6 SEO Tips from Google Itself

If you are new to SEO Google just released a video with some basics mistakes you should avoid and six tips you should apply on your website if you want better rankings. If you have been working with SEO for some time you won’t find anything new here, but it might be a refresher and remind you about the factors that Google considers to be important. You can watch the video below:

If you are in a hurry here are the 6 tips:

1. Do something cool: Make sure your site stands out from the competition.

2. Include relevant words in your copy: Try to put yourself in the shoes of searchers.

3. Be smart about your tags and site architecture.

4. Sign up for email forwarding in Webmaster Tools to get notified by Google if anything is wrong.

5. Attract buzz: Natural links, +1s, likes, follows… all these can help.

6. Stay fresh and relevant: Keep content up-to-date on your site to keep receiving organic traffic.

6 Best Free Blogger Templates With jQuery Content Slider

One of the popular features of Blogger Blogspot Templates is the Featured Post Slider or Slideshow Carousal. Today I was searching on internet and best free blogger templates. SO I get and idea of presenting some of them with best jquery content slider and much more features. Here are 5 Best Free Blogger Templates With jQuery Content Slider All the Sliders are created with jQuery which allows some cool features such as the transitions (The effect between each slide).

I had placed all link to download and live demo in image. Click On The Screenshot Of Each Template For The Demo and Download Details.

Glow - Free Premium Blogger Template

Glow has a beautifully constructed Featured Slider Slideshow.The slides are visible as thumbnails on the left of the full size slider.The template also has a glowing two column magazine design with right sidebar.

Oracle - Advanced Magazine Blogger Template

Oracle has a beautifully fitted Featured Slider, Image Slideshow with the sides fading away.The slides auto scroll with a manual scroll option.The template also has a two column magazine design with a left sidebar.

Nyke - Magazine Blogger Template

The Featured Slider, Image Slideshow has a very unique rounded bottom and a number of coll transitions between images.The template has a two column layout with right sidebar.

MoonLight - Clean Magazine Blogger Template

MoonLight - Clean Magazine Blogger TemplateThe Featured Slider, Picture Slideshow on Moonlight has a more simple design but fits neatly above the posts with auto scroll and manual scroll options.The template has a minimalist design with two columns and a right sidebar.

 Calenotis - Photographers Magazine Blogger Template

Calenotis has a beautiful full width Featured Slider Slideshow that has a 3D design.The slides are on auto scroll with a number of different transitions.The template also has a professional magazine design with a two column right sidebar layout.

Flash News Blogger Template

Flash news was my last choice (but not least). I found it is very professional blogger template but HackTutors readers haven't covered too much interest on it. Its stylish header may attract your visitor.

About the author
Ammar is a 16 years old Blogger and Student. He loves to write about Latest Blogging Tips, Tricks and Tutorials. Well, He mainly blogs at All Blogging Tips where he share Free Premium Themes

Redirect one page to another in Blogger

Blogger has launched an Array of Search Engine related features and one of them is the ability to create Custom Redirects. Technically Blogger allows you to create 302 Redirects which are used to specify that the Web Page has temporarily moved to a new location.

What is a redirect ?

A visitor coming to a particular web address is redirected to another web address. This process is called Redirect. Blogger allows you to create Internal Redirects which means that you will be able to redirect the user coming to a particular URL on your blog to another URL on your Blog.

When are Blogger Redirects Useful?

Consider a situation where a page on your Blog was really popular and later you decided to delete it for some reason. Since that page is popular, references to that URL might be there at multiple Blogs/Websites which linked to you. The users coming to that popular URL will now be greeted with a 404 Page not Found Error. You might be loosing some potential readers/subscribers here. One way of resolving this would be to redirect the guy to some other relevant page. This is exactly what Blogger’s Custom Redirects do.

You can also use the Blogger Redirection Tool to create short links. For example you might want to redirect yourblog.blogspot.com/yourname to  your contact page. You can do that easily using the Blogger’s Redirect Tool.

How to add Redirects?

I will describe this using an Example. I had a post about Meta Tags on my Blog. This entry was made some 4 years back  and when Blogger launched the new Search Options, it became irrelevant. So I just deleted that post and made a new entry in my Blog with the new details. Now the visitors coming to that 4 year old URL from various sources would be greeted with a 404 error. I don’t want that to happen but I need that user to be sent to my new Blog Post.

1. To do a Redirect you should have 2 URLs. The first one is the URL which should be redirected to the target. The target is the second URL where the user should be redirected to.
2. The second thing that you have to do is to get the relative paths of these URLs.e.g.: The relative path to http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2008/06/meta-tags-for-blogger-blogspot.html is  /2008/06/meta-tags-for-blogger-blogspot.html . You might have already figured out that you should remove your Blog’s home page URL from the URL to get the relative path. You should also make sure that the Relative path starts with a slash (/)
3. Similarly you have to figure out the relative path to the Target URL. I opted for/2012/03/add-meta-description-tags-to-blogger.html
4. Once you have got these 2 Relative paths, you can do the Redirect at Settings >Search Preferences > Errors & Redirects > Custom Redirects Add the From and To Fields there and click on the Save link and then on the Save SettingsButton
5. You can add more Redirects in a similar way.

