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- Fix Structured Data hatom Errors in Blogger
- Why Submit Blog Posts to 10 of the Top Article Directories?
- Up to 90% Massive Drop in Google Search Traffic Worldwide [Case Study]
- Top 9 Ways Of Earning Money Online In 2017!
- The Reason Why Facebook Pages Are Losing Reach?
- Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs of Iran in 2017
- Should You Use Article Directories To Build Links in 2017?
| Fix Structured Data hatom Errors in Blogger Posted: 02 Sep 2017 11:11 AM PDT Last year we wrote a comprehensive post on understanding what Structured Data is and how it is used to better display your site on major search engine result pages. Today you will find the first tutorial of its kind for Blogger blogs where you will learn how to fix Structured Data errors in BlogSpot templates. In your webmaster tools' Search Appearance tab or while using Google rich snippets tool, you must have come across two or all of these famous microformat markup errors:
UPDATE: This method fixed all errors on our network sites and those of our clients. Dropping errors by 100%. Check the prove here: Remove all Structured Data Errors! What is Schema.org?Schemas are simply html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by Bing, Google, Yahoo! and Yandex. All these search engines rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages. In Blogger the errors of missing fields are a result of inaccurately placing the schema tags or absence of these tags causing two famous errors in hAtom which are a missing Author and Updated fields. What are Rich Snippets?In 2009, Google decided to reshape the way search results are displayed. This was a good step and search pages got a whole new look to help users find more information on a large variety of subjects including people(Authorship Markup), food recipes, events and Product reviews. See some examples below: Rich Snippets for Author Rich Snippets for Product Reviews Rich Snippets for Video
Fixing Missing Fields in Blogger In order to fix the missing entry-title, updated and author errors, we will introduce some schema tags inside your blogger template that will tell search engines how to pick the correct title, Author name and published date of the post.The hatom items with errors that you see in webmasters tool compose of author and updated fields which we will fix here. Lets now add some well defined schema classes that will clean up all errors that you see in your webmaster Structured Data tab. Fixing hCard error
The above HTML DOM could look different in custom blogger templates. In that case only make sure to locate the yellow highlighted codes. You just need to find a similar code as shown above. It does not need to be exactly the same. 5. Replace the above chunk of similar code that you found with this one:
If you observe clearly, we simply introduced an itemtype, a class of author and a name. All these three important classes do the magic of fixing the missing hcard error! 6. Save your template 7. Visit the Rich Snippets testing tool, insert your URL and you will find that the hCard error is all gone! The author field is blank because fn inside a Vcard stands for full name and provides much better information about the author. See an example below for our co-author, Qasim Zaib. Isn't that cool? Fixing updated error Lets now fix the problem of Missing:updated error. Google must know about the publish date of your post. For that we will enclose the post timestamp inside a new class of updated. Follow this:
2. You will find the above code twice. Replace it twice for both occurrences with the code given below:
3. Save your template and you are almost done! Visit again the rich snippets tool and amazingly you will see that updated filed just works fine now: Fixing entry-title error PS: Ignore this step if you are not getting entry-title errors This error only occurs with custom blogger templates which are designed carelessly and are not well optimized. If you are facing this problem, then here is the solution.
