Seo Toolbar For Internet Explorer

While working in SEO, experts need to define the search parameters of the sites to check their competitive characteristics and promotion specificity. One of the best to do this is through extensions and tool-bars which are inbuilt in their web browsers. Even though its user base is fast shrinking, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still one of the most popular web browsers in the world with a significant market share and many SEO experts still use it. Some of the most popular SEO tool-bars available for Internet Explorer are

SEO Coolbar

SEO Coolbar is a free SEO toolbar for Internet Explorer which helps web masters to increase the popularity of their websites. This tool bar has nearly 50 SEO tools like metric tools, keyword related features, domain tools, and search engine related tools. SEO Coolbar allows downloading SEO data like Google Pagerank, Alexa Ranks, etc. The downloaded data can be stored online and exported to CSV files. This toolbar is compatible with Internet Explorer 6 and later.

SEMToolBar

SEMToolBar is a full featured toolbar which is available for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. The toolbar downloads data from services like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!, and then displays the details that are most relevant to internet marketing. Search engine results pages (SERPs) of this toolbar show keyword demographics and statistics at the top of the browser. The results are numbered and explained with good data and links. The plugin is free but some premium services like access to tool-set reports need subscription.

SEO Toolbar

This toolbar gives access to most popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Apart from this, it has a unique feature which is not available with other SEO tool bars for Internet Explorer. It shows how many pages a particular search engine has indexed for a particular website when its URL is entered in your browser. The only disappointment with this toolbar is its poor design.

SEO Quake IE

This powerful SEO toolbar which was initially developed for Firefox was recently made available for Internet Explorer. Every page which is viewed by you using this toolbar will show SEO parameters and information which can be fully customizable by you. Additionally, many prominent SEO parameters like Google Index, Google Link, Google PR, etc. can be obtained and investigated through this toolbar.

SEO Marketing

SEO Marketing is the latest SEO toolbar for Internet Explorer with many new features. This toolbar allows web masters to take advantage of social media to an extent which is not possible in other toolbars. SEO Marketing toolbar has lot of links to popular sites and other social media sites, and hundreds of RSS feeds.

Unlike other web browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer has a closed code and doesn’t attract many developers to develop SEO tool-bars and extensions for it. So, there are very few good SEO extensions available for Internet Explorer in the market now. But, the above SEO plugins will suffice all the major needs of web masters who are still obsessed with Internet Explorer.

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6 Tips To Optimize Images For SEO To Increase Blog Traffic

We all know that we should optimize our blog posts to rank well in search engine that help us to increase our blog traffic but today I will tell you how to use images for better search engine visibility. Every blogger either using blogger platform or wordpress platform, they must optimize their images while using them into their blog posts before publishing the post. Image optimization really works to improve blog traffic. Lots of webmasters search images fromGoogle Image Search to use them into their blog posts. So, if you have well optimized images into your blog post then it will give you two benefits. One is bring traffic from image search and second is it help web crawlers to better understand your post topic hence higher SERP (Search Engine Result Position). Let's go to the tutorial to learn some helpful tips about image optimization for SEO.

Image Optimization Tips

Below are some very important tips to optimize images before uploading them into blog posts. These tips will improve your blog SEO

Use Keywords in Image Name

Have you download an image from internet or click them from your camera to use them into your blog posts? Yes! Wait buddy don't use them directly into your blog. First change their name into a keyword rich image name. By default image name look like this image1432.jpg or photo123.jpg. Always rename them with your post keyword. For example if I use any image for this post then I'll rename my image like this image-optimization.jpg.

Hyphen in Image Name

Remember when naming your images with your keywords neither use blank space nor underscore ( _ ) between them. Always use hyphen to separate the keywords like I have done in the first example. Because when your use blank space it will automatically convert to '%20' which have no meaning. In result web crawlers found difficulty to understand the image. Hyphen is always a better option for optimizing the image.

Use Best Format

There are lot of formats of images like JPG, PNG, GIF and others. But always use that image format which suits better for web. JPG image format is the most preferable image format by the webmasters because it uses less size memory as compare to other formats. Less image size will help you to reduce blog load time and hence better search engine ranking means more traffic.

