Tuesday, December 18, 2012

How To Show Post Title Before Blog Title In Google Search


Today i am going to show you how to change your blogger post results on Google. I will also be  Discussing on the importance of Placing Post Title Before Blog Title In Google Search Results.
Post title and blog title both are very important for search engine optimization, but you must know how to use and customize them. Because they appear in search results and more importantly appear as a clickable link.
Post titles and blog title plays a very important vital role for better ranking in search results and search engine optimization. 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.If you're using blogger for your blog then you may notice search engines by default show your Blog Title first instead of 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. Certainly this will affect the flow of visitors to your site. Because when someone is searching for a topic he would like to click on that particular topic which matches his search words and/or interest him/her the most and not your blog title, because most of them may not be knowing it. But if your blog title appears first then the visitors may skip your site! So, to take the proper benefits we have to optimize our blog so that post titles shows before blog title in search results.That's why we should use them effectively.

So, to take the proper benefits we have to optimize our blog so that post titles shows before blog title in search results.
If you want your post title to appear before your blog name on Google’s search results page, then the process is very simple and almost anyone can do it, even newbie blogger users.
Just follow the steps below:
  • Go to your Blogger dashboard
  • Click on Template
  • Click on Edit HTML and then on Proceed.
  • Click to put a check in the Expand Widget Template box.
  • By using Ctrl+F, search for the following code in your template’s code:
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

  • Once found, replace it with the following code below:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
 <b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>


    <data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/> <data:blog.pageTitle/>
  • Save your template.
And that’s it, you’re done! After a few days your blog title will appear AFTER (and not before) your post title, the next time it appears in Google’s search results page like this.
Post Title Before Blog Title In Google

How to Show Blog Title on Google at the place of your blog name

You may have noticed that blogger blogs do not use your post titles as the title tag of your individual posts. Its code structure is something like this.
change blogger title tag
That means it first considers the blog title which you had written as shown in the image below and then the post title.
changing blogspot title tag 
Which you can see browser top bar after opening any of your blog posts. But search engines read up to 66 characters. So even if you are writing a keyword rich post tile for your blog posts, blogger by default mess it up when it comes to optimizing your title tag of individual blog posts.
If you are targeting only one keyword which you are using as your blog title, there is no need to change the the title tag structure. But bloggers normally target different keywords for each and every blog posts which requires changing the structure of the title tag.

Here is what you have to do

Before you change anything taking a backup of the template is recommended. Go to Template. Click on Edit html. Click Proceed. Find the code below
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
replace the code (Blue) above with the code (Red) given below.
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'> <title><data:blog.title/></title> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageName/></title> </b:if>

Preview the template to see whether it gives any error and then save. You are now done. Now search engines will consider your post titles as the title tag of the post concerned.
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How To Show Post Title Before Blog Title In Google Search

Pradeep Singh

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

how to show my image with my post on google

You might have noticed that some of the results in google search display author’s profile picture with Google Plus ID along with their posts.
Why Implement Google Authorship?
  • Facial images are very eye-catching
  • Google will promote your content over stolen versions
  • You will begin to build AuthorRank with Google
I’m going  to explain you about how you can show your picture in google search result whenever your website is listed in search result. Just follow the steps what i have mentioned. But before doing so I would like to let you know about who can do this ? A website owner or blogger or even an article writer can show their picture in google search result page. All you need to do is to follow these steps. But before that I would also like to let you know about how your picture will show in google search result page. Here i have mentioned myself in google search result while searching my article on google.








This is same how your picture will look after you will do all the thing I’m going to tell you. Okay what you need to do is to follow these steps.

NOTE: You must have a Google Plus account to begin with tutorial and if you already don't have Google+ account, you can make one for free by visiting http://plus.google.com.

