Technorati in Blogger Beta.

Technorati is the search engine for blogs and hence no blogger can afford to go without it in his/her blog................

Google is the generalized search engine for the web. Technorati is a search engine which is specialized for blogs. Blogs in contrast to other web sites have ever changing content and Technorati focuses on them by searching them for keywords. Each blog is indexed and individually ranked among the 50 plus million blogs in today's blogosphere. The major differences between the two are outlined below :

Search Engines Compared

GOOGLE	TECHNORATI
Generalized Search	Specialized Search
Searches static, inactive Web	Searches Dynamic Web
No Focus	Focuses on Blogs
Infrequent visits to site	Immediate indexing of content
More sites to cover	Less sites to cover increasing efficiency
Covers World Wide Web	Covers World Live Web

Just as you have to submit your site to Google and the other search engines you have also to 'submit' your blog to Technorati so that other bloggers/readers can find your blog in the blogosphere. Also by doing so you can analyze your blog traffic, backlinks and find out your blog rank.

To register with Technorati go to Technorai.com and click on Join link at the top or click here. After registering you have to 'claim' your blog which is like submitting your site. To do this go here. Claiming your blog establishes that you are the (co-)author of the blog and allows you to use other Technorati services to help increase the visibility of your blog.

During the claiming process Technorati will give you a snippet of code which you have to paste in a Html/Javascript Page Element in the sidebar. To do this go to Page Elements subtab of Template tab and click on Add Page Element in the sidebar. In the new window choose Html/Javascript option and paste the code in contents and save. Having done this go back to technorati and click on Verify so that Technorati spiders your blog. Automatic robots known as "spiders" are released by Technorati to discover content on your site and its feeds. Technorati uses RSS feeds to track updates to millions of blogs. After updating your blog or after every post you have to ping Technorati to let them know that fresh content has been added. It then sends the spiders to index the content.


Each blog you claim will be listed on the Your Blogs page. To make sure the world can see it on Technorati, click the "Configure Blog" button and check to make sure that "Include this blog in Technorati's Blog Finder" is checked. This includes your blog in its Blog directory.


Technorati receives alerts from the Blogger servers whenever a user updates his or her public weblog. To set this automated ping go to Settings---->Basic----->Add your blog to our listings----->Yes---->Save Settings. Blogger will now ping Technorati automatically whenever content is updated.


Technorati breaks up your weblog's home page into smaller sections such as posts and sidebars. You can help Technorati's spiders properly identify a unique post and its proper link destination by adding a link with a defined relationship of "bookmark" for each post. For example:

<a href="http://blog.bloghost.com/post1" rel="bookmark">Post title</a>

Technorati also uses tags to index your blog. A tag as a simple category name. People can categorize their posts, photos and videos with any tag that makes sense. For example if you have a post about films you can tag it with the tag 'film'. Another post about family matters can be tagged as 'family'. Thus you can have posts on various subjects within your blog all neatly categorized using tags. In Beta Blogger tags are called as Labels.

There are two types of tags recognized by Technorati. Post tags are tags added to your posts and they allow your posts to be listed in Technorati's tag search here. To add the tags, add the below code for each tag you'd like add to your post into the body of your post.

<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/[TAGNAME]" rel="tag">[TAGNAME]</a>

Publishing a tagged post in Blogger automatically pings Technorati about updated content. If your blog software supports categories and RSS/Atom feeds just use the included category system and make sure you are publishing RSS/Atom feeds and your categories will be read as tags.


Blog Tags are tags added to your blog on Technorati's Blog Configuration page here. These tags allow your blog to be listed in Technorati's Blog Finder and Explore feature.


Technorati indexes the home page of your weblog assisted by the content of your web feeds. If the home page of your weblog contains summaries or plain-text with no links Technorati may not recognize and index your full posts.


If you use the Atom syndication format to publish the content of your weblog Technorati can still index the full text of your post regardless of your content choices on your weblog home page. Just include your entire post within the content element of each entry and we will recognize this content as the full content of your post.


HOW TO SEARCH TECHNORATI :

You can search Technorati Blog diectory.

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How to Add a Google Custom Search Engine to Blog?

