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Friday 14 September 2012

How To Prevent your Blogger Blog from Redirecting to Country-Specific URLs

Google, as most would know, redirects Blogger blogs to country-specific domains. For instance, if you open example.blogspot.com in your browser, you might be redirected to example.blogspot.in if you are located in India or to example.blogspot.com.au if you access the same blog from Australia.

The main reason why Google implemented country-specific redirection is selective censorship – they can now easily block a blog, or a particular page on a blog, in one country but still serve it in other regions.

Blogger and Country-Specific Domains

My traffic logs suggest that country-specific redirection in Blogger is now live in at least 15 countries. Here’s a complete list:

India [blogspot.in], Australia [blogspot.com.au], UK [blogspot.co.uk], Japan [blogspot.jp], New Zealand [blogspot.co.nz], Canada [blogspot.ca], Germany [blogspot.de], Italy [blogspot.it], France [blogspot.fr], Sweden [blogspot.se], Spain [blogspot.com.es], Portugal [blogspot.pt], Brazil [blogspot.com.br], Argentina [blogspot.com.ar], Mexico [blogspot.mx]

Prevent Blogger from Redirecting to Country-Specific Domains

This country based URL redirection does mean some negative consequences to your Blogger blog. For example:

The social stats – or Facebook Likes, Google +1s and Tweet counts – for your blog stories may be diluted as the URLs for the same story become different from different visitors.
You will have a similar problem if you are using an external commenting platform like Disqus or Facebook Comments.
Also, if canonicalization isn’t implemented properly, it may cost you some Google juice as external websites may link to your country-specific pages.

If you are not happy with the idea of Blogger redirecting your blog to a different URL, you can add the following piece of code to your Blogger template and it will always serve the .com address to your visitors irrespective of their geographic location.

Go to your blog inside the Blogger Dashboard and choose Template. Then click the “Edit HTML” button followed by “Proceed.” Next, copy-paste the following code into the template after the <head> tag.

Click the Save Template button and now your Blogger Blog will always serve with the blogspot.com URL.

This simple script parses the domain name (document.location.hostname) of your blog page and if it includes a country-specific URL (like blogspot.in), it will force-redirect the visitor to the blogspot.com address using the /ncr switch.Click the Save Template button and now your Blogger Blog will always serve with the blogspot.com URL.

Tuesday 24 January 2012

Meta Tags Expanded Full Tutorial | SEO

In my previous (All about Spiders, Crawlers, and Robots) post i have already explained about Spiders, Crawlers and Robots and its uses in seo serivces. Now today i am going to share another important part of SEO. As title of post shows that this post is well labeled about Meta tags. We are going on same path..
So lets start reading about another important part of SEO.

First of all, don't let me mislead you, meta tags are not the "magic bullet" that will skyrocket your site to the top of all search page listings. They are a tool that will help improve your standings in search engines that use them. Use them with other marketing strategies to garner more page views.

Another thing to remember: most search engines look at the body of text on your pages, as well as the page title. They take this information as higher relevance than any meta tags. So, be sure to always have a relevant <TITLE> on your pages, and relevant content in the body of the page. This will improve your rankings more than just meta tags alone.

What is a Meta Tag?

A meta tag is a hidden tag that lives in the <HEAD> of an HTML document. It is used to supply additional information about the HTML document. The meta tag has three possible attributes content,http-equiv, andname. Meta tags always provide information in a name/value pair. The name and http-equivattributes provide the name information and thecontentprovides the value information. Meta tags do not have a closing tag.

content
This attribute will always be found in a well formed meta tag. It provides the value information in the name/value pair. It can be any valid string, which you should enclose in quotes.

name
This is the name portion in the name value pair. You can use any name that you would like or that might be useful to you. Some common names are:

keywords - words that identify what the page is about, usually used in search engines

description - a short description of the page

author - the author's name and possibly email address

robots - to allow or disallow indexing by robots

http-equiv

This attribute is also a name for the name/value pair, but it is used by the server to include that name/value pair in the MIME document header passed to the Web browser before sending the actual HTML document. Some common http-equiv types are:

charset - defines the character set used in the page

expires - when the document will be out of date

refresh - sets the number of seconds to reload the page or reload to a new page

Reload the page every 10 seconds:

Reload to a new page after 10 seconds:

How to Use a Meta Tag

Meta tags are included in the <HEAD> of an HTML document. If you are using meta tags to improve your standing in search engines, then you should focus on your description and keywords.

The description tag

Use the description tag to describe what your page is about. Engines that use it will supply the content of this tag when displaying a list of links. For example, if you do a search on About.com, you will see the description listed on the search results page.

The keywords tag

Keywords help search engines to categorize your site, and to allow people to find your pages more quickly. However, most search engines have limits as to how many meta keywords are viewed. It is a good idea to review your keywords and make sure that they are as concise and specific as possible.

Wait for the next part linked with my topic seo services. In my next post i will provide a full tutorial on Sitemap. How to build and how to submit it..

