In this tip i will explains how to submit blogger sitemap to google webmaster tools.First let me explain what are sitemaps and how they will help You.The reason we use sitemaps is,they will help google to crawl,index pages from your site and tell you if there are any problems when they try to index it.It also helps you to know,how many pages exactly are indexed,and what people searched in the search engine to visit your site.

I am going To Explain detailed procedure on how to submit your blogger sitemap to google.

1.First,sign in to google webmaster tools with your gmail account.

2.After you sign in, you will see this asking you to add a site.Type your blog URL and click Add Site.

3. Once your site is added to Google Webmaster, you need to verify the site.This is to make sure that you are the owner of the site.

There are two ways to verify your site.
(a) add a Meta Tag .
(b) Upload an HTML file.

here we show you how to verify using Meta Tag method, when we use Meta Tag method Google will generate a Meta Tag code. Copy the META tag that is generated for you, and paste it in your site's home page before closing of head section.

if you are a blogspot user you have to go Now go to Blogger Dashboard – Layout – Edit HTML and then add the google genrated meta code before the closing of head section and save the Template.

4.After adding the meta tag return to Google Webmaster site, then you can click the button that says “Verify”.

Note: The second method of uploading an HTML file is NOT applicable to Bloggers using Blogger.com or Blogspot.com because this requires you to upload a file to the root directory of your Blog, which is not possible. There is therefore only one method for you to verify your site, and that is by inserting the Meta Tag as explained above.

5.After your site is verified, click on the Sitemaps tab . when you add a Sitemap, you will be providing Google with more details and information about your Blog. With Sitemaps , Google will crawl your site, report information on any errors in the Sitemaps tab, and index your Blog site at a faster rate.

Now Click the link “Add a Sitemap”.

if you are a blogspot user , then use following 2 Sitemaps:-

http://your-blog.blogspot.com/rss.xml

OR

http://your-blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml

If it is redirected to Feedburner account, you may get an error in Google Webmasters tools while adding Blogger sitemap. For this particular problem, just adding ?redirect=false will solve this problem. So the sitemap address that
you should be adding is:

http://your-blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false


Advance Settings

The default number of URLs in Blogger XML sitemap is 25, so within Webmasters tools you will see there are (25+1) 26 total URLs. But if you have more than 25 posts and less than 100 posts then you can add the following sitemap:

http://your-blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=26&max-results=100

For more than 100 posts, add a second sitemap:

http://your-blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100

More than 200 posts repeat above to add a third sitemap:

http://your-blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100

And so on.
Save it and after some time check whether the sitemap is properly added or not.


change your-blog with the name of your blog.Congratulations! You have successfully added your Sitemaps. When you login to your Google Webmaster days later, you should be able to see the indexed pages and statistics of Google webcrawl of your Blog.

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Bounce Rate
Today I was going to write about why new websites can display very misleading bounce rates.

What Is Bounce Rate?

Bounce rate is a very important metric for website owners. It basically tells you what percentage of your visitors are “bouncing” away after landing on your site means they just visit one page and leave before clicking on to a second page inside your site. A bounce can occur for several reasons, including:

• The visitor hit the “Back” button on his browser.
• The visitor closed his browser.
• The visitor clicked on one of your ads.
• The visitor clicked on one of your external links.
• The visitor used the search box on his browser.
• The visitor typed a new URL on his browser.

All the actions above would cause the visitor to leave your site. Provided he did any of these actions right after arriving at your site , it would be counted as a bounce. In fact the formula for finding the bounce rate on your website is:

Bounce rate = Visits that left after one page / Total number of visits

For example, if during a certain month your site received 120,000 visits, out of which 80,000 bounced after visiting just one page, your bounce rate for that month would be 80,000 divided by 120,000, which equals to 0.66 (or 66%). Notice that you can calculate the bounce rate of your whole website or of single pages inside it.
Obviously the lower the bounce rate on your website, the better, because it means that visitors are getting engaged by your content and design, and that they are clicking to visit a second third and so on page on your site.

How do you know the exact bounce rate on your site? A web analytics program like Google Analytics will automatically track the numbers for you.

