You can now add Google sitemap to your blogger.com account and increase your chances of being indexed in Google search engine result. You can add a Sitemap to your account to give Google more information about the pages in your site to help Google crawl them more effectively.
Step # 1: Login to sitemap account
At the top of screen you will see option to add site. Just paste URL of your blog (for example http://cyberciti.blogspot.com/)
Click on Ok button. Next you will get confirmation message. Your site has been added to your account.
Step # 2: Now you need to verify your ownership of blog to view detailed statistics. Click on verify link. Google offers two methods of verification. You can either upload an HTML file with a name we specify (which is not possible with Google Blogger account), or you can add a META tag to your site’s index file. Adding META tag via template code is possible so just select Add a META tag from drop down menu:
It will generate code for you, copy the meta tag and paste it into your blogger.com template section).
Step # 3: Go to your blogger.com and login to your account. Goto your blog > Click on Template
Paste the META tag code after section:
Click on Save Template changes button
Click on Republish Index only button > Wait for few seconds so that your blog being published successfully.
Step # 4: Now goto sitemap account and click the box that read as follows:
I’ve added the META tag in the home page of http://cyberciti.blogspot.com/. Click on Verify button.
Step # 5: Now your site is added to sitemap account and verification is done. Next you need to add actual sitemap url. Since blogger.com account don’t allow you to create a text file or anything else you need to add your site feed (ATOM xml) file as a site map. Click on add a sitemap link:
Step # 6: You can add a Sitemap to your account to provide Google additional information about about your blog. Google will process your Sitemap and provide information on any errors in the Sitemaps tab as well your sitemap will be downloaded everyday to index your blog fast.
Select type as : Add General Web sitemap
Now you need to add Atom 0.3 feeds. Generally, you would use this format only if your site already has a syndication feed and this is the only way to add sitemap to your blogger.com account.
Paste url of your Atom feed: For example http://cyberciti.blogspot.com/atom.xml and click on Add Web sitemap:
Update: If you are using a new blogger beta system, use http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full as a feed url.
You will get confirmation:
You have added a Sitemap to http://cyberciti.blogspot.com/. Reports may take several hours to update. Thank you for your patience!
And you are done and your blog will be now index very fast (depend upon your posting and content).
Friday, October 24, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites
Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites
*As more and more people get involved with the Internet and as more Web sites, blogs, news services and other online resources continue to grow in number and variety it becomes increasingly important to maintain high visibility and exposure for the content being generated by closely following the major distribution media.
Until now the web was populated by Web sites and other HTML-based content pages, and the main vehicle for reaching content has been the large use of major search engines and directories.
As a rapidly increasing number of content sources, new and old, migrate or add RSS as a key distribution channel, and as more people utilize RSS newsreaders and aggregators to keep themselves informed, the ability to maintain high exposure and visibility is gradually shifted from a complete attention to major search engines and content optimization techniques to an increasing awareness of RSS feed directories and search tools.
If until now the world of content optimization online went under the umbrella of SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing) from now it exist, at least in principle the opportunity to grow another complementary field tentatively called RSSEM (RSS search engine marketing).
I have been inspired and prompted to do this first by my own need to support skilled change agents and communicators like the ones I personally support (http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp, http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris, http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/ivaningrilli) and also by Ari Paparo nice initiative of starting to collect online resources where one could easily submit her new blog/RSS feed.
I have personally tested each one of these services to make sure that they are alive and functioning.
One of the key benefits of this reference list is that it provides all of the submission links directly, so that you don't have to waste any time at all to find these at each destination site. This by itself is a significant effort, especially as a number of sites make it consciously hard to find this info, in order to discourage spam and superficial or automated submissions. In some cases I have been able to dig out valuable emails and contact forms after a lot of searching.
I have not included regional or geographically limited directories or search engines, and have dropped any service that did not look reliable or trustable.
By adding up a good set of new and important resources I have been able to more than double up on Ari's initial list of submission sites while extending the coverage to important global news syndicators. The list is also unique as it offers only english-based global directories and no specialized or niche resources.
