How to Increase The Crawl Rate of a Blog

Blogger is optimized by Google for better crawling and indexing of posts while the other host sites have to customize their sites for the search engines for optimal crawl and indexing.

Blogger hosted sites are highly crawled by the Google search bots because Blogger is a free hosting service provided by the Google search engine which will ensure a greater crawl rate for the blog. Even though blogger blogs are optimized for better crawling but that does not mean that the whole content will get indexed because it happens that some of the posts don't get indexed on the search engine and that is why I will show you some best tips that will help get your site indexed much more faster.

Before getting to discuss the more basic fundamentals of getting a much faster website crawling I will first show you the importance of using the correct sitemaps for their sites which will help optimize the crawl rate of the site.

The Two most important sitemaps that may be used on a site are the xml and the RSS sitemaps which the searchbots use to access all the site data. The xml sitemaps are used to give full detailed infomation about every link that is in the site which are the pages, labels, tags and any links found on the site which the bots will use to find content for indexing. The Rss/atom are also good but they differ from the xml because they only give site content updates to the search bots for indexing.

Recommended Practices for Sitemaps and RSS

The sitemaps are important to any online blog that is interested in improving the site quality in search engines, there has been a very huge competition online which may help your site to grow strong.

• Avoid Rejected urls

Avoid using rejected urls but instead use canonical urls to help boost as the links will be search friendly.

• Update your site xml sitemap for atleast once a day.

Update your sitemap by posting atleast once a day which will invite the search engines into crawling your site more frequently. Updating a sitemap by posting new contents shows site activity.

• Post Regularly

Posting on your site regularly will really boost the crawl rate of your site because sites that post more frewuently are most likely to get indexed more faster then less updated sites. News sites are mostly crawled in every two minutes because of they publish more than two posts daily.

• Avoid duplicate content

Duplicate content cannot be avoided but you can easily avoid up to 50% duplicate content which is a must for many blogs and websites.

• Adjust the crawl frequency of your site

Google allows webmasters to adjust the crawl rates of their sites which can be done on the Google webmasters website. The crawl frequency of a website can be controlled by going to Webmasters tools, and select "Configuration" and select "Settings" as seen in the image below.

• Ensure that your blog is optimized right

The only way to ensure the well being of your site is by using SEO tools which can help you find the problems that are only visible to search engines only, I will recommend that you use  Siteliner.com and Smallseotools.com which are the sites that are best when it comes to SEO.

• Get more backlinks for your blog

Backlinks play a great role in increasing the pagerank of a site even though the crawl rate of a site is not very much dependant on the pagerank but depends more on the quality of the website. The more Backlinks links you get the greater will be the crawl rate of your site.

These are the best tips tips to increase the crawl rate of your site for much better SEO and traffic, suppose you may have questions and comments towards this topic please share with us in the comments box below.

Is your Blog not growing? here is a solution to Improve your Blog's growth

Having a blog that is not growing is a very hard thing for any blogger as it may be soon get over powered by the competition, there might be some problems which the blog could face which may include things like adapting to the niche of the blog and being able to withstand the blog competition.
Having to grow a blog is not easy at all as thousands of bloggers around the world have tried improve the rank of their blogs by trying some methods which were not as successful as expected to be which showed that the growth of a blog is mostly empowered by the smartness and the experience of the blog Administrator. I am an experienced blogger with not much experience in blogging but a blogger who knows how to grow a blog into being a masterpiece, I have started small blogs which today has become leaders in their niches and today I will show you how to improve website growth and grow your blog into being a masterpiece.

Before going into increasing the growth of a website you got to know how to avoid growth barriers that your site might be facing causing it fall behind the growth ladder of success. In the internet are over 100 million abandoned blogs which have been abandoned by their owners which was caused by the lack of growth failure and that is why I will be showing you how to Grow a Blog.

Why is your blog audience no growing?
The audience of a blog can come to a state of slow growth whereby you might have to try and improve some parts of it to improve its growth to a possible acceptable standard of growth. I also had this problem within my first year of blogging when left me to a point whereby I thought about quitting my blog but just because of my dream for it I was forced to fix all possible errors and give a fresh start to my blogging empire with more skill as I learnt.

