Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools

Below are some easy steps you have to go through in terms to submit your blogspot blog sitemap.

• Sign in to Google Webmaster Tools.
• Click on the blog title for which you want to add sitemap.
• Click on sitemap button as shown below.

• At the top right corner of the page, press Add/Test sitemap button.

• Once you click on the button, a small box will appear as shown in the screenshot below.

• Add the below code in the text field.

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

This is the sitemap code for your blogger blog which you need to add.

• Press “Submit Sitemap” button.
• Refresh the page.

Congratulation! You have finish the process of submitting your blog sitemap. 

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6 Tips To Increase Blog Traffic

Significant traffic is a need of every blogger. Sometimes we do everything to attract new visitors to increase blog traffic. We spend hours to design our blog template, work hard to write quality and unique content to publish but if we don’t have decent audience to read our content then all of our hard work will be in vain. Quality traffic like from search engines (organic traffic) is really important to boost the ranking of blog. If you aim to make some money from your blog then work to drive traffic. Many of my blogger brothers and sisters struggle to generate traffic to their blog. So, I decide to share my own way on how to increase blog traffic. Let me introduce you to tips of the day.

Tips To Increase Blog Traffic

Read below 6 tips that really work to build traffic to a blog.

1. Fast Loading Template

You must need to make your blog looks professional. Always try to make your blog’s look nifty. Visitors first look at the blog design and if they don’t like the design then they will never come back. Try to get a fast loading template for your blog. Visitors love to read fast loading blogs. You can read our top 9 tips that will help you to make your blog loads faster.

• Read: Tips To Reduce Blog Load Time
• Bonus Tip: How To Reduce Blog Bounce Rate?

2. Use Share Buttons

Social share buttons really works to get new visitors to your blog. If your readers like your post content then surely they will share it with their friends. This will invite new readers to your blog to read the story. Beside this share buttons also help to increase your blog backlinks and search engines loves these backlinks. It will help your posts to rank in search engines and your traffic will increase.

3. Keyword Research

Keyword research is an interesting and enjoyable task. Before publishing any article always do some research on your keywords you are going to use into your post. Choose best keywords for your posts to target the audience. Always use Long Term Keywords (Long Tail Keywords) because they are easy to rank as compare to short term keywords. Google also show accurate result while somebody search for any information if the user query contains more than 5 words. You can use Google Keyword Tool to get idea which keyword you should use for your posts.

4. Blog Commenting

This is what I like most to increase blog traffic. Make it your habit to post comments on other popular blogs of same niche regularly. It is the best way to increase your blog readers. If possible then try to leave the first comment with link back to your sites. Because readers also read comments and first comment attract the readers and if your comment is interesting for readers then they will surely click on your link to know about your blog. It will increase your blog readership and hence more traffic to your blog.
Note: Don’t put spam comments. First read the post and then leave a valuable comment that add some value to the conversation. Don’t comment like ‘nice post’, ‘helpful article’ etc. These types of comments not attract the readers.

5. Reply to Comments

Reply to your reader’s comments. Solve their queries and doubt about the topic you are posting. It will help you to build better relationships with your blog visitors. They will like to visit your blog again and again to get something new. Returning visitors are really important for success of a blog.

6. Use Q&A Sites

Use Question and Answers websites like Yahoo! Answers. Try to be active on such sites because these sites can give of lot of free and targeted traffic. Search questions to your niche and answers them and provide your website link as source. If you give best answer then it will attract new visitors to your blog and they will become your reader. More readers equal to more traffic. You can also use some popular forums for this purpose like Digital Point Forums! 

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6 Tips To Optimize Images For SEO To Increase Blog Traffic

We all know that we should optimize our blog posts to rank well in search engine that help us to increase our blog traffic but today I will tell you how to use images for better search engine visibility. Every blogger either using blogger platform or wordpress platform, they must optimize their images while using them into their blog posts before publishing the post. Image optimization really works to improve blog traffic. Lots of webmasters search images from Google Image Search to use them into their blog posts. So, if you have well optimized images into your blog post then it will give you two benefits. One is bring traffic from image search and second is it help web crawlers to better understand your post topic hence higher SERP (Search Engine Result Position). Let’s go to the tutorial to learn some helpful tips about image optimization for SEO.

