Meta Tags For Blogger / Blogspot

Meta Tags are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web
page. Such tags are placed in the head section of an HTML document

We can also add meta tags to Blogger Blogs.But the problem is that having the
same meta tags for all pages in your blog is not a good practice.So it would be
better if you could add meta tags on your home page only.Just find out the
appropriate keywords and description for your site



Now copy out the following code into a text file

 

<link href='mailto:Your_Email_Address' rev='made'/>

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>

<meta content='Your keywords separated by commas' 

name='keywords'/>

<meta content='Your Site Description' name='description'/>

</b:if>

<meta content='Your_Name' name='author'/>

<meta content='ALL' name='ROBOTS'/>

 

Make the following Replacements

1.Replace Your_Email_Address with
your Email Address.

2.Replace Your keywords separated
by commas with your site's
keywords.

3.Replace Your Site Description with
a good description of your site.

4.Replace Your_Name with
your Name

 

I would suggest you to
take into consideration the following character limits

a.The maximum size of the title tag should be 60 characters

b.The maximum size of your site description should be 150 characters

c.it would be better to limit the keyword size to 200 characters

you might use this character
count tool.. Now copy out the edited code and place it within the head
section of your blogger template.. It would be appropriate to place it below the
title tag

 

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

If you are using my SEO
Title Tag hack, then you will have to place the meta tags after the whole of
the title tag hack that is below

 

<!-- Start www.bloggerplugins.org: Changing the Blogger Title Tag -->

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>

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

<b:else/>

<title><data:blog.pageName/> ~ <data:blog.title/></title>

</b:if>

<!-- End www.bloggerplugins.org: Changing the Blogger Title Tag -->

 

When you use this meta format, the keyword description meta tags will appear on
your blogs home page only thus avoiding duplicate meta tags on blog pages..



Now if you wish to add meta tags for a particular post page you can do that
also..In that case you will have to follow the following format..here is the
code that i have used for implementing meta tags on this post page.

 

<b:if cond='data:blog.url ==
&quot;http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2008/06/meta-tags-for-blogger-blogspot.html&quot;'> 

<meta content='optimize blogger,optimize blogspot,meta tags for blogger'
name='keywords'/>

<meta content='Adding Meta tags to blogger blog is very useful. Here is a
tutorial on Optimizing blogger by using appropriate meta tags on homepage
and post pages.' name='description'/>

</b:if>

You should replace the post url,the keyword and description tags appropriately
and place them in the head section of your template.

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How to identify online scams?

 I know a lot of people are looking at internet as a career and trying to earn as much as they can. Believe me, with everyone trying to achieve the same things, earning money from internet is not that easy now. It can be said that relatively, you can suppliment or add more to your daily income by just running a blog or a personal page. If you wish to take up internet as your only source of income, then its not going to be automated. You will need to put in a lot of hardwork and dedication to achieve this. For gods sake, stop believing those articles and products claiming to make you rich over night or earn $30000 in a week affiliate products. If those guys knew the secret of making so much money in a week, they dont have to be selling affiliate products now. Its all useless and meant for wasting time.

This article is mainly for those who want to take up their website seriously and work towards bringing it to a higher level. I have started this site with a basic goal of bringing in a lot of visitors and subscribers by the end of 2010. I am working hard towards it. I want to tell you about those online scam sites which will just take your time and yield nothing at all. You will need to research a lot before you sign up with websites, especially those PPC sites and Affiliate sites. This is because 90/100 sites are scam and never pay you for your time. Here are some tips to find out if the site is legitimate or not:

• Google ! Try searching for posts or content which claim that the website is scam. If you just type any phrase involving the website name, you should be getting a lot of results. If you don’t get any results for the website then it all proves that the site is new and not even indexed by Google. It must be totally new or totally scam, both are not suitable for us.
• Try using mylot where people usually start discussions over any PPC sites or any other money making site under the make money online category. You will find a lot of opinions on the website, so be sure that you read 2-3 pages in the discussion to understand what is true.
• Read the TOC and the disclaimer of the website thoroughly before you sign up.
• Google again to see if anyone has posted any content with a payment proof from that website. Most of them do this just to help people earn more money and also to share their referral id’s.

