Here is a full sitemap of this blog. Click the Read More link below to see it.
You can contact me :
if you want one for your blog. Please wait for full page to load after clicking the Read More link below.............Sitemap Page
Labels Sitemap Gadget for Blogger. |
The Sitemap Page for Blogger lists all your posts in the order they were posted. What if you want to give your viewers list of post titles under each label? They can then click on the post they want to find under the category or label they are interested in.
To do this I have created a Google gadget using AJAX Google API code. You can see the gadget in action on My Gadget Showcase blog. The Features of this gadget are .......................Features of Labels Sitemap Google Gadget
1. It shows Post Titles classified according to Label.
2. Post Titles are linked to the post pages.
3. It can be added in a post (unlike a Blogger widget) and in a HTML gadget.
4. It uses Label Feeds to retrieve List of Post Titles associated with each label.
5. Style and size can be customized to fit your blog column.LABELS SITEMAP FOR THE BLOG DOCTOR.
You can contact me if you want such a gadget for your blog. I will send you the code to paste in Edit Html tab of Post Editor or in a HTML gadget.
Yet Another Table of Contents YATOC. |
Here is Yet Another Table of Contents - The YATOC Gadget. It is based on the Google AJAX API. You can use it to Make a Sitemap Page for your blog. See picture below :
You can see the demo at top of posts column in My Gadget Showcase blog. It shows all the post titles in the blog linked to respective posts. It is based on official Google AJAX code. Here are the steps to install it..................INSTALLATION
To install this gadget follow these steps :
1. Login at Blogger.com.
2. Click Layouts link under blog title on Dashboard.
3. Click 'Add Gadget' link on Layout---->Page Elements subtab.
4. In popup window scroll down and click Html/Javascript gadget.
5. Copy all the code below :<!--
Copyright (c) 2008 Google Inc.
You are free to copy and use this sample.
License can be found here: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/faq/#license
-->
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load("gdata", "1.x", { packages : ["blogger"] });
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function _run() {
var content = document.getElementById('content');
var bloggerService =
new google.gdata.blogger.BloggerService('com.appspot.interactivesampler');
var feedUri = 'http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=999';
var handleBlogPostFeed = function(postsFeedRoot) {
var posts = postsFeedRoot.feed.getEntries();
var html = '';
html += '<dl>'
+ '<dt><strong>Blog:</strong> '
+ '<a href="'
+ postsFeedRoot.feed.getLink('alternate').getHref()
+ '">'
+ postsFeedRoot.feed.getTitle().getText()
+ '</a></dt>';
html += '<dd><ul>';
for (var i = 0, post; post = posts[i]; i++) {
var postTitle = post.getTitle().getText();
var postURL = post.getHtmlLink().getHref();
html += '<li><a href="' + postURL + '" target="_blank">'
+ postTitle
+ '</a></li>';
}
html += '</ul></dd>';
content.innerHTML = html;
};
var handleError = function(error) {
content.innerHTML = '<pre>' + error + '</pre>';
};
bloggerService.getBlogPostFeed(feedUri, handleBlogPostFeed, handleError);
}
google.setOnLoadCallback(_run);
</script>
<div id="content" style="width:100%;">Loading...</div>
Get This Gadget at <a href="http://www.blogdoctor.me/2009/01/yet-another-table-of-contents-yatoc.html">Yet Another Table of Contents-YATOC.</a>
6. Paste in contents window on HTML gadget popup window.
7. Change 'MYBLOG' in the code to actual subdomain of your blogspot.
8. Save Gadget.
9. View Blog. Wait for page to load completely for gadget to load.
10. Enjoy your sitemap!
Make Sitemap Page in Blogger. |
This post is NOT about adding your blog sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. It is about creating a sitemap page in Blogger which contains the links of all the post titles in your blog.
Such a sitemap page is commonly seen in other blogs and prominently linked to from the Main Page. Blogger does not have such a sitemap page. Instead it has the Blog Archives in the sidebar. To save space these show just the latest month posts and the rest can be accessed through drop down arrows. This hides most of your posts from the noobie viewer. Creating a sitemap page is then the only option to show all posts in one page................CREATE A PAGE IN BLOGGER
In Blogger there are no specifically designed 'pages'. Instead each post is put on it's own page by default. You should have Post Pages turned on in Settings------->Archiving. The Layouts template has this turned on by default. To create a page in Blogger :
1. Login at Blogger.com.
2. Click New Post button on Dashboard under blog title.
3. Post Editor will open.
4. Put title as "Blog Sitemap.".
5. In the post editor type in a few introductory words like I have done in my sitemap post.
6. Publish post.
7. Click Edit Post link to open post again for editing.
8. Click Post Options link in bottom frame of Post editor.
9. Change the date to any date in the recent past.
10. Publish Post.
11. The Post will not appear on Main Page since it has been backdated. This is the only way to change the post order in Blogger.CREATE THE SITEMAP GADGET
To create the sitemap gadget see How to create a Table of Contents with Post Preview for Blogger. Follow the instructions under this heading : "TOC for ONE BLOG".
This will place the Contents table gadget in your blog. Use Click and drag on Page Elements subtab to drag the gadget below the posts column.
