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Although off-site optimization is generally considered to be more important, ignoring on-site search engine ranking factors can be costly. Things like solid internal linking and keyword-rich titles can have a very significant impact (as I’ve said before). Meta tags, while they’ve fallen out of vogue as the on-site optimization method of choice, can also play an important role in your site’s search engine rankings.




What are meta tags?
For those who don’t know, a meta tag is an HTML tag that resides in the section of a web page. Unlike other HTML tags, meta tags do not appear anywhere on the page itself, so most visitors never see them. Different meta tags serve different purposes, but they are generally used to provide additional information about the page. The meta description tag, for example, provides a brief summary of the page’s content. How this information gets used varies from tag to tag.

Which meta tags are worthwhile?
There are a lot of meta tags out there, but very few of them are useful. In fact, chances are good that a site that doesn’t use any meta tags at all will function just as well as a site that does. Some have their uses, however, particularly when communicating with search engine spiders. Here’s the breakdown of every meta tag you’re likely to come across:

Abstract – Use the meta description tag instead.

Author – Sure, it’s nice to plaster your name all over your content. However, the best place to do that is somewhere in the content itself to avoid confusion.

Cache-Control – It’s historical use has been to keep users from seeing outdated versions of your website. Since this is rarely an issue nowadays, it’s no longer as useful. Note, also, that it will do next to nothing to prevent your site from being cached by search engines; you should use the robots meta tag for that purpose.

Classification – Considering how badly spammed the keywords meta tag has been, I can’t see such an arbitrary tag doing any better.

Content-Language – This one’s iffy. Ascertaining the language of the content on a site is rarely a big issue. Use it only if you need to clarify from one page to the next, such as if you have multiple translations of the same page.

Content-Type – This one’s actually important. You can assign the character set of a page using one of several methods, including the content-type meta tag. Make sure you do so in some way on every page.

Copyright – Like the author meta tag, you probably should add the copyright notice directly to the body of your website.

Description – Although its no longer useful for ranking purposes, the description tag is often still used in generating snippets (the text that appears beneath the title in the search engine result pages). It is, therefore, a very powerful tool for drawing in potential visitors. Never underestimate the power of controlling each page’s marketing message to the world.

Designer – The same as author and copyright tags, insert this on the website itself.

Distribution – If a page is meant for internal distribution only, it should be properly blocked using robots.txt or the robots meta tag (below). This tag is completely unnecessary.

Expires – If you have content that shouldn’t be crawled or indexed after a certain period of time, it might be useful. For bloggers, the occasion will probably never arise.

Generator – This one is only used by automated web authoring software, so there’s no point to input it by hand.

GoogleBot – If you have some dire need to instruct one search engine spider differently than another, go ahead.

Keywords – Once upon a time, this might have been useful. Since it was so frequently spammed, however, it no longer carries any ranking benefit. It’s still commonly used, however, and it might even be worthwhile in second-rate search engines, but it won’t get you anywhere with the big boys. If you choose to use it, do not, but do not stuff it!

Owner – See the note about the author meta tag.

PICS-Label – See the note about the rating meta tag.

Pragma – Telling browsers whether or not to cache your page could be handy for usability depending on your site. However, I’ve heard that it doesn’t enjoy a lot of support.

Publisher – See the note about the generator meta tag.

Rating – Like so many web standards, it would be great if it were actually used. However, the sites that deserve a rating of “Mature” or “Restricted” rarely broadcast it. Don’t bother with it; let the rating of your content speak for itself.

Refresh – If you’re redirecting one page to another, use a 301 redirect. Meta refreshes are generally regarded as spam.

Reply-To – See the note about the author meta tag.

Revisit-After – Even if getting frequent visits from search engine spiders offered any competitive advantage (it doesn’t), they aren’t going to visit your site more frequently just because you ask them to. This one’s only useful for limiting the frequency of spidering, not increasing it.

Robots – Although you can use the robots.txt file to issue site-wide directives to search engines, the robots meta tag is very handy for controlling spidering on a page-by-page basis. You can tell search engines whether a page should be indexed, whether it should be archived, whether or not its links should be followed, and even how to generate its search result snippet.