Choose a Nice Topic for your Blog is very important Before you started with any kind of blogging, it’s critical that you think carefully about the topic about which you will write.

If you pick the wrong topic, you might waste time moving toward the wrong direction. Make every attempt to avoid that trap.

Trust me. There’s nothing worse than putting your heart and soul into a project, and never getting rewarded for your efforts.

This post will guide all the way through selecting the nice topic you’d like to dominate. This post will prevent you from getting into the wrong topic.

1. You must have interest on topic

“Probably the best place to start thinking about what your blog should be about is to consider what YOU are about.”

There are two main reasons for this.

Firstly if you want to grow a popular and well respected blog it can take considerable time and you’ll be needing to take a long term approach to building it up.

it makes sense really as no one wants to read something that the author doesn’t really believe in.

2.your topic should be Popular

While the blogger’s interest is important it’s not enough on it’s own to build a popular blog. Another important thing is that people WANT to read information on the topic you’re writing on. According to law of Supply and Demand you must write on that which is most demanding and reader want to read .

3.your topic should be growing

Also keep in mind that popular topics change over time. Obviously it’s great to get on a topic before it becomes big rather than when it’s on the decline. This is not easy to do of course but predict the next big thing that people will be searching for and you could be onto a winner.

4.What competition is there?

One of the traps that some bloggers get sucked into when choosing a topic is to go for the most popular topics with no regard for the competition that they might face in those markets. The chances are if you have identified a niche that you think is ‘hot’ at the moment that someone else will have also. It’s demand and supply coming into play again – for any level of demand for information on a topic there will only be a certain number of sources of that information that will be needed on that topic.

5.Choose that topic in which you have enough Content

One of the key features of successful blogs is that have the ability to continue to come up with fresh content on their topic for long periods of time. Conversely, one of the things that kills many blogs is that their authors run out of things to say.

Do this and once you have clearly defined a nice topic you become totally unstoppable.

Happy Blogging...........

Both tricks can work. Let’s analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each of them.

Advantages of One Blog with Many Categories

The largest advantage of this model is that you will have a very strong domain, since it will receive the link juice from all the different topics and content channels. Over time it will become relatively easy to rank for keywords because of the high trust that the root domain has. That is why websites like Wikipedia or Digg rank so well in Google.
Another advantage of this model is the unlimited potential for expansion. Provided your domain is a generic one, you will be able to add and remove topics over the time without needing to rework the brand.

Disadvantages of One Blog with Many Topics

The main disadvantage of one large blog covering many topics is the fact that it will require a huge amount of time, energy and money to become successful.

Why? Because you would need to shape it as a content portal. That means that you should have a design that supports the portal structure, different channels inside it, and different writers to keep each of the channels updated regularly.

Trying to do a content portal by yourself and with no investment would probably yield mediocre results.

Advantages of Many Blogs with One Topic

The advantage of having many blogs, each with a selected topic, is the fact that it will be easier to attract loyal visitors on each of those sites. The sharper your focus, the easier it is to convince a first time visitor that he should come back tomorrow or subscribe to your RSS feed.
Secondly, selected topic websites are also easier to be monetized.

Disadvantages of Many Blogs with One Topic

The disadvantage of having many blogs, each with a niche topic, is the time and energy that you will need to spend managing them. You will inevitably need to worry about the web hosting, web design, software, maintenance so on. The higher the number of sites you have, the more time they will consume with those tasks.
Additionally, there is always the risk to spread yourself too thin. If you can’t keep up with the content production and promotion activities on all the blogs, they will probably tank over the time.


Conclusion

As you can see there are advantages and disadvantages related to both strategies. Choosing one over the other is a personal decision.

According to me it is good to go with nice blogs. Before selecting the topic of your blog you first confirm that you will not get shortage of content on that topic . For example creating a blog about “Hollywood Movies” would probably not be a good idea. If you choose “Digital Photography,” however, you should be fine.
I also prefer to focus on the development of one website or blog at a time. Trying to do too many things at once is one of the most common business mistakes.

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