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SEO, Search Engine Optimization is a very important aspect of aspiring great webmasters. There are some basic SEO terms we may need to know to understand the word fully. Crawling and indexing are two important SEO terms. You probably have an idea of these terms if you have been in the web world for a while. The entire web depends on Google Crawling and Indexing. A definition of this term with reference to Google Crawling: crawling occurs when Google visits your website for the purpose tracking. This is done by Google’s Spider crawler. In the SEO world, crawling means moving around your website. Whenever bots come to your website (any page), they follow other linked pages also on your website. We create sitemaps to aid crawling as they contain all of the links in our blog and Google’s bots can use them to look deeply into a website. To stop crawling parts of our websites, we use Robots.txt file Indexing: Indexing takes place after crawling has been done, the re...

By right, you should know what a favicon is if you use blogger. It's definitely recommended though not forced on you. Having a favicon makes your site more professional and unique. At least you need to change the default favicon from the 'B' logo as implemented by Google on all blogger blogs. Your favicon distinguishes your blog or website from others. Since there are lots of free favicon creation sites, creating a favicon shouldn't be neck breaking, but there is always someone in need of some help, which is why this post has to come to light. DIY BASIC STEPS Before you start creating your favicon, as always, you should consider your site design. Don't go off colours! Your icon should be square in shape, resized to 16x16px and shouldn't exceed 100kb (recommended by blogger). Brainstorm and come up with the perfect letter or image you'd want to use, although using alphabets is always better because, your favicon will be really tiny! You can use...

This responsive dropdown menu will definitely make your blog look stylish and professional, to say the least. Initially, I had a horizontal menu display which kind of took a good amount of space in my blog's mobile view. Originally gotten from mybloggerlab, I only made minor tweaks by adding the social bar and search box as well as making it sticky. Below are the features of this menu Responsive - this menu is very responsive  and doesn't take much space in your blog. If you use the default blogger template, a switch between desktop and menu view leaves you with the desktop and mobile menu respectively. Light weight - this menu for the health of your blog is light wight and loads instantly with your blog. Note; This dropdown menu doesn't have sub-menu thus not suitable for those in search of a menu bar with sub-menu and you may have to continue your search! All the same, this menu is perfect! How to add the Responsive dropdown menu with social and s...

If you've been wondering how to center your blogger blog header, then good news is you've got a chance to make that happen. By default, blogs on blogger have their header aligned left and that doesn't really do justice to the beauty of a blog... With this hack, You not only center your header, you also center your header title and its image. This is just a simple fix, and doesn't require you to temper with your theme's (template's) HTML. In your Blogger admin dashboard, click to view your theme's section then click on Customize. Click on the Advanced tab then locate and click on Add CSS. Copy and paste the code below into the text box then click on "apply to blog" #header-inner { text-align:center !important; } #header-inner img { margin: 0 auto !important; }

The worst situation you can find yourself in, is a world where no one cares about you or is willing to give you a chance to say or present what you have got to offer. This is prevalent in the world today, not just physically, but virtually as well. For a newbie, making money online is a little way off easy! You've got a skill but no one is willing to have a feel of what you have got to offer because there are others they know or rather think are better than you! You can't blame those you face but the situation... Just like an audience in a musical concert, who would scream when a famous artist steps on stage. But seriously, what happens when an upcoming artist does the same? Well, the silence is really epic you'd agree with me.  Everyone wants some who is trusted and more or less someone they are acquainted with before entrusting whatever they have to entrust but if a new personality isn't tried, how will whomsoever it is get to prove him/herself wort...

Hey there, looking for a simple yet effective way to create a banner for your blog, YouTube banner, Facebook ad, adsense ad and other advertisements or better still, you just want to do it for fun! It's always your choice. There are tons of free banner makers and generators as well as paid services online but sometimes, you might want to break all odds and do something yourself. Although the ability create specific stuff yourself becomes impossible because you don't have a laptop or related but there is always a way out. Your smartphone should be more than just your buddy or social media agent... Because there are lots of things you can do with it. For this post, we will be using the Almighty PicsArt application. This can either be a fun tutorial or a serious tutorial all depending on you! Last time I wrote a post about PicsArt, it was on how to create a simple header image for your blog. If you have a laptop, then this may not be something interesting to you, you ha...

Sleep is a basic requirement for our healthy living. It makes us feel better, but its importance goes beyond just boosting our mood or banishing the dark discoloration of the skin under the eye referred to as under-eye circles. Adequate sleep is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle, and it can benefit your heart, weight, mind, and more. Here are some Reasons why You Should not starve yourself of Sleep: Improves Health.  In as much as getting a good night sleep will not grant one immunity from diseases, there is a link between insufficient sleep and some serious health problems, such as heart disease , heart attacks, diabetes , and obesity. Heart attacks and strokes are more likely to occur during the early morning hours, which may be due to the way sleep interacts with the blood vessels. Lack of sleep has been associated with worsening of blood pressure and cholesterol, which are risk factors for heart disease and stroke. Your heart will be ...