I have a website and a google blogger site in conjunction. I would like to add a section to my website home page that displays the 3 or 4 most recent blog posts (post title and the first 100-200 words of the post).
Is there a widget that will do this or any suggestion on how to set this up?
Thanks!
I found a really useful tutorial that does exactly what I want very easily. Inputs the post title, date/time of the entry, and the first 150 characters in the post. Very easy to set up.
http://alt-web.blogspot.com/2011/06/adding-blogger-rss-feed-to-html-page.html
Thanks!
I would suggest writing a short PHP script to print out the first 4 items from the RSS feed...
Check out feedburner. https://feedburner.google.com/
Specifically, look at the BuzzBoost option under publicize. This allows you to embed javascript in your HTML that will generate HTML of your last few posts.
Related
Currently Google displays elements in the result excerpts that belongs to the functional part of the site. Is there a way to exclude these elements to get crawled/displayed in google?
Like eEdit, eDelete, etc in the example above.
To exclude the pages from Google's index, block them using the Robots.txt file or if it is just the content then use the "rel="nofollow" tag.
Hope this helps.
Update on my particular situation here: I just found out that the frontend code has been generated in a way where the title and the description meta was identical.
Google is smart enough to expect that if a copy is already displayed in the title of the search result there's no reason to add in to the excerpt as well, instead looks for content - believed to be valuable - from the actual page.
Lessons learned:
there's no way to hide elements from google but keep it visible for your users
if you'd like to have control over the content displayed in google searches, avoid using the same copy in your title and description
I want my website to have indentation in google result search.
After taking reference of many websites, I found this one website "www.traveloka.com"
Inside the website, I can't find any meta keywords stuffs.
But the website is well indented.
My question is :
- does meta keywords really needed to have google indent my search result ?
- if yes, why the website www.traveloka.com is well indented without meta keywords ?
- if no, what matters then ? Beside having the page have href linking to each other ?
UPDATE :
While doing SEO, I found this website :
chlooe.com
It reports SEO advises, which ones to be changed, etc.
I'll follow the instructions there. any thoughts ?
If by indentation you mean ... it's called sublinks.
Meta tags are no longer important for most search engines. They now rank the pages according to content so in your site's content, use strong keywords to get better ranking.
Having a specific page title helps a lot too.
As for the meta tags, personally, I like to leave it in but they are no longer mandatory.
The Google site links are generated automatically by Google depending on your content.
Here are a few tips:
1) Have a sitemap.xml in your website. This will tell the crawlers which pages are available on your site. To generate a sitemap.xml, I use http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
2) Submit that sitemap to google webmaster tools.
3) Use clean urls. For example www.mydomain.com/contact, .../about-us, .../portfolio, ... etc. These help search engines seperate the content and create sub links depending on the most important content.
4) Most important of all, get traffic on your website... no traffic = poor ranking.
This is not a full tutorial but just some tips. Search for "google sub links" to learn more.
Hope this helps
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en
I have created a page on Wiki and I want to make the contents of this page searchable via wiki search option.
Wiki mean Wikipedia
i.e. title/heading of page is "ABCDEFG". If someone search "ABCD" in wiki search then this page should appear in search list.
May be its possible through adding tags into wiki page, but I don't know how to add meta tags in wiki. Or someone know some other way?
Thanks in advance.
Everything in the page (both title and content) will be searched, so when your page contains the word it will be found.
You could force the find by creating a redirect from ABCD to ABCDEFG, altough it that is useless when the redirect title is the first part of the actual title - people will find that with the search autocompletion/suggestion.
Note that the indexing of newly created pages can take its time, especially on large wikis like Wikipedia. Your page might not be found instantly after you saved it.
In order to be found this way, the page has to contain ABCD in its title or content. Of course users will find it if they search for ABCD*, but in practice nobody does this.
The following page helps me a lot to solve my issue.
http://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/mediawiki/index.php?title=Creating_a_New_Wiki_Page
I want to create a news site in which there will be two sort of pages:
Home Page: showing the main updated (last) article today.
News Page: showing a selected news.
Both pages should look like a simple news site (showing the main article) and both should have related last news on the side.
What I want to do, is a lot like what's mentioned in the site:
Link
Problems:
This site only shows how to create the related news and not the main article.
I wanted to know how to do the same thing only without a news site (meaning a simple list with a Wiki field where the picture should be)
How can I (hoping its possible) take a Wiki field in CQWP and add smaller "width"?
Thank you in advance,
Mor Shemesh.
Create a publishing site
On the default.aspx put s Conent Query web part, configure it to show 1 article, sorted by date in decending order
Create another welcome page and put a Content Query web part there also, configure it to show several item, according to the filter you need
I have a list of URLs and am trying to collect their "descriptions." By description I mean what comes up, for example, if you Googled the link. For example, http://stackoverflow.com">Google: http://stackoverflow.com shows the description as
A language-independent collaboratively
edited question and answer site for
programmers. Questions and answers
displayed by user votes and tags.
This the data I'm trying to accumulate for the URLs I have.
I tried parsing the URL's meta-descriptions, however most of them are lacking a meta-description (yet Google and other search engines manage to get a description somehow).
Any ideas? Should I just "google" each link and scrape the data? I have a feeling Google wouldn't like this...
Thanks guys.
Different search engines have different algorithms to get the description out of the page if/when they are lacking the description meta tag. Some ignore the tag even it it's there.
If you want the description Google has, the most accurate way to get it would be to scrape it. Otherwise, you could write your own or look around on the web for code that does it.
These are called snippets.
Google use proprietary (and possibly patented) methods to garner this information, so there is no simple answer.
As you suggest, they will use meta-description information if it is there. (How to set the meta-information to help Google.)
They will also honour requests from the page authors to NOT include snippets. (How to prevent Google from displaying snippets) You should probably respect this too (as well as robots.txt, of course.)
You may have some luck with existing auto-summary packages, such as OTS.
You may want to check AboutUs.org (i.e. http://www.aboutus.org/StackOverflow.com).
But, there's little chance that the site will have an aboutus page and not have a meta description.
Some info that might explain how google does this:
Webmasters/Site owners Help
Adding a URL to google
I am not familiar with Google APIs, but perhaps there is an official way to get such information.
Interesting. some sources are better than others.
For "audiotuts.com" google has a worse description than AboutUs.com.
Google
Nov 18th in General by Joel Falconer ·
1. Recently, an AUDIOTUTS reader asked me about creative process. While this
is a topic that can’t be made into a
...
AboutUs.com:
AUDIOTUTS is a blog/tutorial site for
musicians, producers and audio
junkies! It is the sister site of the
popular PSDTUTS, VECTORTUTS and
NETTUTS.
I hate problems like these... they should be trivial but they aren't!
If you can assume English content, you can first look for Meta Description, and if that doesn't work, you can look for the first two or three sentence-like word sequences.
A product I worked on looked for the first P or DIV that contained more than one sequence of > n "words" delimited by periods. It would use the two or three sentence-like sequences, up to x total words, as a summary paragraph. It wasn't 100% accurate, but good enough for the average case. The number of words was adjusted a few times to eliminate things like navigation elements.