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Why You Should Use Google Webmaster Tools?

Google Webmaster Tools is an online tool used by millions of bloggers for checking most of the statistics about their Website/Blog. It allows us to check almost all the stats to related to the site performance in the Google Search results .

Webmaster Tools is used by many bloggers and webmasters, but most of them do not know what is Webmaster Tools and what are the capabilities of Google Webmaster Tools .

This article will guide you through all the objectives that can be done through this online tool provided for free by our favorite search engine, Google .

This online tool does not show the traffic stats of a blog, instead it shows the amount of clicks on a certain link of your blog in the search engine . The traffic and other related stats are shown in the Google Analytics which is also another free service provided by Google .

It is a must for every blogger to use this service as it helps us to improve our site and its performance in the search engines.

Sitemap Submission

There is no other way to submit a sitemap to Google . Submitting the sitemap is an important factor in building up the search ranking of your blog. Sitemap is a list of all your posts . It is indeed very essential as it can help the search engines to index our blog and all its link easily . Else , the search engine crawler can miss some of the posts of your blog .

To get a higher ranking and traffic , it is better to add a sitemap through Webmaster Tools rather than doing some other long SEO processes. Sitemap Submission is an easy way to get a lot of optimization through a short process .

Search Queries

This section of the Webmaster Tools provide us with the search terms which are performing well for our blog . It shows a list of queries which are bringing us the highest organic traffic . In my case, my highest performing keyword is still ‘QADABRA REVIEW’ . It has a good search result position between 1 and 4 .

I only came to know of such a great thing I did after a long time when i started using Google Webmaster Tools . After , i came to know of this keyword ranking high in the search engines , i optimized that post again and again till it got the first position . Now , it is changing at times .

Crawl Errors

This is the most useful tool in the Webmaster Tools . Sometimes , we might miss some 404 error pages which do not exists . So, people who come to this post will most probably press the back button of the browser . So , you are losing a lot of targeted visitors through this error . Google Webmaster Tools shows us all the pages and posts that are showing the 404 error .

So , it becomes easy for us to correct it and redirect that page if it does not exist . So again , this wonderful tool helps us regain our targeted visitors who were going to leave our blog .

Common SEO Mistakes & Tips From Google for New Bloggers

Backlinks

Google Webmaster Tools also helps you find out the number of backlinks that your blog has obtained . All those links out there on the internet pointing towards your website/blog will be listed here with all the details .

Backlinks are necessary for a blog to become a popular one . Guest Blogging , Commenting , etc are some good ways to get a good number of backlinks .

Malware Checking

Malware is virus or some infectious things that can ruin your blog as well as others who visit your blog . Malware should be removed instantly as it is spotted . But , to spot it , you will have to Use Google Webmaster Tools or some other Malware checker available over the net .

A Malware affected Blog can become a blog with zero visitors within one night . So , it is important to check if your blog is containing any malware scripts in the widgets or any other places that can be easily crawled by search engines .

Structured Data

Structured Data is a way of making search engines know about the way your blog is and how all the pags and posts are categorized . You might have spotted in the search results that some of the search results have a different type of appearance thus increasing the attention that result receives .

Again , Webmaster Tools is essential to form a structured data markup for your blog/website. Structured Data Markup can be optimized through the Data Highlighter . If your website do not have a Structured Data, then you can form one using the Data highlighter.

HTML Improvement

Google Webmaster Tools also has a feature which shows all the errors in your HTML Website or Blogger Template . We all should try to improve our website as much as we can .

So , using Webmaster Tools also helps you to improve the HTML of your website thus improving the whole website . Sometimes , even a small mistake that escapes from your eyes will feature in this section of this free online service provided by Google .

Google Authorship

Google Authorship is a feature of Google which shows the photo of the author of specific articles in the search results along with the links . This increases the attention of the people who are searching . Moreover, your photo will become famous . Google Authorship can be obtained only through linking your Google+ Profile to your webpage and vice-versa using a tag .