How to create sitemap and how to submit it (Full Tutorial)

In my previous posts related to seo services i have well explained about crawlers, robots, spiders, meta tags etc..
Now today i going to share a must part of SEO which is called sitemap.
One thing that you can do to make your blog indexed fast by search engines such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing is by sending the sitemap address of your blog. Previously, Maybe you have known that sitemap address for blogger only added the code "atom.xml" at the end of your blog address, e.g. Vivek Creations blog has the address as follow:

http://www.vivekcreations.blogspot.com/

so the sitemap address to be registered would be:

http://www.vivekcreations.blogspot.com/atom.xml

If you use the feedburner service and then you redirect the feed address to sitemap address given by feedburner, there will be a notice that the sitemap you have submitted experiences error. The solution to this error is by adding one code ?redirect=false. For example, the sitemap address below runs error:

http://www.blogspottutorial.com/atom.xml

So to remove this error notice from Google webmaster tool, the submitted feed address would be added the code ?redirect=false at the end of fee address, e.g.:

http://www.vivekcreations.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false

The error message usually will be lost or it has been overcome, but it still leaves a peace of problem especially that in blogger or blogspot. It is about the pages indexed although there are a lot of posts in it. For example, Vivek Creations blog http://www.vivekcreations.blogspot.com/ has 121 posts, but Google webmaster toolrecords only 20 indexed URLs.

This question is often asked by many bloggers using BlogSpot machine. Are you one of them? If yes, please try the best way that I am about to give you below.

The best way to overcome the error message in Google Webmaster Tool is by using Blogger Sitemap Generator. With the Blogger Sitemap Generator, we can create a sitemap for our blogs and proven to be able to overcome the no-indexed posts.

The following are the way to use Blogger Sitemap Generator :

1. Please visit http://digitalinspiration.com/tools/blogger/sitemap/index.php

2. Enter your blog address into the empty field available, do not forget to write your complete blog address including the http:// and ends with / (slash) (e.g. http://www.vivekcreations.blogspot.com/ ), and then click the Create Blogger Sitemap button.

3. Records the sitemap address, copy and paste in notepad or other programs, e.g.:

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500

4. Also click the links to submit to Bing and Yahoo.

For those who have more than 500 posts, the sitemap address would be more than one,

For the next step, please login to Google webmaster tool to submit the sitemap you have created. If you don’t have Google account, please register here . Below are the detailed steps:

1. When you are in the dashboard of Google webmaster tool, please find the blog that you want to submit its sitemap.

2. Click Site Configuration

3. Click Sitemaps

4. Click Submit a Sitemap button. Copy and paste the sitemap address you have created at blogger sitemap generator ( atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 ), and then click Submit Sitemap. For blog with more than one sitemap ( more than 500 posts ), please repeat this step until all is done.

5. The submission process of sitemap is done. Usually, it needs time until one day to get this submission sitemap worked and indexed by Google. Please login again the next day to check out whether your sitemap has worked and been indexed or not.

I hope that with this way, your blogs’ sitemaps will be indexed fast by Google, and I hope the search engines will drive more visitors to your blogs.

Keep yourself updated on Vivek Creations for more seo services related posts.

Friday 13 January 2012

Blogger template similar to Facebook | Free Download

Ok friends today i am going to share a blogger template similar to facebook 2012. Its a well template creation, with just a preview like facebook :)

Features:

1. [New] facebook comments box lined or adjacent to the blogger comment box

2. [New] button like in every post.

3. The menu is diverse.

4. Readmore mounted.

5. And many others.

--- Demo

You can download it free of cost from here: Download

Monday 2 January 2012

How To Remove The Blogger Nav Bar

A lot of people who host their blogs on Blogger (www.blogspot.com) complain about the inability to remove the blogger navigation bar via their elements page. Indeed, if that's where you are looking, the only thing you'll be able to do from there is change the color to one of several pre-determined selections.

If you really want to remove the blogger navigation bar, you need to access your HTML template. Before I tell you how to do that, however, I'd like to first talk about why you may or may not want to remove the nav bar from your blogspot blog.

Main Reasons To Remove It.

It looks more professional without it: Depending on what your purpose for blogging is, you may choose to remove the blogger navbar because having one makes a blog look more like a free-hosted blog and less like a professional site worth taking seriously.
It gives you more space at the top of your page: This may not seem significant, but not having the navbar there does give you a bit more space for graphics. I have found this space to be quite useful when designing my own blogs.

Main Reasons To Keep It.

It makes editing a little bit easier: You can login directly from the blog itself, and don't have to worry about logging into blogger. You can also edit capsules from the main page, without having to go into elements.
You get a teeny bit of traffic from the "next blog" button: And I do mean teenie. I can't even recall the last time I saw traffic from it.

How To Remove It

If you've decided that you definitely want to remove your blogger navbar, it's actually a very simple process that any non-technically-inclined person can accomplish with ease. Just follow these steps:

1. Login to your blogger dashboard.

2. Click "Layout"

3. Click "Edit HTML"

4. Find the BLUE code you see in the image to your right. The code will be quite near the top of your HTML section, you shouldn't have to scroll very far at all. The blue code should definitely be there, but the data box you see may not be, depending on where your template came from.

5. ADD the code you see in red precisely where you it see it in the image to your right. If you want to copy and paste it, do so from the bold text you see below:

#navbar-iframe {

display: none !important;

}

Preview It First!

Use your preview button before you click save! If you like what you see, go ahead and save.

What happens if I want the navbar back in the future?

Simply go back into your HTML the same way and delete the part you just added. It's really that simple!