How to Increase Alexa Rank of Blogspot Blogs

Recently Google has changed their changed blogspot urls to country specific custom top level
domain. That means if a your site has been visited from different country other than US your
visitor will get a different version of your blog with same content. For example if a visitor from
India or Australia visits your site than he/she will get a URL of your blog as yourblog.blogspot.in
and yourblog.blogspot.com.au respectively.


This will surely affect your Alexa Ranking if it doesn't affect your seo or Google PageRank as
Alexa will read different data for your different URL of your blog and that will totally destroy
your Alexa rankings.

So the question is "how to Increase Alexa Ranking of Your Blogspot Blogs from country-specific
URL?"OR "How to force Alexa to record your data from different version of your blog for .com
version of your blog?"

Well the answer is simple install alexa traffic widget on your blog.

Actually this is a trick to force alexa to even record your traffic from country specific domain of
your blog for.com(standard) version of your blog, as if a visitor from certain country visits your
blog and hover his/her mouse

over alexa traffic widget then alexa will count those impression for .com version of your blog.


How to install this widget?

For this head over to following link and enter your the URL of your blog and you will be
provided with different codes, choose which suites best for your blog or which gives
pleasure to your eyes :P

I have chosen 120 x 95 for obvious reasons(I won't tell you why :P).

Here is a Alexa Traffic Widget for Technicia Blog.




Where Should you place this widget?

I think the best place to put this widget is at top of your page or near your content.
Place is at different location and see what works best for you.


Load Time

This may affect your load time, probably few milliseconds but it worth installing, if you
want to increase your Alexa ranking.
Note: If you want minimise the risk of downtime due to this widget, place it at the bottom
of your page after body section.

Add your suggestion

No post is complete without your suggestions, so feel free to add your suggestions in comment section below.

6 SEO Best Practices That Will Matter Moving Forward

The internet as we know is rapidly changing in a way like never before. Up until now, getting your website noticed in the SERPs (search engine results page) has required quite a bit of knowledge in terms of SEO tricks and keyword research. However, with new technologies and strategies for bringing users relevant information, the web and how users experience it is extremely close to changing for the better. Because of this, there are a few things you can know/do to prepare for the direction that the web is certainly heading in.

1. One of the first things you can do is optimize your content using Schema's (schema.org) tags. Schema.org is redefining search on the web by slowly moving away from the technical aspect of SEO and toward actual content and how relevant it is to a user's search terms. With Schema's tags, you can easily place a read-able description for search engines on your content so that they can direct users to it more easily. Schema takes meta tagging to a whole new level, and it will undoubtedly help users have an easier time when they look for your content that you have to offer.

2. Remember that the web and SEO is moving towards your actual content. The old saying, "Content is king," has never been more true. Instead of a website being ranked high because they targeted search terms with low competition, websites will soon be ranked on account of purpose. The more appropriate and relevant content will be ranked higher for search terms that they correlate more to. Instead of crawling for search terms and keywords, Schema will redefine search on the web by causing search engines to crawl information as a whole to gain a complete understanding of the information given.

3. Because the web is moving so quickly in this particular direction, it's best to take advantage as early as possible to gain an advantage over the competition. Just think, while your competition is still busy paying to target and maximize on keywords, you could be gearing your web presence for the direction that the web and search is about to take. Just because many other people are neglecting to acknowledge Schema's online presence so early in the process doesn't mean that you can't go ahead and start optimizing your content for it. Imagine, as soon as it is more popularly implemented, you'll already be completely optimized for it.

4. Google+ is also on the verge of significantly changing the game as far as web search goes. To understand how Google+ will do this, you first have to consider how product reviews influence purchases on the internet. It's not very likely that an online consumer will purchase an item without initially gaining an understanding of the product through product reviews. The odd part is that the consumer will take this information and advice to heart, even though the people providing the information are complete strangers. Now, imagine being able to get product and service reviews that you're searching online not only from strangers, but also from your friends, co-workers or family. For example in the future of Google+, if you searched for a cell phone online, you might get results for various deals, but you'd also see recommendations and "+1's" from friends near the top of the SERPs.

This is all from being connected via Google+. Additionally, this is a very realistic and probable strategy that Google is working on right now to change the way search works forever.

