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Showing posts with label Webmaster Tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Webmaster Tools. Show all posts

Sunday, 27 October 2013

Correct ways to submit sitemap in webmaster tools

sitemapSubmitting site is most of the important part of SEO. If you want to increase your SEO ranking and index your blog posts fast, then you must need to submit your sitemap in Google or Bing webmaster tools. As we know we can’t submit sitemap in Yahoo, because they remove the site explore option on November 2011. I saw some people submit their sitemap with wrong ways and who do it, they obviously facing too many problem about website. Problems like no visitors decrease SEO, not indexing blog pages, lost page rank, search engine position and many more. So today I decided to create a new post about how to submit sitemap with correct ways. It’s too easy for beginner, you just need to try.


  • Firstly you need to visit Google webmaster tools and log in with your Gmail address.
  • After the site complete loading, click the add site option (right side).
  • Type your website link. Example: www.yourdomain.com and click continue button.
  • Now you can see the verification page.
  • Choose HTML tag option for verify your site. They will give you a code, copy it.
  • Now log in your blogger account and go to Edit HTML tab.
  • Paste the code after the <head> Tag. Now save your template and click the verify button in Google webmaster tools.  
  • Now your site is successfully verified. Time to submit site link in Google webmaster tools.
  • Click crawl menu (left side of Google webmaster tools) and choose sitemaps option.
  • Click Add/Test Sitemap menu (Red colour – Right side when you click sitemaps).
  • Now follow all steps below.
Submit this sitemap if your blog have less than 500 posts
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Submit this sitemap if your blog have less than 1000 posts
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500

Submit this sitemap if your blog have less than 1500 posts
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500

Hurray, you successfully did submitting your sitemap. Wait at least 2-3 days for crawl your whole page in search engine. Now I will show you the easiest way to submit your sitemap in Bing webmaster tools. Because Bing is also a most popular search engine like Google. You will get too many web traffic from Bing search engine, if you successful to put your site link there. I've seen some people submit their website in webmaster tools, but they got some crawl errors. So I will share the error free ways to submit sitemap. Let’s learn.
Submit sitemap in Bing webmaster tools:
  • Firstly you need a live or Hotmail account for log in. If you have no, you can create an account.   
  • Go to Bing webmaster tools and sign in with your email address. 
  • After sign in, click the add site menu and put your site link. Example: http://www.yourdomain.com/
  • Now you need to complete your webmaster profiles.
  • Then you can see 3 different options to verify your website. Choose option 2.
Option 2: Copy and paste a <Meta> tag in your default webpage
  • Now copy the Meta tag and paste it below <head> tag in blogger.
  • Save your blogger template and verify your website in Bing. You will see verification complete.  
We are successful to submit our website in Bing webmaster tools. Now this is the time for submit your blog sitemap.
If you have less than 500 posts in your blog, then copy the code.
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brain-of-computer.blogspot.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%26start-index%3D1%26max-results%3D500

If you have less than 1000 posts in your blog, then copy the code.
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brain-of-computer.blogspot.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%26start-index%3D501%26max-results%3D500

If you have less than 1500 posts in your blog, then copy the code.
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brain-of-computer.blogspot.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%26start-index%3D1001%26max-results%3D500

Note:
You must need to change the site URL.
Now paste only one code in your new browser tab and hit enter. You will see a message like this, Thanks for submitting your sitemap.
For Yahoo search engine:  

You don't need to submit sitemap for yahoo. When you finish the bing webmaster steps, your site will appear in yahoo search engine.

Note (Yahoo requirement):


You must need at least 5 days after submitting sitemap in bing webmaster tools.   

You blog must need at least 15 blog posts.
If you have any kinds of problem or need help about webmaster tools, feel free to comment here. I will try to solve your problem quickly. Thanks for reading my posts
Posted by John Peter on 14:21 | No comments | Categories: , , ,

Monday, 30 September 2013

Fix Missing Required Field Updated Error

missing required field updated error
Its time to fix some common errors in you blog. In this blog post we are going to discus common structured data errors. You can use Google webmaster tools to detect them.Google already added Structured Data in blogger templates but there's a common error in Structured Data markup like Missing Required field, not part of schema, etc.
This common error affect your search appearance and affect your site crawling.
This microformat has a common problem such as missing required field updated. This affect search appearance. To correct this use the guide below:

Missing Required Field Updated

This means that Search engine can't find date it was published or last updated.
To fix it use the guide below:
Find this code:
<data:post.timestamp/>
Replace it with this code:

<span class='updated'><data:post.timestamp/></span>
Posted by John Peter on 02:48 | No comments | Categories: ,

Sunday, 29 September 2013

Fix Page Contains Property blogid, postid Which Is Not Part of The Schema Error

Blogid Postid structured data errors In the rich snippest tool of google webmaster tools many users get an error related to blogid and post id. Given below are some examples:
  • Error: Page contains property "blogid" which is not part of the schema.
  • Error: Page contains property "postid" which is not part of the schema.
For fixing this errors you can delete these codes from your blog template.

