After the last messsage from google adsense this is what they are saying to all PUBLISHERS
you have the option to add a referral unit for AdSense within your account when you target any referral unit to Japan and/or any countries in North America and Latin America. To ensure payment for valid conversions, we recommend that you check the targeting settings on your current AdSense referral units.
We'd also like to let you know about upcoming changes to the referrals programs for Google Pack and Firefox:
Google Pack: Currently, you can earn up to $2 when a user downloads and runs Google Pack for the first time after being referred through your link or button. Starting the third week of February, each successful Pack referral will earn up to $1. This change will apply to all referrals for Google Pack and is independent of user location or publisher location.
Firefox: We will also be reducing payments for Firefox referrals from China during the third week of February. This specific referral payment change will only affect installations from users in China. As with referrals to AdSense, this is independent of your location as a publisher.
The internet and TV all together
Panasonic and YouTube have announced plans to bring big screen High Definition TV viewers quick and easy access to YouTube directly from Panasonic’s new VIERA PZ850 line of Plasma Internet-connected HDTV’s. The new VIERA HDTV’s, equipped with VIERA CASTTM, also includes easy and seamless access to Picasa Web Albums, a free online photo-sharing service from Google.
Panasonic VIERA PZ850 series Internet-Connected HDTV’s with virtual one-click access to YouTube and Picasa Web Albums from Google. YouTube is already a huge worldwide sensation, and Panasonic VIERA Internet-connected HDTV’s will greatly expand users’ entertainment options.”
The first generation of Panasonic VIERA PZ850 series Internet-connected HDTV’s will be available to consumers in spring 2008.
This article concentrates on how to build backlinks in a natural way or via different programs and forums
It is out of question that quality backlinks are crucial to SEO success. More, the question is how to get them. While with on-page content optimization it seems easier because everything is up to you to do and decide, with backlinks it looks like you have to rely on others to work for your success. Well, this is partially true because while backlinks are links that start on another site and point to yours, you can discuss with the Web master of the other site details like the anchor text, for example. Yes, it is not the same as administering your own sites – i.e. you do not have total control over backlinks – but still there are many aspects that can be negotiated.
Getting Backlinks the Natural Way
The idea behind including backlinks as part of the page rank algorithm is that if a page is good, people will start linking to it. And the more backlinks a page has, the better. But in practice it is not exactly like this. Or at least you cannot always rely on the fact that your contents is good and people will link to you. Yes, if your content is good and relevant you can get a lot of quality backlinks, including from sites with similar topic as yours (and these are the most valuable kind of backlinks, especially if the anchor text contains your keywords) but what you get without efforts could be less than what you need to successfully promote your site. So, you will have to resort to other ways of acquiring quality backlinks as described next.
Ways to Build Backlinks
Even if plenty of backlinks come to your site the natural way, additional quality backlinks are always welcome and the time you spend building them is not wasted. Among the acceptable ways of building quality backlinks are getting listed in directories, posting in forums, blogs and article directories. The unacceptable ways include inter-linking (linking from one site to another site, which is owned by the same owner or exists mainly for the purpose to be a link farm), linking to spam sites or sites that host any kind of illegal content, purchasing links in bulk, linking to link farms, etc.
The first step in building backlinks is to find the places from which you can get quality backlinks. A valuable assistant in this process is the Backlink Builder tool. When you enter the keywords of your choice, the Backlink Builder tool gives you a list of sites where you can post an article, message, posting, or simply a backlink to your site. After you have the list of potential backlink partners, it is up to you to visit each of the sites and post your content with the backlink to your site in it.
You might wonder why sites as those, listed by the Backlink Builder tool provide such a precious asset as backlinks for free. The answer is simple – they need content for their site. When you post an article, or submit a link to your site, you do not get paid for this. You provide them for free with something they need – content – and in return they also provide you for free with something you need – quality backlinks. It is a free trade, as long as the sites you post your content or links are respected and you don't post fake links or content.
Getting Listed in Directories
If you are serious about your Web presence, getting listed in directories like DMOZ and Yahoo is a must – not only because this is a way to get some quality backlinks for free, but also because this way you are easily noticed by both search engines and potential visitors. Generally inclusion in search directories is free but the drawback is that sometimes you have to wait a couple of months before you get listed in the categories of your choice.