• Your Blog has become an Advertisement site

Most Bloggers blog for "money" which is good but seriously not good for your readers because blog readers are very much not interested in those Ads but they are very much interested in your blog content.

Even I myself as a professional Blogger I do read other blogs like Moz, Successful blogging and Copyblogger because of their high quality of content instead of having a huge number of Ads making it hard for readers to use the site content. Your blog is not a place for selling ads but it is for producing the niche content for the loyal blog readers.

• Blog posts too complicated

Your Blog posts must be easy to understand not very complicated because readers may find it hard to read some of the produced blog posts.

•  Blog not unique

Your Blog content must be unique and should not resemble any blog as it may confuse your blog readers into signing up with other blogs giving your blog a loss. In blogging the competition is very high and secondly we have to note that the best way to stand out from the crowd is by making yourself different.

•  Blog hides authors profile

Your blog must fully give detail of you as the author making it easy for the readers to contact you via email or any other contact source that may be available, as the Blog grows it must have a Staff page with a list of all the blog staff which includes blog authors, publishers, editors etc. because blog readers really need to know who they are having relations with and that is why we as Ajaxsurf like to display our profiles on the blog for the readers.

How to Increase The Value of your Blog?
The value of your blog will depend on the growth of your blog not on what you think your blog is, increasing the value of a blog is not very easy as it may require some hard work as the internet has become the most competitive place with millions of websites that are being created on daily bases.

•  Love What you do

Before you start a blog on a partivlcular niche you must have love for that niche which will improve the influence of the blogger in that particular niche because bloggers get to open blogs that don't even last for a month or two which has resulted to the internet having to contain over 100 Million dumped and failed blogs which is very painful experience to be faced by any blogger.
Having love for your niche will help improve the way you blog as it will surely cause your blog readers into having the same vibe which will help improve the user activity of the site.
 

•  Get a professional Blog Template

A professional template will make it work for you as it will really boost the user trust and help improve the professionalism of your blog helping to improve it blog value and you are highly recomended that your blog has to to use a responsive blog template which will work well in all devices.

•  Use optimized post titles

Whenever you write a blog Post have a certain set keywords that you must must aim because the right set of keywords will evantually help a post to rank better in search engines which will bring in dozens of traffic into a your blog which will improve the quality of your blog.

•  Try to produce High Quality posts

Quality ,Quality and Quality is a must for any potential Blog as a blog is actually a company as a whole and the way in which you manage your blog will affect it in all aspects because whatever you do with your blog fully defines your blog. If the posts or services by the blog are of low quality then the image of your blog will get negatively impacted.

• Post on your Blog regularly

Keep your readers busy before they can get bored into another blog which will probably be a huge loss for any blog because each and every reader plays an important role on the blog.

•  Embed social Sharing buttons

Social Sharing buttons are the best ways to do social media marketing without you having to work any harder at all. They are a good long term marketing strategy for any other blog.

•  Treat your Blog as a Business

Treat your Blog professionally because your blog is a business not just a place to post and post , but it is a business ran by you the founder and I would recommend that your do whatever possible with the hope of making an acceptable good revenue.

• Hold yourselves accountable

Your are responsible for everything that happens in your blog as the administrator of the blog.
Blogging is done very well as a skill and you really have to improve yourself as a blogger and have a vision about your blog which will really boost the way you reason and think about your blog and you will see a great improvement for your blog.

Sponsered Blog Posts Reviewed

The best way to make money blogging is by sponsered blog posts as they can bring in a lot of money to the Blog which is a successful strategy of blog monetization.

After studing the power behind the monetisation of many big blogs we had to look at the secrets behind their great revenues and it happened that serving sponsered posts is the biggest source of their revenue, Mashable and Techrunch also provide sponsored posts which they normally charge over $20000 per post which is a great income which means by having five sponsered posts on your site can get you an awesome $100,000+ in revenue and when it comes to little and middle blogs sponsored posts costs more than $50 from a small blog that roughly get traffic.
A sponsored blog post is a post that the publisher gets paid to publish a post on their blog. Which are are either written by the publisher or the Advertiser.

