How to Submit a Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools

You can do registering a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools if you have previously registered your blog URL in Google that is by adding URL to Google and verifying blogs ownership as I have discussed in previous post.

Sitemap that is in use on the Blogspot typically using URL address feed, and to register it, can be done on existing Google Sitemap services in Google Webmaster Tools.

Submit a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools:

•      Log in to Google Webmaster Tools.
•      You'll see your blog name is already on the register and was previously verified.
•      Click on it.
•      Now you have been in the dashboard page of Google Webmaster Tools.
•      Click Site Configuration -> Sitemaps
•      Click Add a Sitemap -> Enter the URL of your blog feed, for example: http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. Replace "yourblog" with the name of your blog, click Submit a Sitemap.  Completed.

If you are not sure of the address of your feed and worry it would be wrong, follow the alternative ways that is more easily. From the dashboard do not select the "Site Configuration" but select your site on the web -> Subscriber stats -> click on "Submit feed as artists". Done.

Wait a few minutes or hours and can even be more than one day, your sitemap will be crawled by Googlebot.

How to Submit and Verify Blog to Google Webmaster Tools

Register or verify blog in Google Webmaster Tools is a semi-refinement stage that will be undertaken after adding URL to Google.

The goal to register into the Google Webmaster Tools is for verifying ownership that indicates your own blog with a particular code. The most common verification code in use on the blogspot is usually html meta tags. Meta tags will serve as a marker for ownership of your blog in the crawl and index on the SERP (Search Engine Result Pages), so if your blog is listed in Google Webmaster Tools, then it is more likely to appear on search results pages.

There are many useful features that you can use at the webmaster tools page, but I will not explain here, because later on after you have registered in Google Webmaster Tools, you'll also find them out yourself.
The following are the steps to register and verify your blog on Google Webmaster Tools:

•     Log in to Google Webmaster Tools
•     Enter the URL of your blog. For example http://dailytechnow.blogspot.com
•     Click "Add a site".  
•     Click "Verify your site"
•     Next on the "Choose verification method" select "Add a meta tag", it will display the html meta tag code for your blog
•     Copy the meta tag that appears earlier and place it on your blog template.  
• How to: log into blogger.com with your account -> Select the Dashboard -> Design -> Edit html Check Expand widget templates -> Paste the meta tags google webmaster <head> was right after the code -> Save Template
•     Back to Google Webmaster Tools page, click Verify. Succes message appears.

Now your account and your blog has been successfully registered and was verified in Google Webmaster Tools.

The next steps a refinement of Google access in crawling your blog for the whole page to make it easier, Google requires sitemap of your blog to know automatically whenever a new update has been made on your blog. For that  requirement, you need to submit a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. See the next post.

20 Ways to Improve Your Alexa Site Rank

Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and is a web site that provides information about Web site traffic levels. Alexa ranking is measured by number of users who have visited the website with the Alexa toolbar installed.

In this article, I will try to discuss the importance of Alexa Rank related to the monetization of the site while also briefly discusses some of the drawbacks in using the Alexa Rank for measuring traffic of any website.
I'll give you 20 tips and strategies you can use to increase your Alexa Rank dramatically in the short and long term.

What is Alexa Rank?
Basically, the Alexa Rank is a ranking system based on the ranking scheme level visits to the site of the number of people visiting a website with the Alexa toolbar installed.

Here are definitions from Alexa Alexa Rank:  

The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis.
The main Alexa traffic rank is based on the geometric mean of these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users)

Why do you want to increase your site's Alexa ranking?
Webmasters, advertisers and ads networks use Alexa ranking of your site as a measure to determine the value of a link on your website.

The problem with Alexa Rank
Sites that have a lot of webmasters will further increase the Alexa ranking. This is because webmasters are much more likely to have the Alexa toolbar on the browser rather than a site that visitors are not familiar with Alexa at all.

Therefore, many of which showed that Alexa is a very accurate method to measure the achievement of the site, site traffic and site potential. Alexa is a ridiculous way to measure web traffic, but unfortunately the world Alexa is still widely used by webmasters and ad networks to measure the value of advertising on a site.

20 Ways to Improve Your Alexa Rank
Here is a collection of methods you can use to improve your site's Alexa ranking. Most of these tips are derived from several fellow webmasters.

