How To Use ALT Attribute For Images In Blogger ? Image Optimization

Do you know what is image optimization? Do you know you are losing hundred of your visitors daily just because of one mistake ? Are you optimizing your images in proper way? Answer to all these question are mentioned below in very easy language. 
Image optimization is key to on page optimization. Google search engine bot can't read images unless you add some alt text or description to your image. Proper name to image, adding alt title, alt text and captions are some useful strategies through which you can improve your traffic. Blog posts with no images are the most boring stuff on internet. There is very limited possibility that someone completely read that type of blog posts. Images basically add visual effects to blog posts and also it attracts reader attention. Most of the peoples used Google image search for finding their quires. They search images for their wallpapers, social media updates, blog posts and education. If you properly tag your image it is possible that they will find your image and visit your blog. Don't try to add irrelevant tags to your image. Also keep keywords use limited while describing an image.
Previously bloggers manually add alt text to their images. It was very difficult and need to set up custom HTML code. Now blogger team has added this feature in post editor. You can now easily add title text, alt text and image caption to any of your image. Let's see how to do this.

Go to post editor and upload any image. Click on that image and select properties. See below image for more clear view.

Adding Title Text For Images

When you select properties new pop up box will open asking you to enter Title text and alt text. Enter the title text that best matches your image. This Title text will be displayed on mouse hover. This basically defines the image. It tells what author what to convey to their readers.

Adding Alt Text For Images

The second blank is for alt text. See the above image. You will get some idea how your alt text must be written. Tip on writing alt text: Keep words limited. Not more than 3 or 4 words. Add - or + sign between words. Use keywords but that must be relevant to image. 

This alt text is not displayed. It is basically used by image search engines like Google, yahoo and bing. They arrange their data according to these stuffs. 

Some Other Things To Remember

There are some other things that you must know for best image optimization. I have explained them in my previous articles but for your convenience i am giving short description here. 

Image Size: Keep image size low. Use Adobe Photoshop for this purpose. Compress your image before uploading to post editor using online image compression tools.

Image name: Image name is another very important wat to drive more traffic. When you save your image, give it proper name related to your blog post. Don't just leave it 'untitled' for don't give any numeric value. Give it proper name with at-least 3 or 4 words.

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Top 5 Steps To Improve Your Google Pagerank

Google Page Rank is the most discussed topic among bloggers. What is Google Page Rank and why it is so much important? Basically Google page Rank is ranking given by Google search engine. It ranges from 0-10. !0/10 Google page rank is extremely outstanding. There are very few sites who  ranked by Google as 10/10. Page rank 0 is considered to be the initial point or worse for those who have passed much time on blogging but have zero progress.  Google page rank is updated after every 3-4  months. High page rank gives high traffic to any web page. So we can say that it is very important to have better Google page rank rather than 0. Question is how we can get high page rank or how we can improve our Google page rank? Read below you will find answer by yourself. I will tell you 5 ways so it will be very precise and to the point.

1. Submit Your Blog/Website to Web Directories

First step that you must take is to submit your blog/website URL to all of popular search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing, Aol and DMOZ(Open Directory Project). Dmoz is the largest directory on the web which is completely written by peoples and all most all the search engines consider DMOZ and take site from it as reference. If you don't know how to add URL to these search engine you can consider reading my this article.

• Add Your Blog or Site in Top Search Engines

2. Increase Quality Backlinks to Your Blog/Website

Increase number of backlinks to your website. Add links to pages with high PR. One link coming from PR 5 or higher is worth than 100 incoming links from PR 0 or 1. So try your best to create links with high page rank websites.
Add links in forum, blog and social media accounts. Add your link in comments. This will give you best chance to get higher page rank. Almost all of the search engines greatly look on these type of links. Check your Google  page rank, Alexa rank and other search engines rank by reading my this article.

• Check Your Google Page Rank-Alexa Rank and Backlinks to your Blog

3. Write Fresh and Quality Contents for your Readers

Write on daily basis. Write Quality contents. Don't write old topic articles. Give your visitors fresh topic and be creative. Don't copy form other blog/websites. If you like some article and want to write on that than give it your own words. Don't be limited to keywords they are important but not as most of author says. Write in that way your visitors want. Write article with not less than 500 words.

4. Publicize Your Blog/Website on social media

When you write some article give it social exposure. Share it on main stream social media networks like Facebook, Google+, twitter and add it on bookmarking websites. This will generate traffic and will also help you to increase your Alexa ranking and your Google page rank. Ask your friends to link your site and make community and work together.

