BTemplates Blog » SEO http://blog.btemplates.com All about Blogger Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:30:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How is the search form used in your blog. http://blog.btemplates.com/how-is-the-search-form-used-in-your-blog/ http://blog.btemplates.com/how-is-the-search-form-used-in-your-blog/#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:34:37 +0000 Francisco http://blog.btemplates.com/?p=240 analytics

The way in which visitors come from search engines is valuable information about a blog, however, the way which users use the internal search form is rarely monitored.

Google Analytics has a fairly simple method to add this data to our reports.

1. In the Analytics dashboard, the blog of interest row, Actions column, click Edit.

Dashboard → Blog → Actions → Edit

At the Main Website Profile Information box, click Edit.

Main Website Profile Information → Edit

On the form, active Do Track Site Search and in the Query Pameter field, put: For Blogger: q. For WordPress: s. These correspond to search queries.

sitesearch-analytics

2. To have handy the searchs report, you can add a gadget to the dashboard.

sitesearch-gadget

In View report, of your blog, go to Content located on the sidebar, then Top Content and in the Filter Page field put:

For Blogger: \?q=

For WordPress: \?s=

sitesearch-filter

Click Go. And finally, click Add to Dashboard

sitesearch-dashboardgadget

The data collected will help you know better what readers are looking for on your blog.

]]> http://blog.btemplates.com/how-is-the-search-form-used-in-your-blog/feed/ 0 Create a widget to add a link to your blog http://blog.btemplates.com/create-a-widget-to-add-a-link-to-your-blog/ http://blog.btemplates.com/create-a-widget-to-add-a-link-to-your-blog/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:50:52 +0000 Yondri http://btemplates.com/blog/?p=59 In this article we’ll show you how to create a widget (code segment) so that your visitors only have to press a button to add a link to your blog on their own.

  1. Go to "Layout" tab.

    page-elements

  2. Add a "HTML/Javascript" element in the section you wanna have the button.
  3. Set the title as "Add us", or any text you want for the button. You can leave it blank too, it will add some default text.
  4. Paste the following code in the "Content" field: 
    <form action="http://beta.blogger.com/add-widget" method="post" target="_blank">
<input value="" name="widget.title" type="hidden" />
<textarea style="display: none;" name="widget.content">
<!-- Link's code -->
<a href="http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com">TU BLOG</a>

</textarea>
<input value="Add YOURBLOG to your Blogroll" name="go" type="submit">
<input type="hidden" name="infoUrl" value="http://blog.btemplates.com/create-a-widget-to-add-a-link-to-your-blog/"/>
</form>

    Here you have to make some changes:

    http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com – Your blog’s address.

    YOUR BLOG – Your blog’s name or an image’s code. It willl be shown in the Blogroll of the one who’s adding you.

    Add YOURBLOG to the Blogroll – The message you wanna show on the button.

    This code work for another CMS or webs, but it only can be added by Blogger’s users.

  5. Save the changes an it’s done.

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]]> http://blog.btemplates.com/create-a-widget-to-add-a-link-to-your-blog/feed/ 0 Use Google Sitemap on Blogger http://blog.btemplates.com/use-google-sitemap-on-blogger/ http://blog.btemplates.com/use-google-sitemap-on-blogger/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:39:30 +0000 Yondri http://btemplates.com/blog/?p=48 One way to help Google indexing our website or blog, is by telling them the pages we have, when they’re modifiedan when we have new articles. This can be easily done using a simple tool created for this: Google Sitemap. Besides of helping you with Google indexation, this tool can give us our blog’s stats and an error report.

Thank’s to Blogger’s system and other content manager systems, using this tool is pretty simple, and now we show you how:

  1. Go to the main page of Google Sitemap, and login with your Google account (Blogger, Gmail, etc.).
  2. In the text box, write your blog’s URL. “http://yourblog.blogspot.com”.

  3. You’ll enter a panel with a warning, telling you the next step is to verify the site belongs to you. Click that link.

  4. Now it’ll show you two choices to verify your site. Choose “Add a META label” (The other one is not possible with blogger, but it is to any other CMS).
  5. After clicking, the same page show you the META label’s code. Copy this code, but don’t close this page yet. On your blog, go to “Layout” tab, and then to “Edit HTML”. Search for the following code:
    6. <head>

    And just down, paste the verification code.

