A Friendly Site Url

How to create a  friendly site url? Creating a friendly site url is by improving the site url. Improving your site url is conditioning your site url for search engine crawler to be able to do better crawling. Bellow are friendly site url examples;

A friendly site url is like this  http://www.yourdomain.com/my-post.html
This also find   http://www.yourdomain.com/archive/my-post.html

The reason that the above url is consider friendly site url because when we as human can easily remember the url, so does the search engine. Since it doesn’t have to many parameter and you can memorize it.

And for non friendly site url is like this http://www.yourdomain.com/2011/05/my-post.html
(you can see this on blog that run on free blog platform include free web hosting like blogger)

It doesn’t mean that search engine cannot crawl it, most major search engine will have no problem crawling non friendly site url. But it would take them longer time to crawl compare to the friendly site url.

And also having to many parameter can cause broken link. In this case I will use my site for example of broken link . See bellow picture 1.1.;

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You can see the above picture that the http://www.tipsandtricksblogger.com/2011/03/create-facebook-like-box-fan-page.html can be open. But when you try to open the short url for example; http://www.tipsandtricksblogger.co m/2011/03 it can not be open because there is broken link. See bellow picture 1.2.;

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You can see from the above picture 1.2. that the page not found there is the broken link. To see an example of good site url I use mypagerank.net site. Look at bellow picture 1.3.

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It has very simple url structure http://mypagerank.net/service_pagerankbutton_index. If you want to have a better and simple url structure you can host your blog on premium web hosting.

Happy Blogging

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

What is search engine optimization? SEO is following all search engine rules, conducting a study on market, trends and also competitor so we can optimize our blog or our website. It is called search engine optimization because it is set up for search engine to easily discover our page and indexed it. And our goal is, we want to be #1 on SERP (Search Engine Result Page).

Here under is an example of a search on search engine and what it shows on SERP;

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Okay from the picture on the left you can see that on SERP (Search Engine Result Page) there are more than six million site is index by google search engine with the keywords above. It means that to be #1 you have to compete with 6.810.000 million page and it will not be easy if you did not optimize your site when you depending on search engine for traffic.

The function of the search engine it self as explain by wikipedia;

A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented in a list of results and are often called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically or are a mixture of algorithmic and human input.
Check out this video bellow;

So our job is to enable search engine to promote our site, remember our site and indexed our site #1 on SERP.

Happy Blogging

Roundup: Blogger Tips & Tricks, Widgets ,Basic SEO,Traffic

Regular readers of PCPedia might have noticed that the last post was on February 26,and now I'm back with roundup post.The only reason for this irregularity  is because of my exams which will commence on March24.
So I thought of writing a roundup post on Blogger Tips & Tricks,Widgets etc. In this way it will benefit both of us as you will get all posts of mine on blogger at one place and all my older post will get exposure

Blogger Tips and Tricks:

• Fixing Double Post Problem/Bug
• How to Change Blogspot address/URL?
• Blogger Fav Icon not Working in Firefox
• How to Stop Following/Unfollow a  Blog on Blogspot?
• Delete your Blogspot Blog Permanently
• Test your Blog in Different Screen Resolutions

Basic SEO for Blogger/Blogspot and Tips to Increase Traffic:

• Add proper meta tags with Geo-location,Language
• 30+ Free Ways to Increase Traffic/Visitors

Blogger/Blogspot Widgets:

• Floating Share Widget- Facebook,Twitter,Digg,Delicious,Stumble etc
• Official Twitter Share Buttons with Share Counter
• Add Music to Blogger or Any Website
• Install Live Chat/Support in  your Blog or Website
• Embed a Forum in Blogger

Your comments are always a welcome,it really boosts me :) so keep reading and do tell me your views

The Best SEO Tool Of All Time For Wordpress - Keyword Winner

Are you a struggling blogger looking to earn money online,wasting hours researching for targeted keywords for you blog post title ? It is said that if the right keywords are present in your headlines then you can get ranked to the top quickly.yes literally in hours.