It is very important that you are happy about the type of posts that you are  serving to your blog readers as it have been noted that some bloggers get to accept some misleading posts, this has been a major problem for many bloggers due to the love of money. The readers of your your blog should always come first because they are representing your blog and losing them is going to affect your blog in future.

Special Things that make your blog eligable for Sponsored blog posts

•  Maintain a good relationship with your blog Readers

A good relationship with blog readers can give a good image for your blog to the public eye and to all the potential clients out there which might get them into doing business with your blog.
Having a good relationship with your blog readers will not guarantee you that they will be as good as you expect them which has really been a hardship for Ajaxsurf as there has been a lot of spam comments that I receive from some of our respected blog readers and sponsers. Whenever a brand or any niche related company sees your blog, the primary thing that they will look for is the participation and commitment of blog readers.

•  Have a Professional Blog Design

A professional blog is a very powerful element in helping you improve the way people see your blog and the way of which your blog gets rated by the search engines and mostly by the brands that have interest in the sponsored posts.

• Your Contact details should be on the blog

Try to make your contact details accessable on your blog which will allow your readers to easily interact with your blog. This is mostly recommended by big advertising agencies for approval because the really will not approve your site.

• Have a good Newsletter

Whenever any company looks for a blog in which they could submit a sponsered posts or a product reveiw they will always consider the number of subscribers a site has both on Email and Social Media.

•  Host your blog on a professional host

Professionals always recommend bloggers to host their blogs using a profession hosting service rather than a free one, but to me it doesn't matter how your blog is hosted but what matters the most is the worth and the quality of the blog which is being used.

•  Your Blog should have a Specific Geo location

This is also recommended to prevent any scam and create even more trust between your site and the Advertiser, but it is not compulsary to use as a few advertisers get to look for a Geographic location.

•  Quality of Blog posts

Having to post low quality posts on your blog will really down grade the value of your site, Try to avoid posting low quality posts and rate your blog readers as the most important commidity or client that your blog has.

How to Get Sponsered Blog posts?

•  Always start at a small affordable rate

If you are a start into sponsored blog posts please start at low prices until your get more advertisers to publish sponsored posts then you can increase to a much greater price, normally prices start at as little as $50 per sponsored posts published on the blog.

•  The price of Sponsored posts

You should charge the right price for the sponsored posts provided by your blog because having a sponsored post is very expensive as for blogs that have PR4 the cost of publishing a guest post is a from a minimum of $500 which is a good price to charge on a blog. Don't just allow any posts just because of the money submitted by the client but you got to respect your blog readers the most as they are the driving force behind a blog.

• Try to be as professional as possible

Being professional is not a hard thing to do as it can be easily be practiced by anybody, your blog posts and the style of your blog plays a very huge role in ensuring the professionalism of a blog as it is the main thing that advertisers may look for in a blog before they consider a site as appropiate for hosting a Sponsored blog post. Being professional is not only based on the type of posts produced by the blog but it also count on the important pages by a blog which includes the disclaimer, Privacy Policy, Contact and About page which fully gives an identification about the blog.

• Focus much more on the readers

Whenever you publish a post on your blog the first thing that one may consider is how will it affect the blog readers because losing a reader to another blog is one of the hardest things that a serious blogger should worry about because the blog is built for the visitors and I don't find it as a good idea to put the readers at the bottom of the ladder.

• Payments must be recieved before a post get started
This is the most serious part that has to be taken into consideration because there is a lot fraud happening oline and the only way to survive is by following strict orders to help you survive the online world. Whenever you make any sales online you should always use services that are trusted for credit card processing and if you are selling any Ads or Sponsored posts you must use a payment
first skill to help you secure security for your site.

