Finding Your Blogger Sitemap!

Seeing as we have just set up our blog, we wanted to submit our sitemap to all the major search enginges in order to get indexed nice an quick so that we can hofefully start appearing on some search results! 

Blogger accounts dont appear to have the same sitemap address that most common websites do. Adding /sitemap.xml to the end of your url returns nothing. 

To find your sitemap for your blogger account, please use these steps:

1. Add robots.txt to the end our your url. 

2. You should now see some text. In there will be Sitemap - http://www.yourblog.co.uk/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated

3. You have found your sitemap address! You can now use this in you Google Webmasters account to start gaining important data from your website! 

Any problems, remember to get in touch with us so that we can help!

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Top Blogger Tips & Tricks

When choosing blogger as our main host to make this blog, we started to search all over the web for tricks that we could add to our blog!

Alot of them are selling SEO software, etc but some of the blogs that we came across we very well lad out and provided really easy to follow content and tutorials.

Here are our recommendations if you are looking to increase your blogs technology and functionality.

1. http://www.bloggertricks.com/ - Very good website with many tutorials!
2. http://www.allblogtools.com/ - Some great content & some really nice templates on here!
3. http://www.mybloggertricks.com/ - Helped us with our meta-tags, some good reading!
4. http://www.bloggertipsandtricks.com/ - Great site, made clear by the number of followers!
5. http://www.bloggertipandtrick.net/ - Clearly set out & gives a HUGE number of tutorials!

If you are looking to do some modification work on your blog then this list will come in very handy. Even if you aren't looking to modify, there is plenty of design inspiration waiting for you over at these sites.

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Best Ways To Get Quality Backlinks

In this post we are going to share with you, what we think are the best ways that your site or blog can receive good quality backlinks that will help both your page rank and your positioning in the search engine results. One way links are very important to your blog or website and the more backlinks that you have pointing to your site, the better. If you can improve your google pagerank, then the amount of traffic that you receive may go through the roof!

The hardest part of this is...of course.....getting those quality backlinks to link to your website or blog. Here are our best tips on getting these backlinks:

1. Being active in forums and discussion boards with your niche are good ways to start getting backlinks. It definitely helps if they are related to your website. In your signature make sure that you add a link to your website with some quality anchor text. Anchor text is the part that the users see when they click the link. E.g - The Best Blog Ever! <<< That is the anchor text. One thing that is also important is that you write quality content in your posts and don't just spam every topic that you can find. This is a good way to get traffic to your site. 

2. Submit your website or blogs url to web directories that are very well know and have good page rankings. Being listed in these will improve your rankings but also bring you a shed load of traffic to your site. Directories that are the most popular and highest ranked are Yahoo and DMOZ. They do take some time to review your submission, so try not to submit too often. Some of the directories are free to submit to whereas some are paid. Be careful when submitting to paid web directories.

3. Content is king! Try to write the best quality content that you can on your site. This will rub off on the people that read your text. If they find your posts useful they may share the content with their friends giving your site more exposure. They may also link to your blog giving you another back link. This method can take some time...be patient! New blogs or websites often don't receive high loads of traffic so unfortunately, you will be playing the waiting game, but, good quality back links will pay off in the long term.

4. Finding other blogs that are related to yours and commenting on them is a solid way of gaining backlinks as well as exposing your blog to readers that are obviously interested in your content. Similar to forum posting, put a link into your signature. Remember, don't spam, you will either get banned or people will refuse to click on your link.

5. If you are interested in writing then create different articles that contains high quality content and then submit them to the best article directories out there. We think that the best directories are goarticles and ezinearticles. We think that this is one of the best methods as you will get a backlink from a top directory that has a high page rank. You will also gain other backlinks if people use your article on their sites.

We hope that you can use these methods and build some very good quality backlinks to your site! If you have any questions, please contact us. Keep checking back as we will update this post as we find more proven methods of getting high quality backlinks.

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How To Add A Re-Tweet Button

Re-Tweet Button On Your Blog!

With the rise of Twitter continuing to grow, we thought that we better add a way for our fantastic readers to re-tweet our blog posts to all of their twitter followers! We went searching around for a good way to implement this to make it noticeable yet discreet enough when reading a post.

So, here is how to add a re-tweet button to your blogger:

1. You need to find a piece of code. The code that you are looking for is <data:post.body/> in the "Edit HTML" part of your design panel in blogger. 

2. Once you have found the piece of code from step 1, add the pieces of code below BEFORE it:                                                                                                            
<div style="float:right;padding: 6px 0px 6px 6px;">

<script type="text/javascript">

tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';

</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"> </script>

</div>

3. This will float the button to the left, like it is on our blog! If you wish to move it over to the right then all you have to do is change float:left; to float:right; and it will move to the right! Magic!

4. Now, save your changes and you will see it appear on your blog posts!

Any problems, email us at hello@reviewmonsters.co.uk and we will be happy to help you out!

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Best Ways To Promote Your Blog

In this post, we are going to cover some of the best ways to get your blog noticed. Using these methods, your blog will gain traffic. If your content is very good and unique then you will be more likely to receive more followers and have people come back and view your other posts. This is very important for any blog.

So lets get started so you can start receiving more visitors/traffic to your blog today:

1. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) - This is key for anything relating to the web. For the search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc to know that you exist, you will need to be indexed by them so that they have a copy of your blog to show on any search results. Add your RSS feeds to the search engine accounts. Simply log onto the individual websites and add your feed. Another key point that relates to SEO is your titles url. This should be keyword rich yet relavant to you post.

For example - www.blahblahblah.com/promote-your-blog/

2. Social Media Networking Sites - Create an account on the best social networking sites such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. Use your blog name as your username if you can. Make sure you include links to your blogs in your status' and posts. Make sure you update regularly and ask people to retweet your posts!

3. Blogging Communities - Your blog should be submitted to all the good communities out there. Good communities will have have good page ranks and be worth submitting to. Some good examples are BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog. You should start to see an increase in traffic once you have submitted your blog to relavant sites like these.

4. High Quality Content - By far the most important method of any blog. Writing good, unique content will get you noticed and followed by people. Good content = high levels of traffic. If you have good knowledge of a subject, create a blog and write about it. If people are looking for information on a certain subject, they will often look in many different places until they find what they are looking for!

5. Social Bookmarking Sites - Millions of people read these sites as they are a very good source of good quality content. Sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious are very good. Creating an account with each of these will enable you to update your account with your latest blog posts. One very important thing to remember is to use relavant keywords for all your bookmarks. For example - If your post is about SEO, remember to use SEO as a tag!

6. Broadcast Your Blog - Ask your subscribers to leave comments, share your blog posts with friends and ask new people to subscribe. Word of mouth in our opinion is the best form of advertising so this is a very good technique to use! Asking subscribers to sign up to your newsletter is another good way to let your readers know when you have updated your blog with new posts.

7. Host Your Blog On Your Own Domain - Using your own domain is very benficial as it gives you more control over SEO techniques and custom settings. It also looks very professional to use a custom domain rather than a yourdomain.blahblah.com. For all of these needs, we fully recommend Foxita - Web Hosting if you are looking to buy a domain name, host your own domain, etc. They offer excellent pricing structures and very good customer service with instant help which is vital if you are not entirely sure what you are doing. They offer tailored solutions to meet every need so you will be in safe hands with them! Head over to their website now to secure your domain name and get yourself set up with web hosting if you require it!

We hope this helps you gain lots of traffic to your blog. If you have any methods that have worked for you, please share them with us and our followers (we will credit you, we promise!)

We will continue to update this page with new methods of promoting your blog and gaining traffic.

Remember to keep checking back at all times!

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