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How To Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster

We all use Google for searching information that we want to know. Google provides us links of webpages that contains the information that we are looking after. If you own a blog then you might be doing everything possible to get more visits to your blog. To get traffics from search engines your blog must be indexed in the respective search engines. Your blog will be indexed in search engine only when you have submitted your blog to that search engine.

Today I am going to show you how you can submit your Blogger blog to the giant search Engine - Google. Google is the most popular search engine and number of webpages indexed by Google is uncountable. To make Google find, index and rank your site you need to submit your sitemap of your site to Google Webmaster Tools. Google Webmaster is a good SEO tool to use. You could also keep track of your sites statistics with the help of Google Webmaster Tools. As a new blogger you may not know how to submit your blogger sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. Here I am to help you.

Steps To Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster:-

1) Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/

2) Sign in to Webmaster Tools with your gmail id and password

3) You can see now a thumbnail and a link of your site. Click on the anyone of them to go to Dashboard of Webmaster Tools.

4) Click on Sitemaps

5) Click on ADD/TEST SITEMAP

Use http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 as your blogger sitemap

where red section is the name of your blog

Copy and paste the blue section of your sitemap in the space provided.

6) Click on Submit Sitemap and refresh the page

Your webpages are submitted and waiting to be indexed.

When you login to your Google Webmaster some days later, you should be able to see the indexed pages and statistics of your blogger. Hope this helped you.

How To Add A Widget Of Social Media Sharing Buttons

Social networking sites can be a good medium of getting large traffics to your blog. We all use social networking sites to communicate with our friends and we often share our status, thoughts, emotions, photos, links, videos etc with our friends. If a link of your blog is shared in the social networking sites by somebody then his/her friends will also come to know about your blog. As a blogger you will always be happy if your visitors share link of your blog posts with their friends and followers in social networking sites. A widget which contains group of social media sharing buttons will ease your work a lot and you can allow your visitors with an option of sharing your blog post via this widget.

Look of this widget is simple and can be fitted anywhere in your blog. Social media sharing buttons includes buttons of twitter, delicious, facebook, digg, stumbleupon, favourites and more. You can add or replace or remove buttons according to your needs. Choose the social media buttons which are more popular in your country. To know about how social media can play a big role in the success of a blog or website read my post - Role Of Social Media In Promotion Of A Blog Or Website.

Steps To Add A Widget Of Social Media Sharing Buttons

1) Log in to your blogger account.

2)Go to Blogger Admin > Layout > Click on Add a Gadget.

3) Select HTML/Javascript in Add a Gadget window.

4) Copy and paste the given code below in the content box.

5) Click on Save button. Now you got that widget in your blog.

You can add this widget anywhere you want. Choose the buttons of your favourite social networking sites. Your visitors will definitely share your post if they like your posts.

Here in my blog, you can find some different widgets too for social media sharing.

How To Add Meta Tags Description To Blogger Without Editing HTML code

Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is very important if you want to achieve your links of your website higher in the search results in all top search engine websites. Recently Blogger introduced a new feature that will help you in adding meta tag in your blog very easily. In my previous post I talked about how you can add meta tag in your HTML section. To read that post go to How To Add Meta Tag In Blogger . By virtue of this new feature of Blogger you don't have to go to HTML section and play with the HTML codes. We can even include meta description for every single post with the help of this new feature. Now Blogger has Wordpress like feature for using meta tags.

This tutorial will help you to add meta tags description to blogger without editing your HTML code. This is a good SEO technique. So try this in your blogger blog. If you don't know the procedure to follow then read the steps given below. I am giving you the step by step procedure just for the sake of helping you.

Steps To Add Meta Tags Description To Blogger Without Editing HTML code

1) Log in to your blogger account.

2) Go to Blogger Admin>Settings>Search Settings

3) Under Meta tags Description option, click on edit and choose Yes to Enable search description and write description of your blog in not more 150 characters. Fill the column with perfect description of your blog..

4) Click on Save changes

5) Now when you make a Post, you can set the Meta Description from the Post Editor’s

Your post will appear in search engines according to what you have filled in the Search Description column. So fill up this column very wisely so that more visitors gets attracted to your blog.

Hope you like this new feature that Blogger has introduced.

How To Add Meta Tag In Blogger

A meta-tag is a code that is found inside html code of any website and contains information about the page. Search Engines used this data to display the search snippet. It will be very helpful for your blog if you add meta tag in your blog's html code because then only search engines can know about your blog contents more exactly and they can show it to all visitors. This is a very good Search Engine Optimization(SEO) technique used by many website or blog owners.

For Wordpress blogs there are many plugins available for SEO. In wordpress blog you can download plugins by which you can add meta tags very easily. But for Blogger blog, no such plugins has been built till now. That does not mean that you can not add meta tag in Blogger blog or adding meta tag in Blogger blog is a very difficult task. Lets make it easy. You can add meta tag in your Blogger blog by adding few lines in the HTML section of your blog. I am elaborating the whole process in steps. Just follow the steps given below.

Steps To Add Meta Tag In Blogger
1) Log in to your blogger account.

2) Go to Blogger Admin--->Template--->Click on Edit HTML

3) Click on Proceed button.

4) Press Ctrl+F and search for tag

5) Below the tag, paste the following codes:-

        <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
      ADD CODE FOR YOUR META-TAG HERE
          </b:if>

6) Replace the blue line with the following codes:-

<meta content='DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='AUTHOR NAME HERE' name='author'/>

7) Replace the red lines with the parameters.

8) Click on Save Template and you just added meta tags in your html code of your Blogger.