Image Optimization Tips

Below are some very important tips to optimize images before uploading them into blog posts. These tips will improve your blog SEO

Use Keywords in Image Name

Have you download an image from internet or click them from your camera to use them into your blog posts? Yes! Wait buddy don’t use them directly into your blog. First change their name into a keyword rich image name. By default image name look like this image1432.jpg or photo123.jpg. Always rename them with your post keyword. For example if I use any image for this post then I’ll rename my image like this image-optimization.jpg.

Hyphen in Image Name

Remember when naming your images with your keywords neither use blank space nor underscore ( _ ) between them. Always use hyphen to separate the keywords like I have done in the first example. Because when your use blank space it will automatically convert to ‘%20‘ which have no meaning. In result web crawlers found difficulty to understand the image. Hyphen is always a better option for optimizing the image.

Use Best Format

There are lot of formats of images like JPG, PNG, GIF and others. But always use that image format which suits better for web. JPG image format is the most preferable image format by the webmasters because it uses less size memory as compare to other formats. Less image size will help you to reduce blog load time and hence better search engine ranking means more traffic.

Compress Images

Before uploading the images into your blog post, first remember that you have compressed them. Compressing the image also help to make your blog loading speed faster and reduce blog bounce rate. You can compress your images in Photoshop. To compress your image in Photoshop go to file menuand click on save for web. It will reduce image size by maintaining the image quality.

Also you can use online tools to compress your image files. One of the best tool is Yahoo Smush it. Go for it and compress your images for free.

How to Use Images in Blog Post for Better Search Engine Visibility?

Now you have optimized your images. It’s time to use them into your blog posts. Below are some advance tips that also come under image optimization in SEO. Read them carefully and follow the instructions.

Proper Dimension

When you upload your images into blog post, always give them proper dimensions. Mentioning the dimensions help in faster page loading. Web crawlers don’t get confuse to assume its width and height. If you already give dimensions to your image, then it will be easier for web crawlers to better crawl your content. Use below format to give dimensions to your image.

width=”320″ height=”210″ src=”URL of image”/>

Change above highlighted values according to your need.

Title Tag and Alt Tag

Title tag and Alt tag works as a description for your images. Web crawlers can’t read images. They only understand them by their name, title tag and Alt tag. Always choose your best keyword to give title and alt tag for your image. To use these tags see the below example.

title=”Keyword” alt=”Keyword”/>

Note: Don’t add too many keywords in these tags. Only put your best keyword there which better explain your post topic. 

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Show Post Title Before Blog Title in Blogger

Post titles and blog title plays a vital role for better ranking in search results. This is the first thing which is checked by visitors to either they should click on this link or not. That means your traffic depends on this thing. Keyword rich titles can bring you more traffic and increase your blog page views. Google shows only first 66 characters of the title in search results. That’s why we should use them effectively. By default, in blogger, our blog title shows before post title. This reduces the SEO benefits because our post titles which have the main keywords got chopped because of the characters limit in search results. So, to take the proper benefits we have to optimize our blog so that post titles shows before blog title in search results. 

Show Post Title First in Search Results

1. Go to Blogger >> Template >> Edit HTML.
2. Backup your blog template. 
3. Now search below code in your template.
4. Replace that code with the below one.





5. You are done!

Now wait for the update in search results. Once search results got updated you will see the changes. 

