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.

Using a custom domain for something other than your Blogger blog

This article is about how you can use a custom domain that was purchased through Google / Blogger for something other than a Blogger blog.

Blogger makes it very easy for you to buy a "custom" domain name (ie URL) for your blog.   Instead of being www.fred-fish.blogspot.com, you can easily be www.fred-fish.com - which is more appealing for all sorts of reasons.

Blogger tells you which domain registrar they're going to use and lets you change to the other one if you want to.  Apart from this, Google hides most of the "technical" domain registration details from you:  you are invited to set up a domain administrator account (in Google Apps), but even this is optional.  

But there may come a time when you want to use your domain for more than just a blog:  eg, Fred may want to use www.fred-fish.com to sell fishing trips or as the public gateway to a massive database of fishing achievements, neither of which are functions that Blogger (easily) provides.

To use a Google-Blogger purchased domain for something other than a Blogspot blig, you need to:

• Move your blog away from the domain
  (you might move it use a subdomain or virtual host off the domain later on - but the first step is just to free up the domain for other use.
• Change the domain-name-server settings for the domain to point to the right place for the "something else" that you want to use it for.

Even though you purchased the domain using Blogger, your access to it is through the Google Apps control panel: from there you get the login details for the domain registrar (currently either goDaddy or eNom that Google used to buy the domain).

How to re-use your domain

Unlink the domain from your blog:

1  Log in to Blogger with the account that owns the domain.

2  From the Dashboard, choose   Settings > Basic > Publishing and click the cross on the right of the Edit link beside your blog name.

This changes your blog back to www.YOUR-BLOG-NAME.blogspot.com, and removes the DNS records that pointed your blog to your custom-URL.

It may take a few hours (I've heard 72) for these changes to apply to computers all around the world, so people who go to your custom domain may still get re-directed to your blog for a day or two.

Also, Google (and other search engines) will still have indexed links to your blog contents at your custom domain.  These will gradually be replaced when

• you put new content at your custom domain and 
• it gets indexed by the search engines and 
• the new content-indexing replaces data in the cached Google results in various computers around the world.

This can take some weeks, though, so your blog may miss out one some search traffic, and people who search for your new site may see odd results in their search list.

Next - link the domain to what you want it to show

3  Find, or create, the domain administrator login details for your domain:

I've previously described how to set up the domain administrator for your domain.

• If you haven't done this already, you need to find the relevant email and set up the account now.   
• If you have done it, you need to remember the administrator login and password that you created.
• If you cannot remember the administrator details, then go to  https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME/ForgotAdminAccountInfo - put in the right value for your domain name, without www.  or http:// at the start.    Enter the captcha details, and if you have set up an administrator account the details will be emailed to your backup secondary address. 
• If you never created an administrator account and cannot find the email to do it now, use this help-process.  Choose:
  - I never created an administrator account, then
  - I signed up at Google.com/a and purchased a domain name at the same time
  
  You can only use the help-process after you have un-linked your blog from the domain (ie steps 1-2 above plus left time for the change to be applied to Google's servers - somewhere between a few minutes and a few hours seems to work).  If you try to use it while your blog is still using the domain, you end up being directed back to Blogger.

Note:   if none of these processes help you get control of your domain administrator, check the resources in this article from Nitecruzr about the topic.

4  Go to https://www.google.com/a/YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME/

5  Log in with the admin account and password from Step 3.

6  Go to the Domain Settings tab

7  Go to the Domain Names sub-tab

8  Choose the Advanced DNS settings link.

This opens a screen that shows you how to get into the DNS console for your domain.   It typically has

• Your domain-registrar sign-in name and password,  
• Your domain-registrar customer service PIN - in case you need to contact the registrar's customer services, 
• Contact details for the domain registrar's customer service department  
• A link that you can use to get to the to DNS console

9  Log in to the DNS Console, using the details from step 9.

10  Follow the directions there to make the domain changes.

The steps required depend totally on what you are using the domain for:  for help with this, contact the the technical support forum (or whatever) for the product that's being used to build the new contents of your domain.


