Do you have a Blogger blog and run, or want to run a regular podcast? Well you're in luck, because Blogger makes distributing your podcast very easy. You can use a blog post on your Google Blogger blog to deliver your podcast through an RSS feed. This is done by using Enclosure links, a lesser known feature that has been around for quite some time. In this post, we'll talk about enclosure links in Blogger, and how to enable and use them.
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The sale and purchase of domain names has been a lucrative trade ever since the dot com bubble. Ordinarily, you can get a .com domain from GoDaddy for just $10. But there are people who rake in bucks by buying, and then selling big, valuable domain names. Here is a list of the top 10 most expensive domain names ever sold. Only those domain names are listed which were sold purely as domain names i.e. only the domain name was the part of the deal, and not the website itself.
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404 or Not Found Error pages are very common, especially since the content on the internet is being changed all the time. Websites are migrated, new themes and templates are deployed and old ones discarded, low-quality content from the past is deleted, URLs are removed, and so on. 404s occur a lot, and they reflect on a site's user-experience, and how much effort has been put into it. In this post, I'll talk about how best to deal with these pages so as to improve your site's user-experience, and the general SEO.
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A website's ranking on search results in influenced by a lot of factors, such as on-page and off-page SEO, backlink profile, social activity, and so on. There are actually over 200 signals Google uses to rank a website (or so we're lead to believe). People often wonder whether a website's age is one of them. Webmasters with newer domains are always complaining about how they're supposed to go head-to-head with the veterans who have been around for years. Even the vets sometimes complain that newer sites are overtaking them much too easily. So does a site's age really count?
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Building links from various different sources to get a higher search engine ranking has always been one of the most popular SEO techniques. People have forever been using archives, blog listing, article directories, and so on to build links. But that was then. And this is now. Google has ruffled up more than a few feathers in the past couple years, and SEO as we knew it is no longer the same. So what about resources like article directories? Are they still relevant today?
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Social bookmarking buttons are very commonly seen on blogs, and there are any number of widgets that will give you a ton of all the common buttons, such as Facebook Like, Twitter Tweet, Google +1, and so on. The Facebook 'Invite Friends' button is different in the sense that it isn't a bookmarking button. It is something much more useful - it enables users easily refer certain content to their friends, and also helps bloggers with increasing their audience. Today's how-to is all about creating an 'Invite Friends' button, and adding it to your (Blogger) blog.
