Tuesday, March 31, 2015

How to Submit Your Blog’s Sitemap to Google Search Console

When we create a website, one of the most common issues we must address is how to list the site in search engines like Google.
Blog's Sitemap to Google Webmasters

Blog's Sitemap to Google Webmasters

Whenever I talk to newbies who are not aware of how the search engine works, they think that they need to pay Google or other search engines to list their website. This is is not true, of course.  You can show your website in a Google search for free. The only thing you need to work on is helping Google to find your blog.

I have already shared my case-study on how to index your new website in 24 hours, and in this guide I will talk extensively about submitting your site map to Google’s Search console.

Google search console (Formerly Google Webmaster Tool ) is a free tool that lets you control your website from the search engine’s perspective. I will not go into detail about GWT as I have already covered it in previous posts. In case you missed it, here is the first article to get you started:
GWT sitemap

A Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization Using Google Webmaster Tool
First we need to understand what a site map is, and why submitting your sitemap to search engines is important.

What is a sitemap?

A sitemap is an XML file that contains the URLs inside your blog. This file helps crawlers to find all of the URLs of your blog. There are many aspects of your site that a crawler will follow, such as the size of your sitemap and the number of URLs in your sitemap.  In short, a sitemap is a complete index of your blog that you want search engine bots to see.
Submit sitemap to Google search

This wiki article on sitemaps will give you more technical and historical details.

Simply stated, a sitemap file contains all the URLs of your blog, and you submit that file to search engines to let them know about all the pages of your blog. Search engine bots follow sitemap files to crawl and index your website.
Google Sitemap

You can learn more about crawling and indexing here.

For a normal website, we use an online sitemap generator to create a sitemap file and submit it to webmaster tools offered by Google and Bing. For WordPress blogs, we use plugins that automatically keep updating our sitemap file as we publish the new post. This way, you don’t have to resubmit a new sitemap after publishing new articles.
Website index status

It’s a good practice to place your sitemap file link at the footer of your website so that search engine bots can quickly discover and follow the site map file and crawl your blog more effectively.

Now that we know what a sitemap is, let’s move to the next level.
Website index status

How to generate a sitemap for your WordPress website:

Sitemaps can be generated in different ways depending on the platform you are using for your website. For example, WordPress sitemaps can be easily generated using popular SEO plugin call Yoast SEO.

For another platform like those for static sites, there are many online tools and types of offline software which will help with sitemap generation. For the purpose of this post, I will assume you know how to generate a sitemap, and we will now learn how to submit that sitemap to Google.

Submitting sitemaps to Google Search console:

When we submit a sitemap to Google, we do so using the Search console tool. Assuming that you have already verified your site in Google search console and that you have logged in to your webmaster tool dashboard here, you have your sitemap link ready to go. If you have used an offline tool to generate your sitemap, upload it to the root of your site like this:  /sitemap.xml

Inside your Google Webmaster Tool dashboard, on the right-hand side you will see an option called “Sitemaps”. Click on “More” to see all submitted sitemaps, or you can submit a new sitemap from there.

GWT sitemap

Click on “Add/Test Sitemap” to submit your sitemap file. On the same page, you can see which sitemaps are discovered by Google or which sitemap files have been previously submitted by you or someone from your team.

Submit sitemap to Google search

Depending on what type of sitemap you have generated, you can submit it from here. If you are running a site with lots of images, I suggest you create an image sitemap, as we already discussed in Image SEO optimization. You can also create a video sitemap for your website. For a WordPress blog, you can create image sitemaps using this WordPress plugin.

Google Sitemap

If you are submitting a sitemap for a new blog, it might take some time for you to see the index status. With index status on the same page, you can see how many URLs are submitted via sitemap and how many links Google has indexed. If you have submitted separate sitemaps for images and videos, you will see the status for those links, too. Here is an example of the index status of the ShoutMeLoud blog:

Website index status

Once you are finished submitting your blog sitemap to the Google search engine, I suggest you read this guide and then repeat the process with the Bing Webmaster Tool. Here is an exclusive guide to submitting a sitemap to the Bing Webmaster Tool.

Here are few more guides that you should consider reading:

12 solid steps to increasing Google’s crawl rate for your website
Understand site crawl errors in Google Webmaster Tool and fix them right now
Let us know whether or not you have done sitemap submissions for your website.

What other SEO-related things do you do for faster indexing of your blog?

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Monday, December 24, 2012

Single click free India guide with mobile applications

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Taj Mahal, Agra, India. Deutsch: Taj Mahal im indischen Agra.(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
India one of the fast developing country which carries most value able traditional culture from ancient days to till . However a large number of traveler comes to India every year.Days are going so fast via information technology where world wide websites are played big roles in covert process.Recent survey says that maximum travelers uses mobile apps for their path direction as well as their online presence.

Today my article tries to give a deep attention for the travelers /tourists who are interested to visit India either from home country or aboard.Mobile application bring internet more closer and moving users functionality as well as.Check out the Single click free India guide with mobile applications .

