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Spider Test: Get a Spider Simulation for your Blog

Friday, 21 August 2009 0 comments

spider simulationAlthough you have submit your blog url to google, it doesnt mean that your blog will be indexed immedietly. Please check the google SERP page, whether the name of your blog is listed. If you feel its too long to wait your blog indexed by search engines, especially google, may be its a good idea to try to submit your blog url again, or could be you have to submit repeatedly.

Before submit your blog, I suggest you try to check your blog page. There is a possibility, your blog template isnt Search Engine friendly one. You can pay someone to do it. But you can also use the free spider Simulation service. This spider Simulation, will help you to find out some weaknesses of your template.

I most often use the services of Spidertest. I like it, because they have simple procedures. By using Spidertest, I know the effectiveness of my blog meta tags, and also knowing the keywords of my blog. By doing simulations to crawl your blog page, you can fix some errors, which most likely is a problem, so that your blog is not indexed search engine.

Please visit Spidertest, and enter your url in a field that is there. Press the check button. And you will know a few things that you may be able to fix on your template. Not only that, you can also know the 20 words that appear most often. Hmm, try to see, whether it is the keyword that you target?

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Changing the blogger default template

Tuesday, 18 August 2009 0 comments

In fact, the default template that provided by blogger.com has been very good. Its now depending on your creativity to explore. Actually, you can learn to make modifications to the HTML code of your blog template to make it suitable to you. Various things can be done, for example, add a column on sidebar,make two columns at the header, make three fields footer, and others. Many tutorials abaout that can easily can be found on the internet.

However, if you still feel the default template can not represent all of your needs, then you can change the template. Event if you dont want to be bothered own, you can use service of the free template provider . They usually provide a lot of templates that you can select according to your taste. Some that I recommend are:


1. btemplates.com
2. eblogtemplates.com
3. bloggerstyles.com

Please visit the site. Then, find the template that accordance with your wishes. I recommend that, before you download the template, you have to see the demo first, to ensure that the template is consistent with your expectation. If you are unsure, now you can download it, by pressing the dowload button that provided. Note that some available file is made in the extract files form. So, you must first extract it with your extraction software.

If you have done, then the next step is to install the template on your blog:

1.Please access your blogger.com account.

2.Choose 'Layout' and click 'Edit HTML'

3. Check "Expand Widget" and then click "Download Full Template".
You should do this, to anticipate when an error happen on the new template. If that happens you can restore your default template with again by uploading this file.

4.Klik the "browse"
You will go to your computer explorer page. Please find a new template that you have downloaded before.

5. When you have done, click the "upload" button.

6. Click "Preview" button first, to see the new look of your blog.

7. If you are unsure, then you stay pressing the "Save Template" button.

Congratulations, your blog already have a new template. Please complete the new template with your new widget that you like.

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Free Web Submision; Submit your blog to multiple Search Engines

Sunday, 9 August 2009 5 comments

To publish your blog, submit your blogs url to various search engines are the basic steps. I am sure, google is your first choice. Next, you can submit to Yahoo and MSN. By doing url submit, you are starting to get visitors to your blog.

Of course, Google, Yahoo and MSN, is the most popular search engine, so you can note them to a ‘must be’ category, hehehe. But you can also consider the other search engines. There are so many search engines, who also would have visitors, and probably different one. So why not try to drag visitors to your blog's from that other search engine.


Fortunately, you do not need to do its manually one by one, as you do when you submit your blog url you to google. By using the Free Web Submision service, you can do less than ten minutes. Its very easy to do:


1. Visit: freewebsubmission.com,

2. There are two columns available here, that to be fill in, consisting of:
a. URL Column,
b. Email column

3. Check Yes in the Agreement box,

4. Click the Submit your site button,

5. Access your email account, see the inbox, there are an email from FreeWebsubmission

6.Click the anchor text "Verify Membership" (or copy and paste the provided link into your web browser's address bar), you will return to Free Web Submission front page

7. Click Submit your site Button ones again, then you finish.

Note: Some search engines will send you a verification email. Just click the given link.
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How to Apply your blog to the Google index

Wednesday, 5 August 2009 1 comments

google indexIf you have successfully created a blog on blogger.com, the next steps you need to do is publish your blog. The very best way, of course register your blog to various search engines. Why? Couse most internet visitors will come first to search engine to look for certain keywords that they want. They will not remember the URL address for thousands keywords is not it?

Well, because of that, you have to make sure that your blog is indexed by search engine. This time, I would like to share my experiences on registering a blog to google search engine. Google is a search engine that most used by visitors of the internet. Registered in the Google index, is the first step to get visitors to your blog.


Fortunately, Google has been providing services to registering a new website or blog to their search engine. Therefore, to ground your blog to the Google is very easy to do. Simply by fill three columns of the registration form only, you will come to the list on google index.

But keep in mind that your blog will not be listed in google index immedietly. Usually it takes at least three days to one week. To speed up the process of indexing, you must update your blog scheduled, and if possible as often as you can. That way, the spider robot of Google will visit your blog and indexing.

Well, here's how to register your blog on Google:

1. Open / type : http://www.google.com/addurl in addres browser (Or you can use the search engine google, type in: google index). You will go to the home page of google url submit.

2. Fill in the form that provided.

a. URL
Fill in your URL address on this column. Example: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com

b. Comment
Fill in the description or keyword of your blog. But it can also empty.

c. Word Verification
Type the characters / letters that you see. This is done to verify that you are truly human, not a robot program.

3. Click add URL button.

4. That all. Wait a few days until your blog indexed.

Note:
• To check, you can go directly to google.com.
• Then type the name of your blog in the search field.
• Click the search button.
• If your blog indexed, then it will listed on the search engine results page
• It may not exist on the first page, try to see the next page

Well, if you want to indexed in other search engines, you live search for the address of its URL submit. Alternatively, you can use the assistance of freewebsubmission.com.

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Understanding Search Engine

Monday, 3 August 2009 2 comments


Before we all talking more about the SEO technique and needs to submit your blog to various search engines, it's good to know a little about our search engine. Just to understand the concept of search engine. This post, hopefully can give a little direction on what needs to do to optimize the search engine results for your blog content.

Basically, Search Engine is a website that stores all information that available on internet. Generally, they only record the slightly information, the site address, site title, article title, and a few dominant words in the site. Based on this, they segmenting the data. How it works, is to copy and paste all site page, and process it on their algorithm system.


If a visitor access the internet, and enter a few words that they looking for on the search engines, the search engine will display all information and data deemed relevant to the searchable words. Search Engine will sorted them according to the quality of data, based on their algorithm calculation. Thus, the data will be sorted to show, from the most relevant to the less relevant.

Based on this algoritm system of search engine, then many webmaster and blogger tried to find some technique to make their sites and blogs to appear on the first page of search engine results page (SERP). How ? Its to optimize all information that considered as most likely by the search engine crawl system. This is then called as SEO (Search Engine Optimization) technique. But of course, every search engine, also develop and innovated their algorithm system. And as such, SEO is never die. hehehe.

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