Friday 30 December 2011

SEO - Search Engine Optimization - Simple Explanation

Search Engine Optimization is the process of improving the reach of the search engines towards any website or any webpage by natural or unpaid methods (organic or algorithmic search )  .In other words it is the process of optimizing any website in such a way that its content or the website itself can found on the top pages of the search engines .In general the website optimized for search engines can be found on the high ranked pages of the search engines and is more frequently displayed on the search engines .

It is the marketing strategy to improve the no of visitors to a website and hence getting the most out the the websites . People start a business with their website , they optimize their website and they get improved no. of visitors ,their website gets the traffic and traffic is the source of huge income on the internet .

Optimizing a website may include modifying its content and HTML and related coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines . Also you may find of lot of SEO friendly website templates on the internet . 

Thursday 29 December 2011

How to Add a sitemap to Webmasters tools in blogger

First of all we need to understand ,what a site map is ?
A site map is an organized representation of contents of the website . It helps users to navigate through the website and thus giving them a way to find what they want . Imagine i f there were no site map available for any website then we may find difficulty in getting what we are looking for . With the audience convenience there are many other things in which this sitemap plays a great role , one of them is SEO (Search Engine Optimization - Tp know more about SEO Click here ) .

Google shows our newly added content in one of its top search pages . It helps our website gain visitors . But what if Google can't be able to Crawl through our website . Then it will not be able to index our pages , so we must provide a sitemap of our website to the webmaster tools so that it can crawl through our website .

Steps to add site map on webmasters tools :
  1. log in to your blogger account  .
  2. Go to "Webmasters Tools" at the bottom of the page . 
  3. Select the blog for which you want to submit the site map .
  4. At the left pane you will see Dashboard go to Dashboard-->Site configuration-->Sitemaps .
  5. You will see at the center a table shows up click on button "Submit a sitemap" .
  6. Add these two things one by one   "atom.xml?redirect=false" & "feeds/posts/default?=rss "
  7. Thats it You have submitted the sitemap Successfully . 
 Here is the video for your convenience :