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Tips for new bloggers...

Author: Suman // Category:

Don't launch your blog until it is properly setup.

Many people launch a blog, that is not fully setup. The Layout design may not be proper or the RSS feed may not be working correctly.So before you launch your blog make sure that your Layout design is complete, RSS feed is working properly ,you are setup to ping to the search engine or directories and your blog is optimized for search engines.Day 1 is the most crucial day because without launching with all these things in line it can hurt the future success of your blog.

Choose a Unique topic and stick to it

If your blog is about trekking then stick to it.Dont try to include pages of ebooks or something like that,it will decrease your pagerank. And dont try to copy the content from another website, Search engine will be able to find out that you have copied the contents and there is every possibility that your pages wont get indexed.

Be consistent

Make a schedule and stick to it. Update your blog frequently.May be four times a week should be sufficient.The more frequently you update your blog ,the higher will be your pagerank. Don't blog daily and then skip a whole month.

Communicate with your readers

Dont leave your readers stranded.Reply to the comments posted by the user or mail them or do both of them.It is very important that you communicate with the readers especially when your blog is new.
If you need a comment box to your blog plz visit http://www.cbox.ws/

Keep it short and sweet

You may write a book on web guidelines,that's great but people will find it easy and more interesting, if it is short and is upto the point.Most of the time, readers dont like to read long articles , so keep it short and sweet.

Write something unique

Add some flare to your blog. Keep your readers on their toes by doing something unique, funny or something that should attract the readers. Whatever unique thing you do, it can really help keep your readers coming back for more.Add some pictures to spice up your blog.

Dont expect miracles

Dont expect the world to visit your site , it takes some time for your blog to become popular.It may take a month or may be an year also.So be patient and try to update your blog frequently which will lead to improved page rank and thus to a lot of traffic .
For more information plz read these posts...
http://pesit08.blogspot.com/2008/10/tips-to-improve-your-blog.html
http://pesit08.blogspot.com/2008/10/information-about-creating-and.html

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Information about creating and submitting sitemaps

Author: Suman // Category:

Well if you dont know what a site map is, then here is a brief introduction to it

What's a Sitemap?

In general, there are two types of sitemaps.

The first type of sitemap is a HTML page listing the pages of your site - often by section - and is meant to help users.
XML Sitemaps - usually called Sitemaps, are a way for you to give Google information about your site. In its simplest terms, a Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website.
Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that have errors.

Sitemaps are very helpful particularly when your blog or website has

Flash content or Ajax code.(Because bots find difficult to crawl through these pages)
If your site is new, then googlebot will have a difficult time to find your blog...so submitting sitemaps will help googlebots
Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all

Adding Sitemap to Web Master Tools

First register to google web master tools and verify your site.
After verification go to Sitemaps and click on add sitemap.
Then select Add general web sitemap.
Then open a new tab then go to your blog.
There will be RSS feed button in top right corner (in Internet Explorer).
Click on it and copy the code

Then paste it in my sitemap url in google webmaster tools
Then click on Add general web sitemap and your site map will be submitted to google
It will take 1 or 2 days to analyze your pages and it will give you the all the information about crawl errors and about indexing etc