Forums and Article Directories
Generally search engines index forums so posting in forums and blogs is also a way to get quality backlinks with the anchor text you want. If the forum or blog is a respected one, a backlink is valuable. However, in some cases the forum or blog administrator can edit your post, or even delete it if it does not fit into the forum or blog policy. Also, sometimes administrators do not allow links in posts, unless they are relevant ones. In some rare cases (which are more an exception than a rule) the owner of a forum or a blog would have banned search engines from indexing it and in this case posting backlinks there is pointless.
While forum postings can be short and do not require much effort, submitting articles to directories can be more time-consuming because generally articles are longer than posts and need careful thinking while writing them. But it is also worth and it is not so difficult to do
The Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer does more than give IE a shot of nitro. With a set of features both useful and self-promoting, Google Toolbar 5 beta feels like it adds four cylinders to IE's engine, turning it into a powerhouse of personalized functionality for both IE 7 users and those who are stuck on IE 6.
MY REVIEWS ON GOOGLE TOOLBAR 5
When I installed the new toolbar, I got a few checkbox options, such as making Google the default search provider in Internet Explorer (checked by default), making Google my home page (unchecked), and enabling PageRank, which will send Google info on sites I visit. I should note that I did detect a bit more sluggishness in the browser after installing the toolbar add-in, though my results could not be verified scientifically. The touted benefits of the new toolbar include the abilities to add Google Gadgets, fill in forms with a single click, access the same toolbar configuration from any computer, and clip content to your Google Notebook while browsing. Other new or improved features include:
* Word find–An improvement to IE's built-in Find utility that highlights
found search terms
* Suggestions for navigation errors
* AutoLink, which lets you highlight text and finds relevant links for
that text, such as a map for an address you highlight
* Web history
- picasa + Picasa Web Albums
- Blogger
- Google Books
- Google Calendar
- Google Reader
- Google Maps + Google Earth
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets
- Google Video + YouTube
- Gmail.
- Google Search
There are various google products ,which product do u use more
How to improve your PR:
Content is the King: If you provide quality content then you will get regular readers and many of those will copy a summary (or sometimes the complete article) into there blogs plus linking back to you. Good content may sometimes get renowned bloggers linking to you which will drive traffic and will give your site more weight due to there high PR.
Keyword management: See, whatever your PR be if you do not use proper keywords into your blog you wont get listed into Google searches. So use right keywords in the URL, the "title" tag, the article's heading, the text and the links which you make.
Follow the "nofollow" revolution: When you comment on any blog you might see the name of your website under the comment authors name. But know this very well that those links aren't considered by Google for PR calculation. But these days many bloggers are removing the "nofollow" tags from there links in comments. Thus when you comment on there blogs you will earn a link to your blog too. Pretty cool!
Post on forums: There are so many forums available over the Internet that its tough to know which is good and which isn't. A good way could be to check PageRank of these forums. Now post mostly in those forums which have high PageRank. Each link into these forums will be considered by Google bot as a backlink to your site. This way you earn good amount of visitors, a high PR link plus some knowledge too!
Order reviews: Investment is required whenever you want to outshine others in this world of competition. So if you are capable of investing then go order some reviews into high PR blogs which again gives you visitors plus link.
Link Exchange: Blogroll as many of us call it, is a nice way to increase the number of backlinks to you blog. For those who do not like the LONG blogroll list in there blogs could ask the other author to copy some content from your blog and indicate the source. And you do the same too. That way you earn the same weight backlink.
Your own websites network: If you have more than one website than why not link back from each website to you other websites. That also brings you good backlinks and that too without spending a dime!
Submit links to online directories: Online directories mostly have good PR. Start submitting your link to these directories to get high quality backlinks.
Start online contests: Various contests in different blogs is a new way to earn traffic and to get large number of backlinks. Giving you an example, ask your readers to review your blog in there blogs and ask them to link back to your blog in return. Inform them that the best review will earn some cash prize or something unique from your collection if you do not want to spend money.