Subject – Your title tag should communicate your subject; using a meta tag to do so is unnecessary.

Title – Don’t bother with the meta title tag when your ordinary title tag does the job much better.

Unavailable-After – Believe it or not, this one’s brand new and supported by Google. Why they didn’t just go with the expires meta tag is anyone’s guess. At any rate, like it’s identical twin, it will rarely if ever be useful for bloggers.

There are literally dozens more meta tags out there, few of which enjoy any widespread use. When in doubt about whether a meta tag is worthwhile or not, it’s probably best to assume it isn’t. Otherwise, you’ll just end up cluttering your page headers with a lot of useless junk.

If anyone has any additional meta tags or insights to add, please share them in a comment. Thanks

One way of increasing traffic to your site is by submitting your blog to search engines as i have earlier said. I have listed a couple of websites where you can just submit your blog free of course and they will index you to be crawled by their bots. But how many can you do with your own hands, it will take you a lot of time to do 10 talkess of 100 and then thousands because there are thousands of them.

Directory Submitter has been designed specially to help you with submitting your website into thounsands of search engines including google and aol and yahoo of course. All you have to do is click the link "DOWNLOAD DIRECTORY SUBMITTER" below and you will be taken to where you will download the software, install and you follow simple steps and you website will be floating in a thousand search engines in the world. Just that simple. I hope this will be helpful. Happy Blogging.

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Step 1
First,go to google webmaster tools and sign in with your Gmail account.

Step 2
DashBoard
After you logged in, you will see this asking you to add a site. your blog URL (ex: email-club.blogspot.com).Don't add with http or www.

Step 3
Overview
Next, it asks you to verify your site. It is just to confirm whether you are the owner or not.CLICK on the 'verify your site' link.

Step 4
Choose desired Verification Method

Next

Step 5
Meta Tag
There are two ways to verify your ownership but, there is only one way for the blogger users and that is by adding a metatag. This will be generated by google and you will be asked to copy and place in the html source of your blog.

Step 6
Metatag
Copy the metatag.Now, sign into your blogger account>Click the layout button>Edit html and paste the metatag just after the head tag and save the changes.

Step 7
Verification
Click the verify button in the Google webmaster tools and there will be a confirmation message saying that you have successfully verified.

Step 8
Add Sitemap
Now, you have to submit a sitemap for Google to crawl your site. Go back to the Google webmaster dashboard or (home) and click the 'site configuration.(After Click on the site that you want to add its site map).A drop down is given where you will click on sitemaps link which is next to your blog name and in the Sitemaps column. Click on add sitemap.

Step 9
The Sitemap URL for any normal website is usually the index page that is stored in the highest-level directory of that site. In the case of Blogger.com or Blogspot.com, the only way to add a Sitemap is to use either of the following 2 Sitemaps:-
http://YOURBLOGNAME. blogspot.com/rss.xml

OR

http://YOURBLOGNAME. blogspot.com/atom.xml

Step 10
Then all you have to do is to fill just "rss.xml" or "atom.xml" in the box next to your blog name. Save and exit. Allow a couple of days ranging to weeks for google to crawl your site.

If you have any questions or additions, you can reach me via the comments. Happy Blogging

For new bloggers, the issue has always been how to drive traffic to our new blogs. The truth is that we have great contents but how to get the world to come see is the problem. In the next couple of posts, I will be dealing with my little researches on the net on how to drive traffic successfully to your blog.