5. Create an error free Blog/Website

Create website/blog with no errors like 404 and slow loading. Improve HTML of your blog and try to have minimum number of duplicate contents. Improve your page load time by compressing your images, HTML and CSS codes. Website with high page load time will be kicked off from google index. Optimize your images and text with best SEO. Don't create to many outgoing links. 
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These are some steps to gain high page rank. If you follow these guidelines you will face no problem. Google page rank is important and take care of your rank. Have a Nice Day.

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How To Optimize Images In Blogger For Better Search Engine Ranking?

Image optimization is very important in ranking your blog/site. It's very strange but true that if you optimize your images properly you will get 20% to 30% of blog traffic in bonus. To  gain this traffic you must know what is image optimization and how to do it?It's very simple and easy way. You need not more than seconds to properly optimize your image. There are some important things that you must know while doing image optimization.
Let's see how to do image optimization and things that you know while doing image optimization.

Give Image File a Name

Mention Image file name. When you create some image file that give it relevant name with respect to your topic. Currently google don't have capability to recognize what is going on image. You must need to rename it from untitled to relevant topic name.
Showing below the google results for "stretching vertical navigation menu" search :

Add ALT Attribute To Your Images

Google spider searches for alt text mention on any image. It basically describes what is going on that image. When some one searches on Google Images it automatically display relevant images with the help of alt text mention on that image. If you don't mention alt text on your image it may be disappear from Google search results and you will get nothing from that image. So proper alt attributes significantly improve your traffic.

Focus on Image File Size

 Large images results increase in page load time and visitors dissatisfaction. This will result in decrement of your page rank and traffic. You must properly optimize image so that file size must not exceed from limits or image may not get blurred due to very low size. Keep the image file size to minimum and quality of image must not be disturbed. 

Write captions below each image

There is no such importance for writing captions but for making your blog data and images user friendly you must mention captions. It will decrease your bounce rate.
What is bounce rate?
Number of user limited to only one page view.

Add Relevant Image In Your Post

Image related to your post result in better visitor response, decrease your bounce rate and you will receive traffic from Google Images. Famous saying about relevant image:
"A picture is worth a thousand words"An image can describe so many things that you are unable to teach your audience.

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Optimize your image to increase your search engine ranking. Follow these steps and keep them in minds. I hope this article will help you in understanding image optimization. Have a Nice Day.

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What are Nofollow and Dofollow Links? Tips for Bloggers

If you are new to blogging or SEO you most probably have seen people talking about nofollow and dofollow links. They are very important in increasing blog traffic, increasing your Google page rank and increasing your backlinks. They both are important in SEO and in web traffic. Basically link with no rel="nofollow" attribute is considered to be dofollow and link with this attribute is considered to be nofollow link.

Dofollow Links and Their Importance

Dofollow links are very important in increasing your page rank and traffic rank. Actually what's happen is when Google bot crawl your pages it check all the thing on your page including text, headings, images, links and alt attributes. If there is any link present without rel=nofollow attribute it just follow that page and landed on that page. If that link is going to very low level blog/site it effects your pagerank. So while writing you must consider adding rel attribute to all of links pointing to low level websites. If you have link on some high page rank website it also improves your site ranking. To get benefit of this most of new bloggers do link exchanging. 
Example of dofollow link:

<a href="http://www.howdoblog.com">How To Blog</a>

If you want dofollow link from our blog just write article on any topic related to blogging and send it to us you will get free dofollow link in return. 
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Nofollow Links and Their Importance

Nofollow links are also important but not as dofollow links. When google bot crawl any nofollow link it just ignore that link. Means it does not go to that page. But its a great source to bring traffic to your blog. If you have any nofollow link on any website pointing toward your blog/site although Google don't follow that link but people on that page most probably visit your page to know more. If you want that your blog contain no dofollow link than go to html section of your blog and search for dofollow and replace it with nofollow tag.
 Example for nofollow Link:

<a href="http://www.howdoblog.com"rel="nofollow">How To Blog</a>

Dofollow site list

There are many websites who offers dofollow blog list and become source to bring traffic to your blog. Mentioning below some  of websites with dofollow blog lists.

• do follow blogs
• followlist
• Dofollow Blog Directory

This was a small post on important topic. I will try to cover all things  related to blogging in coming posts. Stay tuned to get free updates and get subscribed to receive updates directly in to your mail box. Have a Nice Day.

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Top 10 Ways To Improve Search Engine Ranking-2

Previously i was talking about how to improve search engine ranking. Today i am on the same topic with different techniques and different ways. Apart from content and social media involvement there are other things that needs to be done for better ranking in search engine. Without knowing these your blog/website can't grow better. Let's see other 5 ways to improve Google ranking. 

