What is Internal Linking ? How Internal Links are Important for Your Website to Get Higher Rankings in Search Engines ?

Internal Linking: Internal Linking is the part of SEO On Page Optimization and It may be defined as links pointing to other page or pages of same website. The internal linking is very important for getting higher rankings in search engines. Always try to give good internal linking by choosing better keywords so that it will helpful for your user.

To understand, this concept I am taking the following example.

Lets say, I have the following content

SEO i.e. Search Engine Optimization is of two types i.e. On Page Optimization and Off Page Optimization You can read details about at here What is SEO ?

In this example, I made the three internal links (I make hyperlink on three keywords) On Page Optimization, Off Page Optimization and What is SEO ? and which are pointing to other pages of my website and whenever any one click on these links only my website link related to these keywords will be open. These three links are acting as internal links for my website.

How Internal Linking is Importnat to Get Higher Rankings in Search Engines ?

Search Engines, specially Google is giving very much important to backlinks and giving value to internal linking. So, it will be beneficial for your website, If you will give more internal links. Check the following example.

You may notice Wikipedia is coming higher on search engine result pages for any type of query. One of the reason for coming at first position of Wikipedia in Google SERP is that Wikipedia has very strong internal linking.

So try to make useful Internal Linking for your website or blog.

Faves.com Returned Back

Faves.com Returned Back

Good news one of social media website i.e. Faves.com again returned back. On 24th May 2011 Faves was closed

Now you can again join Faves and you can make new friends.

You can check your bookmarks in account If you have already account on faves.com. You previous account will work fine.

You can check faves.com snap shot as follows

How to Change Font Style and Font Size of Your Blogger Description for New Blogger Templates ?

Changing Font Style and Font Size of Your Blogger Description

If you are using new Blogger Templates such as Simple, Picture Window, Awesome Inc, Watermark, Ethereal and Travel Templates then you may notice there will be no option for changing font size and font style. See the image below which can be checked in Design -> Template Designer (Blogger Template Designer) -> Advanced -> Blog Description



To Change the font size and font style in these blogger template follow the following steps

Step 1: Go to Design

Step 2: Go to Edit HTML Option

Step 3: Backup Your Blogger Template

Step 4: Click on Expand Widget Templates

Step 5: Find this line <p class='description'><span><data:description/></span></p>

And add your font size and font style as follows

<p class='description' style='font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;'><span><data:description/></span></p>

You can choose any font family and font size.

If you only want to change font style then use only font family option as follows

<p class='description' style='font-family: verdana;'><span><data:description/></span></p>

Hope, this trick will change the size of font and style of font of your blog description.

How to Add a Gadget Above Header of Your Blogger ?

Adding a Gadget Above Header

You may notice that you can not Add a Gadget above Header in your blogger. There are many benefits of adding a Gadget above header, you can place your ads, you can make menu bar above header using HTML/Java Script gadget, you can add pages, you can add search engine above your header.

If you want to add a Gadget above header of your blogger then you can add as follows.

Step 1: Login to Blogger

Step 2: Go To Design -> Edit HTML



Step 3: Download Full Template

Step 4: Click on Expand Widget Templates See the image below for Step 3 and Step 4



Step 5: Find the code below (You can find this code by Ctrl + F -> b:section class='header')

<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'>

Step 6: Change this code as follows

<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='4' showaddelement='yes'>

I Changed maxwidgets='1' to maxwidgets='4'

and Change showaddelement='no' to showaddelement='yes'

Step 6: Now click on Save Template and you will see you can add a Gadget above blogger Header.

See the image as below.



If you get any problem for adding this gadget then you can ask here by giving Comment !

Note: This trick can be implemented to new blogger template such as Simple, Picture Window, Awesome Inc, Watermark, Ethereal and Travel Templates

Two Tricks for Removing or Hiding Blogger Navbar ?

Remove or Hide Blogger Navbar



Do you want to remove blogger navbar from your blog then you can remove blogger navbar very easily ? You can remove navbar by the two methods. Check the following methods.

(1) First Method for Removing Blogger Navbar

Step 1: Login to Blogger

Step 2: Go To Design -> Edit HTML



Step 3: Download Full Template

Step 4: Click on Expand Widget Templates See the image below for Step 3 and Step 4



Step 5: Now, Find ]]></b:skin> by Ctrl + F

Step 6: Insert the following code above this ]]></b:skin>

#navbar {
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}

Step 7: Now click on Save Template and Check your blog you will see Blogger Navbar will be removed from your blog.

