TodayTag: December 2013

Tuesday 17 December 2013

Showing Post Title Before Blog Title In Search Results

By default your Blog Title appears before the Blog Post Title in the search results. This slow down traffic to your blog. In order to optimize your blog post title and make blog post title appear before the blog title we need to change blogger default settings. This simple blogger trick helps in better SEO and make your blog search engine friendly. In this simple tutorial i will teach you to make blog title appear after the blog post title. So lets get started.

If you are using blogger default template or some old template then you must need to do this, but if you are using some third party template then blog post title may be already optimized. You may double check it, Its good to be sure. After completing this tutorial your blog search results should look as demonstrated below.

How To Optimize Blog Post Title

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template and click on Edit Html

2. Backup Your Template to be safe if you mess something up.

3. Now search for code given below.

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

4. Replace the above searched code in your blog with the code given below.

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

5. Now save the template. You are done!
6. It will some time before search engine crawls your page. But you can check it right away from your browser as show below. As you can see post title i.e 4 Awesome Faceb... is visible before blog title.

Search Results Before And After Blog Title Optimization

You may check change in search result title in search result after changing the code in your blogger template.

Any Problem ?

If you got any problem optimizing your blog post title or have any suggestion then leave a comment below i will be glad to help you out. Don't forget to subscribe to our daily tutorial update, like us on facebook, +1 on Google plus. Thank you!

Top 3 Effective way To Increase Traffic To Your Blog From Facebook

Facebook is the top social mediawebsite, morever it is ranked second after Google according to alexa. It has around 1 billion active users and recieve more then 3 billion likes and comments everyday. So you can imagine the amount of traffic you can generate to your blog from facebook by taking some effective steps. In this article i will share with you few tips to increase traffic to your blog. If you are following this methods then its really good, but if you are not then you must start following as it will really help you to reach more audience and eventually result in greater traffic.

1. Making Facebook Fan Page

You can increase traffic to your blog by making a fan page or brand page of your blog. Now a days majority of bloggers have a fan page. If a person likes your page he recieves daily update of your blog directly on his profile or news feed. The more facebook likes you have, greater is the traffic from facebook. If you don't have a fan page then go to facebook page and create one. Just creating facebook page is not enough, you will need a Facebook Like Box widget for your blog which will allow your blog visitors to like you facebook page from within your blog. In order to get this widget for your blog check tutorial given below.

2. Interacting Or Commenting

Interacting with people, helping them with their problems, appreciating fellow bloggers work can help you to stand out among other users and get you respect of other bloggers and even their followers. Commenting on their fan page, liking their post will make you visible or active in social media and help you to achieve more fans and the result you know, more traffic. But some bloggers try to spam by commenting on their profile or on every status they update with link to their page. Try to write few good thing about his post and sometime add link to your blog at the end of comment. Spamming will decrease your reputation among other fellow bloggers So Beware!

3. Adding Good Friends

Add some good facebook friends that are from your niche, who's blog posts you enjoy reading. By liking and commenting on their post, their followers will see your action on their page and might check your blog. If you blog content is good and impressive you might turn this visitors to your follower. This seem to look long process but it really effective and works very well.

Top 5 ways to earn money online

In todays world everyone wants to earn some extra bucks especially youngster for their day to day need. Some work overtime, few do part-time job to earn some extra money for their living. And people always search for some alternatives to get better job and earn some extra bucks. Indeed their are many ways to earn some money which includes Making money online by working from your home. Youngster usually have plenty of free time which they can utilize to earn some extra money. In this post i will tell you about Top 5 ways to earn money online. Don't waste single second and start earning.

1. Blogging

If you don't know what is blogging then you must check this article What is blog and how to make blog ?Blogging is most common and you can make lots of money by blogging but their is bad side of it that you can not earn money over night. If you dont have patience then blogging is not for you. . It requires lots of efforts and patience. But once you have established successfull blog you can earn lots of money by monetizing your blog. But if you want to earn some real fast then below are some other ways to make money online. However if you are high school student then you must start your blog today because you have plenty of time require for blogging and before you will enter college you will be earning good amount of money.

2. Freelancing

If you are good at writing then freelancing is another good way of earning money online. And its completely different from blogging. In freelancing you can earn money by submitting you article to article directory. Unique and quality article will make you earn lots of money. If you are focus on your path and have good publishing platform then you can make more then 1000$ per month. Most important in freelacing is good publishing platform and quality of your article. Below i have listed some good freelancing websites. If you think you can be a good freelancer then check this website and know more about their cost per article.

