Google's Supplemental Index - Reduce Labels or Sink!

When you add your blog to Google it sends it's spiders to index your blog. The spiders index all the pages in your blog and arrange them into a Main Index and a Supplemental Index. You should take all steps possible to prevent your pages from landing into the Supplemental Index.............When people search using Google it returns the results found in the Main Index. If it does not find any

Blog and Ping to Attract the Search Spiders.

A Blog is a special type of website which has constantly updated content. Thus blogs are marked out by the search engines to be frequently crawled and indexed. Any links within blogs are also followed by the search spiders to their destination sites which are also indexed. Both these properties are made use of in the Blog and Ping technique to get websites indexed fast.............After you

Blog Backlinks Chart in Technorati.

Backlinks are a measure of the importance of your blog. These are links pointing to your blog or to your posts from other sites/blogs. Google considers them so important that they form the backbone of the Page Rank algorithm. Technorati also counts the number of backlinks to your blog in the last six months when calculating the Blog Authority. Here is a method to see a chart of your backlinks....

Where is Site Traffic Coming From?

There are some 70 million blogs according to Technorati and 120,000 are being created everyday. The probability of anyone finding your blog in this number is somewhat like finding the eye of a needle in a haystack! You have to know from where your visitors are coming. Once you know the source of your traffic you can work on increasing it. This is where you can take the help of Google Analytics...

Behold the New Google Analytics V2!

Google Analytics, the free website statistics analyzer from Google, has undergone a sea change and emerged in a new avatar! Google Analytics has everything it takes to show how your site is performing and where your traffic is coming from. Now it has been upgraded to Version 2 with many more features...........NEW INTERFACEGoogle Analytics V2 has a new interface which is more simpler and bolder

The Ultimate Blogger Wordpress Comparison Guide.

Beginners to blogging are attracted to the two platforms : Blogger and Wordpress as both are free. They are however confused as to which one to choose? To help them I have compiled a feature by feature comparison of the two blogging platforms. This is not to decide which is superior but to provide a comparison so that bloggers with different needs may choose between them............BLOGGER V/S

Picture In Blogger Header | Update.

Blogger has now introduced an easier way to put a picture in the Blog Header. Previously you had to either put in an image widget inside the header or put the link to the picture as a background property in the CSS for the header-wrapper. This required more manipulation of the template at the coding level. Instead now you can do this in the graphical interface of the Blogger Layouts............

Add Blog to Social Bookmark Sites and Increase Traffic.

If you wish to increase traffic to your blog you should add your blog and or specific posts within your blog to social bookmark sites. You should put social bookmark site icons below all your posts to enable your visitors to add your posts instantly to them. You can add one social bookmark instead of many to avoid the clutter..........Before adding this you may want to monitor your traffic to see

Put Google Video In Your Blog.

In the last post we saw how to put a YouTube Video Playlist in your blog. We have already seen how to put a YouTube Video in your blog. Today we will look at how to put a Google Video in your blog post...........First you will have to register and get a Google account. Then go over to Google Videos and if you want upload your videos by clicking on the Upload link at the top. If you want to put in

Put YouTube Video Playlist in Blog.

You can put a YouTube video in your blog posts. You can also use Google Video in your blog posts. Recently Blogger introduced two new Page Elements - the Newsreel and the Video Bar. Today we will see how to put a YouTube Video Playlist in your blog post.........CREATE A VIDEO PLAYLISTFirst you will have to create a video playlist. To do this login to your YouTube account. Then if you have your

Tips to Speedup Blog Loading Time.

Your blog should load fast even on dial up connections or you will lose traffic. Test your blog speed at Speedtester. Just copy and paste your blog URL in the box and type the letters and click the button 'Check'. You will get the time taken for your blog to load in different connections. See picture below : Click image to see bigger viewHere are some tips to increase your blog speed............

How To Create New Pages In Blogger?

Newcomers to Blogger are confused as how to create new pages in Blogger. In a general website every page has a new link/URL. In Blogger however you do not create new pages. Instead you create new posts. A blog is an online diary where every post is dated with the date of it's creation and a timestamp. The date is at the top of the post and the timestamp at the bottom. If you create several posts

Technorati Authority and Top Tags Widgets.

Technorati has introduced a new index for blogs : Authority. Previously Technorati ranking was based on the number of incoming links from other blogs. The interface of the home page at Technorati has also been changed. Probably due to the immensely popular 'You fave me I fave you' meme going round in the blogosphere now the 'Favorited by' link is no longer prominently displayed on the home page.

How To Increase Google SearchRank?

Google Page Rank is the star and everyone talks about how to increase it. However it is updated at long intervals of three to four months or even later. What is more practical is for the site to come first in the results page returned by Google to queries from viewers. When your site/blog comes up in the first few results then there is a rapid rise in traffic to your site..........WHAT IS SEARCH

Google and Technorati PageRanks Compared.

Google Page Rank and Technorati Rank of a web page are the two main indexes used to judge web page quality. Another index is Alexa Rank. We have already seen the methods used to increase Google Page Rank. We have also seen the importance of Technorati Rankings for blogs. It is essential to compare the two ranking systems to understand how they work and what are their advantages and disadvantages

How To Increase Google PageRank?

Google Page Rank is a quantitative measurement by Google of the importance of a website. Google uses a complex equation to arrive at a value for the rank of a page. The higher the rank the better your site is visible among the billions of sites out there and better are chances of people finding your site..............WHAT IS GOOGLE PAGE RANK?Google Page Rank is a number between 1 to 10 given to

Tips to Customize Blogger Template.

Many bloggers are confused how to start customizing the template. Everyone wants their blog to look different from the rest but do not know the different sections of a web page and how they relate to the code. I have already posted on some practical aspects of hacking the template. Here are some tips on how to delineate the various parts of the template.........I have already described the