Other lists available online and which I have credited are either too superficial and not up-to-date (including many sites that either do not work or are not reliable) or listing many search services and tools which do not rely on manual submission to become aware of new blogs/sites/RSS feeds.
I think that this is a VERY powerful list to use to increase your RSS feed/blog exposure and visibility online. If you organize yourself well, with an Excel spreadsheet and the time to track your process through it, you can do the whole effort in less than a day and you can start to see the results the day after.
The directories to which to submit your RSS feed are listed in chronological order (first up what I have collected first; down bottom, the most recent and newly added ones) and NOT according to any importance order. An exception is made for the first group of RSS search engines and directories listed here below as I initially placed here what appeared to me (over two years ago), the most effective directories to which to submit to. But after ranking n°20 or so the order is not too relevant anymore as I did not have yet any specific criteria to properly rank these many different these resources (until the RSStop55 Premium came about). If you are indeed interested in a properly ranked and sorted version of the RSSTop55 plus a unique set of complementary powerful tactics and resources to further increase your RSS-based content exposure and visibility online, look into the RSSTop55 Premium.
234) FeedBees
http://www.feedbees.com/
FeedBees is an online RSS feed directory, counting more than 100000 feeds where you can submit all of your sites with no registration process, and people can easily monitor all of the changes that you make on your site directly from FeedBees. Feeds can be searched, browsed by category, subcategory and page rank.
Plus, for any submitted feed that comes with Google Adsense within, the service collects the original Google ad code, so that if someone clicks on that ad, all revenue goes to the feed owner.
To post you feed, just provide a URL, select up to three categories and click submit. There is no registration process to go into, and you can submit as many feeds as you want without giving out any personal detail.
Click here to submit your feed to FeedBees.
Posted on September 22, 2008
233) RSSMountain
http://rssmountain.com/rss_directory.php
RSS Mountain is one of the biggest RSS feed directories out there, currently featuring more than 1.2 million feeds listed in more than 30 categories, and still growing. After a free and fast registration, which only asks for your name and email, you can add all of your feeds to the service just by going into the category that best describes your site, click add link, and it will be immediately added to the list.
Feeds can be browsed through the categories, but also searched using the search box on the home page, and you can automatically subscribe to one of the results from the search page.
Choose the best category and then click the add button to submit your feed.
Posted on August 11, 2008
232) FeedSee
http://www.feedsee.com/
FeedSee is a blog directly, which features a very simple and direct interface. The only things you can do are searching and submitting feeds: to search for a feed, you will immediately notice the search box on the home page, where you can type any keyword you want and get all the feeds related to that word.
Else, you can click the submission link and, just by pasting the link, without adding anything else, your site will be included into the directory.
You can submit all the feeds you want, as FeedSee does not require any registration, or name, or email to be used.
Submit your feed to FeedSee.
Posted on July 28, 2008
231) Best Directory
http://www.directorybest.info/
Best Directory is a big RSS feeds directory, that anyone can use to submit his feed without signing up to any service. Feeds are divided in 14 main categories, which are divided in two sub-categories themselves.
If you want to submit your feed, all you need to do is to pick the appropriate category, select the sub-categories in which your feed will best fit, provide a feed link, name, description and email, and finally the submission method:
Free: No registration needed, nothing to pay, but your feed won't be high until it is rated.
Exchange: You can get a higher place, for free, by placing a link to Best Directory on your page.
Featured: Pay $5 to get your feed high ranked for 6 months.
Submit your feed to Best Directory.
Posted on June 9, 2008
230) Blogged
http://www.blogged.com/
Blogged is an online blog directory that you can use to discover and promote interesting blogs
Currently featuring 200,000 blogs, users can use Blogged to discover and explore new blogs, and communicate and interact directly with each other. Blogs are reviewed, rated, and categorized by editors, but anyone with an account can review and rate a blog to help it rise in the rankings. You can browse them by topic, rating, or simply searching for any keyword.
If you want to add your blog to the directory, you will just have to sign up to the service for free, and provide the RSS feed of your site.
