Wednesday 28 November 2012

SEO Basics



Harry:- 

What is SEO ?

S - Search
E - Engine
O - Optimization

Abbreviation is "Search Engine Optimization"

SEO is a combination of methods to increase the visibility of the site in various search engines and increase the amount of visitors to a site to rank high in search results to a search engine.The higher a Website ranks in the results of search, the greater the chance that the site will be visited by a user.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization

  • SEO has tricks and techniques for improving visibility of web pages in the different Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing etc. 
  • SEO has techniques to get many visitors from search engines and get high page rank in search engines for websites. 
  • Finally, in easy way, SEO is way of improving and growth of your business through internet.

    SEO has applied in two ways:
    • White Hat SEO
    • Black Hat SEO
    White Hat SEO has techniques and tips that totally focus on visitors or users or audience, but follow all rules and regulations of Search Engines. It is really useful for Ranking in Search Engines. White hat SEO techniques take time in development as well as in ranking your website high in search engines. All Search Engine Optimizers perform white hat seo for better result in search engines.
    • White Hat SEO called as "Good Guy" SEO
    Black Hat SEO has techniques and tips that totally focus on search engines, the techniques are not follow rules of search engines and try to hide these. The techniques try to trick with search engines for getting higher ranking. These will rank the website high in search engines very quickly. If someday these will caught by search engine, it will banned your website or leave you at very poor rank. Once your site banned then it's really difficult to come back in search engine as good side. So don't try black hat SEO techniques.
    •  Black Hat SEO called as "Bad Guy" SEO

    SEO Parts:

    SEO is divided mainly two vital parts:

    1. On page Optimization
    2. Off Page Optimization

    On Page Optimization which cover all the activities which perform in the website and act in the website.

    Off Page Optimization which covers all the activities which are perform for website not in website. It's called "Link building" for website.

    Generally in this blog I want to cover all the activities which are perform in the SEO and new updates for search engine like Google.

    Why SEO..?

    • Search engine optimization is a technique where you make your pages as easy to read by search engine robots as it is for your customers to read. And once your pages are easy to read by the robots, they can determine what your page is about, and rank it in their database.
    • Search Engine Robots are programs that navigate the Website automatically. I think Many people are used SEO for "Organic Results".
    • Organic Result are terms of SEO which means the result for that you never pay money to the search engines, but your website is top of the search engine result. And it stays on long time.

    What is Social Bookmarking ?


    Social Bookmarking is the one of the best Off Page activity for bringing traffics and generating temporary backlinks for your website.It is very useful for introduce your new products and service of you business. Generally, Social bookmarking is way to save your links into different social sites on the internet world with your tags and keywords.



    Newest List of Social Bookmarking Sites :


    http://www.1800web1.com/
    http://www.alltradelinks.com
    http://www.allyearlinks.com/
    http://www.anybookmarks.com/
    http://www.anytimelinks.com/
    http://www.bendasite.com/
    http://www.bestlinkforever.com/
    http://www.bestlivelinks.com/
    http://www.bestsoftlinks.com/
    http://www.bestwebspaces.com/
    http://www.bookmarking-sites.com/
    http://www.bookmarkitnow.com/
    http://www.bookmarkreserve.com/
    http://www.bookmarksforu.com/
    http://www.bookmarkslife.com/
    http://www.bookmarksreal.com/
    http://www.bookmarksspirit.com/
    http://www.bookmarksville.com/
    http://www.bookmarktou.com/
    http://www.bookmarkswebsites.com/
    http://www.buzztin.com/
    http://www.cachebookmark.com/
    http://www.cheersbookmark.com/
    http://www.coldlibrary.com/
    http://www.coatasite.com/
    http://www.cropsites.com/
    http://www.createdbookmarks.com/
    http://www.easytolinks.com/
    http://www.effortlinks.com/
    http://www.eternitylinks.com/
    http://www.everytimelinks.com/
    http://www.freebulklinks.com/
    http://www.freelinkstorm.com/
    http://www.gainalink.com/
    http://www.gvbookmarks.com
    http://www.heliumbeta.com/
    http://www.hollafish.com
    http://www.indianupdatestoday.com/
    http://www.justyap.com/
    http://www.khooji.com/
    http://www.lampurlink.com/
    http://www.linkbelief.com/
    http://www.linking4ever.com/
    http://www.linksatall.com/
    http://www.up.biz
    http://www.linksbookmark.com/
    http://www.linksdelicious.com/
    http://www.linksdigg.com/
    http://www.linksfaves.com/
    http://www.linksmultiply.com/
    http://www.linksplurk.com/
    http://www.linkspropeller.com/
    http://www.linksreddit.com/
    http://www.linksstumble.com/
    http://www.newsfew.com/
    http://www.mybukmark.com/
    http://pligg.uticketing.com
    http://www.sensationglobal.com
    http://www.smokymtcab.com/
    http://www.socialnetworkingbusinessz.com
    http://www.pillfish.net
    http://www.tambapost.com/
    http://www.taleempoint.net
    http://www.webalternate.com/
    http://www.weblogicamedia.com/
    http://www.wikilinked.com/
    http://www.webinarnotebook.com/
    https://www.whitelinks.com/
    http://www.zzoox.com/
    http://www.atmsoftwarez.info
    http://www.banksoftwarez.info
    http://www.bestdatarecoverysoftwarez.info
    http://www.customerservicesoftwarez.info
    http://www.customersupportsoftwarez.info
    http://www.graphicdesignonlinez.info
    http://www.healthcaresoftwarez.info
    http://www.homemanagementsoftwarez.info
    http://www.housemanagementsoftwarez.info
    http://www.humanresourcessoftwarez.info
    http://www.manufacturingsoftwarez.info
    http://www.marketingsoftwarez.info
    http://www.medicalsoftwarecompanyz.info
    http://www.meetingsoftwarez.info
    http://www.oilandgassoftwarez.info
    http://www.topsocialbookmarksitesseo.info

