It’s a good question to ask at the beginning of this post. There are number of ways I could answer this question.
MetaTag is a Information about information.., very general definition.
Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a Web page. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML or XHTML document.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatag
Meta-tags are HTML tags that can be used to identify the below details about the web page you are viewing,
Title
Description
Keywords
Author
Content Language
Refresh
Robots
Distribution and
Revisit
Among the above listed things, few are optional. Let me first put the code and explain. That sounds good right.,
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<HEAD> <br/> <TITLE>Title of the webpage</TITLE> <META name="description" content="Describe about your webpage here."> <META name="keywords" content="Keyword phrases that describe your webpage keywords."> <br/> //Add the below tags if you want to Refresh your page after 60sec/redirect to other website after 60 sec. //<META http-equiv="refresh" content="60"> //<META http-equiv="refresh" content="60;url=http://www.rockstartemplate.com/"> <br/> <META name="Author" content="Add the Author Information here"> <br/> //In the below Tag you can specify whether search engines should Index your page or Follow the links in this webpage. //You can also use NoIndex and Follow. <META name="robots" content="index,nofollow"> <br/> //You can specify the level of distribution in the below Tag. //You can use Global/Local/IU(Internal Use) <META name="Distribution" content="Global"> <br/> //The below tag is used to defines the language your webpage uses. <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" content="EN"> <br/> <META name="Revisit-After" content="No of Days after which Search engines needs to revisit your site"> <META name="Abstract" content="Abstract - Overview of your entire webpage goes here"> <META name="Copyright" content="Put your Copyright Statement here"> <META name="Expires" content="Mon, 08 May 2011 10:23:00 GMT"> <br/> //Inform Searchengine that your site is for General/Restricted/Adult audiences. <META name= “Rating” content= “General”> <br/> </HEAD>
Before 2 months, I was blogging assiduously ! Rockstartemplate.com attains its best ever Alexa Ranking, 40,000th Rank. I have posted my contents frequently, at-least once or twice a day and develop high quality content, focus on sites like Stumble Upon,Twitter,Digg and building a strong blogger network… like how a normal Blogger will do.;)
After a month, I was bit busy with my design related stuffs, I was designing a template and hardly had time to look after my website. When I saw my site statistics, I was shocked to see my Alexa rank reduced to 150,000. My rank gradually reduced and i couldn’t believe it was my site… I was suffering from Digestive disease… Yep, very hard to digest my rank..!
So the concept is simple. KEEP YOUR SERVERS TICKING., make the most out of the hosting service you use and your Alexa Rank will automatically increase. Content is KING, Blog once or twice a day. Post interesting and relevant content and bookmark the post. Also don’t over post, 1-2 post per day will do. You can see your Alexa rank will increase gradually. Keep posting and keep your Rank intact.
Happy Blogging !!!!
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You can find 8 links below my site Url. This is what we call it as Sitelinks ! You can see Sitelinks only for Google recognized blogs. We are happy that our blog has been added in that list.
How can we get Site links from Google ?
This could be based on Google’s Algorithm, Some of them are below,
- How many times your site has been accessed.
- How many purchases made in that page.
- How long your visitors stays in your page.
- Information retrieval scores for your page.
- How many bookmarks that page and many more.,
However this is not the actual algorithm. If your blog fulfills the above points , your blog may get Site Links.
Google Says .,
At the moment, Sitelinks are completely automated. We’re always working to improve our Sitelinks algorithms, and we may incorporate webmaster input in the future.
If your content or products is good, then you may get Site links from Google. Once Again thanks for the support without which we cant achieve these kind of goals.
]]>1] Oral Communication :-
Oral communication is the best way to bring traffic to your site, because only through verbal communication your can explain how well your website is. You can express what you are writing in your blog, how well it is organized and more only through direct communication. You can tell your friends, family, business partners, advertisers, colleagues about your website.
2] Social Bookmarking Media :-
You can get unimaginable traffic with social bookmarking sites , especially Digg , Stumbleupon, Twitter, Delicious, Reddit and more.
3] Content is Life :-
If your content is good, you will automatically get traffic. Content bring life to your blog. Try writing couple of humor posts in a week to bring readership to your blog. Keep in mind that you have to Blog daily. Post your contents daily, doesn’t mean your post should be good. Write at-least two killer articles per week.
4] Comment in Blogosphere :-
Read others blog and comment frequently. If your comment is good you will get some traffic for sure. You can also gain some readership with this. I have tried this and go great results.
5] Advertise :-
If you have some bugs , go for paid advertisements like banner placements, text-link placements, sponsored reviews etc . You can also think about PPC Advertising Networks like Google Adsense, Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN), BidVertiser ,Chitika, Clicksor etc..