It could be h2 in your case. 2. Replace the above code with this one twice:
3. Save your template and you are all done! Rich snippets tool will now surely show your entry title correctly: Items with errorsWithin next 24 hours, webmaster will update your Structured Data and will show zero for items with errors. The number of these items actually indicate your post count. This number would be as large as the total number of posts and pages on your blog. Since we have cleaned up the schema errors inside your template, therefore within next 24 hours or more Google will start showing a green signal for your structured data! Need Help?I am sure this tutorial would be helpful to all our readers and potentially productive in helping Google better index and crawl your sites. Please feel comfortable to ask us anything where you may need help. Peace and blessings buddies :) Troubleshoot Guide These errors will surely not fix if you are doing one of the followings:
Disclaimer:This solution is first time introduced by MBT blog. Replication of this tutorial in any way without attribution would be a serious Copyright infringement.            |
| Why Submit Blog Posts to 10 of the Top Article Directories? Posted: 29 Jul 2017 12:09 PM PDT  Writing for the web is great! Good writers are always in demand, because there are lots of websites that need to update and add fresh content for their own survival. Writing online can also get you some money. But more importantly, it builds your credibility and authority. Bloggers are no strangers to online content writing. So for them, it can be far more important and useful. Submitting your articles or blog posts to article directories can be a particularly good way of boosting your stats. It can bring many benefits for bloggers. Today, we'll take a look at the top 10 article directories where you can submit your articles or blog posts and benefit from them. Why submit your articles? Submitting articles has lots of benefits. First of all, you can get a backlink via your author box on that particular site. Most of these article directories have a 5+ PR. And if you know anything about blogging, you'll know how important a PR 5+ backlink is. A single high quality backlink is better than multiple low quality ones. It will help increase your own PageRank. Besides PR, these submissions will also boost your traffic. These directories are frequently visited by millions of people in search of knowledge or articles to research upon. And with your articles, you can divert some of that traffic to your own website. Another little benefit is, you can get rid of your old, or unnecessary blog posts. A lot of bloggers post on irrelevant stuff at the start just for the sake of something to write about. Many posts end up stalling as well, with no traffic coming to them. Such posts aren't any good to anybody. So deleting them, and submitting them on article directories instead can squeeze some use out of them. Top 10 Article Directories Here's a list of the top 10 article directories where you can submit old or new articles of yours and get some backlinks and traffic out of it.
You can submit one article to more than one directories above. However, the directories marked with a sterick (*) are listed under the SubmitYourAccount (SYA) Account Manager. This means, that articles submitted to these directories come under the same account manager. Hence, if you signed up for these directories with your SYA account, then you can not submit the same article to more than one of these websites. All the starred websites can be considered as a single article directory. You can, however, sign up without your SYA account, or with another account you might have. That way, you can submit your articles to more than one such directories. You can sign up for any of these directories for free. It usually is an easy sign-up process. Once signed up, you are ready to start posting articles. Before you submit articles though, make sure your author profile is properly filled, and that it is linking to your website. Most sites give you an HTML box where you can directly add your link and anchor it to some text such as your name. You can submit a single article to many directories. But keep in mind their copyrights law before submitting. Some directories won't let you post already published content, while others might not allow you to reproduce them. Be sure to check out their ToS before submitting anything. We'd recommend you sign up for multiple article directories, at least 5. That way, you can be sure of scoring at least backlink to your website. And if more accept your article, well and good! The whole purpose of this exercise is to build quality backlinks, which should be on any blogger's priority list.     |
| Up to 90% Massive Drop in Google Search Traffic Worldwide [Case Study] Posted: 05 May 2017 11:00 AM PDT
Around half of our clients complained recently about a major drop in their traffic. Since we offer SEO consultancy, its our job to keep these sites well optimized. I was shocked with the figures I received from their Analytics reports. Far bigger surprise was when we noticed all blogs of STC Network being terribly effected with a tremendous loss in traffic for the past few weeks starting from August 16th. Based on the free available tools we have online, following are some reports presented as a brief Case Study that would prove that a major algorithmic change has surely occurred on Google's side which the company is neglecting to answer so far. UPDATE#1: A Simple Solution has been shared. Please read: UPDATE#2: Google just announced the reasons what made a search traffic drop: 1. AlgorooAlogoroo is my favorite tool and it is the only reliable tool I use when observing changes in Google's algorithms. If you observe the chart below, you would see that the Red rectangular bar shooted high on August 16 and August 21. This clearly indicates that Google has surely refreshed their indexed data twice on these days. August 16 is the day when our blog's traffic along with thousand others dropped by 40%.