  1. Go to http://profiles.google.com and click “Create my profile”
  2. Sign in with your Google account. (If you don’t have one, go to https://accounts.google.com/NewAccount)
  3. Fill out your profile as completely as you like. For our purposes here, you must include a profile photo (use the same one you use on your blog). This should be a clear headshot.
  4. Google recommends making the +1 page of your profile public. That page displays anything that you have publicly “+1ed” on the web. I’m not sure what this has to do with author verification, but they recommend it so I’d do it. While in edit mode on your profile, click the +1 tab and check the box “show this tab on your profile.”
Step  1 :  Just Create an “about me” or “any page viewing you information”  on you blog and link that page to your google profile.
Step 2  : This is important. While creating the hyperlink to your Google  Plus Profile page, Please remember to add rel=”me” to the link. as shown below.
<a href="https://profiles.google.com/your_ID" rel="me">My Profile</a>
Step 3:  In this step you must ensure that the blog articles you have written have a link to your “about me ” page.
This hyperlink should have the rel=”author” attribute as shown below.
<a href="http://yourwebsite.com/about/" rel="author">My short bio</a>
Step 4: This is the last step. Sign in to your Google Profiles account and and add a new custom link that points to your “About Me” page. Tick the option that says “This page is specifically about me” and save the changes. You are almost done.  wait when google will crawl you website again and your picture will show on google search result page.

NOTE: Google takes sometime to show these images. It can vary from person to person, so keep patience.

Pradeep Singh

Monday, December 10, 2012

How To Create A Contact Form on Blogger/Wordpress

Every blog or website needs a contact form and this easy method, using Google Docs will work on any platform, be it Blogger, Wordpress or whatever you use.
 
In simple terms a contact form is the best way to get connected with your readers which facilitates them to get connected with you and post their comments regarding what they feel about your blog or something else they want to share with you. An interesting feature of contact form is that it is helpful in increasing fame of your blog, which can be witnessed from comments received on your blog. 
The more visitors your site gets, the more likely it is that you’ll encounter people who’ll be leaving comments or asking questions in the comment section of your post that completely have nothing to do with the subject at hand.

Basics things in a Contact Form: 
According to me every form should have some common information which is to be provided by every person who is  filling that form. Keeping that point in mind I decided to create a contact form with three necessary things, i.e., Name, Email Address and Message.

Creating a contact Form with Google Docs:

That is why it is always good idea to have a page dedicated to those kinds of reader feedback such as a ‘Contact Page’ or ‘Contact Form’. The process if fairly simple and doesn’t require you to have any solid knowledge in programming, and believe it or not, we will also be using Google Drive (formerly known as Google Docs) to accomplish this.
Step 1: Create the Contact Form 
  • Go to Google Docs -->                     
  • Click CREATE     
  • Click Form                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  •  You will get this screen:
  • You can give a name for this form, like "Contact Me" or "Contact Us"
  • Create questions, which will be the fields in the form. The four basic questions are: Name, Email, Website and Comments. Choose from the drop down menu the type of comment each question requires: Name and Email use "text" comments, and Comments are "paragraph text." You can choose which questions are mandatory(required).
  • Preview the form by clicking the link at the bottom.


Step 2: Get the html code

After you are satisfied, save and go to More Actions --> Embed.  Google will show you an html code to copy. Mine looks like this:


Step 3: Create Your Contact Page on Blogger
  • Go to your "Contact Me" page (or create one) on your blog. (Go to Posting --> Edit Pages). Open the "Edit HTML" tab and paste the code from Google Docs.
  • Preview how it will look on your blog. I had to adjust the width of the form to 600 pixels (In the code, you will see that Google Docs sets it at width="760." Fiddle with the number until the form fits within your page width).
  • Publish. My contact form looks like this:


Step 4: Make Sure You are Notified When Someone Uses the Form

When someone fills out the contact form, the information will go into the spreadsheet on your Google Docs form. Turn on email notification:
  • Go back to Google Docs and click on your form. A spreadsheet will open. Click Tools --> Notification Rules.
  • Check the box "a user submits a form" and "email-right away." Save.     You have done.                                                                                                        
Pradeep Singh

Saturday, December 8, 2012

HOW TO ADD SOMEONE TO YOUR GOOGLE CIRCLE

I am writing this article since there was a time when i was also trying to add someone but i don't know that where can i do this. So where to start?

