Tips for Building Quality Links for SEO

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIIS83fNFflNS2HvzWW59px7RUMsDNgJguZboXiiEZhN7oexacSpXjqV-er_RWu5QYo5_yK2Go_oEE66eTT0Uco1mlZk6tEaYIFkh6-KJZA4j1PuHa3Bfq3ROollpiigggdEp-MLS3gDCY/s1600/Tips+for+Building+Quality+Links+for+SEO1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tips for Building Quality Links for SEO" border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIIS83fNFflNS2HvzWW59px7RUMsDNgJguZboXiiEZhN7oexacSpXjqV-er_RWu5QYo5_yK2Go_oEE66eTT0Uco1mlZk6tEaYIFkh6-KJZA4j1PuHa3Bfq3ROollpiigggdEp-MLS3gDCY/s320/Tips+for+Building+Quality+Links+for+SEO1.jpg" title="Tips for Building Quality Links for SEO" width="320" /></a></div> <div> <i><br /></i></div> <i><br />You must have heard a lot of SEOs stressing upon the importance of link building to make your <a href="http://www.addnectar.com/digital/search-engine-optimization/">organic search engine optimization</a> plan a success. But isn’t it too much to decide that what way of link building to choose and what not to. Adding up to all these issues, Google is continuously updating their algorithms and increasing restrictions that is penalizing many website for using unnatural ways of link building. With recent Google Hummingbird update, whether it is content or link building, quality is preferred over quantity. But how to build quality links? Here are few tips for that.</i><br /><br /><div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4f5JV7UUpqKAElxslHPC08E5-FksJTFWg6XgszlDIUK3w5H9OIr2p-imANnkeDn2gAzko_3iV4lxmtccQcJ01odysXVrP5PPoTCk5hrGMVrgrwf9pt6jrwQGqGCrdDJdfrAiHjNSDDmDt/s1600/Tips+for+Building+Quality+Links+for+SEO2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tips for Building Quality Links for SEO" border="0" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4f5JV7UUpqKAElxslHPC08E5-FksJTFWg6XgszlDIUK3w5H9OIr2p-imANnkeDn2gAzko_3iV4lxmtccQcJ01odysXVrP5PPoTCk5hrGMVrgrwf9pt6jrwQGqGCrdDJdfrAiHjNSDDmDt/s200/Tips+for+Building+Quality+Links+for+SEO2.jpg" title="Tips for Building Quality Links for SEO" width="200" /></a><b>Focus on link quality –</b> Opinion from an expert is always preferred and search engine follows the same. They count all the links pointing at a website, except nofollow links, but they don’t count them all equally. They give more importance to the links that are considered to be of better quality. A link from any large, respectable site is going to be to be of better quality than a link you might get from commenting on a blog. In addition, links from those in your “neighborhood”, sites that are topically relevant to your site, also count more.<br /><br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_h1RCv2gEjPNoAvnF7STqNse8Vw4jkpZ8mjR7XwZWwJ7Fs-i31skYj4URIpmKas3xmGIYzTbGARy1vJZ6wvxdI15gXslmsZoMisuED0ilJ3MJIxPR5rq-k97IZWoNRC3hOXE6_KR4MXEr/s1600/Tips+for+Building+Quality+Links+for+SEO5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tips for Building Quality Links for SEO" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_h1RCv2gEjPNoAvnF7STqNse8Vw4jkpZ8mjR7XwZWwJ7Fs-i31skYj4URIpmKas3xmGIYzTbGARy1vJZ6wvxdI15gXslmsZoMisuED0ilJ3MJIxPR5rq-k97IZWoNRC3hOXE6_KR4MXEr/s200/Tips+for+Building+Quality+Links+for+SEO5.jpg" title="Tips for Building Quality Links for SEO" width="184" /></a></div> <div> <b>Vary Your Anchor Text – </b>Never changing your anchor text is the best way to get hit with negative SEO and Google, Bing and Yahoo have gotten fairly adept at identifying Black Hat SEO. Using same anchor text to promote a piece of blog content, you might look like a ‘Spammer’. You might have released 100 pages of content that link to your article on digital influence with the anchor text "Build digital influence". In this case though you're not a spammer, but you sure look like one to Google. So, keep changing your anchor text.<br /><br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPV1bmaA81x4Ob_9bs8oqvh1TCEWPl1YEKnQjGk1vrmSRnbVcaiTnIJ7s91zGjUDSyJRt7rbh3LEgC0jVsVwm7MStWl9k6Fd72DQm5rRdN2Ces6bEeKz5DYViwcwg3LWG6O2St0uFWPzk/s1600/Tips+for+Building+Quality+Links+for+SEO4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tips for Building Quality Links for SEO" border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPV1bmaA81x4Ob_9bs8oqvh1TCEWPl1YEKnQjGk1vrmSRnbVcaiTnIJ7s91zGjUDSyJRt7rbh3LEgC0jVsVwm7MStWl9k6Fd72DQm5rRdN2Ces6bEeKz5DYViwcwg3LWG6O2St0uFWPzk/s200/Tips+for+Building+Quality+Links+for+SEO4.jpg" title="Tips for Building Quality Links for SEO" width="200" /></a></div> <div> <b>Target different websites –</b> With latest updates in algorithm search engines have learned to evaluate the quality of the link in better way. Now 1000 links from 1 site will mean far less than 1000 links from 1000 sites. Tactics, which search engine representatives also suggests, such as viral link baiting campaigns, badges and widgets can all be effective at securing large numbers of links. But firing up automated software and begin spamming blogs would be a bad thing to do.<br /><br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM08QwTvGIF7QfDsp0q2tuIutZFMnpDODzPYavXBirD7Jz6X-bD-KuPvHOtI9CEY9Pp0JysFEvHcew_w6doBMiJtRlp1zaGYVJ4onUQenTwhFZEVry5KHMfdoZaS-pTxx2LnBZW_lnBZk-/s1600/Tips+for+Building+Quality+Links+for+SEO3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tips for Building Quality Links for SEO" border="0" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM08QwTvGIF7QfDsp0q2tuIutZFMnpDODzPYavXBirD7Jz6X-bD-KuPvHOtI9CEY9Pp0JysFEvHcew_w6doBMiJtRlp1zaGYVJ4onUQenTwhFZEVry5KHMfdoZaS-pTxx2LnBZW_lnBZk-/s200/Tips+for+Building+Quality+Links+for+SEO3.jpg" title="Tips for Building Quality Links for SEO" width="200" /></a></div> <div> <b>Target social media – </b>Social networking sites are becoming one of the best sources for building links in upcoming years. Establish yourself on social media and provide users awesome content to read and share. On your social profiles, make sure that you include links of your website’s inner pages in your posts. Post images to image sites, and link them to the inner page where the original image is found. Even if the links are ‘nofollow’, you will benefit from the traffic sourced from social network brand pages.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> About author</h3> <div> Prasad Gurav is a professional digital media adviser at AddNectar Solutions. You can find his previous writing examples at <a href="http://www.addnectar.com/blog/" target="_blank">Addnectar Blog.</a></div> </div>