In case, if Google Authorship is not working , you can visit the Structured Data Testing Tool option in the Additional Tools of Google Webmaster Tools . Here , You can check if authorship is working for any webpages on the internet . Indeed, This is another great feature of Google Webmaster Tools .

And don’t forget that showing your photo in the search results can gradually increase website traffic !

Final Words

These were some important features of Webmaster Tools . Well , there are a lot many more that can be used to make a blog a superhit blog by optimizing it for the search engines as well as the readers . Happy Blogging!

Guidelines You Must Follow Before Interviewing a Blogger

By Pawan Bawdane 49 Comments

Interviewing a blogger is often related to marketing your blog with the audience of that respective blogger whom you’re interviewing.

When you interview a blogger, you and your blog is put into the limelight as such interviews are likely to be shared by that respective blogger and readers.

He/she is likely to have good audience around him/her which would be interested in knowing what questions you asked and what the answers were.

Thus, sparking a first step towards marketing your blog, your blog will start receiving a good traffic and thereby reputation among the readers.

But it’s not easy to interview a top blogger.

How many of you have had tried interviewing a blogger?

How many of you’ve really succeeded in interviewing a blogger?

And here comes the final question – Did you fail in getting a nod from a blogger for interview? I’m sure if you’re one of those who have failed, you would’ve abdicated the idea of interviewing a blogger by now and you would probably be thinking of some fresh ideas for your next blog posts or may be some other reason which I don’t really want to find out.

I don’t really know how much ravenous you’re in the beginning of this post, but what I do know is you’ve either tried to interview a blogger in the past and failed or you’re interested in getting a blogger for interview.

Whichever the case would be, you’ve arrived at the right place and you won’t be disappointed. ;)

Before beginning out with this in-depth article regarding interviewing a blogger, there are few things which I would like to share with you.

Something about mini-index

I call it a mini-index as it really puts an idea about my blog posts in handful of bullet points or whatever you call it. This article is composed of following points-

Preparing Yourself for Interviewing a Blogger

Selecting a Blogger
Building Communication
Communication Medium
Writing Purpose of Interview (POI)
Getting “YES” from a blogger

1. Selecting a Blogger

The process of selecting a blogger is often considered as hectic because it involves pinning down skills, interest of your audience and comparison between various bloggers.

Although, it’s not a good idea to compare between two or more bloggers because each one of them have their own flavors. Once you’ve selected that special blogger to host on your blog, it’s time to proceed ahead in building communication.

2. Building Communication

I’m sure that some of you would be having a good relationship with a plenty of pro bloggers but if that’s not the case then you don’t worry.

Actually, the process of building communication and selecting a blogger often depends on whether you know the blogger already or you’re the one who wants to know him.

In the first which assumes that you know the blogger well, you would have improved communication before getting into him or her. Now, let’s assume, you’re just starting up and you don’t really know that specific blogger but you did choose him because he is very popular and could help you garner good amount of attention.

In this case, it’s pretty much sure that he/she is not going to accept your interview request unless he knows something about your existence.

So, to mark your existence, you got to follow their social profiles and blogs regularly.

Don’t rush into sending a friend request. ;)

Instead, subscribe to follow their public updates or simply follow their twitter account and start interacting with their updates. Often leave a beautiful comment on their blog posts but make sure you don’t spam and don’t post short comments such as the following ones.

Thank you. Excellent article. I enjoyed it a lot.
Super Article buddy
Thanks for the informative article
… And so on

3. Communication Medium

I don’t think I really need to stress on this point because I’ve already discussed few key element in building communication section.

Various social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Google Plus, LinkedIn etc. are great platforms to improve your communication with that respective blogger. Make sure that you use these communication mediums wisely.

Little-Known Ways To Make The Most Of Social Media

Writing Purpose of Interview (POI)

Why do you intend to interview that respective blogger?

That’s the simple question which you need to answer well in good format to make it look like purpose of interview. At the moment, there is no hard and soft rule for purpose of interview.

