are uncertain how to add this widget to your Blogger blog please refer to my earlier post about Adding third party HTML/Javascript code to a sidebar widget. 


List of Recommended Blog Directories to Get Started
All of the blog directories listed below I have personally signed up for as mentioned above. The blog directories are in no particular order except that I have put Blog Catalog and Top Blog List first because I have found them good.


Blog Catalog
BlogCatalog is a social community for bloggers and one of the largest blog directories on the internet. It is a good option to begin promoting your own blog and to connect with other bloggers. BlogCatalog offers lots of linking options. You can add a button, a link to your blogroll or verify your site using a meta tag and dispense with a visible site link altogether. In addition you can add aBlog Catalog Readers widget to your blog like the one you see here.

Top Blogging 
Easy sign up. Only one keyword phrase permitted so make it a goodie. Ranking is based on unique visitors

TopBlogArea 
This blog directory tracks unique visitors. No option for visitors to vote. Every month statistics are reset to zero to give everyone a chance of being highly rated

TopBlogLists
Ranking of pages is done according to the number of unique visits each blog brings in to Top Blog Lists

Blog Top Sites
A nice control panel for site management. Ranking of pages is done according to the number of unique visits each blog receives in a month. 

Top of Blogs 
Ranks blogs according to the number of visits a blog receives in a certain amount of time (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.). 

BlogTopList  
Requires two buttons to be placed on your blog. One is the tracking button which tracks number of visitors and displays the rank of your site. The other button is the voting button. If a visitor votes for you it is equal to 100 unique visits .

BlogPulse
Tracks thousands of blogs. Submit yours. Try doing a check first though as you may be surprised to find your blog has already been located automatically.

BlogFlux
Over 140,000 blogs in the Blog Flux directory. Nice Control Panel interface.
Sign up is immediate although all blogs added are manually checked so there is a time delay before your blog will be included. 

Blogorama 
Top 100 most popular section. Score increases depending on variables like users ratings, incoming traffic and outgoing traffic.

My Blog Directory 

Blog of the day feature chosen on the basis of the number of unique visitors directed by the blog to the directory per day. The blog of the day gets the whole of the site traffic fof that day. Blogs are listed randomly so that every blog gets equal exposure. 


Other Blog Directories You May Be Interested In
I have not necessarily submitted a blog to these blog directories but I am providing a link if you want to follow it up. Not sure about overall chances of an increase in traffic with these ones though. 

Bloggernity
Free Blog Directory
Blog Rankings


Lists of Blog Directories
For a longer list of blog directories try: 
Great Blog Directories for a list of free directories

In this article I have discussed some benefits of submitting your Blogger Blogspot blog to blog directories. I have suggested ways to get organized to make the process less daunting and I have recommended some blog directories which I have personally signed up for to get you started. Adding your Blogger blog to these blog directories should result in an increase in site traffic

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