• All links in sponsored posts should be no follow

This is an important part because it has a lot to do with the Search Engine Optimization and search engines because google is very much against the selling of links which may cause any site found to be selling link for money to be banned by the search engine.
No-follow links are links that are not followed by search engines but are only visible as text to the search engines and robots. These links are not going to increase the pagerank of a site and neither are they considered to be backlinks just because of their value.

How to decide a price for sponsored posts ?

• How Engaged are the Blog readers

The engagement of the blog readers plays a big role when deciding the cost of a post as a site with engaged readers will really help a product or a service to sell at a price that will guarantee sales just because of the trust that readers have upon the blog.

• How much Influence You have online

The influence of the author or the site can be used to make considerations for the sponsored post costs.

•  How many Sponsered posts you planned for the month

This can be a matter of an exclusion whereby a post will cost depending on its availability as a stock because

•  Always know whether you are expensive or cheap

A friend of mine Sue Anne had always told me not to go cheap because I would really be looking down on my blog readers and the blog as a brand itself because sponsored blog post are not very cheap but should be at the right price unless a certain discount by the site.

•  The Amount of time spent preparing a post

At sometimes the blog Administrator is usaully asked by the advertisers to write the sponsored blog posts which will require the administrators time and efforts which may cost a really good price which will not be less than 5% of the offered price.

Ajaxsurf will be giving your brand to submit a sponsored post on this blog at a value of $20 which will allow a up to 10 no follow links and atmost 2 do follow links delivered to by Ajaxsurf at an amazing value as your will saving 80% OFF per post, please note that this offer will be available until 1 August 2015.

Well I believe that this is the end of it suppose you have any questions based on this topic please feel free to let me know on the comments box below and we will answer back to you. Happy blogging.

How to Increase Blog Traffic Through Blogger Outreach

Blogger outreach is the best way to promote your blog online to as many people as possible because a Blog without constant traffic is not a blog until you find an audience that will read the posts that you post otherwise you will be writing posts that will be only read by only. Blogging is simply the best as it connects you to an audience and getting a larger audience to your blog is done easily with an aid of doing an outreach to the public and also to your friends on Facebook, twitter, whatsapp, work or at school. If you want people to support you you have to make them know about what you are doing, you will be amazed about their respond into helping boost your blogs traffic as they might passover the message to more people.

Blogging is not easy when you do it alone, unless you are fine with your little traffic then it fine, but if you really want to improve your blog, you got to let people know about what you are offering to them. Let them know about your services, let them know about what you have to offer them because I have noticed that everybody in this world needs a blog to follow, whether the person is a business man, doctor, engineer, scientist or anything you will find them reading blogs or just having some blogs that they follow which is evidence to us as webmasters that people need blogs to follow and we have to reach out to them.

• Create a good relationship with influential Bloggers.

Having a good relationship with influencial bloggers on your niche will boost your blogging experience giving you access to many blogging possibilities. A good relationship will not give you a good recognition towards other bloggers but will ensure that you get a recognition in search engines.

Always try your best to get recognition in the industry that you participate in, because good recognition will expose you to special clients and readers who will play a great role in boosting your site traffic and revenue.  Having a good group of blogs around your blog can help improve your traffic an more importantly your blog , this trick does not come from Ajaxsurf but it is a golden rule for running any business as once a business man said "Your Network determines your Networth" which is the same with blogger.

If you are blogging just for the fun of blogging then you just playing games because really nobody will take an un-professional blog seriously, you got to make it professional and respect your readers by all means. Being professional is not about being formal but it is about the quality of service delivery which includes all the template, posts, images and comments.

•Template Type

The type of template used a blog plays a great role to both the blog readers and the clients as it defines the quality of your services, as a Blogger it is very important that that you choose the template that fully suites your blog rather then using a blogger default template which is strictly not profession and would really degrade your blog.

The type of template used plays a great role to your blog so try to be serious with your readers at all times.

• Guest post on niche related blogs

Guest posting is amazing as it creates you quick backlinks allowing to your blog great link juice which will improve the rank of your blog in search engines. Submission on web directories has a great influence on boosting a blog but that cannot stand at a level of doing guest posting because backlinks from other websites are much more effective than the regular high ranking directories because on Google they are considered to be "submission sites" backlinks but they can probably boost your Alexa rank.