    Forum Posting Sites List

    Now a days,Forum posting become popular activity in the SEO. Forum Posting is very useful for the increasing the traffics towards your blog. It is very useful for increasing backlinks for your website. I have collected list of forum sites. I think this list is really useful for yours.


    The List of Forum sites are as follows:

    http://www.warriorforum.com
    http://forums.cpanel.net/
    http://www.joomlart.com/forums/
    http://www.bluehostforum.com/
    http://forums.myspace.com/
    http://forum.joomla.org
    http://forums.cpanel.net
    http://forum.siteground.com
    http://c7y-bb.phparchitect.com
    http://forum.meebo.com
    http://chronicle.com/forums/
    http://codingforums.com/
    http://forum.joomla.org/
    http://forum.mambo-foundation.org/
    http://forums.techcrunch.com/
    http://www.mathforum.org/
    http://www.accessibilityforum.org/
    http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml
    http://www.stsforum.org/
    http://www.thenationalforum.org/
    http://www.wapforum.org/
    http://www.wimaxforum.org/
    http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/
    http://www.zimbra.com/forums/
    http://www.konfabulator.com/forums/
    http://forum.unc.edu/
    http://forum.websitebaker.org/
    http://www.actionscript.org/forums/index.php
    http://www.articulate.com/forums/
    http://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/
    http://www.connexitor.com/forums/
    http://www.craftster.org/forum/
    http://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com
    http://www.experienceadvertising.com/forum
    http://opensourcephoto.net/forum
    http://forums.seochat.com
    http://www.ihelpyou.com/forums
    http://www.webmaster-forums.net
    http://www.geekpoint.net
    http://www.9mb.com
    http://www.allcoolforum.com
    http://forums.webicy.com
    http://www.thehyipforum.com
    http://www.cosforums.com
    http://www.extremeskins.com
    http://www.ffwa.org/forums
    http://www.flamevault.com/forums
    http://www.fordpower.net/forums
    http://www.gamersrevolt.com/forum
    http://www.gpforums.co.nz
    http://www.gsn.com/buzz
    http://www.runnersworld.com
    http://www.whathifi.com

    NoFollow and DoFollow Links in SEO

    In Todays SEO the basic craze about the dofollow links. If you are starting your career in SEO then it's very necessary to know about the DoFollow and NoFollow links.

    Mostly people know the basic fundamentals of dofollow and nofollow links in SEO.But they don't know the important of these links in SEO.

    Here I have covered basic knowledge of do follow and no follow links for beginner of SEO and their importance in SEO.

    Before I am starting about these links.I want to explain the attribute of links which is telling the bots or spider of search engine which links are passed the value and which is not.

