we

For better performance of our blog we need to optimize it for Blogger (Blogspot) we have the option to customize the robots.txt file according to our needs. But before adding it to your blog firstly as a beginner we need to know about what is robots.txt file. So lets start the tutorial. What is Robots.txt? Robots.txt is a file which tells the search engine crawlers what page to crawl and what not to. Simply, you can exempt your blog demo pages, label pages, archive pages and other which you don't consider as important. Search engine crawlers always scan the robots.txt file before crawling any blog. So lets start adding this great SEO improver to your blog. Also Check :  How to Change Blogger (Blogspot) Favicon? Adding Robots.txt to Blogger (Blogspot) Blogs: To add Custom Robots.txt file to your blog, follow the basic steps mentioned below: Go to your blogger blog. Navigate to Settings >> Search Preferences ››  Crawlers and indexing ›› Custom rob...

Every blogger wants huge organic traffic on his/her blog. For that we need to optimize our blog for search engine to increase the visibility of our blog. We can customize our blog pages for better custom robots.txt for blogger (blogspot) but thats not all. We need to take care of every SEO setting so that we can play well in search engines. Custom Robots Header Tags not only specifies crawling way for search engines but also for open directories, indexing no images, not translating our pages, disabling search engines to save cached copy of our pages and so on.  So lets start the tutorial. What is Robots Header Tags? : Firstly, we must know about what is robots header tags before adding them to our blog. So we will specify each option briefly here : 1. all : This tag allows crawlers to crawl your blog freely without any boundations.They can easily index, crawl and expose your contents. 2. noindex : This is for secret blogs like if your blog is for private use...

Indexing all your posts in Google is the best way to attract huge organic visits to your blog. It is a difficult job for us to submit each and every post to Google one by one especially when we have already many posts published on our blog. Getting this thing easier, we can submit sitemap of our all blog posts to Google in one go and they all will get submitted to Google. Great na? Isn't it? Yes, it is. So In this article we are going to learn how we can easily submit sitemap of our blogger (blogspot) posts to Google Webmaster tools. So lets start the tutorial.Before submitting sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, we must know about sitemap first. What is Sitemap? A sitemap is an XML file which contains the list of all pages in our blogs. Sitemap improves blog’s crawling rate and it also helps search engines to index our blog pages when submitted. Simply, sitemap tells search engines about the contents on your blog. Must Read :  How to Add Custom Robots.txt File in Blogger (...

As we already discussed in our previous post about submitting blogger (blogspot) sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools . In this article, we will learn how to submit Blogger sitemap to Bing and Yahoo. First of all let me tell you that Yahoo site explorer had merged with Bing Webmaster tools so submitting your blog to Bing will automatically index your blog in Bing and Yahoo both. Isn't it cool? This will surely help you to get organic traffic to your blog. So let's start the tutorial. If you do not know much about what is sitemap, you can simply refer to our previous post :  How To Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools? Submitting Blogger Sitemap to Yahoo and Bing : To add your sitemap, simply follow the steps below. Log into your Bing Webmaster Tools  or you can do hotmail login from microsoft .  Go to "Add a Site". Enter your blog URL for which you need to submit sitemap. Then add the following lines in "Add a sitemap" field. http...

If you somehow noticed about the Custom Page Not Found Settings in your blogger blog under Errors and Re-directions in Search Preference of your Blogger blog then you must questioned yourself about what is it and I am sure you are curious to know about this option that time and for now too. Let me tell you about that now. Sometimes if you visited any page of your blog which do not exist (through a broken or expired link) then you will be seen a message from blogger that this page does not exists. It looks creepy. Isn't it. You can check that out by placing any keyword after your blog address (like: yourblogaddress.blogspot.com/404). Today, this article is about customizing that default Custom Page not Found error and renovate it with professional looks. So lets start the tutorial. The message you see by default is like the picture below : Creating Your Custom 404 Not Found Page in Blogger: Go to Blogger.com > Settings > Search Preferences: Click Edit link next ...

We always want a better and professional layout for our blog. For that we will try each and every tactic like custom page not found , creating full width page , hide navbar and so on. that can leads to a pro look of our blog. We must know that by default blogger creates permalink of our blog pages like (blogaddress.blogspot.com/p/page-title.html) but what if we can shorten it and give it more classy look. Yes, we can! Blogger provides a great default method to do so. Using Custom Redirects we can redirects our full length permalinks to a shorter one. May they be our old posts which we redirects to new post or our blog pages links. We can simply get a better and shorter url as (blogaddress.blogspot.com/anything). Isn't it classy? Hehe! So lets start rolling your fingers to know how to apply this trendy thing to your blog. You can check our contact page url for demo :  http://www.bbeginner.com/contact Setting Custom Redirects in Blogger :  In our previous post, we h...