TOP paying keywords for 2008
Have a look at keywords thar pays you above 20 $ there are about 80 Plus
Keyword Price # Keywords
$20.00 + 80
$10.00 - $19.99 1,900
$5.00 - $9.99 18,014
$3.00 - $4.99 35,607
$2.00 - $2.99 59,286
$1.00 - $1.99 321,176
now the keywords thats googne pay u more then 20 $ for cliks are
VOIP
CONFERENCE CALLS
CLOSED CAPTIONING
DATA RECOVERY
CHARITY
WEBSITE DESIGN
SOFTWARE ESCROW
sATELLITE PHONE
FOREX
BUSINESS CARD
CORD BLOOD BANKING
CREDIT CARD
EQUITY LOAN
REAL ESTATE
Google Adsense offering a new payment method for some countries. Publishers who located in
Argentina, Chile, China (Mainland), Colombia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, or Romania, may change the payment method to Western Union Quick Cash.
Western Union is a new form of payment that lets publisher receive the AdSense payments in cash using the worldwide Western Union money transfer service. According to Google AdSense normal payment schedule, payments for publishers will be available for pickup at the local Western Union agent the day after they are issued.
AdSense payments with Western Union is totally free. With this new payment method, publishers will no longer need to wait for a check to arrive in the postal mail. This new payment method can also cut down on bank fees and long clearing times associated with depositing checks.
However, I wonder why Google didn’t make this payment method for worldwide. If they really care about their publisher, they should make it available worldwide.
To exchange the payment method, publisher should keep these important points in mind:
Western Union Quick Cash is only available in Argentina, Chile, China (Mainland), Colombia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, and Romania as mentioned above.
Unfortunately, Google doesn’t support this payment method for business account. This new payment method is currently only available to individual payee names.
To pick up the payment, publisher will need to bring the government-issued ID that will be used to validate the payee name in adsense with the ID.
The payments must be picked up within 35 days of issuance or they will expire. If this case happened, a payment hold will be placed on AdSense account and the payment will be credited back to publisher’s account.
All payments will be made in US dollars, but they may be picked up in your local currency, depending on local Western Union agent that being used by publishers
well many publishers were waiting for their october payment....which is to be received by 1 st week of january, but due to chrismas and new year holidays in U.S offices there will be delay of 1-2 weeks.
so no need to worry abt it.
Also for those publishers who were to receive their PIN no they to have to wait for 1-2 weeks..
Have you made your first $100 from Adsense? Do you want to recieve the cheque immediately? What should you do in order to get the payment without a problem? I am going to discuss about the essential steps that you need to do before you get the payment from the previous months.
1. Check your addressSince payments are sent to the mailing address submitted with your application, it's important to confirm the accuracy of your contact information and payee name. If you need to correct any information:
Log into your account at https://www.google.com/adsense
-Select the My Account tab.-Click the edit link adjacent to Payee Information and update the appropriate fields.-Click Save Changes to update your account, or Cancel to exit without saving.
For security reasons, you cannot change the Payee Name or Country fields once your application has been approved. Therefore, you need to be alert and make sure everything is correct during the Adsense registration. If you need to make changes to either of these fields, please contact Google and request that we close your account. Once your request has been processed, you will then be able to submit a new application with the corrected payee name and mailing address. Nevertheless, you have the responsibility to ensure the correctness of your personal information.
2. Provide your tax informationIn addition to confirming your contact information, you'll need to submit your tax information so that you may become eligible to receive a payment from Google. Google is required to collect tax-related information from all AdSense publishers, including publishers who are based outside of the U.S. , and we're unable to send payment to you until your information has been submitted. So don't skip this step!
If you haven't yet submitted your tax information, click the Tax Information link from the My Account tab. From this page, an easy-to-use wizard interface will help guide you to the appropriate online forms. You're able to submit most forms online, and we'll give you instructions on submitting any other forms that may be required.
3. Select your form of paymentDepending on your payment address, there may be a number of payment options available to you — I suggest you read What forms of payment are available to me? in the AdSense Support center to learn about each option. Once you've decided how you'd like to be paid, click the Payment Information [edit] link from the My Account tab of your AdSense account. Follow the instructions on that page to select your form of payment. Your payments will be held until you have selected a form of payment.
4. Enter your PINOnce you've earned $50 in combined AdSense for content and AdSense for search earnings, we'll mail a Personal Identification Number to the payment address in your account. You'll need to enter this PIN into your account before we can send any payments to you. Your PIN will be sent by standard post and will take 2-3 weeks to arrive. Please refer to the corresponding post in my site for more information on PIN.