5. Start encouraging your users to +1 your content and spread hype about it. Because it probably won't be long before users start taking their friends' and family's "+1's" into account for choosing a product or service, you'll want to start building this number up early on. There is a very good chance that this type of search will absolutely take the internet by storm, and you'll want to be on top and ahead of the game as soon as it does. What do you have to lose? Spend time encouraging your users and educating them on the benefits of the "+1" that Google offers.

6. The best thing to do prepare you and your content for this change is to make sure that your website and content are relevant and recommendable. The internet is definitely on the verge of changing, and websites will be ranked more on what it offers rather than silly SEO tricks. Because of this, you'll want to be sure that you offer the internet something valuable. Is your content valuable to the rest of the world? If it is, you'll surely get an easy path when the internet moves in its transformation toward real people and away from algorithms.

Brian F is the in-house SEO for a virtual private servers provider based in North America. 

Google PageRank Update: Everything You Need To Know

About 3 months after the page rank update in November, Google has just rolled out new PageRank update for various web Page's today on 6th February 2012 and guess what it was good for us. For your information, Google updates page rank in every 3 or 4 months and it was expected in the late January or early February.


Higher Pagerank for Technicia Blog 

Yes our page rank updated from two to three, thanks Google for updating page rank. In addition to that my personal Google+ profile page rank ( for both /post and /about ) updated from one to two. Now I'm looking to launch a new blog about social media specially on Google+ and twitter :D

Last Few Updates

PageRank updated on November 08 2011
PageRank updated on August 05 2011
PageRank updated on July 18 2011
PageRank updated on June 27 2011
PageRank updated on January 20 2011


What is Page Rank?


Page Rank is a rank given to web page by Google on the basis of sites linking in, note that its not only the total number of sites linking in it but its about the quality of sites linking in. For example I would be very happy if several blogs with page rank 6 link to my blog rather than tons of pr1 blogs linking in.

Actually page rank indicates importance of web page for Google and it was developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.


Below is the page rank meaning from one to ten.

Page Rank 0: Don't worry, you have nothing to loose :P
Page Rank 1: Poor, But the best part is you can tell your blogging friends you have page rank.
Page Rank 2: Don't worry, 90% of blog has page rank 2. Tip: comment more.
Page Rank 3: Avarage, yeah you just got the real taste of blogging, you need to submit guest posts and do at least two directory submission per month.
Page Rank 4: Good, You are doing it right. Just submit more guest post to sites having pr6 or above.
Page Rank 5: Very Good, please contact me :P
Page Rank 6: Great, you have done some good work and you are one of the top blogs in your niche.
Page Rank 7: Awesome, You are leading the way for other blogs.
Page Rank 8: You are on fire and you must have great fan following.
Page Rank 9: You are best in your niche. example yahoo.com
Page Rank 10: You rule the web but the worst part is you can't improve your page rank. example Google.com, cnn.com etc.



How Can I See PageRank?

There are lots of tools available for viewing your page rank but I would recommend you to install chrome extension named "PageRank Status" for this purpose from here.

Don't worry if you are not using chrome, you can still use online tools like www.checkpagerank.net/  and     www.prchecker.info/ to check page rank of desired pages.

What if I'm using FireFox?

Switch to chrome :P(not kidding) or just install PageRank for Firefox.


What if I'm using Internet Explorer? 

I think You should not worry about page rank system, just focus on blogging. However you can still install Google Page Rank Toolbar for this purpose but seriously it will not help.


How Can I Increase My PageRank?


Good question, well the answer is simple, get dofollow backlinks from high page rank blogs, yes getting nofollow backlinks is useless as far as Google page rank is concerned. For increasing your page rak you can do following things.

Submit Guest Posts: 

Submit Guest post to high page rank blogs, start with page rank 2 and move on to high page rank blogs.

Directory Submission: 

Directory submission is very useful tool if you are willing to increase your page rank, it might be difficult as they usually don't accept low quality articles but it worth submitting.

Some Article Directories I would Recommend are, GoArticle, EzineArticle, etc.

Comment, Comment, Comment:

Comment on Dofollow blogs, it might be difficult to find dofollow blogs but they can increase your page rank to great extent. Comments are most valuable if they are done on relevant pages.
Tip: Also comment on nofollow blogs not for page rank but to gain some valuable traffic.


