How to Index Your Blog Using Google Webmaster Tools

Google provides some additional tools or features when you verify your blog with Google Webmaster Tools. It provides you detailed reports about your blog pages, page visibility, crawls, indexed pages. I am describing only about indexing your blog pages in Google Search. You can easily do it by adding a sitemap to webmaster section. Remember that you can index your pages after adding your blog in Google FeedBurner (RSS/Atom) . 

First Add Your Site To Webmaster

• Sign into Google Webmaster Tools with your Google Account.
• Click the Add a site button, and type the URL of the site you want to add. Make sure you type the entire URL, such as http://www.myblog.blogspot.com/
• Click Continue. The Site verification page opens
• Select the verification method you want, and follow the instructions.

Index Your Pages ~ Add Sitemap 

• In your Google Webmaster Dashboard click on Sitemaps.
• Then click ADD/TEST SITEMAP and add the below code in the box.
• If your blog has below 500 posts then add this code:
  atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
• If you have more than 500 post but less than 1000. Use two sitemap.
  atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
  atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=1000
• Change the start-index= [value] and max-results=[value] if you have more than 1000 posts.

My Final Words~

     This is a very easy method for adding and indexing your blog in Google. You are using Blogger as your blogging platform. Need Help or Suggestion?? Contact Us for any Blogger related help. We will try to solve your problem as soon as possible. Thanking You. Rakesh Ali.

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How To Add Meta Tags To Your Blogger Blog

              A meta tag contains meta data about the web page it is in. A meta tag will not affect the way the page looks, and in most cases won't even be seen by the person reading the web page. But meta data can contain useful information about the page that programs and web spiders can use.

Why use Meta tags?

Meta Description of this blog

       Adding meta tags is very important if you want to get some good traffic from search engines like google,yahoo,msn,etc,especially the meta description part is the most important one. This is an important factor in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Meta tags allows search engines to index your blog pages more accurately and correctly.

How to add Meta tags to Blogger?

• Go to your blogger Dashboard >> Template >> Edit HTML.
  
  
  
  
  
• Find the following code.(Use Ctrl+F to find).

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

• Now add below codes just after the above code.

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

    Make change the blue lines as follow
DESCRIPTION HERE - With your shorrt blog description
KEYWORDS-  Write keywords related to your blog
AUTHOR NAME - Write your own Name.

• Finally Save your template. 

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