Demo

Check out the following URLs and see how these get redirected

1. A Post which is no longer there http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2008/06/meta-tags-for-blogger-blogspot.html 
2. A Custom Short URL that I made http://www.bloggerplugins.org/contact

Both of these URLs will get redirected to a different page instead of showing a 404 Page.

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Customize your search preferences

Hi Bloggers.

Ensuring that your blog, posts, and images are accurately indexed so they appear correctly in search results is valuable. Today we introduced a suite of new features that enable you to more effectively customize your search preferences. Managing how your blog is viewed by search engines is an important aspect of maintaining a healthy blog, regardless of whether you’re new to blogging, or a seasoned veteran.

Here’s an overview of what we added:

The first thing you’ll notice is a new “Search preferences” option under the “Settings” tab.

Clicking it will display three sub-sections: Meta Tags, Errors and Redirections, and Crawlers and Indexing. When enabled, some of these features, such as Search Description and Custom robots header tags will also appear in the “Post settings” area of Blogger's post editor as well. For example, if you elect to create a Search Description, you may do so for your blog, and/or individual posts.

Also available is the ability to add a custom “Page Not Found” (eg. a “404”) message, and Custom Redirects for pages on your blog.

While most of the new features are located in the Settings tab, a few others can be found in the post editor. For example, we’ve introduced the ability to incorporate “alt” and “title” tags to images in your post.


Last but not least, you’ll also find a “rel=nofollow” link attribute in the link tool. Checking this box means that you don’t want this link to be considered when web crawlers are searching for information they’ll use to index your page.

While most of these features are easy to understand and use, others, such as custom robots header tags are geared toward advanced users only, hence the warning message:

Before diving in, I would encourage a quick read through the Help Center articles. They’re comprehensive, and do a great job translating some technical concepts to the layperson.


We hope you enjoy the new features. It’s all part of our effort to bring you a much improved and modernized Blogger. Next week, we’ll be holding a Hangout on our Google+ page to talk with you about your experience with these features and answer your questions. Follow us on +Blogger for details.


Happy blogging!


Bruce Polderman, Product Manager

How To Make Money on YouTube

A couple of days ago I wrote a post talking about some British parents who published a 57-second video of their children on YouTube and ended up making over $150,000 from that video alone.

Most people who left a comment wanted to get more information on how to make money on YouTube, so I decided to write a follow-up post about it.

In a nutshell you make money on YouTube by becoming a YouTube partner, which allows you to display ads on your videos, and then you earn a percentage of the revenues generated by clicks on those ads, much like with AdSense. As for how much money you can actually make, I heard numbers anywhere from $3 up to $10 per 1,000 video views.

However, the process of becoming a YouTube partner is not as trivial as becoming an AdSense publisher. Below you’ll find the basic steps you need to go through:

1. Make Sure You Have an AdSense Account

While the process to be able to display ads on your YouTube videos is a separate one, your earnings and stats will go together with your AdSense account, so you need to have one.

In theory you could apply to become a YouTube partner before having an AdSense account, and in case you get accepted you would then follow up with an AdSense application. I believe the other way around is much simpler, though.

2. Grow Your Audience on YouTube

One of the most important criteria the YouTube guys will use to evaluate your application is the audience you reach on YouTube. They don’t reveal what are the requirements, but I’ve seen many people say these are the ballpark numbers you need to have before getting accepted:

• at least 1,000 subscribers
• at least 1,000 views on all your videos
• at least 10,000 channel views

These are the very minimum though, if you want to make sure you’ll get accepted I would aim for 5,000 subscribers, 50,000 channel views and over 1,000,000 upload views total.

3. Get Videos Out There Regularly

If you only have one or two videos uploaded your chances of getting accepted are low, even if those videos went viral. That’s because YouTube is looking for people who are planning to work with them over the long term.

The more regularly and frequently you upload new videos, the better. For instance, someone who uploads a new video every day will have a better chance of getting accepted than someone who uploads one every couple of weeks.

You also want to make sure you have at least 100 uploaded videos before applying to become a partner (though some people say 50 will be enough).

4. Develop A Brand Around Your Videos

This step is not essential, but I think it helps a lot on getting approve. You need to remember that, once you meet the technical guidelines, it will be a person on the other site deciding on whether you are a good fit for becoming a YouTube Partner or not. In other words, the more professional you look the higher your chances.

Practical tips include:

• Create a website to host your videos and give your audience more wayts to interact
• Create a nice logo and use it everywhere
• Use a watermark on your videos with your logo
• Consider getting a professional intro made for your videos
• Customize your YouTube channel to make it look professional

5. Make Sure Your Content Has Zero Copyrighted Material

If there’s one thing that will get your application rejected on the spot is copyright infringement, so make sure you have zero copyrighted material on your videos.

