Bing's Webmaster Tools

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Like Google, Microsoft also has its own specific tools for webmaster. The truth is that almost a month after publishing the first post of ciudadblogger.info, indexing the same in Bing (Microsoft's search engine) is extremely poor, so try the tools proposed by Microsoft.

The first thing we do is to know the comparison of our site in the two search engines, it will use this tool bingle.nu which returns the search result in Bing and Google search engine simultaneously.

There are two ways to submit your site to Bing. The first is to use this simple form, where you enter the corresponding url and ready.

The second and most recommended method is using the Microsoft Webmaster Tools

Step 1. - Access to tools for Microsoft
Step 2. - Click on the "Sign in to use webmaster tool" (identification)
Step 3. - You must use a Windows Live ID (Hotmail)
Step 4. - Once inside, add the site indicating the URL of your blog
Step 5. - You should check it, ideally using HTML code for the HEAD section of the Blog: To insert this verification code, do the following:

    Go to the Template tab and click on Edit HTML button
    Search using Ctrl F or Ctrl B this line in the code: <b:skin> <! [CDATA [/ *
    Paste the code snippet you should get Bing tools just before the line you found in the previous step
    Save the template

Now and track expected within a week.

In this post I have explained the procedure for the case of Bing. In subsequent posts, we will deepen more. The truth is, that both criteria idexación search engines are not the same, although Google seems to "reward" blogs, not so with Bing. On the other hand we see that Google indexes each page, while Bing only follow the main page while using the free domain gives you Blogger, ie. Blogspot.com

Analysis and advice On Blogger Comments on Google+

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 In this publication we will make an analysis of this change, the impact of which is from the point of view of the administration of the blog, for the impact it has for readers and also the scope of this novelty.


Blogger and Google+, Google+ and Blogger does not matter the order, the fact is that Google+ is Google's bid to compete to enter fully into the world of social networks and where they go most of new company developments . Sooner or later different service and products are integrated with Google+ iran.

Blogger is because it represents one of the most Google services integration with new social network has experienced in the last year, but not the only, the search engine, Gmail, YouTube, Google Analytics, webmaster tools , etc, etc.., have been in some way or another affected in favor of greater integration with Google+.

How long it takes Google to index a new post in Blogger

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All we have ever asked this question, especially during the first few weeks as bloggers. Anyway, it's frustrating publish, find your blog through for example the title of one of your latest posts and check that there is no trace of your work. This is possibly one of the first reasons why many blogs are abandoned.

The first thing that comes to mind is to think that Blogger does not work even knowing that this is a Google service. The second is to think that our content may not interest anyone and so no trace and well, tried a second and even a third post and nothing at all, we delete the blog and start again as doubt and tend certainly think that we have done wrong, until finally we take it for our blog impossible and goes to swell the list of thousands and thousands of blogs that have become failed attempts.

To solve this puzzle we "invited" Matts Cutts (Google principal engineer) to really explain to us how the search, so we understand the advice you give in the end. When you give the Play, turns on closed down the CC.

Analyzing How Index Works With Matts Cutts


As we have seen, the indexing of content is done through programs called spiders or spider. This allows tracking mechanism be adding to the Google index billions web pages, so that the search is performed on the index, so we hear the phrase ... "is that your site is not indexed by Google" , which is said as an expert and us we curramos the blog we have a face frame and thought ... that she think this.What Matts Cutts not clear in this video and try to make us, the time elapsed since we published our blog content, until we visit the famous spider to index the contents, so that then we ourselves search our blog by the content of an entry.
Steps for proper indexing

    Go to the Settings tab in Basic and then check in the Privacy section you answered yes to both questions Want to add your blog to our listings? Allow search engines to find your blog?