That was easy. Hope you like it. Meta tags are very much important for search engine optimizaton. Choose your keywords intelligently and have a perfect description for your blog. After adding meta tags, blog will definitely get more help from search engines in terms of blog hits. Experience the difference. Happy blogging :))

How To Install A Blogger Template

There are only few templates that are provided officially by Blogger. You can find a large number of blogs using same blog template. To avoid your blog just don't look like any other blog, it is advisable to use template other than that are provided by Blogger. But where you will get different template that doesn't look like the template provided by Blogger. If you know HTML/CSS coding then you can make your own template. If you dont have HTML knowledge to manually customize your template then what will you do. Okay here is the solution. You can always download templates from websites that provides free Blogger template services. Search for the best template that suits your needs and right for your blog and use it in your Blogger.

After downloading the template follow the steps given below to install the blogger template. Before applying any changes it is advisable to save your current template in your computer harddisk so that in case of any problem you can always get back your old template successfully.:

Steps To Install A Blogger Template

1: First of all download the Blogger template from a website providing free Blogger templates to your PC and unzip it.

2: Log in to your blogger account.

3: Go to Blogger Admin>Template>Click on Backup/Restore.

4: Click on Browse button and Go to the folder where you downloaded and unzipped the template files.

5: The folder has a XML file. Select the XML file .

6: Click Upload button and wait till it is uploaded completely .

It's all done. Check your blog template.

So why we use same template that many other bloggers are using. If you know coding then it is advisable to make your own blog template. Be unique and have unique template for your blog just like your unique personality. Happy blogging!!!

How To Add Floating Social Media Buttons

We all know that how much social media influences our daily life. Social media can be a good way in the promotion of any blog or website. Adding social media plugins or widgets can be a great helping tool in the success of any blog or website. Floating social media button is one of the widget that you can add in your blog. Floating social media button is a very popular widget that I guess you have notice in many blogs. It looks just like the screenshot given below. Floating Social Media Buttons is a great looking widget that you can also incorporate in your Blogger blogs.

It is not an hard task to add this widget in your blog. You have to just copy and paste some piece of codes in your blog. I am here to guide you in achieving this one without any mistake. All the steps for this task are given below. Just follow the steps carefully to get the floating social media button in your blog.

Steps To Add Floating Social Media Buttons

1) Log in to your blogger account.

2) Go to Blogger Admin >> Layout >> Click on Add a Gadget

3) Select HTML/Javascript in Add a Gadget window.

4) Copy and paste the given code below in the content box

<style> #pageshare {position:fixed; bottom:15%; margin-left:-71px; float:left; border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;background-color:#fff;padding:0 0 2px 0;z-index:10;} #pageshare .sbutton {float:left;clear:both;margin:5px 5px 0 5px;} .fb_share_count_top {width:48px !important;} .fb_share_count_top, .fb_share_count_inner {-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;} .FBConnectButton_Small, .FBConnectButton_RTL_Small {width:49px !important; -moz-border-radius:3px;/*bs-fsmsb*/-webkit-border-radius:3px;} .FBConnectButton_Small .FBConnectButton_Text {padding:2px 2px 3px !important;-moz-border-radius:3px;- webkit-border-radius:3px;font-size:8px;} </style> <div id='pageshare' title="Get this from http://bloglivead.blogspot.com/"> <div class='sbutton' id='fb'> <a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class='sbutton' id='rt'> <script src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js" type='text/javascript'></script> </div> <div class='sbutton' id='digg' style='margin-left:3px;width:48px'> <script src='http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js' type='text/javascript'></script> <a class="DiggThisButton DiggMedium"></a> </div> <div class='sbutton' id='gplusone'> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone> </a></div> <div style="clear: both;font-size: 9px;text-align:center;"><a href="http://bloglivead.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-add-floating-social-media-buttons.html">Get this</a></div> </div>

Click Save button and you have done it.

You can adjust the position of the this widget where you want this widget to be appeared.
In addition to this you can also add some more buttons of social networking sites. This widget is not only useful one but also great and amazing in look-wise.
Don't hesitate to ask any query. If you are facing any kind problem ask me. It will be my pleasure to answer your quieres.
Enjoy the great experience of social media sharing of your blog posts!!!

How To Add Facebook Like Button To Blogger Blog Posts

Today's generation is all about Social Networking. People use social networking sites more than any other sites in the Internet. If you own any blog then you can even promote your blog using these social networking sites. Social media plays a large significant role in promoting a blog. Facebook is among the most popular social media site. It would not be wrong to say that Facebook is the king of the social network. A large traffic can be achieved into your blog via facebook. To make sharing of your blog posts easier adding a facebook like or share button in your blog will be always very intelligent.

You can add facebook like button in your Blogger blog posts. Adding this facebook like will definitely increase your blog's popularity to a great extent. I am going to give you step by step instructions to add facebook like button in your every blog posts just below your blog posts title. Save your template before doing it so that in case of any error you can recover your template easily. Carefully follow the steps given below.

Steps To Add Facebook Like Button To Blogger Blog Posts

1) Log in to your blogger account.

2) Go to Blogger Admin-->Template-->Click on Edit HTML

3) Click on Proceed

3) Check Expand Widget Templates.

4) Press CTRL+F and find following code

5) After that paste the following code before the above given code.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='"http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=" + data:post.url + "&layout=standard&show_faces=false&width=100&action=like&font=arial&colorscheme=light"' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:40px;'/> </b:if>

6) Click on Save Template.

Now you can see facebook like button below blog posts title on your every blog posts. You can also add this button anywhere you like. Alongside this facebook like button you can also add other social button.
If you are facing any problem in adding this code in your blog then asked me, I would definitely help you.

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