For deleting this codes follow the above steps:
  1. Make backup of your template.
  2. Go into your template code.
  3. search for below codes and delete them from the entire template and save the template..
<meta expr:content='data:blog.blogId' itemprop='blogId'/>
<meta expr:content='data:post.id' itemprop='postId'/>

After deleting these codes from your blog template you can check your structured data in rich snippets tool. If you still get the same error then try deleting all the codes given above from your blogger template.
Posted by John Peter on 01:10 | No comments | Categories: ,

Fix All Structured Data And Schema.org, image_url, hCard"author" Errors

structured data errors
It’s time to fix some common errors in you blog. In this blog post we are going to discus common structured data errors. You can use Google webmaster tools to detect them. Google already added Structured Data in blogger templates but there's a common error in Structured Data markup like missing required field, not part of schema, etc... This common error affects your search appearance and affects your site crawling. This micro format has a common problem such as missing required field updated. This affects search appearance. To correct this use the guide below:  Many people’s use Google webmaster structured data testing tool for determining the structure of the web page. While using this tool many people’s get an error regarding to their structure page Contains Property "image_url" Which Is Not Part of The Schema Error can be easily fixed by deleting

<meta expr:content='data:post.firstImageUrl' itemprop='image_url'/>
from the entire template. But, wait that’s not the correct solution. because after deleting “<meta expr:content='data:post.firstImageUrl' itemprop='image_url'/>" code from your entire template you loose an important ability of your template or webpage to give information about the thumbnails and images used in the blog post or webpage to search engines. Also when you share your posts on social networking sites like Google plus and Facebook, the thumbnail used for the post doesn't appears.I recommend you to add Facebook open graph meta description tags in your blogger template or website so the images used in the webpage can appear correctly while sharing it on Facebook. And don't forget about twitter, and remember to add twitter cards meta data.

HERE IS THE REAL SOLUTION: Fix Page Contains Property "image_url" Which Is Not Part of The Schema Error

Go into your blog template or html code of you web page.
search for:
<meta expr:content='data:post.firstImageUrl' itemprop='image_url'/>
now replace this code with the code given below:
<meta expr:content='data:post.firstImageUrl' itemprop='image'/>
We have replaced the ‘image_url’ with ‘image’ to fix the error.

Fix Missing Required Field Updated Error

This means that Search engine can't find date it was published or last updated.
To fix it use the guide below:
Find this code:
<data:post.timestamp/>
 Replace it with this code:

<span class='updated'><data:post.timestamp/></span>
 Bingo! now you have fixed missing required field updated error!

Page Contains Property blogid, postid Which Is Not Part of The Schema Error

structured data errors

In the rich snippets tool of Google webmaster tools many users get an error related to blogid and post id. Given below are some examples:

  • Error: Page contains property "blogid" which is not part of the schema.
  • Error: Page contains property "postid" which is not part of the schema.

For fixing these errors you can follow the steps given below.

  1. Make backup of your template.
  2. Go into your template code.
  3. search for below codes and delete them from the entire template and save the template..
<meta expr:content='data:blog.blogId' itemprop='blogId'/>
<meta expr:content='data:post.id' itemprop='postId'/>

This error is not so harmful, you can leave it as it is. After deleting these codes from your blog template you can check your structured data in rich snippets tool. If you are still getting the same error then try deleting all the codes given above from your blogger template. 

How To Fix Missing Required Field hCard"author"

Recently our fellow blog reader asked us how to fix missing required field hCard"author" error. missing required field hCard"author" error means search engines are unable to find the name or Google plus profile URL of the person that has written the blog post. This error can be easily fixed by adding a simple code in your blogger template. Add the code given below where you want your author profile to appear. In the screenshot given below you can see where my author profile appears in my blog pots. Remember that you need to add this code inside your post body. Add this code right after "<data:post.body/>" tag.

Fix Missing Required Field hCard"authot"
You don't need to make changes in this code. Just add this code in your blogger template and it will automatically find the name and Google plus URL of the person that has published the post. Also when someone mouse over your author profile, it automatically opens up a small Google plus profile box.


<!-- hCard"author" error fixer by brian-of-computer.blogspot.com -->
<span class='post-author vcard'>
<b:if cond='data:top.showAuthor'>
<b:if cond='data:post.authorProfileUrl'>
<span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'>
<meta expr:content='data:post.authorProfileUrl' itemprop='url'/>
<a expr:href='data:post.authorProfileUrl' rel='author' title='author profile'>
<span itemprop='name'><data:post.author/></span>
</a>
</span>
<b:else/>
<span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'>
<span itemprop='name'><data:post.author/></span>
</span>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</span>
<div class='author-profile' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'>
<b:if cond='data:post.authorPhoto.url'>
<img expr:src='data:post.authorPhoto.url' itemprop='image' width='50px'/>
</b:if>
<div>
<a class='g-profile' expr:href='data:post.authorProfileUrl' itemprop='url' rel='author' title='author profile'>
<span itemprop='name'><data:post.author/></span>
</a>
</div>
<span itemprop='description'><data:post.authorAboutMe/></span>
</div>

After adding this simple piece of code you will see that hCard"author" error is fixed. This code also contains rel='author' tag so it will help you to verify authorship markup. In one word I can say that this code is all in one code to tell the search engines that you are the real author of your blog post.

Visit this link to see whether all the errors are fixed or not: link to structured data testing tool.When all the errors will get fixed, please check that while sharing a post the thumbnail of the post is appearing correctly or not. And one thing that forgot to tell that even default blogger templates contains structured data errors so don't worry too much about structured data errors and they are very easy to fix. I hope this article will help you to kick out all the structured data errors in your blogger template. Peace and blessings!
Posted by John Peter on 01:06 | 3 comments | Categories: ,
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