Connecting or Verifying your site with Bing Webmaster Tools.

What is Bing Webmaster Tools?

‘Bing Webmaster Tools’ is a free service for webmasters to add their website to ‘Bing Index crawling’ by ‘Bing Search Engines’. This helps the webmasters to optimize their websites properly with Bing search engines. Bing Search Engine is a product of Microsoft.

How to Connect a ‘WordPress blog or site’ with Bing Webmaster tools?

• Login to the Bing account with your registerd email and password at http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster.
• In the Menus, Find ‘My Sites’ and add your site URL (Homepage URL) in the text box Provided. Give all the basic information and sitemap URL. Click Save.

• You will get redirected to a page where you can see the different type of verification for the site ownership. You can select any method to verify the ownership. But here I am taking the 2nd method.
• Copy the <Meta> code displayed in the text box.

• Login to your WordPress admin panel.
• From the Left side Menus, find “Tools->Available Tools “and click on that menu links.

• You will reach to a page, where you can see “Website Verification Services” with different webmaster types. Find “Bing Webmaster Center”.
• Paste the copied <Meta> code into the text box provided near to “Bing Webmaster Center” and click on the button ‘Save Changes’.

• Come back to “Bing Webmaster’ and click on “Verify” button.

• In the ‘Bing Webmaster’, find the menu “Diagnostics & Tools -> Fetch as Bingbot” and click.

• You will get a page to submit your URL. Submit your URL and click on “FETCH” button.

• You will get status ‘Completed’ with ‘OK’ and some details.

• Now you can give each post URL separately to “FETCH” by Bingbot.

How to connect a ‘Blogger’ with Bing Webmaster tools?

• Click on “Add a Site” under “My Sites” Menu in the Bing Webmaster.

• Paste the “Blogger URL” and sitemap URL.
• Click on “Add” button.

• Copy the <Meta> tag code from the “Verify ownership” page.

• Come to blogger; and click on menu “Themes”

• Click on “EditHTML” and paste the copied <Meta> code into the head section of the HTML.

• Click on “Save Theme” and come back to “Bing Webmaster”.
• Click “verify”.

• You can see your blogger URL is added to the webmaster.

• Now give the Blogger URL to fetch with “Bingbot” by clicking on the menu “Diagnostics & Tools -> Fetch as Bingbot”

• Give each post URL to fetch by “Bingbot”.

 

Raji Pramod

Twitter tweets and Blogger blogs

Twitter is a microblogging platform where the limit of the messages or “tweet” is restricted to 140 characters. It’s a free social networking platform where, we can get the online news and the incidents happening in the world.

How to share your blog on twitter?

• Click on the ‘twitter share button’ below the blog post.

• Copy the ‘tweet text’ from the ‘tweet text box’.

• Login to ‘twitter’ and click on ‘tweet’.

• In the ‘Compose new tweet box’; Paste the ‘tweet text’ copied.
• Add ‘#tags’ with suitable keywords related to the post.

• Add an appropriate image for the post; by clicking on the ‘camera icon’ on the bottom-left.
• Click on ‘Tweet ‘button.

• See the ‘post’ is tweeted on the wall.

How to show twitter tweets or updates on your blogger page?

• Click on the ‘profile photo icon’ on top-right of twitter page.
• Click on ‘Settings & Privacy’.

• On the settings page, Click on the ‘widgets menu ‘  at the left- bottom.

• On the widget page, you can see a ‘create new’ button
• Clicking on ‘Create New’ button will show different options. Select ‘Create new’ -> ‘Profile’.

• On the next page, you have to type, what you want to ‘embed’.
• Type the ‘twitter handle’ (eg: @sometext) of your profile or the full URL of your twitter profile (eg: https://www.twitter.com/sometext); and click next.

• Select your ‘Display options’.

• Copy the code from the ‘text box’.

• Come to blogger and click on ‘Layout’ menu.
• Click on ‘Add a Gadget’.

