HOW TO CREATE A BLOG LABEL CATEGORIES

What is a blog label?

This is an option that allow you to display a post that are related on you page when ssome one clicks on the link or category of the topic

How can I put  label in my blog?

First of all you have to make sure it is a link by having a link code like this

<a  title=’the name that displays when the mouse touches it’  href=’the link of the category’>the category name</a>

Then to give a blogger a label go to your posts , below it you will see labels just give it a name that the rest post with its category will also have

Finally, go to your html design page click on edit widget and use control F to find the name of the category and when writing the name of the label put this in any place there is gap

(%20) without the bracket for example

<a Title='the name that shows on mouse touch'  href='/search/label/blogging%20tips'>BLOGGING TIPS</a>

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REMOVE SHOWING ALL POST WITH LABEL FROM YOUR BLOG

As I have told you that webgists are here to make sure that your blog from blogspot look professional like a blog designed specially for you. So this tip is here again for you to remove the show all post shown by blogger when someone clicks on your blog label

First of all find these codes below in your blog by simply signing in to your blog account go to design then edit html

<b:includable id='status-message'>
<b:if cond='data:navMessage'>
<div class='status-msg-wrap'>
<div class='status-msg-body'>
<data:navMessage/>
</div>
<div class='status-msg-border'>
<div class='status-msg-bg'>
<div class='status-msg-hidden'><data:navMessage/></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style='clear: both;'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>

When you find the code just delete it and insert this one below and you are done

<b:includable id='status-message'>
<b:if cond='data:navMessage'>
<div>
</div>
<div style='clear: both;'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>

Enjoy professional blogging

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15 FREE PINGING SERVICES----> Tell the search engine what you did

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Pinging is a service provided by some webmasters who help you to tell the search engine that you just added a new content to your blog. You and I know that popular search engines like google and bing love sites that update their site or blog.  So the question is how will I tell them that my site is updated

Answer = BY PINGING

This is done simply by submitting your site url or feed url to the pinging site and then click on ping my site or ping. This service has both

Free service and

Paid one , paid pinging are meant to crawl your site in may be every 3 days or their about to tell the search engine that you have new stuff while the free one are done by you submitting your url each time you put a new stuff

These are example of free pinging service

Ping-o-matic

Pingler

Pingates

Pingthatblog

Feedping

Ping.in

Bulkping

Blogpingtool

Autopinger

Pingmyblog

Feedshark

Kping.com

Ping4free.com

Syncr

Mypagerank.net

ENJOY THE GOSSIPING

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THE 8 FIRST SEO STEPS FOR A BLOG TO GET ON TOP WITHOUT A DIME

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WHAT IS SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION (SEO) 

This is the way that your site or blog is displayed on the search engine like Google, aol, yahoo, bing and so fault. There is over 80 or more popular search engines on the web but the most popular is the Google search engine. So for optimum top rankings in the search engine you have some steps to follow and that is what we outlined here for you to follow and be the first site to be viewed everyday when someone searches the web 

WHY SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION?

The display of your site matters a lot to you because it leads visitors to your site on daily basis making your site service more known and also as a publisher makes you get more visitors to click on your adverts displayed on your site or as a seller online you will like many people to see your products and go for it.

METHODS OF SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION 

META TAG :Tags are places where important point of your site are like the site keywords or site descriptions which makes the search engine detects you because they work with keywords to crawl pages or your site content.  This is considered as an old method of site optimization but still works perfectly for some search engines like scrubTheWeb.com simply go below your title in your html pad or page if you are using blogs go to design and click on html editing and put a meta tag like this

<meta=`keywords 1, keyword 2 keyword 3’ name=`keywords’/>

For site description use this

<meta=`description of your site’ name=`description’/>

For identity

<meta name=`author’ =’your name’ name’/>

<meta name=”roots” content=”index, follow> this makes the search engine to index and follow your links in that page