Sign up and submit your feed to Blogged.
Posted on May 29, 2008
229) GeekySpeaky
http://www.geekyspeaky.com/links/
GeekySpeaky is a small, growing weblog directory, now counting just more than 200 feeds. Feeds can be searched, browsed by category or latest additions and they can be submitted with three different methods:
Featured links ($40)
Regular links ($25)
Regular links with reciprocal (Free)
Once you are on the submission page, type a name, paste the URL of your feed, make up a description, select a category, provide your name and email, paste the URL containing the page with the reciprocal link, and click continue.
Submit your feed to GeekySpeaky.
Posted on March 31, 2008
228) ReadBurner
http://www.readburner.com/
ReadBurner is a free online service that aggregates items that are shared on Google Reader.
This works by constantly updating RSS feeds of currently several hundred linkblogs: whenever an item is on multiple feeds, which means it has been shared by multiple people, it is automatically included. r.
Shared items are divided into Popular, Upcoming, Most Recent, Popular This Week and Popular All Time categories.
Adding a link to the service is really simple: without even registering, you just have to copy and paste into a box your public RSS feed of your Google Reader shared items.
To submit your feed to Readbuner by pasting it into the box
Posted on March 10, 2008
227) Blogotion
http://www.freewebs.com/blogotion/
Blogotion is an online blog directory which aims to list high quality blogs. The people behind the directory review blogs prior to accepting them into the index to keep spammers and scrapers out.
Popular blogs lists the top ten. Browse blogs by categories or check out the recommended blog of the month that appears on the home page below the categories.
Blogotion provides a short overview of blogs.
To submit your feed to Blogotion, complete and submit the short form.
Posted on February 21, 2008
226) A1 Web Links
http://blogit.a1weblinks.net/
A1 Web Links is a free blog directory that features more than 700 feeds, divided in 24 main categories, where anyone can submit her own RSS feed for free. Without even registering to the service, you can pick between three types of URL submission:
Featured links: if you pick this option, your blog will be shown on the top of the page. Costs $9.95.
Regular links your link will be normally added in the directory. Costs $5.95
Regular links with reciprocal: same as the regular links option, with the only difference that this one is free, and requires you to put a link to the directory on your own web-site
After you have picked which option suits you best, you'll just have to provide your blog's information, your name and email, and click submit.
Submit your blog to A1 Web Links.
Posted on January 21, 2008
225) RSSHugger
http://www.rsshugger.com/
RssHugger is a weblog directory that basically combines Technorati, rss directories, and search engine optimization into one. If you own a blog, you can get your own page on rssHugger for 10 years by giving an honest review of the site on your blog. If you want to join rssHugger but do not want to review our site, you can pay a one time review fee of $20. This fee, allows the site's authors to keep out a lot of the spam/useless blogs.
RssHugger features a featured blog on the home page, Top100 page, a "random blog" page that, as the name suggest, shows up one blog of the directory, and a search page, that lets you browse into the feeds.
Sign-up and submit your blog to RssHugger.
*As more and more people get involved with the Internet and as more Web sites, blogs, news services and other online resources continue to grow in number and variety it becomes increasingly important to maintain high visibility and exposure for the content being generated by closely following the major distribution media.
Until now the web was populated by Web sites and other HTML-based content pages, and the main vehicle for reaching content has been the large use of major search engines and directories.
As a rapidly increasing number of content sources, new and old, migrate or add RSS as a key distribution channel, and as more people utilize RSS newsreaders and aggregators to keep themselves informed, the ability to maintain high exposure and visibility is gradually shifted from a complete attention to major search engines and content optimization techniques to an increasing awareness of RSS feed directories and search tools.
If until now the world of content optimization online went under the umbrella of SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing) from now it exist, at least in principle the opportunity to grow another complementary field tentatively called RSSEM (RSS search engine marketing).
I have been inspired and prompted to do this first by my own need to support skilled change agents and communicators like the ones I personally support (http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp, http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris, http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/ivaningrilli) and also by Ari Paparo nice initiative of starting to collect online resources where one could easily submit her new blog/RSS feed.