1. Install the Alexa toolbar or extension SearchStatus in Firefox. And set your website as the homepage on your computer. There are two easy ways to install the Alexa toolbar. If you are using Internet Explorer, download the Alexa toolbar for Firefox or SearchStatus extension that will display the Alexa Rank, Google Rank, as well as other useful features.
2. Attach Rank Alexa widget on your site. According to some circles, if the widget is clicked by visitors who have not installed the Alexa toolbar, then it will be counted as additional visits.
3. Invite friends and target your site visitors to install the Alexa toolbar.
4. Working in office or in internet cafe? If possible, install the Alexa toolbar on all existing computer and set your website as his homepage. It would be useful if the IP that is used is dynamic.
5. Ask your friends to review and gave the rating profile of your site on Alexa. I have found no evidence, but may be useful in this way.
6. Write articles related to Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to know how to improve its Alexa. They will backlink your writing and sending traffic. This directly affects the Alexa ranking of your site.
7. Display your URL in webmaster forums. Webmasters usually have installed the Alexa toolbar in their browser and if they are interested in clicking on your URL, then this is an advantage for you.
8. Write articles related to webmasters. For example, the topic of SEO and buying and selling domain that is in great demand by the webmasters (bloggers or site owners). Promote your articles on webmaster forums and social networking sites.
9. Use Alexa redirects your blog's URL. Try to open this page: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.comcom.com. Replace comcom with your site URL. Use this URL as your signature and also commented on some forums. This redirect will count a unique IP address once a day only. There has been no formal evidence for this way, so use this carefully.
10. Active in the site or the Asian social networking forums. Some have said that East Asia has a very large number of the Alexa toolbar users. This is evidenced by several blogs or websites from East Asia into the Alexa Top 500.
11. Create a page about the webmaster tools on your blog. It is a magnet for webmasters to visit many times to your blog.
12. Register on Digg or StumbleUpon. Both of these sites could send tens of thousands of visitors when your articles appear on the front page.
13. Use PaPperClick. This is done by paid ads on Google or the other.
14. Create an Alexa category on your site and use it to save an article or news relating to Alexa.
15. Optimize popular topic on your site. Do you have a popular topic that consistently receives traffic from search engines? Update these postings by clicking on the post Alexa or internal links to your URL Redirect.
16. Buy banner ads and links from the forums. If your ad is interesting, this will significantly increase your site's Alexa ranking.
17. Recruit people to promote your site. This can be done by paying a friend or member of a forum to promote your articles.
18. Pay internet cafe owners to install the Alexa toolbar and set your sites on all computers in the cafe as the homepage.
19. Active on MySpace, Facebook, and others. It worked for some people, but many do not succeed.
20. Try Alexa auto-surfs. These tools generally useful for the new site and use carefully.

Of the 20 ways to improve Alexa rank, perhaps only a few that suit you, both in terms of time and cost. To increase Alexa rank in the long run, I think you still need to create articles that are useful for visitors to your blog, so you get many visitors and consistent ones.

Facebook and Google Maps Dominate Mobile Applications

In the last 3 years, the development of smart phones were increasingly rapidly. Coupled with the presence of the iPhone and Android smart phones increasingly brisk market in the world.

Anyway about smart phones, are still not smart if not equipped with useful applications for daily life. Applications are immersed in smart phones make smart phones that we have felt it was getting better.

Facebook vs. Google Maps on Mobile

Call it a Facebook application and Google Maps. Apparently, from iPhone to Android, the two applications is a proven dominant. Moreover, many mobile phone manufacturers already include these apps in the sales package, while marketing their products. In fact, both applications were very dominating on most brand new smart phone platform at this time.

Facebook application is an application on the iPhone the most (58%) and BlackBerry (51%) as well as being number two on the Android (50%). While its competitors, Google Maps, grabbed the first position in Android (67%), second on the BlackBerry (34%) and third in the iPhone (47%).

The survey was conducted by Nielsen on 4200 people in the United States who have downloaded the application on their smart phones in the last 30 days.

Based on the types of applications, Nielsen notes that type of game is the most widely downloaded by the number of respondents 65 per cent in smart phone users. In the next position is the weather (56%), navigation / map / search (55%) and social networking (54%).

The following application data (non-game) is the most widely used on most popular smart phone platforms:
iPhone: Facebook (58%), iTunes (48%), Google Maps (47%)
Android: Google Maps (67%), Facebook (50%), Weather Channel (38%)
Blackberry: Facebook (51%), Google Maps (34%), Weather Channel (28%)

How to Make an iPhone App: Do it yourself versus professional services

Trying to make an iPhone app is a hard job, in case you have no programming skills or experience. Let's face it. Generating and selling an iPhone app is a dream for lots of, but that cannot be completed in case you don't have any idea of what you require to do. This is definitely a hard business, but when you make it and you finally succeed, then you can be positive of earning lots of funds in the long run. So, I'll outline below several ways for you to generate your own iPhone app. With the right help, resources, and knowledge, you can generate that will sell well in the iTunes store.

The first step to generating is by basically coming up together with your own set of ideas. This is hard in case you don't have lots of lovely ideas. I recommend that you put all of your lovely ideas together to generate an iPhone app. Most apps are actually created by basically brainstorming and bringing together several ideas. That is all you require to do in the beginning.

Most people have their iPhone apps created by professionals or those with experience in generating them. Doing it yourself is a great way to economize, as you won't must pay someone. The only issue is that you won't get the chance to get it successfully up there in case you don't know what to do. In case you happen to have an excellent program, then you ought to definitely be able to succeed.

Some Useful Tips In Generating Your Own iPhone App

A great tip worth recalling is to basically come up with some lovely ideas. Don't be so caught up in generating games and only games, as you won't get the chance to expand. Try coming up with some lovely ideas outside the gambling world like educational apps, music related apps, jokes, advice column, and fundamentally anything can become an app.

It is all about knowing what the massive majority of the users require. This can be difficult in case you plan to generate the app by yourself, which is actually what I suggested. Keep in mind to have lots of basic knowledge and a lovely program to depend on.

As iPhone apps are popular in this generation, try to get in to the business as soon as feasible. The earlier you start, the better are your chances of succeeding. The funds in this business is limitless, as people are always willing to download new apps every single day. Millions have been earned in this market, and in case you could funds in on this business, you could succeed in making thousands of dollars everyday.

So, start on generating those apps as soon as feasible, and you could be making funds within the next few weeks.

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