Guest posting will not only improve your rank on search engines but will also make you famous on the blogging niche winning you some more visitors into your blog who may later become the blog's loyal readers.

•Create a Facebook Page

Facebook pages have grown at a very high rate as they have a high potential of increasing the visitor amount comming directly from Facebook. A page is a must have for a blog as it acts as a community behind the blog as it has a number of subscribers together with the other forms of other pages from other subscription services  which help will bolster the site user activity.

• Participation in Niche Related Forums

Forums are the key parts of receiving potential loyal blog readers since most of the readers that come from the forums are mostly familiar with the blogging niche and if they happen to fing your blog as successful then they can end up subscribing to your blog.

• Promote Posts on Content services

I have seen some blogs do marketing by simply advertising on content advertising services which will promote their content online on big sites like Mashable, CNN, Ajaxsurf, Techcrunch and all the other sites on the internet. The best service I would recomend for you as a blogger is non other than content.ad which is very affordable for any blogger that interested in successful Advertising.

Doing outreach online is not as  expensive as it happens offline because online everything is done at very little costs, which can cost you less than $10 dollars as there are services that can offer up to 1000 clicks for $5 which is cheaps as it will get your blog moving, I have seen some bloggers buying links from link parties which is very dangerous for you as a blogger because it will ruin the reputation of your blog as Google the major search engine is strictly against these actions.

how to Add your Blogspot/Wordpress Blog to Google News

Having your site listed on Google news is probably the best achievement that a site can get as it improves your blog traffic . Google News is one of the best traffic sources that a site can acquire on the internet because google doesn't just allow any site to to appear on Google news but they have a very few set of websites.

Google News has been under looked by some companies as they don't think it brings then enough traffic , which I would say it is a bit crazy because Google has 25000+ sites which it serves with over 1 billion weekly visitor meaning that you stand a probability of receive a possible 40,000 weekly visitors from Google News which is probably a good amount of traffic which a site can get. If you looking for a way to rank better on search engines then Google News is the best source that one can use to get quality search traffic because most search engines tend to display the Google News posts above the search results which is an absolute guarantee for high quality search traffic.

Sites that are featured on Google are most likely to rank much higher as they are very well indexed to rank better, therefore if your site has a bad rank on search Engines then you have to add it to the search engine drives which will make them recognize your site better compared to sites not linked to the search engine.

Many professional SEO experts claim that sites that are included on Google are trusted by Google  and have a greater ranking potential compared to any other sites on the internet, being included in Google news will probably improve you site traffic and pagerank.

How To Get Your Blog In Google News

Getting a site included in Google news is not easy as they have a policy which guides the type of sites that they can accept into Google news.

• Write unique posts with strict timely news publishing.

Try to post regularly to at least three articles a day, which will keep the trend of your site moving because Google news is looking for professionalism. They only accept sites with activity and any site that lack activity and posts will not get indexed for Google news

• Your Blog must be professional as possible.

Google news will not just allow any website or blog for inclusion on it news service but they only allow high quality sites to rank on the Google news server, If you are still struggling in putting your site together then I will motivate you not to submit it until your site is professional enough for inclusion on Google news.

If google news have about 25000 out of millions of news sites on the internet then that will mean that getting approval is not that easy but it will require your site to show some professionalism by having an info page that will display to the user all the information they might need from a site which will include pages like the About us Page, Disclaimer Page, Site Author info (mostly included on the About us Page), Privacy Policy, Advertising Page and most importantly the Contact Page which will allow you site readers to interact with your site through email and though other contact alternatives.

•  Include a full info page about the blog authors.

It is very important that you include a page which includes data about The authors of your blog, this very important to help the readers get an idea about who posts on the blog. Google news will also look at the posts that were posted by the blog author and if it happens that any of them is found to be violating the Google policy then the whole site will have face the consequence. Don't just make anybody a blog author but choose authors by their experience and reputation .

