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How to Make Your Blogger Blog’s Title Become Search Engine Friendly

bleuken — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:25:35 +0000

If you have a Blogger.com blog (blogspot) then the usual issue that you’re facing is the default title system of the blog. If you want to make your blog to have a search engine friendly title then you should follow these simple steps.

1. Go to the DASHBOARD of your blog.

2. Then proceed to the DESIGN tab of the dashboard.

3. Under the said tab, you will find an EDIT HTML sub tab, just click it. It will open the HTML code of your current theme.

4. Look for the following line:

<data:blog.pageTitle/>

5. Replace the said line with the following codes:
/*------------------------------*/


 TYPE YOUR DESIRED HOME PAGE TITLE FOR YOUR BLOG HERE

 <data:blog.pageName/> | YOUR DESIRED BLOG TITLE

/*------------------------------*/

6. Save and your BLOGGER blog’s title got a new search engine friendly format.

What does this code do? Well, it just change the usual title system by Blogger from YOUR BLOG TITLE: YOUR POST TITLE into YOUR POST TITLE | YOUR BLOG TITLE. Aside from that it allows you to customize the title of your home page without affecting the inner pages.

More SEO Tips here at Bleuken.com later.

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WordPress Plug-in for Faster Website

bleuken — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:15:28 +0000

It is important that your WP sites are responding well whenever your visitor visits. Not only because, Google officially announced that they’ll include site speed and performance as part of the ranking signals or factor for ranking your website on their SERP but also it is because that this will improve the user experience of your visitors. If they find it to be very easy and fast access then there’s a high chance that they will go back to your site. Thus developing a regular visitor.

Now, there are a lot of WordPress plug-ins today that can be used to increase the speed performance of your website but I shift to one plug-in that contains optimization of the site. From compressing your site through GZip to managing the CDN (content delivery network) for your website. I am referring to the W3 Total Cache plug-in. Back then, I use either Super Cache or Hyper Cache as for my caching plug-ins but these two plug-in doesn’t have any option for integrating CDN to my site.

CDN or content delivery network is used for faster delivery of contents for websites. Files are stored in different networks and rendered fast from the nearest server to the location of the requesting surfer.

Now regarding the plug-in, it contains all necessary options to improve your WordPress site and been testing it for weeks. As of today, the plug-in did very well to my sites and right now updating the remaining of my sites to use it.

- SEO Consultant from Capiz

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How to Have A $2 to $8 Website and Setting A Custom Domain in Blogger

bleuken — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:15:32 +0000

With the different problems with the economy, we should learn how to spend our money wisely and invest it carefully. This is the reason why I like to share some tips on how to have a website that will only cost you $2 to $8.

If you want to have a website with a .COM domain then this steps might cost you an $8 but if you can live with .INFO domain then $2 would be enough.

First thing that you need to do is to register a domain. I register my domains at GODADDY and look for a GODADDY promo code (like cjc749fat which will expire this 02/28/10) so that I could register a $7.49 .COM. If you will not use a promo/coupon code, you’ll pay for $10 for a domain name.
After that, register an new account on BLOGGER.COM.
Sign Up an Account in Blogger
Go to the settings page of the Blogger’s dashboard and click Settings->Publishing->Custom Domain
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Settings->Publishing->Custom Domain
You’ll see the following screen. Click on the “Switch to Advance Settings”
Advance Settings
Type the domain name that you registered on step 1 on the “Your domain” textbox then Click Save Settings.
Next, sign-in to your domain registrants account then go to the domain manager of your domain name, as shown below:
Go Daddy's Domain Manager
On the domain manager, go to the “Total DNS” window.
From the Total DNS Window, click “Add New A Record” and fill-up the host name with your domain name (yourdomainname.com) and type in the “Points to IP Address” the number 216.239.32.21. Repeat this step for IP Addresses > 216.239.34.21, 216.239.36.21 and 216.239.38.21. See the sample configuration below:
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Then add or edit the WWW alias from the CNAME record and fill-up the “Point to hostname” with ghs.google.com. You can read http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55373 for information about this setting.

After you’re finished with this configuration, you need to wait a couple of hours or less before the new DNS control settings are applied. When the changes takes effect, you’ll see that when you visit your new domain, it will use your blogger account. You can now modify the template of your site to suit to the niche or topic that you want to be featured by your new site.