5. Generate $100 in earningsWhen your total unpaid earnings reach $100, we’ll send you a payment at the end of the next month. For example, if your total unpaid earnings reached $100 during January and you completed the 4 steps above, we would send you a payment at the end of February.
If your total unpaid earnings haven’t yet reached $100, they'll roll over to the next month and accrue until they meet the $100 threshold.Payment is disbursed within approximately 30 days of the end of the month — to see the timeline of our payment cycle, read the Payment Timelines section below.
Google will now allow you to make money off the videos you upload to YouTube. Partners are independent video creators and media companies who are looking for online distribution and who meet YouTube’s qualifications. Becoming a partner gives you the ability to share in ad revenue from your YouTube videos.
Why Is YouTube Doing This?
The answer is, they can’t. YouTube is hiding behind the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) to protect themselves from claims of copyright violations. In order to hide behind the act, YouTube cannot make money off the videos uploaded by its user base. If they do, copyright holders can go after YouTube for the income (plus damages) those videos made instead of just telling YouTube to remove the videos.
Now YouTube is offering this partner program to everyone who qualifies.
What Are The Requirements?
Before you can apply for the YouTube Partner Program, your must meet all the following requirements.
1)You create original videos suitable for online streaming.
2)You own the copyrights and distribution rights for all audio and video content that you upload — no exceptions.
3)You regularly upload videos that are viewed by thousands of YouTube users.
4)You live in the United States or Canada.
People usually cheat google by doing the following...but accounts get banned.
1)Basic clicker cheat
This is a noob. This guy knows almost nothing about web technology or network architecture. He clicks on his ads every time he has chance. It can be a few clicks to hundreds of clicks daily. Most likely he doesn’t even read the AdSense Program Policies and Terms and Conditions.
2)Proxy clicker cheat
She knows a thing or two about cookies and IP address. Or she doesn’t know, but somehow guessed that if she use the things called anonymizer, Google will not be able to trace her, because her identity is hidden. She may use anonymizer / proxy websites or specialized anonymous software like tor (The Onion Router).
3)Multiple computer clicker cheat
He knows that somehow Google will detect if the clicks are originated from his own computer. So he will try to even out origin of the clicks. He will recruit his friends, family members, relatives, neighbors, his cats, and his dogs on single mission: to click on the ads. He will also click on the AdSense ads when he is using the library computers, or his office workstation.
4)Software clicker cheat
Graduate to the next step is buyers of clickbots / click-bots. These are specialized robot software to click on AdSense ads. It will browse around your websites, clicking on the ads every few minutes. The more advanced ones will cloak the IP address too, so the website seems to be very popular worldwide. To cover the track, this clickbots will browse around the advertisers sites too while continuing its “click quest”.
5)Paid-clickers cheat
If you don’t like automated things, there is always other option for you. Just pay $50 dollars a month to the professional AdSense clickers. These are groups of highly specialized Internet surfers with office in the dark rooms in street corners of India, Pakistan, and China, helping AdSense account owner to earn good amounts of money ? before the AdSense account is disabled, that is. They will browse around your websites, clicking on the ads every few minutes. Because they use human eyes, they know which ads worth more. And to be more convincing they can click a link or two, or sign up free offers / newsletters on the advertiser sites.
6)Click-rings cheat
Network is power. So says many business gurus. Instead of taking things to their own hand, this people realize that they can join hands with those with similar goals and distribute AdSense clicks among themselves, the so called AdSense click-rings. Joining this click-ring network means that your website address will be made known to members, who will regularly browse the website and click on your AdSense ads. In exchange, you will also browse other members’ sites and click on their AdSense ads. The medium used varies. Some click-ring groups use mail-list for communications. Some are using bulletin boards/forum, Yahoo groups, or Usenet. IRC is another popular way. Slightly more complicated is specialized AdSense exchange software for collecting members website address and displaying others’ websites for clicking.
7)Other medium cheat
I have tens of thousands email address on my newsletter subscriber list. If I include AdSense ads on my newsletters, with 5% CTR, I can get a thousand clicks per one email. Not bad. Or I can pay someone to write some useful/nice/funny/cute toolbars or firefox extensions or screensavers that people can download and use for free, and display my AdSense ads there.