I have personally tested each one of these services to make sure that they are alive and functioning.
One of the key benefits of this reference list is that it provides all of the submission links directly, so that you don't have to waste any time at all to find these at each destination site. This by itself is a significant effort, especially as a number of sites make it consciously hard to find this info, in order to discourage spam and superficial or automated submissions. In some cases I have been able to dig out valuable emails and contact forms after a lot of searching.
I have not included regional or geographically limited directories or search engines, and have dropped any service that did not look reliable or trustable.
By adding up a good set of new and important resources I have been able to more than double up on Ari's initial list of submission sites while extending the coverage to important global news syndicators. The list is also unique as it offers only english-based global directories and no specialized or niche resources.
Other lists available online and which I have credited are either too superficial and not up-to-date (including many sites that either do not work or are not reliable) or listing many search services and tools which do not rely on manual submission to become aware of new blogs/sites/RSS feeds.
I think that this is a VERY powerful list to use to increase your RSS feed/blog exposure and visibility online. If you organize yourself well, with an Excel spreadsheet and the time to track your process through it, you can do the whole effort in less than a day and you can start to see the results the day after.
The directories to which to submit your RSS feed are listed in chronological order (first up what I have collected first; down bottom, the most recent and newly added ones) and NOT according to any importance order. An exception is made for the first group of RSS search engines and directories listed here below as I initially placed here what appeared to me (over two years ago), the most effective directories to which to submit to. But after ranking n°20 or so the order is not too relevant anymore as I did not have yet any specific criteria to properly rank these many different these resources (until the RSStop55 Premium came about). If you are indeed interested in a properly ranked and sorted version of the RSSTop55 plus a unique set of complementary powerful tactics and resources to further increase your RSS-based content exposure and visibility online, look into the RSSTop55 Premium.
234) FeedBees
http://www.feedbees.com/
FeedBees is an online RSS feed directory, counting more than 100000 feeds where you can submit all of your sites with no registration process, and people can easily monitor all of the changes that you make on your site directly from FeedBees. Feeds can be searched, browsed by category, subcategory and page rank.
Plus, for any submitted feed that comes with Google Adsense within, the service collects the original Google ad code, so that if someone clicks on that ad, all revenue goes to the feed owner.
To post you feed, just provide a URL, select up to three categories and click submit. There is no registration process to go into, and you can submit as many feeds as you want without giving out any personal detail.
Click here to submit your feed to FeedBees.
Posted on September 22, 2008
233) RSSMountain
http://rssmountain.com/rss_directory.php
RSS Mountain is one of the biggest RSS feed directories out there, currently featuring more than 1.2 million feeds listed in more than 30 categories, and still growing. After a free and fast registration, which only asks for your name and email, you can add all of your feeds to the service just by going into the category that best describes your site, click add link, and it will be immediately added to the list.
Feeds can be browsed through the categories, but also searched using the search box on the home page, and you can automatically subscribe to one of the results from the search page.
Choose the best category and then click the add button to submit your feed.
Posted on August 11, 2008
232) FeedSee
http://www.feedsee.com/
FeedSee is a blog directly, which features a very simple and direct interface. The only things you can do are searching and submitting feeds: to search for a feed, you will immediately notice the search box on the home page, where you can type any keyword you want and get all the feeds related to that word.
Else, you can click the submission link and, just by pasting the link, without adding anything else, your site will be included into the directory.
You can submit all the feeds you want, as FeedSee does not require any registration, or name, or email to be used.
Submit your feed to FeedSee.
Posted on July 28, 2008
231) Best Directory
http://www.directorybest.info/
Best Directory is a big RSS feeds directory, that anyone can use to submit his feed without signing up to any service. Feeds are divided in 14 main categories, which are divided in two sub-categories themselves.
If you want to submit your feed, all you need to do is to pick the appropriate category, select the sub-categories in which your feed will best fit, provide a feed link, name, description and email, and finally the submission method:
Free: No registration needed, nothing to pay, but your feed won't be high until it is rated.