Internal Linking

Do links to your own article, specially use 3 way linking? Three way linking can give you higher page rank in no time.

what is three way linking? 

consider page A, page B and Page C. Now Link page A to page B and then link page B to page C and finally link page C back to page A.

Link To Google

What the heck you are talking about? please calm down Google also needs traffic and want to improve their page rank as well. If you send them some quality traffic, they will send back some quality traffic to you as well.

Link To Other Blogs

Link to other blogs if you trust them i.e. if they are not posting spammy contents, in this way not only you are able to gain other bloggers attention but you can get some link back to your site as well.

Add Your Suggestion

No post is complete without your suggestions, so suggest any tip you got in comment section below. Remember we are not a dofollow blog :P

Things to Do if You Want to Achieve Top Page in Google

For those of you who are just getting started in SEO, following are some helpful things that you should keep in mind if you want to achieve top page in Google for your website.

Use Your Keywords As The Anchor Text For External Links


This is rated by most industry experts as the top factor that could affect your site’s ranking. This could be obvious for most of those who have been into SEO for quite some time, but the importance of this factor cannot be overemphasized especially since there is still a proliferation of sites which are being linked by external websites and yet the anchor texts appear to be random across the various linking sites. This is a waste of a very useful tool that could have definitely helped them increase their ranking. Hence, it is very important that you decide on a keyword that you want to concentrate for your site and use it as your anchor text when other websites want to link back to you. You could always send a polite request to the publishers of these sites in order for them to make a subtle change or two. Just make sure that your keyword appears natural in the general flow of the linking article otherwise it may look out of place or even spammy.

Credibility Of Sites Which Are Linking Back To You


Your popularity with other websites is one way for Google to judge if you are a credible site or not, and worthy enough for them to include you on their top page for your keyword when the time comes. One way for them to know if your site is popular or not is through the number of links that your site is getting from other websites. It is not enough that you get a lot of back links going your way however. The quality or reputation of these sites will also matter as Google factors this into their algorithm as well. Do a little research on the sites which are linking back to you. Chances are, if they are also highly ranked by Google then it’s safe to say that they are deemed as credible sites. In this case it’s more about quality more than quantity, but take note also that in the internet world you will need lots of these quality sites linking back to you in order to register a blimp on the radar.

Link Sources Should Be Diversified As Much As Possible


Another factor that plays an important role in SEO is the diversity of respectable sites that are linking back to you. Meaning, you should be getting back links from as many different sources as possible, from high profile sites, blogs, comments, articles, rss feeds, social networking sites, and many more. If Google suddenly turns around and changes their algorithm by suddenly putting more emphasis on one source over the other, then at least you already have your stakes evenly spread out so that your site won’t be affected as much by any change in policies or anything.  

George Peterson currently works for one of the leading search marketing agencies in Denmark - Outrider. He currently works as a SEO manager. 

Blogspot.com blogs are now transferred to Blogspot.in In India

What the f*** is how I responded when I saw my alexa rank dropped from 180,000 to more than one million,seriously how Google can do it without any notification.

I think this is global change for all blogspot users, for example if you are living in India your blogspot
URL will be changed from blogspot.com to blogspot.in for indian visitors(my Guess).

I have tried to access my blog in other countries using proxy sites and noticed no change there, so
change this might be for Indian users only or for local blogs( it is unclear now as we have not noticed any announcement from Google or blogger team).


When I saw My my blogspot blog is transferred to .in, it was very frustrating experience for me
and it must be frustrating for other bloggers also.


How This Change Will Affect Your Blog?

Backlinks: No more backlinks to your new address and this is ridiculous as building Backlinks is not an easy job, I have spent about one year to build backlinks and that hurts a lot.

Alexa Rank: Your alexa rank will reduced to zero. Also Alexa will now record your data from different domains and assign different rank for them.

Page Rank: This will affect your page rank, my page rank dropped from 2 to zero.

Social Media Share: It will affect your social media share due to the presence of multiple url's of the same post. Personally I don't care about social media share numbers but I care about traffic and number of plus one's I get as it affect my seo and organic traffic.
Note: It will not affect facebook likes, if you have placed canonical tag on your blog.

Traffic: I don't think this will affect your traffic as your visitors are redirected from old URL's to new one.

