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work2bfree
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Posted: Wed Feb 27th, 2008 02:31 am |
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This is a training I want to share with you. I learned about the subject of blogging from Purple Cowboy Marketing. I was also privileged to learn some advanced topics about blogging. I have included some of the topics I learned from my trainings in Purple Cowboy Marketing. For those who are already familiar with creating blogs, this training may not be helpful, but to those who are just learning about blogging, this information might help your blog get indexed.
First, I want to mention that the tool used is called blogger, which is Google's blogging tool. There are other tools; such as WordPress, but for those who are new to blogging, like me, it was the tool that I found easiest to learn. At some point, I plan on moving to WordPress, but for now, baby steps.
Create a Google Account:
To access blogger, you go to http://www.blogger.com. To create a Google Account,
A.) Enter your e-mail address.
B.) Choose a password
C.) Retype your password
D.) Choose a display name, this will be displayed on all of your blogs.
E.) Type the word verification that is displayed on YOUR sign up page.
F.) Check off the Accept Terms.
G.) After all done, click Continue.
You will be at this "Name Your Blog" page
Name Your Blog:
A.) Select a blog title that best fits your blog subject. This is only for your personal information for categorizing your blogs in your blogs account page.
B.) Select your blog address URL - This is what will appear in your url address you place in your internet browser. If you are creating a Dog Training blog then try something like: "dogtrainingmastery" as an example. So if you chose this as your blog address Url, your complete URL address would be http://dogtrainingmastery.blogspot.com This is how others will be able to access your blog Web site.
C.) After all has been completed click Continue
You can now "Choose Your Template" layout
Choose Your Template Layout:
You can choose from a variety of template layouts. This is how your blog will appear when someone clicks on it. After you finished your selection, click Continue.
You will then be taken to a screen to start posting. Click on the Start Posting
Posting To Your Blog:
Selecting A Title:
You first will need to select a title for your blog. For instance, if you are writing a blog on dog training, then you can select a title like "Dog Training Tips" Thus you use a very popular keyword for the search engines in your title. The search engines use this to index you for search results.
You can go to Google's Keyword Tool (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal) for a handy keyword-selecting tool that will help you select popular keywords for your blog titles. The site is Icon Interactive; you will type in a broad word and all related searches using that word are displayed with the number of times it has been searched with in a month's period. Using our dog training as an example, you would type a search for "DOGS" or "DOG TRAINING" and find related search terms that are relevant to the subject you are searching. Don't always choose the keywords that get searched the most, choose the ones that best fit your subject. You would see that DOGS gets searched 100 times more than DOG TRAINING, but Dogs would be too broad of a search term as compared to DOG TRAINING which is what you are typing your article about.
Once you have your Title, you can then type out your article. Once you are satisfied with your blog, click on "Publish" to publish your blog to Internet. After you have published your blog, you will be taken to a screen that says "Your blog post published successfully!"
Adding Meta Tags:
This is one of the most important parts of getting your blog indexed to the search engines. You want to add what is called meta tags to the html code of your blog. This will allow search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo to properly read your blog. This is much easier than I am making it sound so I will just walk you through this process.
The first thing is to edit the following Meta Tag BEFORE you insert it into your blog. I will use one of our meta tags for a pctv blog.
<meta name="revisit-after" content="5 days"></meta>
<meta name="classification" content=""></meta>
<meta name="description" content="A review of pc tv services "></meta>
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"></meta>
<meta name="keywords" content="watch tv on pc,tv for pc,watch tv on computer,tv for your pc "></meta>
<meta name="robots" content="FOLLOW"></meta>
<meta name="distribution" content="Global"></meta>
<meta name="rating" content="Safe For Kids"></meta>
<meta name="author" content=""></meta>
<meta http-equiv="reply-to" content="purplecowboymkg@gmail.com "></meta>
<meta name="language" content="English"></meta>
<meta name="doc-type" content="Public"></meta>
"Classification" - Will be a general category for your blog subject.
"Description" - A brief description of your blog's subject.
"Keywords" - This is where you can add keywords that best fit your blog subject. Use the Icon Interactive tool to help you choose keywords. Add about 4-6 good keywords that really explain what your blog is about.
"Author" - This can be either your blog nickname or your real name
"Reply-To" - Add your e-mail address here
After you have edited this code to match your content, you insert this ENTIRE code into your blog as follows.
1st - Go to you Template Page again.
2nd - Click on Edit HTML
3rd - At the top of page you will see the following codes
Copy and Paste the COMPLETE code you have edited between the following tags shown above.
The code will be under the:
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
And above the: <b:skin>< |
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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 01:32 pm |
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WOW,
Thanks for that tip work2bfree!
That's a great SEO trick for a Blog. What your doing here is basically building a blog just as you would a web page. Very good info. and didn't know you could do that.
No wonder traffic has been slow all this time.
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work2bfree
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Posted: Wed Jun 18th, 2008 02:31 am |
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You are welcome Geno. I am glad I can help you. Let me know how this works for you. I am interested in seeing you get results. When you do, share with others. It is a good way to give back.
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CathyB
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 11:19 pm |
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| Thank you for your tips on creating a blog in Blogger.com. Your tips on meta tags are very interesting and I'm sure it will work, but for some reason I'm finding the whole concept of meta tags and html to be beyond me. Similar to my resistance to algebra. The only difference is that I want to understand meta tags and have absolutely no interest in algebra. I'm going to print out what you explained about meta tags and really give it a try. If you want to check out my blog at http://familysurvivalgear.blogspot.com - maybe you can tell if my meta tags are as they should be. Or maybe they aren't obvious? Any way, you seem to know what you are talking about and I certainly could use advice. Thanks.
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