How to setup your RSS Feed

   RSS is brilliant; a truly great and valuable technology to use in automating the marketing of your website or blog. The content they beam to your subscribers automatically will be, without doubt, a massive boost to the professionalism of your blog or website as well as to its number of visitors.

RSS feeds “syndicate” your content (that is,publish it simultaneously to many places automatically) and have many benefits, not least that your new content is beamed directly to your subscribers and they do not have to come looking for it. It’s a little bit like the convenience of knowing that you can find something really good to watch on your favorite TV channel, rather than having to leave your home to go look for the movie in the local Video store. Email Spam is gone forever too under RSS marketing because you can just delete an RSS feed if you find that you are being spammed by it.

Chances are that you have seen or heard about RSS online before but may not fully understand what it is –

How to select Keywords for your website

Even if you are relatively new to Internet marketing, it is very likely that you’ve already heard of keywords. They are one of the cornerstones of Search Engine Optimization (S.E.O.) and combined with links to your site form an incredibly important part of how it will appear in theSearch Engine Results Pages (S.E.R.P.).

Keywords themselves are single words, or even short phrases, which occur in a text more often than you might expect them to occur by chance alone. In terms of S.E.O. keywords are incredibly important because they actually describe the overall theme of any piece of published content such as an article, website or blog post. The key is that they are a big part of the way the Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing et al) “decide” how to categorize your website; in fact the keywords in your website’s content describe the “essence” of your website to the Search Engines. By focusing on the keywords alone, spiders and crawlers like the Googlebot can quickly pick up the ‘topic’ of the content. You can think of it as if the Googlebot were a detective and the keywords were its clues.

How to Get Backlinks to Your Website

Your website’s page rank is dependent on a number of factors. Having “backlinks,” links to your website from other websites or blogs, will give your website a significant boost. Backlinks are the links that direct traffic to your web site from someone else’s site. The quality of the backlink is judged by the popularity and relevancy of the site from which it originates. Each backlink that exists can give more credibility to your website. Therefore, the more quality backlinks that exist to your site, the higher page ranking it will reach in the search engines.

How To Submit Blog Sitemap to Google via Google Webmaster Tools

Google controls 85% of the global search and any blog is heavily dependent on traffic from search result. We must make sure that all the posts or pages of our blog are indexed by Google. We can submit a blog sitemap to Google through Google Webmaster Tools. Google can then use this sitemap to quickly index all the entries of a blog.

Where is the Sitemap of My Blogger/Blogspot Blog?

In very simple words, a sitemap is a large single web page containing all of your posts and labels. Blogger/Blogspot users can submit their feed as a sitemap to Google. All Blogger/Blogspot blogs have a feed address of this form:

http://www.bloggerfaqs.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

The above feed can display only last 25 blog posts. Most blogs have more than 25 posts so we must make sure that all the posts should get indexed. To do that, we can change the above code to:

http://www.bloggerfaqs.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=500

Now, last 500 posts will be shown in the feed. Now, we have a sitemap & we're ready to submit it to Google through Google Webmaster Tools.

Open Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools provides you with detailed reports about your pages' visibility on Google. To get started, simply add and verify your site and you'll start to see information right away.

1- Go to the following address and sign in with your Google account:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

2- Click on Add a Site button to add your blog.

3- A small box will appear, enter your blog URL in it.

4- Now you need to prove that you are the owner of this blog, for this you need to verify.

5- Chose Meta Tag as verification method and copy the tag which looks something like this:



6- Now come back to your Blogger account and go to Design -> Edit HTML section.

7- Paste the Meta Tag right after tag, the tag is in the start of your code just after a few lines.

8- Once you've pasted the code, click on Save Template button to save your changes.

9- Now again go to you Webmaster Tools account and click on verify button to complete verification process.

10- If you've done everything right, you'll see that you're site is verified now.

Warning: Don't remove the Meta Tag after verification process, it might be checked again.

11- Now, you'll see a list of verified sites (I suppose you'll see only 1 site there) on your Google Webmaster Tools homepage.

12- Click on your site and you'll see a dashboard page of that site.

13- From the menu on the left side, expand the Site configuration option and then click Sitemaps.

14- On the next page, click Submit a Sitemap button and it will ask you to enter the sitemap of your blog. The address of your blog will be already there so you just have to add the remaining part which is:

feeds/posts/default?max-results=500

Overall the code would look something like this:

http://www.bloggerfaqs.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=500

So just submit the sitemap there and Google will take some time (Typically, less than 24 hours) to index the contents of your sitemap.