This post explains how to generate and submit blogger site map to Google webmaster tools.

1.First,go to Google webmaster tools and sign in with your Gmail account.

2.After you logged in, you will see this asking you to add a site.

Add your blog URL(ex:e-dollarsonline.blogspot.com). (Don't add with HTTP or WWW.)

3.It asks you to verify your site. It is just to confirm whether you are the owner or not.


CLICK on the 'verify your site' link.

Next ...

Choose verification method

4.There are two ways to verify your ownership but, there is only one way for the blogger users to add a meta tag.



5.Copy the meta tag.

Sign into your Blogger account > Click the layout button > Edit HTML, Paste the Meta tag just after the head tag and save the changes.



and click the verify button in the Google webmaster tools and there will be a confirmation message saying that you have successfully verified.

Now,you have to submit a site map for Google to crawl your site.Go back to the Google webmaster dashboard or (home) and click the 'Add' link which is next to your blog name and in the Site maps column.



Choose 'Add general web site map' from the drop down menu and type rss.xml or atom.xml next to your blog address as shown below



and click the 'Add General Web Site map' button.

6.That's it.Now your sitemap is successfully submitted to Google.

Adding a PayPal donation button to your blog will give your loyal readers a chance to support you by donating a few bucks.
If you don't have one, Get a free one Here

Let's Start ...

1.Log in to your PayPal account.


2.Click on the 'Merchant Services' tab



3.Scroll down the window and you will see an option called "Donations" in the right sidebar. Click on it!


4.Now,you will see some options ...
The first one (Donation name/service) is the only thing that is required and all the remaining fields are optional.
Enter it, Choose you button style,
Scroll down the window and click on "Create a button Now"

5.You will see HTML Code... Copy it and sign in to your Blogger Dashboard » Layout » Add a Page element » HTML/JavaScript » Paste that HTML code.

6.Save the changes

Here is how it will look like in you Side Bar !!

It is delevered by FeedBurner.

When people subscribe, they will recieve an email with your blog posts whenever your blog is updated. It is a very and simple thing and make your visitors come back again and again to your blog frequently.

Let's see how to add an "Email Subscription" in your blog ...





1.Sign in to your FeedBurner account. If you don't have one,
Register it Here


2.Click on the "My Feeds" link at the top of the page and then click on your Bblog Name.




3.Click on the 'Publicize' tab.






4.Select the "Email Subscriptions"





5.Next, you will see like this




Click on 'Activate'

Now,Click on the Subscription Managemant option and copy the code they provide
[*Screen Shot*]



7.Finally, ...

Sign in to your Blog Dashboard > Layout > Add a page element > HTML/JavaScript

and paste the code and Save.

This post explains how to add an "Email me" Text link in your Blog/Web Page.





Steps:

Simple! look at the below example.
If your email is some name@gmail.com, Use the Download Link to get the Code....

<a href="mailto:name@gmail.com">Email me </a>

The output will be like this (Click on it to check)

Email me

And you can change the 'anchor text'(Email me) to your own words like "Contact Es", etc

If you want to add this in your blogger blog sidebar
Do this ...

Sign in to your Blogger Dashboard> Layout > Add a page element > HTML/JavaScript
and paste the code(Don't forget to change the email address in the above code with yours !!)
Save the changes.

1. Give people a free subscription to your e-zine.
Almost everyone is publishing a e-zine nowadays
so it's important to give something extra with the
free subscription. You could offer a free gift or
advertising when people subscribe.

2. Provide your visitors with free content. Your
content will be more attractive to your visitors if
it's up-to-date or original. You could also offer
people the option to reprint the content in their
e-zine or web site.

3. Offer a free online directory. The directory
could be full of interesting ebooks, e-zines, web
sites etc. If people find your directory to be a
valuable resource they will visit it over and over.

4. Give your visitors a free ebook. You could
also include your own ad in the ebook and allow
other people to give it away. If you don't want to
take the time to write one, you could ask other
writers permission to use their articles.

5. Hold free online classes or seminars. They
could be held in your web site's chat room. The
idea of "live" information will definitely entice
people to visit your web site. You will become
known as an expert on the topic.

6. Give visitors a free entry into your contest or
sweepstakes. The prizes should be something of
interest or value to your visitors. Most people
who enter will continually revisit your web site to
get the results.

7. Let visitors download free software. It could
be freeware, shareware, demos etc. You could
even turn part of your site into a free software
directory. If you created the software, include
your ad inside and let other people give it away.