Also use meta tag to make engine robot to revisit ur site for indexing this makes it search for new contents

Metaname=’revisit-after’ content=’14days’

USING SOCIAL MEDIA ANSWER: Yahoo, Facebook , Google+, blog, twitter are popular peer to peer social media where users are allowed to ask questions and also given the oppurnity to rank the best answers. so as you give an answer to this question you can add your site as the source of the answer or rather when answering the question you have to put a link to your site to make your answer reader go to your site for more and with this popular sites that are ranked on top then gives you the opportunity ti be on top whenever someone asks the question you  answered and also through Press Release

SUBMISSION OF SITE TO SEARCH ENGINES: You have to submit your site to search engines to make them include your site in their index making their crawler get to you immediately it sets off for search you can do this by the help of some tools like Google site map tools or with the help of some sites that automatically submits your site to more than 200 search engines on the web by just inputting your site url and confirming them in your emails.  Some of this site is listed below

Addurlengine.com

Submitexpresss.com

Submit-away.com/auto-submit.htm

OR

 a Rather submit GENIUE article to EZINEARTICLES.COM and also submit an article to MYARTICLE.COM make sure when you fill the author box you link back your site and for maximum effectiveness submit to both sites if you do this Google will follow your link from those site to index your site in their SERP this is one of the latest trick on air now

REACHING OUT TO BLOGGERS AND FORUM PARTICIPATIONS:   This is simply participating to related forums or blogs that renders the same service like you. Almost all website and blogs allow posting of comments and allowing of posters to put their website links or signature in their posts. There is a software that post rubbish to related site it works like a robot automatically but is a scam it more ethical to post it manually
you can also ping your site. this is a form of telling the search engine of your new content. so learn how to do so with this post 

LINK BAITING: This a new word in SEO term but it involves so many things but it mainly involves the artificial way of building links and instead to focus on creating  very compelling, interesting, or viral contents so that people link to it naturally. There is another side to link baiting and this is the publication of false, misleading, or purposefully controversial information to gain links or fabrications of articles around topics that appeal to the people in a viral way, but do not have anything to do with your website you may do this black hat form in only sites that have short term business with you or the public
OR USE OF BACKLINKS which is all about making other high ranked sites link to your site either by writing a guest post or by commenting

MAKE USE FREE ADDS: Take the advantage of free advertising your site like using gum tree Just go to www.GumTree.com and do that. And also use free backlink like www.backlink.com to point upto 500 website to your own note never you use robots like comment kahuna

DIRECTORY SUBMISSION: This is one of the most ways of link building this is done by submitting your links to the big directories like yahoo, DMOZ or the best of the web, there are some sites that do this for free but I prefer paid directories. what you have to is to make them a link back site but I never recommend this because some of this sites are owned by well known spammers and their linking might make Google remove you from their SERB because search engine don’t penalize on who links to you but who you links to. I recommend tower search engine that links you to about 200 search engines with one time pay of $8 dollars

To know how perfect they are just check the Alexa ranking of the site  or google the site to know its rank in the search engine search rank of the site, how long the directory  at the site footer

Alexa is a site where websites are registered and then ranked according to their services. You can include your site there by simply registering and then put the code given to you at html tag portion of your site or blog

MAKE USE OF FREE ADS you should make use of the free adverts like gumTree.com . This is a site that you can advertise your site without paying a dime for it. So just go there and place your site there

USE OF ALT IMAGE TAGS always put an alternative image name in your site because search engine crawls them but don’t overdo it for you not to get bound

<body>

<Img src=”the image source” alt=”put the name you want to use”>

MOBILE EXPEREINCE: This is not a SEO but it makes mobile users to visit your site regularly due to the way your site fits in their mobile and  some site like mobstac makes it possible here .I go for them because they makes it possible for you to even put your adsense code in their mobile experience services

        We can still be of help to you to place your site first on the search engine if you contact us with little money                                                  

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ADDING A FLOATING SOCIAL MEDIA BAR IN YOUR BLOGGER

Blog  SOCIAL MEDIA BAR is a  JavaScript text plug-in that contains the share button of the major social sites like stumbleupon, facebook, digg, twitter and Google+ .