Whenever we are designing our new blogger blog , we do not want any user or any search engine to crawl/index our blog. We all know that first impression is the last impression. So before getting ready and before fully designing our blog we must prevent it from search engines and from visitors too. For doing so, Blogger provides a great option by default and whenever we are ready designing our blog we can simply revert these changes and make our blog public and let search engines index it. This will also help whenever we are testing a new version of our blog. Likewise, we are changing footer, font styles, font sizes and so on. So In this tutorial you will learn how you can make your blogger blog private and prevent search engines from crawling it. Steps to Stop Search Engines from indexing your Blog : Just follow the simple steps as directed below.  Open Blogger > Settings > Basic > Privacy  You will get two different options, Add your Blogs to Listing a...

Optimizing your blog for search engines seems to be a very difficult task especially for beginners. But by doing some tweaks and with some knowledge we can optimize our blog for search engines very easily. By default, we can set custom redirects , set custom page not found , submit sitemap to google and so to increase our blog's search visibility. When we publish a post on our blog, Blogger by default shows blog title first and post title after that but it is not good for search engines as this will make your search title complicated and confusing. So we have to correct it by showing post title before blog title. This can be achieve by adding a little piece of coding in your blogger template . Surely, it will increase your search engine visibility and increase your organic traffic too. So lets start the tutorial on how you can optimize your blog post titles. BEFORE :  AFTER :  Show Post Title Before Blog Title in Blogger (Blogspot) : First of all, Go to Blog...

Meta description is a must to add element for our blog as it helps search engines about the content of specific post/page . Moreover it helps in blogger blog. Enabling Meta Description in Blogger (Blogspot): Go to Blog Settings > Search Preferences. Click the Edit Description button under Meta tags. Point Yes to Enable Search Description and enter a brief meta description of your blog there. (max 150 words). Remember it will be your blog's homepage meta description. Now Click on Save changes. How to Show Post Title Before Blog Title in Blogger (Blogspot)? Adding Meta Description to Individual Blog Posts/Pages : Go to your Blog Posts and click Add a new post or Edit the existing ones. Click Search Description option under Post settings. (This option appears only after you enabled search description, discussed above) Enter the meta description for the post and click Done . For older posts, you have to go back to edit each post and manuall...

Blogger is the most popular blogging platform. It has lot of features like Custom Robots.txt , Custom header tags etc. but most of the features seems to be pretty much hidden from blogger users specially from beginners. They remain unaware of many of the great features which help them in making their blog great. One such feature is Blogger Posts Scheduling feature. Yes, you heard it right. You can schedule blog posts on blogspot platform to publish automatically in future. When and Why to Schedule? Updating blog regularly is a key to rank higher in search results as Search engines loves those websites which are active and which post new contents regularly. This not only beneficial for SERP but also for Alexa rank of our blog. Moreover, publishing your blog at great time let search engine crawlers crawl your blog perfectly and plays a vital role in SEO . We must schedule blog posts while we have some urgent work to do, maybe when spending vacations with family, before exam-ti...

custom robots.txt , custom robots header tags , showing post title before blog title and so on. There are lot of Off-page and On-page tactics for better SEO but today I will discuss All in One SEO Pack for Blogger (Blogspot) blogs by which you don't need to spend your precious time in adding all basic SEO tactics separately as this amazing widget is a combination of almost all of the basic SEO steps for a blogspot blog. So let's start the tutorial on how you can easily add All in One SEO Pack to your blog. All in One SEO Plugin Features: Add Meta Tags to Your Blogger Blog . Show Post Title First In Search Results SEO Optimize Blogger Comments Search Engine Optimized Blogger Labels Search Engine Optimized Blogger Archives Add SEO Friendly Robots Header Tags Convert Title Tags into Dynamic Title Tags Facebook and Twitter Profile Compatible Allow Bots to crawl your site on daily basis. Allows Search Engine Crawlers to crawl your Blog on a Daily basis. Optimize...

We always keep trying to improve our better SEO but it really became a headache to add these tags manually to each and every image. So today I am introducing a great script which automatically adds Alt and Title tags to all your blog images in one go. You just need to rename your blog image before uploading as this script fetches the name of images and add it as Alt and Title tags. So let's start adding this great script to your blogger blog. How this script works? : This script simply takes the image name and use it as the title and alt tag for that particular image. So to use this script carefully, you have to name your post images correctly. An example of an image with alt and title tag is below: How to Add Script to Add Alt and Title Tags Automatically: You just need to follow below-given simple steps to successfully add this great script. So let's start: Go to Your Blogger Dashboard. Open the Theme Tab and Click Edit HTML. Edit your template. Searc...

Breadcrumbs navigation is an awesome way to help your blog's visitors and let them easily surf pages across your blog. It is a perfect and ideal way to allow the visitor navigate to the older page with ease. Breadcrumbs navigation shows your homepage as well as category page linked to that post so that the visitor can track back to the desired category and check out more contents about that particular category. So today, we are going to explain the easiest way to add breadcrumbs navigation to blogger blog and also we will discuss some of its major advantages too. So let's start rolling your fingers on the tutorial. Before heading directly to the tutorial, let's know what actually are breadcrumbs navigation. What are Breadcrumbs Navigation? Breadcrumbs navigation are the navigation links which allows a user to keep track their location on a website. It provides a user-friendly interface so that user can navigate back to the category attached to the landed page. Bre...