related_results_labels({"version":"1.0","encoding":"UTF-8","feed":{"xmlns":"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom","xmlns$openSearch":"http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/","xmlns$georss":"http://www.georss.org/georss","id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131315009230388324"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-02-09T03:01:12.555+05:30"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"BloggerStop.Net - Blogger Widgets, Templates, Help!"},"subtitle":{"type":"html","$t":"BloggerStop.net - That's Bloggers Paradise..."},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/feeds/posts/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2131315009230388324/posts/default/-/SEO?alt\u003djson-in-script\u0026max-results\u003d5"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/search/label/SEO"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2131315009230388324/posts/default/-/SEO/-/SEO?alt\u003djson-in-script\u0026start-index\u003d6\u0026max-results\u003d5"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Divya Sai"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/00580458018752018936"},"email":{"$t":"bloggerstop.net@gmail.com"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"31"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131315009230388324.post-6725599675882313737"},"published":{"$t":"2010-01-25T18:06:00.005+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-01-25T18:38:23.284+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Blogger Help"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"SEO"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Webmaster Tools"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"BEST Method To Truncate Posts In Blogger/BlogSpot Blogs"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis post is important for all the bloggers, blogging on Googles \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.blogger.com/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eBlogger\u003c/a\u003e platform. Whether you are presently using any post-truncating method or not, you should read this post at least once.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003chr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerstop.net/\" style\u003d\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cimg alt\u003d\"Best Read More hack for Blogger blogs\" rel\u003d\"lytebox\" src\u003d\"http://i45.tinypic.com/2450g80.jpg\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eTruncating posts on homepage/archives/label-pages is a must for every blog. If you care for your readers and search engines, then you should know that truncating the posts will make both of them happy.\u003cbr /\u003eBy showing only a small part instead of the complete post, you will save some bandwidth and time of your readers. And similarly search engines will load your pages quickly too. Moreover your readers will not miss the posts present at the bottom and when they click on the \"read more\" links to read the posts in detail, it will increase your pageviews too.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003ca name\u003d'more'\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eIf you are working on \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.blogger.com/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eBlogger/BlogSpot\u003c/a\u003e platform, then you have at least 3 ways to truncate the posts. Two of them involve javascripting to truncate the posts and the third one (that is officially announced and suggested by Blogger) is non-javascript based. You would have seen all three of them being used by different bloggers. Some of the newly developed Blogger-Custom-Templates use the javascript based automatic-read more hack.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003chr /\u003e\u003ci\u003eSponsored Ads\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.amazon.com/Art-SEO-Mastering-Optimization-Practice/dp/0596518862?ie\u003dUTF8\u0026amp;tag\u003dbloggnet-20\u0026amp;link_code\u003dbtl\u0026amp;camp\u003d213689\u0026amp;creative\u003d392969\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eThe Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization (Theory in Practice)\u003c/a\u003e\u003cimg alt\u003d\"\" border\u003d\"0\" height\u003d\"1\" src\u003d\"http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t\u003dbloggnet-20\u0026amp;l\u003dbtl\u0026amp;camp\u003d213689\u0026amp;creative\u003d392969\u0026amp;o\u003d1\u0026amp;a\u003d0596518862\" style\u003d\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;\" width\u003d\"1\" /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.amazon.com/Get-Top-Google-Techniques-Rankings/dp/1857885023?ie\u003dUTF8\u0026amp;tag\u003dbloggnet-20\u0026amp;link_code\u003dbtl\u0026amp;camp\u003d213689\u0026amp;creative\u003d392969\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eGet to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rankings -- and Stay There\u003c/a\u003e\u003cimg alt\u003d\"\" border\u003d\"0\" height\u003d\"1\" src\u003d\"http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t\u003dbloggnet-20\u0026amp;l\u003dbtl\u0026amp;camp\u003d213689\u0026amp;creative\u003d392969\u0026amp;o\u003d1\u0026amp;a\u003d1857885023\" style\u003d\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;\" width\u003d\"1\" /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.amazon.com/SEO-Made-Simple-Strategies-Dominating/dp/1442169206?ie\u003dUTF8\u0026amp;tag\u003dbloggnet-20\u0026amp;link_code\u003dbtl\u0026amp;camp\u003d213689\u0026amp;creative\u003d392969\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eSEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World's Largest Search Engine\u003c/a\u003e\u003cimg alt\u003d\"\" border\u003d\"0\" height\u003d\"1\" src\u003d\"http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t\u003dbloggnet-20\u0026amp;l\u003dbtl\u0026amp;camp\u003d213689\u0026amp;creative\u003d392969\u0026amp;o\u003d1\u0026amp;a\u003d1442169206\" style\u003d\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;\" width\u003d\"1\" /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003chr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat's the problem?