• Select ‘HTML/Java Script’ from the Popup box.

• Paste the ‘copied code’ to the ‘content’ text box  and press ‘save’ button.

• Now go to your ‘blogger page’ and refresh to see the ‘twitter tweets’ on your blog.

Raji Pramod

How to add a LinkedIn Profile badge into your blog

Linked in is a social networking platform for professionals. LinkedIn profile can be used as your resume and can use it for various purposes like; to apply for jobs, find similar people to your profile, connect with old colleagues etc…You can add ‘LinkedIn profile’ in blogs to increase the authority of your blogs. Here are the simple steps to add a ‘LinkedIn Profile badge’ to your blogger.

LinkedIn Profile in your blog page

• ‘Login’ to your ‘LinkedIn profile’ account.
• Before creating the LinkedIn Profile badge; make sure your Linked in profile is optimized. Set your privacy settings and control what others can see on your public profile.
• Click on ‘view profile’ under the profile icon on the top right of the page.

• Click on ‘Edit your public profile’ on the right menu.

• You will reach in the Public profile page, where you can edit and customise your public profile.
• Check the URL under the heading ‘Edit public profile URL’. It will be like “www.linkedin.com/in….. “. Click on the pen (edit icon) right to the link URL to edit the link and customize it with your name.

• Now, find the ‘Your public profile badge’ section at the bottom right of the page. There you can see some small text with link ‘Create a public profile badge’. Click on that.

• You are now redirected to the ‘Public profile badge builder’ page.
• You can see different badges on this page with ‘codes’ near to it to copy and with a ‘Copy the code’ button.

• Copy the one you liked and come to blogger.
• Click on the ‘Layout’ menu in the Blogger.
• Find the “Add a Gadget” Link or Button.
• Clicking on the “Add a Gadget” will open a popup for you to select the type.

• Click on the “HTML/Java Script”.
• This will open another popup window with two text boxes ‘Title’ & ‘Content’.
• Paste the copied code from LinkedIn, to the ‘content’ text box and ‘Save’.

• Refresh the Blogger page to view the ‘LinkedIn profile badge’ on your page.

Raji Pramod

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How to add ‘Google feed burner’ to your blogger?

How to add ‘Google feed burner’ to your blogger?

What is Feed Burner?

Feed burner is an ‘add-on service’ that can be integrated with your website or blog to track the website/blog subscribers.  By subscribing your website, the people who subscribed can get the website updates to their mail or other notifications which allow the subscribers to read it using programs like ‘Google reader’ without manually checking your website for updated contents.

Creating Blogger feeds

• Enter your blog URL in the text box provided in the first page of feed burner, the “My Feeds” page.
• If you are a podcaster, tick the checkbox provided near to the blog URL textbox and click ‘Next’ button.

• On ‘Identify feed source’ page, select the “Atom” type and click ‘Next’ button.

• Now you will reach to the “Welcome” page. Here, take care to give proper values related to your blog as the “feed title” and “feed address”. Click ‘Next’ button.

• You reached the “Congrats” page. Click ‘Next’ again.

• On the “Feed traffic stats” page, select the feed stats you need and click ‘Next’ button again.

• On the next page, select the ‘Publicize’ tab -> Email Subscriptions. Click “Activate”.

• You will reach to a page with some html code starting with <form> element and java script to copy. Copy this code and come to your Blogger.

• Click on the menu “Layout” -> Add a Gadget.

• Select “HTML/ Java Script” from the Popup box.

• Paste the entire code into the “content” text box. Click on the “Save arrangement” button.

• Refresh your blogger page and you can see the ‘email subscription text box’ with ‘Subscribe’ button on your blogger page.

• Your blogger is ready now to subscribe for email addresses typing in the text box and the feed burner in the blogger will redirect all the feeds to the email subscribers automatically.
  
  

Raji Pramod