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Get Paid to listening to music

Slicethepie has become very famous in terms of making money online especially after a few media quotes provided on this website. Also one of the popular forums for making money online, quoted this website as a easy source of making money online. But for those who don’t know about this site, i am writing this article to provide you a means of a big daily income ($10 - $ 20) depending upon the time you spend with the website.

This site pays you for listening to a song for one minute and writing a short review on the track for 100 character ( 2-3 sentences long). Every registered user who reviews a song is given a name “scout” and those who submit their songs to this website for getting free reviews are called “artists”. You will need to rate the song on a scale of 1- 10 ( 1-Worst, 10- Great) and your scout rating can be any of those 5 levels ( 1 star to 5 star) and it is done on the basis of how accurately your rating matches with other scouts who have rated the same song. For example, if you rate a song 5/10 and others had rated it 9/10 then you lose your accuracy. It is easy to maintain an accuracy level of 88% to 93% provided you are able to think out of your mind leaving behind your personal affinity towards any kind of music.

Once you join the website as a scout, you can enter the scout room and then for the first 50 tracks, you don’t get mony but you get vouchers which you can invest on the artists. After you have reviewed 50 tracks, you start seeing money in your account. Being a 1 star scout or 2 star scout initially, you will get £0.03 per song. Once you have done around 100 songs with a decent accuracy (90%), you would become a 3 star scout and you earn £ 0.05 per song. The review rate increases as your star rating goes up and for a 4 star and 5 star scout, you earn £0.07 and £0.10 per song respectively.

Once you have earned £5, you can request to be paid by paypal (only) or choose to invest your money on some artist. If you decide to invest, you would get returns if that particular artists manage to make £15,000 from the trading room where several scouts invest on their favorite bands. Once they make their £15,000, they will be making an album and you get paid a part of the revenue they make through their album sales. You can invest as little as £1 on an artist or band. However, it is a long time investment and takes time to get back your money.

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Get referrals

  To make a good profit online, you need to have referrals, but how you can get them and where you can find them? I believe the best way to find some referrals is making good offers to people and give them a nice profit of the earnings you have from them. Another thing is to be active to forums and use your signature to advertise your referrals links. You can also do exchanges (join mine I'll join yours).

But I use also some sites to get referrals. All of them working with the same idea. You click banners to get some points and then you give a peace of them to get a referrals. You make a request and waiting for someone to join under you :). You can also try them.

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TargetRefs - The first site I found which helped me to get started with getting referrals 

You get credits by clicking banners, join programs or buy them. Tip: You can click more than on banner each time ;)
I had written an e-book about TargetRefs, which might help you use the site. You can find it here 
Join TargetRefs

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ProgramRefs is a very useful site, you can easily understand how it works and love it!

ProgramRefs is same to TargetRefs, you can click many banners at the same time too!
Join ProgramRefs

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SimpleRefs - The last program which have the same desing with the tow I provide before

This three sites are very useful, I recommend them, they will help you build easily a very good downline :)
Join SimpleRefs

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DownlineRefs - Powered by the team who own TargetRefs, ProgramRefs and SimpleRefs!

Nice desing, easy to use you can click as many ads as you want each time! :)
Join DownlineRefs

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StarReferrals! Site owned by the team which own DealBarbie

You are able to click more than one ad per time here too!
Join StarReferrals

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How To Blog & Create Blog Traffic | 9 Ideas to Increase Blog Traffic

How to Blog: 9 Tips on Increasing Blog Traffic

Below are 9 tips on increasing your Blogger (yeah, the one by Google) blog traffic. There are a lot of other things you can do, but this is a good start. Some of these work for other types of blogs as well, but is mainly focused on Blogger blogs.