1. Indian Rail Info App :-

These are PNR and Indian Rail Enquiry , Indian rail info ,Indian Railway Train Alarm, IRCTC Mobile app , m-Indicator etc. The popularity of these apps are growing days by days. The major facilities are provided by these apps are PNR status check, check trains, seat availability, train finders and fare inquiry in more than 10,000 stations in General, Tatkal and Earliest availability modes.However IRCTC Mobile app has the highest options such as This app allows you to book both general and tatkal tickets from your phone.
Free India Guide With Top 10 Mobile Applications
You can also check the pnr status of your booked ticket without even logging in and m-Indicator will allow you to do all it's functionality with out GPRS connection.

2. India Travel Guide :-

India Travel Guide is one of the highest visited apps which includes travel details including maps, hotels & news and car, trains etc.India Travel Guide for Android devices offers a host of information on major cities like Aurangabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Chennai, Delhi, Goa,Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu & Kashmir, Mahabalipuram, Bombay, Pune Thiruvananthapuram etc.
Free India Guide With Top 10 Mobile Applications
Application comes with access to hundreds of hotels, Street & Satellite Maps etc.You can access the apps from any remote area in Indian territory.

3. Maps of India:Travel Guide :-

Maps of India:Travel Guide is an application for people who are interested to travel India and interested to pre set their routers.Maps Of India application is developed by Compare Info base Ltd.This application allows to get domestic flight details using Flight Finder where user can select the source,destination and date of travel and the flight finder will give a list of all available flights for the journey.It also allows bulk search for flight schedule to a destination with Pin Code and STD Search availability.
Free India Guide With Top 10 Mobile Applications
Search Pin Codes and STD Codes for any town or district in India and get information about a particular state of India with district and villages view of distance Calculator.

4. India Travel Guide by Triposo :-

India Travel Guide is developed by Tripso company which is a complete interactive guide to India that works either online or offline too.The major options of the application are India In Depth , A country map highlighting all the cities and national parks , Complete city guides for major cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Agra and Kolkata etc with lots of sights, restaurants, things to do and an offline city map, Mini guides for less important destinations and languages supports Hindi, Tamil and Telugu with pre set-upped phrasebooks.
Free India Guide With Top 10 Mobile Applications
Other plus point of this application is that it shows the data from authority website Wikitravel, Wikipedia, World66, Openstreetmap DMOZ and Chefmoz are among the best resources for any traveler.

5. MyCityWay - India :-

MyCityWay - India is one of the highest rated apps which consits a bunch of 50+ Apps in one place and it it is a dubbed copy of NYC-WAY(the highest visited apps in USA, Top 5 iPhone Travel App by FOX News).This application is perfect for locals and visitors/travelers. It allows to find the best local places, events, things to do, and so much more .Any one can find favourite cities in India has waited long enough to get the one stop killer application.
Free India Guide With Top 10 Mobile Applications
MyCityWay-India offers whether and when to trip or have lived here for years, let Way be the guide to the very best dining, nightlife, shopping, events, attractions and so much more. Some of the facilities are Nightlife,Transit,Tourism,Events,Hotels,Coffee Shops, City Maps,Movies,Beauty & Spa,Shopping , Airports,Services,Weather,Banks & ATMs,Fuel Stations,Fitness,Jobs, Groceries,Hospitals & Pharmacies,Police Stations, Art Galleries, Sports Activities,Kids Activities,Real Estate,Classifieds+ and many more.

6. Indian Festivals & Holidays :-

Indian Festivals & Holidays is another hot searching application which provides the full lists of all the major Indian Festivals and Holidays which are categorized by months in they occur and past history of the p[articular festival in the past three years.The major features of the application are Instantly know which holidays fall on which dates, Short 4 line description of each holiday , Link to Wikipedia article for the selected Holiday for further reading , single click to find out date when a specific holiday occurs in India.
Free India Guide With Top 10 Mobile Applications
India has very large nos of holidays due to its religious and cultural diversity , so anybody either Indian or non-Indians can use this application to study various holidays and festivals being celebrated in India any time and from any where.

7. India Trip Planner :-

India Trip Planner is an application which is developed by the Indian Holiday Private Limited. It allows the users to find out the places and people across India. The main attractions of the application is explore Indian tourist destinations such as Hotels at various destinations with description,prices,hotel group,category,India's Travel Guide with the list of tourist attractions in different cities of India.
Free India Guide With Top 10 Mobile Applications
Tour itineraries with duration,price,destinations covered.This application requires an active Internet connection to browse frequently.

8. Spice Hunt Indian Restaurants :-

Spice Hunt Indian Restaurants is an application of the largest collection of Indian Restaurants world wide which is developed by and powered by fullmeals dot com. The major facilities of this application are any one can choose any restaurants organized and categorized by location, cuisine and menu with this application . Some of search hints are search for restaurants by Name, Location (Zip code) and Region, search for restaurants by cuisine like North Indian, South Indian.
Free India Guide With Top 10 Mobile Applications
Search for restaurants which serves a specific dish,find details of a restaurant including food menu, price, operating hours and other services like parking facility, delivery and alcohol,feedback's and Tips will be very helpful , add favorite restaurants in "My Favorites" tabs,use Food Explore to increase knowledge on Indian Food and post experiences as feedback and tips to any one or more of them out of 20,000 restaurants.

