How to Prepare Your Website for Increased Visitor Numbers

Our Host karl is Going to share some views on Increasing Visitors number on your website. See How can you become a Guest Author On Blogging Section.

While some websites are caught unawares and unprepared by sudden surges in web traffic, the most successful are often aware of the trends that indicate their visitor numbers could be about to explode.

Whether it is due to an analytics program that shows constantly growing numbers of visitors, or an investment into an SEO campaign that will bring more visitors over the coming months, for example, there could be many reasons behind a site needing to be ready to handle a higher volume of traffic.

We looked at the steps you can take that will ensure that your business moves forward and your site continues to operate with no noticeable differences on any level.

Change Up Your Hosting

This is a definite must do if you are currently using a shared server or a VPS hosting solution. Even if you are using a dedicated server, you might want to increase the bandwidth or capabilities so that your site can continue to operate when the visitor numbers explode.
The easiest way to imagine this is to compare it to a shop that opens a second branch in town, and instead of having new staff, it just splits the existing team between both. It is never going to work, and expecting to grow your revenues and cope with increased numbers on a limited server is not going to, either.

Look at Your Social Sharing Options

The great thing about increased traffic is that it leads to more traffic, snowballing so that your website becomes hugely popular and your business potentially hits constant growth.
Therefore, this could be a great time to re-launch your social media offerings so that you can score highly in the user generated content stakes. Ensure that anyone coming to your site, whether they are browsing pages or buying product, can easily spread the word through their own social streams, as well as engaging with your business with your own.

Consider Outsourcing Content Creation

When you have more visitors, it becomes more important to keep your blog or news pages up to date so that people headed to your site have an impression of a relevant, “finger on the pulse” type of business.
More people most likely means an increase in your workload, however if you have been managing your site yourself you can simply outsource things such as blog and article writing to freelancers or a content creation company. Ideally, you will be able to give them access to your website’s content management system, so that they can upload the content and keep your site fresh independent of yourself.
While increased website visitors can serve to create a feeling of excitement, it is just another opportunity for you to take your brand to the next level. Ensure you position yourself to continue the growth of your business and make the most of all increases in web traffic.

Karl

About the Guest Author:
Karl is an online content writer across a number of industries, with a specific interest in the role managed VPS hosting and other host solutions can play in the growth of online businesses.

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How To Create Blogger Sitemap and Submit To Google.

It is Very Important to Generate and Submit Sitemaps To Search Engines Like Google,Yahoo And Bing.This Will help these Search engines To Crawl your blog.For Blogger Blogs It becomes Difficult to Generate Sitemaps and Submit to Search Engines.So this is the post on How To Create Blogger Sitemap and Submit to Google.

What Is Sitemap?

The sitemap file is like a Directory of all web pages that Exists in your blog or you can say it is the digital map of your Blog Contents.Search Engines like Google and Bing use these sitemaps to Crawl your Site and discover Webpages.Submitting Sitemap Helps in Better Indexing And Better Search Engine Rankings.

How To Create Blogger Sitemap

You can Easily create Blogger Sitemap but there’s a Problem With Blogger Sitemap’s.A default Blogger Sitemap Consists only upto 26 Recent posts.That’s One of the Limitation Of Blogger.So the Question Arises How To Create Blogger Sitemap and Submit it to Google.

You just need to Go to Blogger Sitemap Generator and type the Full address of your Blogspot Blog.click the Create Sitemap button and it will create sitemap for you.Then Copy the link to your Clipboard.Now Next is How to Submit these to Search Engines?

How To Submit Your Sitemap?

1. Sign In To Webmaster Tools Dashboard.I am Assuming that You have Verified the Ownership Of your Site.
2. Select your blog and From the left Side click on Site Confugiration>Sitemaps.

      3.  Then Click On Add/Test Sitemap Button.
      4.  Paste Your Copied link Into it.

If You want to Submit Sitemap for less than 500 posts paste this:

[Download]atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500[/Download]

If you Want to Submit Sitemap For More Than 500 posts but less than 1000 posts try:

[Download]atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500[/Download]

So that’s it this is the simple procedure through which You can Create a Sitemap For Blogger and Submit it to Google.If you find any difficulties doing this,Don’t hesitate To give a Comment we will sort It out

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CSS3 Hover Animation Effect for Your Blog Post Title

Yes, Today Your Blog is Going to Look More Digital and Stylish by Adding Animated Hover Effect on your Blog Post title.And Don't have to Do any Hard work but just copy and Paste once and you are done.

As I mentioned above you can easily add this trick into your blogger blog by applaying simple CSS3 code into your template and you don't wanna add separate html code for this animation effect. Please follow the below steps.

Live Demo!

Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template

Backup your Template before making any changes to your blog

Click on Edit HTML

Tick Expand Widget Templates

Press Ctrl + F and search the code shown below ▼

]]></b:skin>

Now add the below code just Above/Before  ]]></b:skin> (use Ctrl+F to find the code)

.post h2 {
margin:.1em 0 0;
padding:0 0 4px;
font-size:1.0em;
font-weight:normal;
line-height:2.5em;
color:#444;
font-family: Oswald, Serif;
}
.post h2 a, .post h2 a:visited, .post h2 strong {
display:block;
text-decoration:none;
color:#444;
font-size:2.0em;
font-weight:normal;
font-family: Oswald, Serif;
}
.post h2 strong, .post h2 a:hover {
color:#0274be;
background: url("http://iconkits.com/images/vip/aerozone_arrow_small_preview.png") no-repeat 4px center transparent;
padding: 3px 10px 3px 50px;
-moz-transition: all 1s ease-out;
-o-transition: all 1s ease-out;
-webkit-transition: all 1s ease-out;
-ms-transition: all 1s ease-out;
transition: all 1s ease-out;
}

Click SAVE TEMPLATE and you're done!

Please note the following thing!!!
You can change the animation icon by changing the url of above highlighted line.

Now you are done! I hope this task seems to be very simple and easy to install. right? It works perfectly fine on other browsers (Mozilla, Chrome and Opera). Please do share this article if you like. We also expect your opinion via comments.

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14 Powerful Blogging Secrets Revealed For New Bloggers

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Tips for New Bloggers

If you are new to the whole blogging scene, you might find it a bit confusing and overwhelming. There is so much information out there on blogging that it can be difficult to process it all. Here are the basic tips that you need to know as a newbie.

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