\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAs the first two hacks, (viz. \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/05/automatic-read-more-hack-for-blogger.html\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eautomatic read more hack\u003c/a\u003e, and \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerstop.net/2008/10/blogger-help-add-read-more-link-to-your.html\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003emanual read-more using \u0026lt;span class\u003d\"fullpost\"\u0026gt;\u003c/a\u003e) use javascript to truncate the posts, so most of your readers (at least 90%) will be able to see the truncated posts, \u003cb\u003ebut search engines like \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.google.com/\"\u003eGoogle\u003c/a\u003e/\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.yahoo.com/\"\u003eYahoo\u003c/a\u003e without javascript support in their browsers will not see your blog-pages with truncated posts\u003c/b\u003e. So, even though you are using the truncating (read-more) hack in your blog, they are of no help in optimizing your blog for search engines.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIf you are also using one of those javascript based techniques to truncate your posts, then I will advice you to stop using that method and better switch to the third option (non-javascript based).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe solution\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo I will suggest you to \u003cb\u003euse the official method of truncating posts suggested by Blogger\u003c/b\u003e: i.e. use \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026lt;!-- more --\u0026gt;\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/b\u003e anywhere in the blog-post to truncate it. \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/09/read-more-is-official-now-and-static.html\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eRead the complete post here\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003eAnd if you are facing any problems in using this method, then read; \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/09/blogger-read-more-sidebar-errors-fixed.html\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003ehow to fix errors in Blogger Read-More hack\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenefits you will get by using this method\u003c/b\u003e:\u003cbr /\u003e1. Posts are truncated for both your readers and search engines.\u003cbr /\u003e2. Decreases loading time of your blog (you can check it in your Google Webmasters account), as posts are truncated for search-engine-bots too.\u003cbr /\u003e3. Increases page-views.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eA suggestion to further optimize your blog\u003c/b\u003e:\u003cbr /\u003eLimit the non-truncated part of the posts to only 1 image (that means, show only 1 image per post in the homepage). Hide extra images in the hidden/truncated part, as it will decrease the loading time of your hompage/archive pages.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eCheck it yourself...\u003c/b\u003e - Immediately after implementing this hack in all the blog posts (being shown in the homepage), you can check and see the improvements your blog has made:\u003cbr /\u003e1. Go to \u003ca href\u003d\"http://tools.pingdom.com/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003ePingdom-Tools\u003c/a\u003e and note down the loading time of your blog.\u003cbr /\u003e2. Now apply this hack to all the posts present on your blogs homepage, and then again check the loading time of your blog at Pingdom.\u003cbr /\u003eYou'll notice the difference;\u003cbr /\u003e- in the total HTML size of the blog (it will decrease) and,\u003cbr /\u003e- in the loading time (it will also decrease, that means your blog now loads faster).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://teacher.net.edu.sa/balkhoyor/photogallery/Pages/motivation.aspx\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eImage credits\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2131315009230388324-6725599675882313737?l\u003dbloggerstop.net' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/feeds/6725599675882313737/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/2010/01/best-method-to-truncate-posts-in.html#comment-form","title":"23 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2131315009230388324/posts/default/6725599675882313737"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2131315009230388324/posts/default/6725599675882313737"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/2010/01/best-method-to-truncate-posts-in.html","title":"BEST Method To Truncate Posts In Blogger/BlogSpot Blogs"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Divya Sai"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/00580458018752018936"},"email":{"$t":"bloggerstop.net@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"11938556185254323866"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"23"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131315009230388324.post-7571547656617981533"},"published":{"$t":"2010-01-01T22:30:00.001+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-01-06T15:49:56.815+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"SEO"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Webmaster Tools"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"PageRank"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Check Google PageRank Of All Internal Pages Of a Website"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"background:url(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4fVBL4fjrFI/SV0AwBtWTzI/AAAAAAAABmw/k3l3gBm5HHs/s320/pagerank_Faded.png) no-repeat;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePost Updated\u003c/b\u003e: \u003ci\u003eTool used in the hack is changed from SeoBook to SEOQuake.