Exchange: You can get a higher place, for free, by placing a link to Best Directory on your page.
Featured: Pay $5 to get your feed high ranked for 6 months.
Submit your feed to Best Directory.
Posted on June 9, 2008
230) Blogged
http://www.blogged.com/
Blogged is an online blog directory that you can use to discover and promote interesting blogs
Currently featuring 200,000 blogs, users can use Blogged to discover and explore new blogs, and communicate and interact directly with each other. Blogs are reviewed, rated, and categorized by editors, but anyone with an account can review and rate a blog to help it rise in the rankings. You can browse them by topic, rating, or simply searching for any keyword.
If you want to add your blog to the directory, you will just have to sign up to the service for free, and provide the RSS feed of your site.
Sign up and submit your feed to Blogged.
Posted on May 29, 2008
229) GeekySpeaky
http://www.geekyspeaky.com/links/
GeekySpeaky is a small, growing weblog directory, now counting just more than 200 feeds. Feeds can be searched, browsed by category or latest additions and they can be submitted with three different methods:
Featured links ($40)
Regular links ($25)
Regular links with reciprocal (Free)
Once you are on the submission page, type a name, paste the URL of your feed, make up a description, select a category, provide your name and email, paste the URL containing the page with the reciprocal link, and click continue.
Submit your feed to GeekySpeaky.
Posted on March 31, 2008
228) ReadBurner
http://www.readburner.com/
ReadBurner is a free online service that aggregates items that are shared on Google Reader.
This works by constantly updating RSS feeds of currently several hundred linkblogs: whenever an item is on multiple feeds, which means it has been shared by multiple people, it is automatically included. r.
Shared items are divided into Popular, Upcoming, Most Recent, Popular This Week and Popular All Time categories.
Adding a link to the service is really simple: without even registering, you just have to copy and paste into a box your public RSS feed of your Google Reader shared items.
To submit your feed to Readbuner by pasting it into the box
Posted on March 10, 2008
227) Blogotion
http://www.freewebs.com/blogotion/
Blogotion is an online blog directory which aims to list high quality blogs. The people behind the directory review blogs prior to accepting them into the index to keep spammers and scrapers out.
Popular blogs lists the top ten. Browse blogs by categories or check out the recommended blog of the month that appears on the home page below the categories.
Blogotion provides a short overview of blogs.
To submit your feed to Blogotion, complete and submit the short form.
Posted on February 21, 2008
226) A1 Web Links
http://blogit.a1weblinks.net/
A1 Web Links is a free blog directory that features more than 700 feeds, divided in 24 main categories, where anyone can submit her own RSS feed for free. Without even registering to the service, you can pick between three types of URL submission:
Featured links: if you pick this option, your blog will be shown on the top of the page. Costs $9.95.
Regular links your link will be normally added in the directory. Costs $5.95
Regular links with reciprocal: same as the regular links option, with the only difference that this one is free, and requires you to put a link to the directory on your own web-site
After you have picked which option suits you best, you'll just have to provide your blog's information, your name and email, and click submit.
Submit your blog to A1 Web Links.
Posted on January 21, 2008
225) RSSHugger
http://www.rsshugger.com/
RssHugger is a weblog directory that basically combines Technorati, rss directories, and search engine optimization into one. If you own a blog, you can get your own page on rssHugger for 10 years by giving an honest review of the site on your blog. If you want to join rssHugger but do not want to review our site, you can pay a one time review fee of $20. This fee, allows the site's authors to keep out a lot of the spam/useless blogs.
RssHugger features a featured blog on the home page, Top100 page, a "random blog" page that, as the name suggest, shows up one blog of the directory, and a search page, that lets you browse into the feeds.
Sign-up and submit your blog to RssHugger.
8 Blog Seo Tips From Seo consultants
8 Blog Seo Tips From Seo consultants
Blogging software is really a simple Content Management System (CMS) that easily adds new pages and integrates them into your site's navigational structure and linkage.
Blogs and blog posts are naturally search engine friendly because they are text-rich, link-rich, frequently-updated webpages that use stylesheets or CSS, and have very little extraneous HTML.