3. Uploading Videos to Youtube

You all have used youtube to watch videos but never thought to earn some money through youtube. Yes you can earn some bucks by Joining Youtube partner program. Google often invites people to their program if your videos are hit on youtube i.e More like and views. Then you could display adsense ads on your videos.

Not much but learn little video editing that you could learn over the internet. Start making quality videos and apply for youtube program. Below are list of countries where youtube partnership is available.

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden and the United States.

4. Online Surveys

There are many websites which pays you for taking surveys. The aim of such comapnies or website is to get feedback and do market research on a product. This is easiest among all ways listed here to make money online. Sign up for as many websites you can and start taking surveys to make some extra bucks. Such Few sites are listed below.

5. Question and answers

There are several Q&A websites that pays you to answer questions! Q&A websites are all about question that people ask. People ask all kinds of questions on such websites. So the websites hire people to answer those questions. Below are few webites which pays you for just answering the questions. Give it a try !!!

Share your thoughts !!

Tell us about your thoughts on Making money online. And what you would like to do in future to make money online. If you know some other ways to Make money online then share with us.

10 Awesome Tips To Make Your Blog Popular!

Making a blog popular is not an easy tasks. It takes lots of efforts and time. A successfull blog is not achieved over night it requires patience and hardwork. In this post i will share will you few blogging tips to make your blog popular. This are some of tips that every blogger must know to boost hisblog traffic. Especially if you have just started blogging or you are planning to start a brand new blog then don't miss this bloggers tips to have better future of your blog.

1. Blog Template (Look)

Choosing Blog Template should be your first step in starting a blog. As it says "First Impression is the Last Impression". Before reading your blog content what visitors see is your blog look So if the template is dark and messy you can loose lots of traffic. So always use bright and simple blog template.

2. Social Media

Social Media plays Important role in boosting your blog traffic. Most of blog recieve blog traffic from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ So its very important to increase followers on social media sites.

3. Attractive Post Image

While writing new blog article always add attractive images to your post. As it will attract more visitors to read your article. But always make sure to choose images that are relevant to content of your article.

4. Interact with Followers

Always stay connected with your blog visitors. Check your comments frequently and answer their queries. Appreciate them for their comments and reading your article.

5. Do not copy

Do not copy doesn't mean that you can not post what your fellow blogger had already posted. It mean that you can not copy and paste it on your blog. You can post it in your own style with your flavour and by giving credits to your fellow bloggers who first posted it.

6. Easy Navigation

You blog should be simple and easy to navigate. You can achieve this by adding a Drop down Menu, Categories List on the sidebar and widgets for Popular and Recent posts.

7. Post Length

The length of your blog should be about 700 - 1400 words. Your blog post should not be lesser than 700 words as google penalize such blogs. If your blog is on technology your post can be small but you should post more then 2 times a day. In simple words it depends on nature of blog but always try to post your article with more then 700 words.

8. Contests

Always start interesting contests that benefits your blog visitors to keep your readers active and increase your blog followers.

9. Post Regulary

Good blogger always posts regularly and keep their readers up to date on new technology. Posting regularly will helps you to increase your alexa rank.

10. SEO Friendly Content

Lean some basic about SEO and try to write SEO friendly blog post title as well as post content. This can really help you to make your blog popular.

Top 3 Effective way To Increase Traffic To Your Blog From Facebook

1. Making Facebook Fan Page

2. Interacting Or Commenting

3. Adding Good Friends

Set Up A Google+ Page For Your Blog Or Website

As you all know how good a facebook fan page ortwitter follow button prove to your blog in driving more traffic, same way google+ page can help you to achieve greater traffic. If you don't know google also offers its service to create Google plus fan page same as facebook for your blog or brand. The great thing that makes google plus better then other social media site is that it helps you to get better ranking in google search results. for example: More +1 you get better is your blog search results on google. So lets create one for your blog or website.

How To Make Google+ Fan Page

1. First Sign In to your gmail account and got to this Page.
2. Then click on Product or Brand from the options and select website and click on next as shown below.