6] Form a Network :-
Networks can help you to promote your blog. Form a Genuine network and see how your commenting , links to the posts of bloggers and users in social bookmarking increases.
7] Search Engine Optimization :-
This is the most important step you should work on, especially if you are new to blogging. SEO optimization help your blog to become visible to all the internet users. Do proper SEO, else there will be a chance of your blog to be marked as spam.
8] Invite Guest Bloggers :-
There are lot of advantages in inviting a guest bloggers. Give your guest bloggers a free link from your blog and ask them to link you in their blog. So you both can exchange your readership.
9] Traffic Exchange :-
There are lots of traffic exchanges, give it a try. This option is feasible only if you lots of time. But this option is not recommended because you wont get quality readers. So keep this step as your last option.
10] Participate in Forums :-
Join some decent forums and help others in solving the problem with a link to your website. Your website should provide a solution for that problem, that’s important.
Here are some of the Fixes in WordPress 2.8.1 :
* Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
* Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
* The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
* A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
* Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.
* Translation of role names fixed.
* wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title.
* Upload error messages are now correctly reported.
* Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed.
* Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed.
* SSH2 filesystem requirements updated.
* Switched back to curl as the default transport.
* Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload.
* Stricter inline style sanitization.
* Stricter menu security.
* Disabled code highlighting due to browser incompatibilities.
* RTL layout fixes.
Update your WordPress version and get rid of bugs specified above.
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1] Create a New PHP file named ” searchform.php “
2] Add the following code :
<form method=”get” id=”searchform” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘home’); ?>/”>
<div><input type=”text” size=”18″ value=” ” name=”s” id=”s” />
<input type=”submit” id=”searchsubmit” value=”Search” class=”btn” />
</div>
</form>
3] Save the above code in searchform.php , and upload it to your Theme Folder .
4] Now include , <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/searchform.php’); ?> , where ever you like in your theme .
Preview :
10 Tips to increase your Feed Count :
1] Convert your Readers to Subscribers :
Encourage your readers to subscribe to your feeds . Put your subscription code at right place , so that your users can view them clearly . I suggest you to place the code at top of sidebar and below every interesting blog posts .
2] Post Quality Content :
Content is King . If your post is interesting , find your feed count increasing over night . Interesting content in the sense , your readers should read your post fully , and not like brushing the post for content .
3] Do show your count if it is less than 50 :
If your feed count is too low , don’t show it in your blog , because it will not encourage your readers to subscribe your feed . If the count is more than 50 , than it is fine .
4] Give Some incentives :
Give some incentive for your feed subscribers . Incentives like Ebook etc will encourage your readers to subscribe .
5] Notify unconfirmed Email Subscribers :
If you are an word press user try this plug-in to notify your unconfirmed email subscribers . This plug-in will compose a mail to all the pending readers to subscribe your feed .
6] Run a Contest :
Give your Feed readers some incentive to subscribe . Be honest in conducting a contest , and award your feed subscribers with some bucks.
7] Be Creative in your post :
Insert the subscription code in between your posts . Use your creativity in placing the code .
8] Get Quality Readers :
Learn to use the Social bookmarking sites like Stumbleupon , Digg , delicious properly to bring quality readers , who subscribe to good articles .
9] Celebrate Your Feed Count milestone :
celebrate your Feed count milestone , so that your readers know about it . This may encourage new visitors to subscribe .
10] Use multiple methods to promote :
Don’t stick on increasing email subscriptions , also concentrate on Feed reader subscriptions , browser bookmarks , so you can get popularity from all .
and finally don’t forget to subscribe me ,
]]>Step 1] Goto your blogger Dashboard -> Layout
Step 2] now say PageElements-> Add New Element – > Html Javascript.
Step 3] Add the Following code :
<div align=’center’>
<form expr:action=’data:blog.homepageUrl + "search"’ id=’searchform’ method=’get’ name=’searchform’>
<div align=’right’>
<input id=’s’ name=’q’ type=’text’ value=”/>
<input id=’searchIcon’ type=’submit’ value=’Search’/>
</div>
</form>
</div>
Step 4] Now goto EditHtml -> and add the Following Code with in the <b:skin> and </b:skin> tag .
#searchform {
padding: 5px 0 0;
padding-right: 15px;
text-align: center;
}
#searchform #s {
width: 150px;
padding: 3px;
padding-right: 15px;
margin: 0 0 5px 0;
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #A2A295;
color: #6A6A6A;
font-size: 11.5px;
font-family: Arial, Sans-Serif;
}
#searchIcon {
height: 24px;
width: 60px;
padding-right: 15px;
background: #941200;
border: 0px solid #941200;
padding: 0px 0px;
vertical-align: top;
color: #fff;
font-weight: bold;
}
Step 5] Save and Enjoy your new Search Box … !!
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