Adding Blog Language Translator

Before proceeding to the tutorial make sure you know the benefit of blog language translator.

I've known Google Translate for a long time, I used it when I took up my Nihongo and Spanish class back in my college days. I find it very helpful specially for my projects. The translation is pretty accurate but it's not perfect, it still has some glitch. What I liked about Google Translate is that it supports all languages and you can translate sentence by sentence not words by words which useful for students.

Adding Marquee tag

Marquee tag "<marquee>" is used to make a moving text, image, links and etc. Usually you can see this in the news section of other websites. In my this blog I used this in my featured articles as you can see. The use of marquee tag "<marquee>" can be either good or bad to blog and your design, so I suggest use this tag properly.

Why do I use marquee tag?

Since marquee tag can make something move, it is easier for your readers to notice it and with a proper design it can surely add spice to your blog.

How to Submit Sitemap to Ask.com via Ping

Ask is one of the top search engine that is used today. Founded as Ask Jeeves in 1996 and renamed Ask.com in February 2005, Ask.com is recognized for innovation in search technology and search interface design. Most of its users comes from USA so I decided to submit my blog's URL to Ask.com but I found it a little bit hard because in order for Ask.com to crawl your page you have to submit the sitemap file directly to Ask.com via the ping URL. However sitemap submissions do not guarantee the indexing of URLs. It's better to try though.

SEO for Blogger - Part 5: Use Proper Link Name

When creating links try using proper link names because it is very SEO friendly. Instead of using generic links like "Read more", "Click Here" and "View Demo" try to put some relevant text information to your links "Read more about Blogging", "Click Here to see blog design" and "View blog design demo". This simple things can make a better SEO to your blog.

For your blog posts this is very easy task to do you can simply modify the text in your editor but notice when you insert jump break to your posts it will automatically put "Read More >>" link under your posts when you start to published it. To deal with this we can add the title of your post after, "Read More >> + Your_Post_Title" or we can totally change the "Read More >>" to "Your_desired_text + Your_Post_Title". It's always better to include your post title for jump breaks and that is what I'm going to show you.

SEO for Blogger - Part 4: Getting Rid of Spam Comments

Spam comments are usually ignored by some bloggers not knowing the harmful effect of it. Before, I have no idea what spam comment was but as I explore the blogosphere and the search engine world I have now a better understanding of it. After knowing what spam comments are I realize that I've done it so many times and sooner or later it will hunt me back. You might done the same thing, When you post a comment on someone's blog posts you also leave a link to your blog.

SEO for Blogger - Part 3: Interlink Blog Posts

Interlinking your blog posts is one of the best way to keep your visitor in your blog because it provide more opportunities for visitors to find content of interest. Again this is a great SEO tactic. Interlinking your blog is a very easy thing to do. You just need to put anchor tag "<a>" within the word/s or phrases that will go to other page when visitor clicks it. <a href="Your_URL"> Your_Word/s </a>

Example: <a href="http://www.google.com"> Go to Google </a>

SEO for Blogger - Part 2: Optimize Page Titles

Part of SEO is to optimize your website title or your page title, part of optimizing page title includes to have your keywords in it and make it dynamic. Most blogger forget to optimize these things specially when they rely on blogging tools like blogger a.k.a (blogspot). Having a dynamic or changing page title is a must for blogs and website because it eliminates the search engines impression that you have a redundant content. Although blogger a.k.a (blogspot) provides dynamic page titles to all your posts the problem is that it always inserts the blog title first before your post title in your page title. To understand more see example.

Example: The blog's title here is "Facebook Vampire Wars - Walkthrough, Tips, Cheats and Guides" and the post title is "Add Me"

SEO for Blogger - Part 1: Adding Meta Tags

Meta tags plays a very important role when it comes to SEO or Search Engine Optimization because by putting meta tags It helps the search engine understand the contents of a site. Meta tags are placed inside the head tag <head>Meta_Tags_Here</head> and when you talk about SEO the most important meta tags are "meta description tag" and "meta keywords tag". Everytime you submit a query in a search engine, you will at least see 3 parts of the result. 

For example let's search for "Facebook" in google.