\u003c/i\u003e\u003chr/\u003eAlthough there are some tools available, which claim to find out and show you the PageRank of all the individual internal indexed pages of a blog or website like, iwebtool.com and check-seo.com, but I found them quite inefficient (rather completely inefficient).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo here's a simple method to check the individual PageRank of web pages yourself within minutes.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003ca name\u003d'more'\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eFor this method, you should have Firefox [\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eDownload Link\u003c/a\u003e] installed in your computer, instead of Internet Explorer.\u003cbr /\u003eThere's an add-on for Firefox - \u003ca href\u003d\"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3036\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eSEO-Quake Firefox\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOnce installed, it will be displayed in Firefox at the bottom like this:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca rel\u003d\"lytebox\" href\u003d\"http://i45.tinypic.com/2cei6o4.jpg\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"1\" src\u003d\"http://i45.tinypic.com/2cei6o4.jpg\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003eTo enable or disable this add-on, you just have to click on it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNow with the help of this tool, during a Google search, you will see \u003cb\u003eaddtional details\u003c/b\u003e below every \u003cb\u003eGoogle Search result\u003c/b\u003e, like this:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca rel\u003d\"lytebox\" href\u003d\"http://i50.tinypic.com/29wlhn7.jpg\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"1\" src\u003d\"http://i50.tinypic.com/29wlhn7.jpg\" width\u003d\"500\"/\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn those additional details, the first one is PR of that particular web page.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNow go to \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.google.com\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd search like this:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003esite:YOUR_WEBSITE_OR_BLOG.COM\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003efor ex, site:bloggerstop.net\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThen you will see all the pages indexed by Google of that website/blog, along with their Google PageRanks.\u003cbr /\u003eRefresh the search result pages 1,2,3... if the additional details are not displayed instantly below the search results.\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2131315009230388324-7571547656617981533?l\u003dbloggerstop.net' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/feeds/7571547656617981533/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/01/how-to-check-google-pagerank-of.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2131315009230388324/posts/default/7571547656617981533"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2131315009230388324/posts/default/7571547656617981533"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/01/how-to-check-google-pagerank-of.html","title":"Check Google PageRank Of All Internal Pages Of a Website"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Divya Sai"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/00580458018752018936"},"email":{"$t":"bloggerstop.net@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"11938556185254323866"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131315009230388324.post-1484751846461557538"},"published":{"$t":"2009-12-15T22:26:00.001+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-12-15T22:43:24.338+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Blogger Help"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"SEO"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Webmaster Tools"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Are You Planning To Make Your Blog \"DoFollow\" ?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThis Sunday morning I was surprised to see over 100 unread comments on my blog with hardly 1 or 2 words per comment. Most of the comments were saying either \"thank you for the post\" or simply \"ty\" and of course linked to some blog/web address, now it was clear that all of these comments were SPAM.\u003cbr /\u003eIt took almost one hour to delete all these comments. I am sure Google would already have detected all these new links leaving my blog, but luckily for me \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.bloggerstop.net/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eBloggerStop\u003c/a\u003e is not a DoFollow blog. Then why all these unecessary comments were here this morning?