2. SERPSSerps offers an extremely useful and tracking free tool that shows index volatility for Google and Bing. It gives a much wider information through different volatility charts on monthly and quarterly basis. If you observe the spikes on the chart below then you would notice that the changes in Google's algorithms dates back to even June 28-29 and July 26. Also observe the spikes on 16th and 21st August. PS: Click the image to enlarge. 3. SERPMetricsSerpMetrics is the most comprehensive tool amongst all because it shows major spikes of Search changes for all major Search engines which include Google, Yahoo and bing. Carefully observe below a major spike on 21st August. 4. GoSquared Testimony Proves it all!Now to prove how badly the algorithmic Change on August 16th effected global traffic then see the chart below which is provided by GoSquared which offers real time analytics for websites. It is a popular service even used by BBC News and The TeleGraph. GoSquared proved that on August 16th Google was unbelievably down for 5 minutes! People could not access YouTube, Gmail, Google Search, Blogger, Google+ or any service under Google's umbrella. All domains under the company were returning a server error between 23:52 and 23:57 BST on 16th August 2013. The chart below shows a big drop in the number of pageviews of GoSquare tracking tool on August 16. This indicates that all sites which had the Gosquared script installed were actually receiving no search traffic from Google for exactly 5 minutes and this caused a serious traffic loss for over 40% of all sites using GoSquared. This is what that proves it all. Google went down for 5 minutes and yet the company neglected to comment on this global outage. 5. Google could not hide it!After having contacted Google's Webspam team led by matt cutts and waiting for their replys , we could not wait any longer and thought to inform everyone that the above reports are not rumors but facts which Google accepts itself! How? Google has a utility called AppsStatus that shows status for all sites under Google's root domain. Visiting this tool today convinced me to write this case study. The pink bullets indicate service outage and amazingly you would see a pink bullet next to all services owned by Google between August 16 and August 17. Since our blog is hosted on Blogger.com therefore you would notice that even blogger was down between August 16-17 and this is the main reason which explains why many of BlogSpot users were facing trouble logging into their accounts because the page kept on returning a server error. PS: Click the image to enlarge. So what now?I am sure its not just you who is effected with this latest Google story but indeed all webmasters worldwide including us and all sites under our network. No one knows if this is a service failure on Google's part, or they have encountered a server breakdown or loss of indexed data or they are experimenting with a new Webspam algorithm but no matter whatever it is, it has badly effected all sites worldwide irrespective of the niche and content quality. Some say it is a new Penalty that Google will announce soon for sites sharing Affiliate products or similar. But I strongly disagree to all such claims because most of the sites that we service are entertainment based with not even a single affiliate link. Some even used to say that the traffic drop is because of summer season in WEST but I believe that is not a valid reason because we have never encountered such a massive traffic drop ever in past 5 years. Traffic during summer season is effected by a minor margin of 5-10% but the SERPs loss this time is as high as 90% for some sites which is alarming. I would share some tips on what to do in order to make sure you recover the lost traffic. Its simply a SEO trial and error experiment that we think could possibly change things to a satisfying level. Stay tuned for our next post on Recovering the lost traffic due to Google outage. Please share your precious views and tell us any new story that could contribute to the case study above. Do Tell us if you are one of those who are experiencing a Traffic loss for the past few weeks. Your views on this story could help many people. Peace and blessings buddies. Disclosure: The above article is just a case study and is not aimed at disclosing any hidden facts or degrading the company. We love Google and it means everything to us. We hope they would sort out this issue soon and would gift back its users all the hard earned traffic.     |