8. Offer free online services or utilities from your
web site. They could be search engine submitting,
copy writing proofreading etc. The service or
utility should be helpful to your target audience.

9. Give free consulting to people who visit your
web site. You could offer your knowledge via
e-mail or by telephone. People will consider this
a huge value because consulting fees can be very
expensive.

10. Give your visitors a free membership to your
online club. People want to belong to something,
why not your online club. You could also give
away a free e-zine for club members only.

If you don't know what meta tags are, and what is the importance of adding meta tags, here is the detailed description on how to add them to your blogger (blog spot) blogs or any website.

Do you know adding meta tags is so important if you want to get more traffic from search engines like google, yahoo, msn, etc, especially the meta description is the most important one.

If you don't know what meta tags are,Meta tags are the tags which describes your site and tells the search engines what your site is all about.Adding meta tags is an important factor in SEO.(Search Engine Optimisation).Meta tags allows search engines to index your web pages more accurately. In other words,Meta tags communicate with the search engines and tells more information about your site and make it index correctly and accurately.
Here is an example.This is what I got when I typed 'Kranthi tips' in the Google Search Engine.

As you can observe.'E-Dollars Online............' is the meta tags description which I added to my site.

We have to add two meta tags to the head section of the template.One is the Meta description which describes your site and another one is Meta Keywords which tells about your site keywords(what your site is all about)

Here is how to add meta tags to your blogger(blogspot) blog:

1.Sign in to your blogger dashboard>click the 'layout' button[see the screenshot below]

2.Click on the 'Edit html' tab

Here is the code you have to add ...

<meta content="'DESCRIPTION" name="'description'/"><meta content="'KEYWORDS" name="'keywords'/"><meta content="'AUTHOR" name="'author'/">

DESCRIPTION HERE: Write your blog description
KEYWORDS: Write the keywords of your blog
AUTHOR NAME: Write the author's name(Your name)

3.Add the above code just after this [Look at the below screenshot]

<b:include data="'blog'" name="'all-head-content'/">

Don't forget to add description and keywords.
and save the changes.

VERY IMPORTANT:

Lots people were filling with just the keywords in the description.DON'T DO THAT.Google and other search engines will ban your site from the search engines list if you did so. And also, don't repeat the keyword more than 3 times.

That's it!You have sucessfully added the metatags to your blogger(blogpsot) blog.If you want to check whether you added the meta tags correctly or not,just type 'meta tags analyzer tool' in the google and you will find so many sites which can check whether you have added the tags correctly or not, Enjoy You Blogging!

How to add a "Email me" Image Link on your Blog\Web Site?

Adding the "Email me" link to your Blog/Web Page is very helpful for the visitors who want to contact you. It increases the interactivity between the visitors and your site and make them come frequently.

How to post Image link:

Suppose, if you want the visitors to email you by clicking on an image like the below one

In this example, the direct link for the uploaded image is http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc286/7kranthiswaroop/thenvelope.gif and your email address is abc@gmail.com,

Here is the Code you have to add..

<a href="mailto:abc@gmail.com"><img src="http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc286/7kranthiswaroop/thenvelope.g if" alt="Email me" width="120" height="57" border="0" /></a>

You can change the picture by uploading one in PhotoBucket, than change the URL in the Code!

Where to paste this code in your blog?

Sign into your Blogger Dashboard > Layout > Add a page element > HTML/JavaScript

Paste the code and save the changes.

This post explains how to increase your blog traffic by submitting your blog to different kinds of blog directories which rates,provide statistics about your blog and provide free traffic and maximum exposure to your blog.
Submitting your blog to these directories is a very good thing to do particularly if your blog is very new one with low traffic.
These blog directories have high pageranks than your blog(since your blog is a new one with pagerank Zero).So, if someone searches for a particular keyword,there is more possibility for the blog directory to appear in the results than yours.So,by adding your blog to these directories,the visitors enters these directories containing your articles(when they click the article,they enter your site) and also your blog posts will be indexed little faster.So,submitting your blog to these directories will gain you more traffic.
(If your blog is a new one,then put a visitors tracker button in your blog,sothat you will see how many visitors are coming from these directories,from search engines,visitors geolocation,etc).

Here are a few popular visitor tracker websites:

1.Histats(histats.com)
2.Sitemeter(sitemeter.com)
3.Statcounter(Statcounter.com)
So,let me come to the main topic...
Before submitting your blog to these blog directories,my personal suggestion is to create a new email address for this purpose so,your personal emails can't flooded with the emails from the blog directories administrators,etc.)Creating an email is free lol....creat one.