    The link structure in HTML represent by <a> tag:

    for example:

    <a href="http://my-seo-list.blogspot.com/">Free SEO List</a>

    <a> tag or link tag has one attribute name called 'rel'

    If rel="nofollow" then that links become NoFollow link.

    <a href="http://my-seo-list.blogspot.com/ rel="nofollow">Free SEO List</a>

    For DoFollow links there is no any specification in the attribute of the link structure.It's look like following
    <a href="http://my-seo-list.blogspot.com/">Free SEO List</a>

    No specification available in this link it's called DoFollow link.

    If the webmaster wants to add all link as no follow they can use this code in robots.txt
    <meta name=”robots” content=”nofollow” />

    Role of NoFollow and DoFollow Links in SEO:

    The links which has NoFollow attribute means search engine would not cache and index this type of links. They are really useful for websites owner to indetify the spams or potential spam links.

    The links which has DoFollow attribute means search engine would cache, follow and index this type of links. A link that has DoFollow attribute its count as a backlink. They are really useful for the ranking of website in search engine, for generating the traffics towards your websites.

    The question come in mind that how we identify NoFollow and Dofollow links?

    • I have solution for that to identify nofollow and dofollow links, for firefox user,Firefox has one addon name is "nodofollow".
    • By this addon, if links color will come purple then they are nofollow links and If blue then they are dofollow links.

    Techniques of Searching Forums

    SEO is field where every one looking something unique.This uniqueness is useful to getting ranks, traffics and getting good backlinks for your websites. This uniqueness is depends upon the searching techniques which you prefer. For searching forum in the search engines like Google,Yahoo,Bing etc. There are some techniques listed below are very useful for you.

    Techniques for searching forums:
    • intitle:'keyword' inurl:viewtopic
    • 'keyword' forums + powered by vbulletin
    • 'keyword' forums + powered by SMF
    • 'keyword' forums + powered by phpbb


    The Another ways for searching forums in Google are: 
    First Enter your keyword and Paste one of the following with your keyword
    • "powered by vBulletin”
    • “powered by BlogEngine”
    • “powered by yabb”
    • “powered By MyBB”
    • “powered by ip.board”
    • “powered by phpbb”
    • “powered by phpbb3"
    • “powered by TikiWiki"
    • “powered by Drupal"
    • “powered by punbb"
    There are some other search engines also in which you get the forums site for your particular keywords

    for example:

    http://boardreader.com/

    http://www.forumssearch.com/

    http://omgili.com/

    http://www.zhift.com/

    http://metaldetectingforumsearch.com/

    http://www.seoforum.info/

    http://www.bbqsearch.com/bbqboard/

    http://search.big-boards.com/

    And there are some forum finder tools available in the internet markets. Just go for that.

     Latest Penguin Update 3 Released Oct- 5- 2012

    Google Penguin Update 3 Released, Impacts 0.3% Of English-Language Queries

    Google has released latest penguin update which impacts 0.3 % of English Language queries. Google Mat Cutts announced this news through his twitter account.

    "Google is launching the latest “data refresh” of its Penguin spam-fighting algorithm today and that it will affect searches across multiple languages."  - 5 Oct 2012

    This is Google's Third Update for Penguin algorithm.

    Penguin 1: April 24, 2012 (3.1%)
    Penguin 2: May 26, 2012 (less than 0.1%)
    Penguin 3: Oct. 5, 2012 (0.3%)