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan class\u003d\"fullpost\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cimg alt\u003d\"Spam Comments\" src\u003d\"http://i50.tinypic.com/2qa3crm.jpg\" /\u003e\u003c/center\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI checked my stats [\u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerstop.net/2008/11/how-to-track-visitors-and-optimize-your.html\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003etrack your visitors too\u003c/a\u003e] and found all these commentators were coming from a famous Turkish forum \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.r10.net/dmoz-ve-diger-dizinler/519116-prli-backlinkler.html\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eR10\u003c/a\u003e, and they were here due to an incorrect post mentioning BloggerStop as a dofollow blog.\u003cbr /\u003eSo this is exactly what can happen with you too, if you have a dofollow blog and a single post about your blog is posted on a popular forum. And imagine the spam flood your blog will face when the same post is copied to other \u003ca href\u003d\"http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t\u003d1490905\" rel\u003d\"nofollow\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eforums\u003c/a\u003e, blogs and \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.dofollowblogs.com/\" rel\u003d\"nofollow\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003edirectories\u003c/a\u003e. Within a few days Google and other search engines will penalise your blog for converting it in to a \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003elink farm\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003eBut if you still want to enjoy the spammy, non-converting traffic and you think that you have ample time to moderate all the spam comments then you can easily convert your blogger blog in to a dofollow blog, by deleting a small code snippet:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003erel\u003d'nofollow'\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003efrom this line:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u0026lt;a expr:href\u003d'data:comment.authorUrl' rel\u003d'nofollow'\u0026gt;\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003ein your blogs template (the code will be displayed in the template only when you mark the \"Expand Widget Templates\" tickbox).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"#comments\"\u003eSo, any plans to change your blog to a dofollow blog\u003c/a\u003e?\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2131315009230388324-1484751846461557538?l\u003dbloggerstop.net' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/feeds/1484751846461557538/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/12/are-you-planning-to-make-your-blog.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2131315009230388324/posts/default/1484751846461557538"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2131315009230388324/posts/default/1484751846461557538"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/12/are-you-planning-to-make-your-blog.html","title":"Are You Planning To Make Your Blog \"DoFollow\" ?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Divya Sai"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/00580458018752018936"},"email":{"$t":"bloggerstop.net@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"11938556185254323866"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131315009230388324.post-4095171233569644570"},"published":{"$t":"2009-12-04T22:38:00.003+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-12-06T17:04:19.945+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Blogger Help"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"SEO"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Google"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Webmaster Tools"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Speed Matters - Site Speed is an Important SEO Factor Now!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003ca target\u003d\"_blank\" href\u003d\"http://i50.tinypic.com/1z9gzn.jpg\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt\u003d\"speed up\" border\u003d\"0\" src\u003d\"http://i50.tinypic.com/1z9gzn.jpg\" width\u003d\"250\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eGoogle loves speed, and there's absolutely no doubt in it. Most of the searches made on Google, return the results within a second. And Google doesn't want to limit its speed only till the search result pages [SERPs], rather, it is now trying to give the best user experience by showing fast loading pages in its top results.\u003cbr /\u003eMay be a few years back Google/Matt Cutts had a \u003ca target\u003d\"_blank\" href\u003d\"http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/myth-busting-delays-in-page-loading/\"\u003edifferent opinion\u003c/a\u003e, when content and information was given prime importance in search engine ranking. But presently with similar content in hundred's of pages across the web, page loading speed has to be made an important SEO factor.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe official news...\u003c/b\u003e\u003cspan class\u003d\"fullpost\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn a recent \u003ca target\u003d\"_blank\" href\u003d\"http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/11/13/matt-cutts-interview/\"\u003einterview with WebProNews\u003c/a\u003e, Google's Matt Cutts has given some insights on how site speed may soon be an important ranking factor:\u003cbr /\u003e\"Historically, we haven't had to use it in our search rankings, but a lot of people within Google think that the web should be fast,\" says Cutts. \"It should be a good experience, and so it's sort of fair to say that if you're a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a bonus. If you really have an awfully slow site, then maybe users don't want that as much.