Tips for Building Quality Links for SEO

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What are Sitemaps? Why and How to submit it on search engines like Google?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <i><br /></i> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD04cPZmKCJIVJnl9tEWsxRrpwInAQmS62_mp7u6utFZRbuUe3gzTHPQq791lvrbNBSYmo6603mmNwYIuXbYzQLNvrTxLGHgNup3qqqhp-NPavimFCeb9X9fCO_pyBRNWr08yIMF5k2Qfj/s1600/sitemaps.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD04cPZmKCJIVJnl9tEWsxRrpwInAQmS62_mp7u6utFZRbuUe3gzTHPQq791lvrbNBSYmo6603mmNwYIuXbYzQLNvrTxLGHgNup3qqqhp-NPavimFCeb9X9fCO_pyBRNWr08yIMF5k2Qfj/s320/sitemaps.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <i><br /></i> <i><br /></i> <i>Sitemaps are an easy way for Bloggers/Webmasters to inform the Search engines about the Webpages on your Blog/Site so that they crawl them more efficiently. Sitemaps are XML files that contain a list containing URLs for a blog or site along with some extra meta-data(when the page was updated, when the page was created, its update frequency etc.) for each URL in the list. </i><br /> <br /> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> Why to submit Sitemaps to search engines?</h2> <br /> Search engines crawlers discover pages from links within the sites or from other sites containing links of your blog. The crawlers are unable to discover the pages that has no links on your site or anywhere. Creating and submitting the sitemap makes your blog pages discoverable to search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc.<br /> Sitemaps are helpful for the Sites/Blogs that are new, having dynamic content, rich AJAX and images.<br /> However adding sitemaps do not assure that your blog pages will definitely get indexed by search engines. But it is something better than nothing...<br /> <br /> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> How to Create a Sitemap?</h2> <br /> Sitemaps are XML files that follow a protocol. The Sitemap protocol consists of XML tags. You can create Sitemaps by a number of <a href="https://code.google.com/p/sitemap-generators/wiki/SitemapGenerators" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sitemap generators</a>. Some will cost you few bucks or else you can create your sitemap manually if you have a good knowledge about XML(<a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">For a detailed tutorial on creating Sitemaps go here</a>). While creating your sitemap make sure that your Sitemap follow some guidelines by google :<br /> <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Guidelines for Sitemaps</h3> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>A Sitemap file can contain no more than 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 50MB when uncompressed. If your Sitemap is larger than this, break it into several smaller Sitemaps. These limits help ensure that your web server is not overloaded by serving large files to Google.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>If you have more than one Sitemap, you can list them in a <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/answer.py?answer=71453">Sitemap index file</a> and then submit the Sitemap index file to Google. You don't need to submit each Sitemap file individually.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>Specify all URLs using the same syntax. For instance, if you specify your site location as http://www.example.com/, your URL list should not contain URLs that begin with http://example.com/.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>Do not include session IDs in URLs.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>Your Sitemap file must specify the following XML namespace:xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9".</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>The Sitemap URL must be UTF8-encoded, and encoded for readability by the webserver on which it is located.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>If your site is accessible on both the www and non-www versions of your domain, you don’t need to submit a separate Sitemap for each version. However, we recommend picking either the www or the non-www version, and using recommended <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/answer.py?answer=139066">canonicalization methods</a> to tell Google which version you are using.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>If you’re considering hiring a consultant to help you optimize your Sitemaps, we recommend reading our recommendations on working with Search Engine Optimizers (SEOs). In addition, you should be familiar with our <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/answer.py?answer=35769">Webmaster Guidelines</a> and our <a href="https://google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf">SEO Starter Guide</a>. It can also be useful to check with colleagues with similar sites or businesses.