    Introduction
    Every new blogger would like to see his or her blog on the first page of Google search. Although, it is very difficult to rank on the first page after Penguin affect, but if you plan SEO strategies then you can overcome the affect.
    If you are new to blogging then you can follow 10 easy steps to implement penguin-free SEO. After implementing these steps, you can easily recover from a Penguin affect.
    Understanding SEO Intelligence  
    Google dominates among all other search engines. Core fundamentals of SEO remain unchanged, but it is complicated and changes on a regular basis.
    Successful SEO is nothing but a good research. So it comes down to the content and keywords. Moreover, links to your blog from outside authority is very important. Bloggers must understand the basic SEO intelligence.
    Effective Keywords
    The next SEO technique is to implement effective keywords in your every blog post. Jot down all possible keywords and write them in Excel spreadsheet. Choose Keywords related to the topic of your blog.
    Next, you must properly position all your keywords. It is very important to have an individual page for every keyword phrase. While optimizing your blog for keywords keep readers in mind.
    Always use effective keywords and never load your blog with full of keywords. Google may ban you. So, mixing relevant keywords is right thing to do.
    On-Page Intelligence
    After choosing right keywords, you have to know on-page intelligence. On-Page intelligence means what is in your control. Understanding Title tag is the key thing.
    According to my experience, title tag must be less than 70 characters and make sure that your keywords are scattered properly.
    Surround your primary keywords with other related keywords. Hyperlink few keywords with authority links. I also recommend adding an ALT and title tag to images.
    Buying Your Domain Name
    One of the most important decisions is buying a domain name for your blog. You have to choose a name, which is available. For a domain name, I suggest two words with no numbers and hyphens.
    Moreover, it must be .com extension with no longer than 25 characters. I always try my best to include primary keywords in a domain name.
    Architecting Your Site
    Designing your site can make or break your SEO intelligence. Make your home page a focal point. It should be dynamic so people will be more interested. Home page must be interactive.
    Try to find out what people are doing online. You can include a video page in your website to make it more interesting. Always leave your visitors wanting for more.
    You have to come up as an authority.
    Site Mapping Techniques
    Site mapping technique is quite an easy task. You must have a sitemap that is easily available for search engines. It is actually a blueprint of your entire blog. Most common location of sitemap is root domain.
    Sitemap can help your blog to index faster in search engines. You can use Xml-sitemap website to create a sitemap. Make sure to include Meta tags.
    Off-page intelligence
    Off-page intelligence is the backbone of SEO because half of the secret is getting incoming links. More inbound links means more authority, which means more money. Do not try to get too many backlinks in short interval of time because Google may ban you.
    Therefore, get incoming links naturally over a period of time. One easy way to get is through writing guest posts for different blogs.
    Use anchor text. Usage of a keyword phrase must be less than 10%.
    Press Release Goldmine
    Never underestimate the power of press release. Major news stations search for press releases. If you want to write a press release then go to prweb. All major search engines look highly for press releases.
    Press release rank very high for what they are, because they are highest quality of incoming links.
    Competitive Intelligence
    Competitive intelligence is re-engineering or remodeling your competitors. This is your instant shortcut to success online.
    You can go to Google and type ALLINANCHOR: followed by the website of your competitor. After clicking “Search”, you will see name of all other websites that he is running.
    You can learn many things from their websites.
    Beating Google Algorithm
    Last one is beating Google search algorithm. You have to keep up with the changing technology because Google keep changing it search algorithm.
    SEO is never going to be permanent, therefore keep experimenting otherwise your blog will become obsolete.
    Conclusion
    Finally, in conclusion I would say that you could implement my 10 Penguin-free SEO steps to rank high in Google search engine.
    1. Understanding SEO Intelligence
    2. Effective Keywords
    3. On Page Intelligence
    4. Buying Your Domain Name
    5. Architecting Your Site
    6. Site Mapping Techniques
    7. Off Page Intelligence
    8. Press Release Goldmine
    9. Competitive Intelligence
    10. Beating Google Algorithm
    ===================================================================

    SEO Article Writing


    SEO Article Writing


    No web site will ever hope to survive while not content or duplicate content. Content is maybe the foremost vital a part of SEO. SEO cannot be clearly outlined while not the employment of content writing. Writing content in a very SEO friendly method is extremely vital and SEO Content Writing Asian nation acknowledges this. Asian nation is that the hub of content writers and therefore the primary reason is that the convenience of talent and ability within the country. The relatively massive English speaking population is additionally another issue why SEO Asian nation rules the world.
    For those that don't apprehend what content writing, it's the art of writing the information could be an artistic and appealing method. Though' it sounds quite simple content writing could be an arduous task requiring the employment of your brain all the time. Quality merely cannot be compromised with. the most sorts of content writing embrace article writing, net writing, SEO content writing, tutorial writing etc. the most among these is content writing, that is creating the employment of artistic and engaging content and creating it SEO friendly. If the work is formed solely SEO friendly, the search engines could adore it, however the readers would not. Identical may be true within the reverse method still. Writing creatively, in a very method that appeals to the general public, that makes the individuals suppose that the author is somebody a bit like them is what's referred to as writing superbly. SEO Content Writing is completed as per international standards however at a fraction of the price. If you would like quality work to be done on time there's no place higher than SEO Content writing services.
    The content writing in hot water websites that boosts up their ranking on the key search engines is thought as online page writing. The one who puts relative text within the web site is thought as an internet content author. Websites would like online page writers to produce quality content on their web site so they will create it SEO prepared.
    Content Writing goes an extended method in company disapproval and SEO Content Writing Asian nation perceive this okay. Once brands are created they are typically remembered by their tagline. The tagline itself could be a work on an original online page author. For a decent complete to be established, a vivid imagination and a high quality content author are should.
    The ability of content writing may be effectively utilized in marketing and media. If the terms and their constitution are dull, audiences can ne'er be drawn. Thus it is vital that quality content provided by SEO content writing services is inculcated in your promotional material drive. The simplest content will attract thousands of shoppers and open business opportunities.