If you need more help, check out the Google Apps help forum.

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Where to find more information

Automatically renewing your custom domain

Transferring ownership of your blog to another Google account

Blogger and other Google products - an overview

Recovering control of your custom domain (external link)

9 Worlds Young Most Influencive Entrepreneurs [Infographic]

In the 21st Century there has been a huge number of Young Entrepreneurs taking over the world by storm because people got to understand that when it comes to business age does not matter because everybody has the ability to do at a great potential, I have been able to meet and do business with other young business masterminds who have been able to change their dreams into a reality not only online but also offline.

Business has nothing to do with age but has to be achieved when there is an opportunity to get something out of it, In March I was having a drive with a guy about 50 years of age and he told me his story about how much he wanted to become a multi millionaire when he grew up but his vision was to work until the age of 40 whereby he would get into the property business but unfortunately he did not get to that level in life as responsibly got to a level whereby he had no money to invest with in such a way that he will live his life in great disappointment because he was really emotional when he told me in such a way that I myself really felt his pain.

Just to Mention a young Entrepreneur by the name Sandile Shezi at the age of 23 he has been able to run a trading company that has made him to improve from his standard life forms into being a multi millionaire through his trading company Global Forex Institute whereby they offer forex trading lessons in South Africa as many people there are not much familiar with the markets and foreign exchange, whereby he found an opportunity to come into business with his life coach George who once traded for Banks in United Kingdom.

I have found it a big opportunity to share with you this amazing info graphic about the youngest millionaires that are taking the world by storm through various online productions and businesses because I believe that Bloggers out there can make it to the biggest Peak of the financial ladder. We as Ajaxsurf are highly supporting thousands of readers by promoting blogging tips and online monetization tips that will help boost your online income.

Youngest Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing The World
Below is an Infographic that will change the way you blog and make money online. Enjoy !
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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.

Ajaxsurf Advertising Offer for Bloggers

Ajaxsurf is giving away Advertising Banners from 1-10 July at a price of $5 and $10 to the blog readers or sometimes FREE only if your submit atleast 5 Niche Related posts which will be acceptable to our guidelines, this is an opportunity for some bloggers as we have joined hands in partnership with blogAds to bring you the needed Advertising which will simplify the way you blog and market your online content. This is a chance that you eliminate the Middle man which is the Advertising service that will charge you extra costs for looking for publishers to to publish your Advertisements but with Ajaxsurf this July you will get advertising deals at a good acceptable value.
To get these advertising slots in July with Ajaxsurf it is Simple because this not a sale which means the costs will not change in the Advertising page.  in order to Advertise at these lower cost you will have go to our contact page and we will happy to assist you.

•Free Advertising Slots Worth $20
To optain an a Free Website slot at a value $20 you will have to invite more than 1000 facebook friends and get them into liking our new Facebook Page which is found on this link.
This offer is very limited because it is only the first reader to get over 1000 likes for the is going to get the $20 Advertising slot which will be just below the blog header.

•Free Advertising slot worth $15

The Free Advertising slot worth $15 will not require any hardwork as you will be required to get us a minimum of 700 likes on Facebook and you will get that slot free of charge on all pages.
This Ad space is only valid for 30 days and will be appearing on the top of the right sidebar , the size of this Ad slot is should be a 320×250 banner.

• Advertising Slot worth $10
The $10 slot will be given to the first reader to get us over 500 Facebook likes for our Page, this slot will last for a minimum of 30 days.

Posts For Advertising Slots
Readers who get to submit a minimum of 5 blog related posts of more than 500 words each will get to have a $10 value Advertising slot which will last for 15 days, suppose a reader submits to us over 15 blogging niche related posts  then we will guarantee you a thirty dollar ($30) Advertising slot valid for 30 days.

Please note that your blog posts must not be published anywhere in the internet, they must be fresh content and unique.
For more information please contact us by visiting our contact page and send us your enquiry, suppose you have got us the desired facebook likes please let us know so that we will be able to reward you for your effort, happy blogging.