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.

The Future of Twitter Reviewed

Is Twitter doomed? This is a question asked by many users online as the social network has not been performing very well which has resulted in a huge share price drop in the recent months years.

Twitter was founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey when he just sketched out an idea of a mobile SMS service that would be easily be used by mobile users which with the help of investors grew into being twitter which is now the worlds most active social network after facebook with over 200 million active users. The speculation about the loss of Twitter has been spreading around as many people wanted to to know what is happening on twitter which caused the quarter revenue details of Twitter to get leaked in April 2015 which has slamed the share price by over 18% which had made many websites around the world to had to think that Twitter is doomed !

Yes probably I may agree with some of their points because twitter has been having slow growth related problems which made market watch to confirmed that twitter is the next giant social media company to follow blackberry smartphones fall, a leak of their net earnings have really cause a huge damage by revealing the slow growth and revenue which has caused a huge share fall making a lot of traders in the New York Stork Exchange.

The Twitter stork drop has made many of the network fans to think that it is over with the social network as it has failed to show it ability of being the next facebook because of the rate of decrease in the number of new users signing up on the service. It is confirmed by Mashable that twitter has a very less number of active users which is about 255 million after it had a growth of 15 million users in the January-April 2015 period which has disapproved many people who thought the network was getting doomed, this move by twitter has shocked many as the company continued to grow irrespective to the problems they were having in the stock markets.

Twitter is believed to make a revenue of over $1 billion in this year which is believed to grow over a few years to come as the social network is undergoing some improvements which includes Advertising, Twitter business and Ecommerce which is believed to incease twitter revenue to over 100% , Twitter is still fresh and has the potential of increasing from it current $25 billion market value back to $45 billion value it hard before the revenue leak.

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.

Bing Rises as Google Biggest Competition

Bing is really gaining its momentum as a potential competitor to the Google search Engine in getting most searches from USA as the numbers of Bing users users have been increasing at a great rate compared to the other search Engines which shows that Bing may be the biggest competitor to Google as it owns over 20% of the  searches made in USA which indicates that the leading search engine Google still dominates with the most searches made on the internet. The growth of Bing is very promising as was at no position to compete with Google as of today Bing is nowhere to compete with Google, but at a promising position.

 

When it was first launched in 1 June 2009 as Live search it wasn't successful as planned by Microsoft which caused them to replace the normal Live search with Bing which was a bit smarter as it was a great change that was brought by Microsoft.
Looking at Bing's so much success, we have to ask much on whats was the key strategy that was made by Bing it rising from being a failed search engine into being a leading search engine after Google. The Vice president of Bing Search team Derrick Connell has confirmed that the secret of Bing was to simply display the best  search results compared to the Google Search Engines as they are bringing some best improvements compared to Google which has made many internet users to use Bing instead of Google.

Bing has gone from being a joke, because seriously it was not treated or respected when its was launched as it was the result of a failed live search engine by Microsoft and today has become the second best. The upcomming windows 10 software is expected to have the Bing's data-crunching software technolgy intergrated in its Software as confirmed by Seattle Times on their website.
This shows that as a blogger or a webmaster should take a huge consideration into the bing search engine as it is increasing in popularity and works together in hand with the Yahoo search engine to bring quality search results to it users. This merge also brought an Advertising service known as media.net which is the closest competitor to the Google Adsense advertising network. Like Adsense media.net is very strict when it comes to approvals as they have some polices that helps manage approval, for sites with more than 1000 daily pageviews get easily approved as they are looking foward to overcome Google Adsense in the near future.

Companies have joined hands with Bing to start selling Ads using its advertising network which is not really expensive to use and it has been a great source of traffic for many blogs after Google in providing quality search traffic. It is also used by Ajaxsurf as we have registered ealier this year on the Bing webmasters tools to get our site on their Index.
Bing is growing into by a great rate and I would motivate that you submit your site to their webmaster tools and you will really love getting traffic from them. Suppose you got any questions and information regarding this post please feel free to submit to us on the comment box below.

Google Phantom Algorithm Revealed

Maybe you have heard or noticed about the Google Phantom Algorithm Which has caused many sites to drop down from their higher ranking positions, The phantom update has come in a very unexpected way whereby some blogs and news sites have referred to it as the "Ghost" Algorithm because of the damage it had caused whereby many sites on the internet had to drop from their current pagerank to very low ranks within a very short amount of time.

This Algorithm is not similar to the Panda or Penguin updates as it is not fighting any internet spam or Search Engine Manipulation but this update is to is very much based on the type of content that is being produced by the blog itself and on this article you will learn how to avoid getting hit by any algorithm update and how you can survive these updates without getting your affected.
According to MBT they have confirmed that mostly sites with a lot of  "How to..." articles are mostly affected by the Google Phantom update which has affected sites like eHow and Wikihow who depend very much  on the "How to" type of articles as Google has made this move following the Mobile Algorithm which was introduced in April 2015.