This includes images, graphics, logos, video clips and audio. For instance, even just using a music on the background which you don’t have permission to could get your application rejected.

6. Apply to Become a YouTube Partner

After you followed all the previous steps you are ready to apply. You can do that via the official YouTube Partner Program page. It might take a while to get your application considered due to the load of people applying, but once you get accepted you’ll be able to start displaying ads on your videos right away.

Good luck!

SIMPLEXGAMEZONE - MAGAZINE TEMPLATE FOR GAME SITE

It's been a long time since SimplexLinepress came out to you all . I was very busy ,so I couldn't publish any template . But when everything is fine ,it's time for a new template . In this post ,I want to show you the blogger version of Gameup template from Magazine3.com : SimplexGamezone . Yes, another magazine template .

Demo | Download | Download jquery-ui.js

 

How to install this template

1,Download template file

2,Download the jquery-ui.min.js file

To download these files ,click on the link . It open a new browser window . Click Save page as .Choose the place which you want to save and click on Save as 

3,Upload this js file to your host . I have no hosting so I can't host it for you . 

4,Open template in a word editor such as Notepad++

5,Find this code

<script src=".../jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Replace .../jquery-ui.min.js to the url of jquery-ui.min.js file which you hosted .

6,Find this code

<b:widget id='HTML6' locked='false' title='socialnetwork' type='HTML'>

                                 <b:includable id='main'>

                                     <div class="headerbookmark">        

                                         <div class="headerbookmark1">

                                             <a href=""><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja1-nZQQ3MkEXrokJCs9McI_7Mo4BtadVbEImU6WkImGOVkx23ajKwWZE0DWsa6ZwuLErv3nm0Tc2J1Y4EPt4Ee_memXFN_-HAVgzLRIx_KEuvfreXVnwTCFas2RMuWk-LgrQ9SXzjww/" alt="" height="36px" width="36px"/></a>

                                         </div>  

                                         <div class="headerbookmark1">     

                                             <a href=""> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQSoAy0usX4baAasG0Xvmk-cuzUrZ5fLXMyE2aAI3yn7q9HCean1d7wUfD0YJLqGd7aGb4HpJGDfxyBhavTlEM79dH3QkriZKOJ6CjGNcukB8wpnzMsgic1RULMb6LBXEq6UlCWT2TFw/" alt="" height="36px" width="36px"/></a> 

                                         </div>  

                                         <div class="headerbookmark1">  

                                             <a href=""><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimyAXx_vU9v0eZBIKowFLcY4FbI4JGjj2dcfxzK91eL_c27nan7S5jL4Yq5LXxsc7LJM-264PwygivabGaSuYtSUxi-NwShfo0xa60NzSo45T_zcgAcNXiQFmDR8GuQcccyIEYM9oCPQ/" alt="" height="35px" width="36px"/></a>

                                         </div> 

                                     </div>                                                                     

                                     <div class="clr"></div>    

                                 </b:includable>

                             </b:widget>

Add the url of your social networks to this code .

7,To edit the main menu

Find this code

<div class="menu-header">

                 <ul id="menu-gameumne" class="menu">

                     <li><a href="">Home</a></li>

                     <li><a href="">Category</a></li>

                     <li><a href="">Category</a></li>

                     <li><a href="">Category</a></li>

                     <li><a href="">Category</a></li>

                     <li><a href="">Category</a></li>

                     <li><a href="">Category</a></li>

                     <li><a href="">Category</a></li>                   

                 </ul>

             </div>

Add link to categories to menu code above .

Link to category has structure like this
http://xxx.blogspot.com/search/label/category_name

8,Save template and upload it to Blogger

9,Go to Dashboard ->Setting ->Other - > Allow Blog Feed and change feed mode to Full 

10,Go to Dashboard -> Layout

11,To add logo

Click on logo widget

Add the url of logo to widget content as structure bellow

12,To add content to newsticker

Click on headerticker widget 
Add the category which you want to show posts in newsticker

13,To add content to slider

Click on slider widget

Add name of category which you want to show latest post in slider in widget content

14,Do the same for thepart1,thepart2,thepart3 ,latestupdate widgets .

14,To add the ad

Click on small ad widget
 
Add the ad code into widget content .
 
Do the same for other ad widgets

15,There's many place which you can add widget in this template .
You can add/remove them as you want .

Save changes . Ok ,you are done .
Installing this template is not different to other templates from SimplexDesign ,so If you familiar to others ,it only take you a few minutes .
I added the download link for js file . Because many of you complaint on 110mb.com hosting downtime . I hope with this js file and your host ,it can be much more easier .
I publish the template files and js file on dropbox website . So anytime I make a changes in template ,for fixing errors or doing something else ,this patch will automatically updated ,and you can get the latest updates with the same link ,don't need another download link . I will try to publish other templates to dropbox folder in future .
That's all for this template . Hope it helpful to you . Free to leave me comments :"D