    Instead wait for the spider to come after us, take the initiative and informed directly of our blog Google sitemap sending.
    As we saw in the video sites with more "reputation" that is, those with more inbound links and generate more dynamic content are a good place to index. An example of these sites are blog directories. These are indexed by Google much faster is a good choice as ultimately are links that lead to your blog.
    Keep posting, at least 1 or 2 week post thus how often Google crawls your blog will be much higher and therefore the time elapsed since the public until your post goes to the index will be much lower.
    Be patient, especially at the beginning as it can take up to one week to 10 days until they finally find our blog looking for content.
    The key now is to continue publishing and applying different SEO Blogger tips that will help you position yourself better in search results (so far we have only spoken of content indexing)

Place Post Title Before Blog Title Tricks

screenshot from a opensource search engine (openwebspider) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By default blogger displays, blog title before post title in search engines and and it is not good for  SEO. The best thing is  to change the blogger default setting and display Post title before blog title.

Why it is important to place post title before blog title

Only the post title that describes the whole post in few words. And those words also work as  the keywords of your post. So, whenever people will search something with those keywords your post will appear in search engines. But if you are not displaying post title first, then the chances for the people to click on your site will be less. Because they will see your blog title first and your blog title may not about your post.

How to place post title before blog title

  Steps to place post title before blog title.

• Sign in to blogger.
• Go to template> edit html> proceed.
• Now find below code.

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

• And replace it with this.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
 <b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

• Now click on Save template.

Google will take some time to crawl your page however you can notice the changes in your browser tab. See the example.

So you enjoy this trick.

Submiting Your Blog From Blogger To Bing and Yahoo

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How to Submit your blog to BING .

Just Follow these easy steps:

1. Log into Bing Webmaster Tools using your hotmail account
2.  Click the button " Add Site"  next to "Remove site button".
3. 

    3.   Submit your URL.

       4.   Click Submit. Now you will be asked to verify if you are the true owner of the website or blog you submitted. You will be provided three standard methods. Choose the second option which is "Copy and paste a tag in your default webpage"  Click option:2

         5.  You will be given a short HTML code. Simply copy it and paste the code just below <head> inside your blogger template. To do this go to:

• Blogger > Design > Edit HTML > Backup your template
• Look for <head>
•  Paste the code you got from BING
• Save your template. YOU REDY!

        6. Go back to BING webmaster page and click the "Verify" Button. If you pasted the code correctly then your sitemap will be successfully added to the list.
         7.  Ii should take at most 3 days for BING and YAHOO to start showing data for your newly submitted site but it can even take 5 days. So be patient and expect your blog links appearing in BING and YAHOO search engines within 3-5 days.

Then be able to track organic traffic to your blogs via your webmaster account which is almost similar to Google Webmaster tools account.

Ping Yahoo and Bing

Sometimes you want to inform about a quick update at your blog to Bing and Yahoo, so that they may send crawlers to index your newly added content before time. Don't ping search engines too frequently for it can be taken as overloading the servers which can even get you penalized from search listings. Do it only when you feel that your links are not appearing at Yahoo and Bing page.
Just after blog submission you may also ping the search engines to draw more attention. 

Steps:

1. From the links below , replace www.tricksblogspot.com with your blogspot links or custom domain links. (Example: zailab.blogspot.com  or www.zailab.com)
2. Paste the following links in your browser address bar one at a time and hit enter. You will see a message "Thanks for submitting your sitemap." indicating that you have successfully pinged Bing.

For Bing:

LINK#1 For Posts between 1-500
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tricksblogspot.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%26start-index%3D1%26max-results%3D500

LINK#2 For Posts between 5001-1000
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tricksblogspot.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%26start-index%3D501%26max-results%3D500
LINK#3 For Posts between 1001-1500
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tricksblogspot.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%26start-index%3D1001%26max-results%3D500

If you thinking what about YAHOO dont worry:

You don't need to do this. Pinging bing will do the job

Test to see if your links are appearing

Simply paste your latest post URL inside Bing and Yahoo and see if your blog is appearing in the search results. If it did then say great and enjoy but if it did not then there could be two reasons:

1. You need to wait for at most 5 days after first submission of your Blog
2. You blog has no sufficient posts. Your blog must contain at least 15 posts

YAHOO!














Tips: If despite waiting for 5 days, your links are still not showing up at Yahoo and Bing then do this:

1. PING them again and wait for a day. If things did not work then try step#2 below
2. Remove your Site from BING webmaster tools and resubmit it.
3. PING them just after blog submission.

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