8)Visitor cheat
Simply putting “Visit out sponsors” or “Check out the ads above” on your website is cheating. This might not be very clear-cut cheat to some. But Google AdSense program policies has stated clearly, the only text allowed are “Advertisements” or “Sponsored List”
9)Spam cheat
This is the highest level all click-frauds, the Maestro of Fraudsters. She spams millions of emails regularly, offering to “satisfy your inner needs if you can help me check on the links on my website”. Of course, email is not the only way. What IRC and instant messaging (IM) are for, after all. She will look for unsuspecting victims, offering something too-good-to-be-true “if only they will visit the website and click on the links”.
10)Click-through-rate cheat
Whichever method(s) above used, there is one limiting condition: the CTR(click-though-rate). Any CTR that exceeds certain percentage (probably around 10%) will raise red flag in Google AdSense back room. To lower the CTR, the professional cheaters will create some pages on the same domain that attracts very high traffic. Some interesting freebies will sure do the tricks. AdSense code is pasted there, thus creating a very high page impressions. Whether or not the the ads are clicked does not matter anyway, because they are targeting low paying keyword that does not have much competition. The fake clicks are, of course, on where the big money is, the low traffic pages stuffed with high-paying keywords.
For all bloggers below are the top 14 Golden tips to help drive traffic to your blog and Earn heavilly
You have a blog and u keep posting daily, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep posting, but no one comments and no traffic. What do you do?
Like any Web site you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site.
Here are 16 steps, that will grow traffic to ur blog.
1. Set up a Blogger subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates, and so on(feedburner.com)
2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine.
3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Do not write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.
4. Use Ping-0-Matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish. (pingomatic.com)
5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines.
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6. Submit your blog to blog directories.
7. Put a link to your blog on every page of your Web site.
8. Add a link to your blog in your email signature file
9. If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.
10. Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, and so on.
11. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to. The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary -- although some define it as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of Web sites or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as "feeds") may be read using aggregators or news readers. RSS feeds may show only headlines or both headlines and summaries. To learn how news aggregators/RSS readers work, check out the RSS Specifications Web site.
rss-specifications.com/rss-readers
12. Post often to keep encouraging your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks. Also, include links to other blogs, articles, and Web sites in your posts.
13. Use TrackBack links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. TrackBack links send a message from your server to the other blog's server letting it know you have posted a comment referring to its blog. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.
14. Make a commitment to blog everyday. Ten minutes a day can help increase your traffic because new content attracts search engine spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at the same time. Tip: Use a hit counter to track your visitor stats: how many unique visitors, how many page views, average length of visit. You can get a free hit counter from Site Meter. www.sitemeter.com
List of Search Engines
You may submit your site URL to these search engines for Free.
If you lack the time, submit your site to the top few leading search engines.
Google
Yahoo! Search
Microsoft Live Search
Alexa Web Search
Baidu (Chinese search engine)
ExactSeek
SearchSight
Scrub the Web
EntireWeb
Gigablast
Exalead
SearchKing
whatUseek
AnooX
Splat Search
Walhello
SearchIt
email Mozdex
Jayde
Infotiger
Abacho (European search engine)
Submit-one
TowerSearch
HotLaunch
Shoula
The-search-site
Websquash
Unasked
eVisum (educational resource)
DinoSearch
SearchRamp
SearchtheWeb
SearchWarp
Mixcat
BestYellow
Beamed
Website Submission Services
There are many sites on the internet offering free website submission services to search engines. The list of search engines are by and large the same. For a fee, some of them offer to send your URL to more than a hundred search engines. Is it necessary to have your webpage listed in all the smaller search engines? We think that Google, Yahoo! and MSN have cornered such a large share of the market that it is sufficient just to have your website listed there. However, the decision is yours to make. For a start, you may want to use their free services and monitor the traffic.
Submit Express
AddMe
Freesubmissionweb
ineedhits
Submitshop
Searchengineoptimising
AddPro
Pageranklist
Freewebsubmission
Amfibi
Burf
Jerkasmarknad
LocalSubmit
SrSubmit
also replace the foll html characters by ;-
in ur adsense code.