For more question about this stuff, you can leave your comment below and I will try to reply to the inquiry. Good luck and happy blogging!

How to Have A $2 to $8 Website and Setting A Custom Domain in Blogger is a post from: Bleuken.com

Making Your Blog to Load Fast

bleuken — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:45:08 +0000

Load Speed & Search Engines

Its really annoying if you visit a site then it really loads slow. What if you own that site well of course you don’t want your readers / visitors to ‘suffer’ this way. Do you know that search engine might consider the load speed later to be part of their ranking factor? (read: New Google Ranking Factor in 2010: Site Load Speed, for more information regarding this issue.) That’s right they are planning to consider that later next year and you should be ready for that. If you site has a low grade of E or D on YSlow or on any Speedtest then you should consider taking measures to make the experience of your users much better.

Here are some of tips that you might consider to be implemented on your site to cope with this situation:

If you are using WordPress, install page caching plug-ins such as Super Cache and/or DB Cache. This WP plug-ins create a static equivalent of your dynamic web pages making it to load fast and decreases CPU and server/disk usage on your hosting.
Use small graphics. Utilize JPG/JPEG format images. It is known to have higher quality and compression rate compared to other file format.
Minimize the use of widgets or site enhancement that uses Javascripts.
Set expiration dates for your graphics, CSS and other files. This will minimize request loads for the site for revisiting visitors.

More of WordPress and plug-ins information at oes tsetnoc blog.

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Customize Your 404 Page for Better User Experience

bleuken — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:09:27 +0000

Custom 404 Tips

There are some cases that visitors or even you misspelled URLs from your site when they try to visit a specific page on your website. Sometimes they use from other site that point to non-existing page or posts from your blogs or website. This happens when you delete a page or rename the permalink or URL of a page. This usually results to a 404 error response from your server or a “Error Not Found” page which is a blank page with a large text: “Error 404 – Not Found.” It will be like a dead end for your readers.

Now, for better user experience, you could customize the 404 page that will be involved for responding to this kind of situation. If you are using WordPress as your CMS for your site, the 404 page is usually part of the theme of the site which you can easily customize by editing it on the theme editor found on the dashboard. The filename is usually 404.php or 404.html for non-Wordpress sites.

You can use the following Javascript from Google to the page to provide a search functionality and page suggestions plus URL fixer for the 404 page: (don’t forget to replace the GOOG_FIXURL_SITE value with the URL of your own site).

Aside from this Javascript code, you can also list all the posts on your WordPress blog using the following code:

The code will list the 1000 posts of your site and if in case you have more than 1k, just replace it with your desired number.

Don’t be satisfied with a plain 404 page and leave your visitors with nothing for a not found URL. Provide them with something through this suggested tweak or improvement on your “Error – not found” page.

Customize Your 404 Page for Better User Experience is a post from: Bleuken.com

Just Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.5

bleuken — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:14:06 +0000

Wordpress Logo

This morning when I logged on my dashboard, I found out that WordPress released a minor update. By then I immediately click on the automatic upgrade and update the site without reading first the reasons why I need to update. I believe that the site should be updated every time WP said so because this usually fix some security issues, DOS (denial of service attacks) and other exploits that might hit WordPress blogs. Its better to be updated than to be sorry later! Actually a friend of mine who have a lot of traffic was attacked and made his site to be blank. His problem was he is not updating his site regularly and he usually do updates whenever the problem already exist. He just lost about a couple of hundreds for days due to this issue on his site.

Here is what the major features of the latest version released as according to WordPress blog post:

A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
Removal of areas within the code where PHP code in variables was evaluated.
Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plug-ins.

I think these reasons are enough for you to update your site too, don’t you think?

Just Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.5 is a post from: Bleuken.com

Free WordPress Theme from Claremont Design

bleuken — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:21:06 +0000

ClaremontDesign.com, a web design company in California that specializes in custom ecommerce web designs and SEM/SEO services for small to medium (SMB) size businesses / institutions, releases a new WordPress theme that you can freely download and use for your blogs. It is a two-columns and with right sidebar in blue+orange theme that is easy to customize to fit to your needs.