Second Method for Removing Blogger Navbar

Step 1, Step 2, Step 3 and Step 4 are same as that of above First Method

Step 5: Find ]]></b:skin> by Ctrl + F

Step 6: Insert the following code above ]]></b:skin>

#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}

Step 7: Now Click on Save Template and you will see Blogger Navbar will be removed from your blog.

If you have any problem for doing this, then you can ask here by giving Comment !

How to Make Google as Your Home Page in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome For Windows Operating System ?

Making Google As Your Home Page Using Different Browsers

Do you want to make Google as your home page ? Then you can make Google as your home page as follows.

For Mozilla Firefox Browser: How to make Google as Home Page in Mozilla Firefox ?

If you are using Mozilla Firefox as your browser then follow the following steps.

Step 1: Open Mozilla Firefox.

Step 2: Go To Tools -> Options. See the image as below.



Step 3: Options -> General Tab



Find Start Up -> Home Page and Type http://www.google.com after it, click OK button. See the image above.

Next time when you will open Firefox then www.google.com will be open as your home page.

For Internet Explorer (IE) Browser: How to Make Google as Home Page in IE ?

If you are using Internet Explorer as your browser then follow the following steps.

Step 1: Go to Tools -> Internet Options See the image as below.



Step 2: Go to General Tab -> Find You can change which page to use for your home page -> Address Type http://www.google.com -> Click Apply and Click OK. Now next time when you will open your IE then www.google.com will be open as your home page. See the image as below.



For Google Chrome Browser: How to Make Google as Home Page in Google Chrome ?

If you are using Google Chrome as your browser then follow the following steps.

Step 1: Open the Google Chrome.

Step 2: Go to Settings near to Address Bar see the image below.



Step 3: Click on Setting -> Options



Step 4: By clicking on Options you will be redirected to a new page (new tab) see the snap shot below.



Step 5: Now on Start up

Click on the -> Open the following pages -> Add a new page -> Type http://www.google.com

Step 6: At Home Page

Use -> Open this Page: http://www.google.com See the image as below.





Now you will see on start up of Google Chrome your home page will be www.google.com

Note: You can make any other page as your home page in all of above browsers. For example, If I want to make www.example.com as my home page then I will just replace www.google.com with www.example.com for making www.example.com as my home page.

What is Edit HTML and Compose Mode in Blogger - Writing Modes of Blogger Post

Writing Modes in Blogger

There are two types of writing mode in blogger. (1) Edit HTML and (2) Compose. You can use any of them while posting your blog. You can read details about these two modes as follows.

(1) Edit HTML Mode: Here you can use all types of HTML tags.

Example of HTML Tags

<b> </b>
<i> </i>
<a href="http://www.bloggingalerts.com">www.bloggingalerts.com</a>
<img></img>

Try to use HTML mode always for writing your blogger post.

(2) Compose Mode: Compose Mode is same as that of Word (WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get). In this mode you can take the help of various buttons.

See All Buttons in Blogger Writing Compose Mode



Explanation of Some of important button in compose mode as follows.

(a) Font Style: Font button have various font style like Arial, Courier, Georgia, Lucida Grande, Times, Trebuchet, Verdana, Webdings. You can choose according yo your liking. Verdana is always used for professional look.

(b) Font Size: Font size have various categories like Smallest, Small, Normal, Large, Largest

(c) Bold Tag: You can make your text bold by using this tag.

(d) Italic Tag: You can make your text as italic by using this tag.

(e) Color: Use can use various colors by selecting your text. But do not try to use too much colors in your blog post. Only use one standard color for formatting the text.

(f) Hyperlink: You can make hyperlink to any external or internal link with help of this button.

(g) Alignment: You can set your text alignment with these buttons.

(h) Numbered List: You can make numbering with this button.

(i) Check Spelling: You can correct your spelling mistake with this button.

(k) Add Image: You can get your answer how to add images in blogger ? You can add images with this button directly from your personal computer or from web.

(l) Add Video: You can get your answer how to add videos in blogger ? You can directly add video from your personal computer or from web.