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6 Blogger Optimization Tips For SEO Tutorial

There is a debate from long time about WordPress and Blogger that which is better for Search Engine Optimization. WordPress users says that it is the best and blogger users say that why we pay for hosting if we have a free service provided by Google itself. Most of the wordpress users say that blogger is not SEO friendly. This is not true. We can optimize blogspot blogs also to make them SEO friendly for better search engine results. In this blog, I have shared lot of tips and tricks for blogger users to optimize their blog for better ranking. Today I am going to share all those tips here so that you can read all of them at a time and optimize your blogspot blog fast. 

Blogger Optimization for SEO

1. One of the main reasons your blog is not ranking well in search engines is that you may are using blogger’s default templates. Don’t go with them. In this post I explained why we should not use default templates and how to change them with a SEO friendly template.


2. How To Remove Blogger Navbar?: We can’t ignore this step if we want to optimize blogger blog. Optimization is not only for search engines. We should optimize our blog for readers also. Our blog’s look plays a vital role in its reputation. In blogger templates there is an ugly navbar at the top and in this post I shared a trick to remove it. Either you are using blogger’s official templates or any third party template, you must know how to remove navbar because this is the basic knowledge that every blogger should know.


3.  Checking the real and accurate stats of the traffic we are receiving on our blog is very important to optimize it because it shows the visitors behavior on our blog that tells about our blog performance. We can optimize our blog according to that. Read this post to know about this issue in details.


4. Replace Blogger Home, Newer & Older Post Link With Image: This is the main part of blogspot optimization. By default in blogger templates there is a page navigation (also known as pagination) below every post which is not so much eye catching that can attract the readers toread more posts. Changing those navigation links with image can help you to increase your blog page views.


5. Custom Robots Header Tags Settings in Blogger: Blogspot platform is now going SEO friendly with each update. After the release of blogger’s new interface, some more features are added by blogger developers to make enhance its performance in search engines. Custom Robots Header Tags is one of the new features. You must set these tags for your blog.


6. Show Post Title Before Blog Title in Blogger: This is one of the major parts of blogger optimization guide. Title of a page should be optimized with best keywords. Our post titles should come first than blog title but in blogger this structure is in reverse order. You must optimize your blogger blog post titles. Read this post for explained tutorial. 

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How to Improve Keywords Ranking in Google

Writing content for blog is not enough to rank well in search engines like Google. We need some special care to make our blog SEO friendly. Then it will rank awesomely in all major search engines. In my previous posts, I shared some Off page SEO Tips that are beneficial to improve keywords position in search results. As you may already know that we must focus on On Page and Off Page SEO Techniques both to make our blog SEO friendly and search engines lovable. That’s why today I bring some tips that will help you to rank well in search results. Hope you guys like to read these tips.

Improve Keywords Position in Search Results

There are many things that we must care during blogging. Read below points and try to follow them to improve your blog traffic through search engines.

Tip #1 Optimize Post Titles

During writing new post for your blog, always tries to use SEO friendly post titles because this is the first thing that decides your ranking in search results.

Include your main and targeted keyword in your post title. If you are a blogger use then read below tutorial to optimize your post titles.

• Read: Show Post Title Before Blog Title in Blogger

Tip #2 Add Keywords to Content

Provide best quality content in your blog and add some keywords into it at prominent places that fits there.

Keyword density should be kept in mind to make content for SEO friendly. Use at most 2% or 3% keywords in your content.

For example if you have 500 words in your article, then you can use your keyword 10 to 15 times.

• Must Check: How To Add Keywords in Blogger Posts For Optimization?

Tip #3 Add Keywords to Images

Images not only use to make blog posts more attractive. They can also be used as an extra place to put keywords into it.

There are some image optimization tips that you must know to optimize your images. Read below tutorial to know about this topic in details.

• Read: 6 Tips To Optimize Images For SEO

Tip #4 Add Keyword Rich Labels

Labels are used to categorize blog posts. They used by related posts widget also to show related posts under every post. But if you used them correctly then you can take its benefit to improve your keywords ranking in Google.

Always add a keyword rich label name to every post you publish on your blog because it is also a best place to put keywords.

If you have already added some labels without adding keywords into it then don’t worry, you can rename it also.

