hReview Markup for Blogger

A review markup helps you to set up rating and review for posts on your blog which would be visible in Google search results. You can rate applications, gadgets, movies, games, hotels, etc. This rating markup is very useful for those running a review blog.

Fix Rich Snippets Testing Tool Warnings on Blogger

When I was implementing Google authorship for my blog I noticed some “Warning” messages in the rich snippets testing tool. After researching and debugging for a couple of hours what each field meant I found a solution to completely remove all errors from my blog.

Setup Blogger Custom Domain on Bigrock

BigRock is one of the biggest domain registrars in India. If you are willing to buy a domain for your blog or business you can easily buy it from Bigrock which has a wide variety of payment options. The advantage of buying an domain from Bigrock is the wide variety of payment options offered by the company and off course great support and quality service.

BlogSpot Advanced SEO Search Preferences Settings

The Blogger team has finally come up with SEO options within Blogger itself, now you don’t need to rely on dynamic meta tags which generated search description for individual posts, you don’t need to add the ALT and Image tags by tricky methods which involved adding codes to each image.

Trick to Stop Blogger from Redirecting Visitors to ccTLDs

Blogger has recently started re-directing all BlogSpot visitors to country specific TLDs (ccTLDs), which has become a major concern for all BlogSpot users and SEO related problems which may negatively impact the traffic of a blog. The .in/.au/.us and 15 other ccTLDs of your blog at the moment will not get a PR and hence backlinks to those URLs won’t be counted and taken into consideration.

Add Custom Favicon To Blogger From Dashboard

Finally Blogger has an option to add a custom favicon for our blog, with which you can replace the existing Blogger favicon with your own. Previously this option was not available, and to add a favicon an HTML script had to be added before the </head> tag of our template, which did not replace the Blogger's favicon. Now you can easily upload a custom favicon of your choice from your Blogger dashboard. [Note: This option is currently only available for Blogger in draft users].

Create Sitemap/TOC For Blogger

Most bloggers who are on the Blogger platform will be wanting to create a Sitemap/TOC (Table Of Contents) for their blog, unfortunately we cannot create a xml Sitemap for Blogger blogs for submission to Google, Yahoo and Bing, but we can surely submit our atom feed as a sitemap. A Sitemap/TOC is a good and comprehensive way of displaying your posts. Today I'll show you how a create Sitemap for your blog that is neat and sorted by labels, with the help of which visitors can easily find content on your blog using the browsers (CTRL+F keys).

Online Page Speed Analyzer by Google

Google had announced that it would take page speed download into account when indexing pages and so Google launched the page speed analyzer for webmasters to check the page speed their blog/website. Yslow by Yahoo and Page Speed by Google are some available extensions for Firefox and Chrome to webmasters. After you run a quick analysis, Google Page Speed will offer suggestions how a user can optimize their website.The Google speed test will score your website out-off 100, on the basis of your websites performance. The test runs quickly and when finished it will list suggestions in 3 categories, viz : High Priority, Medium Priority, and Low Priority.