    Social Media Optimization Services

    Social Media Optimization Services

     The internet is one amongst the prime effective media of these days. Additional and additional individuals are surf riding the web a day, and web is quick shifting into one amongst the simplest varieties of link between individuals hailing from the farthest components of the world. Info is obtaining mutual earlier than one may have ever fanciful, and this potential of the web may be broached effectively by any company wanting promotion.
    No surprise that Social Media optimization Services is one amongst the foremost asked for services these days for the promotion of product. Social media may be outlined as a group of cooperative tools, like blogs, social Networking sites and forums, which permit the swimmer to rise from being simply a passive observer to somebody World Health Organization is active, World Health Organization will change the content, or will divide up his own feelings with everyone World Health Organization has access thereto website. Social media optimization is nothing however a sort of web promoting, wherever subject matter a couple of website or product is generated by the employment of social media. Mistreatment blogs and similar forums, we are able to realize prospective customers, World Health Organization is also curious about our product, terribly simply.
    Social Media optimization Services are services provided by another company to extend the visibility of a website or product within the web social media. The ways in which to accomplish this could be manifold.
    For example, virtually each social networking website these days, like Orkut and Facebook, has several numbers of communities dedicated to a bunch of individuals with similar interests. Advertising in communities that match our bill and creating custom created applications, isn't solely less costly than advertising in ancient media, however conjointly reaches bent on a wider sphere of individuals from completely different backgrounds. Making blogs containing the attractive details of our product, and therefore catching the attention of surfers, is another such methodology.
    The services may additionally embrace infective agent promoting, wherever videos and articles promoting our product are placed on sites that upset similar problems and things. On-line calendars may also be wont to show and bookmarker the dates if we tend to are attempting to publicize some event.
    If our product happens to be a website, then the service supplier may additionally  counsel increasing the visibility of the location, i.e. increasing the amount of search tags, adding additional content associated with the location, so the location options in additional searches created by individuals. This will increase the hit magnitude relation spectacularly. Another general idea is to renew the page often, and add facilities of RSS feeds. The bookmarks will even be shared, which suggests additional subject matter by those individuals whose attention we've got managed to imprison. Investment the satisfied travel across sites, by holding different website developers tag our site’s substance, is an extra well-liked slant. Arriving links may also be rewarded.
    A new conception that has revolutionized the conception of social media optimization is advertising via mobiles. The user could send some message mistreatment the location, and also the message, that conjointly acts because the promotional material of the location or product being promoted is delivered to the recipient. This conjointly helps America to succeed in bent on people that don't have any web access.

    WordPress SEO by Yoast



    Write better content with WordPress SEO

    Using the snippet preview you can see a rendering of what your post or page will look like in the search results, whether your title is too long or too short and your meta description makes sense in the context of a search result. This way the plugin will help you not only increase rankings but also increase the click through for organic search results.

    Page Analysis

    The WordPress SEO plugins Linkdex Page Analysis functionality checks simple things you're bound to forget. It checks, for instance, if you have images in your post and whether they have an alt tag containing the focus keyword for that post. It also checks whether your posts are long enough, if you've written a meta description and if that meta description contains your focus keyword, if you've used any subheadings within your post, etc. etc.
    The plugin also allows you to write meta titles and descriptions for all your category, tag and custom taxonomy archives, giving you the option to further optimize those pages.
    Combined, this plugin makes sure that your content is the type of content search engines will love!