Using the above social media you are giving your reader the opportunity to share what they have read  or seen in your sites with others in those social media sites and with this you definitely should know that it will help you in your Seo (search engine optimization) so to do this,

 Simply

Go to your blogger dashboard and click on design and then click on templates designs and then click on adding a gadget

Click on the java/html add widget in the window that comes up

Finally insert this code in your empty space and save then you are good to go

 <!-- floating page sharers Start -->
<style>
#pageshare {position:fixed; bottom:15%; margin-left:-820px; float:left; border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;background-color:#fff;padding:0 0 2px 0;z-index:10;}
#pageshare .sbutton {float:left;clear:both;margin:5px 5px 0 5px;}
.fb_share_count_top {width:48px !important;}
.fb_share_count_top, .fb_share_count_inner {-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;}
.FBConnectButton_Small, .FBConnectButton_RTL_Small {width:49px !important; -moz-border-radius:3px;/*bs-fsmsb*/-webkit-border-radius:3px;}
.FBConnectButton_Small .FBConnectButton_Text {padding:2px 2px 3px !important;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;font-size:8px;}
</style>
<div id='pageshare' title="Get this from webgists.blogspot.com">
<div class='sbutton' id='fb'>
<a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>
</div>
<div class='sbutton' id='rt'>
<script src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js" type='text/javascript'></script>
</div>
<div class='sbutton' id='digg' style='margin-left:3px;width:48px'>
<script src='http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<a class="DiggThisButton DiggMedium"></a>
</div>
<div class='sbutton' id='gplusone'>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>
<g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone>
</a></div>
<div style="clear: both;font-size: 9px;text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.webgists.blogspot.com">Get this</a></div>
</div>
<!-- floating page sharers End -->

To change the position of the bar simply search for ‘right’ and input any number position that you thinks suites you or rather for it to appear on the left side simply

Remove the figure ‘right:10px’ in the code to ‘margin-left:-71px’ to any position of ur choice

Always drop a comment because I will appreciate it

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PUTTING A FACEBOOK LIKE OR RECOMMENDING BUTTON ON YOUR BLOGGER

Facebook like button is a plug-in which any blogger or forum owner must put to his website to make a visitor tell his or her friends the way he or she feels about an article or a post this button can even send a notification to the persons facebook wall telling his friend what he or she like or recommend for others to view. It can be added on top of the post or below the post and also it can be customized into different verbs like recommends, loves, check this or like and so on

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>

<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=recommend&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:40px;'/>

</b:if>

To add this to your blog posts just log in to your blogger account then click on the blog you want to put this in. Then in your dashboard click on design then go to html design. After the html design comes up. I will like you to back up your blog during any html changes in your local drive in case things goes wrong even though it won’t. Then expand your widgets by checking the box on the right top of your html codes

Click on ctrl+f to find a code

There are two codes that you need to find depending on the place where you want to place your like button (if it is on top of the post or below the post) some people goes for the top so that people may recommend it even before reading it or rather some people might put it after the post to make the reader recommend it after reading it. So to put it before the post simply search for this code

<div class=’post-header-line-1/>

And after it paste the button code

But if you prefer putting the code after each post then search for using Ctrl+f

<data:post.body/>

Then put this in you finding box and click find if you want this it be in your blog posts floor and paste the code below it

THEN TO CUSTOMISE IT TO YOUR CHOICE OF WORDS

Simply search like using Ctrl+f to find like and put any verb of your choice

E.g. recommend, good, likes, great and so on

To change the color, your also search for light, in this you have only three color options which are

Light, 

evil or

 dark

To change the height you got to use the same search button to find the width or height and give your designated size