The Worst thing that has happened to the how to sites is nothing more than a loss of traffic being snatched away by Google as they have recently introduced the knowledge graph which has made the content of certain sites to get featured whenever a user searches using a "How to" keyword, the Google knowledge graph will give the answer to the reader without giving the reader an option to visit the site. This had been a very huge loss for this sites because Google is simply stealing the content of these site without allowing the visitor to go to these sites.

Is Google on War with eHow, Hubpages and Wikihow
This is the main question that one should ask because Google first introduced the Google Structured and the Google graph which took traffic and also affected many of the related sites causing them to lose thousands of  their readers. And know with the Google phantom secret Algorithm being introduced with the aim to boost the Google graph  by destroying those sites and causing them to rank very low on Google in such that they will lose their reputation.

How Did this Update Affect Big Sites
~Many Huge Websites Have Lost a lot of Money.
~Websites lost more than 20% traffic overnight
~The Algorithm came by surprize

How to Recover Googles Secret Updates
Google is also on the same business as your site is and you got to know that you are competition to them even though your site is dependant on Google and Other search engines but with Google as the leading search engine then that is the reason why Google gets its respect.

When looking at the recent updates that were made by Google in the past 5 years is the Google Panda Algorithm which was introduced to rank web content by it quality and on 2012 the Penguin Algorithm was invited to reduce all web spam that was used by some websites to bolster their rank in Google and from there was the biggest algorithm which was the well known mobilegeddon which was based ranking mobile friendly sites to rank better compared to unfriendly sites.

•  Get a Mobile Template for your Blog

Since Google has introduced the mobile update algorithm which many bloggers were were ready for since it was announced by Google in December 2014 which gave many sites a chance to avoid getting hit by this algorithm update,  but they were not ready for the Google Phantom Algorithm which caused many sites to get hit by the algorithm as even today some bloggers have been questioning as the rank of many websites has decreased rapidly not only on big sites but the smaller sites have also lost big time.

• Identify the Penalty that has Hit your Site.

If it happens that your blog gets a huge decrease in its search Engine readers then probably your site is suffering from a possible penalty. My site to was sufferring from the Google penguin penalty early in when it was created in 2014 as Fantasy and Luxury which was a celeb Magazine, the site sufferred due to it lack of unique posts and images because by that time I hardly got time to write quality posts.
The only way I got to survive the penalty was by removing all the posts that were not unique from the site in such that the site was left with less than 10 posts which was the hardest time for our site but unfortunately we were able to post as many posts as possible in such that we were able to get up to 30 posts a month which really boosted the effectiveness of our site.

• Write Quality Content

The quality content by a blog plays a very huge role in the promoting blog to search engines and advertisers who can play a huge contribution into increasing the effectiveness of your blog to the readers in the internet.

Content is the primary ranking factor of Search Engines and probably no site will ever lose it rank just because of the content it is producing. You have to work hard to produce quality content and you will really the positive outcome that will be produced by that content.

• Don't focus too much on SEO

The use of SEO plays a great role in boosting the rank of a post in search engines but with some recent algorithms which we introduced by Google and other search engines SEO has lost it power in such that some sites have been banned because of using Search Engine Optimization to rank their sites because google and other search Engines got their own sorts of webmasters tools as they originally hate any form of Web spam which involves link parties and so on.
Yes your site must be fully optimised for certain keywords and searches on Google but the way in which our sites run should not affect the bots by using a lot of keywords.

• Add Optimized Images to Blog posts

Images play a very great role in improving the rank of a post in the search engines as it was mentioned in one of our blog posts about on page and Off Page SEO tips for Blogger.
Search Engines Love the visibility of Images on a site but they don't like images that are not given a title or a alt title because search engines find it hard to read images, The images in your post content should at least have a title that is related to the post content and have an alt tag which will help it rank well on Google images.
The Phantom

Facebook to invest €200 million in Ireland data Centre

The World's leading social Media company Facebook is planning to put it €200 million($224 million) investments into Data Centre which will be powered mostly by renewable power energy. This move is one of the biggest done by Facebook in Ireland after creating it huge duplin offices.

The Facebook data Centre is designed to cover over 50 000 meter squared which will be Facebook second data centre to be built after the data centre which was earlier built in Lulea, Sweden.  The Irish data centre is expected to increase the number of Ireland's Facebook employees to over 1000 according to a data that was shared by Mashable research team. The data centre is planned to be located in in Clonee a small town situated in the West of Duplin the home of the Facebook Europe centre, the plans for the Centre has been confirmed by the Irish government as they will be supporting the development of Facebook Irish data Center.

This Investment by Facebook has attracted the eyes of the world which has made Ireland to be seen as the biggest data centre investment country after the Tech giants Apple were reported to build a $1,9 Billion data centre within the west coast of Ireland in a town of Athenry  which will also be entirely be powered by renewable energy.

If you have any detail to share with us concerning the Ireland data centre, please feel free to share with us in the comment box or visit our contact page.