SEO: will this affect your seo? my answer is both yes and no, yes because you will loose all your backlinks and pagerank and no because it will not affect your content.

Update1: Yes, it will affect your search engine optimisation(SEO) as crawler will find duplicate content from your site on many different domains and thus it will downgrade your rankings in search engine.
Conclusion: Ultimately it will kill your blog.

Update2: As .com version of your blog is still there for visitors from other countries, it will not kill your backlinks but it does affect your Alexa rank and Page Rank.

Update3: Use canonical tag on your blog to minimise any traffic loss due to duplicate content, also if you wish to visit .com version of your blog then use NCR(stands for "No Country Redirect") URL.

For example http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/ncr will always redirect you to .com version of your blog.

Update4: This update is rolled out in Australia and soon will be rolled out in every country except
US(I guess)

Blogspot URL in Australia has been changed to http://yourblogname.blogspot.com.au/ from http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/

Update5: For Update explained by Google support click here


Update6: This is change is driven by the ongoing hearing against Google Inc in the Delhi High Court
and censorship issue in various other countries. Also this change gives Google the ability to selectively censor the blogspot blogs in various countries. For example, if you are living in india and Indian government orders Google to block your blog then Google can simply remove your .in version of your blog without affecting .com version of your blog.



What You can Do? 

There is nothing you can do about, Google want this change and they have imposed it.

Advice 

If you are affected by this move then you should buy a custom domain to protect your blog from future changes or you can just export your blog to other blogging platform like wordpress.


Your Thoughts

What you think about this change made by Google and how this will affect you, lets discuss this
thing in comment section below or you can add your thoughts on Google+

Four Tips to a Great Landing Page

You may not exactly be a website creator by profession, but as a dentist you need to be aware of the basic ways to design your dental website. Having a website is not an end all be all goal because an ineffective dental website may just cost you money without delivering any results. A great landing page will help increase you convert visitors into paying patients. Although there aren’t any hard and fast rules to making an effective landing page, here are a couple tried and tested tips that could help:

1. Include a Clear Call to Action

This is something which almost any SEO expert will tell anyone with a website. Your dental website’s ultimate goal should be to convert visitors into patients and you can achieve this goal by leading traffic to your landing page. In order for visitors to make the conscious decision to become your patients, you need to make them act by making an offer. Your offer is an intrinsic part of sealing any deal so make sure that you offer your visitors something which is irresistible. For instance, you can offer your visitors a free dental check-up which will motivate them to visit your clinic or at least call your office.


2. Make Sure That Your Website’s Pitch is Consistent with Your Off-Page Promise

When you’re trying to market your services as a dentist, you’ll be using different online strategies. Consistency sells and this is why the message on your landing page should be in line with what the one projected by your dental blog, paid ads and submitted articles to prevent visitors from feeling misled. This is necessary because visitors will be directed to your landing page from blogs, article directories and other avenues.


3.  The Less Text, the Better

According to studies, website surfers aren’t keen on reading novel-length articles and write ups. People do not have the time or the patience to go through an entire 1,000 word essay on why your dental services are great. This is why if you’re going to make a point and sell your services, you need to do so right away. You can make use of bullet lists and easy-to-understand headlines.

4. Simple Design Wins

A good landing page isn’t cluttered. You can make use of images but make sure that they do not occupy a majority of the page. Give your readers a break, and use a font style and size that allows content to be easily read.

I hope you enjoy my post and find it useful. I like to write on the subjects of dental web page design and Dental Office SEO. Thank you for your interest, Elliot Pearson, Dentist Identity.

The benefits of blogging for schools

Blogging has become one of the defining ways that people communicate in the 21st century. Everyone from politicians and companies, to artists and even plain old regular people have blogs to document their lives and opinions. It’s no surprise then, that an increasing number of schools are using blogs, both as official voices for the school and as a way to let particular teachers, or even head teachers, have their say. But what exactly are the benefits of creating a school blog?

To begin with, we really need to define what the audience for a school blog would be. The obvious answer is current parents; blogs can be a great way to connect with parents and keep them informed of current affairs at the school. In that sense, a blog is a modern replacement for the school newsletter. By using an online medium, news is updated faster and gives parents the opportunity to comment and respond to each piece individually. If the schools plan to change the date of their sports day gets a lot of negative feedback on their blog, they’ll know that it’s an issue that needs addressing: this is fast and free feedback. By bringing the way they communicate with parents into the modern era, a blog can also be the gateway to greater and more ambitious uses of technology; everything from iPads in the classroom, to social networking accounts on Facebook or Twitter.