| Top 9 Ways Of Earning Money Online In 2017! Posted: 24 Apr 2017 12:01 PM PDT  In a world such as today's, where inflation is on the rise while salaries remain the same, every extra penny can be a blessing. Self-dependence is considered as the ideal situation to be in, especially among the younger generation. Because of the ever rising cost of living commodities and luxuries, more and more people are finding themselves working over-time for some extra salary, looking for better jobs, working part-time to cover their expenses, and so on. Hence, people want to look for alternate or parallel sources of income. And as they say, "where there's a will, there's a way". Indeed, there is not one, but many ways you can earn a few extra bucks. Many of these involve working online, meaning you can increase your income while working in the comfort of your living room! Most of my blogger friends would know how they can earn money online through their blogs via monetizing them. But not everyone has a blog, even though creating a blog is as easy as creating a Facebook profile. Maintaining a blog, however, is not as easy. Hence, for such people, there are various other ways through which they could earn an income in 2017. Freelancing I hope you most of you know what freelancing is. It is basically working for someone else online and getting paid for it. By far, this has proven to be the most popular and most paying alternative to a regular office job. And in many ways, freelancing is better than regular jobs. Firstly, you get to do the work that you choose, so that you have some interest in it. Secondly, there's a wide range of stuff you can do. You can write articles, translate papers, do programming assignments for somebody, or take up large corporate projects as a team. The upside to this is that, you earn good bucks. The downside is, yo have to abide by deadlines.  Freelancing is great. It's your own way of saying out to the world; hey! I am independent! I don't need a job! I have a life too! Although technically, you do have a job. But at this job, you can take a nap at anytime and do whatever you want, so long as you do your work. If you want to look into this, you can try 5 Ways To Win A Job As A Freelancer For Beginner. Or take a look at the Top 10 Freelancing Tips. Online Surveys There are many websites out there that are looking for people who would help them in their research and fill out surveys for them. Their aim is to get feedback and do market research on a product. There are website that are dedicated to finding out surveys available for you. One good example is SurveyScout.Write Articles Freelance writing is another great way of earning online. If you like writing, or if you are good at it, then you should consider this. Writing quality articles can earn you thousands of dollars per month. All you need to have is the right focus and of course, a good publishing platform where you can submit your articles.  As far as publishing is concerned, you can either self-publish, or submit your article to an article directory. You can either create a blog for self-publishing, or use Squidoo or Hubpages. Click to learn more about earning money through Squidoo. If you don't want to self-publish, you can submit your articles to the top sites that will pay you for them. This is one of the best ways of earning online. Be sure never to plagiarize, however. Unique content is appreciated, while plagiarism might result in a ban on you. So be original, and you will be fine. Data Entry Data Entry is another popular money earning technique used by many people. But I must admit, it is a boring and time-intensive work. There are a lot of companies that want you to do their laborious tasks for them, without hiring a professional for the job. Usually, these tasks are simple. Entering one form of data into a form, organizing data, removing mistakes and errors, and so on. Surfing and searching Did you know that you can get paid to search on the internet? No kidding! Since the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc are monopolizing the industry, other smaller engines are left out. So to keep themselves going, they invite net searchers to use their engines, and offer rewards in return. One such company is Swagbucks, that gives you the chance to earn up to $5 per search! It's a neat little trick and I know some people who have started doing this to earn money. Another is InteradMedia, that pays $0.001 per minute of active search. The money isn't very substantial, but what's the harm in getting a few extra bucks every now and then?  There's another alternative way! Some website pay you to surf them! SurfBounty is a good one. All you need to do is stay on that site for a few seconds to register a "surf". Sit back as the dollars add up! Sounds great huh? Earn Through Skype About a month ago, I wrote a post in length about earning money through Skype. You can follow it here: Earn Money through skype. But the bottom-line is, with Skype, you can provide services such as tuitions to other people, and charge them for the call through Skype Prime. Q&A Websites Some Q&A websites will pay you to answer questions! Q&A websites are all about question that people ask. People ask all sorts of questions on such websites. So the websites hire people to answer those questions. So if you have a good general knowledge, why not give it a shot? Play games to earn money! Every app developer needs beta testers, who have nothing to do with the development of the apps. This helps them remove bugs and errors. With games, this is even harder.It requires a lot of man hours to test a game. So there are many companies that pay people to play their games, and provide feedback. That way, they can know if the project would be a fail or a success. Ebay Ebay is an advertising website where people put up classifieds for for things they want to sell, and then buyers contact the seller to purchase that item. If you are good at bargaining, you can take a shot at this. Buy products at a reasonable price, and then sell them again for a profit! This is how real estate works, except in that case, they are dealing with lands and houses and large property.  