  6. On Google Sitemaps, click “Verify” button. If everything is ok, your site will be shown as verified.
  7. Now, on the upper right of your screen click the “Sitemap” tab, and the “Add a sitemap”. Now it will ask you for a type, so select “Add a general sitemap”. By doing this, blogger will show a text field to write your sitemap’s URL On blogger is: http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/atom.xm.Replace “YOURBLOG” for your blog’s address or username, and click “Add a web sitemap”.

With this, the service is activated, and within a couple of hours Google will start seeking for your site’s information.

Lee este artículo en español: Usar Google Sitemap en Blogger.

]]> http://blog.btemplates.com/use-google-sitemap-on-blogger/feed/ 1 Switch from Blogger’s feed to FeedBurner http://blog.btemplates.com/switch-from-bloggers-feed-to-feedburner/ http://blog.btemplates.com/switch-from-bloggers-feed-to-feedburner/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:42:39 +0000 Yondri http://btemplates.com/blog/?p=53 By default, Blogger creates a feed link to the posts at the end of each one. If we use Feedburner to manage our feed this link won’t help us a lot, but the link to comment’s feed will. In this article we’ll show you how to change the link to post’s feed without changing the link to comment’s feed.

  1. Go to “Layout” tab, and then to “Edit HTML”. Check “Expand widget template” box.

  2. Search the following code:
    3.  <b:loop values='data:links' var='f'>

   <a class='feed-link' expr:href='data:f.url' expr:type='data:f.mimeType' target='_blank'><data:f.name/> (<data:f.feedType/>)</a>

</b:loop>
  3. Replace it with the following:
    4. <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

  <b:loop values='data:links' var='f'>
     <a class='feed-link' expr:href='data:f.url' expr:type='data:f.mimeType' target='_blank'><data:f.name/> (<data:f.feedType/>)</a>
  </b:loop>

<b:else/>

  <b:loop values='data:links' var='f'>
     <a class='feed-link' expr:href='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOURFEED"' expr:type='data:f.mimeType' target='_blank'><data:f.name/> (<data:f.feedType/>)</a>
  </b:loop>

</b:if>
  4. In that code, replace “http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOURFEED” for your feed’s address on Feedburner. Is important to keep the quotes as shown in the code.
  5. Save the changes and it’s done.

Now the link will be more usefull. Anyway, if you wish to subscribe our feed and get everything shown in here, just follow the link:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BtemplatesBlog

Lee este artículo en español: Cambiar el feed de Blogger por el de Feedburner.

]]> http://blog.btemplates.com/switch-from-bloggers-feed-to-feedburner/feed/ 0 Metatags on Blogger http://blog.btemplates.com/metatags-on-blogger/ http://blog.btemplates.com/metatags-on-blogger/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:31:48 +0000 Yondri http://btemplates.com/blog/?p=65 Metatags are labels with information about our site, like the theme of the website or blog, its description, keywords, author’s information, language, among many others. They are important because help search engines and other web applications to rank your web, so if you don’t have them it makes their work even more difficult, and the result is less visits and visits that are not related with the articles.

One of the most neglected parts in Blogger are precisely the metatags, because they don’t think the proper indexing of your page is important enough. Well, in this article we’ll show you how to place the most important in the home and in the pages of the labels.

    1. Go to “Layout”, and then to “Edit HTML”.

    1. Search for the following code:
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
    1. Under this code will be conditions to show the metatags in their own pages, according to the following code scheme:
<!-- Home Metatags -->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<meta content='here the keywords, separated by commmas' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='description of the general website content' name='description'/> </b:if>
<!-- Labels Pages Metatags -->
<b:if cond='"http://label-address" == data:blog.url'>
<meta content='here the words taht describe this label' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='description of the content of this label' name='description'/> </b:if>

As you can see, there is a code for the home and one for labels and will be repeated for each label you want to describe their contents.

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