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>A Sitemap file is independent of the language of the content. To make sure that each language version can be crawled and indexed, use unique URLs. These URLs can all be included in your Sitemap files.</li> </ul> </blockquote> <br />Here is a Sample sitemap by <a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sitemaps.org</a> :<br /> <br /> <pre style="background-color: #e9eaeb; color: #3a4956; font-family: Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-top: 1em; overflow: auto; padding: 5px 5px 5px 10px; width: auto;"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <<a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#urlsetdef" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">urlset</a> xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">    <<a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#urldef" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">url</a>>       <<a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#locdef" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">loc</a>>http://www.example.com/</loc>       <em><<a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#lastmoddef" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">lastmod</a>>2005-01-01</lastmod>       <<a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#changefreqdef" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">changefreq</a>>monthly</changefreq>       <<a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#prioritydef" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">priority</a>>0.8</priority></em>    </url> </urlset> </pre> <br /> <b>Note:</b> You can also see their example with multiple urls <a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#sitemapXMLExample" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /> <br /> When you have created your XML Sitemap you just have to upload it in the root directory of your site (example : http://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml).<br /> <br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">One problem with Blogger Blogs(***.blogspot.com)</span></b> </blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Blogger Blog do not allow bloggers to add anything in the root directory. So, you can't add custom sitemaps on blogger blogs. But do not worry blogger blogs already have sitemap (http:***yourblog***.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml) . You just have to add the link of your  <br />sitemap on your blog and submit it on google. </blockquote> <br /> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> How to submit Sitemap on Google?</h2> <div> Once you have created a sitemap that follow the guidelines and protocols you can submit it to google through the <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google webmaster tools </a> </div> <div> <br /></div> <h4 style="text-align: left;"> Here are the steps for submitting a Sitemap using Webmaster Tools:</h4> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>On the <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Webmaster Tools home page</a>, click the site you want.</li> <li>On the left-hand menu, click Crawl, and then click Sitemaps. (as shown in fig. below)</li> </ul> <div> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDoVJAjAQe7Hgjp55XFS-Y3zmrMl8xxjQHDEsuoT3_DAPiRfYMK4msmc75J03-4hyFbQUzkihc-pQBw_sLYgRpV2HPiKzHXxn-_0gYLdLC8SQF-cHH-AijiFzbAX68KsxKmGMs3qHoXf8w/s1600/sitemap+left+pane.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDoVJAjAQe7Hgjp55XFS-Y3zmrMl8xxjQHDEsuoT3_DAPiRfYMK4msmc75J03-4hyFbQUzkihc-pQBw_sLYgRpV2HPiKzHXxn-_0gYLdLC8SQF-cHH-AijiFzbAX68KsxKmGMs3qHoXf8w/s1600/sitemap+left+pane.png" /></a></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>Click the Add/Test Sitemap button.(as shown in fig. below)</li> </ul> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlrygf2w1D1_zOlvkfsSIf8Ph01WVafFWb02KGMGYSisN6YvbIxZJ-PswHdu-pn5Zs_bvsx5hLdlmLvm4LrmXqjH9Lzapt99oogztx01hxTrq9F_0bEOz1uSNB7coO0CR5pTDGBF9Ri7rm/s1600/sitemap+url+adding.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlrygf2w1D1_zOlvkfsSIf8Ph01WVafFWb02KGMGYSisN6YvbIxZJ-PswHdu-pn5Zs_bvsx5hLdlmLvm4LrmXqjH9Lzapt99oogztx01hxTrq9F_0bEOz1uSNB7coO0CR5pTDGBF9Ri7rm/s1600/sitemap+url+adding.png" /></a></div> <div> <br /></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>In the text box, complete the path to your Sitemap (for example, if your Sitemap is at http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml, type sitemap.xml).</li> <li>Click Submit Sitemap and then click refresh the page.</li> <li>You are done.</li> </ul> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Having Problems regarding Sitemaps ? Feel Free to contact me through Comment section...</blockquote> </div>