6.Nofollow and Dofollow Links

Nofollow and Dofollow links plays an important role in your search engine ranking. Basically it's just the tag that tells search engine which link to be followed. Adding nofollow attribute to your all outgoing links will result better. Adding dofollow links to other sites may drop your Google page rank and SER. Many peoples add their websites in comments. You must make all of  your comments links nofollow so that google don't track those links.
Read:

• 12 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic-2

7.Meta Description Tags

Limit your Meta Description to 160 words including spaces and write best meta description that describes your website. Meta Description is shown in Google search results and give your visitors brief introduction to your topic. Google also include your Meta description tag to differentiate it with other pages.  Avoid duplicate meta description on pages this will badly effect your ranking.
Read:

• Add META tag and Description to your Blog

8.Remove duplicate/Unused links

Remove duplicate links of your posts from google search results. Remove by going to google webmasters tool. Remove archive and label links.

9.Keyword Search

Search best keywords for your topic title and body. Use Google keywords search tool. Choose words with low competition. Don't repeat same words or sentences in post. Don't make spelling and grammar errors.

10.Keep outgoing links Limited

Increase number of internal links and decrease outgoing links. Must include 2 or 3 links to your previous post in every new article. Install Seoquake toolbar to monitor google  pagerank, Alexa site rank, and internal and external links.

These are some basics things that you need to know. I next articles i will tell you how to increase number of comments on blogs, advantages of blog comments and many more things. Stay tuned. Have a Nice Day.

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12 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic-3

In the previous articles i told you about 8 different ways to increase blog traffic. This was series post and it's last post of the series. In this post i will tell you about 4 different ways to increase blog traffic.

Series on Blog Traffic

T12 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic-1 
(Published)

T12 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic-2 
(Published)

T12 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic-3 
(Published)

9. Choose Best Keywords

You can increase your blog traffic by choosing best keywords. You can use Google Adwords keyword tool. Choose long tail words. Choose the word that have more searches but less competition. The more unique words you will choose the more the unique visitors you will get.

10. Advertise with Google Adwords/facebook

Advertise your blog on facebook and google. You can choose their advertising options. Google have adwords i-e PPC Advertising. Google will display your blog on related web pages and you will get handsome amount of traffic. This method is for those i initially have sufficient budget for advertising.

11.Video Posting

Video posting is one of the best method to increase blog traffic. Explain some of the things with video. Upload that video to youtube and give channel link on your blog. Embed that video with your posts. You will receive traffic from youtube also if you mention your blog in description. This is another way you can increase blog traffic.

12. Search Engine Optimization

Make your blog friendly for search engine. Avoid from long titles for your post. Title must not exceed more than 70 characters. Remove duplicate meta description from your blog. There must be an equality in internal and external links. These are some basic things through which you can increase your blog traffic.

This was series post. I hope you all like this. If you face any problem do mention in comments. If you like, get subscribe to get more updates right into your mail box. That's all for today. Have a Nice Day.                   

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12 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic-2

In the previous post i told you about increasing blog traffic and 4 ways to increase to blog traffic. Through daily posting,social media sharing,link exchange and E-mail subscription. In this session i will mention 4 other different ways to increase blog traffic.

Series on Blog Traffic

T12 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic-1 
(Published)

T12 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic-2 
(Current)

T12 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic-3 
(Published)

You can increase your blog traffic by commenting on different forums and blogs. On forums you give some solutions in discussion and give link back to your blog for more information. This method is also best as there are so many peoples who are affiliated with specific forums. You can also increase traffic by commenting on different blogs. By asking them question and leaving your recent post URL at that blog. By this way you get traffic from that blogs and forums.

6.Guest Posting

Allow guest  posting for your blog and also post some guest posts on other blogs. This is one of the best method to increase blog traffic. You post on some high ranking blog that have high traffic rank, you leave your own blog link on that and readers from that blog visits your blog to know more. If you allow guest posting you again receive good traffic because of other new ideas and their web page link. This method work best when you have some google high google page rank and have some traffic.

7.Directory Submission

Through Directory Submission you submit your Blog to most popular directories Like SEMOZ, Technorati Dofollow and there are many more. Most peoples search these directories to find their relevant information you will get handsome amount of traffic.

This also increase link pointing to your site.
Read this article to know how to submit your Blog to Blog Directory

Register Your Blog In Technorati

8.Mobile Version of Your Blog

Make mobile version of your blog or website. The world is changing. The number of internet users in America are very high and most of them use internet from their mobile phones. The whole world is also moving to mobile internet. If you have mobile version of your blog you will get maximum of traffic from these developed countries where internet users are in millions.

That's all for today. Will come up with 4 other different ways to increase blog traffic. Have a Nice Day.                              

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