It is by using these new avenues of gadgetry and technology that a school can really impress new or prospective parents. Having a blog gives the impression that a school is aware of current trends, and technologically literate enough not only to cope with emerging avenues of technology, but to embrace the new and exciting ways in which teachers can communicate with their students and with parents. A school with a blog is a school that faces towards the future, rather than to the past.

All these positives are very much focused on the idea of a blog as an official output for a school; but what if blogs are directly authored not by the school as a whole, but by a specific member of staff? An excellent example of this is the Headmaster’s blog at Bromsgrove School. Anyone who has read this blog will know that the Headmaster communicates in a very witty, light-hearted tone, and more importantly, he also often talks about non school-related matters. It’s tempting to consider this blog as a sort of unofficial representation of the school, but in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.

These personal style blogs are the perfect way for a school to advertise itself. By providing readers with an intelligent and witty advocate, in the form of a headmaster or a teacher, this modern, off-beat communication can really show off a school’s resources. The personal touch also means that it will often be less dry, and consequently more humorous, than official blogs, which means that they’re more likely to be read by a larger audience.

In this way, what every school actually needs is two different blogs. One to replace the information exchange of the humble school newsletter and another to provide a charming, personal voice that may attract potential parents. It’s a cheap and easy way to both manage and advertise a school.

Rachel is an education blogger with a particular interest in technology for schools.

Bloggers Official Threaded Comments are Live Now

After many top blogs (including StylifyYour Blog) were

claiming that blogger will be releasing threaded commentssoon and guess what

they have officially announced the arrival of threadedcomments via blog post

on Blogger Buzz.

Official Statement :

Blogger now supports threaded commenting, which means thatit is now much
easier to differentiate between whether someone is making ageneral comment
on the thread, or responding to another comment on thethread.

Also Blogger team is going to host a Hangout tomorrow at 3pm PST with Patrick

Coleman, the Blogger engineer who developed threaded comments.

What are Threaded comment system?

Threaded Comments are nested comments like those in othercommenting system

like Disqus, intense debate, comment Luv etc.

For more clarification see screenshot below :

How to Enable Threaded Comments?

Step 1: Login to Blogger and select a blog to enableThreaded Comments

Step 2: Go to Settings > Posts and Comments  and set comment location to embedded.

Step 3: Go to Settings > Other

Step 4: Set Allow Blog Feed option to Full

Better Commenting System:

Now blogger team is working on commenting system, we caneven expect gravatar

support in future with better spam detection technique whichwill make

blogger commenting system much better than older versions.

How to Customize the new Threaded Comment System in Blogger? 

Don't worry we have a post for you

What are you waiting for start commenting on your favouriteblog also let us

know how this change will affect you, how it will changeblogger powered

blogs in the improved commenting system below.

3 Ways to Prepare Your Blog for Christmas

                                  

Christmas is a time of celebration, everybody knows that.And everywhere you visit around the world, both offline and online, only remindyou of it. And we must agree that Christmas also has its effect on us bloggers.If you are a blogger who schedules 5 to 10 articles for your blog on normaldays, I bet you’ll only be able to do half of that now. And going this way canonly reduce the traffic and rankings of your blog, if you can’t find somethingto do. 

   
   
   

Given, you can’t blot out yourself from the merry andcelebrations going around just because you want to focus your attention on yourblog and on the other hand, you can’t leave your blog to die for the sake ofChristmas. There has to be a way to do things without making one suffer for thesake of the other. And this is when the tips I’ll be sharing in this articlebecome relevant. 

Start GeneratingIdeas When you Have the Chance 

Generating ideas for your future blog posts is one of thebest ways to prepare your blog for this Christmas. If you are the type thatwrites quality articles for your blog every day, you’ll want to agree with methat when you have ideas for the article you want to write for your blog, halfof your work is done!

So if you are only left with half of the amount of time youusually had, having your post ideas ready can help you maximize your time andalso help you keep your blog going.