A blogger is very eager to know your purpose behind interviewing him and be aware that it’s the only way to impress him/her with your intentions and skills.

4. Getting Yes from a Blogger

If you’ve followed steps that I’ve mentioned in this article appropriately then there is absolutely no chance of getting rejected from a blogger.

Although, I can’t really guarantee you on this, all I can say is there are more chances of getting yes from a blogger through this method instead of others.

Don’ts to follow during this process

Don’t ask too many questions. Ideally, 15 questions are enough to reveal most of the information of a blogger.
Don’t really ask them to disclose their financial details with respect to blogging.
Don’t ask general questions, instead go for some quality and useful questions.

Over To YOU!

Did I missed any points to follow before interviewing a blogger? Did you ever interview a blogger on your blog? Do share with us in comments

3 Essential Tips For Selling Your Blog!

By Ammar Ali 8 Comments

While creating your first ever blog you would have never thought that you are gonna sell that blog.But as the time passes you start to rake in some Mullah and you think how much is my blog worth or how much can I earn just by selling my blog.Though it might be case of a Famous story of Golden eggs where in you try to get to many to early and end up getting nothing! J

But if you made your mind of selling your blog then you might consider reading this useful tips which would help you sell your blog and get some good money out it.

Before you start thinking of selling your blog the first question that should arise in your mind is that

How much is my Blog worth?

Though there are no hard and fast rule for calculating the exact worth of a blog,but buyers do prefer to pay hefty amount if you have some Good amount of unique visitors.Here the word “Good” has different meaning for different different buyers.Some might think having a daily visit count of 500 would be good whereas some might think 2k daily visitors would be good enough,it depends. We can talk all about the site visitor count, but in the end, remember that your blog is worth what someone will pay for it.

In addition to traffic stats buyer’s nowadays also look for the profits that a blog is generating.A buyer would surely love to have a blog which has a good amount of profit coming in through it.Though this just an estimation,your blog’s worth is 10-12 times the monthly profit that you generate from it.

i.e If your blogs monthly profit is around 100$ then you blog might well sell as a price anywhere ranging between 1K to 1.2K $’s.Though just an estimation. J

The other important factor that buyer’s nowadays look for is how much backlink a blog is having and on which platform the blog is running

If you personally ask me Blog’s running on WordPress get high prices because of its easy to you interface.

Selling your blog!

After you have done a rough calculation of the estimated price that you can get from your blog,next step is to gather your blog’s statistics together,because seriously interested buyers would surely look for your blog’s stats and earnings to check wether you have given the details to them are correct or not.

You might also consider adding the average investment that you make on your site like Cost of hosting,domain names,marketing,paying authors etc etc.This is the last part of getting your blog to sell.

The next part is getting Buyer’s for it! :p which is the most difficult part.

Finding Buyer’s

The best way to find buyers for your blog is posting about your blog in different different forums where buyer’s are always are in look for blog’s.You might also consider adding a post on your blog itself,that you are looking for buyer’s for your blog.

But also make sure that you don’t choose to sell your blog to a spammer/scammer who would just get hold of your blog without even paying you the amount.So for this very reason you might consider finding a blog broker first and mail him the important information about your blog and tell him find a good buyer because he has more contacts than you and selling blog’s is his job.

Though Blog brokers may cost you some cabbage,but you are rest assured that you are gonna sell your blog at a good rate and also you are get your money J

There’s one more thing that you should keep in mind while selling blog is that you also need to contact the previous clients of the blog buyer to get a references of how the buyer deals and check if the buyer is not spammer!

Hope this points help you in choosing a good buyer and selling your blog at a good rate.Though you can again build 10’s of blog from the money you are getting from it but getting the visitors again might be a difficult task!

What Next? Feel free to comment that you have experienced while selling your blog’s! J

This Post has been written by Gupta Sumit aka Sumoni,who is a writer for technozeast.Do find out him on technozeast.Get in touch with him on twitter @homeforgeeks.com