The best ad location of the blog is either on right or left between the post title and post body
what is required for this is if ur
main wrapper is of 300 and more px try using a 125*125 ad unit
if ur main wrapper is 400px and more use 200 * 200 ad unit
after taking the ad unit from ur adsense account
replacing the following HTML characters:-
now go to ur blog template,edit html,clik on expandwidget template
and search for
now if u want the ad on right side
add
after
and if u want ur ads on left side add
just change right instead of left from the above code and paste it after
and save the template.
What are search engine optimization tools, webmaster tools, Google page rank checker, SEO tools, and how can these internet tools help to bring more quality traffic to your Blog?
There are many free online web tools that webmasters can use to find out more information about their sites. The tools can also alert the webmasters to possible problems search engines may have with the site's template codes and design. Here, we shall, for the benefit of our new bloggers, explain how these webmaster tools might help improve your website's PageRank.Search Engine Optimization
We define Search Engine Optimization as – a method or process of improving and optimizing the ranking of a website in search engine results.With millions of pages of search results for any given keyword, webmasters would want to have their website appear among the first couple of search result listings. The higher the position or ranking, the greater the likelihood that internet users will visit your site. This Search Engine Optimization (or SEO) concept is no different from a brick-and-mortar shop where location and visibility affect how many customers will pass by the shop and hopefully drop in for a visit. On the internet, your virtual site deserves a good location and visibility, and SEO consultants believe they know how to achieve that.
Blog Directory and Search Engine Listings
After having published a Blog or website, the first thing to do is to make sure that the information relating to the site is available on the internet. Web Directories, Blog Directories and Search Engines are the internet Yellow Pages. Although the major Search Engines will crawl your website even without any action on your part, it will be much faster if you could proactively provide them your site information. We had written articles on how and where to submit the blog information so as to have your site fully indexed and appear in many places on the internet.
Read these guides and follow the steps outlined:-
1. Submit Blogger Sitemap to Google Webmaster
2. Submit Blogger Sitemap to Yahoo!
3. Submit Blog to Search Engines
Traffic Exchange Sites
A number of traffic exchange sites have blog directories which can include links to your blog. You may read my earlier article for a more detailed discussion on traffic exchange programs.
Blog Directories
Technorati
They supposedly track 75.2 million blogs. Quite naturally, you would want your blog to be one of them. Register with them and submit your blog. Follow their instructions to claim your blog. They will provide you with statistics like the number of blogs that link to you. You can also invite other members to favorite your blog.
Wikablog
If you are familiar with Wikipedia, this is the equivalent for blogs. It faces the same problems as Wikipedia i.e., while it is easy to list your blog, it is equally easy for others to edit your listing. Nevertheless, for a new blogger, this is one of the fastest way to have your blog appear in a directory. [Update: This site has been down for quite a while and link is therefore removed.]
Fuel My Blog
This is an interesting directory. Unlike the usual text-based blog directories, this site goes by images that you create to represent your blog. When your visitors click a link on your site that says Fuel My Blog!, your image will move up the ranks and appear on the front page, making it more visible to directory viewers.
Blogtoplist
A blog directory listing that is sorted by the number of unique visitors to your blog. Your visitors can also cast a Vote to increase your ranking. The scores are reset every week to allow new bloggers like us a chance to be placed among the top.
Topblogsites
Here, you are ranked by unique hits based on the Votes you receive from your visitors. Many of the comments posted on the directory site are spam comments, and if you can disable comments, you might want to do that. [Update: This site has been down for quite a while and link is therefore removed.]
Mybloggingarea
Another directory that ranks you based on the Votes and the number of unique visitors to your site.
Topblogarea
A blog directory that tracks unique visitors. Unlike the earlier ones, visitors do not vote at this directory.
Blogflare
This is a simple, nice blog directory that tracks your unique visitors and pageviews. [Update: This site has been down for quite a while and link is therefore removed.]
Topblogging
Here, you are ranked based on unique visitors. Although there is a count for votes in, somehow the code provided by them did not track this vote count.
Blogroll
I joined this directory only about a week ago. A simple directory that monitors the Votes and unique hits.
Worldtopblogs
Ranking is by the Votes cast by the visitors to your blog.