You can add a Google Custom Search Engine to your blog............

like I have done at the top of the right sidebar. A Custom Search Engine can be used for the following purposes :

• To place a search box and search results on your website.
• To specify or prioritize the sites you want to include in searches.
• To customize the look and feel to match your website.
• To invite your community to contribute to the search engine.
• To reflect your interests and knowledge.
• To make money from the resulting traffic.

To create this search engine go to http://google.com/coop/cse/overview and click on Create a Search Engine Button. There are only two steps to follow. First specify the Search Engine Settings. Here you give a name and description to your search engine. add keywords and specify the language. Also specify the sites to search and whether these sites are to be emphasized inthe search or solely searched. Lastly specify who can collaborate and check the Agree to Terms of Service and click Next.

In the next step you can try it out and customize it further. After doing so click Finish. You will be taken to a page where all your search engines are listed with links to manage them. Click on the 'control panel' link in front of the name of your search engine. Click on Look and Feel link to further add a logo to your results page. Paste the url of yourlogo in the 'Provide the URL for your logo: ' text field and Save. Now when your readers enter their queries into your search engine they will get a results page with your logo at the top. See image below (click on it to magnify) :




Try it out by entering a term in the search engine at the top of my right sidebar and pressing Search.


You can make money with the new search engine using Adsense by clicking on the 'Make Money' link in the control panel. In the next window add all the details of your Adsense accountso that the Ads. start appearing in the results page.

Click on Code link in the control panel to get the code for your search engine. Copy all the code in the Search box code for your website and paste it into a Html/Javascript Page Element in your sidebar as described in How To Add Widgets.

You can also syndicate your Custom Search Engine by adding a Add to Google button to your webpage. When users click on the button your Custom Search Engine will be added to their personalized Google homepage as a Google Gadget. Get the link code for it by clicking on code link in control panel and paste it similarly as above in your sidebar. It will look like this :

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How to Submit Site to Google?

To submit your blog to the Search Engines..............

After completing your blog and postings you have to submit your blog to the major Search Engines. This is because there are millions of sites out there on the world wide web and the search bots/spiders will not come to your site/blog unless you inform them that a site has been constructed and needs viewers.

There are millions of sites on the web and viewers nowadays have to rely on the search engines to inform them of the best site for the subject they are looking for. Unless you submit your site to the search engines they will never come to know of your site/blog.

TO REMOVE YOUR SITE OR PART OF IT FROM GOOGLE INDEX GO TO Removing my content from the Google index.

After submission the search engines send their spiders to crawl over and index your site and putit in their cache. These 'spiders' are automated programs which periodically visit your site to see if you have made any changes to it.

One advantage of hosting your site on the Blogger platform is that Google's spiders periodically visit your site. To add your site to Google head over to :

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

and sign in with your Google Account. Copy and paste the URL of your site/blog into the text box at the top for "Add Site" and click OK. Google adds the site and the next page opens on which click "Verify your Site". On the next page clickdown arrow besides "Choose Verification Method". Here select " Add a Meta Tag" and a metatag is generated for you. Copy and paste this metatag into your template just below the <title> </title> tags. This part ofthe template is the second part outlined in Parts of Template. Save the template. Also add this Metatag :

<meta name="robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW">

This is so that when Googlebot visits your page it will index it and follow all the links within it.

To prevent Google from indexing add NOINDEX NOFOLLOW instead.

Now Go back to Google Sitemaps page and click on Verify button. Now click on "My Sites" link at the very top of the page under "Google Webmaster Tools". A page opens up to show a list of all the sites you have submitted to Google. Click on "Add a Sitemap" on the same line as your blog/site. The 'Add Sitemap' Page opens up and click down arrow next to "Choose Type" and select "Add General Web Sitemap". In the third line text box under 'My Sitemap url is' paste the feed url of your blog which is :

http://MYBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Instead of 'MYBLOGNAME' type in name of your blog. Click on Add Web Sitemap Button.
This completes the process of adding the sitemap of your blog to Google. There is no need to upload any sitemap file to blogger or to your blog.

If you only want to add your site to Google without adding a Sitemap go to :

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

ADD YOUR BLOG TO GOOGLE BLOG SEARCH

To add your blog to Google Blog Search go here and add your blog URL in the text box provided and click'Submit Blog'.

ADD YOUR BLOG TO YOUR CUSTOMIZED GOOGLE SEARCH PAGE.