This was an essence of some of the things that I have learned. But by no means are they all the ways there are. You can find more ways at our sister blog Smart Earning Methods. Thanks for reading :) You might also like;     |
| The Reason Why Facebook Pages Are Losing Reach? Posted: 26 Mar 2017 11:11 AM PDT  Negative Feedback One of the major changes introduced in the EdgeRank algorithm is the post negative feedback that Facebook is giving an ever-increasing weight to. So what is this negative feedback we're talking about? Facebook surely hasn't introduced a 'Dislike' button, has it? Indeed no, but it has other buttons that will do the same, more or less. Negative feedback is defined as any time a fan performs any of the following action(s).
As you can well imagine, negative feedback on your content can effectively destroy your post's reach. Facebook takes these things in account in order to try and combat spammy pages. It is quoted to have said: If a specific post has received complaints by other users who have seen it, or the page who posted it has received lots of complaints in the past, you'll be less likely to see that post. How to avoid negative feedback? In order to avoid negative feedback, we must first understand how fans are reporting it. According to a study, the most common action a Facebook fan takes in contributing towards negative feedback is to simply hide a post. The most common thing Facebook fans will do when they do not want to see your page's post in their news feed is to simply hide it. The distribution of negative feedback actions and how often Facebook users take them is given below.  Images are negative feedback magnets Images drive the most engagement, but they also drive the most Negative Feedback One of the most frequently suggested EdgeRank optimization tips is to post images regularly. While this is often true, it can be abused. Use images when applicable and don't post too many of those viral cat photos just to pick up some cheap engagement. Use your judgement and creativity to bring true value to your images posts. Images simply catch the attention of Facebook users more than any other content. Good or bad. So if your images are not good, they will attract negative feedback quickly. Keep content in line with your fans' expectations If you're a startup, and you've placed a like button on your newsletter suggesting people to become fans to stay up to date with your latest research: Be warned. Your fans expect that type of content in the news feed and will not hesitate to hide your content when it strays off topic. Certainly, your fans won't revolt every time you do this, but over the long term it is most likely not worth it. Expect a correlation between engagement and negative feedback The more people that are seeing and interacting with your content, the greater reach it ultimately will have. However, this might start to impact your negative feedback. As a post starts to gain popularity, it will also start to get into people's news feeds that are not use to seeing your page content. And some of these fans simply will not be interested in your content. Some of the most engaging posts might also have some of the most negative feedback. Be sure to benchmark your content to insure that you're looking at negative feedback per person reached to help provide context to an increase in negative feedback. Making sure your fan acquisition efforts are sound may help avoid some of this as well. If you target your page's fans well, focusing on finding existing customer for instance, fans will be less likely to hide your page's content. This focus on Negative Feedback will reduce spam and impact reach in doing so. So as a brand manager you'll need to keep this new strong variable in mind when creating content. Just remember everything in moderation and understand your fans' expectations. All the best ;)     |
| Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs of Iran in 2017 Posted: 16 Mar 2017 11:11 AM PDT  In this so male-dominated world, a woman can be a president of a country, a designer of a leading brand, an owner of an successful business,while still being a devoted mother,caring daughter and a obedient wife. In short, women are no way behind than the males and this idea goes pretty well when we talk about the females of Iran. Iran is one of those countries that are known for following their traditions strictly but the best part of this nation is the liberty it has given to its women who are found to be extra creative in all major domains. Here are top 10 female entrepreneurs of Iran. Have a look! Nahid Shahmehri Current position: Senior Member of IEEE Age: 52 She is a professor computer science and also head of the division of the databases and information techniques and has her PhD in the computer science from Linkoping's university. Mina Bissell Current position: Iranian American biologist Age: 56  She is an Iranian American biologist and had been a former head of the life sciences at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Atoosa Rubenstein Current position: Editor-in-chief of Seventeen magazine Age: 42  She is also the founding editor of the CosmoGIRL magazine and is also the originator of Big Momma Productions, Inc. and Atoosa.com at the same time. She is a participant of The Candie's Foundation Board of Directors that focuses on the education of young people. Rakhshan Bani-E'temad Current position: Iranian film director and screenwriter. Age: 59  She is an internationally and critically acclaimed film director as well as dramatist and is known as Iran's number one premier female film executive which is why her movies are not celebrated on an international level but is very famous among Iran's audience as well. Nahid Persson Sarvestani Current position: Award-winning Iranian-Swedish filmmaker and director. Age: 54  Some of her most famous documentary films include Prostitution behind the Veil, My Mother - A Persian Princess, The End of Exile, and The Last Days of Life. Farshid Moussavi Current position: Founder of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA) Age: 45  She is an architect by profession but is also a professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She also works as a cofounder and principle of Foreign Office Architects. Niloofar Beyzaie Current position: Leader of theater group "Daritsche". Age: 47  Apart from being the leader of theater group "Daritsche" she is also the executive, play writer as well as the lightning and costume administrator. Mahshid Amirshahi Current position: Iranian novelist, short story writer, humorist, literary critic, journalist and translator. Age: 77  Some of the stories and books she has written have been translated into French and German languages such as String of Beads, After the Last Day and Peyton Place. Pegah Anvarian Current position: Iranian-American fashion designer from Dallas, Texas Age: 49  She made her inauguration in 2005 and soon her work was well received making her a part of various popular publications like Lucky, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, W Magazine, and Harper's Bazaar. Anousheh Ansari Current position: Iranian-American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Age: 47  Her family is among the sponsors of the Ansari X Prize and some of her best memoirs encompass My Dream of Stars that was co-written with Homer Hickam. So that was all for now, Share your views, Blessings     |
| Should You Use Article Directories To Build Links in 2017? Posted: 02 Feb 2017 10:11 AM PST  Article directories Article directories are places where you wrote an article ranging from 300 to 1,000 words (possibly more), and if approved, got compensated for the article in the form of a backlink, or money etc. The articles would mostly be published under your name, so you still retained some of the rights. Authors had bios at the end of their articles with possibly two or three links with keyword-rich anchor text. Article directories such as Ezine Articles, Articles Factory, Go Articles etc. were very popular, and had twofold benefits. For one thing, they were a way of building relevant backlink that can't be questioned. And for another, they provided a way of earning a quick buck by writing articles. Hundreds and thousands of people quickly realized the potential, and started contributing massively to compete for the leader-boards. These popular article directories, however, had pitfalls. You submitted an article to a bunch of different directories, and got lucky if more than one of them accepted it. Anyone could download, or pay to download such articles. This used to benefit the authors since whoever downloaded those articles and put it on their own sites gave links to the author. And therein lies the problem. In practice, this often tends to be lower quality stuff. Often times, spammy and low quality content gets sprayed off article directories, and syndicated all over the web. So Google has now begun to penalized links generated in such a manner. Besides, not every website that your content gets downloaded to is a good quality website. Hence, links generated in this way are seen as spammy, or bad links that could cause a penalty. As I've earlier said, this practice might have been useful a few years ago, but not anymore. Things have changed, and you should too. Avoid creating content for article directories, and instead focus on building your own content. This will bring you a lot more benefits in the longer run. All the best :)     |
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