3. Enter name of Your blog and url of your blog as shown below and click on continue.

4. Now Enter Description of your blog, upload a image for your page and a email address if you like and click on Finish.

5. Done, In my next post i will teach you to add google+ badge to your blog.

All You Want To Know About Search Engine Optimization Or SEO

Today i am going to talk about SEO and its important. SEO stands for search engine optimization. It is method or bunch of techniques performed by web devlopers or bloggers to achieve better ranking for thier websites or blog. Its method to increase visibility of your website amongs search engines such as google, bing, yahoo etc. For example: A better search engine optimized site are mostly one which get displayed on first few pages of google or bing search results when you search for particular keywords. SEO also helps to increase traffic to your blog. So lets learn more about search engine optimization.

What is SEO ?

As in introduction paragraph i have told you alot about it, SEO stands for search engine optimization. This is practice performed by web devlopers to increase their website rank. By optimizing site it makes easier for search engines like google and bing to index their site and inrcease flow of traffic to their blog. Their are lots of things that come under SEO such as site linking, using rich keywords, post title, post length and more. Below i have included importance of SEO.

Let me try to explain with simple example on image optimization. Suppose you added an image of tree to your blog, search engine will crawl that image but it will not describe what is that image. In order to let search engine know more about that picture we need to add an attribute with appropriate keyword or description of that image. This is just one technique of seo, there are many more such techniques. To know more about image optimization check out article given below.

It helps you in better ranking of your page on search engine.
It increases flow of traffic to your blog.
It helps in better indexing by search engines, hence increase in traffic and result in more revenue.

List Of Tutorial On SEO

This is the list of tutorial on SEO published by MBW. This list will be updated on regular basis as we published some more tutorial on search engine optimization.

Enable Search Description Or Meta Tags For Blog Post In Blogger

In this tutorial i will teach you to enable search description in blogger blog. This will allow bloggers to add search description to individual blog post from within posting area. Meta tags are important part of SEO and this feature will allow you to drive more traffic to your blog. By adding search description people can see what a particular blog post is all about when they search on any search engine. In short search description or meta tags are summary of your blog post.

How to Enable Meta Tags

First you need to enable search description for your blog homepage to add search description to individual post. In order to do that follow simple steps given below.

1. Go to blogger Dashboard and click on Settings > Search Preferences.

2. Now under Meta Tag, edit description as show below.

3. Then choose Yes for enable search dersciption and enter a small description for your blog in less then 150 characters. For demonstration i have added description for my blog as you can see in below picture.

4. Then save the changes.

Now you will have meta tag description for your blog homepage and also search description option within your post area. You need to manually add description for you article or tutorial each time you publish new blog post.

Description Not Showing ?

If you are using custom or third party blogger template then description might not be showing for your blog. In order to fix this we need to edit blogger template.

1. Go to Blogger dashboard, Template > Edit Html

2. Search for <head> and paste the code given below just after it.

<b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != ""'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='description'/>
</b:if>

3. Now save the template and done.

Importance Of Search Description

Search description will help web crawler to higher index your page based on summary or description you added. So its good practice to always add 2 or 3 lines summary about your blog post. This will result in increase in traffic for your blog.

Setting Up A 404 Error Page For Blogger Blog

In this tutorial i will teach you to enable andcustomize 404 Error page for your blogger blog. A 404 Error occurs when you try to visit a page that does not exist or has been deleted. Adding a 404 error page will let your visitors go back to previous page or Home page and will. This will allow to keep visitors engage on your blog for little longer and decrease bounce rate. The default blogger 404 page is boring and unattractive so we will be styling it using some Html and CSS to make it look more stylish. So lets add and style 404 Error page to your blog. check out live demo of 404 error page by clicking on button given below.

Live Demo

Creating 404 Error Page

1. Go to blogger Dashboard then Settings > Search Preferences

2. Now under Error and Redirection click on Edit beside custom page not found.

3. Inside the box paste code given below.

<div class='MBW-404-box'>


Oops!!!
 

Looks like you are trying to access page that does not exist or has been deleted. Please do any of the followings:

<ol style='line-height: 25px'>
<li><a href='javascript:history.go(-1)'>« Go Back</a> </li>
<li>Report the Problem By <a href='http://www.mybloggersworld.com'>Clicking Here</a>    (This will help us serve you better) </li>
<li>Go To Homepage by <a href='http://www.mybloggersworld.com/contact'>Clicking Here</a>
 </li>
</ol>
 404
Error Page Not Found
</div>

4. Now make following changes to above code.

Change www.mybloggersworld.blogspot.com to your blog address
Change http://www.mybloggersworld.blogspot.com/contact to your contact page
Replace #159b24 to change color of 404 text.