Here are the steps:

  1. Log in to your gmail account. If you don't have an account make a new one here.
  2. Then search for google+ in Google.
  3. Go to circles at the left side of the screen.
  4. Click on the box Find people present in upper part of the window.
  5. If you want to add a new person, then click on Add a new person below the TOP SUGGESTIONS.
  6. You can find the person you want to add by simply writing his/her name or email in the box.
  7. After finding the people in the search results click on him.
  8. A dialog box will appear. Choose in which circle do you want to add the person e.g., Friends, Work, Family, etc
  9. You have almost done. Don't forget to add me to your circles by clicking here.
  10. Also if you like the post then share it with your Facebook friends or give me a google+ by clicking on the below links.

How to add peoples to your google+ circles through...

How to add peoples to your google+ circles through People suggestions

On the side of your Home page, you may see suggestions for people Google+ thinks you might know. Suggestions could be generated by:
  • Your mutual connections with people on Google products such as Gmail.
  • Interaction you’ve had with others on Google products.
  • The links you've added to your profile.
  • The connected accounts you've linked on your Google Account.
  • The people who are in your extended circles.
  • Friends on external sites, when those friends have connected their accounts on their Google+ profiles.
While viewing your suggestions, you can add suggested people to your circles by clicking Add to circles next to their name. If you don’t know a suggested person or if you don’t want to add them to a circle, mouse over the person's name and click the X.
You can view all of your suggestions at once by clicking View all.
Pradeep Singh

How to add people to your google+ circles

How to add people to your google+ circles

You can add people to your circles in the following ways:
Once you add someone to an existing circle, all of the content that you previously shared with that circle (before the new person was a member) will now be visible to them. If they add you to their circles, posts you've shared with them will also appear on their Home page.
Pradeep Singh

Notifications in the Google bar

Notifications in the Google bar

When you receive a notification, the notification area in the Google bar will turn red and show the number of new notifications.
If you click the notification area in the Google bar, you’ll see a summary of your recent notifications. When you click a notification, a preview of the event that generated the notification will appear in the drop-down menu. You can take action on each notification right from the notifications menu, like commenting on a post or adding someone to a circle. To navigate between notification previews, click Newer and Older.
To view all your notifications click View all. To close the notifications menu, click the notification area in the Google bar again, or click outside of the notifications menu.
You can navigate in the notifications menu using keyboard shortcuts! When you're viewing the summary of your notifications, use the J and K keys, or the right and left arrow keys to move between older and newer notifications when you're viewing notification details.

Games notifications

By default, notifications from Google+ games will also appear in the Google bar. Your notifications may display as either a coalesced collection of all new games notifications, or some games may have their own notifications displayed.
If you'd like to not see any games notifications in the Google bar, visit the settings page and uncheck the box next to "Show Google+ games notifications in the Google bar."
Pradeep Singh

How To Claim a blog at Technorati Using Token

I am just telling you how i had done this and also to put my technorati token which is ZJ9STVXYHZQV. Technorati.com is a leading blog search engine and directory with over one million blogs in its index competing with Google and Yahoo!. The site  has become a source for trending and top stories, videos, and photos and so on. Search engine optimization (SEO) as well as more traffic to your site can be achieved by adding a blog to Technorati blog directory.
Technorati allows blog owners to claim the ownership of their blogs and get their blog listed in the Technorati directory and they will also fetch and display your latest blog post on their site.
NOTE  :  First Make sure you know your RSS Feed Link.
Step 1: Visit Technorati.com
Step 2: Log into Your Technorati Account or Create a New Account. Remember, if you have multiple blogs, setup the profile in your personal name, and you can claim all of your blogs under the one profile.
Step 3: Enter the URL of the Blog You Want to Claim. In my case it looks like this
             http://newblogertricks.blogspot.in/
Step 4: Copy the 12-digit technorati claim token and Paste it into Your Blog.
             My Claim Code is:
             ZJ9STVXYHZQV
Step 5:


  • Scroll down to towards the Bottom of this page until you get to the “My claimed blogs” section.
  • Enter your blog URL in the “Start a blog claim” box and click the Claim button.
  • technorati1 How to Claim Your Blog on Technorati

    Step 5: Fill the Form that comes up appropriately.