Free Search Engine Submission
One of the many ways of driving traffic is by submitting your sites to free search engines.
So as part of your Website Promotion strategy you have will have to submit your site to the list of quality directories posted below
Well here is a good list of Search Engines and direct links to there submission pages so go through each one of these and submit your website.
I know there are automated tools for doing this but to be on the safe side do it manually but if you are feeling lazy I will let you know in later posts of softwares that will submit your website to over 100 Search engines & Directories just click on this link to submit your site free of charge
Also it would be wise to setup a free email account with gmail or the like to use when submitting as you do not want a load of spam coing back to haunt you! Here you go!
Google : http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Yahoo : http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request
Altavista (Which uses Yahoo Index) : http://www.altavista.com/addurl
All the Web : http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php
MSN : http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx
Yoy Search : http://www.yoysearch.com/add.cgi
Scrub The Web : http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html
Beamed Search : http://www.beamed.com/search/AddURL.html
Yellow Pages : http://www.bestyellow.com/addurl.html
Mixcat Search : http://mixcat.com/addurl.html
Search Warp : http://searchwarp.com/AddURL.asp
Search Ramp : http://searchramp.com/addurl.asp
Dino Search : http://dinosearch.com/dinosearch/addurl.asp
Wal hello : http://www.walhello.com/addlinkgl.html
Evisum : http://search.evisum.com/addsite.htm
Anoox : http://www.anoox.com/add_for_indexing_free.jsp
UnAsked : http://unasked.com/addurl.asp
Web Squash : http://www.websquash.com/cgi-bin/search/search.pl?Mode=AnonAdd
The Search Site : http://www.the-search-site.com/add_url_form.asp
Hot Launch : http://www.hotlaunch.com/addurl.asp
What U Seek : http://www.whatuseek.com/addurl.shtml
Tower Search : http://www.towersearch.com/addurl.php
Exact Seek : http://www.exactseek.com/add.html
Search Hippo : http://www.searchhippo.com/addlink.php
Giga Blast : http://www.gigablast.com/addurl
Entire Web : http://www.entireweb.com/eng/basic/
Web World Index : http://www.webworldindex.com/cgi-bin/pseek/addurl.cgi
Intel Seek : http://www.intelseek.com/add_url_form.asp
Search It : http://www.searchit.com/addurl.htm