Compress Images

Before uploading the images into your blog post, first remember that you have compressed them. Compressing the image also help to make your blog loading speed faster and reduce blog bounce rate. You can compress your images in Photoshop. To compress your image in Photoshop go to file menu and click onsave for web. It will reduce image size by maintaining the image quality.

Also you can use online tools to compress your image files. One of the best tool is Yahoo Smush it. Go for it and compress your images for free.

How to Use Images in Blog Post for Better Search Engine Visibility?

Now you have optimized your images. It's time to use them into your blog posts. Below are some advance tips that also come under image optimization in SEO. Read them carefully and follow the instructions.

Proper Dimension

When you upload your images into blog post, always give them proper dimensions. Mentioning the dimensions help in faster page loading. Web crawlers don't get confuse to assume its width and height. If you already give dimensions to your image, then it will be easier for web crawlers to better crawl your content. Use below format to give dimensions to your image.

<img width="320" height="210" src="URL of image"/>

Change above highlighted values according to your need.

Title Tag and Alt Tag

Title tag and Alt tag works as a description for your images. Web crawlers can't read images. They only understand them by their name, title tag and Alt tag. Always choose your best keyword to give title and alt tag for your image. To use these tags see the below example.

<img src="Image URL" title="Keyword" alt="Keyword"/>

Note: Don't add too many keywords in these tags. Only put your best keyword there which better explain your post topic.
I have write a detail tutorial to add title and alt attribute in images for Blogger.com users. Please check the below post.

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Add Title and Alt Attribute To Optimize Images For SEO

In my previous post I was discussed some image optimization techniques that help to increase blog traffic. Today I bring another helpful tutorial for blogger.com users. In this tutorial I will tell you how to add title and alt attribute for images while using them into blog posts. I am not going to tell you the benefits of using these two tags because I have covered this topic in my previous post. If you want to know in detail . You will surely find this tutorial very interesting because these are the must use SEO techniques if you want to increase your blog traffic. So let play the tutorial.

Image Optimization For SEO in Blogger

1. Go to blogger dashboard.
2. Write new post.
3. Upload an image by clicking the image icon from the top menu bar as shown below.



4. Now to add title and alt (description) attribute to your image left click on the image and choose properties.


5. Once you click on the properties link, a pop up box will appear. Enter title and alt tag there as shown in below screenshot.




6. Now click Ok and you are done!

Use this feature very wisely. This will surely help your blog to rank well in search engines. Don't use too many keywords in these tags. Only use one keyword that describes your blog post very well.

Need Help?

Have you any doubt about image optimization or got confused how to add title and alt tag in images? if yes, then feel free to ask me. I am always here to solve your queries and please comment below how you feel about this post. What do you think does it really work to improve blog traffic? Please give your feedback. Thanks!

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4 Benefits of Internal Linking in SEO

Every blog or website owner must think about the strategies to increase its usability and value for both to the readers and search engines as well. Providing regular unique and original content to the readers is must to rank well in search engines and to achieve your blogging goals. But increasing its value is the crucial thing. As we all know that Google's ranking algorithms are going hard to follow day by day. Search Engine Optimization has changed its meaning and usage in past years. Today, we need to focus on maintaining usability of our blog to protect it from losing its value in the eyes of major search engines. We need tobuild best quality backlinks to stand out our blog from the crowd. There are lot of techniques to increase blog readership and value to gain trust of the readers and search engines as well. In today's post I'll discuss about one of the techniques that is internal linking and its benefits.

Advantages of Internal Linking

There are numerous benefits of internal linking in SEO and we will go through from them one by one. But before telling you the benefits of it let me tell you what does internal linking means?

Internal linking is the technique of Search Engine Optimization to link one post to another in such a manner that increase blog or website's usability to the readers and provide them more relevant content to read.

Now you have understand what does internal linking means, so let see it's advantages in SEO.

Increase Readership

Linking to internal posts is the best way to increase readership around the blog. If You write a post and provide top quality internal links with proper use of anchor texts then your readers feel easy to navigate your site from one post to another. You help them to reach that location of your blog where they want to go for more information they are looking for hence better readership of your blog.