\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMoreover Site Speed has been included as a new feature under \"Google Labs\" section in \u003ca target\u003d\"_blank\" href\u003d\"http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-fast-is-your-site.html\"\u003eGoogle Webmaster Tools\u003c/a\u003e too:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cimg alt\u003d\"Google Site Performance-Loading Speed\" src\u003d\"http://i46.tinypic.com/2vb4g0m.jpg\" /\u003e\u003c/center\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eSo anything new in SEO\u003c/b\u003e?\u003cbr /\u003eThere are no additional SEO requirements due to this announcement, already loading speed is important to make the visitors happy, now it has been added as an important factor in search engines rankings.\u003cbr /\u003e1. Check your sites loading time at \u003ca target\u003d\"_blank\" href\u003d\"http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/\"\u003ePingDom\u003c/a\u003e [quite accurate and recommended tool]\u003cbr /\u003e2. Other \u003ca target\u003d\"_blank\" href\u003d\"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/01/check-how-fast-your-blog-web-site-loads.html\"\u003etools to check and optimize\u003c/a\u003e your blogs loading time.\u003cbr /\u003e3. Google itself is ready to help you to speed up the loading time - \u003ca target\u003d\"_blank\" href\u003d\"http://code.google.com/speed/\"\u003eGoogle Speed\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca target\u003d\"_blank\" href\u003d\"http://code.google.com/speed/tools.html\"\u003e Helpful Tools\u003c/a\u003e [Check you Webmaster Tools account too - a must for everyone]\u003cbr /\u003e4. Also read \u003ca target\u003d\"_blank\" href\u003d\"http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/blogging-strategies-for-reducing-page-loading-time/\"\u003ethis post [from OneCoolSite]\u003c/a\u003e on how you can optimize your site's loading speed.\u003cbr /\u003e5. Select templates with minimum graphics and javascript/css files.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eExactly when will Google update its algorithm?\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMay be Google has already included it, but Matt implied that it will be added to their algorithm in 2010.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eImage credits: \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.theinsider.com/news/681110_Tortoise_Warm_A_Slow_News_Day\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eThe Insider\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2131315009230388324-4095171233569644570?l\u003dbloggerstop.net' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/feeds/4095171233569644570/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/12/site-speed-is-important-seo-factor-now.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2131315009230388324/posts/default/4095171233569644570"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2131315009230388324/posts/default/4095171233569644570"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/12/site-speed-is-important-seo-factor-now.html","title":"Speed Matters - Site Speed is an Important SEO Factor Now!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Divya Sai"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/00580458018752018936"},"email":{"$t":"bloggerstop.net@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"11938556185254323866"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131315009230388324.post-4304196356695797648"},"published":{"$t":"2009-10-14T14:41:00.008+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-10-16T17:52:59.219+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Blogger Help"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"SEO"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Webmaster Tools"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Check Your WebSite In Different Browsers, Resolutions and Operating Systems"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4fVBL4fjrFI/StWFN2TCPsI/AAAAAAAADRY/ri4IhPglsJM/s1600/screen_resolutions.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" rel\u003d\"lytebox\" style\u003d\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"0\" src\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4fVBL4fjrFI/StWFN2TCPsI/AAAAAAAADRY/ri4IhPglsJM/s1600/screen_resolutions.png\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eOptimizing your website/blog for all screen resolutions, Internet browsers and operating systems is really important. A conflict of your website with any these parameters may result in an increase in the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl\u003den\u0026amp;answer\u003d81986\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003ebounce rate of your blog/website\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ch4\u003eThe stats facts!\u003c/h4\u003eAccording to the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://gs.statcounter.com/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eGlobal Stats from Statcounter\u003c/a\u003e, you should optimize your blog/website for these \u003cb\u003eoperating systems\u003c/b\u003e: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X and Windows 7.\u003cbr /\u003eAnd you should make your website/blog compatible with these \u003cb\u003eInternet browsers\u003c/b\u003e: Windows Internet Explorer 6 (and 6+), Firefox 2 (and 2+), Opera 9+ and Google Chrome.\u003cbr /\u003eAnd finally the content-area of your website should be clearly visible in these \u003cb\u003escreen resolutions\u003c/b\u003e (that means your website should be neither too smaller nor larger than the resolution of your visitor's PC): 1024x768, 1280x1024, 800x600, 1152x864, 1280x800 and also 1600x1200.