Bloggers and website owners often get confused in choosing the right tools/utilities for the improving and monitoring the performance of their blogs | websites .There are many tools available on the internet, and when it comes to choosing the best out of them, a name like Google can’t be ignored .Google is no doubt one of the most respected internet company in the world and it is a leader of various segments Like Searches, Video Sharing, Internet Advertising …etc in the market. I’m a huge fan of Google and I use/have used almost all of the Google’s Services and today I’m going to share some very important services for bloggers and website owners .So let’s keep the ball rolling and look at these services without wasting much time :-
- Google Webmaster:-This service is available for free to any blogger or a website owner. Once you’ve claimed your website on Google webmaster you can check index status of your website, check for broken links , crawl errors , submit you sitemap to Google Bot , Set Target country of your blog | website, Check how your website performed in the search results as per the keywords, Submit your site to be indexed by Google …and a lot more tools . This is a must use tool for every blogger who want to analyze how his/her website is performing in Google Search results.
- Google Adsense :-If you’re a newbie blogger | website owner, then let me tell you that adsense is Google’s online advertising program that allows you to earn money from your blog | website .The CPC|CPM rates offered by adsense to its publishers are the best in the market . You need to apply for adsense before getting benefits from it..Before applying to adsense make sure that your website | blog meets Google Adsense Terms of Conditions else your application would get rejected. If your application gets approved and adsense ads are visible on your website|blog make sure you don’t disobey Google Adsense TOS …if you do so, your account would be adsense account would be suspended/banned.
- Google Trends :- As a blogger , you’re always looking for some hot topics/ideas for your blog posts that can go viral and increase your blogs page-views …One such service that allows you to do this is Google Trends . To generate an idea for your next blog post , you can simply put a phrase / keyword in the search box (Of Google Trends) and hit enter …The search results will include how many queries/search operations(On Google Search Engine) had the phrase/keyword that you had typed in the search box . The number the count of the search operation of the keyword/phrase the more popular the topic is amongst the audience. Hence you can write your own article from the popular topic and publish it as a new blog post .
- Google Analytics:-This is a must use tool for all the bloggers | website owners as it gives comprehensive overview of how your website is performing in all the search engines. As in Google Webmaster, you’ll need to claim your website | blog, after the claim is complete, you’ll need to place the Analytics code in your website/blog (this is a simple procedure) …once the code is placed ..within few hours you can get overview of some factors like City/country from which the user accessed your site, What kind of traffic your website blog is getting (Organic, Referral, Paid) , Search Queries (all the search engines)that included your blog as a search result ,bounce rate …etc .Kindly register an account on Google Analytics to know all its features .
- Google Adwords Keyword Tool :- Keywords helps your websites to be visible in the search results .You can’t afford to neglect them .Google Adwords Keyword service helps you to choose the right keywords for your posts and titles from the list of keywords . This tool is widely used by bloggers all over the world .
I’ve been using the above mentioned tools since day 1 of my online career and found them extremely useful. If you neglected them or weren’t aware of them , I hope you have recognized the importance of these tools by this time and would start using them from today itself .
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