Increase Page Rank

Internal linking is the best method to increase link popularity. It passes link juice from one post to another in the form of links which seems like a vote to the linked post that helps it to gain Google pagerank and rank well in search engines. By this process page rank flow completely in your blog and all posts that help them in gaining strength to stand out and bring more traffic from search engines. It also increases number of backlinks to all posts that help them to increase their rank.

Better Crawling and Indexing

You may heard that search engine crawlers are known as spiders. This is the main reason to call them as spiders because they like content interlinked with more relevant content. As linking to related posts helps readers to find the information more quickly and easily, it also help web crawlers to crawl and index all of your content by providing a convenient path to follow.

Decrease Bounce Rate

Last but not the least benefit of internal linking is itdecrease your blog bounce rate without doing any extra hard work. You just provide links to more relevant posts and readers click those links to read morecontent. It automatically increase blog page views and reduce bounce rate that is must for every blog to build trust in the eyes of search engines. less bounce rate shows the authority and usability of a blog.

Final Words!

These were the 4 major advantages of internal linking in SEO. Always remember to link very relevant post with a keyword rich anchor text for which you want to rank your linked posts. Don't stuff your content with irrelevant links otherwise your blog come under the bad linking penalty. Happy and save blogging.

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How to Recover Blog From Penguin 2.0 Update Penalty?

Google Penguin 2.0 update that was rolled out on 22 May 2013 is the trendiest topic for the discussion among the bloggers and webmasters. Where lot of spammers got affected and lost their ranking in search results, hard workers also got awarded by this update. There is really a big change in search results after Google released this scary penguin update. According to Matt Cutts official blog post about Penguin 2.0 Update, 2.3% of English-US queries are affected after release of this update. From past few days, I getting too many emails of my blog readers that they lost their traffic and ranking in search results. They all ask me same question that how to recover their blog from penguin penalty? I want to let them know that I'm not an expert but as per my knowledge and experience, today I'm going to share some tips that you must try to get recovery from penguin 2.0 penalty.

Recover Blog from Penguin 2.0 Effect

Below I'm going to share those mistakes that bloggers do to invite penguin to feed their blog as its breakfast. After each mistake, you will get its solution. So, let begin the recovery process.

Low Quality Links

If you have low quality link profile then the chances are higher to get hit by penguin. Low quality links can be of:

1. Leaving spam comments on other's blog
2. Low Quality Guest Post
3. Links from sites having low DA (Domain Authority)
4. Non Relevant Links (links from unrelated websites or non relevant to your niche)
5. And many more..

Solution:

1. First analyze your backlinks using online tools like Ahrefs, Open Site Explorer etc.
2. Make a list of low quality links (PR 0, low DA) and send a request to site owner to remove that link.
3. List down remaining links and disavow them using Google's Disavow Link Tool.

Focus on quality of backlinks your are building for your blog. Always try to build quality backlinks to stay safe from such penalties.

Low Quality Content

Publishing low quality content on blog can also be a reason of getting hit by penguin penalty. Low quality content means:

1. Duplicate Content
2. Missing Content
3. Keyword Focused Content
4. And you know what I mean...

Solution:

1. Start posting original content on your blog.
2. Edit old incomplete posts to add more worth to them and make them alive.
3. Provide links to reference sites where necessary.

Exact Match Anchor Text

If you are focusing only single keyword to get link for your blog or website, then this is the biggest mistake you did in your link building process. Penguin hates this type of practice that bloggers do to rank for particular keyword.

Solution:

The best solution of this mistake is: Use Anchor text diversity. Never use same keyword everywhere when building link for your blog. Below are four types of anchor text that you must try to use.

1. Exact Match Anchor Text: Use same keyword in your link for which you want to improve visibility in search results.


2. Partial Match Anchor Text: These types of anchor texts have some additional words with the exact match anchor texts like if you want to target Blogger SEO Tips, then you can use your anchor text as SEO Tips for Blogger.


3. Zero Match Anchor Text: These types of anchor texts have no any keyword in them. You can use some common words like "Click here" to link your web pages.


4. Branded Anchor Text: This is the last type of anchor texts. Instead of using any keyword, you can use your blog URL as anchor text like techlosoft.blogspot.com

These are the four types of anchor texts. Use them to make diversity in your anchor text and try to maintain a proper ratio between them. 