9. Indian Restaurant Finder :-

Indian Restaurant Finder is an application which provides all nearby Indian restaurants all over India. It covers almost all known Indian restaurants from major metro cities to small villages.
Free India Guide With Top 10 Mobile Applications
This application needs GPS enabled devices to work properly. It is one of the top 100 iPhone application in India. Any one can browse the application to book or pre setup tour in India and can featured any restaurant .

10. NDrive India :-

NDrive India is a renowned and celebrated navigation software which is now available as NDrive 11. It allows the users to brings innovative and cutting-edge features for people serious about navigation with Facebook sharing and Foursquare check-in, streaming weather, and more.
Free India Guide With Top 10 Mobile Applications
This application needs GPRS connectivity to browse which is developed by the guidance amplified by Google™ search. So it is more easier to find any location or maps by the help of Google search.

Bonus applications :-

TripIt is one of the most used travel organizer application which is developed by Concur Technologies, Inc CA,USA. This manage all your Trip related matters by single click, world mate, currency converter, Google translate which are the free apps those will be helpful while abroad. Specially worldmate syncs all reservations, reminds about flights, terminals, rental cars, hotel reservations and even prompts deals in cities on where the traveler’s itinerary.So any one can take help of this application with free of charge.
Free India Guide With Top 10 Mobile Applications
Xe Currency is another important mobile app for travelers which is developed by XE.COM™ ,Canada. Xe is the pioneer (started in 1993) in the field of Universal Currency Converter and still they are providing this service via web and application with free of cost .

Final thoughts :-

I have done deep searches to prepare this article if I have missed any popular or useful application then don't miss to get back me with your comment.However thanks to all who liked or comment on this article

India Travel related information from web :-

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Evergreen reliable and legal ways to promote website and blog on Google

Professional bloggers and webmasters are being  frustrated by Google’s recent updates which is come out by their recent articles .You can get all those simply search in Google as " frustrated by Google".  Do you think that it is too difficult to get high rankings on Google? Evergreen reliable and legal ways to promote website and blog on Google.
Evergreen reliable and legal ways to promote website and blog
Image credit :- Johannes Selbach
There’s a simple six-step plan that will bring your website to the top of Google’s search result pages.

1. Don’t try to outsmart Google :-

Face it: if your website was hit by Google’s recent updates (Penguin or Panda), you used spam tactics to promote your website.The allegedly smart tools that offer a ‘fully automated way to get your website on Google’ aren’t that smart. It’s not possible to click a button and - BOOM – your website is on Google’s first page.It is possible to exploit loopholes in Google’s algorithm for some time. Websites that do this will get high rankings for some time but they will also suffer badly as soon as Google detects them. Fact: spammy SEO tools that promise quick and easy solutions by exploiting weaknesses in Google’s algorithm will cost you a lot of time, money and work in the long-run. Many businesses have experienced this.

2.  Accept that normal business rules also apply on the Internet :-

Many people think that everything has to be free and easy on the Internet. It still costs money to attract customers and you still have to offer a good product and good service.Fact: there are millions of businesses on the Internet and all of them compete for high rankings on Google. There is no fast-track that will bring your website to the top if you’re not willing to invest time and effort.

3.  Make sure that your website has a good infrastructure :-

Your website won’t succeed if it has a poor design. If you want to get high rankings, you need a fast-loading website that is on a fast server. You must also make sure that your web pages are error free so that Google can index your pages without problems (SEOprofiler can help you with that).
Fact: if you’re serious about your website, don’t use the cheapest web host. Slow pages can influence the rankings of your web pages.

5. Realize that you are responsible :-

If your website has been penalized by Google because of the spammy backlinks, don’t complain that your competitors that haven’t been penalized also have these bad backlinks. They might have high quality backlinks that outweigh the bad backlinks by far. Fact: SEO is about your own success, not about your competitors. Focus on things that you can control: your website, your SEO strategy, your customer service and your marketing.

5.  Take control on seo :-

Stop searching for gurus or secret tricks that promise to solve your problems. Take control of your success:
Find your unique selling proposition, identify your audience and make a plan.
Create a valuable website with great content. If your audience likes your website, they will share it with their friends.Advertise your website: SEO, paid advertising, even traditional advertising.
Fact: no one is as much interested in the success of your business as you. Don’t trust the gurus. Accept help but don’t stop thinking.

6. Set the right goals and act now :-

SEO is not about getting backlinks. It’s also not about getting high rankings on Google. It’s about getting sales. It’s about improving your business.Focus on the things that will have an impact on your business. Stop searching for the latest trick. Start working on your success now!

Conclusion :-

Fact: procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.You will save a lot of time and money by avoiding offers that seem to be too good to be true. It’s very likely that you will pay a lot more if you opt for the ‘quick and easy’ and ‘fully automated’ solution that will lead to a penalty and lost revenue.

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