What are Sitemaps? Why and How to submit it on search engines like Google?

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How to stop 302 Redirections in blogger

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <i><br /></i> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDCmV6keypjL9iNUfHjpXoUtzdt1Iih0WTMsGPaCIVInbSjxD8aj2jl1GOjDg7XBjRQqZekp4Tz2s7m4vUbSKpK5Ll-GiiFTn4cmQ-vbJMCF5jZ2UZwEO5ct_uAKUCjOvU-zFh8xvEeqWx/s1600/302-redirect.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDCmV6keypjL9iNUfHjpXoUtzdt1Iih0WTMsGPaCIVInbSjxD8aj2jl1GOjDg7XBjRQqZekp4Tz2s7m4vUbSKpK5Ll-GiiFTn4cmQ-vbJMCF5jZ2UZwEO5ct_uAKUCjOvU-zFh8xvEeqWx/s1600/302-redirect.jpg" /></a></div> <i><br /></i> <i><br /></i> <i>If you have a blog in blogger than your blogs have many urls (that are country specific .blogspot.in for India, .blogspot.co.uk for uk and so on..) which is bad for your blog from SEO's perspective. When your blog will have different urls then your blog's google juice will be diluted. Your blog visitors from a specific country will see your (.blogspot.***) country's url. So, the alexa rank will also get affected (Alexa rank will be distributed among your various Urls. So, how to stop this? Here is one solution...</i><br /> <br /> When anyone comes to your .blogspot.com blog google redirects it to the country's url i.e from where your blog is getting visit. This is done by google through 302 redirection. So, what we have to do is to stop the 302 redirection. You can stop it by using some simple scripts. Here is the script that I use:<br /> <br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><script type="text/javascript"></span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">var blog = document.location.hostname;</span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">var slug = document.location.pathname;</span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">var ctld = blog.substr(blog.lastIndexOf("."));</span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">if (ctld != ".com") {</span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">var ncr = "http://" + blog.substr(0, blog.indexOf("."));</span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">ncr += ".blogspot.com/ncr" + slug;</span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">window.location.replace(ncr);</span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">}</span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"></script></span></i></span></blockquote> <b>All you have to do is to copy this code and paste it in the <head> section and you are done. Don't know how to do this? Read the steps below...</b><br /> <br /><ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>Go to Blogger.com and sign in. Select your Blog.</li> <li>Go to Template -----> Edit HTML -----> Proceed.</li> <li>Find <head> [Press Ctrl + F to Find] and copy the above codes just below it.</li> <li>Click save template.</li> <li>You are done.</li> </ul> </div>

How to stop 302 Redirections in blogger

If you have a blog in blogger than your blogs have many urls (that are country specific .blogspot.in for India, .blogspot.co.uk for uk...

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