The gadget is now seen on ALL blog pages. The next step is to place it only on the Sitemap page. To do this first we need to get the permalink of the sitemap page we created in our blog. Look in the Blog Archives gadget and expand all the arrows to see the "Blog Sitemap" title we gave to the post. Click on the ttle to open the post page. Copy the permalink from the address bar of the browser.PUT GADGET ON SITEMAP PAGE
To put the gadget on the sitemap page we use conditional tags. To do this :
1. Login at Blogger.com.
2. Click Layouts link under blog title on Dashboard.
3. Click Edit Html subtab of Layouts tab.
4. Click Expand Widgets Template checkbox on top of the Template Code box.
5. Wait for the page to refresh.
6. Scroll down to locate the code for the Table of Contents gadget.
7. Modify the code as shown below (Put in the red lines of code) :
<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "BLOG_PAGE_URL"'>
WIDGET CODE
</b:if>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
Replace the CAPS : BLOG_PAGE_URL with the permalink of your blog sitemap post.
8. Save Template.LINKING TO SITEMAP PAGE
To link to the sitemap page from Main Page first you will need to create CSS navigational menu in your header. Then get the permalink of the Blog Sitemap post and put it in the code for the navigation menu tabs.
Blogger Introduces New Features. |
Ever since Beta Blogger debuted last year and then gradually shed off the beta tag, new features have quietly been intruding into the Blogger interface and making their presence felt.
After Google took over Feedburner it was only a matter of time before it connected to Blogger and now you can redirect your Blogger feeds there. Then there is the new Autosave feature below the post editor, the introduction of new widgets, the sitemap in a robots.txt file, a Twitter badge and now a Comment policy declaration at the top of your Comment Editor..........TWITTER BADGE
Twitter is the new micro blogging tool by which you can keep all your friends anywhere abreast of exactly what you are doing at the moment.
Now you can add a Twitter badge to your blog sidebar. Get the code from http://twitter.com/badges/blogger. This will display your Twitter updates in the blog sidebar.BLOGGER IN DRAFT
Blogger In Draft is not exactly an add-on to Blogger. Instead it is a place for Blogger aficionados to try out the new features in Blogger before they are released fully.
You can try out the video upload function which will soon be introduced as a button in the post editor. Also check out the Blogger In Draft blog.REDIRECT FEED AND INCREASE SUBSCRIBERS OVERNIGHT
Here is an easy way to almost double your feed subscribers overnight. Hope you have already burned your feed at Feedburner and put a subscriber count chicklet in the sidebar.
Now go to Settings----->Site Feed in your blog and type in the Post Feed Redirect URL box your Feedburner feed address. For this blog it is :
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DummiesGuideToGoogleBloggerBeta
Now all my post feed traffic will be directed to the above address. Hence readers subscribing directly to :
http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
OR TO
http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full
will also be counted. The change in your chicklet number will be evident after 24-48 hours so don't do an immediate check. Another advantage is for users migrating from another blogging platform like Wordpress can redirect their old subscribers to their new feed.THE POLL WIDGET
New widgets have steadily been added by Blogger to the in-house stable. The latest to be added is the poll widget. Now you do not have to rely on third party sites to add a poll widget to your blog. Add one yourself and introduce interactivity with your readers.
Check out the poll widgets at the end of my posts column and right column.
Before this Blogger had introduced the Newsreel Widget to automatically add current headlines from Google News to your blog and the Video Bar widget to display clips from YouTube and Google Video for your readers to watch without leaving the page.COMMENTS POLICY DECLARATION
Using this latest addition you can now declare your comments policy to anyone who wishes to comment on your blog. When a reader clicks on the 'Comments' link at the bottom of your posts he/she will see this declaration just above the comments editor : See picture below :
To write one for your blog go to Settings----->Comments------>Comment Form Message---->Type policy in the box and Save Settings. You can add hyperlinks in this box. . Click on 'Comments' link below this post to see my comment policy where I have added a link to my profile.ROBOTS.TXT and SITEMAP LINK
Blogspot blogs do not have facility for you to upload a robots.txt file to the root directory. Hence we have to add a Robots Metatag so that the search spiders know which pages to index in your blog. Google Webmasters Sitemaps has added a robots.txt file in the root of each blog. To see it go to Google Webmasters Sitemaps. Before doing this add your site to Google and verify it with a metatag.
Then go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools------>Dashboard------>Diagnostic tab------->Sidebar------->Tools------->robots.txt analysis. You will see the text in the robots file :
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Sitemap: http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated
At the moment you are not allowed to edit it but I expect this facility to be introduced soon. The Disallow: /search option is to reduce the amount of duplicate content in the blog by refusing the spiders to index the Labels pages. Now you can add as many labels below your posts as you want without worrying about duplicate content.
The sitemap option points the spiders to the feed of that blog which contains the latest posts and updates.IMAGE IN HEADER
You can now upload an image in your header directly instead of adding an image element to the header or adding it in the CSS. To center this image make sure to upload an image with the same width as that of the header-wrapper in your template.AUTOSAVE POSTS
Below the post editor (Login to Dashboard------>Click +New Post) there is a blue autosave button which saves as you type. After saving it turns grey and waits for you to type more or edit previous entries. If you are editing a previously published post then instead there is a Save as draft button in it's place. For more info. see Blogger Buzz: Auto-savory Blogger Posting
How to Submit Site to Google? |
To submit your blog to the Search Engines.............. Technorati Tags:addurl, google, page rank, search, sitemap, submit site
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:
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=/addurlGET 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