5. Then save the changes.

6. Now from blogger dashboard click on Template > Edit Html

7. Seach for ]]></b:skin> and paste the code give below just below it.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "error_page"'>
<style type='text/css'>
.status-msg-wrap {
font-size: 100%;
margin: none;
position: static;
width: 100%;
}
.status-msg-border {
display:none;
}
.status-msg-body {
padding: none;
position: static;
text-align: inherit;
width: 100%;
z-index: auto;
}
.status-msg-wrap a {
padding: none;
text-decoration: inherit;
}
.MBW-404-box {
background:#FFFFFF;
width:96%;
margin:10px 0px;
padding:15px 15px;
border:1px solid #b9b6b6;
-moz-border-radius:10px;
-webkit-border-radius:10px;
border-radius:10px;
box-shadow: 6px 6px 6px #e3e3e3;
}
</style>
</b:if>

8. Make following changes to customize 404 Error page

Replace #FFFFFF to change background color.
Replace #b9b6b6 to change border color.

9. Save the template and done.

How to check if its Working ?

In order to check if you implemented 404 error page properly on your blog and is working correctly visit link given below.

htttp://www.yourblogurl.com/somecrap (Replace yourblogurl with your blog address)

Brief Introduction To Blog And Steps To Take Before Starting A Blog

When we talk about blogging it is a new term coined in the World Wide Web or internet. The word Blog was propsosed by Peter Merholz. He used the word blog jokingly to his blog. Earlier it was known as weblog. As blog is the short term of weblog (web log) and it was coined by Jorn Barger and later by Evan Williams of pyra lab used the word blog in his product and the term blog become popular.

What Is Blogging And How To Create An Awesome Blog

It is type of website or journal used to express daily thought and ideas of individuals. Blog is different from ordinary websites. A blog is that where readers comment or give feedback below each articles, but some blogs did not allow comments. Blog is a popular word used worldwide today.

In one word you can call blog as an online diary where one can update their personal interest and business information. One can write about a specific subject they like most on blog about. So blog gives a way to be famous through cyberspace.

Blog is used to post their thoughts and ideas, tips, tricks, opinion etc. by individuals and companies. Blog remain a short history but I am not talking about blog history. In simple word blog is content oriented website where update is need regularly. We can post our opinions and information in any way in our blog.

How To Start A Free Blog?

Blog is very popular now a days. Starting a blog is very easy. We need a computer with an internet connection. If you want to make a free blog, google provides free blogger service where we can make free blogs. One can also use wordpress to create blogs. There are other free blog services such as tumblr, weebly etc Read below article to create a blog.

Content Is The King

You need some posts or articles and healthy contents on your blog to earn some money. In one word blog is a well arranged website with useful content. Keep regular posting with good contents. Because ‘content is the king’. Without proper content we cannot succeed in blogosphere. Search engines like Yahoo, Google, Bing etc wants quality content. So always write good and quality content.

I define blogger as hobby writer. If you are interested in sports you can write the events of sports, the activities of footballers, their performance in the field and other stuff related to their life.

If you are a tech expert you can review new gadgets in the market and solve tech problems on your blog. If you know blogging you can help other bloggers to earn money.

If you are photographer you can explain your experience in photography as well as teach others to be good in this profession. For example - How to become a good photographer? What is important in photography? How to take good photos ? etc

So the choice and interest is must here in blogging. Without any idea and creativity, passion and good content blog cannot attract your audience. We can get some ideas from other blogs. It can be your friends, your teacher or a fellow blogger of same niche. If you have good readership then you can place ads on your blog so that you could make some extra bucks.

Few Steps To Make A Professional And Good Looking Blog

Select a good and appropriate template for your blog.
Select a short name for your blog (Like we have MBW).
Make a tag line for your blog so that readers understand what your blog is all about.
Before writing find some ideas and informations and then plan what you want to share with your audience.
Always check for any spelling and grammar mistakes as it is most important.
Read your article carefully before publishing.
Use good and relevant images in your post.
Give a credit to other bloggers when you use their content or idea.
Provide helpful and unique content to your readers.
Don’t apply for adsense ads until your blog have 10-15k visitors.
Optimize your blog for SEO. Provide quality keyword for your contents.

These tips can help you to start a good blog and earn good money from blogging. I hope this information help you some extent to start a good blog. If you want more information about blogging keep in touch with us. In our next post you will get more info. thanks.