Many of these directories asks you to register before submitting blogs.
There are so many hundreds of blog directories,here is the list of very good popular directories which will send you maximum traffic.


LIST OF POPULAR BLOG DIRECTORIES:

Technorati: Technorati is the largest blog(weblog) directory currently tracking more than 112.8 million blogs.Join technorati and verify your authorship,then you will be provided with detailed statistics regarding your blog,how many blogs are linking to your blog,(they call it 'authority').It is one of the best blog directory and will send tons of triffic if your blog is regularly updated.

Topblogarea: This is another big blog directory which rates and rank the blogs interms of Unique visitors your blog gets.They start the counting from Zero every week, so that even newly submitted blog can have the chance to rank higher in the list.

Topblogging.com: This is another source of weblogs which also rank the blogs according to the unique hits they get.Nice blog resource,bring you lots of traffic to your blog.
Blogtoplist: Same here,they rank according to the unique hits you get.But,there is a little change, they will give you to place a voting button in your blog.If any visitor votes for your site from your blog,that is equal to 100 unique hits,but there is only one chance per visitor(one IP address) a day.

Fuelmyblog: This is a cool weblog resource which is different from the ones we discussed so far.You can vote to other blogs and others vote to you.They will keep the top six blogs(voted the most) on the homepage.You can join their forums, read other blogs content,joining in the compitetions and win prizes,etc.

MyBloggingarea: This is a very good weblog directory which ranks the blogs accoring to the unique visitors they get,brought me so much traffic to my celebrity blog than all the other blog directories.I recommend this.

BlogCatalog: It is another good blogging resource,you can promote your blog here for FREE,find other blogs related to yours,etc.They have a special formula to rank the blogs,the more visitors,hits,comments,neighbourhood you get the more your rank will be.Another recommended one.You can join their forums,discussion board,groups,etc with other bloggers and share your thoughts.

BloggingFusion: It is a new one and not a very big one(around 950 blogs) at this time.But,it is a good one and doing pretty well.You can increase your blog exposure, worth a link to it.

Bloghop: You can find blogs related to your blog topic here.Have a nice tracking button and currently having more than 29,000 blogs.

Blogarama: Cool weblog directory currently having more than 69,000 blogs.It will list the blogs in terms of the score your blog have.The score depends on so many things like incoming traffic,outgoing traffic,user ratings,etc. and if you send more traffic to they,they will list your blog in the top 100 blogs.

Topbloglists: Another blog directory which will rank your blog according to the unique hits your blog will get.

Myblogdirectory: This doesn't list blogs interms of any visitors,etc. All blogs are listed randomly so,every blog get the same exposure.If you sent more traffic from your blog to them,your blog will be choosen as a BLOG OF THE DAY which will be placed on the homepage and your blog will recieve the whole traffic their site gets on that day.





Blogroll.net: Another blog resouce which rank accorking to the votes and unique hits your blog get.

One way Backlinks are very critical to any website success. The more one way Backlinks pointing to your site, the more your Google Pagerank and the more amount of traffic you will get. This should also increase your sales, etc.
But the thing is getting the right and quality one way backlinks from high pagerank sites is not an easy task, and in this article, we'll find out some of the best ways to get free one way backlinks.


1. Try to write as much quality content as you can... that will encourage the readers to link to your site. The more useful, informative content you post, the more likely people are to link it. But, this method can take a while to really pay off because like all the new websites, you don't get much traffic.

2. Write quality articles and submit them to top article directories like ezinearticles and goarticles. The advantage in this is, you'll not only get a backlink from high pagerank directories, but also you'll find that your articles are used on other people's sites with a backlink to your site.

3. Participate in forums,discussion boards that are related to your website's niche and add a link to your site in the signature. Make sure that you write quality posts, don't spam. This will also help you get some decent traffic to your site.

4. There is absolutely nothing wrong to get a backlink from a related blog post you decide to comment on. This is one of the effective way of one way link building especially if you comment often on blogs. Comment on blogs related to your niche with a link back to your site as your signature.. and Again, make sure you never spam.

5. Submit your site link to major, well known web directories. Getting listed in directories related to your site not only bring you tons of targetted traffic, but will also improve your search engine rankings. Some of the popular directories to get listed in are DMOZ directory and Yahoo directory. You can submit your link to both paid and free directories and they worth your time.