How Do You Know if Google has Crawled your website

Posted by Boffill Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Sometimes I get this question to some of my friends online who are not really certain if Google has crawled their website. One friend asked me if how you would know if Google crawled your website, simple question with simple answer. I will give you tutorial on how to check if Google crawled your website. There are actually two steps on checking it thru Google’s search box.
Google Crawler

Step 1

First. Go to Google.com

Second. At the search box, type site:yourwebsite.com

Third. The search result should give you all the indexed page of your website.

Note: You can also add a backslash with the sub-directory path so that only all the sub-directories will be shown on the search result. Example is site:yourwebsite.com/example/. That will give you just the stuff about “example” on all yourwebsite.com website. It can help you filter so you can avoid the items you don’t want to see on your search result.

Step 2

First. Go to Google.com

Second. Type your website at the search box

Third. On the search results, you will notice there’s a link named “Cached” next to your domain name. Click on it and you will see the date of the last time Google Crawled your website.

With the steps provided, this should help the webmaster know if Google is crawling his website and the last time it was crawled.

Intensedebate Problem: Exporting back to Blogger

Posted by Boffill Friday, December 21, 2012

Intensedebate has been my blog’s primary commenting system since last year. I installed it because I envied a lot the Wordpress commenting system. Also, Blogger’s commenting system is not that user friendly. I was really happy with the result of installing Intensedebate on my blog not until I realize that some of its functions were not working. Commenting using Intensedebate is easy but sometimes, ID doesn’t show up in some of my posts. I don’t know exactly why but that’s what’s happening in some of my blog post. Right now, I have been researching some articles on reverting back to the original commenting system of Blogger without losing the comments my readers have left using Intensedebate. 

I haven’t found any help online not even from the FAQ of ID. I tried to export from ID and downloaded the XML file and when I checked on it, it’s not a very big help not even a bit of a help. Right now I am going crazy about this issue on my blog because I really wanted to remove it ASAP. I tried to contact the support team of ID and here’s what they told me, “Thanks for the feedback. This is on our roadmap, although I don't have a specific date for when this will be available. At the moment there are some technical limitations that prevent us from doing this but it's something that we hope to offer.” I don’t know what it means about their roadmap since I haven’t seen any updates from them since the day I installed it in my blog. On their FAQ, they also said that they don’t have a specific date for when will be exporting from Intensedebate to Blogger will become available for their registrants. That FAQ was posted last 2009 and it is 2012 now. 3 years of working on that matter and still no update. I’m creating this post as a registrant of Intensedebate and I’m telling the world how satisfied I am about their service.

 I think Disqus is better because it’s easy to install and it has a mobile version. So your readers can also post a comment on mobile phone. So if only I have an option to export all my reader’s comments to Disqus, I am definitely gonna do that as soon as possible. I have tried to uninstall ID on my blog but it damaged my blog’s template so I’ll have to stay with their codes. Maybe next time if the exporting to blogger option will be available, I will uninstall their scripts on my template and try to fix some of the damages.

So to those Blogger users who are planning to shift from the original Blogger commenting system to Intensedebate, I suppose you better think about it first and try to have some research about Intensedebate. That’s all for today because Mayan Calendar is ending. Hehe.

Ways to improve your Keyword Marketing

Posted by Boffill Monday, September 17, 2012
Keywords can best be defined as words or phrases which you make use of while searching for something on the web. Thus it is important for websites to include such words so that the user is able to search the relevant website easily. Websites should know the keywords which their target clients enter to search for a service that they provide. With such an approach, web traffic is automatically redirected to the relevant website with a lot of ease and that is why using the relevant keywords is very important. All you need to make out is that what are the basic keywords and other words with which people might be searching for you.



There are several ways to boost your keyword marketing. When you open a website, the first thing you should make sure is that you are using the apt as well as numerous keywords. For example you can make use of synonyms to specify the type of business you are advertising for. Names of your company products can be used as keywords as well as the name of your company/website.

Apart from that you can make use of specific keywords in specific areas. Placing the keywords in the right place is another thing to take note of. With this, clients shall be automatically redirected from search engine reports to the page with relevant information for them.

It would also be advisable to restrict the use of keywords that are highly competitive. Highly competitive keywords are less preferable as compared to less competitive ones. This is because the latter ones can be easily searched through the internet and people generally don’t resort to the highly competitive ones.