• Your titles must be descriptive and at least contain a keyword about the article.

Titles must be SEO optimized with keywords for better ranking, Google wants your site to rank on Google news therefore try by all means to optimize you site with title tags and keywords. As of Google your post title must be unique and also be in the same order as the article and Always try to use unique blog titles because Google news is more likely to filter articles with similar articles.
The second most important thing you should consider when applying for Google news are the fonts of your post titles,sub-titles and post content.Your post titles must have a larger font than the post content and most important they must be above the article.Your news posts should have a reasonable amount of content and at least have 200 words per article.




• Have a News or Magazine Template on your Blog

Your News Blog should have a Template that is very similar to other professional Google news sites as the search engine is definately looking for quality. Your Blog must be simple reader friendly, You Can buy News Templates for your News Blog on our Theme store at value of $ 10 which will Save 50% off the Normal prize, Get that template your blog and get Google to approve your site.

Conclusion

These are The minimum requirements that you must meet in order to get approved for Google news, If it happens that your site meets the requirements for Google news please feel free to submit it to the Google news team for review and we be glad if you share with us the progress of your site.

Blogging Advise from Techcrunch founder Michael Arrington

Techcruch is a multi-millionaire Technology Blog with more than 9 million monthly visitors, which started as a one man blog ran by Michael Arrington into being a leading blog in it niche.

Today we I will be sharing with you Michael Arrington success secrets into successful blogging which had made made Techcruch a leader in Tech news.

Make a follow up on Niche Related Rumours - following up on rumours will really help you to create a solid background for your blog and mostly upon that you have to respect your blog sources. The best way to get a hold of the common rumours is by getting involved with famous people on your niche will improve your blog as they will consider sharing stories with your blog and most importantly respect what they may require you in exchange.

Have a Proper Sleep as a Blogger - Most Bloggers tend to sleep a very short time which is not healthy for their bodies as improper sleep will really cause a lack of concentration which will negatively affect the way a blogger works causing him not to post some posts at the best potential. Michael Arrington believes that bloggers should sleep for atleast 8 hours because he was once Admitted by his doctor due to a lack of sleep whereby the doctor recommended that he should start his day at 9am as he slept very late getting his blog running. But most importantly try to keep a healthy 8 hour sleep and don't "Die" because of blogging.

Post on your Blog regularly - Posting on your blog is simply the best way to get your blog running and active as it will boost the reader activity of your blog. This will not boost only the reader activity but will ensure a good alexa rank for your blog or website which will help boost the public authority of your blog making it a huge success.

Michael Arrington says the reward of posting regularly is to get the blog readers into commenting on your site which will boost the way in which your blog readers will be working on your site. This skill was also used by Pete Cashmore the founder of Mashable to make his site a masterpeace as it is valued at $300 million.

Must Read : Mashable Success Secrets

You will have Enemies online - In business there is always a potential for having enemies that would try to bring you down, Michael Arrington  has been having public enemies who would probably try to bring down your blog as they may fear that you are taking their blog readers but that should not stop you because you don't really need them and with or without them you can become a successful blogger.

Upon receiving his threats he mentioned that at a certain public conference somebody spat on his face which made him not to blog for about a month until he evantually went back into blogging. So you got to know that enemies are always there.

It hard to be a player and a coach - The greatest difficulty that  Michael Arrington has struggled with is playing two roles which is both blogging and coaching, I will highly agree with him because it comes out naturally, and learning to master both skills will require a skill.

Develop good relationships with bloggers you like - Blogger and wordpress are currently the biggest platforms that are used by many professional bloggers which shows that there are many potential bloggers and bad bloggers. Choosing a blogger that fully understand the operation of your blog will really help improve your blog, because spamers are not just on spam websites but also on blogger there is a great number of spamers. Michael Arrington has made it clearly that he does not want to have any relationships with spamers.

Having an interview with Michael Arrington has been very great for us as Ajaxsurf, please feel free to ask us some questions in the comment box below.