Thursday, 18 September 2014

Create a Pinterest business account and verify your blogspot blog

We all know the value of social media in our online business (I mean website/blog). Did you ever hear about pinterest? I assume you have did. Pinterest is a social network that allows users to visually share, and discover new interests by posting (known as 'pinning' on Pinterest) images or videos to their own or others' boards.
Verify your domain at pinterest

Social networks gives an important role in blogging. Pinterest is a social site and it's page rang is 9 thats mean pinterest is a really high PR site. So sharing your blog article on pinterest is a grate idea. You should create a profile on pinterest so that, people can easily find your blog in pinterest. We already known the advantage of pinterest in your blog SEO. Let's find out how...


Today I'm going to share you a few tips to use pinterest to boost your blog SEO. And those is;
  • How to create a business profile in pinterest.
  • How to verify your domain in pinterest.
  • And the last thing is how to get dofollow backlink from pinterest.

Create a business profile:

Normally you can sign up in pinterest and pin your photos/videos. But creating a business page/profile in pinterest is little different than opening an personal profile. Don't worry this is not hard and I will try my best to describe the whole steps easily with screenshot.
  1. First thing is, you need to go to the business page creating link. Click Here.
  2. After loading the page you will find a form. Fill it with require quire. See the image below for better understanding.
    fill business profile details
     
  3. After filling all that options click on 'red' Create Account button.
  4. Here you will find a new page with few pages to follow check 10+ of them and then click Follow Button.
    follow on pinterest
  5. In this step you will be ask to verify your email. To do this go to your mail (which one you used in step 2) inbox and open the mail send from pinterest. Finally click on red 'Confirm Your Email' button.
    confirm your email on pinterest
     
  6. Once you verified your email you have full access to your business account. This was the simple method to create a business profile in pinterest. Lets see how to verify your domain...

Verify your domain:

Verifying your domain in pinterest means you are the real author of that site/blog. And verifying domain on pinterest also give you an strong profile, this is also important for SEO. So now I'm going to see you that how can you verify your website in pinterest.
  1. Log-In to your pinterest account, after that from the right top corner click on your profile name and select Settings from drop down menu.
     
  2. After landed on the settings page scroll down to Website option. If you putted your website URL during registration you should see that here, but if you are not putted then put your website link now in the website box. After that click on Verify button.
    verify website in pinterest
     
  3. A pop up window will open with two method of verifying your website. When we are using blogger select the Meta Tag option if the Upload option shown you first. After selecting meta tag option you will see a meta tag, copy that code.
    pinterest meta tag
     
  4. Keep this tab open, I mean don't close the page yet. In a new tab open blogger and login. Then select Template from the blogger menu and click on Edit HTML.
  5. After opening the HTML editor search for the "<head>" tag. And after finding the <head> tag just below/after it paste the copied meta tag ( what you copied from pinterest). Then click on Save template. See the image below for better understanding.
    save blogger template
     
  6. Time to come back on pinterest tab of your browser. Now click on red Complete Verification button and you will see a success message.
    complete verification
     
  7. Here come back to the settings page and reload the page and you will see a verified logo just right after your website link.
    site verified logo
     
  8. This was the easiest way to verify your blogger blog in pinterest. Don't take this job as too hard its really necessary to verify your website in pinterest. Now time to get on backlink...

Backlink from pinterest:

What is backlink? backlink of your site means; a link of your site in another site. There are two types of backlinks dofollow and nofollow. Dofollow link tell search engine to visit the link and nofollow deny.  Nofollow link and backlink from low/zero PR site is really useless. So, as we known before in this post that pinterest is a high PR website. So getting a backlink from pinterest is really worth thing. What do you say?

Yes its really possible to get a backlink from pinterest and I assume you already done it. Surprised enough? yes verifying your site in pinterest means getting a backlnk from pinterest :)
And you done it with above trick.

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Thanks for reading the post. Happy blogging...

Thursday, 4 September 2014

Satisfied way: Mapping GoDaddy domain with blogger

We all know that blogger is a free blogging platform by Google. This is very much easy for newbie to use. If you wanna do a budget blogging blogger/blogspot would be a great blogging platform for you. You may already know that you don't have to fill any hosting charge for using blogspot, all you need is a Google account. When you create a free blog on blogger you will find your blog with a blogspot sub domain, like; "blogspot-yard.blogspot.com" that looks like pretty unprofessional.
how to setup custom domain for blogger

So if you really want to do something that actually looks like professional you have to chang your blogger sub-domain to a top level domain (TLD). And for sure you will not get it for free until someone give one to you :p you have to buy your own domain by spending few dollars, around $10 for a year. Not a lot I guess.

Now you may facing a question in your mind that where you will find that domain you want to buy. GoDaddy.Com is the solution for your question. GoDaddy is the world largest domain register company. You also can buy your domain from Namecheap.com this is also very good. You will find thousands of another company but I recommend you godaddy/namecheap.

Today I'm sharing a tip for you in this post and the main topic of this post is how you can setup your custom domain with your blogger blog. [godady domain] If you bought your domain from namecheap see this post.

How can you map your domain:
Here I'm gonna share every step of mapping a godaddy domain on your blogger blog with screenshot. Let's see how...

  1. First login to your blogger account, from the blogger dashboard drop-down menu select Settings.
     
  2. Now from the publishing option click on "Setup a 3rd party URL for your blog".
     
  3. Here you will find a empty box enter your domain name that you registered on godaddy with 'www' then click on 'Save' button and you will find a error like the image below.
     
  4. Now you have to download the 'Zone file' for your DNS setting by clicking "DNS setting file" from the error message.
      
  5. In another tab of your browser log-in to your godaddy account. [keep the blogger tab open, we are coming back here after few minutes].
     
  6. Now from your domain list chose your desired domain and click on "Launch" button to edit DNS of that domain.
    godaddy-dns-setting-for-blogger
     
  7. After entering the domain details page click on "DNS Zone file" tab.
     
  8. Now from the DNS Zone file option select two record created by GoDaddy. One is "@ points to 184.168.221.**" from the A (Host) option. And the other one is "www points to @" from the CName (alias) option. For better understanding see the image below.
     
  9. Now delete those selected record by clicking delete option from the DNS menu.
     
  10. Now click "More" and select "Import Zone File".
     
  11. Browse for the zone file in your hard disk, that you downloaded from the blogger select and open it.
     
  12. After successfully uploaded you will find a pop-up like the image below, tick on "I understand this is important..." and click "Save" button.
     
  13. Don't be bore, you are almost done. Come back to your browser's blogger tab and click the orange save button again. I hope this time you will see no error.
  14. Now click on the "Edit" option.
     
  15. Give a tick on "Redirect yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com" and for the last time hit the orange save button.
You are all done. This was the simplest method to setup godaddy domain with your blogger/blogspot blog. Here I tried my best to make the post much understandable so I attached screenshot of all steps. I hope this post will help you. If really this post helped you please consider to share this on your social page.
And if you have a question about this post don't think before posting a comment.
Thanks for reading.