I would suggest you to search for non competitive keyphrases for every post.but researching this is a hectic and time consuming task.There is a solution to get direct targeted highly searched and non competitive keyphrases.Keyword winner is going to help us shape the way we do Search Engine Optimization today.Keyword Winner will revolutionize SEO ,especially for bloggers

Daniel Lew is the man behind this awesome SEO Plugin- Keyword Winner. This plugin is trusted by the leading internet Marketers.Daniel is an ace with 5years of running SEO companies around the planet.he found out the missing link between blogging and SEO especially for the internet marketers who seem to fail more often and gets crushed by their big competitors in the search engines.

Getting on top of the rankings is not an easy game.its not just attracting visitors with striking headlines but also maintaining the top spot.and you know with top position you get more visitors ,more clicks on ads, and more and more money

Here is an overview of what Keyword Winner has to offer:

1. Competition and Search Trends are Clear as Crystal
 As you begin to type to create a title for your blog post,results get automatically displayed,hence making it easier for you to get instant info.So choose the best title based on its competitiveness and search trends

2. Keyword Suggestions for Low Competition Headlines
Right Suggestions are there at your fingertips,it  makes your work easier to target the perfect title and to get ranked higher than your competitors in Google or any search engine

3. Colors Highlighted to Target Specific Search Terms
You can identify less competitive keyphrases and more competitive keyphrases easily as low competitive phrases are highlighted with green and more competitive keyphrases with red



What more its really cheap
Price is as follows:
$47 - 1 Site License
$97 - Unlimited site license

And on top of all this if for any reason you are not happy with this tool ,Keyword Winner offers a 60 day money back guarantee.so there is no risk in trying it out.

                   

PCNames - Instant Domain Availability Checking Tool

Purchasing domains these days is definitely more than just having an online presence. It is in fact, no less than the real estate business. Just as a piece of land or a house you can purchase and sell IP numbers (domain names) online. Be the first one to guess the value of a domain name, register it and you will be sitting on a gold mine a few months/years later.
But nowadays, to purchase a domain you have to check not only at the domain registrars but also at various domain sellers and re-sellers (in case the domain of your choice has already been registered by someone else) - making the whole work a lot more tedious for you. But luckily, now PCNames is there to make the process simple and easy.

The FAQ section of PCNames has got all the basic information about Domain names (right from "what a domain name is?" to "what is domain squatting?" etc.). Moreover they also provide some extremely useful Tips for both the newbie & experienced domain buyers (and sellers).

Any domain name search at PCNames shows the results for various different TLDs highlighted in Green (Available), Red (Not Available) and Blue (Registered but Available for Sale). All your recent domain-searches are shown in a tabular form and from that list you can buy the domain(s) of your choice from any of the listed domain registrars (GoDaddy, Yahoo or Network Solutions (NS is NOT recommended by me)). Once you click on any of the registrars you will be redirected to their website, where you can complete the transaction.

If you are an experienced domain reseller, then you may also try their Bulk Domain checking tool and if you are new to this, then try their Domain Generator tool for some quick (but limited) suggestions.

Spam Comments Moderation In Blogger/BlogSpot Blogs

Being closely associated with Google, Blogger has always been focusing on improving the SEO attributes of its blogs. Working in the same direction, the recent development is the integration of Google's Spam filtering technology into Blogger. For you, it's just another new tab in your Blogger Dashboard: Comments...

NOTE: This feature has not yet been added in all the blogs. So, if the tab is currently absent from your dashboard, then do not worry - it will be added soon.



If the tab is already present in your blogs Dashboard, click on it. Now if you have activated "Comment Moderation" in your Blog Settings ( -> Comments), then you will see three sections under the tab "Comments", like this:



NOTE 2: To better manage your blog-comments, moderate them directly from your email.

And if you haven't activated "Comment Moderation" in your blog, then you will see only two options under the tab Comments, viz. Published and Spam.



Now, this "Comments" section not only allows you to manage all your comments from one place, but the "SPAM" sub-section is the main advantage and purpose of adding this new section to the dashboard.