How to Blog: Putting Adsense On Your Blog

1.) Don't put any Adsense on your site for awhile, and if you have any on yours now, get rid of it. Google doesn't like un-established sites that have a lot of ads. Google trys to keep it's search customers happy and trys not to include stuff that it thinks is spam. Wait until you have several hundred hits per day before you add advertising. Also, if you put a lot of ads on before you build credibility with your readers, you are apt to scare them away. Don't be greedy, just wait.

How to Blog: Adsense & Clicking Your Own Ads

If you do have Adsense on your site, NEVER CLICK ON YOUR OWN ADS! Google will ban your forever!

How to Blog: Write Original Content| Don't Copy and Paste Old Content

2.) Write ORIGINAL content frequently. By original I mean in you own words. NEVER copy and paste large sections of content from other sites. DONT use the E-Zine Articles (the have articles that people can use without copyright restrictions)! Believe it or not Google scours the web for content that might be the same and doesn't index (include in search results) most of the stuff that has a copy out there. This is not always true, but for a new website, you don't want to be doing that. 

How to Blog: Target Your Content

3.) Target your content to what people are searching for. One of the best ways to establish a begining website is by specifically writing articles about the specific word phrase people frequently search for, but there isn't a lot content on. 

How to Blog: Free Search Engine Keyword Tool

Go to this address: http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/keyword-suggestion-tool.html?seed=christian&adult_filter=remove_offensive&suggest=Hit+Me

Bookmark that page. If a keyword is not already in the keyword box, type in "christian." The top 100 (daily) searches relating to this keyword will show up. It will look something like this (only small section of it included):

60,003 searches (top 100 only) 
Searches Keyword 
60,003 total searches 
3066 christian bible group icebreakers 
2938 free christian powerpoint backgrounds 
2361 christian song lyrics 
2107 christian newswire 
1709 christian lyrics 
1653 christian 
1565 christian music lyrics 
1533 christian music 
1325 christian backgrounds 
1241 christian easter crafts 
1190 christian e cards for free 
1166 christian interpretation of dreams 

How to Blog: How to Target Traffic and Keywords and Phrases

Go through through the list and search for each phrase in the google search engine. I always target Google because it get's 70 percent of search traffic. A lot of the other search engines are stupid and take a long time, but they will eventually start indexing stuff. Don't worry about trying to optimize for them though. When you search for the word phrase put quotes around it, like this "christian interpretation of dreams." When the results show up, check how many results there are. If the number is pretty low (preferably below 50, but a lot of times below a couple hundred works too), that is a good phrase to target. It is even better when the keyword phrase doesn't appear or appears only a few times in the title of each of the search results. Write a post about that topic, and very important, use that keyword phrase as the title of your blog entry (blogger makes the title of your entry the title tag for the page. The title tag is what shows up as the title in the search results and if you look in the bar at the top of your browser, it will be up there to).

How to Blog on Blogger: Keep Your Blog Title SHort

4.) Keep the title of you blog short. Blogger makes this title part of the title tag too. The titles in search results are about this long:

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If your blog title is about this long*,

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the title of your blog entry wont have much space to show the keyword phrases you should be using in your title. For example, the name of my blog is Make eazy bux. It's a pretty short blog name and the blog entry title still has enough space to show up in the searches.

*These sizes may look different depending on your browser and if your computer has the fonts that I'm using.

How to Blog: How to Add a Blogger/Blogspot Sitemap to Google and other Search Engines

5.) Add a sitemap of your website to Google. Do this by going to www.google.com/webmasters/tools. Type in the address of your website in the add site box, and hit the add site button. Somewhere on the next page, it will say verify site. Click that. Once on the page, select the option for embedding code. COpy the code and paste it into the html code right after the "head" tag (it shouldn't be to far down). You can access the html code by hitting the "Layout" button on your dashboard and then hitting the "Edit HTML" button. Once this is done, go back to the Webmasters Tools window. Click the "Sitemaps" button. Click "Add Sitemap." Click the down arrow. Select "General Web Sitemap." Enter rss.xml and add. When that is done, add another one. The name of the next one is atom.xml. 