Optimizing a blog is very similar to optimizing a website, and optimizing a blog post similar to optimizing a web page.
But depending on the blogging service or software you use, the results may look somewhat different.
If you follow some simple rules for search engine optimization, your blog can rank much higher than static website pages in the search engine results pages.
Here are the most important rules to follow to get your posts listed for keywords of your choice.
1. Use your primary keyword in your blog domain
Whether you purchase a separate domain (recommended) for your blog, or host it on a blogging service or a subdomain of your own site, try to ensure that your URL contains the primary keyword you want to optimize for.
For example, if you want your blog to get found for the keyword "rss" get a domain with the keyword "rss", or use the keyword in a subdomain as in
http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/rssnews
Getting a domain name with your own name might make for good branding, especially if yours is a personal blog.
But if you're doing it for business and want the targeted traffic to flow your way, keywords in the domain or subdomain are a move in the right direction.
2. Use your primary key phrase in your blog header tags and the title of your posts
If your primary key phrase is "business blogging" make sure that the word business, or blogging, or both, appear in your blog headers (the H1 or H2 tags) as well as the title of each of your posts.
Most blogging software will take the keywords in your post title and put them into the file name of the permalink posts it creates.
For example, if you have a blog on Blogger and title your post "Search Engine Optimization For Blogs", Blogger will automatically create a page with your post and name the file "search-engine-optimization-for-blogs.html" or something similar.
With other server-side software like Wordpress and Movable Type, you may require the mod_rewrite command to save the title of your entries as a permalink.
3. Use your secondary keywords in the body of your post
If you want to get listed for secondary keywords use them infrequently in the body of your post and pepper your blog titles or links with them appropriately.
Don't overdo this or your posts will end up sounding unnatural and spammy to readers.
4. Use your keywords in the anchor text of links
Keyword in links have more importance than simple text.
Use your primary and secondary keywords in the anchor text of links when linking to other blog posts or to other pages on your main site.
Link keywords where they naturally appear in the body text, but again, don't overdo it, or you'll end up with spammy looking pages.
5. Make sure search engines can spider your blog easily
Set up your blog so that the side navigation bar is present on all pages.
Make sure your archives and previous posts are accessible from all pages of your blog so they get spidered easily.
6. Get backlinks from other blogs or websites
Links pointing to your blog or posts are essential to build pagerank and make your blog rank higher in the search engine listings.
I've seen many people recommend Blogrolling as one method of building links to your blog.
BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal. But all this service actually does is give you a bit of javascript code that "calls" the links.
As far as search engine rankings go, this method of linking is of little use, because spiders can't read external javascript code.
Instead I recommend that you focus your linking efforts on the methods here.
Submitting to Blog Search Engines and Directories:
Submitting your blog and RSS feed to blog search engines and directories is essential for getting high-quality links back to your blog.
Here is the best list I've found of places to submit your feed or blog.
Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites
Link Exchanges:
Many similarly-themed blogs are often willing to exchange links with other blogs and form richly interlinked networks or communities. Link exchanges with other blogs are easy to implement with most blogging software.
Trackbacks:
You can also get links back to your blog using trackbacks. One of the disadvantages of using Blogger is that it does not automatically create trackback urls that others can use to link back to your posts.
Haloscan is a free service that will automatically add comments and trackbacks to your Blogger blog.
But if trackbacks are an important component of your linking strategy, I would advise using another software or system that adds this feature automatically.
Comments:
You can also get back links to your blog by posting legitimate comments in response to posts on other blogs.
7. Update frequently
There's no better food for search engine spiders than fresh content.
Post and update your blog frequently using all the rules outlined above and there's no reason why your blog will not get you top rankings in a short period of time.
8. Stay put
Once you create your blog, try to stick to the same domain and blog host or system for as long as you continue to publish.
You could end up losing a lot of your traffic, your readers and all your search engine listings if you decide to move.
For more ways of building traffic to your blog, read the article "How To Build Traffic To Your Blog."
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