This is the part of On-Page SEO Tips, now continue reading for some Off-page SEO Tips. These tips are also beneficial to improve keywords ranking in search results.

Tip #5 Use Guest Blogging

Guest Blogging is the best method to gain high quality keyword rich dofollow backlinks. If you don’t know about importance of backlinks in search rankings then let me tell you that quality backlinks are very important for every blog or website to improve search rankings.

Use guest blogging to increase number of keyword rich backlinks of your blog. Write high quality content and submit it to other blogs under your niche. It will also help to increase your blog page views and readers.

Tip #6 Blog Commenting

You might think that why waste time to leave comments on other’s blog. This is the big mistake that newbie bloggers do.

You should participate in the conversation on other blog’s by leaving a valuable comment. It will not only introduce you and your blog into the blog-o-sphere but also you will get quality backlinks for your blog.

Don’t waste your time to leave comments on random blogs. You must target KeywordLuv andCommentLuv enabled blogs to gain dofollow backlinks. If you don’t have any idea about that then read below tutorial.

Tip #7 Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is the part of Off-Page SEO Techniques. It helps a lot to improve keywords ranking in Google.

There are some tips and suggestions for those bloggers who want to participate in social bookmarking to increase their rankings in search results.

Tip #8 Directory Submissions

As same as social bookmarking, directory submission with care can also help blog owners to make their blog popular in search results.

There are also some points for directory submission that you must know to take proper benefits of your hard work. 

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5 Uncommon Ways To Get Fresh Ideas For New Blog Posts

This is a detailed post to discuss about some uncommon ways to get fresh topics and ideas for blog posts.

were based on those two topics which needs us to write content daily. But for daily writing, we need creative and unique ideas to write on.

• How can we generate daily new ideas for our blog posts?
• What sources we can use to get new posts topics?
• How to Get Blog Post Ideas when we can’t Think of Any More?

These are some common questions that must need to solve out to become a successful blogger.

Today I was thinking about some topics to write posts, then I got an idea why not to write a Guide onhow to find topics for blog posts. Then I do some research and make a list of 5 unusual ways to get ideas to write about for new blog posts. I hope you would enjoy reading them. 

Ways To Come Up With Killer Blog Post Ideas

There are lots of places to get content ideas. I have selected 5 uncommon places to get topics to write on. Let’s discuss about them.

1# Knock Google’s Door

Yes, I really mean it – Knock Google’s Door!

We all know that Google is a great source of information. Then why not to ask from Google about new topics for our blog posts. You may probably think that I’m going crazy. If yes, then thanks 

I asked Google several times for post topics and I got really amazing response from it.

But how ask to Google?

It’s simple friends.. Open Google in your browser and type something like below queries:

Note: This is a demo for Blogger users. You may search according to you.

1. How to in Blogger
2. What to in Blogger
3. Why to in Blogger
4. Tips to in Blogger
5. Tricks to in Blogger
6. and some related type of queries

Remember: After tying any of above query in Google, move your pointer in front of in Blogger and put a space. Google will automatically show you a huge list of killer ideas that you can choose to write your new posts. Check below screenshot for clear idea: 

You must need to try it once. I pick ideas from there many times and it works for me like a treasure of killer ideas 

2# Watch Youtube Videos

Now you may think that how youtube videos can help us to get ideas for writing new blog posts. But trust me friends, youtube videos also play an impressive role to solve our problem.

We can take Youtube Videos in Action in two ways:

Watch youtube videos related to your niche and write a post on it what you watch in the video but in a creative and impressive manner. Make some research and add your points too to make your post go viral. 

Create tutorial videos on your past tutorial posts and upload them to your youtube channel. It’ll not only help you to write a new post but also you’ll get some referral traffic from Youtube.

3# Steal Ideas from Competitors

There is nothing illegal to steal post ideas from your competitor’s blogs.

Find some big blogs under your niche and read their reader’s comment there. 

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