To change the fonts search for the Arial: this part controls the fonts and you can change it to lucida+grande, Tahoma , verdana, trebuchet+ms or segoe+ui

I will always appreciate your comments and I will reply to you if you haveany question

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5 THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE CHOOSING A DOMAIN NAME

Domain name is the name given to a website or a blog as to make it unique from others.  And because of this uniqueness you have to make it to be real. For example if a site that is a based on health issues starts answering www.electronics.com or an electronics site answering a name like www.goodhealth.com . So  you see,  it looks so foolish. Today we are going to treat the methods of giving your site a domain name that will make it

•   To stand out from others in other fields
•   Search engine friendly or keyword friendly site
•   Disadvantages of including your personal name to your blog or site name
•   The best domain extension to use for a site

A domain name is expected to go with a phrase or a single word that is related to the information the site plans to give to the public because this helps your visitor to know without visiting the site what your site is all about thereby giving him the confidence to click on it. Example “www.seotips.com” a visitor will never wait for a spirit to tell him that this is a search engine optimization help site. So, try and get a phrase that says it all.

MEMORIZABLE NAMES -: Use names that are easy to memorize don’t use names that are hard to remember for example names like “www.webgists.com” can never be forgotten even if the person lost  his memory
 

LONG TERM AND WIDER USE: Always  bear in mind the time interval your domain is meant to spend online or what the site is going to look like in the next eight months. Let’s say a blogger likes corvette cars, and he decides to start a blog on that topic, but after a while of so many research he got the domain corvettecentral.com.  It is a good domain because it has the main keywords  in it and so on but if the blog grows after one year , it will reach a peak and in order to make the blog grow more he has to cover more other sports car. Then you see he has being trapped by his by his domain name and the only option is to continue with the limited audience of that car only which is almost the end of the game

KEYWORD MATCH URL -: Use keyword rich "exact match” naming convention subject or keywords first then plural variation e.g.  www.seotips.com where seotips is the keyword phrase you attempt to rank well for.  Check this out, let’s say there is a site on page rank 4 with the url www.franklinblog.com/seotips.html and yours goes with www.seotips.com automatically if all things went well the search engine must rank you above the page rank 4 compared to that has 'seotips" just in the "url" So, you now believe with me that domain name have power in seo helps 

Note: You can put prefix or suffixes of your name or nick attached to the site rather than giving it your whole name which won’t help at all or if you want people to know you are the owner of the site then create a page for about the author page for people to check you out.  Because people will not for any reason  search for your name except for tangible reason

DOMAIN NAME EXTENSION-: Domain extension is another problem if you have being getting the web gist you will know that Google have for some time removed some sites from their index especially some specific extensions like ".info" which made domain sellers to reduce the price just to get it off. Again there was a time adsense stopped displaying in every .co.cc sites. It has being confirmed that Google adsense  accept domain with .com easier than other domain extensions.  Now the question is which one am I going to trust just?

 As you know some extensions are made for specific area and purposes like

.eu for Europe,

.In for Indian,

. gov for government official sites,

 .edu for school websites,

.ir for Iran or Iraq based sites,

.us for United States,

 .uk for United Kingdom,

.ng  for Nigeria,

 .tv for television stations,

.org for organization,

.info for information,

.com for company,

.xxx for sex sites,

.mobi made especially for mobile

All these has its own important and it tells us where the server might be located

Note: That the locations of the server you are using might help in your traffic, So don’t host a site you are expecting US based citizen in Australia

 So, let’s finalize for any website that is based on business or money making should go for .com which means company and it is the extension recognized by Google for money making site so what is the purpose of your site

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HOW TO START A GOOD BLOG SITE FOR MONEY MAKING

This question has being in the mind of so many ‘blogger dreamer’ but today we are going to make things clean like a spring water today. It will go like this:-

1.   Meaning of a blog,
2.   Its categories
3.  Types of blogging platform
4.  Making your right choice
5.  Questions to ask yourself before going for a platform

WHAT IS A BLOG?