    Technical WordPress Search Engine Optimization

    While out of the box WordPress is pretty good for SEO, it needs some tweaks here and there. This WordPress SEO plugin guides you through some of the settings needed, for instance by reminding you to enable pretty permalinks. But it also goes beyond that, by automatically optimizing and inserting the meta tags and link elements that Google and other search engines like so much:

    Meta & Link Elements

    With the WordPress SEO plugin you can control which pages Google shows in its search results and which pages it doesn't show. By default, it will tell search engines to index all of your pages, including category and tag archives, but only show the first pages in the search results. It's not very useful for a user to end up on the third page of your "personal" category, right?
    WordPress itself only shows canonical link elements on single pages, WordPress SEO makes it output canonical link elements everywhere. Google has recently announced they would also use rel="next" and rel="prev" link elements in the head section of your paginated archives, this plugin adds those automatically, see [this post](http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/ title="rel=next & rel=prev for paginated archives") for more info.

    XML Sitemaps

    WordPress SEO has the most advanced XML Sitemaps functionality in any WordPress plugin. Once you check the box, it automatically creates XML sitemaps and notifies Google & Bing of the sitemaps existence. These XML sitemaps include the images in your posts & pages too, so that your images may be found better in the search engines too.
    These XML Sitemaps will even work on large sites, because of how they're created, using one index sitemap that links to sub-sitemaps for each 1,000 posts. They will also work with custom post types and custom taxonomies automatically, while giving you the option to remove those from the XML sitemap should you wish to.
    Because of using XSL stylesheets for these XML Sitemaps, the XML sitemaps are easily readable for the human eye too, so you can spot things that shouldn't be in there.

    RSS Optimization

    Are you being outranked by scrapers? Instead of cursing at them, use them to your advantage! By automatically adding a link to your RSS feed pointing back to the original article, you're telling the search engine where they should be looking for the original. This way, the WordPress SEO plugin increases your own chance of ranking for your chosen keywords and gets rid of scrapers in one go!

    Breadcrumbs

    If your theme is compatible, like most Genesis and WooThemes themes are for instance, you can use the built-in Breadcrumbs functionality. This allows you to create an easy navigation that is great for both users and search engines and will support the search engines in understanding the structure of your site.
    Making your theme compatible isn't hard either, check these instructions.

    Edit your .htaccess and robots.txt file

    Using the built-in file editor you can edit your WordPress blogs .htaccess and robots.txt file, giving you direct access to the two most powerful files, from an SEO perspective, in your WordPress install.

    Social Integration

    SEO and Social Media are heavily intertwined, that's why this plugin also comes with a Facebook OpenGraph implementation and will soon also support Google+ sharing tags.

    Multi-Site Compatible

    This WordPress SEO plugin, unlike some others, is fully Multi-Site compatible. The XML Sitemaps work fine in all setups and you even have the option, in the Network settings, to copy the settings from one blog to another, or make blogs default to the settings for a specific blog.

    Import & Export functionality

    If you have multiple blogs, setting up plugins like this one on all of them might seem like a daunting task. Except that it's not, because what you can do is simple: you set up the plugin once. You then export your settings and simply import them on all your other sites. It's that simple!

    Import functionality for other WordPress SEO plugins

    If you've used All In One SEO Pack or HeadSpace2 before using this plugin, you might want to import all your old titles and descriptions. You can do that easily using the built-in import functionality. There's also import functionality for some of the older Yoast plugins like Robots Meta and RSS footer.
    Should you have a need to import from another SEO plugin or from a theme like Genesis or Thesis, you can use the SEO Data Transporter plugin, that'll easily convert your SEO meta data from and to a whole set of plugins like Platinum SEO, SEO Ultimate, Greg's High Performance SEO and themes like Headway, Hybrid, WooFramework, Catalyst etc.
    Read this migration guide if you still have questions about migrating from another SEO plugin to WordPress SEO.

    WordPress SEO Plugin in your Language!

    Currently a huge translation project is underway, translating WordPress SEO in as much as 24 languages. So far, the translations for French and Dutch are complete, but we still need help on a lot of other languages, so if you're good at translating, please join us at translate.yoast.com.

    News SEO

    Be sure to also check out the News SEO module if you need Google News Sitemaps. It tightly integrates with WordPress SEO to give you the combined power of News Sitemaps and full Search Engine Optimization.

    Blogger or WordPress, Which is better?