How to Blog: Using Google Webmasters Tools

6.) Come back frequently and check the stats that google provides in the webmasters tools area. I don't have time to explain them.

How to Blog: Add Site to Google Analytics and Verify

7.) Add your site and verify in a similar manner in Google Analytics (search for it). Play around with different stuff and there and learn what it's for. 

How to Blog: Adding Inlinks, Increasing PageRank, Using Digg and Blog Directories

8.) This is important. Add inlinks to your site. Inlinks are links from other sites that are pointing to yours. Google has a very complex system that uses these inlinks and other things to determine what your sites PageRank will be. Inlinks have a huge factor in increasing your site's PageRank. Comment on forums, do link exchanges, yahoo answers, and more. Add your content to Digg.com, del.icio.us and others. Go to my site, www.advertisingadvice.blogspot.com. Scroll down until you see the Top Blog buttons and all those other ones. Click through them and add your site to those directories. I don't have time to explain more, but remember this, add links, add links, and add links. Try to add them from sites that have a high page rank. DONT add them to spam sites and stuff like that, you'll get google wanting to block your site as being spam.

How to Blog: Remarkable Content, Articles, Photos, Videos, and More

9.) If you want a lot of readers, you want to get people to talk about your stuff. So make your articles REMARKABLE. Remarkable stuff gets remarked about (or talked about). Average isn't good enough. Everybody does average. Make your information and content OUTSTANDING!

How to Blog: These 9 tips Should give you a good start. Read my SEO pages for more info on getting traffic from search engines

Just some quick tips to get your blogger site started. There's a lot of other things, but if you can learn how to do the above well, you'll have a good start.

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Plurk Brings Traffic

Plurk is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as plurks) through short messages or links, which can be up to 140 text characters in length.
Users can respond to other users' updates from their timeline through the Plurk.com website, by instant messaging, or by text messaging.Plurk was developed by and envisioned as a communication medium meant to form a balance between blogs and social networks, and between e-mail messaging and instant messaging.
Plurk's interface shows updates in horizontal form through a scrollable timeline written in AJAX. Users can post new messages with optional 'qualifiers', which are one-word verbs used to represent a thoughts. There are also advanced features such as sending updates only to a subset of your friends, posting updates on events earlier in the day, and sharing images, videos, and other media.Plurk also supports group conversations between friends and allows usage of emoticons together with the usual text micro-bloggingPlurk has often been considered to be a rival to Twitter, an earlier micro-blogging service.Here are some few tips:

Only add real friends to your friends list and limit your friends list to your closest buddies.

Try not to plurk more than 30 times a day - your friends may consider it annoying.

Don't share personal information in your plurks - definitely don't share social security numbers, credit card numbers, etc.

Respond to existing plurks, create new plurks when necessary.

Learn to use the plurk privacy options and be careful about what you say about others.

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Pijoodotcom Social Community

Pijoo is a blog directory, a social network, and a social voting site all rolled into one. By adding your blog to Pijoo, you can get more hits, more readers, and a whole bunch of new contacts from the blogosphere, as well as being able to track your visitors, build a community around your blog and keep up with the latest posts from other blogs.

The layout is very easy to navigate. Tabs are used to easily flip through the various pages on the site. This allows you to view other bloggers profiles, send them messages and add them as friends. You can also create and join groups for discussion of specific topics.All of this creates a very visible and open community, where bloggers can network and socialize.

Pijoo also has a paid membership ($30 lifetime) They refer to this as a “Sponsor” account. This paid account opens up a few more options to the members such as ability to add unlimited blogs to your account. Also priority listing on the ‘blogs’ page, detailed blog traffic stats, Ability to ‘broadcast’ messages to the network and more.

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