Step 1
The first thing you need to do is find a casino. Today's laws have allowed a lot of casinos to open in nearly every state. Make sure that the casino you visit has table games and not just racing and slots! Table games like Texas Hold 'Em and Blackjack are where you can make money. STAY AWAY FROM THE SLOTS! Once you pick your destination you'll want to find a hotel (unless you're lucky enough to live near a casino). I never get a room at the casino. There is always a cheaper hotel within ten minutes of any casino. The area in which I play has a hotel very close for $50 a night. The casino charges $130 on weekdays! If you're there to make money, you also need to save money on living expenses. Remember, you have to make up for everything you spend before you can start calling it a profit.
Step 2
Once you're settled in, go to the casino and get a feel for the place. Some of them are very big and they're designed to draw your attention to their big money-makers (mostly slots). Find their poker room and find out what games they offer. I ALWAYS play Texas Hold 'Em. It has one of the lowest house advantages. The casino actually just takes a cut off the top and leaves the rest of the money to the players, so you're playing against people, NOT the house. The best way to make money is to play a game you know and like. Know the odds and play them. I strongly suggest Hold 'Em, but you can also play other forms of poker, blackjack, or even craps. Craps- believe it or not- has a very low house advantage. I don't know much craps strategy, though, so you'll need to learn how to play well.
Step 3
Okay, you're set up with a place to stay and you know your way around the casino. Find out if you need to register for any kind of 'player's card' and do so. Now figure out your bankroll and start using it! A bankroll is the amount of money you have to start gambling. I suggest starting with a MINIMUM of $500. The more you have to start the easier it is to build it with conservative play. A key rule is control. Regardless of the odds or your skill level, you're still gambling. Nobody wins every hand or every tournament. Thus, the general rule is to never put more than 5% of your bankroll on any table or any tournament. This is the most important aspect to gambling. If you keep getting beat at a table, don't keep going back for more chips! I know losses can be frustrating, but if you're going to be a gambler you have to accept loss and move on. Once you find a good table, though, stick with it! Get to about 2 or 3 times what you invested on the table and cash out. Then you take a break and come back with the original investment amount to do it again.
Step 4
A great way to make money playing Hold 'Em is to enter tournaments. Try to find one with a reasonable buy-in and a cap on the amount of entrants. It's not much fun trying to outlast 5,000 people, but a field of 100 will still have decent payouts. The great thing about tournaments is that you don't have to be the best. You just have to make it to 'the money'! Most tournaments pay out around 10% of the field. Thus, if there are 100 people enrolled, you need to get somewhere around tenth place to cash. You don't have to outrun the near, as they say...
Step 5
The flip-side to Hold 'Em tournaments are cash tables. There is always a minimum and a maximum amount that you can set down with at any table. For instance, I often play a $1/$2 blind table. The minimum you must bring to the table is $50 and the max is $200. This will vary from casino to casino. If you're good you can turn $50 into $150, get up, came back, and do it again. If the table has a lot of big stacks, however, you don't want to sit down with the minimum. This makes it much easier for people to bully you around. The great thing about cash games is that the blinds never go up. In a tournament you're forced to play hands or be blinded out. On a cash table you can afford to sit around and wait for cards to hit. CONSERVATIVE: That's the main word at a cash table. You don't have to play every hand and there's no need to do a lot of bluffing. If you bluff you will often get called. There is a time to bluff, but make it seldom at a cash table!
Step 6
Whether you play cash tables or tournaments, do not exceed 5% of your bankroll! You may make exceptions every now and again (especially if your bankroll is very small), but stick to this rule and you won't go broke! My personal favorite money-maker is Texas Hold 'Em tournaments. As long as you place, you've at least made your money back. I play fairly conservatively and I place in about 80% of the tournaments I enter. Just remember, you want to build your bankroll not lose it! Once you find what game works for you, stick to it! Do not let the bells and whistles draw you away and empty your wallet. The two games with the highest house advantage are Keno and Slots. Stay away from them unless you intend to lose! Roulette isn't a whole lot better. I suggest sticking to poker and blackjack. If you know how to count cards, do it! There's no law against it, but it is frowned upon, so don't count on your fingers. I don't count cards. I play Hold 'Em and I know what my odds are of winning any given hand.
Step 7
The best way to get good is to practice! Many online gaming sites offer free poker. I play on Full Tilt, but some people prefer Poker Stars and the other ones. Keep in mind that the .net sites do not allow gambling. If you plan to play any real money games, visit the .com. Every site has a .net and a .com. If you just want to practice, use the .net. I suggest using real money if you can, though. This will give you a better feel for the game. If people don't have anything invested they will make stupid calls and play carelessly. The higher the stakes, the better poker players you are going to run into. It sounds backwards, but you have the best chance against the better players. Someone that doesn't know what they're doing might call your all-in with a 7-2 off suit. When this happens, the flop is usually 7-7-2 or some such ridiculousness.
Step 8
If you keep to your 5% bankroll rule and don't keep putting money on a bad table, you should be able to make a profit. Remember: casinos are designed to TAKE YOUR MONEY. Play the games that pit you against other players, not the house. Texas Hold 'Em is the BEST game to play in a casino. Especially with the popularity of the game... lots of people want to play it just because they've seen it on TV. Every table has 'dead money'. This is someone who has no idea what they're doing. People like this bet just to bet and it's generally pretty easy to take their money. Lots of people are hyper-aggressive, for instance. These people bet almost every hand and raise just as much. Fold to them until you catch a good hand and then bust them hard! Call their raises until the river then raise! I will post some Hold 'Em strategies on here, too, so check back. As long as you know what to play (and what not to play) and you stick to your budget, there is a high probability that you're gonna walk out with more than you brought! Always be patient and always be confident. Know that you are a good player and don't let others get you down. If you lose, you lose. You'll win the next one as long as you're patient enough to keep yourself out of trouble... I hope this article helps you to keep your shirt the next time you go gambling! Feel free to contact me for any advice or questions you may have. I'm always willing to talk poker!


Tips & Warnings
Always tip the dealer when you rake a pot! It's good mojo!
Never use more than 5% of your bankroll on one table. (Chris Furgeson used this rule to make $10,000 with NO investment on Full Tilt).
Pick a game you're good at and stick to it!
STAY AWAY FROM THE SLOTS AND KENO! Stick to poker, blackjack, and craps!
If you think you have a gambling problem, get help. There are 3 types of gamblers: Professional gamblers, recreational gamblers, and gambling addicts. If you're just doing it for fun, you can lose money and not mind. If you're making money, that's great! If you're losing more than you can afford, you have a problem. There are help lines and programs to help those addicted to gambling, so don't spend your mortgage at the casino!

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