    • Blog Name
    • Blog url
    • Feed url (to find this, simply click on the RSS Feed button on your blog. You can then copy and paste the RSS Feed url.
    • Linking blogs. This is optional, but helps establish the strength of your blog. Up to three can be entered.
    • Site description. Up to 1000 characters, where you can profile your site content, history and authors.
    • Site Categories. Choose up to 3 categories from 40 available. This helps put your site where it will be found.
    • Site tags. Here you can enter up to 18 site tags, to help your site be found.
    • Enter the correct details and click the “Proceed to next Step” button.
    Step 6: View Your Claimed Blog Once your blog claim is completed, your blog listing on Technorati is much more comprehensive, making it easier for people to find your blog in Technorati blog searches.
    Note :- Once your blog get updated on Technorati then you can delete this published post with Technorati Token Code.
    Please take note of the tips below, this is where most bloggers get it wrong.
    • Take the given claim token and put it at the beginning of a new blog post on your blog.
    • Click the verify button and if I am right, the Technorati bots will tell you they can’t find the code, they may even say that may be Their so called bot is blocked by your Robot.txt file.
    • If you get the above verification error, don’t panic. I have discovered that it is either their bots are blind or too dumb to detect their very own Claim Token.
    • To verify your claim, scroll down to the footer of the page and click Contact Us link, and use that form to contact the Technorati help center. Just send them a short message like the example below:
    “Hi there, I tried to claim my blog on Technorati and after I inserted the claim token in a new post (put post URL here) your bots is still telling me they can’t find the codes. Kindly check my blog to verify the code presence.” 
    Regards,

    Embedding a PDF or other Documents into a Blogger ...

    1) We want to upload our file to Google Docs. So go to https://docs.google.com/

    Note: Depending on if you use Google Drive the screenshots may say either Google Drive or Google Docs. They are in essence the same thing.

    2) Click the Upload Icon and select files.


    3) Pick the PDF or other file you want to embed and click Open


    4) You'll be presented with a confirmation box. Press the Start Upload button.


    5) You'll be presented with an Upload Progress box


    6) When that has finished click the filename.


    7) This will load the File into your Google Doc/Drive screen. Now we need to "Share" the file so that it will be visible to your readers on your blog. Click the Blue Share button at the Top Right.


    8) You will then be presented with the Share Dialogue screen. Click the Change link.


    9) Select "Public on the web" and press Save followed by Done.


    10) Now we want to grab the Embed Code that we will use to post onto our Blog. Click the File menu then Embed option.


    11) You will then be presented with the Embed code. Copy the code by selecting it all and pressing CTRL-C


    12) Now goto your Blog and create a New Post and make sure you are on the HTML Tab. In the Blog Post section Paste in your embed code. It should look like this.

    NOTE: You can alter the width="640" height="480" parts of the embed code to fit the size of your blog.


    13) Click the Preview Button and you should see your PDF embedded in your Blog Post. If everything is ok you can go ahead and publish your post.


    And that's it.

    So in summary...

    1) Upload the file
    2) Share the File and get the Embed code
    3) Post the embed code to your blog.


    Alternative Methods
    GoogleDocs is probably the easiest method although there are certainly others.

    Goto a free site like http://www.docstoc.com/ or http://www.scribd.com and then upload your PDF/DOC. It will then give you the Embed HTML Code to add to your blog post.

    Hope you found this useful and if you have any problems or questions, please don't hesitate in asking in the comments below.
    Pradeep Singh

    How To Change/Delete Labels From Posts On Blogger



    Hi, everyone.
    When searching for "How To Change/Delete Blogger Post Labels". So i found there nothing. No need to worry about that I am telling you the trick that will work in almost all sort of blogger template. Hope it helps.
    If you have blogger simple template, then to your homepage and then click on design (For others click on home icon).
    Then at the left-hand side click on posts.
    Click on the post from which you want to edit or remove Tags.
    You will be redirected to the blogger editor of your selected post.
    Click on the labels below the heading post settings.
    Now you are ready to edit your post's  tags.
    Pradeep Singh