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan class\u003d\"fullpost\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe problem you will face\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIf you want to check and optimize your website for each of the above listed parameter, then it may take hours just to check your website in these different operating systems, browsers and screen resolutions.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinally the solution\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo to make your work simple, here are just four websites, that will help you to visualize your website in different combinations within minutes.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e1. \u003ca href\u003d\"https://browserlab.adobe.com/index.html\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eAdobe Browser Labs\u003c/a\u003e - To check your website in different combinations of operating systems and browsers. (It's Adobe - registration is required).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4fVBL4fjrFI/StWUCE9pnKI/AAAAAAAADRg/IkqNUkJd1pU/s1600/Adobe_BrowserLab.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" rel\u003d\"lytebox\" style\u003d\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"0\" src\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4fVBL4fjrFI/StWUCE9pnKI/AAAAAAAADRg/IkqNUkJd1pU/s800/Adobe_BrowserLab.png\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e2. \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.viewlike.us/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eView Like Us\u003c/a\u003e - Check your website in different screen resolutions. (Also checks for iPhone and Wii browser)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4fVBL4fjrFI/StWUDAzWnPI/AAAAAAAADRo/OIhASHmebFw/s1600/ViewLike_Us.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" rel\u003d\"lytebox\" style\u003d\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"0\" src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4fVBL4fjrFI/StWUDAzWnPI/AAAAAAAADRo/OIhASHmebFw/s800/ViewLike_Us.png\" width\u003d\"520\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e3. \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.browsershots.org/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eBrowserShots\u003c/a\u003e - most famous, damn slow and I don't use it anymore !\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4fVBL4fjrFI/StWUFEmQ-SI/AAAAAAAADRw/pjMATb4mqIk/s1600/BrowserShots.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" rel\u003d\"lytebox\" style\u003d\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"1\" src\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4fVBL4fjrFI/StWUFEmQ-SI/AAAAAAAADRw/pjMATb4mqIk/s800/BrowserShots.png\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e4. \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eNetRender\u003c/a\u003e - A quicker option to check your website in all versions of Internet Explorer.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4fVBL4fjrFI/StWUGh36iZI/AAAAAAAADR4/h6akD_0up7w/s1600/NetRender.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" rel\u003d\"lytebox\" style\u003d\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"1\" src\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4fVBL4fjrFI/StWUGh36iZI/AAAAAAAADR4/h6akD_0up7w/s800/NetRender.png\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy Suggestions\u003c/b\u003e:\u003cbr /\u003e1. \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerstop.net/2008/11/how-to-track-visitors-and-optimize-your.html\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eTrack your website visitors\u003c/a\u003e to check, in what  operating systems, internet browsers and screen resolutions are they working.\u003cbr /\u003e2. Your website must look good in all operating systems, but do not worry much on this.\u003cbr /\u003e3. Internet Explorer and Firefox display many html/css elements differently. Like using transparent PNG images in older versions of Internet Explorer is not impossible but quite difficult. So you must check your website in different browsers.\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026nbsp;4. Set your websites dimensions (width) near 1000 px. This resolution will suite almost all the screen resolutions. And use \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerstop.net/2008/12/how-to-addchange-background-image-in.html\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003ebackground images/colors\u003c/a\u003e [\u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/02/70-background-images-for-blogs-and.html\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003edownload free background images\u003c/a\u003e] for those visitors with screen resolution higher than 1000 px.\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2131315009230388324-4304196356695797648?l\u003dbloggerstop.net' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/feeds/4304196356695797648/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/10/check-your-website-in-various-browsers.html#comment-form","title":"10 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2131315009230388324/posts/default/4304196356695797648"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2131315009230388324/posts/default/4304196356695797648"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerstop.net/2009/10/check-your-website-in-various-browsers.html","title":"Check Your WebSite In Different Browsers, Resolutions and Operating Systems"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Divya Sai"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/00580458018752018936"},"email":{"$t":"bloggerstop.net@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"11938556185254323866"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4fVBL4fjrFI/StWFN2TCPsI/AAAAAAAADRY/ri4IhPglsJM/s72-c/screen_resolutions.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"10"}}]}});