Final Words

So, these were the 3 tips to recover blog from penguin 2.0 penalty. If you know other tips that can help bloggers to recover their blog from this penalty then please share them here through comments. I'll be really thankful to you for your kind support. Happy Blogging!

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SEO Guidelines For New Website/Blogger

SEO Guidelines For New Website/Blogger

Today I am going to tell you some best ways how to improve your blog ranking on Search engine, Alexa-Rank and Google Page Rank. this is basic information about SEO next time we lunch complete course about SEO pack for blog so please subscribe our blog and join our community for learn best things about blogging .

1. How to improve search engine Visibility?
Improving search engine Visibility is that the #1 target of each websites to make it on the highest of each Search Engines results page and it isn't only depending on 1 criteria, rather it is a combination of Back-links Page-rank web traffic/impressions, uniqueness, and content quality of a website.

Here are some ways we can increase search engine visibility.
Use SEO Optimized Blogger Templates
Submit your Websites to Search Engines
Submit Website Sitemap To Webmaster Tools
Display Author image in Google Search Results
Use robots.txt
Complete How to Increase Search Engine Visibility?
2. What is Alexa and how to improve it?
Alexa shows your site's current estimated position and rank on the internet. to improve your Alexa, you need to have many Back-links high Page-rank and thousands of internet traffic/impressions. Alexa doesn't update in real time and usually takes three months to detect your true rank.

Here are some ways we can increase Alexa page rank.
Claim your site on Alexa
Install Alexa Widget on your site
Write a review about Alexa on your blog
Install Alexa Toolbar on your browser
Build quality back links
Ask users to write a review on Alexa
3. What is Page Rank and how to improve it?
Unlike Alexa, Page-rank only shows your site's current estimated position on the web. to improve it, you need to have a lot of Back-links and articles. Like Alexa, Page-rank does not update in real time.

Here are some ways we can increase Google Page Rank.
Write high quality content
Submit Your Site to web and article Directories
Use Link Exchange Program to increase back links.
Keep updating your site/blog everyday
Use Social Bookmarking button to share you site on social sites
Website Advertising
Commenting On Other Blogs and Websites

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How To Add Meta Tag In Blogger

How To Add Meta Tag In Blogger

Adding the meta tag in to your blogger blog is the smart way to drag traffic in to your blog using search engine. For all the search engine Meta tags are most importantMeta tag are the tags which describe your site and tells search engine whats your site is all about , And meta tag is also plays good role in SEO. In short meta tags are just communicating with search engine and tells more and more information about your blog and it make it index correctly in the search engine. 

So just follow the simple steps to add the meta tag in to your blogger blog. 

1.Sign in into your blogger blog and click on template 
2. Now select EDIT HTML 

3.Now find this code (press CTRL + F )

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

4. Now add bellow code just after the above code see in the figure.

<meta content='your description here' name='description'/>
<meta content=' your keywords here' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='your name' name='Author'/>
<meta content='your email address' name='Email'/>
<meta content='global' name='distribution'/>
<meta content='5 days' name='revisit'/>
<meta content='5 days' name='revisit-after'/>
<meta content='document' name='resource-type'/>
<meta content='all' name='audience'/>
<meta content='general' name='rating'/>
<meta content='all' name='robots'/>
<meta content='index, follow' name='robots'/>
<meta content='en' name='language'/>
<meta content='IN' name='country'/>
<meta content='blogger' name='generator'/>

Now add description , keyword , your name and your email address and just click on save and you have done !

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Submit Your Website Or Blog To BING

Submit Your Website Or Blog To BING

Our blog’s 70% of the traffic comes from the Google and rest of all comes from the social networks and blog directories. And Its time to increase traffic !. still there are many people are using Bing search engine so lets add your blog and your blog’s RSS feed in to the Bing search engine.

Follow the steps to submit your blog in to the Bing search engine.

1. Open the Bing submit page
2. Now enter your website/blog’s url and type character from the picture and then hit ENTER. (refer following image)

Now if you want to add the your blog/website’s RSS feed then simply add the RSS feed url in to the box and again type the character from the image and you have done ! And now you have successfully submitted your blog/website into the Bing.

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