    BLOGGER

    Google owns blogger and hence applies its policies to it. One of the biggest advantages with blogger is that you’ll take hardly 10 minutes to setup a blog with Blogspot.com account. It is very easy to use and maintain. If you are done with setting your blogger account you can start posting immediately. Let’s discuss some points about blogger as a blogging platform one by one:
    •  With blogger it is really too easy to maintain account. You can easily add new pages and post. It is very easy to switch to different designs using any of the given templates and layouts.
    •  Domain name with blogger account is always like “yourblogname.blogspot.in” by default (depending upon your country ‘.in’ will be changed). But blogger gives you to choose your own domain name for $10 per year and connect your blogger account with your personalized domain name. The biggest advantage of this is you do not need to bother about hosting cost.
    •  No coding is needed. Blogger supports almost all features that a simple blog should have. If you have an account with blogger then you do not need to be from technical background. At present blogger supports many templates and you can use different layouts to customize those templates.
    •  Awesome gadgets are offered by blogger as their free features to all blogger account. You can easily add gadgets like news, weather reports, currency converter, videos, slideshow, search box etc by a single click. You can place these gadgets where ever you want in your blog by changing their position by customizing layouts. If you smartly arrange these gadgets, you will succeed to create a good blog without paying anything. You can add your own gadget if you have the code of that gadget.
    •  AdSense Integration is very easy with blogger because both are owned by same company. So those who want to start blogging to earn some money they can opt for blogger as it gives you by default option of AdSense to start with. You can integrate AdSense directly from your blog and after activation of AdSense you can show ads and make money online. You can use your blog to promote affiliate products to third party to simply make money. Through Amazon affiliate program blogger itself allows to generate affiliate revenue.
    •  With blogger account Google own all your data. If Google finds you for anything that is violating its policies than it can shut your account down without any notification. You would be aware of this fact if you have ever heard about “Google slap”.
    These were some points about blogger as a blogging platform. If you want a personal blog and want to share your experiences with friends and relative then blogger is perfect for you. If you want to share your knowledge with your friends and you post very rarely then blogger should be your choice. You can earn money from blogger without spending even a single dollar. So design your own blog, customize it according to your need, use gadgets and enjoy amazing blogging experience with blogger.

    WORDPRESS

    Now let’s discuss about other blogging platform which is also most popular. WordPress it is well known as CMS (content management system). It is open source and hence offers you fully customization. You should not be confused with wordpress.org and wordpress.com. Both are owned by same owner but wordpress.com is something like blogger it offers you free hosting and domain name (yourwebsitename.wordpress.com). WordPress.org is official site of the wordpress project and we will discuss about the same. You can download latest version of wordpress from wordpress.org and can start your website and blog with a domain and server that you own. Let’s have some look on what wordpress offers us:
    • WordPress is absolutely free. All you need is hosting plan from a hosting company and a domain name. WordPress also offers single click installation if you’re hosting plan includes cpanel. With cpanel you can do a one-click installation, upgrade and removal of your WordPress platform.
    •  As you purchase your personalized domain name so it will be like “yoursitename.com”. If you are planning to have a business website, professional website or you need a functional website to sell your products then your domain name should represent an authority and personalized domain names are best option for the same.
    •  Wordpress removes all limitations and is open source so if you are coding expert then it is best for you. You can make wordpress do whatever you want to. It offers thousands of themes for almost all niches. You can go for premium wordpress themes if you need to setup highly professional blog.
    •  Supports thousands of plugins and gadgets. You can easily install and activate any plugin as per your need. Plugins do additional functions that you want to be added in your website. It makes your websites really functional and helps visitors in many ways. For example with wordpress plugin you can add a feature to comment from your Facebook account directly. Installation of plugin requires a single click. It’s that much easy to add and use a plugin and you can uninstall them whenever you want to.
    •  You can also integrate adsense account with your wordpress site after activation from Google. If your blog is powered with wordpress then you can customize it in a better way and make it search engine friendly. With default installation you need a couple of plugins and even a better theme to really maximize the Adsense potential. With WordPress on your own domain you can ping as many blog directories as you want, and start getting more traffic so can increase your earnings.
    •  You own your own domain name and have your own hosting so you own your content and you have complete ownership and copyright of content. You do not need to bother that someone can shut your account any time without informing you.
    Now it’s your turn to decide best for you. First think about the purpose for which you want to blog and start a website then choose a platform. With wordpress I can make you sure that you will never be back. You will love wordpress for what it offers you. Share if you liked this post and please put your points in comment about which is best among these two?