Topbloglists
There is a voting gateway for your visitors but ranking is based on unique pageviews.
Publicize your site by having your Blogger.com or Blogspot.com blog site included in Yahoo! Directory and Yahoo! Search. I went to the official Yahoo! submission of URL page and clicked the link “Submit Your Site for Free”. You will be prompted to log in using your Yahoo! account. For those of you who do not have a Yahoo! account, simply sign up for one. It is Free.
After you have your Yahoo! account, and are logged in, you will see this screen
Select “Submit Site Feed” and enter the URL of your Blog's site feed. You can use either:-
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml
OR
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Remember to replace YOURBLOGNAME with that of your Blog's. For Blogger blogs, do not add "www." to YOURBLOGNAME. Once the Sitemaps are submitted, click the “Authentication” link shown at the top right hand corner of the page.
You will now have to authenticate your site ownership with Yahoo!, by either uploading a verification file to your site, or adding a META tag to your site. The authentication via a META tag was only introduced by Yahoo! recently, on Jan 30, 2007.
Note: Blogs created under Blogger.com or Blogspot.com cannot upload a verification file in the root directory. The first method is therefore NOT applicable to you.
The only way to authenticate your Blogger.com and Blogspot.com blogs with Yahoo! is to add a META tag. Copy the META tag that is generated for you, and paste it in your site's home page in the first section of the page, before the first section. What you do is to go to your Blogger dashboard. Under Template ->Edit HTML, somewhere near the top of the script, add the META Tag as follows:-
Remember to replace the META Tag with the code generated by Yahoo! Site Explorer. Once done, Save the Template. When you return to Yahoo! Site Explorer, click the button that says “Ready to Authenticate” as shown below.
You will see a message that says “Your site is pending authentication.” Check back later, and you will notice that your site is now indexed and crawled by Yahoo!
According to the Yahoo Site Explorer instructions:-
“If you have added the META tag, please keep the tag in your site's home page. We will revalidate your site ownership by checking this META tag regularly.”
It is alright to leave this meta tag as well as the Google sitemap meta tag in your template.
Submitting your Blogger.com or Blogspot.com blog site to Google Webmaster will enable Google to find, index, and rank your site.
For those who are new to this, you may go to the official Google Webmaster Tools site to create a new Webmaster profile.
Upon logging in using your Gmail account, key in your blog site URL, and click OK. You will then be asked to verify your site. This is to ascertain that you are indeed the owner of the site.There are two ways to verify your site. You can either add a Meta Tag or Upload an HTML file. If you are using the Meta Tag method, Google will generate a Meta Tag code.
Copy the META tag that is generated for you, and paste it in your site's home page in the first section of the page, before the first section. What you do is to go to your Blogger dashboard. Under Template ->Edit HTML, somewhere near the top of the script, add the Meta Tag as follows:-
Replace the META TAG with the code generated by Google Webmaster. Once done, Save the Template. When you return to Google Webmaster site, you can click the button that says “Verify”.Note: The second method of uploading an HTML file is NOT applicable to Bloggers using Blogger.com or Blogspot.com because this requires you to upload a file to the root directory of your Blog, which is not possible. There is therefore only one method for you to verify your site, and that is by inserting the Meta Tag as explained above.After you have had your site verified, click on the Sitemaps tab as shown below. By adding a Sitemap, you will be providing Google with more details and information about your Blog. With this, Google will crawl your site, report information on any errors in the Sitemaps tab, and index your Blog site at a faster rate.
Click the link that says “Add a Sitemap”. This will take you to another screen where you should choose the type “Add General Web Sitemap”. The Sitemap URL for any normal website is usually the index page that is stored in the highest-level directory of that site. In the case of Blogger.com or Blogspot.com, the only way to add a Sitemap is to use either of the following 2 Sitemaps:-
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml
OR
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Remember to replace YOURBLOGNAME with that of your Blog's. For Blogger blogs, do not add "www." to YOURBLOGNAME. Once you have added your Sitemaps, you will receive a confirmation telling you that reports are being generated but “may take several hours to update”. Congratulations! You have successfully added your Sitemaps. When you login to your Google Webmaster days later, you should be able to see the indexed pages and statistics of Google webcrawl of your Blog.