Go to http://www.google.com/ig and create a personalised search page. Click on Add Stuff link at the top. In the next page which opens click on 'Add by url' link next to Google Search bar at the top. Enter the url of your blog feed in the text box provided and click on Add. The feed url for classic blogger is :

http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Enter your blog name instead of "MYBLOG" above. The feeds url for Beta blogger are :

http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss


ADVANCED GOOGLE SEARCH OPERATORS :

To see who is linking to your blog type "link:http://myblog.blogspot.com" without the quotes in the search box and press Search. Notice that there is no space between link and the blog URL.

To see sites similar to your site/blog type "related:http://myblog.blogspot.com" without the quotes in the search box and press Search. Notice that there is no space between related and the blog URL. This is a good way of finding out your competing sites.

To see your blog cache in Google type "cache:http://myblog.blogspot.com" without the quotes in the search box and press Search. Notice that there is no space between cache and the blog URL. This will give an indication when Googlebot last visited your site.

To see information about your blog type "info:http://myblog.blogspot.com" without the quotes in the search box and press Search. Notice that there is no space between info and the blog URL.

To see how many pages Google has indexed type "site:myblog.blogspot.com" without the quotes in the search box and press Search. Notice that there is no space between site and the blog URL.

WHAT IS MY PAGE RANK?

Page Rank is Google's patented method of ranking your page according to how many links are pointing to it from other pages on the web. The more the links the more important is your page and it will rise accordingly in Google's search results. When calculating Page Rank more weight is given to a link coming from a page with a higher page rank. Hence it pays to buy links on a page with a higherpage rank then yours. The link should mention the title of your page which in turn should be composed of your keywords.

GET YOUR SITE PAGE RANK

To get the Page Rank for your site paste your site URL in the box below and click on Check Now:

Check the Google Page Rank of your page:

To submit your blog to the Search Engines..............

After completing your blog and postings you have to submit your blog to the major Search Engines. This is because there are millions of sites out there on the world wide web and the search bots/spiders will not come to your site/blog unless you inform them that a site has been constructed and needs viewers.

There are millions of sites on the web and viewers nowadays have to rely on the search engines to inform them of the best site for the subject they are looking for. Unless you submit your site to the search engines they will never come to know of your site/blog.

TO REMOVE YOUR SITE OR PART OF IT FROM GOOGLE INDEX GO TO Removing my content from the Google index.

After submission the search engines send their spiders to crawl over and index your site and putit in their cache. These 'spiders' are automated programs which periodically visit your site to see if you have made any changes to it.

One advantage of hosting your site on the Blogger platform is that Google's spiders periodically visit your site. To add your site to Google head over to :

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

and sign in with your Google Account. Copy and paste the URL of your site/blog into the text box at the top for "Add Site" and click OK. Google adds the site and the next page opens on which click "Verify your Site". On the next page clickdown arrow besides "Choose Verification Method". Here select " Add a Meta Tag" and a metatag is generated for you. Copy and paste this metatag into your template just below the <title> </title> tags. This part ofthe template is the second part outlined in Parts of Template. Save the template. Also add this Metatag :

<meta name="robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW">

This is so that when Googlebot visits your page it will index it and follow all the links within it.

To prevent Google from indexing add NOINDEX NOFOLLOW instead.

Now Go back to Google Sitemaps page and click on Verify button. Now click on "My Sites" link at the very top of the page under "Google Webmaster Tools". A page opens up to show a list of all the sites you have submitted to Google. Click on "Add a Sitemap" on the same line as your blog/site. The 'Add Sitemap' Page opens up and click down arrow next to "Choose Type" and select "Add General Web Sitemap". In the third line text box under 'My Sitemap url is' paste the feed url of your blog which is :

http://MYBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Instead of 'MYBLOGNAME' type in name of your blog. Click on Add Web Sitemap Button.
This completes the process of adding the sitemap of your blog to Google. There is no need to upload any sitemap file to blogger or to your blog.

If you only want to add your site to Google without adding a Sitemap go to :

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

GET YOUR SITE FUTURE PAGE RANK

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To find out the Page Rank install the Google Toolbar which shows the Page Rank for every page you browse when you mouseover it. The page is ranked on a scale from 1 to 10. Google's own home page has a Page Rank of 10. Install the Google toolbar from http://toolbar.google.com/.

To find out full site info for your site go to :

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/indexstats?siteUrl=YOUR SITE URL%2F&hl=en

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