Here’s the snapshot of the said free wordpress theme:

Download the WordPress theme now.

Please see the instruction for customizing the theme from ClaremontDesign’s website.

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Why Your WordPress Blogs Are Not Crawled?

bleuken — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:01:21 +0000

You might wonder why your blogs that uses WordPress platform aren’t crawled by search engine spiders or included on the search results of the leading search engines (as I have mentioned on my posts on oes tsetnoc crawlability). Specially if you are using Fantastico on the CPanel of your hosting account. There are several possible reasons why newly created site that uses WordPress is not crawled. But the basic problem lies on how the Robots.txt and the meta tags are set on your site.

Let start with the Robots.txt. First check if you do have a robots.txt created on your site. If you don’t have it, just create it on notepad and save the following text on the file:

User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/yoursitemap.xml

This code tells all search engines to be allowed to visit all the files on your site and declare the default sitemap file. Upload this file on your site.

The next thing that you need to check is if you set the Privacy Settings of your site properly (which I failed to do on my oes tsetnoc blog). I have seen today that by default, Fantastico, the script installer of CPanel, install WordPress with a private settings. Which mean, it adds a NOFOLLOW, NOINDEX meta tag on your site. You can set it on the Dashboard -> Settings page of your WP-Admin. Here’s a video to help you find the place where to set the said settings.

Oes Tsetnoc: WordPress Privacy Settings
by oes-tsetnoc

Why Your WordPress Blogs Are Not Crawled? is a post from: Bleuken.com

Upgraded to WordPress 2.8 Baker

bleuken — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:37:14 +0000

Wordpress 2.8

I just recently received a notification from WordPress‘ dashboard regarding the availability of the newest update of the blogging platform, which is version 2.8. I immediately updated the site and in just one click through its automatic upgrade features and I am all done. What I did first was to check if the browser still crashes whenever I upload a file using WP’s flash uploader via Firefox. It did not crashed anymore! I’ve been using Chrome lately in upgrading my blogs because of this Firefox crash issues whenever I am making image uploads via flash uploader, now its gone so I’m back to Firefox again. I’ve checked my other blogs but there’s no notification yet so I am still waiting for the said upgrade notice from WP.

According to WordPress.org, the new released version have several scripting tweaks that speed-up the system. Syntax highlighting is now on the Code editor and they have made 790 fixes on the said update. If you want to see the difference, upgrade your WordPress now.

Here’s the video from WP regarding the new version:

Upgraded to WordPress 2.8 Baker is a post from: Bleuken.com

Adsense Ready & SEO Friendly Blogger Template / Blogspot Theme

bleuken — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:05:21 +0000

Update: New THEME added below.

Today, I decided to build a new template / theme for blogs on Blogger.com. What this Blogger template or theme special is for being ready of showing Google Adsense on every post and also for being a SEO friendly template for Blogger.com. It is a simple 3-Column black theme template. To see a sample blog that uses this theme, just click on the snapshot below.

Now, here’s how to install this free simple adsense-ready and SEO-friendly theme:

1. Download the theme on this location: Simple Adsense Ready Template. This file is a ZIP file. You should extract its content before you can use it.

2. Go to your Blogger account and sign-in.

3. At your Dashboard, click on the Lay-out tab and then click Edit HTML

4. You can see a portion on the page where you can upload a file. Upload the file extracted from the Zip file, specifically the black-adsense-ready.xml

5. To put your Google Adsense publisher code, (the code that is something like pub-12346789012345), just click on the Expense Widget Templates checkbox from the Edit HTML tab then look for the portion with pub- then replace it with your own publisher code.

6. Save all of your changes then you can start blogging. If you want to customize the sidebar, just click on the Page Elements tab and add all the gadgets that you want.

Adsense Ready Template

Here’s another theme which is originally designed by Tricks-Collection and revised it a little to make it more SEO friendly specially when it came to title tag. Aside from that the template can be easily customized as its widget are placed in a way that it will be easy for you to change.

Download SimpleTricksTheme HERE

Below shows the thumbnail of the theme. Just click it to see DEMO.

Originally designed by Tricks-Collection

Adsense Ready & SEO Friendly Blogger Template / Blogspot Theme is a post from: Bleuken.com