Research is an important element in the selection of keywords. Don’t rely simply on imagination. Practical research is also to be done to look for the exact keywords. Make use of common words instead of showing off your language skills. This will help you understand your target clients and with this understanding, you shall be able to use the correct keywords in the correct place.

Making use of the keyword tools available free of cost in the market is also a great idea. The Ad words Keyword Tool made by Google can be quite helpful for the project. Such tools help you in finding keywords you might have never thought of.

The analysis of your website plays a big role in keyword marketing. Google has software by which people can know about you through the amount of web traffic in your website. Google displays its results on the basis of web traffic and keyword relevance.

It is also important for you to focus on multiple keywords rather than a single one, as this will leave you behind others who are using more of relevant keywords. This step will make your keywords stronger and thus your website will get through others to appear in the first page of the search results.

Well, the best thing which you can do to enhance the marketing of your keyword is by updating you website on a regular basis by adding content relevant to the keywords. With such steps, you are certainly going to see a good amount of web traffic visiting your web page.

About The Author: Diana is a writer. She loves writing, travelling and blogging. Recently she did an article on content marketing. These days she is busy to write an article on tips for content marketing.

Was Here Widget for Blogger and Wordpress

Posted by Boffill Monday, September 26, 2011

A fellow blogger introduced me the Was Here plugin for my Blogger blog. Was Here plugin shows the recent visitors of your Blog who's logged in at Facebook. For you to use the plugin, you should first add the Was Here App in Facebook by simply clicking the Was Here icon on the plugin itself. Try it on my blog there on the right side. Woot! Click on this link to install Was Here plugin on your Blogger blog or Wordpress hosted blog.

Why did I became Non-Exclusive Member from a Glitterati Member in Nuffnang?

Posted by Boffill Sunday, October 17, 2010
For how many months, my account in Nuffnang was a Glitterati. It's an exclusive membership in Nuffnang where you get loads of features compared to a non-exclusive member. I tried logging to Innit, a Glitterati-only section in Nuffnang, but I wasn't able to log in because it says I am no longer a Glitterati member. I wonder why my account fell down from Glitterati to a non-exclusive. This will really affect the Nuffnang ads appearing in my blogs that's why I am a bit disappointed about what happened. I already sent an email to Nuffnang regarding this matter. I hope everything's gonna be fixed soon.

Free Comment Form For Blogger Blog

Posted by Boffill Saturday, October 16, 2010

I have finally decided what to use as an official comment system in my blog, I chose IntenseDebate. Installation is easy, you just have to download your Blogger template and then upload it to your account in IntenseDebate and then set it up there. Even a grade 3 student can be able to do the job. Users can be able to use different types of login like their Twitter account, Facebook account, OpenID, Wordpress ID or their IntenseDebate account. There are a lot of options available for you when commenting like embedding a Youtube Video, smileys, Daddypoll, sharing your comment to Facebook and many more.
Go to IntenseDebate
The reason why I changed my comment system to IntenseDebate is that the regular comment system of Blogger lacks features. I envy Wordpress’s comment system that’s why I find a way to change the comment system of my blog. Since I already used IntenseDebate in my Photoblog, I decided to just install the same comment system in this blog. Happy commenting everyone!

Bloggerwave, Legit or Scam?

Posted by Boffill Tuesday, August 10, 2010
As most bloggers online, we are trying to raise funds thru our blog. There are lots of on making money thru blog, one example is by signing up a pay per post website. This is a good way of monetizing our blog because sometimes a post will cost you more than $20. I have signed up to different pay per post websites online and came across this company called Bloggerwave. I was a bit happy when signing up because it was too easy and after I signed up, I then got an opportunity. I created a post about that certain opportunity and submitted it to Bloggerwave. After a day, my post was approved. Once a post is being approved by the admin, you will definitely get a payment for that particular post. I thought the payout is every end of the month so I waited. End of the month came but no email has been sent to me with regard to the payment that I was expecting. I sent them an email about this issue but I got no response from them. I waited until this day, I got tired of waiting and decided to create a post regarding my Bloggerwave experience. I don't know if they are really legit or a scam but yes, I am the victim here. I am creating this blog post to share my experience about Bloggerwave. You might wanna check on this link about the comments of some people who were victimized by Bloggerwave.