At least, I have more than twenty post ideas for my diamondinternational discounts and allurez coupon blog which I plan to use during theChristmas.

Schedule Your BlogPosts Ahead 

Another great way to make sure your blog stays afloat duringthis festive period is by scheduling your articles for the days you know youwon’t have the opportunity to write any. If there is any better way to do this,it is by making yourself write more articles than you initially do now. If youalways write two articles before, you can write four and schedule the other twoto publish on a later day, advisable on a very busy day.

And if doing this is going to be stiff for you, you may haveto consider doing what I’m sharing below.

Hire Writers orRequest for Guest Posts 

Hiring writers can be a bit expensive but it’s worth it whenyou consider the benefit you are going to derive from it. When you’ll be busywith your friends during Christmas, your writers can be writing blog posts foryour blog without you having to do the job yourself.

If your budget will not allow you to hire writers, you cando it in a simpler way, by asking people to write for you as guest authors. Manypeople will be willing to give you an article for free in exchange for abacklink on your blog.

John Edget blogs and writes for a coupon blog which features diamond international coupons and allurez coupons. He has free Allurez Coupon and Diamonds International Coupon for you on his blog.

3 Effective Ways to Build Backlinks to a Blog

                             
Building backlinks to a blog comes with many benefits. As a blogger, I’ve been striving to build a lot of backlinks to my weight watchers discounts and diet to go coupons blog. And during the process of doing this, I’ve learnt some effective ways to build backlinks to a blog. It’s not all the many ways people find easy to build backlinks to their blogs are rewarding. That is why you need to define what methods will be rewarding for you and your blog.
The search engine optimization or SEO benefits you’ll derive from building effective backlinks to your blog can double your search engine traffic almost overnight. What are these effective ways to build backlinks to a blog?

Guest Blogging 

Guest blogging, perhaps the best way you could build backlinks and drive targeted traffic to your blog, is an easy but yet effective way you can build backlinks to your blog. The most successful blogs have several guest posts with backlinks to their blogs. Aside the SEO benefit your blog is going to derive from your doing guest post for your blog, you are also going to gain new set of audience to your blog which is a very rewarding thing.
If you can work towards doing up to five guest posts to your blog every month, you are sure going to make your blog grow rapidly.

Blog Commenting

Blog commenting, though it looks obvious, is still very effective in building backlinks to a blog only if done the right way. Many bloggers when doing blog commenting do not even bother to confirm that the blogs they are commenting on is a “do-follow” comment enabled blog. You have to know that it’s not the quantity of comments you make that determines the quality of rankings your blog is going to get but the quality.
Another important thing you should always take note of before commenting on a blog is to read the article and make sure you understand the content before commenting on it. You might be surprised to find out that your comment may be deleted if you did not read the content of that blog before commenting on it.


Link Exchange

Link exchange is one of the most utilized ways of building backlinks to blogs. It is well used but still very effective. If you don’t understand the concept of link exchange, it involves you allowing a blogger to have a link of is blog on your own blog while he also reciprocates the same for you.
Though link exchange has been argued to be a wrong method of doing backlinks, it is still very effective and helps bloggers exchange audiences. It also improves your search engine rankings. If you could manage to exchange links with over ten bloggers, that literarily means you have ten links pointing to your blog.

Conclusion:

The backlink building methods I have shared with you in this post are only going to work you if you follow the rules binding them. Building backlinks is not a bad idea, it can help you grow you blog significantly.

John Edget is an SEO specialist who also writes reviews for weight watchers promotion coupon and diettogo discount 15% on his blog. He loved writing for techniciablog.blogspot.com and wants you to learn more about weight watchers discounts and diet to go coupons by visiting his blog.

Google Launches Dynamic Views for Blogger

The search engine giant, google launches new feature for bloggers

called dynamic views.The announcement came yesterday on google's

official blog.


Now bloggers can set Dynamic Views as thier default template. 



Dynamic views include seven set of views :

1.classic

  


2.flipcard

3.magazine

4.mosaic

  




5.sidebar

  


6.snapshot

 



7.timeslide 

These Dynamic Views are SEO friendly and highly Recommended Specially for new bloggers.


To see your Favorite blog in dynamic view use this URL


http://techniciablog.blogspot.com/view/classic



Read official announcement Here