Top 5 Blogging Mistakes You Must Avoid

1. Make sure your English, grammar and spelling, is up to par and can be understood by International Readers as colloquial language that is used in your local area may not be understood by some one else a few thousand miles away. Also don't use a crappy title for your blog. An eye catchy title can work miracles and is like fish bait.

2. Do not show that you are trying too hard to sell your services, products or even blogging information. Make your site look natural, organic and as easy going as you can, despite the effort you are making. No one likes a hard sell and you have to sell your wares in the most subtle way possible.

3. Do not stray from the topics in hand and wonder off into some other realm as that may bore your readers to tears. Always make sure content is both informative and relevant to what you want to put across to your readers. No one likes a blog that waffles on about all and sundry and is full of useless and tacky information.

4. If you are creating a new blog do not use the default templates that your blogging platform provides. Even if it takes you several days or even a week to find the write blogging template to express your opinion in then you better take your time as an attractive blog is one way of getting some instant traffic to your site. No one likes a tacky blog that looks dull and boring even if it has great content. The blog has to look good as well as BE good just like other aspects of our lives. Your blog is like your store front or a window to your soul and it has to look clean and fresh and most of all inviting.

5. Do not be only introspective without involving others as this will not attract lots of traffic to your blog. Involve and engage with other bloggers. Leave feed back and comments on other people's blogs that share a common goal with you or are writing in the same niche. If you don't get involved in the blogging community how do you expect others to come and be part of what you represent? The Blogging Game is a two way street so only then you can succeed as a blogger.

How To Create Static Page In Blogger

Hurry Google launched new Blogger feature to create static Blogger pages.

Here is the process

1) first sign in to draft.blogger.com

2) go to New Post
3) Select The Edit Pages (See the figure below)

Now write your content and publish it just as you publish the post

select the option where you want to display page list in your blog

now click on save and publish
after publishing click on view to view the created page
copy the links of the page from browser address bar then paste that link where you want

Blogger SEO

Blogger & Google Webmaster Tools, make for a great SEO team. A little known secret that GWT has buried deep inside it’s treasure chest of handy tools, is a feature that I’ve been very happy to find.
Have you ever wandered which of your own blog post was the highest rated on the Google SERP (Search Engine Results Page)? I’m about to show you a very cool feature, that will show all of your most popular blog post, & not only that, everyone can view their own highest ranking SERP results for FREE!
Let’s get started!
1) First thing we need is a blog (check)
2) Go to Google Webmaster Tools
3) Select your blog name from the list of your blogs/websites
4) Click on the link Your site on the web
5) Click on the link Top search queries
6) You should see a list of words/phrases. Go to the far right side of the screen & click on the link that reads Position (see screenshot below)

What you see in the above screenshot is the most popular search results from real people on the internet, searching for relevant information to this blog, from the last seven days.
Beneath the Position link, shows the real position for each group of search words, that the visitors to my site used to find this blog (soswitcher.blogspot.com).
Here is how I rank for these search strings in the past seven days:
1) google for free javascripts hosts
2) visible title code for blogger
As you can see I’m indeed number one in both of those search strings, for the last seven days. What’s better is, you can search for longer periods of time, example the screenshot below is for August.

The most interesting search I found, that just blew me away was one of the shortest search strings. The search string blogger change, shows I was number one in the month of August, but get this (here’s the good part) The search string blogger change has over 451,000,000 other pages, below my blog (I’m now 2nd place as of this post, still very happy).
All I can say is WOW!
Note:
Google Webmaster Tools takes a while to crawl your blogs pages, If you are new to GWT then you should follow my other blog post Better Google Sitemap when setting up new sitemaps for Google to crawl. The longer your involved with GWT the larger your list of SERP keywords will be.
Go check out your own Google Webmaster Tools, list of most popular search words, I think you will be very surprised at how well some of your blog post are ranking.
Lets hear how well your ranking. :)

Blogger Meta Tag

I’ve been busy working on a really cool bit of Blogger Meta Tag code, the last couple of days. This new code will let me control all my meta tag content dynamically with the exception of my blogs homepage, which will have its own static meta tag content, that is still totally customizable.

What's all this mean, why do I need this?
The old way of creating Meta Tags for a Blogger Template, will only let us set the Meta Tag content for all of our Blogger blogs, as single Meta Tags, that shows the same content on every single blog page.
My new improved code will automatically write this dynamic content to the Blogger template for each individual blog page:

• TITLE
• Description Meta Tag
• Keywords Meta Tag

1) Title Tag = Blog Post Title + Blog Post Labels + Blog Title
2) Description Meta Tag = Blog Post Title + Blog Post Labels + Blog Description
3) Keywords Meta Tag = Blog Post Labels
The Blog Title pulls it’s content from Blogger Control Panel –> Settings –> Title. The Blog Description in the Meta Tag Description pulls it’s content from the Blogger Control Panel –> Settings –> Description. All the Label content pulls it’s content from each individual blog posts labels, so we use those Labels as Keywords inside the Meta Tags.
What all this does is provide Google our own unique content & keywords, that have a very good chance of showing up inside the Google Search results Pages description, just below the Title. The reason I say a very good chance of showing up is, it’s impossible for any website on the net to force Google to use content. With the Meta Tag Description, Google most times will look for that tag & use it in the SERP.
I’ve had my new Dynamic Meta Tags crawled by Google & already showing up in the Google SERP (Search Engine Results Page), after only a few hours of testing.

My intention is to have Google notice my blog for a wider dynamic selection of keywords & phrases, than my old static template. I’ll wait about a month & keep monitoring how Google Search handles the content in my SERP results, before I post any code for others to use on their own blogs, I want the code to be 100% up & running with results to show everyone.
Keep an eye out for related future blog post.
While I’m tweaking the code, have a look thru this blogs source code, to check out how every single page on this blog has dynamic Meta Tags & Page Titles (no two pages are the same).

SEO BASIC CONCEPTS

Optimization concepts, are the concepts which should be taken into consideration while optimizing your website in order to make it search engine friendly. The following points are worth noticing in a website.

Starting off with the meta tags (remember that meta tags are the most important tags, telling the search engine spiders the theme of your page, so it's important to have proper meta tags in your source code)

Title Tags - Title tags are the tags which represents the title of the web page. An accurate title makes it clear for the visitor about the web page and tells/gives the appropriate information of the web page. But title tags should not be too long. The standard limit for the title tags is 7 to 12 words or 75 to 87 characters. The optimum Keyword Density for the title tag is about 9 to 20%.

Meta Description - This tag is another very tag after the title tag. The Meta Description tells the visiting spider about the theme of the page, and helps in providing the relevant information to the user if he is searching to the related information to your website. The standard limit for the meta description should br nearly 15 to 20 words, or 150 characters. It should be noted that lot of keyword stuffing in the description tag may lead to or considered as SPAM. So it should be avoided, generally speaking the keyword should be repeated no tmore than thrice in the tag. The optimum Keyword Density for the description tag is about 5 to 10%.

Meta Keywords - The meta keyword tag is also considered as an important tag, in the search engine consideration of the website. The standard limit for the tag is nearly 50 to 70 words or 285 - 510 characters.

Now the second thing to be considered as the most important as SEO point of view is SITEMAPS. Spiders love sitemaps, so why not to create one for your own website, and tell the important pages for your website to be crawled and indexed.