A blog is a web platform that is designed to

disseminate information about a particular thing(s) or let’s say

Products or personal information on the internet. I guess you know that but let’s pretend you didn’t.

In blogging the reader is given the privilege to ask a

question or contribute to the topic or article being talked about

the main point is that blog converts monologues into conversation.

         HERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF BLOGGING CATEGORY

Group blogging - This is a single blog with many authors having posting right to the blog

Photo - This is a kind of blogging that deals with pictures and designs

Public relation - This is a blog geared by giving public the latest information

Link blog- This is the same as normal basic blog but with only links and without commentary

Journals -This is usually Diaries, usually expository and of interest to the writer, family and friends

other there are many other types of blogging categories but lets go with this one to make things short and easy

Because of the rate in increase in blog users corporate bodies has even engaged in blogging, that is many companies now see this as a way to reach to their targeted audience in a more direct way

Now how do I start my blog?

Do I need to be an html, css, xml or php expert to start my blog?

The answer is NO.

Now we are in the ring of what we are talking about. There are different types of blogging software

FREE HOSTED BLOG and

SELF HOSTED BLOG

Hosted blog cost little or even free to set up so is a big plus for many people especially for beginners who has no experience at all but this has so many disadvantages like limited designs, logo of your service provider (navigation bar or in favicon images) being displayed thereby making it unprofessional and if you later want to start a new self hosted blog it might affect your search engine rankings and lastly your blog might get banned without your notice if any TOS is violated

Self hosted blog- this is meant for professional bloggers especially those who want to make money with their blog because this makes you have control over your blog template designs in this one you have to pay for your domain name and hosting space .The only disadvantage is that you blog will go down if your hosting service provider goes down

Popular types of blogging platforms

BLOGGER. This is a free hosted blog service from Google it has being there for many years but due to some reasons it is only good for personal blogging. It takes about ten minutes to set up and you must have a gmail account

WORDPRESS. This have both free hosted blog and also have self hosted software that can be downloaded and get it uploaded to the server. They have hundreds of plug-ins to make your site more dynamic than other platforms

Plug-ins is simply a script that adds an additional functionality to your blog and wordpress has a directory full of plug-ins that you can use

BLOG.COM. This is also a free hosted blog some people prefer them because their naming (www.yourblogname.blog.com) is shorter compared to blogger (www.yourdomainname.blogspot.com)

LIVE JOURNAL. This is used to set up online journals it is a good collaboration and networking tools but is not easy to customize and also this is not a good option for blogging for money

TEXT PATTERN. This is good for those that are technically inclined and it is also a self hosted blog it uses custom formatting with wizard interface it is much more customizable than live journal

TYPEPAD (hosted)/ MOVABLE PAD (self hosted) this is another option to consider in blogging TYPE is a paid blogging platform it ranges from basic to pro

Note : if you are thinking of high traffic from search engine then go for wordpress blog and again it is easy to customize

These are the list of blogging platform you can install on your server

Wordpress

bBlog

b2evolution

windows live writer

text pattern

subtext

serendipity

roller weblogger

radiouserland

osCommerce (for e-commerce sites)

Nucleus cms

lifetype

greymatter

Drupal

blosxom

expressengine

movabletype

Here are some hosted blogging platforms (needs no installation like the aforementioned)

blog.com

blogger

livejournal

open diary

typepad

wordpress

xanga

Windows live spaces

Now it is left for you to decide which plat form suites you

For example:

1. Do you need something that will be easy to set up and use?

2. Are you new to blogging and new to internet platforms?

3. What is your technical skill level?

4. Are you going to change the look of the templates and other

customization?

5. Do you need to have little, moderate or a lot of control over the interface?

6. Will you require spam control features, such as captchas and comment

moderation?

7. Does the platform you are considering offer support and assistance?

8. Do you need to be able to have more than one person able to post the

blog?

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