According to Blogger;

Blogger now filters comments that are likely spam comments to a Spam Inbox, much like the spam folder in your email. When someone leaves a comment on your blog, it will be reviewed against our spam detector, and comments that are identified as possible spam will be sent to your blog’s Spam Inbox, found at Comments | Spam.

You can help improve our ability to automatically detect spam comments by checking your Spam Inbox and deleting spam comments and marking real comments that may have been flagged as spam as Not Spam.

NOTE 2: Spam filtering currently only applies to new comments.

So, log in to Blogger and see if you already have the new tab or not. And moreover, you can report any issues with the new spam system by clicking on the “Report spam filtering issues” link on the bottom of the Comments | Spam page, or by visiting this Help Forum page.

Image Credits: Message Defense

How To Track Visitors And Optimize Your Website

Post Updated (9th July, 2010): Now "Stats" is an integral part of Blogger.
If you haven't used Blogger in Draft (Beta-Blogger) till now, then do it right away. It is where, Blogger releases all its new features before officially adding the services to Blogger blogs. To access Blogger in Draft, instead of logging in to www.Blogger.com log in at draft.Blogger.com

The latest Beta add-on from Blogger is a "Stats" section in the Dashboard - to monitor and analyze your visitor traffic in near-real-time.

Tracking your visitors' activity on your blog is an important part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). So, if you haven't yet accessed the "Stats" section of your Blogger-account - then do it right now. And as of now "Blogger Stats" is relatively new and limited in terms of the information these tools provide, so even now I advise everyone to sign up at the below mentioned websites/services, start tracking to give your visitors what they want (that's what SEO is all about)...

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You would have seen many fancy and flashy visitor counters in hundreds or rather thousands of blogs, but simply counting the number of visitors or page views is totally of no use to any blogger or webmaster. Visitor-Tracking is a much more advanced and useful method as compared to those simple counters.

So here's a list of important tracking websites, providing free and fabulous features to all the bloggers...

The tracking reports and statistics from these websites mainly contain:

1. Of course, unique visits & page views, averaged and archived to weekly, monthly and yearly graphs. (And all the reports are in real time)

2. You can also view the details like, visitors IP addresses, time spent by them browsing your website, pages visited, and their returning visits. Moreover, you can even check the operating system your visitor is using, their screen resolution, their browser with version and whether Java or Flash is enabled on their system or not.

3. And the most important statistical-reports for you are of course related to Search Engine Optimization (SEO); these include the keywords through which they entered your site, list of search engines which referred visitors to your website.

You can easily track the activities of your visitors for completely FREE, by placing simple JavaScripts on your blog provided by websites like StatCounter and Google. Statcounter gives a simple script, which when placed in to your template starts collecting all the above mentioned information, which is then displayed to you. The stats are simple to browse-through and understand. Using these stats you can improve your blogs structure & content. You should also focus and improve the important posts of your blog which bring maximum traffic to you.

The most important tracking site of course belongs to Google. Being a blogger you cannot afford to miss this one: Google Analytics. Although it may take a little more time to understand all the statistical data displayed at G-Analytics completely and even more time to analyse the data and use it to effectively plan your SEO strategies, but being a Google product it will not only provide complete tracking details as provided by other similar services, but it does help a lot in Search engine optimization (SEO) too.

In Statcounter, to get some of the advanced features, including an increase in log size, a paid account or an upgrade is needed, but at Google-Analytics everything is free, rather they even have an advanced beta section for interested members.

And finally a must for everybody is an account in Google Webmaster Tools, where you have to simply submit your websites sitemap to access the most important SEO details.
The stats shown by GWT are not directly about your visitors, but are
You can see the number of pages indexed by Google, pages/articles deleted by you, pages restricted for Google. And you can even see how many website/webpages around the Internet have linked to your website (and to which specific page). How well are your internal pages are connected. And again, one of the most important, you will be shown how many pages of your website has high, medium, low or no PageRank.

So finally I will suggest you to get an account in:

(1) Google Analytics, (2) Google Webmaster Tools and (3) Statcounter


And just for fun, if you want to know how many people are online on your website at a time (real time), then put a widget from Amung.us, that doesn't even need you to register :)